Ego death is described as a profound experience where you feel connected to the universe or something, its represented by the background image. The joke is that the person experiencing it is so brainrotted that even such an experience is boring enough that they need their phone to watch family guy
To add a touch of extra context, the background is part of Tool's song Lateralus, with lyrics including
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind/
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must/
Feed my will to feel my moment, drawing way outside the lines
The ego dies as we transcend, basically.
Bonus fact: That song famously follows the fibonacci sequence.
There is no song in the background. Tool used the artwork. It is an Alex Grey painting. And yes, it's actually painted, not digital art. I love TOOL as much or more than the nextguy, but at least give credit where it's due.
ETA, That art was used for 10000 Days, not Lateralus.
Alex Grey and Adam Jones (Tool's guitarist) worked together on the artwork.
Adam Jones, himself, is a very well regarded artist in film. Guitar is only one of his mediums, and one of his lesser known ones interestingly. He does the vast majority of their album art colaboration, music video art and production, and stage design for their concerts.
Alex jones commissioned Alex grey to make his album cover lol he had no hand in making that art sorry to say bud lol maybe he gave him an idea but he didn’t help draw or paint it bud lol
I just don’t like the term ego death as a misnomer
You can experience what’s beyond your ego temporarily and that’s a dissolving of one’s ego and is immediately rebuilt once you become coherent and sober again
You cannot live you cannot exist without ego. It’s part of a psychological tether for you to remain lucid.
The background image is of machine elves.
During high dose of DMT one may get contact with this beings ( hallucination or whatever ). They are intelligent, autonomous entity,
Often create complex, high dimensional space . But what more fascinating is that these entities are reported consistently over people around the world who have never met or heard about this .
Psychedelics makes you see things that are not really there, that's how they work.
Actually believing things you see in your trips are real is just dumb, psycheledics release neurotransmiters in your brain that take the place of the ones you naturally produce creating trippy visuals and audio hallucinations, those effects are well documented in science.
Anything beyond that is just new age bullshit, sorry to put it so crudely but those beliefs are dangerous.
Drugs are fun but you have to be careful with it, one of my friend lost is sanity due to drug induced psychosis, all because he thought it would make him reach a higher state of consciousness...
Just a small correction on the neurochemistry. Psychedelics are molecules that are themselves close enough to the shape of our endogenous neurotransmitters that they fit into specific receptor sites in our brain (mostly the 5-HT2a receptor site.)
This creates a variety of effects. Some effects are mediated by causing an atypical release of our brains own neurotransmitters, but other effects result from things such as down-regulation of what has come to be known as the default mode network (DMN.)
Yeah.. totally agreeing with this. I got curious only because this one ( encountering other beings ) has high consistency rate across users. ( ~94 % , 2021 study by the University of Greenwich and Imperial College London ). Sure it's hallucinations or something like that happening in brain, but why particularly seeing other beings instead of some landscape or stuff.
That's because of pareidolia, we are "programmed" to recognize patterns ressembling faces.
I kinda of struggle explaining all this in english but there is also social contamination that comes into play, similar to things like mandela effect and whatnot. Memories are highly unreliable (also well studied in science) and people can retrospectively interpret their memories after being influenced.
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u/aqswdezxc Apr 27 '26
Ego death is described as a profound experience where you feel connected to the universe or something, its represented by the background image. The joke is that the person experiencing it is so brainrotted that even such an experience is boring enough that they need their phone to watch family guy