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Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by qwertox on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @10:41AM (#43173329)
Hah, this now prompted me to ask ChatGPT to tell me about Erowid and the most remarkable things it read there, and we're chatting along over bad trips and it telling me how apparently heroin can't fix a bad trip, and it comes up with quotes from which I have to assume that they are just hallucinations, but "funny" ones if one thinks about them just having gotten made up by an AI:

> Every bad sensation was magnified a thousandfold because there was nothing to filter or rationalize it. Pain didn't feel like something I was experiencing—it felt like everything I was.

> I was convinced I had broken something inside my mind permanently, that I'd never be normal again. The terror of that idea became its own reality.

but also the nice things are interesting to chat about

  Users frequently say things like:
  “There was no past or future, only this moment.”
  “Who I was didn't matter anymore; I just existed.”
or "That's one of the most interesting paradoxes people report: thinking continues, but the thinker disappears."

generally a fun thing to chat about with it.

Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by volteret4 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:12PM (#43174584)
I think people belive that there is no thinker because sometimes your ego dissapears, at least fase out. Our thoughts and opinions arent relevant anymore. Thats muy experience and opinión btw.
Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by buildsjets on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:39AM (#43185320)
Who is the master who makes the grass green?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_the_master_that_sees_an...

Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by GuB-42 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @10:47AM (#43173403)
> which I have to assume that they are just hallucinations

They definitely are, in one way or another ;)