The pattern and symbols on psychedelics. What is it?

[PurpleTree]

It’s wild.

The infinitely beautiful patterns and symbols on psychedelics.

I‘ve had it mostly on mushrooms and ayahuasca. 
 

And when you come back it’s hard to remember. Just like a dream.

My last real trip was like 3 or 4 yrs ago and it was too strong. But i remember at some point again the infinite patterns and symbols. Moving and circling.

[PurpleTree]

it can look similar to this at times and then moving and turning, but also totally different and bigger. And the symbols itself are often more elaborate imo.

https://www.architecturendesign.net/50-mesmerizing-mosque-ceilings-that-highlight-the-wonders-of-islamic-architecture/

[PurpleTree]

https://www.architecturendesign.net/50-mesmerizing-mosque-ceilings-that-highlight-the-wonders-of-islamic-architecture/

 

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[PurpleTree]

Gpt:

The beautiful patterns and symbols people often report seeing during psychedelic experiences are known as form constants and entoptic phenomena. These visual effects are consistent across cultures and substances, and they have fascinated scientists, mystics, and artists for centuries.

 

Here’s a breakdown of what people often see and why:

 

 

 

 

🔷 1. 

Form Constants

 (a term coined by Heinrich Klüver)

 

 

These are recurring geometric patterns seen during altered states of consciousness, especially under psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and DMT.

 

The most common types include:

 

Lattices (grids, honeycombs, checkerboards)

Cobwebs

Tunnels or spirals

Vortices

Mandala-like shapes

Concentric circles or radiating lines

 

 

These patterns can be:

 

2D or 3D

Static or moving

Multicolored or monochrome

 

 

They may morph, breathe, or pulse with emotion or music.

 

 

 

 

🔶 2. 

Entoptic Phenomena

 

 

These are visual effects that originate from within the visual system itself (not from the external world). Examples include:

 

Phosphenes – light seen without light entering the eye (like when you rub your eyes)

Floaters

Geometric hallucinations from stimulation of the retina or visual cortex

 

 

Under psychedelics, the visual cortex becomes hyperactive and disinhibited, amplifying these effects into complex, vivid patterns.

 

 

 

 

🌀 3. 

Why the Brain Generates These Patterns

 

 

Neuroscientific theories suggest that:

 

The visual cortex has an intrinsic structure and organization, particularly in V1 (the primary visual cortex), that favors certain spatial frequencies and geometries.

Psychedelics reduce the filtering and predictive control of higher brain areas (like the Default Mode Network), allowing raw perceptual activity to bubble up into consciousness.

The brain is effectively “seeing itself” — displaying the architecture of its own neural networks in visual form.

 

 

Some researchers model these patterns using:

 

Mathematical symmetry

Fourier transforms

Neural field equations (e.g. Ermentrout and Cowan models)

 

 

 

 

 

🧿 4. 

Cultural and Archetypal Layers

 

 

Many report:

 

Sacred geometry

Ancient symbols (e.g., eyes, serpents, grids, fractals, mandalas)

Mythological beings or scripts (especially on DMT or ayahuasca)

 

 

Carl Jung might have called these archetypal images—universal motifs from the collective unconscious. Some researchers view these as the brain attempting to impose meaning or narrative on the abstract visual chaos.

 

 

 

 

🧬 5. 

Fractals and Recursion

 

 

Psychedelic visuals often appear fractal — infinitely repeating patterns at different scales. This reflects both:

 

Natural processes (e.g., clouds, plants, rivers)

Mathematical properties of feedback and iteration, which the brain engages in under altered states

 

 

 

 

If you’d like, I can show you visual representations of these types of patterns — either through generated art or historical imagery inspired by psychedelic states.

 

[Nemra]

Yeah, the visuals of both are something else.

They are breathtakingly beautiful.

I think what makes them awesome is that the structure of your whole experience is altered, from which you can never run away. It's total, and you're conscious of it.

However, if you look at some object that represents that experience, it doesn't give you the same feeling.

Edited Monday at 03:47 PM by Nemra

[Schizophonia]

Each time i feel like i experience creative patterns I had when I was very young.

 

[Hojo]

@SchizophoniaQualia stored in a pattern like a QR code for the brain.

[halfknots]

It's the dance, the infinite eternal blooming and becoming.