We dropped the acid at about 23:00 and the last number or phrase that I remember seeing before coming down was 23:31. From that time until 5 AM I was in a fucking nightmare. I'm sorry if I'm incoherent but I can't make sense of anything yet.
I half-sobered up after 5 hours and I realized that I was squeezing my abs so hard the entire time because I was just scared shitless. I had no idea what I was seeing, I just remember seeing them acting totally like it's a day in the office while I was holding my stomach and crying my fucking eyes out because I couldn't make sense of those horrifying visuals on youtube, or that my hands or face are so sticky because I crushed like 20 jelly beans in my hands out of fear instead of eating them. I remember the videos were by adult swim and it's absolute nightmare material. It was just a lifetime of bad bad bad stimulation in about 4-5 hours and I didn't even know I wanted to be out of it until I actually sobered up.
I felt like they were orchestrating everything and turning the lights on or off or putting me in front of these blood chilling videos and letting me hold this thing or that thing or laughing or whispering between themselves and at some point after we sobered up a little bit, they acted like everything was totally normal. They didn't say a fucking word about those 4 hours that got sucked out of my life. "Yeah, lets put some cool tunes and smoke a joint bro." Holy fuck that made things just worst.
After we already came down, they "accidentally" put on these videos on youtube again and I felt I was just granted a one way ticket to Nightmareville again, I shut my eyes and said "please not again" and they LAUGHED. I realized I have to get the fuck out of there as soon as possible so I bolted the first chance I got.
Can someone here help me make sense of what just happened to me? Am I being overdramatic or is it really that bad? My neck, jaw and abdomen are all in pain right because I was so strained
Anyone?
She would have told Tony the reason she shot Richie Aprile was because he told her he was about to kill Tony and there money problems would have been solved.
I wonder how that would have changed the dynamic between Janice & Tony, maybe she would have been a made woman?
Janice was constantly trying to find the next guy to take care of her financially, or the next Christian rock album to make her rich, this was her chance and she blew it. Look at Junior Soprano, he knew how to get his extra 2 points out of the Ritchie situation
Edit: I spoke out of turn when I said "made woman" slight exaggeration on my part, I suppose I meant Tony would have provided for her financially even more so and everyone saying he wouldn't believe it, you have to remember that junior told him earlier in the day that Ritchie was going to take him out, so it's safe to say at first Tony may have believed it, however, yes, he was brilliant and would eventually figured it out. Could have been a fun story line
The definition of incredible acting. The actress who plays Janice couldn’t be further from Janice the character ... much like Jimmy G was nothing like Tony.
The fact that these individuals could create such believable on screen personas is very impressive... and that’s probably why I make videos today.
As far as I know, the entirety of the occipital lobe is involved in the processing of visual information, and parts of the temporal and parietal lobes are also involved in the ventral and dorsal streams of vision respectively. This is in high contrast this with for instance olfaction (smell) and gustation (taste), which are processed by much smaller centers. I understand that vision is more important in guiding human behaviour, but this difference in size seems to neglect the role of for instance smell and taste in survival (the somatosensory and auditory cortices for our sense of touch and hearing are a lot larger though). Might it be due to the complexity of visual information and perception, or to the amount of information gathered by the eyes or something similar?
So why did the sense of vision in humans and other animals grow to require so much space in our brains as opposed to other senses? Or alternatively, why did our other senses stay so small relative to our vision? Something about it makes it feel out of proportion to me.
I hope my question is clear enough :)
This might be a difficult concept to grasp. It is sure as hell difficult for me to word right and still have it make some sort of sense. To make this easier to understand I’m going to explain it from my point of view as the one tripping. The feeling I am describing here starts with me dosing a normal dose of LSD. Once I get past the dizzy, nerve wracking come up I might decide to smoke a cigarette. My trip is going pretty nice and everything is fine, but once the smoke from that cigarette hits my lungs, all of the happy LSD visuals I was experiencing go dark. What I mean by that could be any number of things, sometimes I look down at the hair on my chest and it might start to grow really long, or my skin might scab up. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a cigarette and it doesn’t have to be bad. It could just be eating really good food, which might in return make your visual and auditory hallucinations Change in a good way. My (unsupported) hypothesis for why this happens is because LSD turns your brain into a call and response type thing, so while your brain waits for clues on how to feel which come in the disguise as ideas. Kind of like in the movie inception, ideas spread really quickly like fire when your tripping (fire is actually a really good analogy to explain tripping to someone who hasn’t experienced it. Fire is the only thing I can think of in the real world that can be compared in such a was, because while your tripping even the smallest worries or ideas can grow into a forest fire)
I’m not sure if any of this made sense, this is an incredibly difficult topic to write about especially if you are doing it alone in a topic that can’t really be backed up by concrete evidence. Let me know if you were able to get past the rambling and improper grammar and actually relate to any of this
By the way never light a fire while your tripping, because since LSD and fire both spread in the same type of way, you can easily see a hallucination of a fake fire burning out of control even if the real on is out which is scary as hell
I've played about 300 hours of Skyrim and I'm about 50 hours deep into Oblivion. Both are super fun games and I'm enjoying them both immensely even though I've never played them before this year. I got sucked into the world almost immediately and fell for the charm of both the world and the unique style of RPG that was presented to me.
