# Experiences with psychedelics? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-psychedelics/817511 "2018-07-08T11:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-psychedelics/817511/21 "2018-07-10T23:44:53Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > The hallucinations are often misunderstood. You don’t see realistic dragons or magical elves or enter some other fairy tale world. Just colors trailing movement and patterns superimposed over flat expanses like walls and curtains. Patterns which often look like they’re moving in place or “breathing”. [Form constants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant). The fascinating thing about them is the patterns being actual neural structures in the brain, made visible. Sort of like if you shine a bright light into the pupil sideways it can make the branching retinal veins visible, which they otherwise aren’t. So form constants are a view _inside_ your brain, in a virtual-reality kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-psychedelics/817511/22 "2018-07-11T14:29:28Z")
> [@EricaRoche](#): > > How different is it from other recreational substances like stimulants and depressants in terms of the ‘feeling’? To put it concisely, I would say that a psychedelic trip makes you feel like a cat feels on a car trip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-psychedelics/817511.md?page=1)