Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
<i>So I wonder: psychedelics make you more likely to believe woo, and more likely to have certain classes of visual hallucinations. But some people believe woo without taking psychedelics, and some people have those same visual hallucinations without taking psychedelics.</i><p>Interesting, I believe it and have always wondered about this.  I think people&#x27;s sensory experiences vary wildly by nature, but we have no access to them so can&#x27;t really prove anything.<p>Some people are audiophiles, others foodies, others fashionistas, etc.<p>Your athletic ability can vary from Usain Bolt to completely uncoordinated; some people have photographic memories (e.g. Lebron James apparently); some people can factor large numbers in their heads (computation), or recite huge strings of digits (non-episodic memory).<p>Some people are prediposed to like drugs and others don&#x27;t.  (e.g. reading a lot of rock n&#x27; roll biographies it becomes apparent that the alcohol and heroin addictions aren&#x27;t randomly distributed; it&#x27;s somewhat &quot;innate&quot;)<p>It would be surprising if our sensory experiences did NOT vary widely.<p>This sounds silly and is totally unsubstantiated, but I always believed my senses are &quot;accurate&quot;.  I told a friend in high school this and he said it was stupid and impossible :)<p>----<p>Although I can also conjure some low-level hallucinations when &quot;looking at the back of my eyelids&quot; when falling asleep.  I imagine that&#x27;s pretty normal&#x2F;common since low light is sort of like sensory deprivation.<p>But they are very elaborate hallucations with all sorts of geometric forms and motion.  Elaborate but not intense, if that makes sense.