the deeper cerebral/conceptual shifts in perception are the cooler part, but besides intense closed eye visuals, the visual thing i remember most is one time i took some dried psilocyben cubensis (shrooms) late at night and fell asleep before they onset. i woke up tripping from a dream, and i remember closing/reopening my eyes was like a veil of sparkles being pulled away from my field of vision.... like reality was visually exploding into existence every time i opened my eyes.

one of the characteristics i appreciate about having done psychedelics is that it made me more accepting of both what i see without being too attached to what i think i am seeing. for example, sometimes i'll catch a glimpse of something in my periphery, and when i look over it's different. i think before i got into psychedelics i would have been disturbed by that phenomenon, like i was going "crazy". now i just sort of laugh it off as a curiosity of visual perception and patterned thinking..... i am amused by the way my brain tried to fill in the gaps. i think it's made me more perceptive in general, and also in visual arts. like i am more comfortable "playing" in that space between what something objectively looks like and what i see when i remember glancing at it.