Do the colours in the DMT trip have meaning?

[Dr Psychonaut]

So SWIM is a fairly new user to DMT and has probably smoked it somewhere around 30 times. SWIM has noticed that in the half minute or so after take-off, the first colours that appear before the intense geometric patterns set in seem to be related to SWIM's aura at the time.

Although SWIMs knowledge of the aura is limited, after searching google books and reading a bit about aura colours and their meanings the colours in DMT trips always seem to correspond to SWIMs aura at the time of smoking. For instance when SWIM is participating in a lot of spiritual thinking and behaviours (such as meditation, yoga and reading books about spiritual growth etc.) he notices a light pink aura at the start of the trip. When SWIM is meeting lots of new people and engaging in a lot of social events he finds the colour to be a beautiful orange. When SWIM has been engaging in use of drugs which are probably more detrimental to his growth and is obsessed more with his lower desires he finds the aura to be an overhwhelming deep and muddy red and the entire trip tends to go to some darker places.

Has anyone else noticed similar things? Do the colours in their journeys seem significant and if so how? A lot of the stuff SWIM has read about aura colour interpretation is highly variable but a few sources seem to ring very true, does anyone have any good resources regarding colours and their meaning?

 

[gibran2]

You might want to look at this thread: first level visuals descriptions.

 

[Rising Spirit]

The colours in DMT trips always seem to correspond to SWIMs aura at the time of smoking. Has anyone else noticed similar things? Do the colours in their journeys seem significant and if so how? A lot of the stuff SWIM has read about aura colour interpretation is highly variable but a few sources seem to ring very true, does anyone have any good resources regarding colours and their meaning?

Welcome aboard Doctor! Your thread intrigues me, as I've been a big fan of colors for as long as I can remember. Say, have you read any of the early Theosophy literature? I recommend, THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater. It was first published in 1901. Also, you'd probably benefit from reading, THE CHAKRAS by C.W. Leadbeater. This book was first published in 1927. A fun little booklet to check out is, THE TWELVE RAYS by James Sturzaker. Published in 1976. A little way out... but an interesting read. Hyperspace is pretty far out there as well, eh? 8)

And yes, there are times when I am looking through some auric field of my own and the color is overlaid upon the fractal patterning... yet, when the energy rises to the top my my crown, I believe I always arrive at the same color scheme, with Spice. That being a polarity of the loveliest shades of bright green with a bluish undertone and a purplish-magenta, which seems to shift from deep purple to pinkish purple, rhythmically.

So, they are not exactly the standard purple and green dynamic, being of secondary color schematics, rather, there is definitely a tertiary aspect to the colors (those containing 3 primary colors). It is an ever-changing pulsing of variance in hue, within those two secondary, contrasting colors. Blue is the color in common with all of these variances. A turquoise blue within the green and a lilac blue within the purple.

Ultimately, all of these colors wash away into the blinding brilliance of the white light. Not truly white, though, as all colors seem emanate from it's opalescent radiance. Eventually, as the peak expands, even this opalescence dissipates into a luminous transparency... an emptiness of color, form or luminosity. Yeah, even the darkness and lightness become perceptually indistinguishable to my subjectivity.

Anything noticeable to my awareness, at such a point in the peak, is hidden within what I have a predilection for referring to, as a whiteout experience. Awareness of subject and object dissolve into the insubstantial essence. As there is no witness to identify anything, temporarily, nothing is any different than anything else. By this I feel we have all been to this void and it is neither something, nor is it nothing at all... it simply exists insubstantially. :idea:

We probably have radically divergent terms we apply to these states but when one's self is shattered by the exponentially expansive force of the current of Spirit... personal self is caught in a stasis or paralysis of sorts. The mind is stopped. Oddly enough... self remains, however void of characteristic or modality in consciousness. I feel that this awareness has in it's central core, an interconnection to all that exists.

Well, that's what I recall after the spiritual eclipsing is broken and ego identification recrystallizes, once again. Very interesting stuff to contemplate, the supraconsciousness current of the One. It might be labeled as The Tao, Godhead, Omniself. It might just as easily remain free of labels?

It might be debated and arguments presented to challenge it's existence as anything but a subjective conceptualization. Just as with the colors of the human aura, the mind has it's own texture, hue and unique characteristics. Mind is as varied as the individual which cognates data through it's construct. Thoughts are variegated as the rainbow... err... I digress???

