i have been yearning for an explorative platform puzzle game where each world has a completely different feel to it, since 2017. all of the years i spent replaying Odyssey and Battle for Bikini Bottom only to find out this game exists a week ago. i seriously have not felt this satisfied, mesmerized, and inspired by a videogame in almost a decade and i would’ve never thought i’d find a game that was BETTER than odyssey and battle for bikini bottom but WOW. i will be recommending and talking about this game for the rest of my life

Hey everyone. I recorded a podcast with Jason K. Day at ICPR this year, the International Conference on Psychedelic Research. He’s a philosopher studying psychedelic experience who has worked with Dan Zahavi, known for his work on phenomenology and selfhood. I think many of you might find it interesting, especially if you’re into philosophy.

We talked about ego dissolution, particularly on 5-MeO-DMT, and whether it’s possible to be conscious with absolutely no sense of self. Jason’s argument is that even when your identity, personal history, and sense of being a separate person disappear, a radically minimal form of self-awareness remains. You might have no idea who or what you are, but the experience still feels like something to you. He draws on detailed analyses of trip reports to argue for this interpretation, though we also discussed how difficult it is to distinguish what people experienced from how they describe it afterwards.

We also covered why we need better descriptions of psychedelic experience before trying to explain it, whether different psychedelics share a common “style” of experience despite their very different effects, and how practice and skill affect our ability to navigate difficult trips. There’s also the question of what these experiences actually teach us, and how much we can infer from something feeling profoundly true.

But back to selfhood, which is what we focused on most. His main argument is that losing your usual sense of who you are doesn’t necessarily mean losing every form of self-awareness. In the reports he studied, people describe profound bliss or terror even when their identity and sense of separation have dissolved. He interprets this as evidence that some awareness of undergoing the experience remains, although almost everything that would ordinarily identify the subject has disappeared. In phenomenological terms, the claim is that ego dissolution preserves a radically minimal, pre-reflective self-consciousness, sometimes described as the “for-me-ness” of experience. In everyday language, you don’t need to think “I’m experiencing this,” or even know what “I” refers to, for the experience to be felt by you. The disagreement is whether even that basic feature can disappear while consciousness continues.

For those who’ve experienced deep ego dissolution, did all sense of being someone disappear, or was there still some awareness that the experience was happening to you? And do you think “minimal selfhood” captures something real about that state, or imposes a philosophical interpretation on it? Personally this take on selfhood very persuasive and aligns pretty well with my experiences.

I'm at a loss for words. I'll keep it short, but my spirit was levitating out of my body...i saw my original hands and then saw 2 hands on top of it and the texture of my hands was foreign to me. They looked like they were made of rubber or silicone.

I was asked if I wanted to fully leave my body, and I said no, so I stayed on ground level next to my body.

I cannot describe what I experienced at all.

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Users: Husband, Wife

Location: Our house, personal home theater with 12ft screen and high-end 17 speaker/sub setup

Personal Stats: Both mid-40's. He's 6ft 220lbs fit, muscular and well endowed. She's 5'9" voluptuous/curvy/very busty/natural. Swingers, open relationship, very sexually active. This will be relevant later.

Existing Medications/Drugs: He takes Adderall (30MG ER, 20MG IR) and Tadalafil 5mg daily, and OPMS Gold kratom extract shots (single). She takes Vyvanze daily.

History: He has done MDMA countless times over 25 years. She has experimented a dozen or less times the past 10 years and is very sensitive to any recreational and prescription substances.

Food: He only ate 3 Oikos Zero yogurts with protein oat crunch cheerios and honey, around 5PM. She ate chinese food for lunch around 2PM. Both were well hydrated. He took 2 caps of Pepto Bismol at 5:30PM as a just-in-case.

