null24 wrote:I don't understand, and don't want to watch a YouTube video right now. How are these tracers different from any others that are the most common hallucinatory indicator of a psychedelic trip that includes open-eye visuals?
I've never taken a psychedelic substance to the point of having visuals that wasn't characterized by (what I've always called) "trails" (hence my common wish of wellness to prospective trippers). I'm not familiar with iboga, are the ones induced by it somehow different? I mean isn't a trail a tracer a trail? Seems to me all it indicates is that there is seratonergic activity ala classic psychedelia.
Oh yes. They are an extremely complex kind of tracers. So much so even, that it is quite hard to exactly describe the phenomenon.
I will give it a try:
The effect is already pretty extreme with just the slightest movement of your eyes, so even if you'd lie down and stare at only one fixed point, they are unavoidable, because even a little blink triggers a cascade of events.
So imagine that you have a picture. If you move your eyes, you have another picture.
The first picture morphes into the second picture in a very peculiar proces.
The lines of the picture, so contrastlines, contours, edges, have points that are being dragged from the first picture to the second one, one at a time. But very quickly. The moment one of these points reaches it's destination, a very bright flash of white light occurs that is so bright that it realy seems as if there is a flashlight in the room. And because it happens so fast, with so many points, the result is that even a very slight movement, will cause a series of very bright flashes. Almost as if you're surrounded by papparazi photographers.
The space within the outlines however, liqifies. Everything within the contours, edges, etc, becomes a liquid, until the contrastlines of the first picture line up with those at the second one. This can be so extreme that for a few seconds, everything in your visual field becomes indistinguishable.
This is the best way i can describe it. It is the weirdest thing realy.