Aspects of the Entheogenic Experience: Time Dilation
Around two hours after taking a large dose of MDMA (approx. 500mg) and 6 Baby Hawaiian Woodrose Seeds, I experienced the strangest and to date most intense sensation of time distortion I have ever felt.
I use the word distortion for I feel that dilation would not be accurate. While dilation suggests a lengthening of time, this experience involved becoming caught in a 'tide' or loop of time. I would experience a period of time at a normal rate, but at one point would be suddenly pulled back to the start of said time period where I would experience it all again.
The strangest and most profound aspect of this experience was the fact that although time was definitely looping, real world event proceeded in their usual order and I could see that their effects were as would be expected in the 'regular' time flow.
Although this experience was very frightening (I believed I would never be able to escape from the loop) my experience with psychadelics has taught me to embrace and never to resist such events so I tried to explore the situation and try to work out what was going on.
My conclusion amounted to an analogy of a rip tide in the ocean. While the ocean as a whole progressed as normal, a small area was subject to a very localized and vigorous distortion. From here I was able to realize that I was the only one effected and that noone else was aware of the 'problem'.
Eventually I was released naturally from the loop and went quietly to a darkened room to think it through and consider what had happened. The lesson I learned from the experience was a profound one. It made me realize the extent to which 'time' as we think of it, is a product of our brain and experience and is probably completely separate from the scientific concept of time, and although there is no doubt a physical plane along which event precede and supercede each other, the human interpretation of this is at best illustrative and in no way accurate. It really shook up the way I think about the concepts of time and space.
I have been unable to clarify this idea further in my mind however it was a powerful lesson which I think will one day make more sense to me. Although it was a frightening experience, I am very glad I had it.JCJC - MDMA and LSA
My friend and I were tripping for 5 days in a matter of 4 hours.
Midget - LSD
On my second time trying LSD I decided to try smoking marijuana along with it to increase the effects, which it worked very well in sort of "distorting" the LSD experience and letting me step into a whole new part of this wonderful entheogen. I took about 3-4 hits total of the marijuana 5 hours into the LSD trip, the LSD was still running very strong and many psychadelic patterns were overlaying my vision along with everything around me breathing and floating along with me, a sort of wonderland experience. About 30 minutes after I smoked the grass, I started to feel a sensation as if I was separating or "dissociating" from the world around me and time started to slow down and speed up very slightly until I was around 15 seconds behind time. I felt as if everything I was doing and saying, as well as anything everyone else was doing/saying, was predetermined and I felt that I knew what was going to happen just a few seconds before it actually happened. Time kept going further and further until I was approximately 45 seconds 'behind' time. It was fairly insane and I found myself saying out loud to my friends what was going on though what came out wasn't what I meant to say so they didn't catch what I meant but its ok. The whole time dilation experience lasted about 30 minutes to an hour (time was distorted so I'm not exactly sure how long) and the whole time I couldn't decide if I was ahead of time or if I was just behind time and everything around me was just 'lagging' if you will, but the brain waves saying when something was going on would be sent on time.
Corncob - LSD with Marijuana
I was 200 years late for work. Consequently I began to view my job in a larger context.
Matt Phelps - Psilocybin
The ingredients: 200 F. dry heat,low light,low sound,lying down;Breathe slowly,eyes closed,no talking, no moving.(use damp washcloth near nose to breathe through and for your toenails which do not sweat and can get hot) Relax for 15min.(?)(until you can't relax and plunging into cold water seems attractive)Immediately plunge into cool/cold water that you can float in,take a couple of deep breaths,hold your breath,close your eyes and relax.Your heart beat will at first be fast, but will soon slow down dramatically .(Thats the "mammalian diving response",left over from distant evolutionary forebears.)If you are comfortable in water and with holding breath , time dilation will rapidly occur. Scary! Because underwater you can hear your slow heartbeat,and with time dilation it seems to stop almost.The apparent time between heart beats begins to seem impossible.(fear,but relax) That along with other effects such as extreme peace, space expansion,and euphoria, probably result from the weightlessness, shock, and silence of the cold water. Lying down outdoors(eyes closed) afterwards to savor those feelings is wonderful. Two -4 of these hot-cold-rest repetitions are possible. And the good aftereffects last for several days. I've taken hundreds of these extreme sweat baths.
Moloko - extreme sweat bath
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