Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD): What You Need To Know 

You can find more information about HPPD as well as references on the TDC website: thedrugclassroom.com/video/hallucinogen-persisting-perception-disorder-hppd/ If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

HPPD is something that needs to be examined and studied closer I feel like.

i heard psychedelics have the power to reconnect/rewire your brain... and while using it, some parts of the brain communicate with other parts, that usually don't talk with each other... if this is true, maybe psychedelics can wire these party constantly together so that they do strange things

this. i needed this. it came from extended and dramatic amounts of cannabis use all day long every day. it hit me all at once one night and i’ve never been the same. i’ve changed entirely as a person. i don’t even really know who i am. i can’t feel a lot. my anxiety is literally crippling. derealization and panic fill my everyday life and yet i can’t stop using cannabis. or anything else. this gives me a starting place and hopefully an end. i want to be myself again and be happy to do things. thank you for posting about something that not many others have. i needed this.

I also had mild HPPD in my early childhood (13-14) which was induced by weed. Oddly enough, I can smoke now and be just fine and have no visual distortions.

I rolled on MDMA and after this roll I began getting symptoms of hppd. I told myself yep that's my last roll, but I realized it wasn't the mdma that was giving me hppd. A week prior I read of the benefits of supplementing with magnesium, so I bought myself over the counter magnesium. I took for a week, but it brought me undesired effects. I began getting extremely drowsy and felt like I was seeing things. After the mdma these symptoms got worse and I knew I needed to get off of them even if it was only for a week. The mental stress it brought me was tough , but I knew I needed to stop. It's better to eat foods rich vitamins and minerals.

When I close my eyes I see shapes in the blackness and I see lines moving in opposite directions parallel to one another

very good and informative video

I don’t think they go away in a year. I think you just get used to them so much they become the new normal.

Ive had hppd for a long time now and i think the center of it is my ocd anxiety. There is hope in Jesus and medicine and coping mechanisms for me and hope for everyone because i have overcome it. Jesus christ can heal and save all. If anyone reads this there is always time to repent and believe the gospel. Mark, matthew, luke, john in the bible. Faith is eternal life through Jesus. God bless everyone in pain here✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️.

I used to have severe symptoms. My secret to making them go away almost entirely... Sleep, the most useful thing to do. Start sleeping until you wake up naturally and try to do this as much as possible. Gotta let the brain repair. In a few months you'll start to feel a lot better. Meditation helps dramatically. Reading. Exercise and eating healthy are a plus but for me going to gym made it worse for some reason, all the endorphins made the symptoms more severe. Once again because I cant stress it enough... SLEEP!!!

Psychedelics did wonders in my life. Over the course of my life, I've suffered from uncontrollable, depression, anxiety, alcohol, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for a long time and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. This is something that really needs to be used globally to help people with similar health challenges. I've been sober for 6 years and have my life back.

I've had it in the past and it went away after being sober for a while. The best way to describe it is seeing psychedelic patterns when staring at something for more than a few seconds, people would become cartoon like, walls would have maya calendar patterns and objects would grow and move. At the start it was distressing and some tasks like reading were impossible but after time my brain learned to ignore the hallucinations. Its hard to imagine but I learnt to read sentences while they moved in 3d dimensions (closer and further), the thing that annoyed me the most wasn't actually the hallucinations but the lack of understanding people had. I would tell people that I hallucinate regularly and that it was because of psychedelic use but they would automatically assume I was psychotic. I also remember that cannabis became very psychedelic once hppd had set in, and really turned into a psychedelic of its own. The hppd gradually stopped over time but my perception never changed back to what it used to be. Although I don't hallucinate all the time now, colours are more vibrant and reality looks more like a dream. I can also hallucinate if I concentrate hard enough. To be quite honest I prefer reality this way, it doesn't effect my life in anyway and I would compair my present reality to a minecraft texture pack. I haven't met anyone who has had a similar change of perception but friends from my psychedelic past seem to agree with me on some aspects. The lack of understanding and the stigma of it being psychosis prevents people from talking openly about it

Thank you for shedding light on this matter! So hard to find good information about HPPD.

