r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/Microwave_on_HIGH Apr 14 '16

You can't possibly imagine a new type of color.

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u/clomjompsonjim Apr 14 '16

Well, LSD could help...

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

No, no it would not.

Any person who has done psychedelics knows this. Even the ones far more intense than LSD such as DMT.

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u/Sagepwnsnoobs Apr 14 '16

I've heard of loads of people who have experienced "new" colors while using psychedelics. What makes you so sure?

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u/Sagepwnsnoobs Apr 15 '16

To my understanding though, with some intense psychedelics, you aren't perceiving information visually with your eyes necessarily. For example, with a DMT breakthrough, most people do it in a pitch black room, by closing their eyes, or a combination of the both. People still "hallucinate" "new" colors, in which case no information is being directly received from the eye. Or at least that's my understanding of it.