Are you perma-tripping?

[daveyjones1]

i'm curious to see how many people are in that odd drug-limbo state...

[Eternally Altered]

I am, and hae been for quite sometime now (three years). Once you go down the rabbit hole, you never quite come back out. It''s not a bad thing though.

[daveyjones1]

but how do you function during jobs/class/etc?
and what drug caused it? (i'm sorta doing a study)

[Eternally Altered]

It's not really a feeling that interferes with my day to day life. It's just sort of a veil over everything. Sometimes I notice it more than others, sometime I don't notice it at all.

I've done many psychoactives, so I don't know which one exactly gave me this effect. It is most likely a mix between LSD, Salvia, Mushrooms, Peyote, and DMT. Those are the four that effected me the most.

[daveyjones1]

then maybe i have a bit of a veil too. it feels like i sometimes confuse my thoughts for actual things spoken to me and vice versa. this rarely happens though.

[mediocrevibration]

When I was experimenting with psychedelics I was extremely afraid of the conatations that I knew would come along with them but that fear has subsided now and I am able to live a normal every day life, even though I still notice the side-effects day-to-day. However, it is mildly hard to deal with the fact that my conciousness may not be as keen as the others I am around every day. Sometimes I feel as if I am "slipping away", but that may be due to the dissociatives that I have injested.

[36fuckin5]

"Perma-tripping" is more of a different perspective on life than actually tripping constantly. I'd say I'm on a permanant trip, because I can still look at things as if I were tripping.

HPPD, however, is a real condition. This usually comes with binges of hallucinogens, but goes away with time. It's almost completely visual, and usually very minor.

[daveyjones1]

you could argue whether the state of 'tripping' is how you internally view things or how they happen to appear to you. you could be actually hallucinating things, or you could be merely analyzing things from a 'trip-perspective'... or are those things the same? is perma-tripping an induced mentality or a physical chemical side effect? or a bit of both? if tripping is half mental, half chemical, then we are all sometimes perma-tripping a little bit... or at least potentially... whoa. :D

[lifelovefun]

Once you've opened your mind I'd say your somewhat permanently tripping. Being free of the false beliefs of society, religion, government, etc... is SOOOOOOOO liberating :)

Lingering physical effects I have from my peyote and HWBR experiences are that if I look at a wall or towel for 2 seconds or longer, it'll start to move and swirl all about :) It's pretty sweet. Sometimes it works with the clouds, but not as strongly, I think it's because they're so bright

[daveyjones1]

i'm actually jealous. :D

[lifelovefun]

LOL - Just do a lot of peyote, each time taking as much as your can (your gonna throw up), and it'll be a lot more than just physical :)

[theACIDplane]

it happens to me all the time, ill be sitting in school, work, etc. and ill see bendies, twisties, and wavies. its been happening for about a year now ever since i did acid a couple times in a couple days. i must say tho it is very awesome!

[polecat]

I've been in limbo since the summer before last. I did 11 mescaline trips and two Morning Glory trips. The mescaline changed my entire perspective on life, and human emotions. I've also been smoking pot every day for around a year.

Before I started smoking I could tell that I was in an altered state of mind caused by mescaline. I was a real "big-picture" sort of thinker and I would space out more often and have far deeper more meaningful thoughts. Now, after smoking so much pot I guess I've become accustomed to being out of reality so the trippy thoughts and flashbacks aren't meaningful anymore.

To tell the truth, your post couldn't have come at a better time. On Monday I tripped on more mescaline for the first time in almost 9 months. During the trip I remembered what it was like before I smoked so much pot. I am still in the after affects, and am trying to make a change to get out of the mental hole I think I've dug for myself.

Sorry for the ramble, i don't know why I typed so much but w/e.

[PsychMyke]

"Perma-tripping" is more of a different perspective on life than actually tripping constantly. I'd say I'm on a permanant trip, because I can still look at things as if I were tripping.

HPPD, however, is a real condition. This usually comes with binges of hallucinogens, but goes away with time. It's almost completely visual, and usually very minor.
very minor huh?

Wanna switch brains?

[freediver]

Yea i have some minor HPPD pretty sure acid was the culprit b/c i tripped on alot of shrooms and several other psychs before acid and didn't have it. its not that bad and i can do everything normally and think the same way. its purley visual, i see some static looking at white walls, flashes of a small bright blue square once every couple days or so. its been 4 years since i tripped except for 1 acid trip 1 year ago. tripping is probably the most beautiful experience i've ever had in life but i will probably never do it again for fear of fucking myself, cuz man some ppl that get HPPD get it really bad and they have depersonalization and de-realization pretty bad too. will probably wait till late in life to trip again.

