Visual disconnection

Visual disconnection can be described as the experience of becoming disconnected from one's sense of sight in a level of intensity that is proportional to dosage. At lower to moderate dosages, this is only partial in its effects and creates a number of changes in a person's perception of sight which generally includes:

• Feeling as if one is watching the world through a screen.
• Blurred vision and a general difficulty in perceiving fine details.
• Feeling as if the visually perceivable world is further away in distance.
• Feeling as if one is looking at the world through somebody else's eyes.
• Double vision which at higher levels, forces the user to close one eye if they need to read or perceive fine visual details.

At higher dosages, the disconnection from visual input makes the transition from partial to entirely all-encompassing in its effects. This results in a complete perceptual disconnection from the sense of sight. It can be described as the experience of being completely blinded and unable to tell whether the eyes are open or closed due to the total lack of sensory input.

Holes, spaces and voids

The K-Hole by josikins - This image serves as an artistic replication of the common and simultaneous dissociative-induced effect known as visual disconnection, holes, spaces and voids and hallucinatory structures.

Holes, spaces and voids can be described as the place one finds themselves in once visual disconnection becomes all-encompassing and leaves the tripper incapable of receiving external sensory input. This replaces their visual awareness with a consistent and defined space which feels as if it is outside of normal reality.

The visual appearance of this space can be described as a vast, empty and darkened void which feels and appears to be truly infinite in size. This space is usually obsidian black in its colour but occasionally displays itself with large patches of slow moving amorphous colour clouds strewn out across its horizon.

Alongside of this visual experience, there are changes in gravity and the physical sensation of an out of body experience in which one weightlessly floats over great distances in a variety of different speeds, directions and orientations.

Structures

Structures can be described as the only feature found within what would otherwise be completely empty and featureless spaces and holes. They manifest as the visual experience of monolithic 3-dimensional shapes or structures of an infinite variety and size that float above, below or in front of a person as they gradually zoom, rotate or pan into focus and become unveiled before their eyes at a gradually pace.

These structures can take any shape possible but are commonly experienced as vast and giant pillars, columns, blocks, tear drops, wheels and pyramids. They are often fractal in nature and capable of being manifested in any variety of colours but usually follow darker themes and tones with a style that is often described and interpreted as "alien" in nature.

In terms of the materials that they appear to be comprised of and the complexity of detail in which they are perceived in, the structures can be broken into 4 basic levels. These are described and listed below:

1. 2-Dimensional Structures - The most basic level of structural complexity confines its form to strictly 2-Dimensional shapes. These shapes are usually very flat and dark in their colour and often “felt” instead of seen. In terms of their size, these structures take up the entirety of a person's visual field but do not appear to have any particular size attributed to them.
2. Partially defined 3-Dimensional Structures - At this level, the structures become better defined and 3-Dimensional in shape with basic detail in their lighting and shadow. They appear to be made of semi-transparent condensed colour or solidified shimmering geometry and are seen as ill-defined and out of focus around their edges. In terms of size, these structures appear to be extremely large, stretching out across hundreds and hundreds of metres.
3. Fully defined 3-Dimensional Structures - Once hallucinatory structures reach their third level of complexity, they become fully defined in their shape, edges, lighting, shadow and detail. They often appear to be made of solid and dense realistic materials such as stone and metal, they are capable of being thousands of miles across themselves and extremely complex in form.
4. Structural universes - As dosage increases, the detail continues to complexify proportionally until the highest level of structure is reached. This can be described as the sensation of seeing that which is perceived as the entire universe condensed into an infinitely vast and intricate self-transforming machine structure. In terms of its appearance, this state is extremely hard to describe. The structure can take any form but usually appear as consistently shaped machine-like structures or clouds that convey huge amounts of innately readable information, are infinite in size and felt at every point of detail across themselves. This is innately interpreted as “the universe” or at least, “everything” by everybody who undergoes the experience.

Structures typically last anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes before the person slips back into reality or into the presence of another structure. There are three different methods through which these hallucinatory structures are shifted between.

• Structural Transformations - Structures can switch between each other by transforming in a static, comprehensible way. This is something that usually unfolds in a rather slow, step by step morphing process.
• Structural Panning - Structures can switch between each other by remaining completely static in their shape but simply panning out of view until they are no longer within one's field of vision. It’s from here that another structure usually comes into view from outside of one's peripheral vision within a few seconds to a couple of minutes.
• Travelling over great distances - The third method of transitioning is experienced when the structures appear to be stationary whilst one is floating silently between them over what feels like vast physical distance. This is often done on an invisible rail through the vast and infinite dissociative hole, and is a feeling that is interpreted by many people as flying through space or the night sky.

Image examples

• Visual disconnection - gallery
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  General detachment.
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  Perceiving the world through a screen.
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  Double vision.

See also

• Subjective effects index
• Dissociatives - Subjective effects
• Psychedelics - Subjective effects
• Deliriants - Subjective effects