pretty tough to tell...just to be safe, make sure u dont have any serious psychoses in ur family....other than that, do w/e u can to make sure u have a safe fun time and the only fact i kno is about 1/3 of heavy users supposedly have them...there's other threads about it...HPPD is what its called, "flashbacks" doesnt really do it justice
HPPD is a very severe form of flashbacks. AFAIK, virtually everyone who does LSD, even once, will experience one or more "flashbacks" in their life, but these are extremely mild and often appear as simply "memories". HPPD is a psychosis triggered by LSD which results in most of the effects of the drug reoccuring without the drug itself being present. Big difference! Flashbacks are no big deal as long as you don't make a big deal out of them. At 14, I would recommend you wait a few years before trying Lucy.
I have always wondered about this because I feel like I experience visual flashbacks if I stare at anything long enough (ex. patterns will move/bubble, trails off of everything especially in low lighting). I have never experienced a flashback that sent me into the same state of mind as when I am tripping, which I guess was the thing that had always worried me the most about flashbacks. Also, I have had these "flashbacks" ever since a long period of heavy DXM use, even before I started dropping a lot so I think it might just be my brain processing things differently now
the term "flashbacks" doesnt mean anything....if you're not having HPPD, then you don't really have anything....so it depends on what your actual symptoms are...the chances you will develop HPPD are not very high, like I said....however, you and pcmgp may want to check out this thread I started about something that most likely will happen from doing LSD..... http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295802
no dude, there flash forwards, not flashbacks... flash forwards and it's not HPPD its just utilizing more portions of your brain
Since there were plenty of questions about HPPD or flashbacks let me try to clear something up. Physical body, lives in this physical reality and uses 5 common sences to interact with surroundings. Your soul, exists in different reality where 3rd eye is used to show you the surroundings of that other reality and other means of interaction are used for comunication (telephaty is the most obvious). When you use psychedelic drugs, you basicaly open 3rd eye together with your normal eyes and thats why you see patherns and other visuals together with the room that you are sitting in. Different realities start overlaping as you continue to discover ways of controling how much you want to be in witch reality. But, once the door is open, it stays open forever, like it or not. In the begining, you are not aware of those things and it seems to you that you had a fleshback or HPPD, but what is actually happening is that different realities start overlaping, like watching two different pictures on transparent paper overlaped. When you see them first time, you see only the mixture of both, but as you focus, you can choose witch picture you want to look at, and you can easily switch off the other one, actually its not switched off, it is out of focus. So, many realities coexist at the same time, and they did always, it is just you needed to open some doors in your mind to be able to be aware of them. And that is exactly what psychedelics are doing to you. There is nothing to be scared from, but there is plenty to learn from that situation that plenty of you call fleshback or HPPD. I hope I didn't confuse you more than I wanted. Love you all!
I've never had any kind of "flashback" at all. Nor has anyone I know. Nor have I ever heard a first-hand account of one. EVER. Though it supposedly can happen, it's obviously extremely rare, and I suspect most people who claim to have had flashbacks are just seeking attention. But since I've never met anyone who has ever claimed to have had one, I don't know. There are a few "mind games" that people sometimes play to "prove" that you've been "damaged" by taking acid- using manual agitation of the eye to trigger phosphenes, for instance. "Are you seeing tracers? Oh no, it was the acid you took last week..."
The only time I have heard of these flashbacks is when people have problems, and the flashbacks apparently keep happening until these problems are faced, now I dont know this from talking to anyone but I read a book about LSD and flashbacks, and from the study that was done, the people who have flashbacks have major mental problems and dont feel like they have anyone to turn to for support with anything, so I dont think I will ever get a flashback, maybe a mild one when I am blazed outta my mind, but that is just my wild imagination getting the best of me, but my imagination is what makes every trip I have ever had amazing
Get your mind off drugs kid, go to school and try to get some pussy, then once you know who you are, eat some acid and change yourself. to answer your question- It's a pretty slim chance you'll get "flashbacks". It's not that common. HPPD is just "the way I am"
I wish I could get a real flashback. I have to wait till I find hallucinogens to trip. I notice now that I always have tracers, and they get worse when I get high. Sometimes I'll find myself zoning out with kind of a trippy mindset. I've even seen a few flashes of color out of the corner of my eye. But as far as a real flashback, nah. I wish.
The other night I had a friend over to drink some margaritas and watch a movie. After 2 drinks I started seeing trails and colors, she caught me waving my hand infront of my face and probalby thought I was nuts hahaha, I tried to explain it to her but she had never tried lsd. Certain things can trigger flashbacks, personally I think they are kind of cool. A hallucinogen allows your brain to see things in an altered state, IMO your brain 'remembers' how to enter that altered state and can do so again without the help of any chemical and is triggered by some memory or possibly something in the subconscious.
