Maybe it’s the end of the month and you’re running low on drug money, or maybe you’re afraid of becoming another in the distinguished line of acid casualties.
Fact is, there’s an ever-growing list of reasons not to meddle in the world of narcotics – bad for your health, bad for the environment, possibly a boon to more dastardly worldwide crime… And yet, there’s also an ever-growing list of reasons why we all want to escape reality from time to time, isn’t there?
You’re here for some good, clean hallucinatory fun without ingesting any substances, legal or illegal. And I’m your pusherman.
Wake ‘n no-bake. Do you see those blinds in your window? Hopefully they’re drawn nice and tight (especially if you partook of any of those aforementioned substances the night before). They look like alternating dark and light stripes, don’t they? But wait – it gets even better, man!...
Look at them a few moments longer. Let your eyes relax and unfocus a little bit as you stare at those blinds. Slowly you’ll start to perceive strange movement – not movement with wind or any other current, but as if the blinds were moving like a column of stacked snakes all in the same direction. Others will see the snakes not ‘moving’ so much as stretching in a rather unwholesome way. Duuude!….. Whether you see the slither or the stretching, this is a good, gentle hallucination to ease you into your day. Or...is it??
- Here comes the sun (doo-doo-doo-doo). If you want to see something that isn’t really there, or see it in a way that doesn’t actually conform to what we call reality, then look to the horizon on a sunny day. Look at the air above a hot grill. Look at the pavement stretching out before you on a long, straight highway. What do you see? Everything is wavy, right? On really hot days, you can look in the distance and see familiar forms totally distorted and fragmented by silver bands, everything flapping as if the wind were blowing it.
- iHallucinate. Doesn’t have much of a ring to it (iTrip was taken already), but you can use technology to achieve natural hallucinations. By staring into a kind of hypnotic, moving image, you can ultimately get a pretty fun little taste of visual hallucination. Check these out:
- http://www.neave.com/strobe/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn1GaaLhz4g -- make it full-screen.
- I’m seeing stars... Now that nightfall has come and the stars are appearing, you can’t hope for mirages or window blinds to inspire your hallucinations. But those were just the gateway hallucinations... this sh*t will really f*ck you up. You ready?
Go out into an open, preferably grassy space without a lot of light pollution. Look up at the stars, and pick a bright one straight above you that can easily command your attention. With your eyes glued to that bright star, spin your body around and around in full circles. Keep spinning for as long as you comfortably can, and then stop spinning and bring your gaze level again. The whole world will be tilting and spinning as if you were incredibly drunk. You’ll very likely stagger around and fall, totally losing your sense of what’s up and what’s down.
If at first you don’t succeed, spin more the next time. And some say that the effect is stronger if you choose a star that isn’t directly above you, but off to the side a bit.
- Hypnopomp and circumstance. Some people can never remember their dreams, which may seem like either a pity or a blessing, depending on whether you’re the “lots of flying and hot sex” type or the “giant alien earwigs with machine guns” type. But if you do have a healthy dream life, you’ve probably experienced the hallucinatory phenomenon known as hypnopomp – it’s what happens when you slowly emerge from a dream but are still trying to make sense of the real world around you. This sort of inertia results in strange hallucinations, like shadows altering their shape and reaching out at you, or shapes and forms twisted into fantastic objects and creatures that gradually retreat back into their normal, real-world identities. Like any hallucinatory experience, it can be great trippy fun or utterly terrifying. You might even swear that there’s a vicious baby pig poised to leap on you and inflict hideous bodily harm. I know I did.
- If you want to dream, you must give up sleep. Was that Yoda, or Yuban? No matter – after 48 hours without sleep, you might start to believe they’re one and the same.
It’s amazing what the human mind will do on little or no sleep. Lots of people experience flashing lights where none exist. Travelers on the road might lose their authentic perception of reality to such an extent that they feel like they’re not moving at all, or that everything around them is entirely flat – hills, overpasses, you name it. Dramatic hallucinations – not only visual hallucinations, but auditory hallucinations as well – can occur after only 48 hours. But don’t operate any heavy machinery, please… - The O2 Face? News flash: your brain needs oxygen to function normally. When you deprive your body of oxygen, the body goes into Safety Mode, as it were – only the necessary functions continue.
As you deprive your body of oxygen, you will hallucinate, guaranteed. Here’s another news flash, though: oxygen deprivation leads to cell death and, ultimately, death. Not recommended… - Water, water everywhere… Nor is water deprivation recommended. It’s true that dehydration causes you to hallucinate, though the level of necessary dehydration varies from person to person. If you’re walking through the desert, this method can be combined with the mirage from step 2 – a pretty potent “cocktail.” But as with oxygen deprivation, if you make a mistake, it’s likely to be your last mistake. You came here for natural and probably safe methods to hallucinate, and this sure as hell isn’t safe.
