Thread: Non-religious meditation and the like

Originally Posted by Replicon

And finally, if it's not just meditation, but all kinds of other things, there's a book called "get high now" that should at least give you some inspiration for stuff to try out. Or, you can look at this article I ran into just 2-3 days ago:

10 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs

That reminded me of something I heard of a while ago. I can't remember the name of it, but it was some sort of effect whereby if you filled the visual field with light of a uniform colour (white noise optional), after a short time visual hallucinations would begin. Recommendation I saw was to cut a ping-pong ball in half such that it would fit over your eyes.

Originally Posted by Supernova

That reminded me of something I heard of a while ago. I can't remember the name of it, but it was some sort of effect whereby if you filled the visual field with light of a uniform colour (white noise optional), after a short time visual hallucinations would begin. Recommendation I saw was to cut a ping-pong ball in half such that it would fit over your eyes.

Ganzfeld effect.

I tried it, didn't really work as well as I thought it would. But I also had the problem that the ping pong ball halves wouldn't stay on properly, so I could see little bits out the side which may have ruined it.