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Autonomous entity

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Namaste (Trifoliata Mystica) by Luke Brown - This artwork serves as an accurate example of a generic geometry based autonomous entity seen during a psychedelic experience.

Autonomous entities can be described as the visual experience of perceived contact with beings which appear to be sentient and autonomous in their behaviour. This is a shared subjective effect component that can manifest as a result of both external and internal hallucinations.

Autonomous entities seem to act as the inhabitants of a perceived independent reality. They are generally expectant of the person's sudden appearance into their realm and often interact with them in various ways. The behaviour of a typical entity can vary wildly and seems to depend heavily on the tripper's current emotional mind state. For example, whilst many will act as loving, kind intelligences, teachers or healers. In certain contexts, they are equally capable of acting as indifferent, uncaring or even as malicious tormentors.

Entities can take any form but subconscious archetypes are present and commonly include:

Perfectly ordinary human beings, shadow people, bodiless super intelligent humanoids, aliens, elves, animal beings, giant spheres, insectoids, beings of light, plants, robotic machines, gods, goddesses, bio-mechanical intelligences, hooded figures, demons, indescribable monstrosities, fantastical creatures, and more.

Regardless of appearance, there are distinctly different personality types of entities which one may encounter, each of which represent a particular subsection of one's own consciousness and can be identified primarily through their personality but also sometimes their appearance. These are broken down into 3 separate categories below:

  • Representations of the self - The simplest personality type of an entity can be described as a mirror of one's own personality. It can take any visible form but clearly adopts an identical vocabulary and set of mannerisms to one's own personality when conversed with.
  • Representations of the subconscious - This category of entity personality type can take any visible form but adopts the personality of what seems to be a conscious controller behind the continuous generation of the details regarding one's current experience and the management of one's own perspective, personality and internally stored model of reality. When conversed with, this category of entity posses abilities which allow them to directly alter and manipulate one's current experience and to heal past traumas. They usually adopt an attitude which wants to teach or guide the tripper and will operate under the assumption that they know what is best for them.
  • Representations of specific concepts - This category of entity is by far the most varied type in terms of its visual form and immediately perceivable personality. It can be identified as a simulated sentient representation of any internally stored concept and adopts an appropriate personality to fit this to an amazing degree of accurate detail. For example this specific concept could include people you have met throughout your life, fictional characters or symbolic representations of abstract concepts such as emotions or key parts of one's own personality.

When communicated with through spoken word, the level of coherency in which these entities can communicate with is highly variable but can be broken down into 4 distinct levels. These are listed below as:

  1. Silence - This level can be defined as a complete unresponsiveness from the side of the entity and an incapability of speech despite their obvious presence within the hallucination.
  2. Partially defined incoherent speech - This level can be defined as audible linguistic conversational responses and noises which sound like words but do not contain any real content or meaning beyond a vague sense of emotional intent.
  3. Fully defined incoherent speech - This level can be defined as audible linguistic conversational responses and noises which contain fully defined and understandable words but often lack grammatical structure or general coherency.
  4. Fully defined coherent speech - This level can be defined as audible linguistic conversational responses and noises which contain understandable words as well as a fully defined grammatical sentence structure and general coherency which conveys its point on a level on par with the tripper's own intellect.

Autonomous entities may also communicate with trippers via a combination of telepathy, visual linguistics, mathematics and morphing coloured structures of different textures. This complex visual language is innately readable and capable of expressing pure meaning in a level of detail far beyond that of standard human English.

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Psychoactive substances

Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:

Experience reports

Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include:

See also

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