what does trippy mean?

Answer 1

It's a term that comes from the 1960s when LSD was popular. When you take a 'hit' of LSD (or acid) you experience what they call a trip. It's like leaving reality and going into a world of delusion.
When something happens in real life that reminds one of being on a 'trip'-- i.e. when Homer Simpson ate the chili pepper and woke up on the golf coarse after losing sight of reality... that was trippy. The Butterfly Effect was a very 'trippy' movie because of the way it was presented. It reminded me of an acid trip.
It's kind of hard to explain if you haven't experienced LSD.
Listen to an early Beatles song like "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and then listen to one of their later songs like "Within You Without You". There is a huge difference in the way the two songs were 1. produced 2. written and sung and 3. influenced. "Within You Without You" was during a period when they were experimenting with drugs and that song is very 'trippy'.
George Harrison said it best when he commented that only those open to the experience will understand.
Hope this helps and have a great day!!!

Answer 2

The genuine meaning of "trippy" relates to the experience of taking the drug LSD. This drug causes sensory distortion. One of the side effects of taking LSD is that everything seems wierd, or different, to what it does normally.

However, these days, the word "trippy" is often misused, mostly by people who have never taken acid.

Answer 3

Main Entry: trip·py
Pronunciation: 'tri-pE
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or suggestive of a trip on psychedelic drugs or the culture associated with such drugs



A 'psychedelic' experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are one of the stations on the spectrum of experiences elicited by psychedelic substances. On that same spectrum will be found hallucinations, distortions of perception, synesthesia, altered states of awareness, mystical states, and occasionally states resembling psychosis. The word psychedelic means literally: Mind Manifesting.

The psychedelic experience is an intimate experience, but there are many common themes, and ranges from a sense of connectedness to everything in the immediate vicinity, to a sense of oneness with everything in the universe. Potentially, the range of the drug-induced psychedelic experience goes far beyond other drugs, illicit inparticular. Simply because "trip drugs", or hallucinogenic drugs have these effects, in contrast to say heroin, and its depressant effects.

Many who undertake such experiences come to see them as an ordeal, and mentally overbearing. For many, such experiences come to be seen as personal re-enactments of the hero's journey.. Psychedelic drugs can be used as a means to achieve states of mind in which different perceptions unhindered by everyday mental filters and processes can arise. Hallucinations and the mental, emotional and long term impact of the experience are positive, and enduring for many.

Answer 4

Resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug : Trippy house music.

Answer 5

Hope this helps :P
a blunder, error, or mistake - the experience produced by taking a hallucinogenic drug ( slang ) - an intense, emotional, or stimulating experience ( slang ) - a nostalgia trip, an obsessive and often short-lived interest in something ( slang ) - something that somebody enjoys or takes pleasure in, e.g. an experience, event, or person ( slang )

Answer 6

i use it in so many ways... when i hear the word "trip" i think of like going on a trip inside your mind.... like to another world. they use that word to describe how strange or weird something was... for example.... it was that strange that you went on a trip.... or you can say trippy.... "thats some trippy stuff man"

Answer 7

I think it might come from acid trips of the 1960's, so its kinda psychedelic stuff maybe like op art or space music I gess.

Answer 8

Trippy man!!!

Answer 9

Odd, weird, strange, unusual as in something bizzare like seen during a hallucination.

Answer 10

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