In my experience, the only thing that actually reduces HPPD is coming to terms with the disorder.

At my school anyone whose used psychedelics, most have reported some form of HPPD and all said it changed the way Cannabis affected them

HPPD isnt that bad, it makes things a little more interesting, but i still wish i didnt have it, as long as your busy and moving it isnt noticable

HPPD was not fun after a bad trip. It really felt like my brain was fried and I was terrified. I remember an instance where I was was sitting at the table and I was listening to fridge buzz. After a few seconds, I was hearing conversations, laughter - all of which I couldn't interpret the context of, and right before I was able to snap out of it, it was angry yelling voices. There were so many instances like that. I'll never forget that fear.

I have an anxiety disorder and the symptoms they've described are a lot like what I've experienced. And I've also had visual snow, seen floaters and etc, but my anxiety makes me notice them more and I didn't even know I had it until I read into it which happened only because I was anxious... I think a lot of these patients just have some form of anxiety disorder brought on by psychedelic usage and realised the visual effects as anxiety makes you feel "hyper aware" and constantly checking and questioning yourself.

If you would like to skip to a specific section, here are the timestamps: Definition & Diagnosis - 00:58 Onset - 02:21 What It's Not - 03:03 Categories of HPPD/flashbacks - 03:59 Most Common Drugs - 05:58 History - 06:48 How Common Is It - 08:41 Risk Factors - 10:23 Triggers - 10:59 Mechanisms - 11:51 Treatment - 14:02 What To Do If You Have Symptoms - 15:50

Don't do psychedelics unless you want to fuck yourself up.

i want my money back I was ripped off not one single flashback 100s of trips

love this channel man! At first i thought it was too meaty and serious. But now i love it. So much useful information and i really learn stuff!

*Drives my Car on the Highway at 80 mph* *gets intense visual flashback* " Oh hell yeah free Trip"

I don't even do drugs, I just have friends who do, and I want to make sure their safe

Everytime i freak myself out about my hppd i remember some people are blind so, lucky me :) but idk im done eatin cud for a while hahaha

I have it the static never stops

I have HPPD for 10 years now after heavy overdose of benzydamine hcl. Moving objects that are close to my view are leaving "shadow trails" in the air. Never seek treatment, got use to it. It can be helpfull in tracing small objects like droped screws, coins etc. I used LSD and Psilocibine since - it had no effect on HPPD. It doesn't affect my day to day life.

I started taking lots of psychedelics a few years ago, the lsd, shrooms, and dmt caused no problems, made life better if anything. But I got addicted to mdma/mda and quickly developed lots of mental problems. I’ve accepted it but whenever I smoke weed I get psychotic symptoms unless I’m on benzos. It’s not hppd but I definitely want to know more about it.

hasn’t gone away since my first acid breakthrough it’s kinda cool but it’s just a constant reminder of my poor decisions with drugs

Had this like 3 years ago, and it was crazy. I'd come into work and occasionally the a wooden grain on the door would start to flow life a melting painting. I also had visual snow, especially on cloudy days. It was like tiny particles in my vision that moved in a murmuration like birds do. It was like a blizzard when it was just slightly overcast. It's gone away slowly over a couple years, but sometimes things grow or shrink ever so slightly in my vision.

One of the best things to treat this is to calm and rest your mind/brain. Doing any drugs puts your brain through a lot so it’s no surprise that they have bad side effects. I recommend avoiding all stimulants for a while and do meditation and yoga. I was able to treat mine by avoiding any stimulants. Even coffee brought on my hppd symptoms.

My hppd looks like there is static in my vision all the time and I sometimes see the air moving almost like a mirage

Also known as "the thing your mom doesn't believe you actually have"

I've had an urge to wanna try shrooms but this keeps me pausing, esp. given it seems you _don't_ necessarily have to abuse them like an addict to get it. A trip sounds fun, but I want it to be _over,_ 'ya know!