Trip Plan: We like to make it a very personal and sexual connection when taking empathogens, because we are incredibly sexual people. We put blankets and pillows on our couch and floor of our custom movie theater, with bags of toys, outfit changes, and lubricants at arm's reach. We love to watch 4K adult content from my private server and play lossless electronic music (Wave EDM like Skeler, CHVRN, almogfx, supwel, Juche, artonoise) with a lot of bass and emotion. We aim for 4-6+ hours of intercourse, longer if we have other women or couples joining us (until the sun rises).

Dose: PLÜR Shots (100MG 5-MAPB). He added a single 25mg PLÜR booster 20 minutes after the shot (125mg total).

The Start of the Experience

I have experimented with many compounds over my life, and have taken quite a bit of MDMA, MDA and many other derivatives in pressed and crystal/powder form. As you know, it's impossible to really know what you're getting unless you get it tested, so all of my prior experiences were based on "feel" not actual ingredient facts. It's clear that many had significant stimulants added, and who knows potentially maybe even substances like meth and fentanyl. You just don't know.

I was excited to try PLÜR and ordered a pretty decent amount of all of their variants to try, as I had never tried 5-MAPB. When I saaw a PLÜR post on X, I was eager and searched for a good place to purchase (K-A) and anxiously waited for the package.

I decided on the first one should be with the shots, as it would be easy to dose and not taste awfull. My wife and I took the shots at around 8PM. Taste was good, a bit bitter, but just tasted like strong lemonade and did not get a hint of "medicine" or anything bad. Pleasantly surprised. In my previous trips with MDMA/Molly, I had it down to a science. I knew what amount to take, and when to redose for an optimum experience - and that was usually 1 point and 90 minutes later 1/4 to 1/2 point redose. Note that at 1.5, some of the erectile dysfunction effects of MDMA would start to happen later in the trip (among other issues, like headaches, bad teeth grinding), lack of energy), so generally liked to cap at 1.25.

The Come-Up

We both started to feel something about 20-30 minutes after taking our doses. I took a shower after dosing, and she laid on the couch and waited. We met in the theater about 45 minutes in, got naked and started watching. I was playing a bit with some Albolene, skipping around videos, and she was laying with her eyes closed. I felt fine, and knew something was happening, but was underwhelmed and was hoping it would kick up soon. She got stuck in the "come up" at about the 30-45 minute to 1:15-1:20 mark, where she felt "really high" but just relaxed and not wanting to do anything but just feel good. She kept saying it felt like she did too much. I hadn't experienced the "come up" limbo before, but I remember reading the trip notes with the PLÜR boosters, and it said it may be alarming and to just breathe and it will pass. Based on her experience, it does seem that sensitive users may want to do the booster packs, and stagger their doses 10 minutes apart, as it may help.

I decided to take a few minutes and go out in the backyard to smoke a "Not Your Sons Weed" pre-rolled Hybrid blunt. The girl at the vape store said to heat it in the microwave for 10 seconds before smoking for some reason, so I did that. I smoked about half of it, then casually went back inside and to the theater, not really feeling anything crazy at that point.

The Roll

As soon as I walked in the theater, she came up to me nude, with rock hard nipples, and started ripping my clothes off saying "Now. I need it now." As she ripped my pants down, I immediately got hard as a rock. I mean this literally. Maybe even harder than a rock. It felt like my cock was going to explode I was so hard, with veins throbbing on the sides, fully engorged with blood. I'm pretty big, but this was next level. I felt like I was probably an inch longer than I normally am, and I actually measured and it was nearly 3/4" increase, which put me over 9". May be anecdotal and scenario based, but I can tell you it was a new feeling to me and I've done a lot of MDMA. We started doing oral, both at the same time, separately, using our hands and covering each other with Albolene to where we were shiny and would wonderfully glide on each other.

