Comments

You must log in or register to comment.

cannabination t1_j9q9bnf wrote

Hard to really represent psychedelics in a movie. While there are visuals to some degree in almost every trip, the majority of the effects are mental even when the world around you is melting together into a squirming mess of light and color.

13

Friendly_Advantage31 OP t1_j9q9pm5 wrote

This is interesting. Is there a take on a trip that hasn’t been done that might reflect the personal experience better?

2

cannabination t1_j9qacji wrote

Acid is a helluva drug. It's one of those things you have to experience to begin to understand, and every trip is different. Even within a single trip, there are notably different chapters. The best I can describe it is being a child again. You're more connected with the universe around you and all of your brain, but you're never 100% certain what's going on. Everything is magnified... good, bad, and ugly.

You'll be thinking several trains of thought concurrently until you focus on one, and the rest disappear into the aether. You think so much, and in ways you normally don't. This causes you to examine yourself and your relationships in ways you normally don't.

There's nothing else like it... the intensity and power of strong lsd can't be contained by experience or force of will, and it will last 10 hours so you'd better be right with yourself.

That said, doing something you love on acid is the best thing ever. W/e it is; writing, playing music, any kind of art, I'm sure left brain stuff too... you'll find new and interesting ways to do it.

7

SpreadYourAss t1_j9qf51t wrote

It's still hard to comprehend how the brain even works on LSD. Whenever I think about the insane visuals I saw on acid it almost feels unbelievable.

Personally my favorite way to enjoy it is to just relax on my head, put on some headphones and listen to some music. The way music feels while you're on acid is unreal!

I remember the first time I did acid, I was like there's no way it actually feels like people say. People are just exaggerating. And when the first visuals hit, it's like you've unlocked a completely different level of experiencing reality that you didn't thought was possible.

7

cannabination t1_j9qesji wrote

After some thought, What Dreams May Come. It doesn't represent an acid trip, it is an acid trip. Waking Life is probably right there as well.

3

BroadInfluence4013 t1_j9qh75h wrote

>While there are visuals to some degree in almost every trip

Really? I pretty much never had/have visuals on any drug other than very slight changes (like colors "pop" just a little more). Only time I had strong visuals was 3 hits of acid combined with many other substances. And I've done a lot of psychedelics.

−1

cannabination t1_j9qhuaw wrote

Huh. For me there are always trails, and lights have a bit of extra shine to them. I usually get the stained-glass windowpane overlay and a bit of squirming, but I haven't seen anything strong enough to melt stuff in 20 years. The acid I find now is all chill and weak, but it's clean and I'm getting older so it works for me.

I did get some refined psilocybin chocolates at deer creek last year that absolutely melted everything and had virtually none of the negative side effects of shrooms.

5

snapdragonpowerbomb t1_j9qiimt wrote

Not a show, but the scene in Midsommar where they do mushrooms felt pretty accurate

12

shr2016 t1_j9qkd74 wrote

Midsommar

8

H2Oloo-Sunset t1_j9q8elu wrote

Mad Men's portrayal of Roger taking LSD was very well done (and funny).

7

mailboxfacehugs t1_j9q3lpf wrote

Enter the Void.

Main character does DMT. Was very evocative of what I experienced the two times I did it.

6

DaFIB t1_j9qk8gd wrote

Workaholics Season 1 ep 3 “Office Campout”

5

beaumega1 t1_j9scswq wrote

"Catherine Zeta JooooOoones she dips beneath laseerrrrs whoooaaOhhhOoohhhh"

2

mcboogle t1_j9q212y wrote

Fear and loathing... is this even a question?

You get rolling pretty good and everything is logical, even all these bats...

2

travio t1_j9qs7cz wrote

Agree. The way the valet's face and the carpet shifted in this scene are incredibly realistic.

4

mcboogle t1_j9r4wv4 wrote

Yeah. It's fairly semi-conscious. At first you're like "Is that moving?" Next thing ya know it's doing exactly what you think it will do, somewhere down in the recesses of your mind. Like, what you think will happen does happen... it's just on a semi-random delay and you keep wondering when you will stop being able to control it.

1

AtheismoAlmighty t1_j9qetdg wrote

Silicon Valley - When Erlich goes on his vision quest to come up with a company name. The visuals are a bit much, but watching the "logic" that turns a good trip into a bad one is pretty funny. Also the way he's moving his mouth and shoulders/arms is pretty good. (https://youtu.be/G-Ir9WuI8-8)

2

PixelPantsAshli t1_j9q3ddc wrote

Keyleth and Vex's trip scene in Legend of Vox Machina was clearly inspired by experience.

1

travio t1_j9qrs32 wrote

Just watched that episode and I'd agree.

2

DougieJackpots t1_j9qd4ia wrote

The best I've seen was Sharp Objects and molly/ecstasy.

1

thomasjkenney t1_j9qiefr wrote

TJ Miller's shroom trip in Silicon Valley...the teeth grinding!

EDIT: Ninja'd!!!

1

Yotsubauniverse t1_j9s7pq8 wrote

The Mississippi Queen episode has a scene that seems to be Mordecai, Rigby and Benson on a crazy trip after drinking the hottest thing ever.

1

gerryf19 t1_j9sn2ze wrote

Happy! With Chris Meloni

1

CollateralSandwich t1_j9sxbo8 wrote

The most accurate portrayal of acid visuals I've seen in TV/Film is from the movie "Taking Woodstock"

1

haverchuck22 t1_j9tmfhs wrote

was looking for this. def agree. gets low dose visuals exactly right

2

Doc_coletti t1_j9t38od wrote

Danny Devito Shitting in a trash can he got stuck in, while tripping on acid at some school in Bucks County, PA.

1

SweatyMess808 t1_j9u6ybi wrote

Adult swim late-night, between-commercial shorts.

1

tacoreddit t1_j9q23yf wrote

80 for Brady, bro. Guy Fieri

0

FelixVulgaris t1_j9ssbyf wrote

The Simpsons Guatemalan Insanity Pepper episode. Homer even goes through an epic journey across a golf course. Probably the most accurate portrayal of my own adolescent trips in suburbia

0