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submitted 1 year ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If so, what triggered it and what was it like?

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[-] coleseph@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Only on acid - my buddies and I got lost in a maelstrom and clung to a raft to survive. Two of us woke up on a serene island and made a beautiful community with the indigenous peoples of the island.

The other two found another island and created a futuristic industrialized society.

The ideological differences eventually formed physically into a great barrier called The Schism. They began polluting our lands and forced us into a hundred year war and many lives were lost.

Peace was found when emissaries from both tribes travelled to the caldera of the great volcano at the center of our island and met with the Keeper of the Scrolls who revealed to us that The Schism was invisible - we took that to mean that the only thing truly separating our people was our perceived differences.

But we were really, really trippin

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mine was also on acid, only ever done it once and now you can miss me with that shit... I fucked up hard. I did it solo but also ended up 4 or 5 brownies deep along with drinking all night. It was going great at the start but after a few hours it all went wrong, I'm not sure if I passed out and was dreaming or just walking around but I was no longer human. At one point I was mold in a petri dish and so was my wife and when we grew and touched each other we made a mutated mold and that was our kid.... anothet point I was ink and my life was being drawn on a page and as time passed the page turned and me, the ink was drawn. The worst part which was unbearable and I think lasted the longest was that I was a everything and everything that had ever existed or would exist all happening at the same time, kind of hard to explain this one, I wasn't really a physical entity at all, more like time and space but all in a tiny dot. Needless to say not being a person for what felt like forever was kind of a big ego death... not sure how i kept a job down I was basically psychotic for the next 18 month. I wasn't sure if I was real, I wasn't sure if my kid was real. I never got suicidal but I was constantly afraid I was slowly losing my mind and I could become suicidal, there were days that's all I could think.

Definitely not my jam

[-] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

One perspective I've heard before and I find interesting is (paraphrased) that we, as humans, are the result of a universe yearning to know itself. (I'm sure there's more but that's the jist of it.)

It could be that our consciousness isn't specifically human, it just inhabits the bodies best able to experience and learn about the world we exist in.

[-] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Could you please drop a pin on the map for the Keeper of the Scrolls? He seems like a good dude to know.

Maybe we can encourage him to start c/askthekeeperofthescrolls so that more people have access to his wisdom?

[-] coleseph@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Unsurprisingly, last I heard he’s living in a van on a river in Texas.

I miss that guy.

[-] davidauz@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

man, exactly what substance did you get? asking for a friend

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