I really enjoy watching lore videos for the Elder Scrolls games because I find the world of Elder Scrolls a fascinating place. A common theme I've been seeing in the comment sections of these videos discusses the world of Skyrim and how drab and colourless it is by comparison to Cyrodiil. I can't really fathom why people don't understand that the differences in color between them make total sense.
Cyrodiil is south of Skyrim and has a much more moderate climate which supports an abundance of flora and fauna. Compare that to the desolate tundra accompanied by the frigid winds of Skyrim and you can quickly understand why the diversity in plant life especially is very sparse. If the areas aren't completely barren you find plenty of evergreen trees and that makes perfect sense given the climate of Skyrim. You can find a colourful forest in the Rift but the Rift is close to the border to Cyrodiil anyway so it would make sense regardless.
I'm from a part of Canada that has a very similar climate to Skyrim. There are many parts of the province that are barren where only small shrubs will grow, many areas of grey rock stretching as far as the eye can see with little colour sprinkled throughout, and plenty of evergreen trees with a few birch trees here and there.
I've gone on vacations to a couple parts of the US and everything seems far more colourful by comparison. I feel like Bethesda didn't necessarily go down a "gloomy" route with their colour choices because it was the trend at the time as I saw one reviewer say; but because it made sense for Skyrim to be lacking in that department given the climate and abundance of rocky mountainous areas.
I would like to hear your opinions on the matter, especially if you disagree. I'm not saying I'm inherently right considering it is a fantasy world and it can be anything that Bethesda wants it to be. It just makes sense from a world building perspective.
So, story time, it's not really much of a story but anyway, sort of want to see if anyone has had a similar experience or wants to give me any of their insight. I've only tripped a couple times now and both were good experiences. I would just like to share a closed-eye visual that appeared semi-dark to me. I was seeing face everywhere during this trip which was fine, but when I closed my eyes they sort of appeared quite dark and I guess a little threatening in a way. I was seeing the face of a lady, who I'm going to label as a witch, spiralling and moving closer and further away from me like the breathing effect. She had on classic witch attire, black cloak, dress and hat, and also black long hair and super thick black eye-liner, almost with crazy eyes as well. I open my eyes, all is good, she's gone from my mind and I don't think much else of it. But a couple night later, I had a super weird dream and guess who appeared... The witch lady. So in my dream, I was in my backyard and I went inside because I sensed something was off. I walk into my hallway and am startled by this witch who had broken in, she was getting up in my face and I remember feeling like she was trying to kill me, however she didn't. Instead she runs out of my house and walks down the street like nothing happened. I wake up and am a bit weirded out by this dream, mind you, most of my dreams are pretty crazy, but I feel like there was something so dark about it. I told my boyfriend and he questioned me, asking 'what if the witch was you?' or 'what if she was warning you?'
Now there were other aspects of the dream but I don't think I'd explain it all too well because it was quite odd.
Moral of the post is me asking if anyone else experiences really odd dreams post tripping or had any revelations about spirituality like this? Or even just some weird experiences that they want to share.
I am getting into tarot and have always had an interest in witches and stuff but idk, I'm shook but in awe at the same time.
I know all scenes of the show are filmed in Georgia, but based on how the two states are selectively depicted to appear different from one another in the show’s footage, which do you think is the better locale for the show to take place in? Nothing to do with the episodes that take place in them, just how they look and “feel”.
Is it possible for machines to understand and integrate human emotions in visual arts?
Meet ArtEmis, a new large-scale dataset of emotional reactions and explanations for visual artworks from researchers at Stanford University, Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (LIX) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The team used ArtEmis to develop machine learning models that can predict the dominant emotion from images or texts and provide associated explanations.
Here is a quick read: AI Art Critic? New Dataset and Models Make Emotional Sense of Visual Artworks
The paper ArtEmis: Affective Language for Visual Art is available on arXiv.
Is it possible for machines to understand and integrate human emotions in visual arts? Meet ArtEmis, a new large-scale dataset of emotional reactions and explanations for visual artworks.
The researchers propose that, unlike most natural images in machine learning tasks that are typically labelled based on the objects or actions that appear in the images, the visual art domain also involves understanding viewers' affective responses. This requires a relatively complex analysis integrating image content and its effect on the viewer. The team says the development of novel models for predicting emotion from nuanced perceptual images such as visual arts could also lead to a richer understanding of ordinary images for downstream tasks.
Here is a quick read: AI Art Critic? New Dataset and Models Make Emotional Sense of Visual Artworks
The paper ArtEmis: Affective Language for Visual Art is available on arXiv.
