found this interesting

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    I just mean conjure false images that literally show up in your own field of view, at will

    i can kinda do that, but it's easier if i close my eyes. Like I can easily imagine an ant crawling on my desk right now, and if I focus hard enough on imagining such a thing, I can literally "see it" while understanding that it's not real. It just goes away if I stop focusing on imagining it. I hope that makes sense.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I can imagine a desk that looks like mine with ants crawling around on it, but it's clearly in my head and not my eyes perceiving the desk. Also, it's muffled.

      I do have some N2O on the desk right now...

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's not really a hallucination though, just a somewhat vague visualization like a dream is. Aren't most humans also capable of hallucinating by actually seeing things in the world that aren't there? But it usually has to be induced somehow by drugs.