I am not sure if I was this way before psychedelics or not. I think a little maybe. I trip out on things all the time, but I think I did that before to some degree. they got a new carpet in the administration building and it does weird shit to my eyes and vibrates like crazy. walls in my house occasionally breathe. sometimes when I'm talking to people it looks like a badly edited film where they have jumps. you know like when the actor is standing in one spot, and then they pause the camera, and the actor isn't standing in exactly the same place.. just barely off. that doesn't happen very often though.
flashbacks are not really a disruptive thing either, in my experiece its usually just catching a trail here and there, its noticeable but you don't 'feel' like you are tripping in any way, you really do not feel intoxicated at all.
I can confirm from first hand experience that both flashbacks and HPPD are very real. I haven't had a flashback for about a year now, but there was a period of my life (maybe half a year) during which I would occasionally experience full blown flashbacks. Usually, but not exclusively, under the influence of some other drug (for example MDMA or cannabis). These were sometimes mild, other times absolutely terrifying. It wasn't just a memory, or even a feeling, but it was like actually being 100% back inside a horrible trip I once had, for just a couple of seconds. Then for the last year or so I've been experiencing HPPD, which Shapeshifter described fairly accurately. It's like I'm noticing as realities are diverging from each other, and my mind tries to lock itself in to one of them by means of tracers and minor visual hallucinations over my field of vision (this happens more often at night) Then there's one more type of drug/reality related disorder I've experienced a few times which I haven't heard documented anywhere. Again this usually happens after I've taken some other sort of drugs (cannabis/MDMA/ketamine), and it's kind of like a flashback, except it's longer. I've fully started tripping again as though I had taken acid, except I hadn't. This includes intense visuals, auditory hallucinations, disconnection from "time", and control to some extent over the reality I'm in. This can be most disconcerting, and usually lasts until the next time I sleep. I had at least 3 parties ruined in this way for me, because I just wanted to enjoy myself naturally, and couldn't, so I went home and went to bed. I wouldn't attribute this all to acid though btw, I think it has something to do with the fact that a couple of times I took ketamine while I was tripping. I think the disassociative nature of ketamine when mixed with the "associative" nature of acid caused some sort of strange imbalance.
ya I think I had something like that once hemisphere. I had some ecstacy that I believe was mixed with MDMA, Ketamine and ritalin. 8 hours and 6 pills later... and with a bit of marijuana and one joint of marijuana that had cocaine in it (don't ever intend to do that again) I was nearly fully tripping again. Continuous auditory hallucinations, voices all over constantly, full open eyed visuals. I was walking around downtown Portland and could see highly ornate 3D forms pressing into the concrete on the sidewalk below me and spreading out and running up the walls and running onto the streets all around me. Energetic geometric forms floating about and morphing on things. It looked like streets and sidewalks were literally rocking back and forth like a bridge, everything was greatly skewed and under motion blur. If I stopped and just closed my eyes, I would pretty much instantly start dreaming, very vividly. This didn't fully subside for couple days actually largely because the night of, I only got like 5 hours of sleep cause I had to go to work. Was interesting being able to sit at work and watch geometry or just close my eyes and instantly be having vivid dreams. Then only got like 4 the next night... finally I got 13 hours of sleep and woke up with all the effects gone.
Nice to see you back after long time! That combination that you mentioned (lsd and ketamine) is one of my favourite, and it is not strange imbalance, its opening so many doors in your mind that it might look like you are exploding into particles and continue to live like colective consciousnes of all particles together at once. After some time, when you get familiar with feelings, you can actually function in all those realities and they keep comming even when you are sober. As I said before, its realities overlaping and you just need to focus on one if you need to be only in one, while you let the others "pass by you". Takes some practise and consumation until you can really see huge benefit of it as it can be very hectic in the begining, while you are just "opened" and new to all that. Anyway, there is nothing to be worried, more to be happy, but need to learn why to be happy because of it.
"flashbacks" are usually just severe manifestations of HPPD. THIS IS NOT PSYCHOSIS. All speculation about the third eye is subjective. Unfortunately many people who report having HPPD are labeled as having "psychosis." This usually in no way interferes with the person's day-to-day life aside from the occasional "visual glitch" which can definitely jar you back to that familiar state of LSD ecstasy. Mild distortions in the visual field are usually reported at all times by the HPPD sufferer. The sufferer may see his ceiling or rugs gently wafting very subtly or be able to "see" the air in tiny broken fragments. So far as science knows, HPPD can generally last anywhere from months to years and is mainly reported by users of LSD. Some people find great enlightenment in this experience itself as things tend to be seen in more of a "light of new creation" as is experienced on LSD. Here's a doctor who's studying its effects objectively and slowly erasing the stigma of HPPD: http://drabraham.com/html/hppd.htm
