Levels of psychedelic experience

The Vaults of Erowid altercate the consciousness-expanding acquaintance in a FAQ that provides a fractional overview of account bidding in Timothy Leary's book The Consciousness-expanding Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They classified 5 levels of consciousness-expanding experience.1

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This akin produces a balmy 'stoning' effect, with some beheld accessory (e.g., brighter colors); some concise anamnesis anomalies; left- and right-brain advice changes, causing music to complete 'wider'. Can be accomplished with abstinent doses of cannabis, low doses of psilocybin, and accustomed doses of assertive entactogens like MDMA.2

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Bright colors and visuals (i.e., things alpha to move and breathe); some two-dimensional patterns become credible aloft shutting one's eyes; abashed or evocative thoughts; change of concise memory, arch to around-the-clock distractive anticipation patterns; all-inclusive access in abstruse anticipation acceptable credible as the accustomed academician clarify is bypassed. Can be accomplished with actual top doses of cannabis, low to abstinent doses of psilocybin, low to abstinent doses of mescaline, accustomed doses of MDA (which has a abundant added consciousness-expanding aftereffect than MDMA) and accustomed doses of entactogenic psychedelics of the 2C ancestors such as 2C-B and 2C-T-7.

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Very accessible visuals, aggregate searching arced or warped, patterns and kaleidoscopes apparent on walls, faces etc. Some balmy hallucinations such as rivers abounding in copse atom or 'mother of pearl' surfaces. Closed-eye hallucinations become three-dimensional. There is some abashing of the senses (e.g., seeing sounds as colors). Time distortions and 'moments of eternity'. Physique movement becomes difficult and disorienting.

There is a acute faculty of acquaintance of one's own animosity and drive. Humans who adeptness akin 3 usually address it as absorbing and life-changing. For some humans who adeptness akin 3, their adeptness to anticipate is somewhat befuddled off. Humans who adeptness akin 3 and college are added acceptable to acknowledge to evocative stimuli. At such a level, it is recommended that there be a babysitter to watch over the tripper just in case he/she would do something that could be a abeyant hazard. Can be accomplished with abstinent to top doses of psilocybin, top doses of mescaline, and accustomed doses of LSD.2

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This akin is characterized by able hallucinations, such as altar morphing into added objects. There are abounding subtypes of these hallucinations: Mandelbrot patterns, spirals, beachcomber arrest patterns, and so on. Another appropriate is the abolition or analysis of the ego. (Things may alpha talking to you, or you acquisition that you are activity adverse things simultaneously.) Some accident of absoluteness is prevalent. Time becomes meaningless. Out-of-body adventures and extra-sensory-perception-type phenomena are common, as is a aggregate of the senses. Visuals absolute adumbration from Hindu, Aztec, Mayan, Native American, Indian, and African cultures are aswell absolutely common. Can be accomplished with top doses of LSD and actual top doses of psilocybin.2citation needed

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Level 5 adventures cover absolute accident of beheld affiliation with reality, the faculty of not getting animal or accepting a body, and the activity of getting in abounding places at the aforementioned time. Humans accept been appear seeing themselves in absolutely altered settings than their aboriginal setting, and abounding humans acquaintance the activity of getting in a apish reality; generally computer simulated. Religious/mystical/spiritual phenomena are appear at this level; generally mentioned is a affiliation to an "all-knowing presence" or a "universal knowledge", which abounding agree with extra-terrestrials, bogus intelligence, God, love, or "enlightenment". Added religious/mystical capacity cover amalgamation of cocky with added people, concrete objects, the cosmos etc.