 

[۩]

I think due to the infinitely programmable nature of consciousness,

anything could mean anything,

could it not?

 

[Rising Spirit]

I think due to the infinitely programmable nature of consciousness,

anything could mean anything,

could it not?

Absolutely! I think you are spot-on about this. Just gather a dozen individuals together, seated around a blazing bonfire. Say everyone is voluntarily dosed with LSD, psilocybin or Ayahuasca (simultaneously and collectively). Obviously, what these 12 individuals see within the dancing flames and glowing, cavernous embers is as unique and symbiotic to said group of individual's perceptions. As unique as each individual's mind and experiential programming... which creates any symbolic meaning or logical relevance to the self which perceives it.

Still, there are many levels whereby we can find common ground, consensus and agreement. Besides, it's always good to compare notes.

Any meaning to the fractal patterns, visions and/or "hallucinations"... would be projected by the person's psyche. That being said, it has been noted that there are "Universal" states of awareness, whereby the individual fuses ego-self into Indivisible Self, sentient mind into Cosmic Consciousness. Each soul is like a flashing pulse of awareness within the Omniconscious web of The Grid.

Of course, descriptions fall back into the territory of ego and relative mind of the individual, so are subject to interpretation, subjectivity and the use of personal semantics to express these impressions. A paradox to the objectivity of the reasoning intellect. :shock:

 

[Dr Psychonaut]

Thanks for the recommended reading Rising Spirit I will definitely be having a look at those.

And yes, there are times when I am looking through some auric field of my own and the color is overlaid upon the fractal patterning... yet, when the energy rises to the top my my crown, I believe I always arrive at the same color scheme, with Spice. That being a polarity of the loveliest shades of bright green with a bluish undertone and a purplish-magenta, which seems to shift from deep purple to pinkish purple, rhythmically.

I find it interesting that you always tend to arrive at the same colour scheme, as on the majority of my journeys I find I am also looking at the same colours, which in my case is a radiant pink that blends into violet then indigo before returning to pink. I must say I have never noticed a bright white light in any of my journeys. One one of my first journeys I recall looking at what looked like a kaleidoscopic door that had 6 colours: Pink, blue, green, purple, yellow and orange. I became mesmerised by the pink which then took over my entire visual field before seeing a number of entities that tried to show me things I failed to understand. It was almost like I could choose the colour and perhaps the type of trip, but unfortunately haven't had another experience like this one.

Any meaning to the fractal patterns, visions and/or "hallucinations"... would be projected by the person's psyche. That being said, it has been noted that there are "Universal" states of awareness, whereby the individual fuses ego-self into Indivisible Self, sentient mind into Cosmic Consciousness. Each soul is like a flashing pulse of awareness within the Omniconscious web of The Grid.

This intrigues me as I often wonder to myself if these colours are a projection of my own psyche and hence would carry infinite possible meanings. That would explain why only a few of the classic aura colour interpretation descriptions I read rang true. I am very interested to do some further reading into the subject of metaphysics(?), can anyone recommend any good books on the bodies of man and states of consciousness as this is all very new and intriguing to me. I guess I was hoping for a simple explanation that colours have universal meaning and it would be easy to interpret but this was a very reductionist way of thiking! Can DMT trips be interpreted in a similar way in which dreams do, where what those specific colours and images mean to the individual define the meaning. As I recall in Rick Strassman's research he found that images participants saw in hyperspace related to upbringing and cultural influences. Therefore it seems unlikely that any universal interpretation would be possible, such is the downfall of dream interpretation dictionaries.

 

[polytrip]

Colours correspond with the wavelength of light. In other words: if you see colourfull geometric patterns, you're seeing geometry within geometry. It's just the scale that makes it appear as colours. Maybe it hint's at the fractallic nature of the universe including our counsciousness. I would guess that the meaning of colours corresponds with how close a colour is in frequency to the edge of what can be seen. So red and violet would be colours, close to this edge of visibility/invisibility. The closer a colour is to this edge, the more extreme we will perceive it to be, i guess.

