psychedelic imagery is so abstract, I feel the mind of the individual tries to create imagery out of energies that are present, people can have similar imagery or entirely different imagery.

I get the imagery of octopus-like snake-like tentacles and whatnot. Also insectoid buzzing seems to be big. I'm surprised at how similar the imagery and sound is to 4-aco-dmt for me.

Anyone else get similar imagery?

That's actually one of the theories that I've had about why the snake element seems to be so common with these things. Like maybe we get so deep into the quantum level that we can observe the strings of reality vibrating or something, and the movement of snakes is the closest thing our human brain can interpret for it. Otherwise I can't really figure out why some elements are more common than others, if it's just a "drug" and synapes are firing randomly. I mean there has to be something that we're observing in that state, and it tends to create similar visions among different people.

At least for me the snake imagery is really predominant, it's there every time. In there I've seen the weirdest kinds of snakes, like from gemstoned rainbow pythons, to very ninja-like shadow snakes, to a swarm of prehistoric eels with an array of needle teeth eating my flesh. I've also witnessed the double helix made out of snakes that seems to be quite common. A few times with open eyes my arms have literally turned into snakes and I was absolutely frozen with fear. And on one life-changing experience I've actually become a snake, in the most realistic way imaginable, just slithering away in the wilderness somewhere.. That's also when I lost my phobia to them, and now I always keep seeing them and feeling I'm one of them everytime I indulge myself into a cup of the good old mother aya.

Snakes, snakes, snakes. Snakes, snakes? Snakes!

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Well said daedaloops.

yea snakes, tentacles, and insects are some of the big themes it seems

the snake/helix/DNA motif is seen across tons of shamanic cultures, some of whom don't even have snakes in they're region to begin with. Jeremy Narby's book the cosmic serpent goes into this quite a bit

According to Joe Campbell, the snake like the moon or the phoenix is a symbol of death-rebirth. Perhaps something to mull over.