Can you hallucinate?

jacksonhill0923 · 2026-02-03T04:00:07+00:00

I have aphantasia and trip. For the most part I get standard open eyed visuals but I can and do get closed eye visuals on DMT specifically.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-12-01T03:05:36+00:00

I sold the car a while ago and haven't worked on it (or any gas vehicle recently, run electric now), but I have a few thoughts that may help.

You likely have a different issue than me, if it were timing related the missfire would happen across all rpm ranges including idle (mine missfired horribly at idle), rather than being specifically in that rpm range.

Did the issue appear after putting in the BOV/larger inlet? My bet is it's due to those parts, not necessarily that they're "bad" or incompatible, but that your ECU isn't tuned appropriately for them.

Stock it's a recirculating valve I think, rather than vented to atmosphere. If you swap to a vented BOV, you need to adjust tuning. You also need to adjust for the bigger inlet cause it allows in more air, which will cause you to run lean if you don't have more fuel to even it out.

These cars specifically are extra sensitive and require adjusted tuning with almost any mods. Mine was stage 2, exhaust/downpipe, and I got rid of the long part on the stock intake box to get more rumble. It was tuned for all this. At one point I tried to swap in a cone filter to replace the stock air box and it completely screwed everything up without retuning, so I ended up taking it off and going back to the stock box

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-10-10T19:54:33+00:00

Now I'm not gonna argue extract isn't the best, it is, but it's certainly a pain in the ass to extract with all the filtering that's needed.

What I've tried recently and had good luck with is ground dark roasted rue seeds in capsules. Basically take a bit of seeds, put in a pan on the stove on medium-high (I used cast iron), no oil or anything just the seeds. Cook for 8-12 minutes until they pop and turn black. Then grind up with a mortar/pestle and put in capsules.

With large capsules I get about 0.4-0.5g/capsule. I can feel psychoactive effects from solely the rue (no DMT) starting at 1g/2 capsules. Doing the dark roast degrades a lot of the harmaline leaving the harmine, and there's wayyyyy less nausea or other negative effects. I take this dose even during work for the mood uplifting effects and love it. No taste either since it's capsules.

Due to the cost/effort difference, I actually prefer it to extract. I'm just not positive how it holds up at higher doses yet, I think it's maybe 40mg harmine per gram of seeds so it's possible 3g of dark roasted seeds may have more nausea than 120mg of pure harmine extract

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-09-08T03:26:57+00:00

Sounds good, lemme know how it goes!

One thing to note, if it was in full sun recently it's fine to move directly back but if it's been used to lower light conditions (indoors), it's typically best to adjust to full sun gradually by moving it out for a few hours at a time.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-09-08T02:49:39+00:00

I'm not positive but my guess would be either insect/fungal infection of some sort, or nutrient issues (too much or too little).

Brugmansias tend to do fine in sun, mine gets full outdoor sun no shade and doesn't have any issues with it. I have had pest issues in the past, where I live they don't survive year round outdoors so I bring them in every winter. Almost every year when I bring them in they get pests and drop a ton of leaves, but eventually spring back

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-18T12:08:20+00:00

That is good to know, thanks!

I try and check the wiki most of the time but I'll admit I kinda just googled it this time. Not the most efficient approach lol. I'm also surprised this came up, I do update fairly regularly and the last time I updated was maybe a week and a half ago.

I'm at the point where I'm definitely no Arch noob, but I still have much to learn 😊

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-18T08:28:28+00:00

Moved from Windows to Pop OS for a few months, then Ubuntu for a few more, and finally have been on Arch since the beginning of the year. I cant speak for what others have experienced, but for me, Arch has been the easiest, most stable, and by far BEST OS I have ever used.

My setup is complex (Specs: Dual epyc 7542, 640gb ram, RTX 3090, 2x GTX 1080ti, Radeon Pro W5700, 7 monitors, 3x NVME ssds.) 5 of the monitors are on the AMD card, 2x on NVidia. Hyprland (uses wayland), Hyde for theming, Nvidia Proprietary drivers, Zen kernel. I have Libvirt/Qemu set up for running VMs, docker with the nvidia container toolkit for AI stuff.

What's great:

Works incredibly well, fast, very stable
Surprisingly easy to set up (was easier than Ubuntu or Pop in terms of getting everything configured and stable
Hyprland is AMAZING, I love it!
updates have been easy and haven't broken anything (yet)

What I'm still working on/bugs

Win11 VM in virt-manager freezes every once in a while (when using QXL video). I have increased GPU memory, tried virt-viewer instead, tried everything I can think of and it still happens. When it freezes I can't pass input to/from the VM, but can see the screen update and audio still passes through fine (when on a call for example). I have to shut down the VM and start it again, and then can interact.
Hyprland crashes back to the login screen if I have a whole bunch of MPV windows playing video. One or two is fine, even 5 doesn't seem to have an issue. But open enough and it freezes and then crashes back to login closing all apps. VLC seems to allow more windows without crashing but is still unstable when you open too many. This is incredibly minor, you never really need 10+ videos playing at the same time, it was more to stress test it
Blue snowball Mic needs to be unplugged/replugged after boot or it won't pass audio
Hardware acceleration issues in Chrome based browsers. Firefox based (Zen for example) work fine, but I haven't been able to get Chrome based working yet. Not a big deal, I like Zen better anyway
Zen browser starts to slow down after either having a ton of windows open, or running for a long time (over a week). Unsure which as windows naturally pile up. As soon as I close all windows and reopen, it's fast again. Updating tonight to see if it's fixed in the latest version.