[-.black-.]

It's kinda wierd but ever since I did acid and shrooms whenever I smoke pot and "zone out" looking at only one spot. All my peripheral vision seems to be in a strobe light. Like everything is missing a couple frames. It's pretty neat. :P Plus when your high it makes you giggle.

[xcandykidx]

i look at things differently now...

[Ayzcrava]

I get occasional very light flashbacks from trips when i'm tired or high, and I occasionally see stuff move in the way it does on LSD, but only very light and only a small aprt of my vision. I don't really mind it much at all..

[itsthebig8]

people say acid does no brain damage at all. if so, why does this perma trip phenomenon happen? Ive never used it myself and im just curious to what is actually causing a permanent change in perception. And by that i mean physically, not that acid has liberated you from social constraints.

[maddhatter]

my weed highs have been a bit like an acid trip since i've started taking psychedelics. i don't have any hallucinations when i'm sober tho.

[heartsnotfarts]

always.

[pushit]

I dont really know, I have seen weird stuff as long as I can remember, I know my dad blew smoke in my face when I was little, and now days I dont really think straight and I dont focus my eyes much, Its like the static of my eyes is just thick and always there. Purple haze clouds my mind =p

[PsychMyke]

people say acid does no brain damage at all. if so, why does this perma trip phenomenon happen? Ive never used it myself and im just curious to what is actually causing a permanent change in perception. And by that i mean physically, not that acid has liberated you from social constraints.
Something to do with LSD warping the neuronal pathways that are directly tied to vision and perception. I dont know the science behind it. But dont think that it only happens in excess. Some people get it after just one trip. I deal with it though, and it's pretty bad. Depersonalization is something ive just come to live with. I alwyas feel like i am in a vivid dream. It's annoying but i can still live my life. I guess the depersonalization has actually cemented into my personality and made me who i am today...if that makes any sense at all.

[dd3stp233]

people say acid does no brain damage at all. if so, why does this perma trip phenomenon happen? Ive never used it myself and im just curious to what is actually causing a permanent change in perception. And by that i mean physically, not that acid has liberated you from social constraints.There isn't any good medical evidence that LSD causes actual organic brain damage. Nor is it stored anywhere in the body, it is metabolised and excreted completely within a few days. Any reality a person perceives, is a construct of their mind and imagination, usually based on experience and the senses. Various experiences, whether its drug induced or not, can easily alter this construct. Its like altering the operating system software of a computer while not changing the hardware. The software code can be changed, altered, things added, etc. With practice, a person can program themselves to think how they want.

[juanhowhigh]

you've got it all right, its all in your mind, just enjoy life, dont worry be hippie he

[jeff420420420]

Once you open the doors of perception they can never be closed. That is a good thing for me. I feel we have all been programmed by this world and by opening those doors of perception you can forever see things differently that non users.

I like the saying up there " Once you go down the rabbit hole you just don't ever come completely back."

[ESRUOS ENO]

I am today....

[elover]

Fa sho...the mdma got to me brain!

[captainblack666]

i wouldnt call it perma tripping, but i have found myself in a constant mindset of one ness with all around me, and knowing that all my perceptions of reality are simply chemical reactions in my brain. i have been able to sort of make myself feel somewhat disconnected through meditation and experience everything around me in a different way, not visual but internal dialogue-wise, at will, to where it is almost like having the mental aspects of a phychedelic.

[moomooman]

i got it. it makes it hard to distinguish when im coming up on things now, and weed doesnt really stand out to me anymore unless theres already something else in my system. i think i got it from doing too much DXM, morning glories, cocaine, booze and diphenhydramine, cause i see static over everything, and what looks like atoms exchanging electrons in the sky or on solid surfaces. the thing is though, im not sure if these things have always been there and i just never noticed them, or if there a result of too much drugs. eihter way it doesnt affect my thinking or train of thought, if anything i can think better now, in a different way.

[.Xen.]

i would say i am in a sort of literal sence... everything always looks and feels different... i know it is but psychedelics rewire your brain and reactivate parts of it that havent been used since childhood... it wakes up your psyche... im sure thats why you can "perma-trip" b/c eventually those parts of your brain do become dormant again... but did anyone else notice when they started doing psychedelics (more specificly LSD and DMT) that they started picking up skills faster and doing things more acurately... you got more tollerant and understanding... this happens to everyone that does them. you start learning like a child again. lol... dont you remember colors being brighter as a child? i think i do :)