Anyone ever had weird experiences with the phone while tripping?

[harmala_afficianado]

Idk، using the phone while tripping makes me feel like im holding something dangerous/risky, like its an ancient technology that defies our laws of reality, and at times i would literally feel the screen becoming a portal, idk how to describe it but its like i can see inside the phone and its a like whole world inside, like its clear to me at that moment that its a portal and not a screen, if i focus too hard i start going through the portal, but i never really wanted to.

Anyone else had strange stuff happening with the phone?

 

[Nydex]

In my experience using my phone while on mushrooms, it feels like an affront to Nature herself, i.e. it's not pleasant. No portals or anything, maybe because if I'm sufficiently high to see a portal in my phone, I'd never pick up the phone in the first place. Turning back to the past when I've had to use my phone for navigation while in the forest on high doses of LSD, I remember it was just difficult to use, it was like it wasn't my phone at all, but someone else's, and again I wouldn't describe it as anything remotely pleasant.

 

[bezevo]

i think all screens /electronics should be put a
way when tripping .

just my opinion

 

[Nydex]

i think all screens /electronics should be put a
way when tripping .

just my opinion

Unless it's a matter of safety or emergency, yes, I agree.

 

[northape]

I use my phone for music in my sessions and have seen lots of weird stuff like changing playlists, or the inability to open or navigate it. How much of it is generated by the state I'm in at the moment is a big question. I think your portal image is dependent on your relationship with the device. I have nothing on my phone and I don't use it much either, so there is no "inner world" for me there. It feels like a modern MP3 player. My laptop, on the other hand, is a world in itself. All of you are living in there

To get a bit off-topic, I think that our fascination with technology has deeper roots. In many of my earlier mushroom trips, I saw any difficult inner conflict as me going through endless rooms in the house. It was all so symmetrical, with right angles and so on. It looks to me like our modern geometry sits at the core of culture and the Western mindset. These basic assumptions are how we relate to the world. Just look at our houses: endless straight lines and forms. The same could be said about circuit boards: lines and blocks. When an architect creates a flowing building, it immediately becomes art.

I thought for some time about what made ancient Egyptians different and how they built the pyramids. Their minds could have had quite different basic building blocks of reality. What we take for granted is just one possible picture. We can relate to it all in a different manner. How to get to that fundamental level and adjust it, though? Maybe seeing the process would be enough.

 

[harmala_afficianado]

i think all screens /electronics should be put a
way when tripping .

just my opinion

I def agree, most of the time if im tripping the phone is not on my mind, sometimes though when im really far out and i see the phone, it catches my interest and i just open it out of curiousity, it seems mindblowing at the time haha.

My laptop, on the other hand, is a world in itself. All of you are living in there

The weird thing is, we technically are, technology is crazy isn't it?

I like your brain @northape

 

[new_science]

Back in 2008 or 2009, I was on 3.5g of cubensis while hiking at night in a forest. My mp3 player stopped working for no apparent reason and I couldn't get it to turn back on. It didn't bother me as the trip was going well and kept getting better. It was confusing though, and when I got home later, mostly sober, it fired right up and worked normally after that. Not my phone, but maybe analogous enough to warrant the anecdote.

 

[TransistorBass]

i think all screens /electronics should be put a
way when tripping .

just my opinion

Agreed, though I do use my phone to take trip notes and occasionally a bit of distraction while taking small DMT hits and my heart rate calms down before going deeper.

 

[brettsta]

Yeah I had a weird one a year back , I couldn't remember how many pulls I was doing , and I was interested
to see how I moved around during the trip.
So I set my phone down with camera filming me a good 8 feet away . A minute after my 3rd pull ,
I should be Well in there , but I wasn't , I wasn't even close , 4 pull , 5th nothing just usual sub effects. ??
Wtf , then I remembered my phone filming me , it can't be I thought !
So i switched the phone off and as normal removed it away from me .

Off I went again same dose everything the same , but this time no problem 3 rd pull in I go .
It was probably me being conscious of it filming ? But something didn't like it . And I won't do it again .