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Hybyscus

A question about ugly/painful visuals

(tl;dr at bottom)

I recently did my highest dose of LSD (~250ug). It was a fun trip, but I've noticed that my visuals are not particularly cool or pleasing to see. In fact, sometimes they are downright painful.

I have similar CEVs on 2C-B and LSD. They are mostly red, green, and blue, and look like early, low quality computer animation. They are primarily just blocks that expand slowly in one direction for a second or two, then expand in another direction, then another, etc.

I find that to be really ugly and not very much fun to look at.

This last trip, about 8 hours in I smoked weed (I'm not a regular user any more) and had a shot. This amped my visuals back up, but in the worst ways. My OEVs looked like my CEVs, and watching South Park was so painful I had to keep my eyes looking away and constantly moving.

Even my first experience with DMT (low dose) gave me CEVs somewhat similar to what I've seen on 2C-B, though it was not painful and was a bit more complex and different colors (green and purple).

My question is: does anyone else get similar visuals from different psychedelics? Does anyone else find their visuals to be disappointing/painful? Is this a product of dosage or my personal genetic makeup?

I think psychedelics are a lot of fun and very interesting, but I'm afraid of ever dosing higher if the visuals are going to be that disconcerting.

tl;dr my visuals suck and sometimes are painful to look at, and are similar across various psychedelics. Is this from dosage or is my brain just weird? Thanks everyone.

Posted Nov 2, 2016, 7:50 PM UTC

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HybyscusOP•

I wouldn't say I was expecting anything in particular. But the first couple times, I experienced visuals that were more like transforming light. It'd be nice to at least have something pleasant and not grating to look at.

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HybyscusOP•

This was the first time I've done it inside. I've taken LSD 10+ times, almost always during the day.

Typically my OEVs are fine and normal. I do get breathing, melting, and flowing.

Maybe I'm overly worried about something that's really nothing.

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CubicleFish2•

On shrooms I notice a while ton of different things and I can choose which images to explore. Pretty similar to lsd but not as much. Just try to focus on the positive and don't explore the depths of the unpleasant because it isn't going to teach you anything

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elf00li0•

I agree completely, always just go with it and don't be afraid. When you want or crave an experience using psychedelics IME you won't get it. But you will get many amazing experiences if you just surrender to the experience.

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