A recent Vice writer wrote about the experience of her looking at her face in the mirror while tripping. Here's the post The Truth...Looking in the mirror

Well, I'd like to know just how many of you have tried it, while on what, and do you recommend or not to look into the mirror while on psychedelics?

I have I have

It's an amazing experience

Amazing on anything!

It definitely enabled me to bring the innervision of myself to the surface. I never had great idea of self image or put more bluntly, I didn't like how I looked really .... Ever....

And then psychedelics hit, and yes, I may be the spitting stereotypical image of a psychedelic warrior, but I love how I look ^-^

Yes, after DMT. Very shocking...my grin would turn like the Cheshire cat.

Try looking into a mirror under DMT in a dark room with a candle in front of you.

Also a strobe light will give you a 'resetting' experience.

all the time! me and my friends used to joke not to get lost in the mirror when one would take a piss.

Fun on any substance, molly i find myself way more attractive, acid/shrooms i like to get real close and look into my own eyes which is a fun rabbit hole, on k i feel like i see my self as more goofy or stupid lol, Haven't really done it on dmt because im honestly scared but ill definitely try it one day.

Caution though i had a friend who would stay in the bathroom multiple time a night for a half hour to hours in existential dread, he said it always started with the mirror , but never elaborated, i always wondered what he did in there for so long

Sure. Am always doing it Can be a bit unsettling, depending on one's constitution. I've always been comfortable with weird experiences on psychedelics, that's why it never bothered me.

I looked in the mirror on a sub-breakthrough dose of vaped enhanced leaf and it was amazing. I looked like some stylized, alternate universe version of myself, skin covered in teeny tiny crystals which flowed around my face. It was completely different from the familiar "Morphing Silly Putty" LSD face in the mirror effect.

I have soooooo many amazing mirror experiences. I'll provide a brief overview of a few notable ones:

- LSD: I've watched myself age from young to geriatric over and over and over again. It's too easy to get stuck here. Mostly I look good on good acid. You guys know what I'm talking about

- MXE: I've seen more energy based versions of myself, or astral bodies some might say. Of infinite forms.

- 2ct7: I don't know if I've ever looked higher. Completely stoned to the bone. Eyes barely open, looking smug and comfy.

- Changa: Video game stuff. I've seen my face break into pieces of a puzzle. I've also seen myself turn into what looks liked a Vincent Van Gogh painting, with the colors and brushstrokes coming to life and morphing about my face (and entire surroundings) super smoothly.

Mushrooms: Old man. Old man af. But also vampire version of me.



- DMT: I honestly can't remember ever looking at a mirror on DMT. That's strange.

I am quite apprehensive to even just thinking about attempting to do this...

I began the deepest and most intense psychedelic experience of my life on 3.5 grams of dried cubensis staring into the person in the mirror on my lap with the intent of making peace with what I found there. After seeing some very disturbing imagery, including facial morphs into elderly, demonic, or otherwise unsettling motifs, I found the peace.

This gave me the courage to re-up my dose to a total of 7 grams dried. The second dose kicked in and I was GONE. I returned reborn.

Did you keep looking in the mirror during the 2nd does or was it just the 1st part? When you say "gone" as in pass out?

Salutations,

LSD and the mirror session gave me some memorable laughs i may never completely forget...

Good day, have fun!!

I put the mirror down, re-dosed, went pee. While peeing, the 2nd dose kicked in FAST. I had to lay down immediately, so I managed to put a towel down in the bathtub and use that as a makeshift bed. I didn't pass out. I was just transported to "there". I experienced this through the perspective of my grandfather on his deathbed. I was him, and then I "died", just as he had actually done several years earlier (which I hadn't really processed up until then). But after I "died", there was still awareness. Pure awareness. I lingered in this space of pure love for an eternity, then on the way back, re-experienced my physical birth.

Last week I wanted to buy me a pack of cigarettes at the night store, was on two tabs of acid, made the mistake of looking in the mirror and I looked like a character out of one of those 'don't do drugs' commercials. Ended up not buying those cigarettes... was way too embarrassed to go out .

to be fair though, on most tryptamines I don't have too much problems with mirrors... I still like to avoid them just in case.

I have, It was awesome. Hard to describe what i saw.

My beard took on a wavey cartoon quality, Walls were breathing and dripping - When I'd close my eyes I'd see bright magical vivid octopus whale beings combined with monarchy emperor angels which kept multiplying giving me the sensation that hyperspace was giving birth to itself before my eyes.

This was while on Dmt, After getting up and taking a pee and noticing my bathroom mirror as i walked by it. so i went and had a closer look.

I remember an air vent looking like it was bubbling too.

About 20 minutes later i decided to take a shower to see what it would feel like. The pressure of the water on my head was off the charts intense, A pins and needles feeling. I moved the shower nozel so it wasn't pummeling on my head, Felt very relaxed after that.

I remember after my shower just standing naked blow drying my hair and marveling at my waving hair in the mirror for a good 5 or 10 minutes.

As time has gone by i know that I've forgotten a few details. But there you go 😃

Done it over 50 times, always get the impression that the one on the mirror is an alternate version of me, somewhere else in this or another universe, having the same experience as I am having, looks like a communication, also the skin drawnings that are usually visible on me appears on the reflection.

A classic pastime, looking in the mirror when taking any form of entheogen has always been a favorite of mine. You can tell you took enough when your face is moving and warping a bit.

Come to think of it, I once leaned face first against a mirror while on a heavy dose of shrooms, and I could swear I fell through into the mirror room on the other side of the glass for a couple of minutes, before climbing back out again.

In my experience, it is taking the same chances as looking at a friend/lover/co-conspirator when I'm flying deep - maybe it looks 'regular', or maybe it is a chicken-cat-human-head. Or something in between. Or way beyond.
I just never know what I might see...