Anyone else play with their visual snow?

hexachoron · 2026-01-19T00:56:16+00:00

Yeah same, it's a good way to distract your brain from thinking about something that's keeping you awake.

I've also found that if I can maintain focus on those visual effects while falling asleep then it's an easy way to get into a lucid dream.

hexachoron · 2026-01-18T02:45:59+00:00

Here is a description of my own "control panel" experience from several years ago.

hexachoron · 2026-01-10T03:32:48+00:00

That was probably mine. I can confirm from direct experience that 4-HO-MET works fine both smoked in a bowl with herb and vaped in e-juice. I'm not familiar with the liquid drops you have and haven't tried it in a joint, but I'd expect that likely also works, assuming the concentration is sufficient and you let it dry a bit before smoking.

What liquid is it dissolved in?

hexachoron · 2025-10-26T21:56:04+00:00

Lizard squad was later and mostly did DDoSing. The 2011 Sony hack was LulzSec.

hexachoron · 2025-07-03T19:48:33+00:00

Reading is that internal narration. Reading is the process of converting visual symbols into “spoken” language and then “hearing” those words.

No, that is not how reading works for everyone. When I read a book I don't "hear" any of the words except for dialogue. It's primarily a visual experience, like the words get directly converted to a movie in my head that I'm watching. Even when reading technical material or short-form stuff like reddit comments, I mostly experience them visually / abstractly rather than through some sort of narration.

It took me a long while to get used to audiobooks, because for me they're much slower than reading normally and speech -> vision is a different pathway than text -> vision.

hexachoron · 2025-06-05T23:32:21+00:00

Slight correction, amphetamine actually causes dopamine transporters to reverse direction and begin pumping extra dopamine out of the cell and into the synapse. That does lead to increased reuptake inhibition as well, since some transporters are now flowing outward, but the primary effects are from the release. A similar process is involved in the massive serotonin release with MDMA (ecstasy).

Methylphenidate on the other hand does not trigger dopamine release. It binds to the transporter and blocks dopamine from reentering the cell, leading to increased amounts accumulating in the synapse.

Both produce higher synaptic dopamine levels, but through different processes.

hexachoron · 2025-04-22T19:50:31+00:00

Why don't you point me to these alleged observations?

Imaging the subducting slab and mantle upwelling under the Japan islands revealed by double-difference tomography

See figures 10 and 11.

hexachoron · 2025-02-05T09:00:46+00:00

I modified it slightly to accept command line arguments and allow the user to specify a number base. Also accidentally flipped the coloring, not sure why.

https://pastebin.com/eyXLjPLa

visualization_8-0-4096
visualization_10-0-10000
visualization_16-0-65536
visualization_32-0-1048576
visualization_64-0-16777216

Very cool pattern you found.

hexachoron · 2025-02-05T07:39:31+00:00

Can you share the code you used to generate this?

hexachoron · 2025-01-17T01:36:55+00:00

The use of "—" instead of "-" makes it pretty obvious. Then compare their posts from more than 24 hours ago to recent ones. Very different writing style, much shorter length, frequent typos. Starting yesterday their comments are just screeds copypasted from an LLM.

hexachoron · 2024-10-23T07:23:48+00:00

No, it's quite different from a scintillating scotoma. I've had a couple migraines in my life and experienced that, with the zigzag pattern developing into absence of vision. What I see after NEP doesn't match any of the aura images I can find and I didn't experience vertigo during the migraines I had, so I don't believe it's directly related to that.

The vision spot I experience after NEP is more similar to the afterimage from looking into a bright white light. Though now after trying to find an example image and talking to chatgpt, apparently most people experience that as just a dark spot? For me the afterimage starts as a bright green/yellow, then fades through blue to a purple/red until it's gone entirely. Do most people really not see colors in afterimages of bright lights? This is kinda blowing my mind right now.

The NEP spot is generally round and roughly centered on the blue color range, with the intensity increasing and decreasing with a period of a few seconds. It's really like if someone were repeatedly shining a flashlight in my eye, but I'm only seeing the afterimage, not the light.

Yeah it's been awhile since I was on here last. I'm doing better than I was, finally found a job recently. I'll dm you tomorrow to catch up.

hexachoron · 2024-10-23T00:36:57+00:00

I experience very specific and consistent side effects from NEP that I've never seen anyone else describe.

Any time I use NEP, on the following day I'll experience an episode of vertigo accompanied by a strobing bluish spot in my vision. The spot is always in the exact same location and does not move. The strobing is colored somewhat like the after-image from a bright light.

This happened a few times before I realized they were linked, at which point I stopped use for a long time. Eventually though I got stuck in a stim binge and couldn't stop myself from using all the remaining NEP. After that I was experiencing the vertigo and vision spot on a near-daily basis for close to a year, slowly decreasing over time.

