how do you see something if its not there?

Question

for example...you take some magic mushrooms...and you see a rabbit running in circles on your bed, obviously its not happening, but how can you even see it if it doesnt exsist?

Answer 1

Imagination.

Answer 2

Whether the brain actually perceives something in the real world, or the brain concocts an imagined perception, or even remembered perception, you need to understand that what the brain does is create this image from scratch each time. Whether raw perception is the input, or perceptions stored in memory is the input, the image is fabricated the same way. So drugs, fatigue, memories or imagination can produce images that get mixed up with real-world perceptions, and both seem as real as the other.

I once spent 14 days in the wild, living off the land. I became so sleep-deprived that I hallucinated. I told my comrades that I saw a village in the distance. They looked at me strangely, because the village simply wasn't there. I desperately wanted it to be there, and to me it was as real as anything I've ever seen.

Answer 3

Shrooms affect a part of your brain that separates your subconscious from your conscious(basically it blurs the dream world with the real world). Your brain stores all kinds of unnecessary information and some necessary and processes it while you sleep. These are some of the things you may think about or see when you are "tripping". It also affects your hearing and sight sensors.

Answer 4

I once convinced a park full of people on ecstacy that there were flags floating in the sky. I think that the drug induced state can make people confuse fantasy with reality. So the bunny is there, just in your mind.

Answer 5

Maybe drugs don't do that, but schizophrenia can. The brain is a delicate and ireplaceable thing and you shouldn't screw with it. Just be thankful if yours works like it's supposed to.

Answer 6

Its kind of like just normal thinking. Like if someone told you to think about what an apple looks like then you would have a picture in your mind, but your not really seeing it and its not really there.

I hate thinking about stuff like this, it drives me crazy

Answer 7

No, psychedelics do not make you see things that are not there.
This is not the type of hallucinations that you have..

Answer 8

You see it in your "mind's eye", in your imagination. It is an hallucination.

Answer 9

hey kid, stop smoking that crap , is wasting your brain