I think a year without touching any substance will revert the hppd effects by 99.8%.Some people get it worst than others and it takes years for them to recover.maybe younger people below 25 will get it much harder than older.

Faszinating. Never researched it. After i took alot of lsd for a longer period i noticed the sky beeing static (another comment mentioned static, perfect example for me) i was kind of sad to potentialy never see the sky again normally. That was 10 years ago, and it mostly went away. Hang in there folks :)

I would have these dizziness feelings and my head would go into a rush, after I’d have aura migraines, after my first episodes of panic attacks I went sober my symptoms of static and after images have improved drastically, Gym, eat right and sleep when you feel tired helps a lot, especially having faith in God he’s helped me a lot through this tough situation I thank him everyday for helping me through this shit

I did acid a couple times earlier in my life, and noticed after i had there were multiple occurrences where I had seen hallucinations that weren’t so much impairing as they were jarring. I had a moment where while i was at work I saw a truck stop stand up with little legs and walk a few steps, but after i took a second look I quickly realized it was obviously a hallucination. I would occasionally see movements out of the corner of my eyes, and it lasted for several months, which lead to me abstaining from hallucinogens.

i think i have this or could be a brain tumor

Here's my theory on why this happens to people. There are mutations in the SERT transporter known to be involved with depressive and anxiety disorders. These are gain of functions phenotypes, meaning the transport moves serotonin from the synapse back to the presynaptic vesicle at a greater rate than the typical allele. This means less serotonin jumps the gap to activate serotonin receptors. When a nueral pathway is activated, a compound called neurotrophin is released. This causes the strengthing of the pathway that is activated. The lack of serotonin leads to a lack of neuroplasticity, which is the cause of many of the symptoms we associate with depression and anxiety. Specifically, anxiety seems to be related to the 5-ht1 receptors and depression to the 5-ht2 but this is an extreme over simplification. Anyway, when you expose someone to a serotonin agonist it will have a biased interaction to different serotonin receptors, these will also have differing downstream effects from the different cascades that follow. The pathways activated by each of these cascades will then be strengthened by the resulting release of neurotrophin. When someone with one of the aforementioned mutated SERT's has this happen, they will have a more significantly biased change in neural formation because the lower rate, overall, of serotonin activating receptors and causes the downstream pathways to be activated. This bias could even further extend if one of the specfic serotonin receptors has a mutation that allows for prolonged ligand interaction times. Something like an amino acid being swapped out in the 5-ht2a receptros allowing the 'lid' that covers the diethylamine of LSD, and n-benzyl-2-methoxy moeities of the NBOMe compounds, being able to conform further over the ligand. Thus, this leads to prolong activation of the pathways for these specific two classes of compounds, which both seem more signicantly linked to this disorder than most psychedelics. The need for these two mutated genes for this effect to happen would also explain is relative rarity when compared to the rather large number of people who possess gain-of-function SERT genetypes.

I get flashbacks a lot, but only on demand. I can also get a beyond-view glimpse of someone else's personal view. Could be imaginary, but very convincing.

I have depersonalization disorder from weed. It almost always happens when im tired, bored, or feel unconfortable. I've realized that its just my brain over-reacting and learned to control it. Meditation seems to help a lot.

HPPD is the quintessence of supposedly irreparable damage to brain fibers following a terrible trip. Thankfully, good nutrition, lamictal and benzodiazepines are the way out. Power to all warriors of the light! 💖

I’ve had these symptoms for five years now so for anyone who’s just now experiencing HPPD and is reading this I want you to know it gets easier so don’t panic. When I first started going through all of this I was so scared I actually thought suicide was the only way to fix my issue which I am very glad I did not do. The best thing you can do for yourself is relax and realize you’re not going as crazy as you think. Unfortunately, there is no cure so try your best to adjust to the new way you see the world. Stay away from drugs (as best as you can), eat healthy food, exercise everyday and most importantly GET GOOD SLEEP. After awhile you won’t even notice the static and the floaters it all becomes normal and you go back to living like you were before.

