Witnessing Ultraviolet and Infared light on LSD

Studies with LSD and other psychedelics continued up to present date. As I mentioned in another thread, the majority of the research was to investigate and find negative effects up until the mid '80's.

Just because you only hear about the research that makes the headlines doesn't mean that no research has been going on.


Now the other links the OP provided do rather clearly demonstrate that there are some people who can see in the UV end of the spectrum, BUT from what I gleaned, most cases are people who have had specific types of eye surgery.
I personally doubt that LSD caused some physical change, but people do experience HPPD,
soooooo it is definitely not outside the realm of probability.

it is certainly worthy of further inquiry.
thanks to the OP for the interesting links. :2thumbsup:

 

I actually kinda have to agree with you on this. As cool a story it would be, it's the OP's head - OP, you do know that one tends to view the world entirely differently after a trip, right? It's just your head: the part of the first post I noticed couldn't possibly be real, making this all in your head, was where you wrote about viewing images of the electromagnetic spectrum of light on the computer. Naturally, as humans can't see this spectrum beyond our visible section, we would never create images with any further spectrum on it, or, for that matter, a screen to display such things on, as your computer screen likely displays no more than a primary system of 5 different colors. Oh, and I'm pretty sure our sun doesn't emit gamma rays, much less bounce them off the moon. Correct me if I'm wrong. Either way, my point being that you saw wasn't real.

Here's what I think is happening: As people have reported differences in how they experience the world after their trips, often evoking new-found wonder and a humbleness, an awe of the world around them, noticing colors as sharper or more important than before, that and the fact that you seem to have had a strong experience, and not had many beforehand, you have HPPD and are interpreting it as extraordinary visual perception, when in fact it is quite the opposite in some cases. Your post-trip mind has incorporated what you thought during the trip with HPPD and tied it all together into your reality.

Although, who knows for sure? It may have something to do with what I was talking about earlier, or it could be something else entirely, as there's a reason the words LSD and trippy are synonymous with each other. And if it makes you a better person one way or the other, who cares? Enjoy life

 

This is the picture I was talking about https://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch462/spectrum.jpg
I never said I could see the color on the computer screen! This is one big reason why I know it is UV light. Right where these colors end off is the beginning of the colors I see, If I am right people with HPPD are simply just seeing farther up the spectrum. I have emailed every professor I can that is near for a UV light test. The mind cant make up new light, I cant see this light on a computer screen. This light exists. Why can I only see it around light bulbs that are said to emit UV light? While around others that emit little to none, I can barely see it at all. There are just too many coincidences, I will be proven right one day, I am sure of it.

 

LCD screens and CRT monitors only have red green and blue sub pixels. The actual spectral color violet (no not purple) is a spectral color of shorter wavelength than blue and is quite stunning but it can not be reproduced on a screen since it is outside the gamut it can display.

 

Update! My theory is correct it has to be! I gave my sister the magnifying glass, and told her how to see the new UV colors with it. She too agreed with me that the colors she saw through the magnifying glass are completely new to her, (She is 11) and said she said they are not part of the normal "rainbow" colors. She too is smart. I let her look at this light, and then I went on a walk with her. The whole time I was exclaiming of my new ability and how the moon has a blue outline exactly like the colors she saw in the magnifying glass. I asked her to stare at the moon, and for a second, she said she saw a blue outline directly touching the moon. This is the exact same outline I see, the color she described is also exactly what I see. She described it as a "new" blue she has never seen before, and definitely not the normal rainbow spectrum blue. My theory is correct, once one becomes attuned to the light, and sees it, the brain can be activated by the light. She is 11 and has never done any drugs, and the color she sees is new to her, it is one she has never seen before, and it is the same color that she saw in the magnifying glass. Please for the love of god do the magnifying glass experiment. What I am seeing is a new type of light and color, and the only logical conclusion of this is that we have to be seeing farther up the spectrum as the color's in the magnifying glass, the colors I see, and the colors my sister saw can not be seen on the spectrum and cannot be recreated elsewhere.

 

I genuinely don't mean this to sound dick-like, but man, you can't come exclaim an update confirmation to your "theory" because you used the impressionable nature of a child to confirm what you were seeing...now being administered one of those UV spectrum tests you emailed about would be another thing...

 

I did the magnifying glass experiment...the "new" blue color seen is actually the spectral color violet...shorter in wavelength than blue. Human eyes are not sensitive to ultraviolet...what you are seeing is the spectral color violet. Beyond that lies ultraviolet, which our eyes are not sensitive to.

However, I can see near infrared..the light emitted from a tv remote control. Appears as a dull red color.

 

i've seen "new" colors on LSD too. in fact, much of the entire experience of LSD is "new" - that's what it does.

what it doesn't do is physically change the structure of your eye so that you can see UV light (or infrared).

this is from wikipedia (with a nice reference):

i'm guessing that you still have the lens in each of your eyes.

you talk about glass absorbing the UV light, so that you can't see it from inside looking through a window. that is exactly what the lens of your eye does! it filters out the UV light.

you are having visual after effects from the LSD. or you are just noticing things that you never noticed before. when i look at streetlights or the moon, etc., i often see a halo of light around the object. it's probably caused by particles in the air, imperfect vision, or a shitload of other possibilities.

as a scientist, and an LSD user, i would not place my bet on the claim that you can now see outside the normal visual spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.



sounds like you had an awesome trip though, which is great! you even sound like you took LSD the "right" way (not at a party with a ton of people, stuff like that).

 

The drug just changes your subjective perception of [color] and things. So colors may look new or different, but ur brain still only has the same sensory input from your retinas to work with.

Sound is affected the same way.

Try some DOM if you wanna see some "new" colors...you'll most def be able to see IR and UV and maybe even microwaves and gamma rays on that stuff

 

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I joined up just to say that while on LSD I too noticed that there was rainbow halos of colour around lights, and even around the moon as you said. I could still see them the next day too... so I took myself to an eye doctor and it turns out that extremely unusually, I am developing cataracts in both eyes at the age of 28. I was told I have a "streak" through each lens. It only happens when I look at bright points of light like street lights, diffuse lights just have a glow around them.

It's worth getting your eyes checked, because rainbow halos around lights are a sign of many eye problems, particularly glaucoma which you don't want to leave untreated for very long.