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Hallucinogenic Door

 
 
TheNeonLobster
23:31 / 14.09.03
Last March/April my roommate and I decided to shroom. We went up into the hills (the Berkeley Hills, if you know the area, near the Laboratory) and ate our eighths, and began tripping balls. It was the first time shrooming for both of us.

An hour or so after dosing, we were headed back down the hill (it was a few days after the war had started, and I was having problems with being completely isolated, not knowing if anything important was happening; I also had a "preminition" (sp?) that something terrible had happened, so it was time to go). Before reaching the last decline to civilization (which is paved) my roommate had stopped me. Under the dirt, not flat down into the earth, but on an incline, there was a large, metal door. I fell to my knees and began uncovering it. It had that non-slip pattern in the metal, definite edges, hollow sounding; it was a fucking door.

We then heard a loud noise (not like a jet overhead, but along those lines) and thought SF had been bombed. We ran our asses back home.

Fastforward to last night. We happened to be in the same area for a concert with a few other friends and decided that we ought to go look at the door. I had a suspicion that the door wouldn't be there, but I was and am convinced that the door WAS there when we found it. But, when we got there, no door. Nada. Just dirt and concrete.

The sound we heard was verified by othere people. The door, well I have no idea what to make of that. I've tripped one other time (on my first airplane flight, a month ago; I don't suggest that to anyone), and I would describe both trips as a living-hell. But I've yet (discounting the door incident) to be confronted with a hallucination that appeared and felt REAL. I was also under the assumption that whenever you see a hallucination, you can tell its simply a figment of your mind (which has been the case). So, why was the door only there when we were tripping? Anyone have any ideas?
 
 
Perfect Tommy
05:36 / 15.09.03
I guess the most obvious mundane explanation is that you misremembered where you were when you ran across it.
 
 
Colonel Kadmon
23:37 / 16.09.03
Every time I've been on acid or mushrooms (even low doses), I've come across many things which, although not so bizarre as to defy logic, seemed unusual in that you seemed to see far more unusual things than you ever would straight or on booze or dope.

Several suggestions - are they unusual because one is more sensitive than usual?

Do you come across things that you would normally dismiss when sober due to rationality? (e.g. Robert Anton Wilson's report that the polynesians COULD NOT SEE the white men's boats as they had no frame of reference.)

But the things you percieve when tripping, stoned, drunk, whatever, ARE real - just through a different perceptual filter than the one you normally use.
 
 
h3r
01:05 / 17.09.03
mushrooms are tryptamines.
tryptamines are connected to the pineal gland.
the pineal gland is the tool used for travelling into hyperspace and parallel realities, it is the access as well as exit point for the "soul" (or whatever you wanna call it)) transferring into a physical body.
so here are two theories of mine:
A)
the door you have seen does not exist in this reality.
you actually accessed a parallel universe while on your mushroom trip. the loud noise suggests a "hole" being ripped into the bubble of this reality, so possibly some government experiment was deliberately opening some dimensional door, and you being on mushrooms was a coincidence.
B)
the door (like so many others in your geographical region) is being hidden with holographic technology so people don't find the caves and passage ways that exist all over (or rather under) the californian continent. The tryptamine high actually enabled you to see right through the charade, and you saw the door which truly exists. When you went back you actually fell for the hologram, and didnt see the door. I suggest you go back with a select group of people and try to find it. Don't be discouraged if you cant see it. The mentioned holographic technology is very advanced, so you will have to literally step on the door and feel/hear it to discover it. mAybe taking mushrooms will enhance your chances of finding the door?
I am truly interested in that door and would appreciate any updates.

To me it seems very unlikely that you hallucinated the door.

Also: what in god's name where you thinking when you took shrooms on an airplane trip?!?!?!
 
 
Lionheart
20:49 / 23.09.03
First of all this thread is making me want to take shrooms on an airplane trip.

Second of all. in response to Adam Kadmon's question: are they unusual because one is more sensitive than usual?...

I think that during an acid trip one's normal perception becomes skewed. So here's the deal. You walk into a room. One of the walls in the room is not parallel to the other walls in the room but you don't notice that cause you're talking with people. Then, let's say, the acid hits in. You stop talking with people to enjoy the experience. Then you notice the wall. And since you know that you're on acid you aren't sure if the wall really isn't parallel or if it is parallel and it's just your perception of the wall that's skewed.

In other words, things which aren't symmetrical (or "normal") which you notice all the time become more prominent during an acid trip because if you're not sure if those things are like that in reality or if it's just the acid.

But that's just a theory.
 
  
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