Effects - LSD effects on hearing

[assassination]

SWIM took Large Square Diapers 3 times over a month. the first 2 times SWIM took 1 only but did 2 for visuals the third time. Each time SWIM said that music was amazing and everything sounded so much crisper. SWIM was wondering what in Large Square Diapers makes your hearing to react like that and would it be possible to isolate that effect. As in take a different type of diaper to achieve only the effects of hearing trippy music?

[enquirewithin]

Certainly an unusual use for diapers! Usually they get thrown away or flushed after the baby has soiled them!

LSD blotters (assuming that's what SWIY meant) are supposed to contain LSD. LSD, like all psychedelics, enhances the senses, especially hearing. Many people say that MDMA ('ecstasy') is especially good at enhancing the sound of music too without much in the way of visuals.

[Panthers007]

There is one known psychedelic that has effects primarily on hearing. Check the Research Chemicals forum for references (and elsewhere) to DiPT (Di-iso-PropylTryptamine). Not to be confused with Dipropyltryptamine (DPT).

[enquirewithin]

Music was rendered completely disharmonious although single tones sounded normal.

That was someone taking DIPT.

...its effects primarily in the auditory system. And it screws it up in a most unlinear manner, in that there in not just a simple decrease in pitch which would be as if someone had his thumb against the LP record and made everything come out at a 3/4 speed text, or a 1/2 speed text. Actual roportionality is lost, so there is complete harmonic distortion.

This was Shulgin, its inventor, commenting. Interesting stuff, but maybe more distortion than enhancement?

[Beta]

Here is a thread I wrote about this subject:
Sound/music perception and drugs
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38543

[Panthers007]

Originally Posted by enquirewithin

This was Shulgin, its inventor, commenting. Interesting stuff, but maybe more distortion than enhancement?

I never said it was purported to 'enhance' the sound. LOL! But it might be interesting to slip it in the lemonade at a Wayne Newton concert in Las Vegas...Bwahahahahaha!

Happy Halloween all.

[enquirewithin]

It might enhance quite a lot of music!

[Jatelka]

Hearing is often tricky for the flamingo, in that her senses get hyperacute with psychedelics

Add in some serious tinnitus and peaking on psychedelics can become too intense if music is too loud/frantic/otherwise "not quite right".

LSD rarely causes this problem, but the aural stimulation has to be perfect.

2C-I certainly did, to the point of unpleasantness, and serious loops/distortions getting tangled up with negative body image: Yuck

[Beta]

Originally Posted by Jatelka

LSD rarely causes this problem, but the aural stimulation has to be perfect.

Actually, the enhancement in perception makes one more sensitive to the quality of the sound.

[Jatelka]

^^^ The flamingo meant perfect in the sense of style/genre/type of music, in that it must match her mood..

It goes without saying that the quality of the sound has to be perfect! Vibrating sub woofers and hissing speakers are atrocious at any time

[wazzzup1028]

SWIM finds that the subjective quality of music (or any sound that reaches SWIM's ears) is always enhanced with LSD. A car driving down the street, leaves blowing, rain falling, people speaking, all seem much nicer sounding. Music, no matter what kind, always is in tune with my mood, as if my mood were switched to whatever music were playing (which is certainly possible, if not probable). Also, loud bass tickles SWIM and SWIM usually enjoys the music much more if it has loud bass.

Nothing really usually bothers SWIM in the way of sounds when SWIM is tripping. SWIM hears things usually that aren't there, hears things differently, but it seems as if the mechanism that tells SWIM's brain that a sound is unpleasant doesn't work as hard when SWIM is on LSD.

[VitaminK22]

Swim is extremely fascinated with how music sounds on "Large Square Diaper"(lol) and has done many experiments. Swim found that using an X-Fi soundcard that converts stereo music into 7.1 surround makes a HUGE difference when listening to trippy music such as the Beatles and Kasabian, Swim also notices the difference in sound quality, the bass sounds deeper and smoother, the treble sound richer and the voices sound crisp and clean.
When swims in the mood to listen to somethin a little harder like psytrance he turns the bass up so he can feel the vibrations, this leads to a very pleasant experience as LSD is all about mixing up your sense, being able to feel the music is brilliant.

Swim and a friend once sat in his car, which has a subwoofer in the back, and put some music on loud, the sub alone makes everything u look at vibrate without being on acid, so feeling, seeing and hearing the music made for an even more intense experience. The swim turned the music up a little too loud so it started distorting and it just felt like someone was inside his head shaking his brain, which wasnt so nice.

Swim would recommend an X-Fi soundcard to anyone who loves their music, 7.1 surround sound music on LSD is just amazing and so different to stereo.

Also, to anyone that uses 1 of these soundcards on a session, listen to The Beatles - Only A Northern Song or Good Morning

[Beta]

Swim doesn't like too much upmixing stereo to 5.1 (or 7.1). The music loses his cohesion creating phase/time issues. However, adding just the subwoofer into the equation can bring the physical feeling from the music.
Also 5.1 or quadriphonic mix played on a 5.1 system can be very immersive (according to the quality of the mix). In that game, original quadriphonic mix (taken from q8 tapes from the 70’s) of Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother, Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here) and 5.1 mix of theb Beatles/Love (remix made few years ago by Georges Martin) are killer in a psychedelic situations.

[Songcycle67]

SWIM can never tell where sound is coming from or how loud it is exactly when he's on a fairly large dose of the stuff. The way that it swirls and flanges around the room doesn't exactly help matters. Also a lot of it is unnoticable, but sight and other senses are affected hugely during loud music. The emotional response to a favorite song would probably be enough in itself to make it sound more crisp and alive. I don't think without the full package (that is: LSD's primary action of fusing the senses together) there would be as wonderful a response. Every sense must be consumed by the music to illicit that "hearing it for the first time" feeling.

[Joe-(5-HTP)]

Swim often has interesting auditory distortions when on lsd. For example, if someone is speaking to swim, the voice at first sounds loud and close, and then moves away and has a distinct echo, even though the person speaking/source of sound remains in the same place relative to swim. other times, swim recalls that sounds clearly originating outside of swim sound as if they are coming from inside swim's head, which slightly purturbed swim.

[Voxy]

SWIM has taken LSD a couple times and found that it enhances SWIM's hearing greatly, SWIM could hear juice pouring into a cup from across the house like it was right beside swim's ear