LSD - familiar feeling?

Ever get the feeling while on LSD that the state you are in and the feeling itself is intensely familiar?

Sometimes I feel like I've felt this before, ages ago and have forgotten for all this time. The first time I really tripped it was like I was so intimately familiar with this state of being but I had forgotten for so long.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

 

that is exactly the case

 

Recognition, by definition implies having known before.

 

Yes I have. I don't understand how it is familiar though

 

I think it's because it can take you to a level of "being" and experiencing that transcends all the learned language, filters and definitions that have been compiled over the years to order and interpret your world. That is the same level of experiencing that you lived in as an infant until you started to really learn and use language. That is my take on why it can feel so familier.

 

I agree with this. I think the state we're in while on acid must be similar to what it's like to be a kid because of how you think "I've felt this before". Whatever the reason, it's a great feeling!

 

maybe there's just a part of our brain that means "recognition", regardless of whether we actually rolleyes recognize something or not, as in having been there before... kind of like deja vu, where familiarity is triggered despite it being a new experience.

or maybe it's something deeper. a connection to something that is deeply embedded in our makeup, that we're only aware of when we open the filters.

both?

tripping brings me back to some places i very clearly remember being in as a child, though.

 

Alpert said in a lecture that its our natural state

 

Yeah all good answers! I think it is alot being like a child, i remember once i got past 10 or 11, i had to work for the fun i achieved a lot more. I was depressed so much that i would never get to experience the same happiness ever again. Thats why LSD is a miracle. You get the full potential of truley enjoying life again. It is my favorite thing in the world that feeling but I start to act slow when i do it too often.

 

This is exactly what I thought but wasn't able to put into words. Thanks.

 

how much of our lives have we forgotten?

 

first time my freind took acid, he said he hadn't felt like that since he was five years old

my interpretation is that when your born your brain is supercharged, extremely flexible, and has no environmental conditioning. there are less sensory filters, less limitations on the formation of nueral pathways, and conciousness exist quite strongly throughout your enire brain.

then, stress begins to pile up, our parents teach us rules and culturally appropriate habits. we are forced to go to school and told to obey the law, inhibiting us from using our minds fully. we find ourselves having to specialize, and the scope of our consciousness narrows. parts of our mind we neglect atrophy, and our potential is weakened. for many this process keeps continuing, but acid temporarily removes the conditioned layers and everything feels fresh and vibrant like it was when we were closer to our creation.

 

I think it was rygoody who said that LSD worked by 'unplugging' all of the neural connections in the brain, and the trip was the reconnecting of those pathways, which is why you experience deja vu so frequently. I dont know how true that is, but it is an interesting explanation. I remember the first time I took LSD, my friend kept wacking me, and saying "weve done this before!" we hadnt, but I had the same feeling. Now that I think back, its always deja vu ontop of deja vu, like a cycle of flashbacks to various childhood memories, feelings, and thoughts.

 

I think the child theory makes sense, but I think its more than that. Perhaps acid opens us up to things we have experienced in between lives. Or it could open us up to knowledge which we have the potential to know but our human bodies act as objects inhibiting this awareness and recognition. I am not trying to say our bodies inhibit us because I also think its the tool, so then maybe it is society...whatever it is i think its shows us or gives us glimpses (some brief some more in depth) of a knowledge we have all encountered sometime, perhaps in this life, but perhaps in another or others or in between...

 

THIS.

To me, the feeling is like my mind is now malleable, open to anything, and sort of fresh and new. I bet this is the feeling I had as a young child or in the womb.

 

yes, yes, and yes it freaks me out sometimes, i get this feeling on nitrious oxide as well

 

This feeling is like the feeling i want to feel forever. It is true nirvana. When i'm tripping i just feel like whenever i'm not tripping iv'e been missing out on the only thing that matters. When i'm not tripping i feel like i'm missing out on the only thing that matters.
The thing that matters when i'm tripping is everything. Tripping makes everything (life) matter more than imaginable.

 

That depends. If you mean how much of it am I literally able to recall, then i would say 80%. If you mean how much of it I could remember if i was reminded of what happened then i would say 98-99%

 

I fainted once and fell into a really intense dreamlike state and I felt like I was tripping hardcore. LSD and Dreams are both gateways to the subconcious to maybe it was a feeling of Deja Vu, which I also get a lot on acid.

 

I felt something like that during my first experience. I was in my friend's car looking out the window, the sun moved revealing a dark hole behind it. After that I get this feeling I knew I felt when I was like 10 years old. What a nice feeling, strange, refreshing nonetheless.