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which is known better as delirium.

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redgreenvines said:

That you are a physicist and know it is great encouragement to me that you can see yourself pulling the relativity sock onto the psychedelic effect, and can smile at that knowing it is a mental projection (from your linear thought basis).

A pretty good one too.

I have approached it from the angle of mind being ideation through time:
each idea is composed of sensory (new signals) and associative memory (recalled signals)
each of these lasts 1/15 th of a second more or less and fades away.
everything happening together gets linked into a memory image
(all the fragments of vision, sound, body sense, memory, taste, smell).
then as it is fading away the next mind moment gets linked together into another memory image.
the fading away permits sequence memory to form, supporting the sense of a stream of consciousness.

the chemical changes in the brain are quite general for psychedelic, and what they tend to do is keep signals firing a bit longer when excited.

the consequence of this is that signals representing a mind moment will fade more slowly. New ideation (sensation and memory) keeps happening at the same rate, but the fading does not keep up: more than one 3-d totality can be experienced when this happens, and for 2-d experience, like raw unprocessed vision, the layering is much like photo slides superimposed.

at a macro level this gives you richer color, multiple dimensions, tracers, trails, echoes, time dilation, reverse time (what happened earlier is still just as real as what happened after, and this can be very confusing) and bending (or bursting) space.

if the dose-effect is strong enough even personality will fork or branches of personality will persist, and a person can experience this as semi autonomous entities; or a memory can be revisited in totality at the same time that a person is in "the real world" which is known better as delirium.

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