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It smells like Assley all up in here.
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Its in my living room
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Its in my living room
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I bet it is Dustin.
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Does Aether have a worm?
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It's a Dune reference.

Also a dragon reference.

Wyrm. It's annoying af.


:dragon:
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You sure good are good at references.

fatlady spock
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I have my moments.


Weapon based on sound..




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You, do as youre told.
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It's true.


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In this manner Seer promotes Aether.
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I have my moments.


Weapon based on sound..




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You, do as youre told.
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Think so?


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I have my moments.


Weapon based on sound..




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You, do as youre told.
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Think so?


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Yes.
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I have my moments.


Weapon based on sound..




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You, do as youre told.
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Think so?


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Yes.
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Dam Seer, where all these blokes crawled from?

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You, do as youre told.
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Think so?


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Yes.
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There's a reason I work for myself..


With that said, I'm not told much..and glean most.

I don't talk to aether and have been trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to avoid him for years.


But he and I both know..that is going no where.

So.

What. To. Do.


The annoying stuff has to end. It has to.

One way or the other.

It's going to stop.
Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body...
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Did you hear the Thumper?




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You don't just hear the Thumper.

The reason it 'calls the worm' is because it is annoying. That's why it surfaces pissed off, ready to kill/destroy what is causing it.

Pretty simple.
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Does Aether have a worm?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63573762


...


Does Aether have a worm?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63573762


It's a Dune reference.

Also a dragon reference.

Wyrm. It's annoying af.



dragon
 Quoting: Seer777


You sure good are good at references.

fatlady spock
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63573762


I have my moments.


Weapon based on sound..





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 Quoting: Seer777


You, do as youre told.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63573762


Think so?


[link to youtu.be (secure)]
 Quoting: Seer777


Yes.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63573762


There's a reason I work for myself..


With that said, I'm not told much..and glean most.

I don't talk to aether and have been trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to avoid him for years.


But he and I both know..that is going no where.

So.

What. To. Do.


The annoying stuff has to end. It has to.

One way or the other.

It's going to stop.

 Quoting: Seer777


Thread: MASS WHALE BEACHING on St. Simons Island, Georgia - GET READY FOR SOME DOOM!

A pod of 30 whales beached themselves on East Beach, St. Simons Island due to sonar being tested.
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Simon says..

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I used to go there all the time in my teens.

I think I told you about it.

I think Sol was also there during that convo.

Hi Sol hi

Honestly I'm amazed to see people in the water helping them.


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I used to go there all the time in my teens.

I think I told you about it.

I think Sol was also there during that convo.

Hi Sol hi

Honestly I'm amazed to see people in the water helping them.


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 Quoting: Ricky M


It's torture.

It all makes sense now. Sonar. The echoes. The ripples. The water.


They would rather die than face it. It's like that.

It's horrible.

It can't be blocked. They're committing suicide.
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I used to go there all the time in my teens.

I think I told you about it.

I think Sol was also there during that convo.

Hi Sol hi

Honestly I'm amazed to see people in the water helping them.


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 Quoting: Ricky M


Heya Ricky =)

People can be good, it's nice to see them trying to help

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I used to go there all the time in my teens.

I think I told you about it.

I think Sol was also there during that convo.

Hi Sol hi

Honestly I'm amazed to see people in the water helping them.


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 Quoting: Ricky M


It's torture.

It all makes sense now. Sonar. The echoes. The ripples. The water.


They would rather die than face it. It's like that.

It's horrible.

It can't be blocked. They're committing suicide.
 Quoting: Seer777


It's like 1 guitar string, one single vibration, has been strung from the top of your head, to the bottom of your feet..and it strums hard, with every beat.


There is only..That.

That pure..unstopping..pulse.


But it doesn't stop, just at the boundary of your skin.

It pulses far out, where it can be plainly detected..by any that rely on that form..of communication.

It is like having your brains scrambled when only that. You will seek any out. As they did. Out of the water.

People putting them back..don't know.

How could they?

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all those surfer seem very apprehensive, not one has a board turned in to face/ride that wall. the beach seems too close. lol
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I used to go there all the time in my teens.

I think I told you about it.

I think Sol was also there during that convo.

Hi Sol hi

Honestly I'm amazed to see people in the water helping them.


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 Quoting: Ricky M


It's torture.

It all makes sense now. Sonar. The echoes. The ripples. The water.


They would rather die than face it. It's like that.

It's horrible.

It can't be blocked. They're committing suicide.
 Quoting: Seer777


It's like 1 guitar string, one single vibration, has been strung from the top of your head, to the bottom of your feet..and it strums hard, with every beat.


There is only..That.

That pure..unstopping..pulse.