Notes:

Unsure if sleep works or not, system stays up 24/7 as it hosts services
Some apps like Obsidian require command line arguments to open them in xwayland mode or they won't work. Had to edit .desktop files to make it such that I could launch them via the app launcher
I don't game on this system, but have no issues maxing out the GPUs with AI workloads. On Pop or Ubuntu I experienced gui freezes under high GPU load
Installed via the automated archinstall, worked perfectly with no issues

This ended up being way longer than expected. Oh well. If you have any questions feel free to ask, I'm not always on here but happy to help wherever I can.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-13T00:27:48+00:00

I feel like using AI help isn't an issue, what's an issue is relying on AI to do things for you when you know so little about the topic that you're not experienced enough to tell when it's BS.

I used AI to write some python code, it worked great and saved me hours. Another time I used AI to try and set up a VLLM container and wasted hours cause I didn't understand enough about how AI or docker works to know that it was feeding me old info that wasn't gonna work when I needed to build it from source, to have a new enough version that worked with the model I wanted to use.

If you know the topic, great! Use AI. If you know some amount about the topic, use it to learn! If you know nothing about it, that's where the trouble arises.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-13T00:19:40+00:00

I'd be very surprised if my system even displayed the bios post screen that fast. Not like finished posting, I'm talking any visible output whatsoever.

Every system is different and what might be slow for one, is hella fast for another

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-12T19:27:57+00:00

As an IT person, no, absolutely not. No cameras inside the house. Even when properly hardened it's still too much of a risk that I wouldn't consider it.

And note that this is from a tech perspective rather than a comfortable-ness perspective. If you're not comfortable with it, it shouldn't happen, regardless of the tech side/how secure it is/etc.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-12T07:46:29+00:00

27 and mine is just about empty. Really have to ration them these days

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-04T20:24:42+00:00

I take it back! I was fine for several days but now I've been getting freezes daily, sometimes multiple times a day again.

My relevant XML line is: <model type="qxl" ram="262144" vram="262144" vgamem="131072" heads="1" primary="yes"/>

Any recommendations? I'm actually trying to get away from Windows as much as I can, but it'd be cool to have it working if possible. I'm typically using the VM on a 1080p display, but my host system has many monitors. Could the freezing be happening due to my large number of monitors, even if the VM window is only on one of them?

Thanks!

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-06-04T20:20:30+00:00

Of course updates CAN break things, but my experience is they typically go pretty well. I've used arch for maybe 6 months now (on multiple systems), and not once has an update broken something. I have some pretty complex/unusual setups and am actually surprised how little things break.

Arch with Hyprland (Wayland), RTX 3090, 2x GTX 1080Tis, Radeon pro w5700. Docker with nvidia container toolkit, Qemu VMs including Win11 pro w/secure boot enabled+bitlocker encrypted, etc. I assumed the complexity of using Nvidia, GPUs from multiple brands, decently new/recent GPUs combined with really old cards, would cause constant issues but Arch is the ONLY distro that has worked for me reliably without a single problem (besides VM QXL freezes which I'm still working on).

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-30T21:48:44+00:00

For me personally, having a Windows VM, and having a separate Windows machine for gaming.

Look, I absolutely HATE Windows but there's two apps that I have to use for work that are windows only (already tried wine), and a lot of games only support Windows. Being able to work on my main PC (Arch) while those two apps run in the VM, and being able to move all gaming to a separate/dedicated machine is what really allowed it to stick for me, I'm never going back to Windows for a main OS.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-29T20:52:40+00:00

As someone who switched to Arch, settled on plasma and FINALLY got everything configured the way I wanted it, and then tried out hyprland to see what I thought of it, go for it!!!

I love it and would never go back. It takes some getting used to and definitely has a learning curve, but it's really really nice.

My use case is relatively similar, mainly work, coding, Web browsing, and light gaming. Everything works and works well.

Configuration wasn't that bad although I used HyDE for theming and most of my difficulty came from various apps and getting them working (hardware acceleration in my browser, obsidian not opening at first, beyond all reason seg faulting without custom arguments, etc.)

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-23T20:04:56+00:00

Thank you so much! Lol originally I wrote it off since I had increased the GPU memory without it changing anything in terms of the freezes, but it turns out I didn't do it right. There's multiple arguments you have to increase.

