Pattern recognition enhancement
Pattern recognition enhancement can be described as an increase in a person's ability to recognise significant imagery (usually faces) within vague stimuli.
This innate ability which human beings possess in everyday life is referred to by the scientific literature as pareidolia and is a very well documented phenomenon.[1][2][3] Common examples of this include spotting faces in everyday objects or perhaps viewing clouds as a variety of potentially different objects.
During this experience, pareidolia can become significantly more intense and pronounced than it would usually be during everyday sober living. For example, scenery may look remarkably like detailed images, every day objects may look like faces and clouds may appear as fantastical objects, all without any visual alterations actually taking place. Once an image has been recognised within an object or landscape, the hallucinatory effect known as transformations may further exaggerate this recognition so that it goes beyond pareidolia and becomes a standard visual hallucination.
Image examples
Psychoactive substances
Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:
- 1B-LSD
- 1P-ETH-LAD
- 1P-LSD
- 1V-LSD
- 1cP-AL-LAD
- 1cP-LSD
- 1cP-MiPLA
- 25B-NBOH
- 25B-NBOMe
- 25C-NBOH
- 25C-NBOMe
- 25D-NBOMe
- 25E-NBOH
- 25I-NBOH
- 25I-NBOMe
- 25N-NBOMe
- 2C-B
- 2C-B-FLY
- 2C-C
- 2C-D
- 2C-E
- 2C-I
- 2C-P
- 2C-T
- 2C-T-2
- 2C-T-21
- 2C-T-7
- 3-MMC
- 3C-E
- 3C-P
- 4-AcO-DET
- 4-AcO-DMT
- 4-AcO-MET
- 4-AcO-MiPT
- 4-FA
- 4-HO-DET
- 4-HO-DPT
- 4-HO-DiPT
- 4-HO-EPT
- 4-HO-MET
- 4-HO-MPT
- 4-HO-MiPT
- 5-MeO-DALT
- 5-MeO-DiBF
- 5-MeO-DiPT
- 5-MeO-MiPT
- 6-APB
- 6-APDB
- AL-LAD
- ALD-52
Psychoactive substances
Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include:
- Experience: 15mg 2C-B (oral) - A pleasant low-dose evening with Nexus
- Experience: 200µg 1P-LSD (sublingual) + 12mg CBD - The Vortex of Empathy
- Experience: 22mg 2C-B (oral) / 100ug 1P-LSD (sublingual) - My first time tripping alone (2 days in a row)
- Experience: 25mg 2C-E (oral) - A mindblowing experience
- Experience: 80mg EPT - Slight improvement
- Experience:0.75g MDMA - Possibly some MDA through metabolisation?
- Experience:1000 Morning Glory seeds - Rediscovering the Self
- Experience:120µg LSD - First Bad Acid Trip, Psychosis
- Experience:150mg MDMA + 20mg 2C-B - I designed it this way myself
- Experience:2.5g Psilocybe Cubensis B+ strain - epiphany of nondualistic reality
- Experience:20mg (insufflated) - permanent all-encompassing states of unity and interconnectedness
- Experience:20mg - I looked up and saw an angry god-like figure made of clouds glaring down at me
- Experience:250 seeds - Harsh body load
- Experience:25mg - A labyrinth of organs and a storybook walk
- Experience:2C-P (approx. 35mg) - Asymmetrical Terror and the Geometric Sea
- Experience:2mg 25C-NBOMe - Experimental trip to test personal limits of NBOMes
- Experience:3 Grams of Mushrooms - Reset on my Life, Experiencing Satori and the Cosmic Perspective
- Experience:3.5g psilocybe cubensis - Relinquishing of Material Chains/Fear and Desolation
- Experience:300µg LSD - Togetherness and the Silent Dusk
- Experience:4-HO-DET (20 mg, oral) - Tripping for my birthday
- Experience:4.5g - The Grand Introduction to Beauty and Fear
- Experience:40mg - Brothermind and the Forest's Hand
- Experience:5g Mushrooms - Failed attempt at a Terence Mckenna style trip.
- Experience:BK-2C-B - Various experiences
- Experience:LSD (230 ug) - An amazing adventure by vikilikepsych
- Experience:Mushrooms and Snuff Films -- Trip Report (3.5 grams)
- Experience:Unknown dosage / 1 tab DOC - Psychedelia Turned Into Stimulant Psychosis
- Experience:Unknown dosage / 3 tabs - Ego death and a total break through in the snow
- Experience:~150mg MDA(oral) - a case of mistaken identity
See also
- Responsible use
- Subjective effects index
- Psychedelics - Subjective effects
- Dissociatives - Subjective effects
- Deliriants - Subjective effects
References
- ↑ Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945214000288
- ↑ Pareidolia in Infants | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118539
- ↑ Why People See Faces When There Are None: Pareidolia (psychology today) | https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-think-neandertal/201608/why-people-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia