[HN Gopher] What Hallucinogens Will Make You See
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       What Hallucinogens Will Make You See
        
       Author : simonebrunozzi
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2025-11-08 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ashleyn wrote:
       | I have such vivid memories of experiencing many of these things
       | in infancy and early childhood. Especially pareidolia, mild
       | object activation, and scenery slicing. Hasn't really happened
       | much in almost thirty years. Is there any research on like, if
       | this is a side effect of brain development? It's always made me
       | wonder.
        
       | gyomu wrote:
       | The article is a short selection from a more complete website:
       | https://www.effectindex.com/effects
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       | The effort is purely descriptive and does not seem to correlate
       | the various effects with their cause (nothing wrong with that,
       | still interesting).
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       | This article provides a good overview of various theories:
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       | https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-...
        
         | ashleyn wrote:
         | What I find very interesting is the strong resemblance to
         | dreams some generative image/video AI can produce.
        
       | optimalsolver wrote:
       | It can get real bad:
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       | https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/gb9ar0/dark_dmt_trip_r...
        
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