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Originally Posted by CopperStar
I get that, too, and it's freaky, because they move yet they don't move. The other night I was outside smoking cigarettes like usual, and I glanced over and the door mat was moving, like a few inches at a time in one direction, yet it never actually made any 'progress' as far as getting to a new location. But I was seeing it move. And it was the only thing moving. So it's freaky on two accounts because I swear I see it moving, yet logically I can conclude that it's not moving, and because my brain will have randomly picked one thing in the environment to be moving and nothing else.
This happened to me even when I was a little kid, though. Like the smoke detector on the hallway ceiling, would be moving towards my room for hours, completely freaking me out, and yet never actually getting to my bedroom.
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Yesterday I was looking at a poster on the wall and there were 4 of it layered on top of another but each in other direction, like one 20cm to the right, one 20cm up.. Each was another shade of neon, like pink, yellow, green.. and everything together, the wall also, breathing.
Something similar happened a year ago, I was on some psychedelic and there was a poster of a music band.. I could see it waving, but also the faces of the band members.. one had one eye.. another's eyes were swapping..
I think the psychedelic and schizophrenic view have a lot in common.
''That sounds awful. I wonder why some people have scary hallucinations vs not so scary? Is it the combination of anxiety and hallucinations at the time of the psychosis? ''
My 5 cents.. I also take hallucinogens a lot and I used to think seeing spiders or other deemed 'unpleasant' things means a bad trip.. it doesn't. We gave it that etiquette (ok, spiders, natural danger).. it stopped scaring me and I don't think I'm having a bad trip seeing these things.. similarly, when I don't ingest anything and see things, I treat it the same way, so nothing is scary.