alice-acid Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 What parts of the brain is effected? Why? How? I have researched it ALOT of course but just can't get to grips with it all.... I kind of understand the fact that it's at least partly to do with our brains no longer editing things out properly. Also like it says anyone got any theories about it? I'm just very interested in it all and have little patience with difficult to read sciencey bullshit haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay1 Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 From what I remember, the qEGG tests done by hppd sufferers showed increased activity in the area of the brain thought to be connected with visual activity. This backs up your idea of the brain no longer editing things out. I think of hppd as lowering a filter on our visual activity.... all the stuff we see is natural, but is filtered out by a normal brain. Drug use has led to that filter being lowered to the point where we can see all that natural stuff. Why natural? floaters are natural, visual snow is natural (white blood cells), after images are natural (many tests online for the normal person), seeing faces (very human thing), seeing patterns (again, very human trait). dp/dr, anxiety etc are harder to understand. I'm not sure if they are a side product of the constant visuals.. or a seperarte issue. The fact that benzos seem to help all these aspects leads me to think they are connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 thankyou that was really good way of putting it actually ive been doin so much research and its all so complicated and youve just summed it up in afew sentences ahhaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay1 Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 hahaha, no probs. I spent a good few years researching it all too... Think it's good to have an understanding of what we are fighting. how's life in Manchester? My family are from the north, plenty of mates in stockport (brinny, nice!) and manchester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 manchesters pretty good thanks.. raining as per though haha, and since the disappearance of ketamine its like everyones come out of hybernation and is happy again how life where you are? whereever that may be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay1 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 i'm in portugal now.... sunshine is my cure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 o: LUCKY! im tempted to move somewhere similar to be honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay1 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 yea, it's worth doing, even if it's just for a while. My life got so much better when I went travelling, new people, new places, new experiences... Not so much time to sit and dwell on hppd... and sun definitely makes me feel better. Nothing like strutting along the beach in the blazin sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 yeaahh im goin interrailing in the summer, on my own, with my tent haha with outlook festival to end it all ive never been so excited in my life looool, not just to see loads of different places, but to hav abit of time alone in some sunny places! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay1 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Sounds cool, some of my friends did the interrail thing last summer, sounded like a right laugh. If the train makes it to Portugal, i'll get the beer and pigs ear sandwiches in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 hahaha sounds like a plan ;D but ill pass on the pigs ear i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrabbinPillz Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 From what i think, is that hppd is possibly a genetic disorder where LSD and other hallucinogens may alter inhibitory neurons in the perceptual pathways of the brain. Like jay1 said, this is thought to lower the visual filter. I also think that the random blobs of colors we see are colors of the visible light spectrum we're not supposed to see. Which could explain why some people find the world to be more bright (or the brightness to change) because visible light is not being registered properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 hmm that makes sense... i always thought lsd might work like that, kinda changing the way we see each individual colour on the spectrum in some way. it would certainly explain why things change colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gill Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 I think the stuff alters the nerve pathways in the brain so that you become more sensitive to visual stimulus. But it's not just visual. Perception I notice is related to emotional states, so it's important to focus on emotional health, and this will make hppd less of a big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted January 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 yeah ive noticed that when i used to get panic attacks when my visuals were at thier worst, that actually if when i forst noticed it happening i just ignored it and powered on, rather that glimpsing at the patterns on the wall every 2 seconds anxiously that the panic attack never came, and my visuals calmed back down again alot faster ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balance Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 From what I remember, the qEGG tests done by hppd sufferers showed increased activity in the area of the brain thought to be connected with visual activity. This backs up your idea of the brain no longer editing things out. I think of hppd as lowering a filter on our visual activity.... all the stuff we see is natural, but is filtered out by a normal brain. Drug use has led to that filter being lowered to the point where we can see all that natural stuff. Why natural? floaters are natural, visual snow is natural (white blood cells), after images are natural (many tests online for the normal person), seeing faces (very human thing), seeing patterns (again, very human trait). dp/dr, anxiety etc are harder to understand. I'm not sure if they are a side product of the constant visuals.. or a seperarte issue. The fact that benzos seem to help all these aspects leads me to think they are connected. Pretty much the same conclusion I've came too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 i just read this and it seems quite clear now lol http://hppd.stormloader.com/klonopin.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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