But it doesn't stop, just at the boundary of your skin.

It pulses far out, where it can be plainly detected..by any that rely on that form..of communication.

It is like having your brains scrambled when only that. You will seek any out. As they did. Out of the water.

People putting them back..don't know.

How could they?

WaveLength

shybat
 Quoting: Seer777


They may be trying to escape the sound Seer, but as was once said "This to shall pass".

The sound shall move or stop, be it from sonar or some man-made device, rumblings from within the earth, galactic emanations we can not detect or some other form.

To beach themselves and quit...I'd hope we all have more spirit then that, and if at times we falter, may some kind souls in whatever form be there to aid us

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It's torture.

It all makes sense now. Sonar. The echoes. The ripples. The water.


They would rather die than face it. It's like that.

It's horrible.

It can't be blocked. They're committing suicide.
 Quoting: Seer777


It's like 1 guitar string, one single vibration, has been strung from the top of your head, to the bottom of your feet..and it strums hard, with every beat.


There is only..That.

That pure..unstopping..pulse.


But it doesn't stop, just at the boundary of your skin.

It pulses far out, where it can be plainly detected..by any that rely on that form..of communication.

It is like having your brains scrambled when only that. You will seek any out. As they did. Out of the water.

People putting them back..don't know.

How could they?

WaveLength

shybat
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They may be trying to escape the sound Seer, but as was once said "This to shall pass".

The sound shall move or stop, be it from sonar or some man-made device, rumblings from within the earth, galactic emanations we can not detect or some other form.

To beach themselves and quit...I'd hope we all have more spirit then that, and if at times we falter, may some kind souls in whatever form be there to aid us

hugs
 Quoting: Sol-tari


Everything that Is, has its breaking point.

Imagine that 90s alarm clock, that you could NOT shut off.

For..3 days.

How would you fair?



The funny thing about Time..is just how annoying it IS..second to second.

It's true.


They're killing themselves. Because it is intolerable.

It is that simple.

Thread: The Songs of THE Time (Page 6)
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Last Edited by Seer777 on 07/16/2019 11:10 PM
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It's torture.

It all makes sense now. Sonar. The echoes. The ripples. The water.


They would rather die than face it. It's like that.

It's horrible.

It can't be blocked. They're committing suicide.
 Quoting: Seer777


It's like 1 guitar string, one single vibration, has been strung from the top of your head, to the bottom of your feet..and it strums hard, with every beat.


There is only..That.

That pure..unstopping..pulse.


But it doesn't stop, just at the boundary of your skin.

It pulses far out, where it can be plainly detected..by any that rely on that form..of communication.

It is like having your brains scrambled when only that. You will seek any out. As they did. Out of the water.

People putting them back..don't know.

How could they?

WaveLength

shybat
 Quoting: Seer777


They may be trying to escape the sound Seer, but as was once said "This to shall pass".

The sound shall move or stop, be it from sonar or some man-made device, rumblings from within the earth, galactic emanations we can not detect or some other form.

To beach themselves and quit...I'd hope we all have more spirit then that, and if at times we falter, may some kind souls in whatever form be there to aid us

hugs
 Quoting: Sol-tari


Everything that Is, has its breaking point.

Imagine that 90s alarm clock, that you could NOT shut off.

For..3 days.

How would you fair?



The funny thing about Time..is just how annoying it IS..second to second.

It's true.


They're killing themselves. Because it is intolerable.

It is that simple.

Thread: The Songs of THE Time (Page 6)
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 Quoting: Seer777


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Anywhere from one-third to 80% of all suicide attempts are impulsive acts, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. 24% of those who made near-lethal suicide attempts decided to kill themselves less than five minutes before the attempt, and 70% made the decision within an hour of the attempt.

Suicidal urges are sometimes caused by immediate stressors, such as a break-up or job loss, that go away with the passage of time. 90% of people who survive suicide attempts, including the most lethal types like shooting one's self in the head, don't end up killing themselves later. That statistic reflects the "temporary nature and fleeting sway of many suicidal crises," reports The New England Journal of Medicine.


Perhaps the same could be said of animals.

Perhaps I have no idea of what you speak, perhaps I have my own version that I have experienced.

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all those surfer seem very apprehensive, not one has a board turned in to face/ride that wall. the beach seems too close. lol
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For good reason.

It's a real wave and a real beach. Sept(SS) use to know the one.

It's just like that there.


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Everything that Is, has its breaking point.

Imagine that 90s alarm clock, that you could NOT shut off.

For..3 days.

How would you fair?



The funny thing about Time..is just how annoying it IS..second to second.

It's true.


They're killing themselves. Because it is intolerable.

It is that simple.

Thread: The Songs of THE Time (Page 6)
 Quoting: Seer777

 Quoting: Seer777


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Anywhere from one-third to 80% of all suicide attempts are impulsive acts, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. 24% of those who made near-lethal suicide attempts decided to kill themselves less than five minutes before the attempt, and 70% made the decision within an hour of the attempt.

Suicidal urges are sometimes caused by immediate stressors, such as a break-up or job loss, that go away with the passage of time. 90% of people who survive suicide attempts, including the most lethal types like shooting one's self in the head, don't end up killing themselves later. That statistic reflects the "temporary nature and fleeting sway of many suicidal crises," reports The New England Journal of Medicine.


Perhaps the same could be said of animals.

Perhaps I have no idea of what you speak, perhaps I have my own version that I have experienced.

Everyone experiences differently, as everyone perceives differently
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The point is..the Thumper is torture. Just like the sound of the 90s alarm clock. That is why we turn(ed) it off as quick as possible once we are jarred awake.


Imagine if you couldn't turn it off.

Those whales couldn't. I know why.

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Did you hear the Thumper?




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You don't just hear the Thumper.

The reason it 'calls the worm' is because it is annoying. That's why it surfaces pissed off, ready to kill/destroy what is causing it.

Pretty simple.
 Quoting: Seer777


Does Aether have a worm?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63573762


...


It's a Dune reference.

Also a dragon reference.

Wyrm. It's annoying af.



dragon
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You sure good are good at references.

fatlady spock
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I have my moments.


Weapon based on sound..





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 Quoting: Seer777


Yes.
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There's a reason I work for myself..


With that said, I'm not told much..and glean most.

I don't talk to aether and have been trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to avoid him for years.


But he and I both know..that is going no where.

So.

What. To. Do.


The annoying stuff has to end. It has to.

One way or the other.

It's going to stop.

 Quoting: Seer777


Thread: MASS WHALE BEACHING on St. Simons Island, Georgia - GET READY FOR SOME DOOM!

A pod of 30 whales beached themselves on East Beach, St. Simons Island due to sonar being tested.
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Simon says..

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Simple Simon met a pieman going to the Fair..
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Do anyone remember the movie where people did not know they were not in a virtual world, somehow they forgot. One guy figured it out, at the end he freed people who were living in virtual world. Now the same kind with a the same type things looking at the created fake world could feel and touch. Recently they said, you can wear this suit and feel other people, really more than feel is what they said, sex really, in the type virtual world, have they got smell down, they already for years talking about that work, this would throw people minds out of wack.

You get into this, and you will not know anything is real or fake after you remove the thing, it will mess your reality up. You mind will be altered.
Sorry I got a headache

These are the times that tries men's and
women's souls!

May we come though it victorious!
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So....Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely?
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I don't agree with that.

What I agree with is that power attracts the corruptible.
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Interesting perspective.
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“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”

― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune


I was fairly certain it was Herbert I have to thank for sharing it :)

Without further searching, I am pretty sure the character who said it was Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade, Mother Superior of the Bene Gesserit, giving counsel to her aides.

The mantra of the Bene Gesserit : "We exist only to serve."


The first hit on Google for a search of "power attracts the corruptible" was one from author David Brin, in the sci-fi novel "The Postman" published in 1985.

"It’s said that “power corrupts,” but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable."

Chapterhouse: Dune was also published in 1985...
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1985 is also the year I first began to experience lilliputian hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, and what is described as astral projection with no known trigger to explain them.

One could say I've been experimenting my way back ever since to the closest I've come to feeling at peace and at home while also not alone.

I wish I'd kept a journal in those years...

Not sure if this thread of mine ever came to your attention or not, but I had a passing thought yesterday that, perhaps, if not, it ought.

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Do anyone remember the movie where people did not know they were not in a virtual world, somehow they forgot. One guy figured it out, at the end he freed people who were living in virtual world. Now the same kind with a the same type things looking at the created fake world could feel and touch. Recently they said, you can wear this suit and feel other people, really more than feel is what they said, sex really, in the type virtual world, have they got smell down, they already for years talking about that work, this would throw people minds out of wack.

You get into this, and you will not know anything is real or fake after you remove the thing, it will mess your reality up. You mind will be altered.
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Sounds like Strange Days. It's a lot like that other than being fully facilitated through telepathy and completely invisible.

At least for me.

I'm routinely reminded there is no way out.


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I don't agree with that.

What I agree with is that power attracts the corruptible.
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Interesting perspective.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75578851


“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”

― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune


I was fairly certain it was Herbert I have to thank for sharing it :)

Without further searching, I am pretty sure the character who said it was Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade, Mother Superior of the Bene Gesserit, giving counsel to her aides.

