Re: Arch0wl AMA
this is a c/p of a description of the experience I wrote to someone in a facebook log
this is a c/p of a description of the experience I wrote to someone in a facebook log
Originally posted by Arch0wl
http://www.disregardeverythingisay.com/post/9331287956/the-visual-components-of-a-psychedelic-experience this seems accurate. This is what happened: I took the first hit. It came over me IMMEDIATELY. There was very little time between taking the hit and feeling the effect. I was listening to Stereo Love at the time.
You know the feeling when your leg falls asleep? It was like a very mild version of that, but coming over my entire body slowly. It started at my feet and rapidly engulfed my body upward. I could feel it happening, so I put the pipe down and -- this is where it gets fuzzy -- I think I sat on the floor, where I had cleared space in case I needed to do that.
This is where it gets insane. This is where I was in the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z3YrHJ1sU#t=03m45s
The moment when he says "where I'm smilin' for you" -- time just stopped for that frame alone. Somehow the wording was twisted to be "300 Max Dinosaur smilin' for you" but I digress, it was essentially that frame of visuals/sound, repeated over and over and over again. If you took a shot of the last second or so of what I experienced, imagine it as an animated gif with sound repeating over and over again, but you're slowly applying '60s kaleidoscope/fractal effects while turning the snapshot in a circle.
Eventually 300 Max Dinosaur For You or whatever became a fractal. So I could plunge into Dinosaur For You, which had corresponded to some sort of sound repetition of the vocals, and it revealed more of MAX 300 Dinosaur Smilin' For You MAX 300 as I did it. It was like a sea of that frame over and over again. I didn't actually feel my body, I felt like I was floating in this frame with that vague leg-falling-asleep feeling around everything, so going forward into the frame just revealed more of the frame sample.
It was VERY MUCH like a fractal zoom. In a way, it was kind of terrifying. I thought I was at risk of dying. I had that "coming back to reality" effect that I've had a few times when i'm blacking out, and I thought there were people around me about to tell me what I had done, but there wasn't anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAcEKCj5jq8 This is pretty accurate. Only difference: there is no music (the sound is part of the fractal), and the colors are grabbed from the shit you were just paying attention to.
You know the feeling when your leg falls asleep? It was like a very mild version of that, but coming over my entire body slowly. It started at my feet and rapidly engulfed my body upward. I could feel it happening, so I put the pipe down and -- this is where it gets fuzzy -- I think I sat on the floor, where I had cleared space in case I needed to do that.
This is where it gets insane. This is where I was in the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z3YrHJ1sU#t=03m45s
The moment when he says "where I'm smilin' for you" -- time just stopped for that frame alone. Somehow the wording was twisted to be "300 Max Dinosaur smilin' for you" but I digress, it was essentially that frame of visuals/sound, repeated over and over and over again. If you took a shot of the last second or so of what I experienced, imagine it as an animated gif with sound repeating over and over again, but you're slowly applying '60s kaleidoscope/fractal effects while turning the snapshot in a circle.
Eventually 300 Max Dinosaur For You or whatever became a fractal. So I could plunge into Dinosaur For You, which had corresponded to some sort of sound repetition of the vocals, and it revealed more of MAX 300 Dinosaur Smilin' For You MAX 300 as I did it. It was like a sea of that frame over and over again. I didn't actually feel my body, I felt like I was floating in this frame with that vague leg-falling-asleep feeling around everything, so going forward into the frame just revealed more of the frame sample.
It was VERY MUCH like a fractal zoom. In a way, it was kind of terrifying. I thought I was at risk of dying. I had that "coming back to reality" effect that I've had a few times when i'm blacking out, and I thought there were people around me about to tell me what I had done, but there wasn't anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAcEKCj5jq8 This is pretty accurate. Only difference: there is no music (the sound is part of the fractal), and the colors are grabbed from the shit you were just paying attention to.
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