I get what you refer to as HPPD, though I don't really consider it that. There are a couple factors that I can identify at play here. First of all, research on rabbits and DMT shows that the DMT is stored in their synapses for up to a week after administration. If this turns out also to be the case for humans, then it can account for some of the lingering visual effects.

There is also what's called neuroplasticity. The more you use certain neuronal connections, the more they can tend to "fire" spontaneously and easily, and that can also have to do with your visual symptoms. On another level you may also be "learning" these patterns you see via the DMT, so what may have been very light "chaos" in the background of your visual attention, you can now recognize as ordered patterns thanks to sort of "seeing it under the microscope" with DMT. It's a sophisticated "problem" with a bunch of factors, but I wouldn't sweat it too much. A lot of us here get it including myself, and if you are to continue with DMT, you might just have to end up accepting a new part of life. If you discontinue for long enough, I'm sure it will dissipate, but on the other hand, can you unlearn what you've already learned?

Slightly off topic, but it occurred to me that these sorts of threads pop up rather frequently here, and there's a good population of travelers on the Nexus with hands on experience in tumbling into the rabbit hole, as it were.

Maybe it might do some good to get together, refine our words, build some maps and create some resources or outlets for all these folks that go deep, take the ride and need a helping hand. It's really not a horribly uncommon experience these days, and it really seems to me that in a place like this, there's real opportunity to work together, help each other out, and get soem real earth-shaking work done.

Given, the turf is pretty murky and there can be some really conflicting idealogies... So it can be challenging to develop understanding between people. I think though, that at this time and in this place, we certainly have the tools and ability to get something done here and get on the same page to a certain degree. It's not easy to expand the scope of social understanding in order to improve the way we live... but somebody's got to do it, right? Or we can all just surrender to the inevitable fate of social dissolution and nuclear extinction

Just my two cents, I don't mean to shift the topic or steal Adam's thread here... If anyone agrees though and would care to take a shot at working something up, shoot me a PM and we can make a thread to get folks involved!

Once again thanks for all the feedback, to Global neuroplasticity you refer too is something I am well aware I am actually taking a neurophysiology class right now. Its an interesting phenomenon. I am certain it is a relevant concept to psychedelics users. There is definitely a shift taking place, to me what is unsettling the is speed and impact of that change in my consciousness, while surely it is something that I do want, I have to be careful I don't overdo it. Which I am feeling like I am on the edge of overdoing. I have all I can assimilate for now, I think its time to let the old neurons settle for a bit.

At hiyo quicksilver feel free to use this thread as a platform for compiling info on creating an integration thread or something of the like? It appears we don't really have an integration thread or one stickied at least. I wouldn't mind working on one with someone.

Theres a lot of factors though that I haven't brought up, like interactions with entities and certain synchronicities in my own life. Ayahuasca seems by the nature of speed to allow more thorough analysis and integration of the trip, while vaping dmt so much happens that it seems to overload the brain and subsequent trips in a short span of time further jam up the integration process. There is more though then simply processing information, rather processing whole new paradigms that are unveiled. The implications of which can be pretty heavy. What do you do when you realize theres more too life then you have been led to believe? LSD, psilocybin, and other tryptamines hadn't prepared me for the depths of a dmt breakthrough.

Also I use hppd perhaps incorrectly as an umbrella term to describe fractal flashes in my vision, and emotional states that carry the same depth I associate with tryptamine usage.

I have to add as a last note although all these changes occurring are intense I still don't regret anything about my usage, and fully intend to squeeze all I can out of my journeys.

Start doing simple internal arts such as a simple breathing meditation to doing simple yoga asanas and kriyas, developing ones mind-body connection and the connection to the world around you. Do things that you love, whether it be art, working out, running, hiking, music, anything that pushes everything else out of focus and brings YOU into the moment. Doing this has worked extremely well for me and my daily altered perception. These activities have helped hone this new perception, everything from this expansion of awareness to the deeper, more rich visual acuity of the physical world. There's no turning it off, only working with it, developing it, becoming in line with it. The river is wild my friend.

much love,
tat

Isn't it something? The world just blows me away every damn day. I never would have figured such beauty was would be just underneath... sure does inspire wonder and gratitude.

The beauty, the insight and the hard-won serenity are some of the things that make that challenges worth it. It's a wondrous thing, I wouldn't trade it for every treasure on Earth.