Ive experienced this before too, im very interested in perceptual/optical illusions etc, optics is a very complex science tho

This has been “discovered” in the west in 1804 but Buddhists in Tibet were doing this a thousand years before the Swiss psychologist. Open eyed meditation is something taught within Dzogchen path of Buddhism. This meditation was founded by an Indian Yogi Padmasambhava

I only see them on magic mushrooms, it’s when I become temporarily psionic.

I remember two weekends ago I was high on shrooms and I felt an anxious “bad”, presence.

I looked through my peephole and saw this “warping” visage of something standing outside the door. It was about 3ft tall.

I opened the door and the “warped specter” was no longer there so I closed the door and still felt the negative energy.

I decided to do some meditation and I offered compassionate words to the specter and the energy immediately got a lot lighter. Oddly enough all of the cats gathered around and stared at me when I held out my hand while meditating and asked the spirit to “take refuge in compassion, this is all you need to feed your spirit”.

I then turned to walk back to my room and I seen this heavily distorted specter go in the door into my room.

Either the energy was an aspect of the emotional state of my dwelling or it was a specter but either way in Buddhism you are encouraged to offer compassionate energy to spirits instead of spiting them like in Islam and Christianity.

Spirit guide said “carry yo ass back”

Very interesting, ive had similar experiences throughout my life, and i definitely believe that animals are sensitive to such things. I always try to have compassionate thoughts with them when this happens, its not like i can talk to the spirits but sometimes i do get "foreign" voices in my mind that i do the same with

yep I been doing this since I was a kid and only now found out about the 'troxler effect'

Only real ones know..

Yea it is highly debated about what this effect is among western and eastern cultures. In the west it is simply a visual hallucination.

However in the Buddhism , such things are considered real and a part of reality itself. They argue that if your consciousness is the sky, the troxler effect is simply clouds appearing in the luminosity of your mind.

A cloudy day could be represented as intense meditation with some closed eye visuals

Where as a lucid dream is considered the full power of such effects.

I’m not sure if they can hear what I’m saying but I’m sure if I can feel their “presence” they can feel mine, and in turn we are already on the phone talking or communicating through our energies. I perceive “negative energy” as an aspect of suffering and I try not to attach that feeling to say that spirit in of itself is inherently evil.

With that in mind, I’ll just talk with the intent to project positive energy or feelings to quell any suffering the spirit is experiencing.

Oh and I’ve heard random voices on magic mushrooms. But it’s usually pretty rare and incoherent and feels more like a projection of someone’s state of mind.

One time I took shrooms and meditated and instead of seeing psychedelic visuals I had an extremely vivid vision that looked like a was standing in front of someone talking to me. But it seemed like he didn’t notice me and I got the impression of “News Reporter”.

The imagery was so striking. He had a blue winter jacket with a black stripe across the chest area and he had dark brown hair, looked to be the be in his mid fifties and he was standing behind barren vegetation (the trees looked black and dead.)

This was experienced meditating half lotus with my eyes closed . Has anyone else ever seen “life like” visions while on mushrooms? Or is it just me ?

is this the hat man like sometime else in the thread mentioned

Can you do one for me where I get some crazy head

I have had times where i did shrooms with a friend and i felt like i could read their thoughts/emotions, and that our energies were linked somehow

Not him again

Yep, seen him a few times way back in the day freaked me the f*** out. Guess it happens to alot of ppl. For me it was right when I wake up I see that silhouette in the shadows or an object in my room looks like something bizarre

Skeleton creek

im reading now and this guy is everywhere

this isn’t paranormal but one day in early october my friends and i were taking a taxi to a club and we saw a guy who was like 6’5 in a raggedy suit with bloody bandages wrapped around his face and top hat and whatever skin was showing was a whiteish grey and i said “damn that guy’s already wearing his halloween costume” and my bro goes “that’s not a costume” in a concerned tone and everyone stopped making noise and my friend just tells the taxi “let’s not stay at this red light”

This is very common. The secret is you have to have some sort of emotional bond with them. Shared thoughts and emotions on shrooms is something I experience so frequently with my girlfriend that it no longer shocks me.

As a side note, i consider shared psychedelic visuals a form of telepathy.

Back when I was meditating off the shrooms I once had an image of something with dark outlines and it was purple in the center. And shaped roughly like a square

Then randomly my gf then mentioned that she seen a woman with a dark violet purple complexion , and the dark “edges” I perceived she said was her hair.

Another thing to consider is when we encountered these visuals the “presence” in the room became strong, emotionally strong and almost overpowering feminine energy to the point I was on the brink of tears. Not because I felt sad, but because I experienced such a sudden warm feeling of love and appreciation it damn near short circuited my emotional sense. And also the pressure on the crown of my head was very strong.

When the images disappeared so did the pressure on the crown of my head. And the intense “presence” and emotions.

Funny enough in Buddhism, the color of the crown chakra is purple and it is considered the gateway for spiritual enlightenment and connection, basically it’s a spiritual WiFi signal if you can activate it.

Once, me and my ex decided to take a stroll at night(prolly to hit a good ass joint )

And s*** was bizarre af but simultaneously one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen

Like we were walking and all da sudden we spot, this grey ish opening/crack in da dark sky, like someone cracked the Earth's atmospheric cocoon
And inside, it was nothing but lightning flashes and bolts

But like very rapid, as if the Gods were throwing these bolts of lightening to each other

And the colors this created in the dark sky mixed with da grey clouds
And all da sparks dancing around, was just mesmerizing affff

It was as if nature itself was painting the sky, live in front of our eyes

And this s*** took at least legit, 5-10min

Now it was just sooo beautiful, we stood there and just watched
We witnessed
We soaked it in
Barely capable enough of articulating our amazement

In such state of bewilderment and fascination, we forgot to record it

But damn that s*** was beautiful
Don't even think filming it would've justified it's beauty

Even tho it seemed so far away, it felt so close
The colors, the lightning, the darkness, this whole harmony was just

Praise dem late night walks

I've never told anyone this apart from my girl and i don't mind telling a bunch of strangers

I had a near death experience when i was like 14. Got Malaria on a trip to the motherland. F***ed me up. Had to get a blood transfusion. Organs were failing. Lungs collapsing it was looking bad apparently.

I remember one night in the hospital I couldn't sleep for some reason and I was the only one awake. It was dark and all I could hear was the beeping of machines.

Then the double doors opened and in walked these two bald headed glowing beings. Looked like typical aliens. Didnt say a word or anything just walked up to me. I wasn't scared or anything. Then one of them flipped me over and the other put what looked like a bread wafer from church in my ass. Literally felt it go in.

Then they left without a word. I miraculously got better. Doctors said I had the highest count of maleria in my system they ever saw.

For ages I thought them niggas violated me and I was salty about it until it clicked that they gave me some sort of medicine in the form of a depository.

I dunno why they saved me but I'm so grateful. My mindset switched after that. I remember I spent so much time on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger for the young folk) then I just thought it was so pointless when I finally got home.

Life changing experience. Now I question everything

No

I think you are a star seed, and those were your guardians who noticed you were having a hard time on earth and wanted to help you out.