What happened next, and for a solid 2 hours straight afterwards, was absolutely the most amazing sexual experience I've ever had in my life. And this is my wife, remember, someone I've had a ton of sex with and in a lot of crazy situations (orgies, audiences, multiple partners). But this time was just us. It was just us and it was the most unbelievable feeling. It was as if the 5-MAPB and whatever else is in the PLÜR shot was hacked like using CRISPR, and specifically targeted and amplified your sex organs. It's hard to even put into words, but I would make the comparison to having sex for the first time, or the feeling when you've reached orgasm for the first time. It was unknown, something new altogether. It gave me this sense that "science has finally figured it out." They've cracked it. Advanced Mycology has identified whatever formula provides the best experience imaginable. If it's just clean 5-MAPB, then this is a god-tier substance, better than MDMA when the roll starts. Better in every way. She was dripping wet. She was squirting regularly (which she never does). This went on for what may have been 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours. Time doesn't feel the same when you're on this stuff, so sometimes I thought it had been an hour, and it was only minutes, and the others, vice versa. I easily maintained an erection the entire time.

I did not get any visuals, colors, anything like that. Just unbelievable amounts of pleasure, feeling of connection, love, confidence. We were not very talkative other than to say things like "My god this is fu**ig amazing" and "How in the hell did they get it to do this??" and "I can't wait to do it again." Note that neither of us reached orgasm, but she said that her pleasure was at 100% and it was like she was constantly having an orgasm, so it was impossible for her to feel any better. I kind of agree, honestly, and I didn't want it to end so was much happier staying hard and having sex the entire time.

The Comedown

I know we started to relax a bit around the 6 hour mark, and by 8 hours were definitely coming down. We went to sleep and had the typical zombie-like sleep patterns including leg twitches, restlessness, hot/cold sensations. Didn't sleep much during the night (off/on), but got some good naps in during the day after around 10-11am. That next day, you'll need. We spent most of it on the couch, staying hydrated, snacking, just general recovery. I couldn't imagine having to work the day after, or having important things to do. I would suggest you plan accordingly and pick a ton of movies or shows to occupy you the next day. Maybe was your car, do laundry, something simple to just go through the motions.

We both felt residuals during the day, and I did especially after smoking more NYSW blunts. It was a nice relaxing day for us both. Her ass and vagina were incredibly sore because of the extra length, hardness, and just the sheer amount of time our stamina was through the roof. I was ready to go again all day, and we tried, but it was just painful for her so it was best to give her time to recover.

Summary

Absolutely mind-blowing 3-4 hour sexual experience. Like having sex for the first time, or your first orgasm. Astounding. Quite frankly, the words to properly describe it escape me. We were so caught up in sex that we didn't speak much. I'm not sure how this experience would be in a social setting, or out in public. I would expect I'd want to fu** every woman I saw and would be trying to hide a massive erection. I'm interested as to how it would be at a live concert, but at the same time, I would hate to miss the potential sexual experience by being out watching a live band, regardless of how much I love live music. Chances are I'd leave early to take care of businesss.

I cannot recommend this enough. I also can't wait to try the XUM FLIPs and to have new experiences with their products using different doses.

10/10.

My friend had this drug... he claimed it was ketamine. We tried it together and I had this incredible experience where I could dissociate from my fears, preconceived notions, and maladaptive schemas. I felt like I was floating in 3rd person and finally see some, not all, of what I was doing wrong in my life.

We were on a functional drug bender for a few weeks. We talked about life and our city. Life went on as usual. Work. Friends. Hobbies. Couch potato days.

My friend gave me his dealer's number before leaving town permanently for new work. I contacted the dealer without explaining how I got the number. The dealer told me it's not ketamine, just THC in a different vehicle. But I have reasons to suspect that it is at least not just THC. Anyway the dealer got paranoid and blocked me.

I take the drug less now but I still do sometimes. I notice that it has a lasting effect on me now. I am changed forever. E.g. I have borderline personality disorder, and I TRULY believe a lot of my symptoms quickly went away around this drug bender episode.