I've had HPPD like symptoms for years, due to my obsessive LSD use, however never looked at it as all that bad of a thing. Flashbacks can be alarming at first, sure, but ultimately they don't get in the way all that much, and just make reality a bit more interesting... HOWEVER, on February 10th of 2017, I accidentally dosed an obscene and still undetermined amount of LSD, and found my self in what could be called a full LSD psychosis--in constant flashback of the experience--for about 3 weeks afterwards. After that, the symptoms began slowly SLOWLY fading... but still to this day, have not gone away completely. At this point, over a year and a half later, there are many physical and emotional triggers for my HPPD symptoms, but the actual condition lay only in my background. No longer is my constant visual experience altered (to the extent it at one point was, I can deal with where I am now), however certain things--such as exerting a lot of physical energy (exercise), overeating/underrating, oversleeping/undersleeping, most any type of drug use especially psychedelics and cannabis, or even just extreme emotions, such as depression and anxiety--are one to trigger symptoms to re-arise. Excited to see how our collective understanding of this condition grows, as it has literally ran my entire life for so so so long, and yet details about it remain a mystery...

Taking a shit makes my hppd flare up lmao

Think we shouldn’t be calling it a hallucination if multiple people can experience the same things

To anyone who might be going through this right now, I promise you’ll be good. May 7th 2020 was my last time taking psychedelics for fun, and I had a horrible trip that lasted for pretty much months and broke my brain and gave me an existential crisis. Waking up every day was hard. I thought I was the most enlightened person and I had all these crazy schizophrenic thoughts and was always so paranoid. After a year I got better on my own, but I never worked out, ate healthy or focused too hard on getting good sleep so I’m sure you can get there quicker if you do those things. The one good thing about HPPD is if you can beat it it will make you a lot stronger and more comfortable and real life will seem a lot better and easier if you’re strong enough to push through. I do not regret my experience at all. And you shouldn’t either. Just push through, it will make a good story to tell one day.

This video is incredibly informative and thanks to it, I’ve been able to recognize the symptoms and how to manage them, and it’s just made things so much better for me. Thank you🙏🏼

Mild hppd after dabbling in psychedellics was awesome and welcomed but after doing acid for months it's freaking miserable

I had a vision waving last for weeks after using acid, just to understand that this "waviness" is just normal for me. I have astigmatism and my brain just learned to ignore it, but after taking LSD it just "forgot" about that.

I took 60 dry grams of shrooms and it's been a year, I still see static, I feel out of place. I'm often aware that I'm looking through 2 eyes so staring at things becomes awkward to me, things often move in the corners of my eyes and wave while I stare at them, I hear a constant ringing. Shits wack

Okay but like, am I the only person that thinks HPPD is actually sick as fuck? I know my case is mild and only self diagnosed, but I see visions and when I dream it's extremely vivid imagery, I sometimes see bursts of color out of nowhere and I have aquired synesthesia which gives music so much more depth. It's been around 6/8 months since I've had mushrooms and almost a year since LSD and I still get little nuggets of trippy goodness out of nowhere that don't actually impair me, does anybody else experience this?

I think, I might have had an hppd after doing 250ug lsd. The colors were really bright and vivid all the time and it slowly started to fade away after about a month of time håd passed. It was actually a very cool experience for me.

This is the reason people shouldn't trip more than once every month and watch their dosage. Also people with depression and anxiety are apparently more likely to experience symptoms so you gotta be careful even when the substance isn't physically harmful

