i somehow gave myself a strange fixation for hexagons. it has faded over the years, though.
the first time i took a psychedelic, i took about 2g to 2.5g of mushrooms with an acquaintance. at some point we had decided to go out for a bike ride and there was an easy way to a bike trail. at some point during this ride the geometry of the path made it look hexagonal. the path was the bottom, sky on top, and the foliage on the four other sides. after that experience, i feel slightly happy (?) when i would see hexagons in my daily life.
Only barely related but the first few times i did mushrooms i would get this effect like i was looking through a screen of many hexagonal cells, or sometimes it would look like the environment was a mosaic of very tightly fitting hexagonal tiles.
lasting effects are outliers. i have taken many other psychedelics since then and have not had a similar experience. it was a very strange one-off, i believe.
In college I went through a period of having a lot of mushrooms from having grown them, and also a really good lsd connect. My friends and I were tripping 4 or 5 times a month for probably six months. I had a pretty noticeable persisting effect for a while where if I stared at a wide surface, like a floor, or countertop, or a grassy yard, the highlights and darker areas would start to combine into a floating layer of uhh, like rotating, interlocking cogs, but more floral than mechanical. It was something that I had to try to see though, like I had to consciously relax my vision, in a way, to see it. It felt like a weird ability I'd learned more than a permanent effect of tripping. I didn't mind it and it was never disruptive in any way. It faded over around two years before I realized I couldn't see it at all anymore. I've tripped a lot of times since then too and it hasn't come back.
As a pre kindergarden child my room was directly across the hall from the bathroom. The door was always opened at night and there was a dim night light. There was some "feature" thing that looked like a it should have been in a garden as a trellis for plants to grow up.
One night, I woke up and saw a small elf looking thing climbing up the trellis in the bathroom. It seemed like I watched it for hours but even though its little arms and legs were moving in a climbing motion, it never seemed to get any higher.
Another occasion, a few days after I had bought the NES Legend of Zelda from a pawn shop, I came down with a fever bad enough to have some very messed up dreams where I was inside the game as Link. Playing through the parts of the game that I had managed to get through before I came down with the fever. It was incredibly realistic, to the point that when I got well enough to actually sit down and play the game some more I was confused that I didn't have all the stuff I had collected in the dream.
Babysitting my house as they all decided that lemons were the best thing over and all the women squeezed lemon juice into the men's eyes... And they loved it
Yoo I relate to this a ton. I've had several instances of hearing amazing jazz either in lucid dreams or hypnagogia. It's made me want to go deeper into learning music theory so maybe when it happens in the future I'll be able to capture some of it. I often go through periods of staying up all night and sleeping all day, then staying up 24+ hours to help reset my schedule so I can sleep at night and be awake during the day again, and it's during the transition that I have the most vivid lucid dreams and bizarre hypnagogic experiences. Out of body experiences too. Do you ever have the sensation of your body vibrating when you're falling asleep, either gently or intensely? Not always, but often vibrations precede lucid dreams and out of body experiences for me. Beautiful Coltrane song by the way, listened to it while typing this.