What an all-too-short trip this article has been… In closing: say no to hard drugs, but yes to every other mind-altering, perception-broadening experience life has to offer. Discover many other ways to mess with your mind, and please share them with other readers on this article.
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Man i thought this was stupid when i read it but all the sudden i was reading it and trying the methods lol. One way i used to when i was a kid was i used to close my eyes and push on them. Not too hard, you'l hurt yourself lol but what should happen is you should start seeing fuzz and mess which eventually turns into patterns and what not. If your tired it becomes alot more prominent.
HMMM IT SEEMS WE HAVE AN ARRAY OF FACT ERRORS HERE.
Most hallucinogen-inducing drugs fall into one category: psychedelics, which are your psilocybin mushrooms, lsd/lsa, 2c-* research chemicals, dmt, salvia d., and mescaline. Deliriants and dissociatives such as Belladonna, DXM, PCP, etc., reportedly also induce hallucinations, but these are far different from psychedelics; dissociatives reportedly cause Olney's leisures on rats, can cause serious psychological trauma (especially powerful deliriants as Belladonna). PSYCHEDELICS, on the other hand, do NOT have a negative effect on the body; there is no permanent physiological change to the body, does not affect mental health, and only causes psychological disorders in individuals who were ALREADY likely to develop a psychological disorder -- and only if the trip was a really bad one. Users of hallucinogens often describe their experiences as very enlightening and helped them improve as a person. Psychedelics have been used by shamans for centuries to cure emotional, psychological, and spiritual problems. LSD is also the most effective at curing alcoholic -- 70%, as opposed to 10% with Alcoholics Anonymous. Many psychedelics have powerful medicinal values and are being looked at again by the medical community.
Second, psychedelics (nor deliriants, nor dissociatives) are narcotics; narcotics are pain-killing drugs, mostly opium derivative (morphine, heroin), and other anesthetics. And there is no such thing as an "acid casualty." You cannot overdose or die from acid; you can do stupid things during an acid trip, mostly triggered from a) not having a sitter and/or b) having a really, really bad trip, which is really, really rare. More deaths have occurred from alcohol in a year than from acid since its inception. Third: bad for the environment? Really? How? No waste products, by products, and users do not harm the environment; if anything, they grow to appreciate the environment more. Lastly, the market for psychedelics is *so small* it does not support any sort of criminal activity; no one has or is going to get shot over a tab of acid. The market for psychedelics is currently hippies making geltabs in their ovens and selling it locally to psychonauts, and people picking shrooms in cow fields. That's about it.
1. Blind shades. This is a known perception of the brain; if a stimuli does not change very long, the nerve cells responsible for sensing this stop sending activity, and part of your visual information goes away, and comes back later, eventually all your sensory cells will be toggling on and off, and in attempt to make sense of the information, your brain superimposes pattern; is it generally seen as one of many "optical illusions" and shortcomings of the sensory system. It is thought this is what many hallucinations are, but expedited greatly. Also: looking at light that powerful that do more damage to you than any drug could.
2. This is not a hallucination. This is moisture evaporating from the air above the pavement, giving off a lot of collected heat; moisture distorts light waves, and the more evaporation that is in the path of these light waves, the more distorted they will appear. Thus, the further you look, the more distorted the ground is. Again, not a hallucination. This is called evaporation.
3. This has been claimed as bullshit. Trying to hit the brain with the frequency that it might be in when someone is experiencing a trip or an emotion does not cause that trip; it's the presumption that a trip is caused by a frequency of brain waves, when most likely the trip causes that brain wave frequency. Not to mention, all the factors change per person, so the whole premise of what this is trying to do is wrong. People have listened to these tracks high, and have experienced something only rarely, which can most likely be attributed to a) placebo and b) any sort of stimulation (especially music) can affect your high anyway.
4. Spinning yourself senseless is closer to being drunk than it is to hallucinating. Please try again.
5. "Hypnopomp" - I've never heard of this term, but have experienced this phenomena and I can safely say this is close to a psychedelic experience - the 20 minutes after waking up and still going about as if you're interacting with your dreams, and mumbling absurdities. This is perhaps the closest on this list that lives up to a hallucinogenic experience, but even so, it doesn't come close to the full experience. If anything, this is closer to the comedown of a trip (or maybe the come-up, except come-up is accompanied with feelings of excitement and anticipation, like something is about to happen).
6. While sleep deprivation has reportedly caused hallucinations, it is NOT after 48 hours. I've deprived myself for 65 hours at a time, and at no time did I "hallucinate." I experienced mild, small distortions at long intervals, and slurred speech and poor thinking. Although an interesting experience, it's not hallucinating, which comes after closer to 72 hours, the 3-5 day mark; read the two case studies of long sleep deprivation, they only experience hard hallucinating after many days.
