Warning
This is an unofficial archive of PsychonautWiki as of 2025-08-11T15:14:44Z. Content on this page may be outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate. Please refer to the original page for the most up-to-date information.

Scenarios and plots

From PsychonautWiki Archive
Revision as of 23:34, 30 January 2016 by >Josikins (Text replacement - "Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:" to "Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:")
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Scenarios and plots are a shared subjective effect component that manifests as a result of both external and internal hallucinations.

The components which comprise hallucinatory states (autonomous entities, alterations in perspective, and settings, sceneries, and landscapes) are randomly shuffled and spliced into plots and scenarios. These may be positive or negative to experience and are difficult to define in a comprehensive manner in much the same way that one cannot predict the plot of literature and films.

They can, however, be broken down into basic occurrences which generally entail visiting a setting which often contains interactive autonomous entities. Alongside of these, completely unpredictable plot devices and events force the person to become involved within the specific scenario of the particular trip.

These scenarios and plots can be linear and logical with events that occur in a rational sequence which leads onto other events through cause and effect. However, they are equally likely to present themselves as completely nonsensical and incoherent. The plot of these scenarios will often result in spontaneous events which are capable of ending, starting and changing between each other repeatedly in quick succession. The plots can present as new experiences that are unlike anything experienced within the real world, old experiences such as accurate memory replays or a combination of the two.

Hallucinatory plots and scenarios usually feel as if they are being experienced in real-time. When 20 seconds has passed within the hallucination, the same amount of time will have passed in the real world. At other points, however, time distortions occur, resulting in plots and scenarios that can feel as if they last days, weeks, months, years, or infinitely long periods of time.

Psychoactive substances

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

... further results

Experience reports

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

See also