This comment section has taught me a lot about myself. I need to make a video to explain my experience. Im self diagnosing here, but am positive I have Borderline Schizophrenic Disorder (family history). A basic overview is as follows. Summer 2002 I consumed Magic Mushrooms 10ish times with friends. 2.5 Gram dose would typically give me a level 3 trip, I am a lightweight, where as many of my peers would just get a solid buzz and see tracers, I would be full blown tripping balls. The last time I did mush, I voluntarily hospitalized myself at the start of my peak(2 hours in). Life background. Depressed low self esteem, suicidal ideation started at 13, thoughts of it even as a child. 2001 hit me hard,9/11. Actually tried to end it in my “sleep” (“broke” my own neck in the headboard cubby of my bed, the vertebrate 20 years later is still visibly shifted), was paralyzed for about 2 minutes, took me about 8 to roll Halfway onto the floor and stand up. I was so f***ing mad, went to school fighting back tears all day and didn’t say a word,it was very painful, I just glared and moaned/grunted at people. Heavy weed use and drinking throughout the year, I sort of became decent to be around again by the end of the school year, the summer I did the mush. (People, if you have mental health issues, drugs will typically make those issues more pronounced) The bad trip. Typical bad trip in a hospital setting, injected with muscle relaxant and strapped to a table, with my torso at a slight incline. I just stared at the ceiling gasping and crying for 6 hours watching “black rain” rain down, that was it - at the time horrifying. I have since more life experience at 36 and have experienced scarier shit, but something about that trip man, literally just black miniature comets with tails raining down fucking endlessly. That bad trip put me into psychosis for 2 years.( I think, this was a very messed up time in my life with OOB experiences and visits from entities)( I became functional after 3 months though, like 2 word responses instead of 1, and actually spent more than 5 minutes outside of my bed). The paranoia (thankfully) went away after 13 years. I still have the residue and recognize the triggers though. It was at this point that my HPPD became “normal”. I just learned 2 months ago that tinnitus isn’t normal, I thought everybody has that. Thankfully my tinnitus is just there, I don’t get attacks too often. ( you know when the pitch starts screaming so loud and ramping in tone it almost stun locks you, that only happens rarely). I’m not practicing meditation/exercise/healthy eating/ and still not the healthiest relationships in life. I’m not giving up, I just took myself off risperidone again, but this last time was messed. A lot of hallucinations ( thankfully only when trying to fall asleep). The worst of which is: you know the feeling where you wake up from a nightmare screaming, but are barely yelping or even can’t scream? It’s that feeling in REVERSE. I’m almost asleep, then bam I feel like my body is getting sucked into a nightmare, and then I get jolted awake before I enter. It’s fucking hell, because sleep deprivation is a GAURAnteed psychotic episode for me nowadays. (40 hours typically is when I break). But I survived. Right HPPD. I’ve found over the years that multivitamins and healthy eating all at once makes Color’s really vivid, and the tracers and sprites are a lot more Zoomy. Intense exercise typically exasperates the HPPD for a few hours. After 20 years of tracers and lights/sprites (flashes of Color or black) I’m used to it. The visual snow sucks and contributes to depression, but I saw snow as a child, so maybe I was already Schizophrenic to an extent. (Borderline - mind you - I can tell if I’m hallucinating). I would say stimulants can make tinnitus symptoms worse as well. Caffeine/Nicotine in my case. I had tachycardia quite a bit and still get it occasionally. Dehydration and sensitive skin is probably a factor. Mine felt like ticks not worms or maggots. The scariest tactile sensation I get from time to time is when your lying in bed and it feels like all the skin touching the bed side starts twisting and crawling. Does anyone else get this? Scares the actual shit out of me! Does anyone else get this? Seriously, it’s so flipping terrifying that I jump from bed turn on the lights and walk it off. Sometimes it’s only a small portion of skin that does it though and I don get jump scared, but sit there feeling it growing, until the heebie jeebies kick in and I ditch the bed and frantically check for pilling/crumbs/bugs, but yet again, nothing is there. I’ve learned to cope with these symptoms by ever evolving my own mental prison, it seems to be working to just accept it. I need to put some effort into trying to be healthier, consistently, and see if my HPPD and tinnitus improve at all. Oh another symptom I get is when I’m driving at night I see shadows ALL the time. Usually it’ll be a sign or utility box, but so many times in my peripheral or just outside of centre vision , it looks like people. I learned about HPPD via the internet sometime in 2003 ish and informed my brain doctor I had the condition, I also found erowid . org , where I studied about drugs. I was on risperidone( a small dose though) and still ended up starting to develop mammary glands, yeah, had these disc like hard clumps under my nipples for a few months they were slightly inflamed, the inflammation and minor swelling went away but the left side lump stayed for about a year and a half or 2 and just kept shrinking. I thought that might be relevant, as many of you have taken that medication. There was a class action lawsuit around 8 years after it’s release, to compensate males who had developed breasts, yeah. This is not a well thought out post, but that is some of the stuff I went through. I’m not sure if HPPD will get better for you or I, but it DOES get easier to live with. Good luck! Make healthy decisions? Oh get help if you need it, just the act of it does wonders even if the help you get isn’t helpful much.

