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Discussion => Philosophy, Economics and Justice => Topic started by: wretched on October 09, 2012, 01:13 am
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While tripping, what do you see?
I don't ever see the same person that is in the pictures hanging in the hallways of my house, or even the man on my driver's license. I see a combination of the people who I have known over the years. Most recently (yesterday) I saw the eyes of a long long lost friend of mine. I haven't seen this person in over 15 years, and haven't spoken to them in probably 10, but his eyes are what was in the mirror looking back at me yesterday. kind of freaked me out. I don't know if this is the right category for this, maybe it belongs in off topic, but I am curious if this is only me who sees everyone but himself in the mirror while tripping...that is all.
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Empty space.
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"what have I become" thought. Weird how time can change everything when you let it run it's course?
now there have been plenty of times where that monster has been inside the mirror, but always when sober, never high. tripping seems to distort my perception of myself into a conglomeration of everyone in who's lives I have been involved. but I get where you are coming from on the morality side of the question. Life changes people and all, but the question that raises to me is, well hard to explain, but what do people see when they look at me? do they see the person in the self portraits hanging on the walls, do they see the monster inside my "soul" or do they see what is in the mirror when I am tripping, which is a reflection of them.
Empty space.
Didn't expect you'd see much other than trademark tea stained, crooked British teeth :D
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"what have I become" thought. Weird how time can change everything when you let it run it's course?
now there have been plenty of times where that monster has been inside the mirror, but always when sober, never high. tripping seems to distort my perception of myself into a conglomeration of everyone in who's lives I have been involved. but I get where you are coming from on the morality side of the question. Life changes people and all, but the question that raises to me is, well hard to explain, but what do people see when they look at me? do they see the person in the self portraits hanging on the walls, do they see the monster inside my "soul" or do they see what is in the mirror when I am tripping, which is a reflection of them.
I get weirded out by the mirror, period. Didn't used to, except when high. It was only a superficial thing. Despite having deep thoughts elsewhere during my trips, the mirror was only superficial appearance trip for me.
"What have I become." Exactly. I didn't plan on getting old. I certainly didn't decide to grow up to be a chronically depressed person on disability, suicidal because I no longer have the highs of bipolar manic depression that were worth living for. These day's I'm weirded out by the handsome hobo in the mirror. I stay away from mirrors and their reminder that I'm a fallen failure. Monster? No. I'm too pathetic. I can fake short social interactions, but generally now I'm a hermit.
Empty space.
Nice.
I'm a psychic vampire.
~ RutGroove
Sapped your energy for a moment.
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I can fake short social interactions, but generally now I'm a hermit.
join hermits united :)
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I usd to live in constant dissociation with my body.
Detached and depersonalized, I was out of my mind but not attached to anything.
I didn't "see" anyone in there.
But when I trip, I can see my real being underneat it all (tripping feels like it cured my detachedness.. but really it was myself and hardwork with some tripping) and I always find myself trying to find others who are being real, or can "see".
Like, constantly.
Looking into others eyes, I'm like "IS ANYONE THERE D:"
And you see some people putting on these giant shows, and you look into their eyes and see how they're afraid but they're in there.
And I look into my eyes. I mean, I see a being... I guess.
I wrote this today:
"Everyone around me is striving for something, yet I'm just striving to understand why they do so and why I want to know so.
What the heck does that make me."
I just see someone very different from the rest...
I feel so bad for being so fake for so long though, it feels good to be liberated.
"awakened".
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When I used to eat and sell a lot of LSD, I spent parts of many trips hanging out for a bit in front of a bathroom mirror.
I would usually be blown away by the detail. One time i remember i could just see how my flesh, the muscle underneath it, and my bone structure all made up head. I felt like i could see my bone structure in such detail i was imagining what my skull would look like on its own. None of this was 'bad' or 'dark', it was very intriguing.
Another time, I couldn't help but notice the primate-like features in my face. I couldn't unsee the facial characteristics of being a half-bald primate with a more developed frontal-lobe. It was a good reminder that we're animals. We're just animals that have taken ways of living and surviving and try to make it more effeceint, we adapt to our environment not physically, but subjectively.
And I think that's pretty cool.
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I don't see anything, just what's behind me. Of course I am a vampire and I haven't taken the cure for it yet. Gotta get my alchemy skills up and mix the right potion.
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On a very high dose of 2c-b I noticed that I looked kind of a garden gnome, it was very disheartening.
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a sinner a saint. and every thing in between.
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While tripping, what do you see?
I don't ever see the same person that is in the pictures hanging in the hallways of my house, or even the man on my driver's license. I see a combination of the people who I have known over the years. Most recently (yesterday) I saw the eyes of a long long lost friend of mine. I haven't seen this person in over 15 years, and haven't spoken to them in probably 10, but his eyes are what was in the mirror looking back at me yesterday. kind of freaked me out. I don't know if this is the right category for this, maybe it belongs in off topic, but I am curious if this is only me who sees everyone but himself in the mirror while tripping...that is all.
I see my old self. Who I used to be. Who I wish I could still be.
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theres an old Buddhist (i think?) tradition of when u look in the mirror u should say simply "who?" n this supposedly subconciously asks u more about urself leading to actualization... i found about that when i was roughly 16 and carried on til about 19 these were the ages before life got colder n a lot harder. when i trip i see that young version of me w a mix of who i am now, just a whole lot more happier whilst tripping w that cheeky smile plastered on my face...
but then im kinda new to proper acid n it is a beautiful one
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I don't ever see the same person that is in the pictures hanging in the hallways of my house, or even the man on my driver's license. I see a combination of the people who I have known over the years. Most recently (yesterday) I saw the eyes of a long long lost friend of mine. I haven't seen this person in over 15 years, and haven't spoken to them in probably 10, but his eyes are what was in the mirror looking back at me yesterday. kind of freaked me out. I don't know if this is the right category for this, maybe it belongs in off topic, but I am curious if this is only me who sees everyone but himself in the mirror while tripping...that is all.
Wow, this is beautiful man. Thank you for writing about that.
When I look in the mirror while tripping I see myself without that image of myself I have in my head. Like I would look at me for the first time. I can see how other people really see me. And then came realizations, thoughts what I do wrong, what should I change. And positive things about myself, I often forget about. It's really interesting experience, and I love doing this (I saw devil face as my face on high dose of LSD and it was great -- I understood something deep about my personality).
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I saw an ape one time, well it was me, but I was very ape like.
I also saw my self as Siddhartha too.
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The last time I tripped, my hair was rather long and I was growing my goatee out. When I looked in the mirror, I thought, "I am dog-man." I'm not sure why I thought that, but the image and phrase are burned into my memory.