drainlife20 said:
That's what SWIM is freaked out about. How can your body feel as if it is liquid being poured into another liquid, how can you have an emotion feel as if it's pouring from your face? SWIM believes that spice crosses all of your wires, and sends the wrong signals to the wrong receptors. This is the basic idea of synesthesia. He also believes that it competes with these receptors as well, and in return the information is collected in fragments, so the mind does what it always does in these situations, it fills in the blanks. This is an explanation as to why people see things "out of the corner of their eyes", and why people only remember the important details in situations, because your mind also in a way blocks out the useless things. That's why one can become so focused with an activity and then before they even notice, it's dark outside. But when your mind fills in the blanks, it's not always perfect. Sometimes you'll remember a person was wearing a blue shirt but they were actually wearing a red shirt, just an example. So when your mind is filling in the blanks for these impossible signals, it tries to make them something that is possible. SWIM guesses that while in a loop, the mind attempts to process an event which sends receptors that created the event to begin with and it just goes on and on until synesthesia effects wear off and the event can be processed correctly. SWIM believes that as a result of spice competing with these receptors, some of them are sent to the wrong place, possibly damaged, or perhaps it can alter them even further?
This type of thing has actually happened to a bunch of people, it's terrible and SWIM can sympathize but at the same time SWIM feels entirely relieved. You really do feel like your mind is shattered. It's like putting two mirrors in front of each other, or a microphone to its speaker, except with your senses and thoughts. Even if it would have been something simple like "I'm going to go to the grocery store and buy eggs", it would have been completely terrifying. It took a while but SWIM experienced full ego death, SWIM was gone, completely. It must have been the only way to stop this loop. Before SWIM came back, he was nothing, he was absolutely nothing. He heard his wife, and it was comforting, that's all he knew. He went from nothing, to a feeling of comfort and an audio sensation. Then her face came from the blackness, nothing but her face, and SWIM shouted her name and burst back into existence. His thought was "This is life! This face is life!" and he had a name to associate with this, he was flooded with feelings of love, butterflies in your stomach even. It was falling in love again, it really was. He slowly regained his senses and memories, it took a long time before he could actually physically feel again. Death then rebirth. He wasn't ready for ego death, and especially wasn't ready for the loop. SWIM will leave the space walks to the professionals.
Try not to take it too seriously. The looping is going to end. All things come to and end, and then loop back around again
Even the universe comes to an end and then is reborn again in a grand scale creation loop. Everything is a bunch of loops. The sun comes up, it goes down, comes up again, goes down again, loops are all over the place. The whole universe is made up of looping molecules. The earth spins around the sun in a loop, over and over. Life would not be life without endless looping.
Now when you experience mental, visual, audio and emotional looping within your brain, it can be a little freaky at first. People are not used to their thoughts looping like that. Just relax and think of it as if its music with a nice rhythm. Just experience it and think “fascinating” as if you’re Spock from Star Trek. That’s how SWIM copes with it. He thinks “this is really weird, but also fascinating. I’m enjoying the show.” Just remember that it’s going to end, no matter how serious the looping is, and no matter how strong the sense of deja vu might be...might be…might be…might be…might be…might bee…mighty bee…what the! What the! What the! What the! …. Sorry about that
Music is a bunch of sound loops played over and over at different frequencies and human beings really like it. The looping experienced from psychedelics is indeed the brain malfunctioning like you’re stating above. 5-MeO-DMT can do that far more than DMT can. It’s ability to cross-wire the brain is well documented. LSD can also do this, but it’s not as frequent.
If you want a visionary experience without those types of mental effects, the only one I know of is 5-HO-DMT (bufotenine). It’s almost completely void of mental effects. I think it’s the safest hallucinogen psychologically.
SWIM watched his brother go through strong looping from LSD before. It happened within 1 second, but his brother experienced the looping as if it lasted for many minutes. I watched as it happened, he closed his eyes for about 1 second and then opened them with an odd look on his face and then told me he was gone for many minutes hearing things over and over in endless loops. He was a little freaked out about it. He takes massive amounts of LSD and only had that happen once (could have been an LSD substitute though and not real LSD).
The looping effect can be really nice if you’re playing music. It can help you get into the rhythm of things. SWIM plays keyboard, guitar, flute, sings, and when he’s making music and the looping effect kicks in, he can get really lost in the music. It’s a fantastic experience if you go with it.
5-MeO-DMT causes looping quite a bit. SWIM was worried the last time it happened because his mind started malfunctioning from the 5-MeO-DMT after the looping got too intense and everything became experienced as squares and lines. Even today, thinking about that, SWIM still can’t make sense of it. SWIM feels ok though. He doesn’t feel that there was any lasting damage of any kind. I believe it is just sensory reverberation and that it doesn’t actually cause any damage to the brain….the brain….the brain…the brain…well, at least I hope not. If it does, them SWIM’s brain suffered some damage.
As far as I know, the looping effect is a known effect that was first reported by early LSD users and it doesn’t indicate mental toxicity of any kind.
The looping effect is not dose related. SWIM has had really strong 5-MeO-DMT trips where no looping was experienced; and then weak 5-MeO-DMT trips where strong looping was experienced. So don’t expect that the next time you take DMT that you’ll experience looping again. Chances are you won’t. It’s an infrequent phenomenon for most users.
DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and all the rest basically cause your brain to malfunction. Alcohol does to. All drugs that effect the brain are causing it to malfunction. A normal functioning brain will not experience reality as a bunch of squares and lines. Only a brain malfunctioning from 5-MeO-DMT can experience such nonsense as that.
Hallucinogens basically cause the visual centers in the brain to malfunction. When your visual cortex is robbed of valid input data from the optical nerves, it starts making up imaginary data to fill in the gaps. When all of your visual data is missing, you have a “break through” experience. The visual cortex doesn’t shut off, it continues processing visual data, even in its absence. This is exactly what produces dreams. This happens every night when we sleep. Our eyes are closed, so no visual data enters the optical nerves, and yet the visual cortex gets stimulated during REM sleep and then processes non existent visual data. Some people believe that it is processing visual data that is from another dimension. And that is one interpretation of what “hyperspace” actually is.
Before I get too scientific, I want to remind you that SWIM SAW GOD on ayahuasca and it was real as real can be. GOD told SWIM things about the future that were impossible for anyone to know and all of the things GOD said would happen did actually happen. Makes you wonder.
Is it the brain malfunctioning, is it superfunctioning, or is something else altogether happening...Hmmmmmmm. Fascinating.