For anyone struggling with HPPD, there is a way to help yourself, but it's not nearly as simple as medicating or wishing the symptoms away. This way is through the use of mindfulness meditation and yogic practices. I've suffered from HPPD for a little over 2 years now originating from two separate 25-I-Nbome and 25-X uses/experiences. My symptoms visually, have slightly worsened since I had found out what happened to me, exacerbated by slight MDMA and cannabis abuse. The Depersonalization and Disassociation(the worse part) I've only just learnt to deal wit this past year and function around. Not saying that for 2 years I couldn't function, for only those I chose to tell about my condition knew what I was going through. But to say, I can now realise how much for a fucking bubble I was leaving in. A bubble coated in purplely rainbow static and breathing patterns, filled with existential anxiety and the consistent question of my very existence. *such fun* This bubble(a metaphor) only just properly popped towards the beginning of 2018 for the first time. How? Through the use of mindfulness meditation and yoga. I started practicing in 2017 and for a year now I've done 30minutes of yoga and 45minuets of mindfulness meditation each morning. This has essentially removed all feelings of Depersonalization, Derealisation and Disassociation, while feeling happier, wiser and healthier than I ever had before. While my unique HPPD vision remains, the purplely rainbow static and breathing patterns in my visual field are still with me, but don't faze me in the slightest anymore and mainly go unnoticed unless I choose to directed my awareness towards it. I feel like I've now, for the first time since the Nbome trips have grounded myself by into my own head and body, and no longer live outside my myself like I use to feel. I can even smoke weed again without feeling like I'm balls deep in a bad acid trip. I now get next to no anxiety from it like I use to. With all this said. The best way to improve your HPPD symptoms would to abstain from any psychoactive substance use and to mix that with the meditation and yoga. But for a lot of us, through all the torment of this condition can not put down those drugs we do or used to love so much. So I would highly recommend these meditative practices, especially if you are one who is struggle with putting down the substances. I can now smoke weed, drink and even trip on psychedelics(only traditional, fuck Nbome and other RC's off) again without any usually effect or worsing of my condition visually or mentally, although I would ultimately recommend sobriety for I could be playing fire. *I am sorry for this long read. I hope it can help anyone struggling with this condition to better there life. Regardless it will always get better so try not to stress yourself out too much. Thank you :)

WOW THANK U this would come and go but mostlyI had it for years,and it made it hard to see at night due to depth perception-i would see walls breathing but rarely-green lights would glow brighter -bit the worst part was how ditached my emotions would get it was like i was in some strange place mentality that I couldn’t quite explain to others I would just say im having a flash back to ppl close to me but it was so subtle at times and so overpowering at others.I never reported it I didn’t even know it was a thing.I realized if i was tired or or at night it seemed to be much more stonger.i can go on and on

seeing 'static' in certain patterns on carpets / rugs isn't that bothersome. I like it.

I think I have some HPPD from my extensive Dextromethrophan abuse. Whenever i look around I still get splices from corners, just like when I would be tripping on DXM.

I got this from accidentally taking a heroic dose of really good 2cb. It was very manageable after the first few weeks and i barely notice it now (4 years later), but its still always in the background

Damn anxiety loving drama queens. Just go with the flow , you choose Fear Or Love Everything is hallucinations. It's just a choice of what you want. Love Or Fear That's it.

