KITTYONFYRE t1_j38cjxk wrote on January 6, 2023 at 7:07 PM

Reply to comment by -_Stove_- in Police Blotter by redditorgirl9691

first part maybe, ufo definitely not.

acid doesn't make things appear from nowhere, it just makes things look a little more... fun. stuff breathes, has extra color. there aren't dragons farting out unicorns, this isn't a cheap sitcom

r/replications has some fairly accurate representations.

-_Stove_- t1_j38n42k wrote on January 6, 2023 at 8:12 PM

I appreciate the drugsplaining...but SWIM has plenty of experience in that arena.

lildirtfoot t1_j3he8nv wrote on January 8, 2023 at 4:27 PM

I think that they can explain their experience with LSD without it seeming like they have to be “drugsplaining”. Maybe they, like so many other humans out there, use LSD for holistic and spiritual purposes and they don’t want it to continue to get the bad reputation it has when the bad rep only really comes from misuse of the medicine itself.

lildirtfoot t1_j3hexqe wrote on January 8, 2023 at 4:31 PM

While I agree with how you’ve experienced (or read about) lsd, it may also appear that you, or the writer of the information you got, has aphantasia! People who can see images with their eyes closed (or open depending on how developed their mind’s eye is) can definitely see things that others don’t while having a spiritual experience on LSD. Which is pretty cool, but everyone is different!!

KITTYONFYRE t1_j3hhxr5 wrote on January 8, 2023 at 4:51 PM

nah, I don't have aphantasia - that would definitely throw a wrench in things but I'm pretty sure I'm as blandly neurotypical as it gets!

you may see or experience things differently from other people, but you're not going to see Barney appear from thin air

lildirtfoot t1_j3hij7p wrote on January 8, 2023 at 4:55 PM

I think a UFO appearing is a bit different than Barney or Unicorns farting dust. I mean, getting confused or spooked by a weird light could do it.

May I ask what makes someone blandly neurotypical? Having aphantasia isn’t something that makes you weird, it is actually really common and can occur naturally, or from physical or psychological trauma. Every person on this earth has a spectrum of what their mind’s eye can see or can’t. We have 5 different ways of thinking and only one of those is through imagery.