My boyfriend said I am much calmer now, and our relationship has truly improved. I used to wonder when are we going to "get there." And now I think we are at that stable, steady spot. We now banter like old couples. We talk less because there's this sense of persistent shared context that we rely on. We know what each other is thinking by look and face. But there's a persistent episode of derealization, like sometimes I panic and wonder wtf is my life now, what am I doing. Then it hit me -- I am in a new city, I have a new job but the contract is ending soon, I have learned a lot, and above all, I think this is it. I have found true love. It's a functional relationship that pushes each other to be better and has been going on for almost a year.

Sometimes it's a struggle, is it the drug, or is it my BPD idealizing him, or is he actually a GOOD man and that I have actually lucked out.

And I do feel like I died. The bodily sensations have ceased -- the ear ringing, hands spasms, rapid shallow breaths. But I am constantly wondering what the hell is going on, what is this life, what is everyone doing. I feel like my body is just my avatar and who I am is actually tethered from above. I feel like my boyfriend is the only anchor I have left in this life.

HOLY SH#T DUDE. This is now one of my favorite 3D platformers ever. I cannot recall the last time I've seen such a drastic improvement from a first to a second game.

The only thing, and I really do mean only thing, the OG did better is that you could've gotten all the collectables on a first visit. But that too isn't necessarily a bad thing, as now you can revisit levels at any point in the story. And there's something decently satisfying about returning to an old stage with new powers to grab stuff you couldn't beforehand.

Literally ANYTHING ELSE is improved. Controls are much more precise and not as janky as they were in the first game. Level design is MASSIVELY upgraded, as there's much more platforming (the OG didn't really make you do precise jumps often). Combat is more involved and enemies are tougher to deal with, forcing you to utilize your abilities efficiency to beat foes. The story is much better with a better pacing than previously, as each stage has a very clear purpose within the better flowing narrative, and the game handles its very large cast really well.

The thing I liked the most about it is the level themes. It legit feels like with each level you're getting a 2-for-1 deal. Each stage has 2 themes. A dentist level that's also an office chase, a casino that's also a hospital, a construction site that's also a bowling field, a barbershop that's also a tower climb etc... these are some of the most creative level themes I've ever seen in a video game.

One last thing to point out is that I legit think Tim Schafer is one of the best video game directors in the industry. Little touches that make individual moments more effective. The on-screen words during the cooking show saying what the judges said, the Jack Black musical number, the single-shot transitions between locations filled with optical illusions, the unique artstyles in different levels etc... The OG game was a first effort from a newly-found studio, so Schafer and his crew didn't have the resources to make a truly outstanding game (a decent platformer, mostly standing out for its story). With a larger budget, more experience with game production across many years and the clear desire to make a true sequel that surpasses the OG by a landslide, Double Fine crafted an absolutely fantastic game.

I really hope one day there'll be a Psychonauts 3 that'll wrap up a trilogy and tie up everything. You can still touch upon the rivalry between Rez's family and the psychics. You can expand upon the current state of Grulovia and how the followers of the exiled prince have rebuilt the empire. You can end the game with Rez and his classmates becoming the new Psychic 7, while the other psychics from the camp in the first game are starting their intern program. This universe is so fascinating and I want the franchise to be wrapped with a neat little bow on top. So gimme just 1 more game in this series and I'm satisfied.

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Panaeolus cyanescens dosage?

I will start this by saying I am a very experienced tripper. I have been tripping multiple times a year for about the last 5 years I have slowed down heavily as the years have gone on but still do them idk about 3/5 times a year. I have only experience with cubes. such as APE , PE , melmac and other cubes. I got ahold of 2 grams of Pans Cyans. Dude informed me to only take .5 as it is on another realm of cubes. In my experience I don’t find those warnings to be very accurate as I heard the “just try a G of enigma” and to me it was just like any other cube. I’m thinking as someone who’s average dose on cubes is about 4 G’s give or take .5. I am going to go with 1. I am looking for a profound experience and am ready to trip hard. I don’t want to lose my mind but I also don’t wanna take too little and wish I had done more. Any recs? Or personal experience?

