Welcome, Kel!

I too was using a regular VG for my journeys, with great results.  I just recently changed out to a GVG, and, let's just say I need more time with it to "recalibrate" my expectations and dosages

I have had one experience with being similar to your faceless people.  They were holding up plaques of blackness, like a perfectly square hole cut out of the everchanging hyperspacial color around them.  Each plaque had writing on it, one or two glyphs made out of blue fire that kept changing, even as I was trying to take a mental picture of them.  First one scared the crap out of me, as he sorta snuck up from the bottom of my field of vision.

Glad to have you!

WP