The mantra of the Bene Gesserit : "We exist only to serve."


The first hit on Google for a search of "power attracts the corruptible" was one from author David Brin, in the sci-fi novel "The Postman" published in 1985.

"It’s said that “power corrupts,” but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable."

Chapterhouse: Dune was also published in 1985...
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1985 is also the year I first began to experience lilliputian hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, and what is described as astral projection with no known trigger to explain them.

One could say I've been experimenting my way back ever since to the closest I've come to feeling at peace and at home while also not alone.

I wish I'd kept a journal in those years...

Not sure if this thread of mine ever came to your attention or not, but I had a passing thought yesterday that, perhaps, if not, it ought.

Thread: The potential of heightened serotonergic experiences
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Well said.

I had never heard of that, but Googled it and reminded me of something I experienced as a child.

It only happened when laying down..but it would suddenly feel like I was only a head and my body was super tiny. Like just a couple inches and attached to my head. I could still feel my body, but it was just really small. Is that the same?

It happened a bunch of times as a kid, but never as an adult. Always struck me strange.


Great thread too. I'll have a read through again when I'm more alert.
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It only happened when laying down..but it would suddenly feel like I was only a head and my body was super tiny. Like just a couple inches and attached to my head. I could still feel my body, but it was just really small. Is that the same?
 Quoting: Seer777


that's precisely what the tip of the iceberg is like

I first came across a description from another of it in Walter White's DXM FAQ, in which he expanded upon Ann Shulgin's description of what she coined as "The Dissociative Spiral".


"The Dissociative Spiral is a term which I borrowed (and modified) from Shulgin's PiHKAL. It describes a particular set of characteristic sensations or internal states that seem to occur as a result of some sort of abnormal temporal lobe functioning. In PiHKAL, Ann Shulgin recounts how she would experience the "Spiral" when she was younger, almost always right before going to sleep. Many people have reported the very same set of effects on DXM (and ketamine), and I suspect that people who experience it naturally may have something interesting going on in the temporal lobes that mimics the effects of dissociatives. Perhaps this is due to release of endopsychosin, or perhaps it's just the way these people's brains are wired. One person suggested it may be complex partial seizures, but I don't think there's any evidence for that.

The Dissociative Spiral seems to have four phases, each phase lasting a fixed amount of time. Not everyone experiences all phases. I have given each phase a name which I think is descriptive based primarily on the experiences of DXM users; I also suggest you consult PiHKAL for Ann Shulgin's version.

1. Supernova. Ann Shulgin refers to this as "macrocosm-microcosm". There is a sensation that one's "core" is rapidly shrinking, growing ever smaller and smaller, down to the size of a subatomic particle. Accompanying this shrinking sensation is a feeling of one's "outer shell" expanding equally rapidly, until it fills the entire universe. This is generally considered as a pleasant sensation, with a slight characteristic of free-fall.

2. Lilliputian Hallucinations. After shrinking down to a proton, the Lilliputian Hallucinations begin. Everything that one imagines or recalls seems grossly distorted in size. Human figures alternate between tall and thin and stretched out like taffy, and shrunken and rounded. Many people see long, thin ribbons of multicolored energy.
There is a disturbing sense of Infinity with these hallucinations. Most find this phase extremely grating on the soul, mentally painful, perhaps because one is perceiving objects to have totally opposite characteristics at once. Some people are familar with Lilliputian hallucinations from fevers.

3. Veils of Light and Darkness. The third phase consists of alternating visual fields of total, thick black and ghostly white or greyish-white. Each visual field gives way to the opposite as if veils were being torn and dissolved. The "black veil" is often described as being much darker than ordinary darkness, since even the phosphenes (the patterns one sees with eyes closed in the dark) are absent. Most people also find this phase extremely unpleasant.

4. Contact. The fourth phase, and the rarest, is also the most spectacular. After passing through the last Veil, there is a sudden sense of being in the presence of a profoundly powerful, loving, intelligent entity (or occasionally, multiple entities). These typically greet the individual with empathic communication, sending messages of familiarity, joy, love, concern, and occasionally a vague sense of humorous curiosity at finding a human being in this place. This phase is the most profound, and the most pleasant. To my knowledge nobody has ever done an EEG during the Dissociative Spiral, but I have a hunch that the temporal lobes would probably be doing something interesting. Perhaps this is a common occurance, but one that most people are incapable of perceiving. In any case, it is frequently observed with DXM, typically phases 1 and 2, occasionally phase 3, and rarely phase 4."

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err... that's William White, not Walter, my bad

turtle on the brain lately, and a lil' tree used to have a turtle she named Walter

yeah, that's what I'll blame that lapse on :)
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