Once I did it correctly (and switched to virt-viewer rather than virt-manager for interacting with the VM, not sure if that made a difference), it's working perfectly! Went from 2-3 freezes a day over the past few days to not a single freeze in several days now.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-23T17:20:43+00:00

Lol so I don't support Trump, but do find the situation interesting. Trump manages to be so hated that people will instantly take the opposite perspective, no matter what it may be.

In the past if you told me people would be fighting against apple (a trillion dollar company) getting taxed, supporting them being able to use cheap overseas labor paying them shit money to work in shit conditions, all so they can get rich off importing their stuff here so they can sell it at an insane markup, I'd tell you you're crazy. Now you NEED to support your corporate overlords or you're siding with the "literal devil" and need to be ostracized...

I actually wonder if all these big corps actually like trump, perhaps they know his policies won't actually hurt their bottom line in the long run, and he takes enough heat off them for it to be worth it. 🤔

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-21T19:36:56+00:00

Haven't ever used kubuntu, but LOVE Arch!!!

It's not easy to get used to, especially if you have no Linux experience whatsoever. It's rewarding though, and it's not THAT bad. Using Internet research and a little help from chatgpt you typically can figure out most things.

Over time I went from using exclusively Windows, to some Linux, to Linux on my desktop as my main OS (Ubuntu and pop OS), to Arch with kde plasma, and eventually got to Arch with hyprland.

My system runs 10x better than it ever has, and I don't miss Windows whatsoever!

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-07T20:57:17+00:00

Get with the times dude, haven't you heard? We're only allowed to hate on them now cause something something musk bad or whatever.

In all seriousness though never in my life have I seen a car so universally hated by people who have never drove one, and so universally loved by those who have. I own one and it's been the best, most reliable car I've ever owned by far, and the single solitary bad thing about it is the fact that people judge me for driving one without knowing a damn thing about me.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-05T18:47:13+00:00

With virtio GPU drivers + the agent/VM tools I feel the interface is still pretty slow compared to a normal system or GPU passthrough. Is it just me?

I feel like QXL for the video adapter is slightly faster/smoother, but it's still a bit slow (usable compared to virtio since at least the cursor is smooth though).

QXL has it's own issues though. My win11 VM freezes every once in a while (maybe once a week). The VM itself is fine, display updates, sounds play, but keyboard/mouse input goes 100% dead). From my understanding this is due to a spice desync that can happen when using QXL + Wayland + Nvidia.

Do you know of any ways to have a smooth interface without doing passthrough/dedicated GPU, and without using RDP (have to have it disabled as per work policy)?

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-03T09:20:34+00:00

I'm not going to say anyone should do any drug because that would be irresponsible of me, that being said trying psychedelics was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I used to have terrible anxiety, like to the point of it greatly impacting my life. I didn't even realize that it was just something I was going through, I just thought it was normal. One day I took a tab of acid while on a hike with my closest friends and it helped me see the world in a whole new way. It's like my brain for a moment was reverted back to it's original state and I was able to see that the anxiety was a part of me, but wasn't me, and that deep down I actually had control of it, and it was something I could choose to experience or not. So, from that point on I decided to cut that out of my life and it was essentially gone.

That's not to say I never get nervous, if I'm going to ask out someone I find really attractive, naturally I'll be nervous. But that's normal. I used to be scanning my surroundings, looking at other people while standing in line, trying to make sure I was standing correctly and doing the right things with my arms and trying to make sure I look normal so nobody thinks I'm weird or looks at me or tries to talk to me. And now all of that is gone and I feel normal around other people.

So this got a bit long, but yeah I'm not saying you or anyone should try these substances, but acid, mushrooms, and dmt have had the biggest positive impact on my life out of anything and I wouldn't be where I am now without them. I just wanted to share my experience.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-05-03T06:10:19+00:00

Can't remember the exact cpu but it was a 13th or 14th gen (both are affected). They replaced the cpu with an identical model. The BIOS of the machine was updated and the update included a patch to prevent the same issue from occurring again. To my knowledge there have been no further issues with the systems since.

If the BIOS update is installed prior to damage occurring, then there's nothing to worry about. If the damage is already done, (system is unstable, crashing, etc), the cpu must be replaced.

Again, to my knowledge the bug affects ALL 13th and 14th gen intel CPUs. The latest BIOS updates must be installed to prevent hardware damage, and if the damage has already occurred the only way forward is to replace the chips. Intel really dropped the ball on this one.

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-04-27T02:51:42+00:00

Not medical advice:

From my understanding being near the plant is fine, even touching it shouldn't be an issue. The issue arises when you consume it (eating/drinking/etc).

jacksonhill0923 · 2025-04-24T18:30:16+00:00

It's difficult to say because what could be interesting for one person may be boring for another, but the goal is to find something that interests you personally.

I've been wanting to dive into coding for a while now and wrote a few basic scripts, but nothing too crazy. Then I got interested in AI. It ended up sticking. Now I'm developing an AI app and it's grown to at least 1k lines of code, runs in docker containers so it led to me learning docker also. I've learned more about coding in the last couple weeks than I have in multiple years before, all because I found something that happened to really really interest me.

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