I had a weird experience while watching birds on LSD
For context: I recently moved to a different part of the country. There are magpies here, which is a type of bird I hadn't seen or heard of before (I don't really know anything about birds).
I decided to take ~350ug to kickoff this new chapter in life. During the trip, I sat outside on the patio for a little fresh air, and that's when I noticed a magpie fly by.
The magpie had this greenish-purplish orb around it, like an "aura" I guess. I sat and watched a few other magpies fly around, and they were leaving a greenish-purplish trail behind them, kind of like a rainbow-textured contrail.
I started to see a dome-like grid cover the sky, and at one point I swore I could see the flight path a bird was on, and it followed the path perfectly...
The flight path was a little mind melting, but I didn't think much about the colors until the next morning.
The next morning I went on a walk and saw a magpie picking at the grass. I got up close to look at it, and noticed it had hints of green/purple in its tail, the EXACT colors I was seeing. I had no clue. I don't have great eyesight (astigmatism), and I thought these birds were just blue/black/white.
You can't see these colors from a distance, so the fact that I was seeing those orb/trail colors without prior knowledge blew my mind. If it was just my mind generating these orbs/trails you'd think they'd be blue?
Posted Sep 14, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC