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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 either external and internal hallucinations. Autonomous entities can appear during a hallucinogenic experience, during sleep deprivation, and during stimulant psychosis.

Autonomous entities will frequently act as the inhabitants of a perceived independent reality. Although many entities seem largely unaware of one's presence, generally speaking, they are often expectant of the person's sudden appearance into their realm and usually choose to interact with them in various ways. The behavior of a typical entity can vary wildly and seems to depend heavily on one's current emotional state. For example, whilst many entities will act like 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:

Humans, friends, family, loved ones, strangers, oneself, shadow people, bodiless super intelligent humanoids, aliens, elves, animals, giant spheres, insectoids, beings of light, anthropomorphic beings, plants, conscious inanimate objects, fictional characters, cartoons, robotic machines, gods, demigods, goddesses, bio-mechanical intelligences, hooded figures, demons, indescribable monstrosities, spirits, angels, shamans, ghosts, souls, ancestors, fantastical or mythological beasts, glitch creatures and more.

Personality types

There are a few generally distinct personality types of autonomous entities which one may potentially encounter. They are often percieved to represent a particular subsection of one's own consciousness and can be identified primarily through their personality, but also sometimes their appearance. These individual types are broken down into three separate categories below.

  • Representations of general concepts - This personality type can be described as a hallucinated and seemingly sentient representation of any known concept. This will usually adopt an appropriate personality and set of mannerisms to fit the chosen concept to an impressive degree of accurate detail. For example, the specific concept could include people one has met throughout their life, specific fictional characters or symbolic representations of concepts such as abstract ideas, emotions or key parts of one's own personality.
    • Representations of the self - This personality type can be described as a mirror of one's own personality. It can take any visible form but when conversed with, it clearly adopts an identical vocabulary and set of mannerisms to one's own consciousness.
    • Representations of the subconscious - This personality type can be described as an entity which may take any visible form but is also subjectively perceived to be an autonomous controller behind the continuous generation of the details of one's current hallucinations. They may also be felt to simultaneously control or manage one's current perspective, personality and internally stored model of reality. When interacted with, this category of entity can often possess abilities which allow them to directly alter and manipulate one's current experiences. They commonly adopt an attitude which wants to teach or guide the person and will operate under the assumption that they know what is best for them. However, it cannot be known whether this hallucination is genuinely a representation of the subconscious or is perhaps merely an estimated hallucination which simply behaves in a convincing manner.

Communication styles

Autonomous entities can communicate with a person via a combination of normal spoken word, telepathy, geometry-based visual linguistics, mathematics and morphing colored structures of different textures which are innately readable as representations of specific concepts.

Regarding the conversational topics which autonomous entities choose to discuss, they will usually convey insights regarding the overcoming of personal issues or problems within the one's life. However, they can also speak with cryptic or nonsensical messages which seem to have no clear or obvious meaning behind them.

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 four 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 an overall sense of general coherency.
  4. Partially defined coherent speech - This level can be defined as audible linguistic conversational responses and noises which contain fully defined and understandable words with a partially defined grammatical structure and general coherency which conveys its point on a level which may not always be fully understandable but is still capable of conveying a general point.
  5. Fully defined coherent speech - This level can be defined as audible linguistic conversational responses which contain understandable words and a fully defined grammatical sentence structures or an overall sense of general coherency which conveys its point on a level that is on par with that of own intellect.

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Psychoactive substances

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

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Experience reports

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

See also

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