7. Inhalants, such as NO2, which I forget if they're considered deliriants or dissociatives, are just plain retarded. They guarantee brain damage, and are by no means psychedelics or hallucinogens. Interestingly enough, oxygen deprivation does invoke images of the "light in the tunnel" as described in near-death experience. Close to death, or oxygen deprivation, the brain released high amounts of DMT (a triptomine, another psychedelic), which causes you to hallucinate. DMT is also active during sleep/dream sequences, and is probably active during this "hypnopomp" and late sleep deprivation stages.
8. Any sort of "deprivation" causes your body to "hallucinate" because it's fucking fighting to stay alive and will do anything to get your dumb ass to do something to survive.
While none of these "ideas" were real hallucinogenic-inducing, the one or two that were only provide a sliver of what it really is, at least a SLIGHT visual component, but does not encompass the great majesty and feeling of togetherness, thought-enhancing and bombarding experience that a real trip is. Hallucinogens and psychedelics aren't to "see [visual] things" as one would assume, but to see things in a new perspective. But somewhere along the line, this distinction is always lost; and nothing else can provide the mind-shatteringly new perspective that a psychedelic provides, because it is impossible to see nature unfiltered because you've been trained to see it filtered, and you don't understand what it is to see something without any meaning attached to it. What a psychedelic truly does is detaches meaning from everything you see so you see it for what it truly is, and from this you gain immense, invaluable perspective to the world; it does more than distort your reality - which is merely the process of turning off your mind's filters. As someone great once said - you cannot consciously see the conscious mind.
PS. Psychedelics are by no means a hard drug; it is a real drug, a man's drug, someone who wants to understand the world's drug, the thinker's drug, the enlightened one's drug; but it is by no mean a "hard drug," like cocaine, heroin, other stimulants, depressants, and anything with addictive or physiological effects; psychedelics are incomparable in terms of safety and effects and do not deserve to share the title of 'drug' in the same mythos and thinking as cocaine is as a drug.
PPS. Your article does not provide any "mind-altering, perception-broadening experience" alternative. It just details a few methods that demonstrate that your sensory perception and mind have flaws. If you really want a glimpse as to what a hallucination is, go to a head shop, or order online, Salvia D., a legal (in most states) smokable that induces a sometimes strong 5-minute hallucination. Completely harmless.
PPPS. As a writer, you should REALLY learn how to do your research before making claims to an audience; you'll end up either looking like a fool or spreading lies and misinformation. To which some will say: if you have no idea what you're talking about, you're better off not talking about it.
Clyde, you are so my new hero. I was about two paragraphs into this article when my intelligence started asking my consciousness "why are you still reading this drivel? These aren't hallucination inducing, these are simply visual tricks". Then Clyde came to save the day with the way things really were, and suddenly I realised "howtodothings.com" must have been bought because "howtodostupidshit.com" was already taken. Oh, and just on those last two points, hmm, yeah, potentially a lot more dangerous than taking drugs.
On your sleep issue, possibly after 48 hours you may start to experience sleep psychosis in very very rare circumstances. Typically it is about the 72nd hour mark that people start to lose it. I remember while I was completing my engineering course, a few occasions on public transport I had conversations with people who simply weren't there. It was awesome, if it wasn't so painful to be awake still, or I had any idea of what I was doing. So, yeah, in a lot of ways, take the actual drugs. Its a more pleasurable experience and lasts a lot less time.
clyde burger, great comment overall, but you're mixed up on this point:
"7. Inhalants, such as NO2, which I forget if they're considered deliriants or dissociatives, are just plain retarded. They guarantee brain damage, and are by no means psychedelics or hallucinogens."
NO2, nitrogen dioxide, is a poisonous brown gas. N2O, nitrous oxide, is a dissociative anesthetic and is used commonly in dentists offices. It's not a psychedelic but it does have some psychedelic-ish properties. It's pretty much the only inhalant that isn't completely retarded when used properly, since it doesn't do any more brain damage than holding your breath for a few seconds would. Nobody dies from inhaling a few balloons full of nitrous, unless they do it standing up (dumb) and fall onto a glass table or something. But yeah, huffing gasoline or random bottles under the sink is extremely dangerous and brain-cell-killing.
Thank you Clyde! The idea that psychedelics fuck you up is one of the worst bits of propaganda around. Most pedestrians assume that all buzzes are just more extreme versions of alcohol intoxication - which does nothing but poison the body and mind because, let's face it, alcohol is an organic solvent. Self-appointed spin doctors like Brian M. do nothing to further the cause of enlightened humanity and consciousness evolution.
This idea sucks to be honest. I tried to do so and I gotta say I obtained no result so I decided not to follow this instructions any more. In my opinion the best idea would be to buy legal marijuana and you will be hallucinated for sure.