 

[universecannon]

I think i remember a member ( gibran maybe? ) mentioning that an experience with mainly orange-ish 'hyperpsace' indicated that it was going to be a challenging experience for them. From what i can tell, my experiences with orange themed trips have been quite the opposite..and characterized by resistance-free clean and clear experiences that seem to realign myself with my soul in a massive cosmic orgy of synchronicity

And anyway i think its wayyy more complex than the overly convenient and simple idea that "color X indicates meaning Y" across the board

 

[gibran2]

I think i remember a member ( gibran maybe? ) mentioning that an experience with mainly orange-ish 'hyperpsace' indicated that it was going to be a challenging experience for them. From what i can tell, my experiences with orange themed trips have been quite the opposite..and characterized by resistance-free clean and clear experiences that seem to realign myself with my soul in a massive cosmic orgy of synchronicity

And anyway i think its wayyy more complex than the overly convenient and simple idea that "color X indicates meaning Y" across the board

Yes -- I link to some comments about that in post #2 above. I agree that colors seem to be very personal, but for any given person (at least for me) they predict the "feel" of the experience in a fairly consistent manner.

(And as I've said, orange usually means "oh no -- I took too much" :shock: )

 

[universecannon]

Oh i see,
thanks for clarifying gibran

 

[dmtk2852]

The colours in DMT trips always seem to correspond to SWIMs aura at the time of smoking. Has anyone else noticed similar things? Do the colours in their journeys seem significant and if so how? A lot of the stuff SWIM has read about aura colour interpretation is highly variable but a few sources seem to ring very true, does anyone have any good resources regarding colours and their meaning?

Welcome aboard Doctor! Your thread intrigues me, as I've been a big fan of colors for as long as I can remember. Say, have you read any of the early Theosophy literature? I recommend, THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater. It was first published in 1901. Also, you'd probably benefit from reading, THE CHAKRAS by C.W. Leadbeater. This book was first published in 1927. A fun little booklet to check out is, THE TWELVE RAYS by James Sturzaker. Published in 1976. A little way out... but an interesting read. Hyperspace is pretty far out there as well, eh? 8)

And yes, there are times when I am looking through some auric field of my own and the color is overlaid upon the fractal patterning... yet, when the energy rises to the top my my crown, I believe I always arrive at the same color scheme, with Spice. That being a polarity of the loveliest shades of bright green with a bluish undertone and a purplish-magenta, which seems to shift from deep purple to pinkish purple, rhythmically.

So, they are not exactly the standard purple and green dynamic, being of secondary color schematics, rather, there is definitely a tertiary aspect to the colors (those containing 3 primary colors). It is an ever-changing pulsing of variance in hue, within those two secondary, contrasting colors. Blue is the color in common with all of these variances. A turquoise blue within the green and a lilac blue within the purple.

Ultimately, all of these colors wash away into the blinding brilliance of the white light. Not truly white, though, as all colors seem emanate from it's opalescent radiance. Eventually, as the peak expands, even this opalescence dissipates into a luminous transparency... an emptiness of color, form or luminosity. Yeah, even the darkness and lightness become perceptually indistinguishable to my subjectivity.

Anything noticeable to my awareness, at such a point in the peak, is hidden within what I have a predilection for referring to, as a whiteout experience. Awareness of subject and object dissolve into the insubstantial essence. As there is no witness to identify anything, temporarily, nothing is any different than anything else. By this I feel we have all been to this void and it is neither something, nor is it nothing at all... it simply exists insubstantially. :idea:

We probably have radically divergent terms we apply to these states but when one's self is shattered by the exponentially expansive force of the current of Spirit... personal self is caught in a stasis or paralysis of sorts. The mind is stopped. Oddly enough... self remains, however void of characteristic or modality in consciousness. I feel that this awareness has in it's central core, an interconnection to all that exists.

Well, that's what I recall after the spiritual eclipsing is broken and ego identification recrystallizes, once again. Very interesting stuff to contemplate, the supraconsciousness current of the One. It might be labeled as The Tao, Godhead, Omniself. It might just as easily remain free of labels?

It might be debated and arguments presented to challenge it's existence as anything but a subjective conceptualization. Just as with the colors of the human aura, the mind has it's own texture, hue and unique characteristics. Mind is as varied as the individual which cognates data through it's construct. Thoughts are variegated as the rainbow... err... I digress???

I disctinctly remember a purple color in my last trip. It was the most beautiful purple I ever saw, not a purple which exists in our reality(but it still is purple).