Visual disconnection

Visual disconnection can be described as the experience of becoming distant and detached from one's sense vision. At its lower levels, this leads into states such as acuity suppression, double vision, pattern recognition suppression and frame rate suppression. The experience of this effect can also create a wide range of subjective changes to a person's perception of their own vision. These are described and documented in the list below:

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 its higher levels, the vision makes the transition from can become all-encompassing in its effects. This results in a complete perceptual disconnection from one's sense of sight which can be described as the experience of being completely blinded and unable to tell whether the eyes are open or closed due to a total lack of sensory input. During this state, the effect often leads one into the experience of finding themselves floating through a dark and mostly empty hallucinatory void.

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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 a sub-component of visual disconnection which one experiences during all-encompassing states of its intensity. This experience is more commonly known within the literature as the "k-hole" and is generally discussed as something which is specifically associated with ketamine despite being present within all traditional dissociatives. It can be described as the place one finds themselves in once visual disconnection becomes powerful enough to leave the person 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, hole or void can be described as a vast, empty and darkened chamber which often feels and appears to be infinite in size. This space is usually obsidian black in its color, but occasionally displays itself with large patches of slow moving amorphous color clouds which remain strewn out across its horizon.

Alongside this visual experience, changes in gravity and a powerful sense of tactile disconnection can result in one feeling as if they are undergoing an out-of-body experience weightlessly floating 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 uninhabited spaces and holes. These manifest as the visual experience of monolithic 3-dimensional shapes or structures of an infinite variety and size which float above, below or in front of a person as they gradually zoom, rotate, transform or pan into focus and become unveiled before the person's eyes at a gradual pace.

These structures can take any shape possible, but are commonly experienced as vast and giant pillars, columns, blocks, tear drops, wheels, pyramids, caverns and a variety of abstract shapes. They are often fractal in nature and capable of being manifested in any variety of colors, but usually follow darker themes and tones with an associated vibe 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.

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 color and are 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 sense of size attributed to them.
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 comprised of semi-transparent condensed color or solidified shimmering geometry and are seen as ill-defined or out of focus around their edges. In terms of size, these structures appear to be extremely large, stretching out across hundreds of meters.
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. In terms of size, they are capable of appearing as thousands of miles across themselves and are extremely complex in form.
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. The structures are infinite in size and physically felt at every point of detail across themselves. This is innately interpreted as a mechanical representation of “the universe” or “everything” by those who undergo this experience.

Structures typically last anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes before the person experiencing them slips back into reality or into the presence of another structure. In terms of how these structures shift between each other, there are three different methods through which these hallucinatory structures are transformed between.

Structural transformations - Structures can switch between each other by transforming in a static and 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 extreme physical distances. This is often felt to occur on an invisible rail through the vast and infinite dissociative hole and is a feeling that is interpreted by many people as floating through space or the night sky.

Psychoactive substances

Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:

Experience reports

Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include: