See, Oxford *is* up north: down here in the south, the wintry mix doesn't settle

Not sure if the family BBC Model B or Commodore 64 came first. I think I coded on the C64 first, so maybe that was first. There was also an Apple II knocking around at one point. Some computers were borrowed from the school my father taught maths in, I think, but the BBCB and the C64 endured

This is still both true and something I think about every day.

Also, to be fair, I think human *voices* are perceived as a lot lower if you drop the frequency of their formant by only a little, so that might be part of what people report with supposedly dramatically large drops in pitch.

People say it drops pitch by octaves, but it doesn't; they're misconstruing a sort of low-pass filter that comes along with the order-of-magnitude-of-a-few-semitones drop. The trajectory is very clear. I did a bunch of psychophysical auditory tests on myself while tripping on it, lol.

... most straightforwardly, the bell-like quality, due to increased inharmonicity. Some music was ruined, some enhanced. But if you play a musical instrument, the change in relationship between expected sound and what comes out.... just hours of startle. :D

like the visual distortions on mushrooms, if you take enough you're guaranteed to get them. At first, things just start to shift down a semitone, then two, but unevenly, after three semitones it gets more chaotic. But the striking thing is the impact on timbre due to uneven shift across frequencies—

... I've heard music in silence on LSD, but the DiPT closed-ear audials were different, more intense. But it's the open-ear, transformation of normal sounds stuff that's most impressive, and I'm pretty sure it's obligatory; ...

Oh hell yes. It's amazing, the open-ear audials are remarkable; especially if you have absolute pitch, but even if you don't, because it stretches frequency space non-linearly (and increasingly non-linearly with dosage). There are also closed-ear audials... but that's not so unique to DiPT...

Yes, I think I felt most subjectively hypertensive (inasmuch as one can subjectively judge that) with 2C-B/E/C etc; but DiPT weirdly always gave me intense motor jitters.

More people need to take psychedelics in functional brain scanners, tbh

... I did wonder sometimes whether the jitteriness I got during the come-up of psychs wasn't a sign of stimulation but rather a sort of motor cortex psychedelia, a peculiar activation of motor neurons corresponding to the sort of peculiar activation induced by psychedelics in other neurons.

Even psychedelics (both those of the tryptamine class and the phenethylamine class) always seemed to have cv stimulant effects (at least at certain points in the trip) to me, although I can't say I often actually took my physical obs to put a number on it for sure...

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Ok, also no actual bloosks either, but then I'm only following the one bloosker so far, so that's to be expected.