Help! I think I'm in the wrong dimension...

[hixidom]

You may not want to take it literally though, and consider the possibility that you were merely confused

I don't know; I think one of the most valuable psychedelic lessons is that your sense of reality is based solely on your subjective perceptions. There's this illusion that what we see represents truth that is "out there" when in fact truth occurs in the mind. Rocks and trees don't look at themselves and say "I am real!", that's just something that humans do to everything else as well as themselves. You can try to ground yourself after an experience like this, but I think such experiences are much more valuable as opportunities to explore the potential of our relationship reality.

 

[SpartanII]

You may not want to take it literally though, and consider the possibility that you were merely confused

I don't know; I think one of the most valuable psychedelic lessons is that your sense of reality is based solely on your subjective perceptions. There's this illusion that what we see represents truth that is "out there" when in fact truth occurs in the mind. Rocks and trees don't look at themselves and say "I am real!", that's just something that humans do to everything else as well as themselves. You can try to ground yourself after an experience like this, but I think such experiences are much more valuable as opportunities to explore the potential of our relationship reality.

Yup.

"Outer" reality is actually being constructed inside your brain. We are essentially having a visionary experience with our eyes open and only assume that what we are seeing is an accurate representation of outer reality.

We never directly see what's "out there". Only a 3-D representation.

 

[hixidom]

Yeah, it's funny to think that all we have is 2D input and yet we perceive reality to be 3D. I like to close my eyes and remember what the 3D reality is like, and think about how amazing it is that it seems to exist somewhere in my mind even when i close my eyes. Infants must wonder similar things since they haven't yet been trained to accept the information from their senses wholesale. I bet giving DMT to a baby would have a weird effect on the development of their perception of spatial reality.

 

[Pihuechenyi]

Our senses are like gates that interpret some of the data but cannot possibly let us see all the data out there. I sometimes wonder what other senses there could be that would show us the world in an entirely different way.

"If the doors of perception (i.e. senses) were cleansed man would see things as they truly are - infinite". I'm not sure if that was Aldous Huxley or if I imagined it.

 

[Bill Cipher]

William Blake, actually. Huxley appropriated the quote for the title of his book.