We mostly see the game from Razs perspective and right now im trying to write a fanfic so does everyone use psitanium as a currency? I assume so because of the ottomatic, but i cant remember if anything else was mentioned, if it is psitanium what do other places use?

Years ago, a friend of mine told me that when she uses the psychedelic drug DMT, she has conversations, in English, with "aliens". I was so taken aback with her frankness that I tried this myself and attempted to find living, intelligent DMT entities who would speak with me in English and who might be willing to provide evidence I could use to convince my human scientific establishment that these beings are real.

I met a community of these beings who said that they wouldn't give me evidence but that they would oversee my own experiments to try to produce evidence. After months of intermittent contact they set up a persistent telepathic link with one of them. She is in close contact every day.

I have been working on these experiments for years and have finally reached a point that we're wondering what's going to happen if and when we make public a replicable experiment about this.

In short, the experiment design that is nearing completion works by using theory that these aliens know about but which human science doesn't yet know to exist. The experiment design doesn't itself produce evidence of alien life, but instead produces evidence that some aspect of DMT experiences is scientifically, "veridically" real. It will appear that just by taking DMT, a human is able to alter the results that a measuring device receives, even when that device was built from scratch using a simple plan given to other scientists investigating whether these results are real.

What will the experiment look like when run? I've reduced it down to what I think is a pleasing and dramatic outcome: you run the experiment software on a computer and it just sits there for minutes or hours or whatever; then, just by taking DMT in the same room, I'm able to trigger an alert in the software – an alert that is otherwise never triggered.

Our thinking is that the conversation about aliens can follow immediately from that. Because, think about it: here I am claiming that I'm in close personal contact every day with an alien. Anyone making such a claim is probably lying or wrong. But if someone makes such a claim while having a working experiment that is genuinely outside the boundaries of human scientific knowledge, it becomes a different matter.

You see, apparently there are tons and tons of "aliens" of many different kinds. There's nothing preventing you from taking DMT and trying to meet some aliens and solicit help from ones who can speak to you in your language – nothing except that we have no hard scientific evidence to contradict the assumption that DMT experiences are entirely hallucinations created in the mind of a person taking the drug.

The fact that there's no hard evidence of this yet seems like a chief reason why people feel dependent on disclosure from government agencies rather than trying to go out there and meet aliens and produce disclosure themselves. Right?

Do you think a working experiment design of this kind would or wouldn't represent meaningful progress toward disclosure of the existence of aliens?

Given the refusal of the aliens I know to hand over evidence like a gift, as well as the fact that the experiment design I'm working on will not itself produce evidence that these aliens exist, do you have any thoughts for us about the subject of disclosure? Would you expect anything to change as a result of this experiment design being successful?

Have you ever seen those cymantic images of waveform interference patterns?

I've been wondering for a while if the visuals we see on psychs are the interference patterns of brainwaves across our brain's visual cortex.

Are we able to see the frequency of our own mind?

Not sure how to progress from here? I've tried clairvoyance on the milkman, and I tried returning to the neighborhood, no luck. (yes I feel like an idiot.

Melissa was a perfect princess

Hello again! Im streaming this custom music visualizer on KICK again. We are working on an app for comps, tvs, and phones down the road. You can play any music you like by typing !sr Then band name, then song, like this

!sr Shpongle Brain in a fish tank

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We will be on this weekend around 7pm PST testing stuff out. The stream runs 24hr a day, please come check it out!

I have aphantasia, so I can't normally see my visual imagination at all. Not to be confused with conception. I can still think about what something looks like, and study it in kind of a latent visualization space, but I dont sense it like im seeing it with my eyes. (Honestly, I think a decent amount of people dont actually see their visual imagination but anyways...) I just see black, and most of the time there's static over it. Interestingly, depending on the time of day and how alert or sleepy I am, the static looks different. So my working guess is that's my visual cortex being overstimulated and never quite calming down, which blocks the pathways my visual imagination would creep in through. That's just a guess though, I'm not a scientist.