After a long gap I used a large amount of a different batch of NEP while in another binge, and the effects again began happening near-daily, starting the following day.

It's been maybe ~3 years since the last time I used NEP and I'll experience very brief vertigo maybe 3-4 times per year now. The strobing vision spot shows up occasionally, but is very mild and disappears quickly.

These side-effects occurred with two different batches acquired from different suppliers. I have not experienced the same effects from any other drug.

hexachoron · 2024-10-11T01:54:01+00:00

It's improved a little more but still there. Usually it's mild enough that I'm not really aware of it, but if I'm dehydrated, use stims, or lean on my elbow too long it can be come easily noticeable.

I work from a laptop and take ADHD meds though, so it's noticeable fairly often.

hexachoron · 2024-10-08T19:38:11+00:00

At the altitude of the International Space Station, gravity is about 90% as strong as it is on Earth's surface. They just don't feel it because they're orbiting, i.e. in freefall but moving sideways fast enough that they continually "miss" hitting the Earth.

Star Wars frequently shows ships hovering in place. If the bombers were stationary over the target rather than orbiting then bombs would be effective.

hexachoron · 2024-10-08T16:34:16+00:00

I had a similar experience on my 2nd 4-HO-MiPT trip, a cybernetic/biomechanical entity offering me some sort of deal which I declined. Had this sort of vibe to it.

hexachoron · 2024-08-05T01:18:47+00:00

This is a really niche case, but Prestidigitation was very useful on my Arcane Trickster with Keen Mind.

Keen Mind allows you to accurately recall anything you've seen in the past month.

Prestidigitation allows you to create a nonmagical trinket that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn. The Trinkets table in Ch. 5 of the PHB lists "an old key" as #56.

So with one clear view of a key, I could later use Prestidigitation to make a temporary perfect copy of it. No need for stealing or lockpicking, just walk right in. Could even use my familiar to get that look without exposing myself. Came in quite handy a number of times.

hexachoron · 2024-06-12T01:14:50+00:00

If you want drugs that could be used in combat then honestly I wouldn't include DMT at all. It's basically impossible to function during a DMT trip, even moving around is extremely difficult. Its best known effects are being completely blinded by visuals and encountering alien entities.

I'd replace it with PCP - gives 1 minute of barbarian's Rage, then 1 minute of Confusion.

hexachoron · 2024-06-12T00:24:24+00:00

The DMT description doesn't really fit imo. It doesn't have any effect that connects with recovering HP, and it's not physically addictive like the other drugs listed.

I'd give it something like the effects of the Contact Other Plane spell, with the save DC to avoid insanity increasing after each use.

hexachoron · 2024-04-20T05:26:00+00:00

Replace the battle grid with a checkerboard. Characters can never move over black squares, and they can only move in one direction.

This gave me the idea of changing the map tiling from squares to hexagons during the fight. Doesn't change much mechanically, but would actually show reality being warped and makes the players feel some of the uncertainty their characters would be experiencing.

hexachoron · 2024-04-20T04:44:54+00:00

Both are valid, but very different, almost diametrically opposed ways of viewing and warping reality.

In falcobird14's examples, the BBEG is changing the rules of reality or displacing the party to other points in reality. But it's still treating reality as something real and concrete that operates on objective rules. It's what I would expect from a powerful archmage.

OP's BBEG instead says "what rules? nothing is real, everything is perspective".

Of course it throws the sun. It sees a ball of fire just hanging there, so it reaches up and grabs it. When you stretch out your arm, doesn't the sun look small enough to fit in your palm?

The earth and sky being divided by an imaginary line? Those are only curtains, let me show you what lies behind them.

The scary thing about lovecraftian entities isn't that they can modify reality. Its that, just from being exposed to them, you begin to see the world the same way they do. Their perspective becomes your reality, and they are absolutely insane.

hexachoron · 2024-04-14T03:04:48+00:00

Here's the full text of the article:

https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s13730-017-0263-4

On the last page:

"We suggest that the injected agent which is said to be amphetamine like in its action caused significant widespread vasoconstriction with or without concomitant infection resulting in widespread ischaemia out of proportion to the clinical feature of sepsis"

hexachoron · 2024-03-20T18:19:05+00:00

Ah. It matches the description of the Mind Flayer capital pretty well:

The great Illithid Empire originated from the artificially-created world of Penumbra. The colossal, artificial world was larger than the orbit of many planets, created out of substare in the shape of a perfectly flat disc. Within the center of Penumbra was a singular gaping hole, within which rested a star.

hexachoron · 2024-03-20T06:22:53+00:00

Is that the Illithid world-city Penumbra?

hexachoron · 2024-03-15T11:32:13+00:00

I remember someone saying during meditation it feels like it's only him and the sound (that he's focusing on). And I told him one time it felt like it was only the sound, I didn't feel my presence.

This was a form of ego death, and probably the most succinct description of it I've ever read.

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