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      It's not very practical. I'm in college, and I don't have a car. Also, it would be weird for me ask someone to go to a store just for ping-pong balls. (Will loose-leaf paper work?)
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      i tried this last night, got the ping pong balls from a local arcade, and used my a white noise i downloaded. I sat still for what seemed forever and my sight began to turn into a form of tunnel vision. after a few more moments my hearing seemed to fade in and out in the pattern of ocean waves. Then the trip started, my vision started to swirl into a center point and yellows and blues began appearing in the "vortex" like swirl. As the sounds went in and out the swirl deepened and shallowed. After a few moments of this the sounds became louder and i could hear thumps and tings off in the distance, and the swirl opened up to a masked face grinning at me, the mask looked similar to a guy fawkes except without the facial hair and it was bearing sharp gold teeth, the vision went in and out of focus. I let this continue for a few more moments and then decided i had experienced enough of it. I removed the ping pong balls and the headphones, all my senses were intensified for a few moments. I laid down a it took me a bit to fall asleep, as the picture of the grinning mask kept popping into my mind...

      This is something i may try again some time later in my life, but if all my hallucinations from this are going to be this creepy, then i may not.
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      Well! At least it worked. That's pretty cool. now you have something neat to tell people about.
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      I'm going to try this with the ping-pong balls and the white noise from my radio.
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      @Noogah

      I can get those swirls whenever i like, When i was younger sometimes i pushed the palms of my hands into my eyes (Sounds horrible but its not painful at all, just like wiping sleep from your eyes in the morning.) and then just keep trying to blink. I don't really do it anymore because I'm pretty sure its bad for you, but when i do, I start to be able to imagine things really well while remaing very conscience (Not nearly as vivid as a dream though, just imagination.
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      I did something similar to that when I was younger, but instead I would just press my palms into my eyes and stay like that, looking at the patterns for like half an hour.

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      Yes, I've done the same thing. But those patterns are not hallucinations, they are just spontaneous and irritating blinking lights, and you get out of it half blind.
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      It used to develop into hallucinations for me after awhile. Actually it was more like vivd imagination.
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      Really!

      How complex were they?

      How long did it take to induce?
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      Just a few thoughts:

      1) Could it be worth RCing (or imagine RCing) when you get the hallucinations? Would this behaviour carry over to dreams?

      2) Could people scared of SP use this to overcome their fear?

      3) If you did this during a WBTB would it make your dreams more vivid when you go back to sleep?

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      I'm gunna try this
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      Well after awhile of just sitting there they'd start just taking on things I thought about, I'd try to mould all the patterns together and they'd start becoming a semi vivid imagination.
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      I'm just wondering how long I would have to sit on a chair pressing my palms to my eyes for it to happen. Five minutes? Thirty? Longer?
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      TBH I haven't done it since I was a kid, but I can't remember it taking long, like 5 minutes (less even). And as I said earlier there nothing close to dream like in vividness but they sure beat imagination. Also, the way your deliberately phrasing it starting to sound like your mocking me. Don't mock me.
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      No, I'm not mocking you. I seriously wonder how long it would take. I'm fascinated. I just think i would look silly.
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      Yeah Its not very practical thats why I don't really mention it. You know, when you take your hands away your visions very blurry, and honestly don't want to be responsible for people going blind
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      Quote Originally Posted by Noogah View Post
      I just think i would look silly.
      Because taping ping pong ball halves over your eyes looks very intelligent.

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      I'm gonna try this, and see if I can't WILD with it. I'd rather not use pingpong balls though.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Kraftwerk View Post
      I'm gonna try this, and see if I can't WILD with it. I'd rather not use pingpong balls though.
      That will probably not work. The point is to 100% deprive your senses, by giving them non structured feed. I.E, white noise is one constant and unstructured senseless sound. Having translucent plastic over your eyes provides a constant unwavering hue of light.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Noogah View Post
      That will probably not work. The point is to 100% deprive your senses, by giving them non structured feed. I.E, white noise is one constant and unstructured senseless sound. Having translucent plastic over your eyes provides a constant unwavering hue of light.
      Regardless, I'm still going to try this. I have quite a few things I'd like to do with these halucinations.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Kraftwerk View Post
      Regardless, I'm still going to try this. I have quite a few things I'd like to do with these halucinations.
      Cool. Let me know how it goes, cuz I'm low on ping pong balls. Like, I don't have any at all.

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      I commandeered a ping pong ball from the last I was out playing beer pong. Unfortunately they have a name brand written on them, so I'm going to have to sand it off before I can really try this out.

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      Do any of you know what color the ping pong balls need to be, or does it matter? I'd imagine they'd need to be either orange or white.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt View Post
      Do any of you know what color the ping pong balls need to be, or does it matter? I'd imagine they'd need to be either orange or white.
      Doesn't matter, so long as both ping pong balls are the sane color.

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      does it matter if you blink? and how long does it take to actually start working?
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