i still think this is just to scare people away, like refer madness
Very real. I unfortunately have them when very very stressed.
Yup! Extreme stress and/or heavy anxiety for me. I just don't let myself get that way anymore. Last one was 20 years ago ish. Worked in a factory back then. Pressure was on for an order to make it's destination on time. Machinery breakdowns,personnel calling in,supply of raw material problems and it was getting down to the wire.
As my boss stood there yelling at me,all red faced and angry,I saw his ears morph into butterflies and fly off into who knows where. I knew what was going on and ignored it. Then his nose slowly inflated every time he spoke. Bigger. Bigger. Annnd then I couldn't see his face anymore. When he said "What are you staring at?" I lost it and laughed for like 3 minutes. About 30 seconds into my laughing fit, the boss starts to smile. Then eventually he chuckled. I said" We got this man" He went back to his office and we did our thing. The order made delivery a day ahead of schedule and we all got a free doughnut.
It took months of incredible stress and anxiety to trigger,but happen they do!. I am stress free for the most part now due to life changes I've made including where I make my living.
I used to get flashbacks when I'd go to the gym, and the last one occurred over a decade ago. They were always unobtrusive; more akin to the afterglow after a trip than a trip itself. Minimal visual anomalies, minimal shift off sober baseline, some euphoria, minimal distraction.
I'm calling bullshit on you boss's ears morphing to butterflies, because LSD simply doesn't cause manifest hallucinations like that unless you dropped one helluva mega dose. We're talking 50+ hits of 800+ug good stuff. In a flashback? I don't buy it.
As indicated, you are either experiencing some unrelated phenomenon, or clearly lying (no offense). LSD is a hallucination, not a dissociative. People hear/read that word and mistake what it actually does. You are not going to see goofy flying a winged triceratops, if you have visual effects they will be much more subtle. Surfaces may appear to "breathe" and color seems more intense. Rather than the visual effects, most people regard your change in perception as the effect noticed most.
If you'd like to see someone's ears turn into butterfly a dissociative is what you want; but I wouldn't recommend it.
Mine are strobe lights in my brain while trying to sleep. The worst.
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