I had this after I tried LSA, took around 5 seeds of bhw and often had an aura without migraine, it was hard to read off of white paper and white backgrounds in general and I also had a lot of floaters, I often had panic attacks and I believe this was due to my anxious personality (literally thought I was going blind). This was my first psych experience other than salvia and it has sort of put me off. My HPPD has finally ended after around a year.

Man i love it when im tryna read something about a condition i have and the letters keep moving, thanks hppd

I've had HPPD after tripping on acid on a daily basis for about 2 weeks. It WAS extremely bad. However, it has gone away mostly atleast :). My advice is that if you have it, god forbid. Make sure you gets lots of sleep it really heals your mind. Also, try to avoid other drugs it WILL boost your HPPD. I smoked with it anyway and everytime I smoked it it got trippy as fuck. Goodluck psychonauts. *salute*

I had Visual Snow and Tracers for 2 weeks after a 14x normal dose of 3C-P. During the trip I was blinded by merging colours of surfaces. No shapes, edges or definitions, just splodges of colour. 3C-P is a phenethylamine if i am not mistaken.

I've had this for about a month after LSA. Morning glory seeds crazy man

I don't understand why everyone is saying it's all negative. I was born with hppd I used to tell my grandparents I can see atoms and stuff move etc. at 18 I noticed my hppd was gone. The world seemed depressing and boring. Everything seemed dim while before everything was bright and vibrant and happy. After realizing it was gone I wanted it back. A year later they are back and it's great.

Lsd is man made, fuck that synthetic shit. I rather take mushrooms. Psychedelics aren’t for the weak minded. They’re not for partying. It’s for those who want to improve their life. Living a bad life? bad trips happen.

in my personal opinion... nobody should use psychedelics until the brain is fully developed (25-26 ish). Unfortunately most of my trips have been before then lol

i think the age of starting to trip and use psychedelics is the most important factor for HPPD. Having an experience like that at a younger age can really derail a brains growth into adopting "hallucinogenic code" aka hppd

As a very experienced psychonaut, I have experienced both flashbacks and HPPD. For me, what differentiates the two is a feeling of a "body high" that you get when the trip is really starting to take off and flashbacks are most often a sort of mental experience that sometimes include hallucinations. In one case, I was experiencing what I thought was an HPPD episode when it devolved into a flu-like illness that lasted for a few days. Almost as if my body was responding to the viral invasion with an HPPD experience complete with tracers,dilated pupils, and an inability to focus on any objects arranged in serried rows, like steps or buildings fenceposts. Just though I'd share.....

I have this from LSD taken 25 years ago. I thought everyone got it. It's always there but not intrusive in my case. If I eat cake or a doughnut it becomes stronger, weird.

It’s been a year since LSD use I haven’t had any crazy symptoms like just a little derealization, but that might just be from my anxiety..honestly i feel like you get HPPD because you found out about HPPD and now you’re paranoid you’re going to get HPPD 💀

5 year kratom user. When I withdraw I get this. Been trying to quit and no joke i feel like im tripping all day. Im talkimg heavy hppd. Feels like a tab is kicking in. Loved kratom until now. Shit sucked the fun out of life. Be safe everyone

HPPD has ruined my life. It’s that bad. I can’t see how someone who genuinely has HPPD can claim it hasn’t. It’s been 2 and half years since it started and it has persisted since it first began and has no signs of stopping. I can’t work. I can’t drive. I can barely function around my house. I have crippling anxiety and depression because of it. I see things that aren’t there, which I know aren’t there, but it doesn’t change the fact that I still see them.

I had like a few puffs of some weed. It was clean, some of my other friends used it and they were fine. And I was high for a bit and got depersonalisation/derealisation. It went away after a week and came back for a few days and went away again. (Each time it came back was due to panic attack) it came back and when I recovered again I noticed a very light visual static. I’ve heard visual static can be temporary for depersonalisation and anxiety. The static started about a month after the weed so I feel it’s the anxiety that’s causing it not the weed (as I’ve heard weed can’t cause hppd) my pupils are usually dilated but I’m still anxious so I think it’s just the symptoms and depersonalisation that’s just lingering a bit and the anxiety. What do you guys think?

