Notes from the Wired

Trip Report: #01

October 10, 2025

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I am and, for as long as I can remember, I have always been a poor visualizer. Words, even the pregnant words of poets, do not evoke pictures in my mind. When I recall something, the memory does not present itself to me as a vividly seen event or object. […] This was the world—a poor thing but my own—which I expected to see transformed into something completely unlike itself.

The change which actually took place in that world was in no sense revolutionary. […] But at no time were there faces or forms of men or animals. I saw no landscapes, no enormous spaces, no magical growth and metamorphosis of buildings, nothing remotely like a drama or a parable.

~ Door of Perception

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He too expected the “psychedelic” to be a purely visual revolution, but instead found the transformation to be primarily qualitative. It points to how the psychedelic experience isn’t reducible to sense phenomena; it’s more about the mode of disclosure, the way Being presents itself.

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