Looking into mirrors: as bad as it's said to be?

So is the whole thing about never looking into mirrors true? I know a friend who took acid and had a great time until around halfway she looked into a mirror, saw her face melt, and was scared it would stay that way forever! (Needless to say, it didn't, hahaha)

Is the best advice to turn around or cover all mirrors in your tripping area?

 

I like to look in a mirror while im tripping.
i mean as long as you still have it in your head that youre just tripping it shouldnt fuck with you.
your face gets all contorted and freaky but i think its pretty awesome looking.

 

Yeah I can stare at myself in the mirror for hours when lucy is present. Just letting my mind take complete control. You just have to keep that little saying in the back of your head if your new to the substance. "its just a drug".

 

Tell yourself it's a just a drug?

hmm. I don't know if I like that.

I much prefer Leary's advice of merely recognizing it is all a manifestation of your own mind.
So you might warp into an animal or some scary shit or something. All that means is you have animalistic qualities or scary shit inside you. If you want to morph into something else, then do it. Start focusing on a new quality of yourself. If you can't stop focusing on one quality, then make amends to change it and be on your merry way. Really I find all you have to do on hallucinogens to get past like diffucult introspective views of yourself is genuinely promise to your higher self that you will change.

With that said, the mirror is awesome. I must make a visit to it every time I trip. It does all this crazy shit, but then you find you can actually like control it and morph yourself into various things by will. I love to like, morph into things and act out the character I morph into.

 

It's nice and funny and you can play like a little child in front of mirror but the real fun begins if you are a woman and you have to put make up to go to job. Then you really decide that you are absolutly amazing without any.

 

i agree

 

yeah my friends have a room that has a huge 8 foot by 8 foot mirror on the one wall. its insane. INSANELY FUN!!!! =)

 

Your friend is weird. I enjoy seeing my face morph and stretch to fill up the whole mirror

 

"I much prefer Leary's advice of merely recognizing it is all a manifestation of your own mind. "

Works well for me, but I never had a problem with the mirror thing.. to me, it's like.. OBVIOUSLY! Everything you look at morphs pretty much, so what makes the mirror any different. It's pretty cool and entertaining, but it can be a pain in the ass when you can't see your face at all because you're dosed so hard. I know a kid who was afraid of LSD because the one time he took it and viewed the mirror he saw himself as Satan, lol, hmm.

 

Mirrrors are a funny experience on acid. Last time i tripped, everytime i went to the toilet i found my self washing my hands and staring into the mirror laughing at how distorted and crazy my face looked. On top of all that my eyebrows, eye lashes and beard kept infinitely growing but not getting any longer it was crazy!

 

can be real fun for some, others find it too much

 

i dont like it on L too much but on shrooms i looked all digital and cool, dripping colors everywhere

 

Mirrors are awesome!

 

"saw her face melt, and was scared it would stay that way forever" - this might just be one of those realizations. Maybe your friend is too concerned with her own appearance. I have stared at myself for over an hour on acid, but I do not remember seeing anything morph, I just lost track of time and stared hard at one spot on my face. I tend to not have hallucinations on acid unless I take so much that I lose all recollection of this world and completely slip through to another reality fully independant from this world.

 

I can get lost starring at myself in the mirror on shrooms, watching was my face melt for the first time was amazing, but cid is a different story. The first time I was on 2 hits of cid everything was very geometric and clean cut, and the last time was just to intense and I could not get grounded and the morphing was kinda messing with me.

 

i like to look in the mirror. i see the tiny particles on my face moving constantly. the colors are blue and green mostly mixed in with my actual skin color. i mean if you took acid understand that your still gonna see shit when you look in the mirror why would that change?

 

i usually spend about a quarter of mi trip in the bathroom watching my face move...so entertaining lol...only thing that weirded me out was when i didnt recognise myself...was still cool though x xx

 

i tired it for the first time this past friday and since i read a lot about mirrors we decided to cover them all up but half way through the trip i wanted to see what i looked like so we uncovered a mirror and it was so much fun just looking at yourself and making your face do different things. i remember i was pulling at my earrings and they would melt down and go back up.

 

If im really tripping hard looking into a mirror can be pretty intense. The last time I tripped was on 5 grams of mushrooms over thanksgiving break and when I looked into a mirror I saw myself as an alien and didn't associate with "myself" in the mirror. Its really really difficult to describe, but its really really incredibel. The whole experience of looking into a mirror tripping is completely different. When I say I saw myself as an alien I don't mean that I looked like what one might percieve to be "alien", I just saw myself as an incredible being just living on this earth. It completely rips away every perception of humans that youve ever had and completely replaces them with something new. And then theres the fact that youll see yourself as a hallucination which is really incredible. You can learn so much looking at yourself in a mirror

 

i like mirrors. i always like to look at how dialated my pupils are. like they are giant black abysses. also for me, it helps me come back to reality a bit if i start freaking out or something. just seeing myself helps me remember who i am and what i took.

of course tripping in a house of mirrors would be a completly different story..