trippy video

Watch this video at full screen, then look away at an object (like your hand, for example) when it says to:

Any theories about why this effect happens?

Neuron fatigue.

Your eyes are sending conflicting signals to your brain, and your brain is trying to figure out, or encode is a better word, which "direction" the lines are going.

When you look away, there is a period of time where your brain is still trying to resolve the patterns, resulting in your distorted vision.

i am amazed at how long the effect lasts, with me it was a good 5 to 7 seconds before my eyes began to return to normal, and then another 5-7 seconds before they were actually normal again. i looked at my hand when it said look away and my hand had all the moving patterns on it, only faster/smaller than the video and my hand had a real blurry lighting-effect glow all around the edges.

neat. not sure what that has to do with LSD though, no additional presence or cartoonish visions, no out of body experience.

Nothing happened when I looked away... zip... nada!

Well, I did notice my computer clock and my Acu-Rite wireless thermometer clock are over a minute off from each other

I notice that the central area of the hypnotic image is circled, and is different (reversed) from the larger portion.

I think this has something to do with the Fovea, the "foveal region of vision" and the peripheral regions of vision.

In normal vision, the fovea and the periphery are usually viewing the same thing... ie., the same kind of unfolding motion... A car going by, etc.

But in this illusion, the animation is deliberately having the fovea and the periphery work at cross-purposes to one another...

Something in this whole illusion is fiddling with those cells of our retina which are designed to witness (to first notice and then observe) motion, things in motion.

Yes, but your eyes are just the receptor.

Your brain is the processor, and that is where the distortion comes into play.

A hologram of fornicating unicorns is supposed to appear in front of you.

Aha! That explains it

I really do wonder what you guys see... just curious.

i described what i saw, so you can stop wondering. i figure you must be doing it wrong, it really is a simple thing to do.

It's like the undulating pattern you're staring at on the screen transfers its motion to the object you look at. If you look at your hand, for example, it will appear to change shape.

Does everyone see the same thing is my question. I don't see anything after looking away from concentrating on the center. Could be any number of reasons. First thing I always wonder is this yet another thing I don

Ok, thanks Ed for the additional perspective... I was posting while you were so I didn't see your post until after. I've always been interested in other people's experience.... that's all.

DMT will do that, not really LSD.

i must admit at one point in my life i experienced those things and many others.

beck, i dont suppose everyone will see the same thing. it appears ed and i have a different experience. i was surprised how profound the effect was, and how long it lasted. i still mainatin you are not doing it right, and that is not to say anything bad about you or that you are different than anyone.

it is easy to simply dismiss the effects of these types, or supress them entirely. when i watched the lines, my eyes started to fight me and i began to worry if i was having the onset of a migraine, sort of a sparkly outer peripheral area began, similar to migraine headache (i havent had a migraine headache since the doc's roto-rooted my sinuses beginning my horrible two year long recovery; prior to this i had them nearly daily.)

it is said you cannot hypnotize the unwilling, and i am betting that you dont want to have anything happen and are subconciously fighting it.

ever tried those "look at this picture for a while, look away and still see the picture" things? same kinda thing, you can supress the image if you want to as your brain knows its not there even though the eye still see's it. you dismiss it if you choose to dismiss it.

I'm doing it "right" as instructed, but this isn't the first thing like this that has no effect as others describe, so it does make me think about why that is. Wiring or learned or a bit of both... who knows?

Oh, I'm quite different... don't worry about me feeling that way.

when i was a kid these things didnt work on me either. and as an adult, i believe what i see that exists around me, i believe evidence that i can find plausible or tangible.

why i am able to experience these types of effects as an adult is probably because i allow myself to, and it is contradictory to the nature of my belief system. i know i could "not see them" if i chose to, and i can see them because i allow myself to. how i am able to make this choice eludes me.

none of this is to say i am not a spiritual person, it is only to say i have no belief that my spirituality is correct; as i cannot hold it, see it or otherwise have a tangible/physical experience with it. i believe i am an existentialist, but i am not positive. i am a tech however; i think like a tech, talk like a tech, and think like a tech . i communicate best with other techs, but tech is not really a spiritual thing is it, more along the existential lines of reality.

whats my point? choice. we can choose. our brain can simply say "thats not real" and so it is not real. or we can say otherwise. i've seen stuff man, really weird stuff, and had even more strange things happen to me, but i cant prove any of it. so maybe it didnt really happen, or it did. things i cannot explain, things that have radically changed my life overnight, and even a vehicle accident that changed my personality in ways that even i could see (and not for the better either); i suspect brain damage on that one.

or not. i do see the devil in nearly every ink blot i have ever seen, and i dont think there is a devil, or i think the devil's greatest trick is making me think he doesnt exist - i'm not sure.

this is my true dilima in life; either things are what we see, or they are not. and i have seen/experienced things that cannot be explained, or i havent and think i have. this is a real problem, and i believe many come to terms with this dilema through faith/religion. i have not, as i dont believe in religion.

but i saw the thing on my hand, and i know it wasnt real. or it was

DMT will do that, not really LSD.

Good God, I read the whole page that the above link takes you to.

The DMT experience sounds utterly fascinating... yet kinda scary and a little overwhelming, too.

Try THIS on fer size, kiddos:

The feeling is very difficult to relate with words. Imagine understanding your own mind to be a map, a very small representation of a very large idea, and suddenly discovering that it was, in fact, foldable, and that it had been folded for all time.

Oh man, I was never a big fan of psychedelics, actually the electric kool-aid was great until one time a buddy of mine had copped a vial of it and squeezed HALF THE F^(@ING BOTTLE into my mouth!!! (Remember those little Sweet Breath mouth wash bottles?!?!?!?) After that I never wanted to trip again LOL, and mushrooms never gave me visuals no matter how much I ate. Not to mention that neither one ever gave me the synesthesia that so many others experience....

K's psychadelic effects were cool as hell, no visuals and they weren't as pronounced as acid and shrooms but there was definitely that component to it, and it wasn't JUST that, so much more came along with it LOL

Anyways, if you want a SERIOUSLY trippy video, look no further than:

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DMT will do that, not really LSD.

Hmm... I used to see stuff like that all the time when I ate a lot of blue sugar cubes.... several decades ago.

I'm doing it "right" as instructed, but this isn't the first thing like this that has no effect as others describe, so it does make me think about why that is. Wiring or learned or a bit of both... who knows? Oh, I'm quite different... don't worry about me feeling that way.

Hallucinations are a learned experience, just as delusions are. It takes repeated exposure to whatever is leading you away from reality.... that's why it took Rush L. so long to build his following.

I've never seen a piece of paper breathe before.

i dont know about that so much. when i was about 7 i got a staff infection so serious i had a fever of 106 and as my parents put me in the ice cold tub waiting for the ambulance i was hallucinating quite vividly. i still remember very clearly what i was experiencing and it was really odd (now) - but was completely normal then even though my mother kept telling me what i was experiencing was wrong.

maybe that experience left me open to the mind/eye tricks(?)