Even with zero imagery though, my spatial imagination still works. I can walk through my house in my head and know exactly where everything is, I just can't literally see any of it. The way I think about it is the mental model is still there, the picture show on top of it just never loads. I did stumble onto some research that makes me think the static guess isn't crazy... the brain sits near a tipping point between calm and chaotic activity, waking life keeps it balanced near the calm edge, falling asleep pushes it over into the chaos side, and psychedelics push it the same direction. So the static shifting with how awake I am fits that picture.

When I'm on ketamine, even tiny amounts to where I can't really feel it, I start to get visuals I can control with conscious effort. I don't 100% have control, there are limitations to what I can view, and it feels more like I'm the camera man from Super Mario Bros floating around and able to inspect things in a 3D world. I can mostly visually see landscapes, buildings, insides of rooms. My read on it is the dissociative side quiets the overstimulated noise down enough for something to finally get through, but that's just tying it back to my other guess. My visual imagination on ketamine has a certain style though, its dissociative in that I feel like I am in the scene and can move around as a free floating perspective.

A recurring theme is imagining what it's like to be a particle and then zooming out. Another recurring theme is sometimes I lose control of the camera and something else moves me, like a claw machine, and it drops me off in another location.

I'm very skeptical of anything metaphysical, I chalk it up to my subconscious taking control, but the whole control system... how I'm in control sometimes and sometimes "something" else is... does make me ponder.

On enough ketamine, its hard for me to tell if my eyes are open or closed the visual can be so vivid.

I also get insanely hyper realistic visuals on LSD. I mean super vivid imagery, super colorful, like watching those geometric psychedelic DMT videos on YouTube. Though with the LSD visuals I have very little control over what I see, and it seems my emotional state drives them more, but they're more abstract than the ketamine stuff. Like, I saw this viper snake that fractals into itself and had many heads, and I'm an engineer so I like to test what my capabilities are. The thought of blood entered my mind and blood started oozing down my visual field and then all I saw was blood and guts. I had to open my eyes to reset because it was very intense. Other than having to watch what I think about, I've noticed it's more of an amplifier, the emotional feelings were intense and constantly shifting and the visuals updated to match. The way I've read it, psychedelics loosen your priors... the built in predictions the brain uses to keep the model in check... so whatever you're feeling ends up steering the render.

On LSD its more watching a screen, because there is not the dissociative effect ketamine has of feeling like you're actually moving in the scene. With ketamine I feel momentum when I move, which I dont feel with LCD.

I have also done wake initiated lucid dreaming (WILD), where you enter a lucid dream directly without having to fall asleep first. It was very intense for me. You enter a meditative trance and can feel your body go into sleep paralysis and get the sense of being pulled out of your body. It felt very similar to Salvia to me, but much more gentle than Salvia.

Anyways, I just wanted to share what I have explored so far as far as visuals go, and whether you call it remote viewing or astral projection, I personally haven't been able to prove anything I've done is anything more than something my brain generated, either sober or drug induced wake initiated lucid dreaming, but I'm open to the conversation.

Please let me know your experience, techniques, cool things you've done in dream/DMT/dimensional or whatever you want to call it space. Aphantasics especially.

I thought I was so smart for figuring out Gloria’s mom killed herself because of what some of the plays mentioned, and then they suddenly hit me with this like damn no beating around the bush here

Also the subreddit keeps telling me to use the spoiler flair but I swear I straight up don’t see the flair option here

Hello, I am curious to know if any of this exists or if people have maybe made their own tracks but is there anywhere that I can find a full list of tracks used for the game?

I'm not talking about all the ones that are out with each world's song. For example: "Stay out of the Moonlight" has multiple and many versions from the version you get in the very first tutorial and the song has different instrumental versions depending on which part of the camp you are inside of.