I've always had visual snow, even before taking hallucinogens and its still here after, however its not the same, its usually filled with a sea of random colors and dots and shit, i find that its made certain aspects of life more bearable, when im sleep deprived it takes me much longer than it used to to start hallucinating incescts and those black lines I get that twitch in the corner of the ceilling, however its also harder to sleep now, this is my only issue with it, when i close my eyes i start seeing tons of patterns and fractals that make it really hard to sleep unless ive taken a heavy sedative because my eyes just follow them around and its all i can think about. If you are going to take hallucinogens, please be careful, do your own reaserch and dont take them too frequently.

Maybe you can just see the jiggling of atoms and their waveforms. The way the world actually is.

As a personal experience 2cb defo brings it on faster and harder (hppd)

I Have hppd. It is more noticeable when im about to go to bed and the room is pitch black. Or when im driving amd i look at the sky, there is a waving gray beyond the clouds. It always makes me remember what was told to me when i first tried lsd. "It changes the way you see the world" truthfully i wish it goes away eventually however of it does not then i have already learned to live with it.

I get this from sleep deprivation and my history with hallucinogenic drug use is pretty minimal, weak acid once and 1gr of shrooms 2x, all well over 20yrs ago. I was a daily weed smoker for 3 yrs back then, but never experienced much hallucinations from it. I'm relatively confident it's mostly connected to general anxiety.

Anyone have tinnitus with their HPPD?

Once you understand that you're looking at the inside of your own etch A sketch, you can still play with the toy, but you'll always know what the inside of it looks like

I used to have this , and it came after using some synthetic drug , xtc or whatever they put in it and still call it xtc. It sucks.

Permafried is another word for this

I got it for a couple months after a pretty intense mushroom trip. In my experience it only lasted for about 2-3 months and then drifted away slowly

I had trails for about a week after my first really hard roll. Also felt like the world was full of love. Talk about a hallucination! 😛

Sure you get a free high, but *did you really wanna be?* The answer is sometimes. For me it's like a 50/50.

Hmmm....I've had this since the first time I did LSD. 22 years ago. Oh. And before that. So, my whole life. I have always had "visual snow," all the things you listed, since I was born. But I've also smoked weed since I was a teenager, as well as taken hallucinogenics and other drugs. But even before I ever smoked weed, I had dreams of smoking weed when I was a kid, before I had any way of knowing what it was. BTW, I'm ADD, and the other day I put on these yellow tinted glasses my brother and I found in Mexico on a road trip a few years ago, and the world was a bit clearer. But yellow. My symptoms aren't so strong that I can't tell what's real and what's not anyways. And ive taken and continue to take all kinds of psychedelics and dissociatives and cannabis and stuff. Always there no matter what.

I believe I had this between the ages of 16-21. I didnt want to go to a Doctor out of the fear of being diagnosed crazy. It led me to self-medicate by drinking, but it eventually got better over time. I still cant and dont touch drugs, though. Good luck if you think you have this! It can get better

30:15 "having the condition could lead to noticing eye floaters more" that's strange.. eye floaters are literally things in the eye itself (like proteins) not a hallucination of some sort.

i found that it gradually goes away over time

I think I have it. Lots of visual noise. I often get the positive afterimages. Also, this wasn't mentioned, but I notice that many times just after waking up, there's about 5 seconds that I see a lot of the waviness and flaring colors like I would get in the middle of a trip.

I had snow vision or enhanced squiggly lines for years after. They didn’t bother me much so I just did my best to ignore everything. I’ll admit it was scary when it first happened

Third eye open?

I have a pretty strong case of hppd. Static, with occasional visual drifting, solid tracers. But probably the strangest thing about my case is that I have constant tactile hallucinations. Idk if this is just me or what. But it feels like the tingly feeling you get on laughing gas. But i've felt it for months... it's actually not that bad.

I can get certain psychedelic effects via meditation and sometimes when walking or looking at huge objects.

Disassociation is the worst part I feel