An infographic comparing various intense psychedelics

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Somebody showed me a clip of a show designed for 1-2 year olds. I think I nearly died of old age on the spot. I can’t remember the name of it. It probably took weeks to fully recover.

It was… imagine if you took one of those videos where you are moving down a tube, or zooming in and in through a vibrantly colored surreal landscape and… mushed it together with 2 baliwood musicals… mixed in the sound from a casino slot machine room… and something like teletubbies… and then played all that at double speed.

This was a relatively modern show, 2005 perhaps.

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If I don’t really remember Lidsville, then why the hell does the thought of drowning in a river of shampoo fill me with nostalgic terror?

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That would have been BooBah, large dancing blob things of terror.

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Chorlton and the Wheelies.
Jamie and the Magic Torch.
Crystal Tipps and Alistair [I mean, come on, *Crystal*?]

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I know it’s a joke infographic, but I must be this person…

When you (the makers of this graphic, not you Kimmo) make no effort to define how to compare the psychedelic intensity of something, there’s not much sense to be made.

Like, in the graphic LSD is more psychedelic than (Psilocybin) mushrooms, but in my experience it’s the other way around (though with a smaller gap than there is right now between the two), and 4-HO-MET would be somewhere in between. In my experience, tryptamines tend to feel more “psychedelic” than LSD or phenethylamines, and a lot of people probably feel the same way, but that has nothing to do with intensity.

I agree with Kimmo in that DMT (which is not in the graphic, on it’s own, but is a part of ayahuasca) on the other hand is indeed streets ahead in intensity, though I would put Ayahuasca even further than that.

MDMA being ahead of weed makes no sense to me. And if we’re being pedantic (and that’s what this whole post is about!), cannabis is not even a psychedelic. If we’re talking about feelings of psychedelic intensity, salvia and ketamine would be very high in the chart, yet they’re not actually psychedelics (and even though potentially more intense than DMT, depending on dosage, their value as a psychedelic experience doesn’t even come close - but YMMV).

I know this all might seem pointless to most people, but using correct language and information regarding psychoactives is just as important when just joking around if we want to do something about prety much the whole goddamn War On Drugs. Exhibit A: people are still making jokes about “bath salts turning people into zombies” which is based on completely inaccurate details (the guy had not taken bath salts or anything similar), spreads panic and does absolutely nothing to help people understand MDPV or mephedrone.

Even in Family Guy they said “cannabis is a mild form of LSD” (I’ve heard the network forced them to add that PSA, but I’m not so sure they couldn’t have controlled the wording), which is in no way accurate.

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They would have to adopt a log scale on the graph if they included Children’s TV Shows while on Children’s Dimetapp Grape Elixir*…

(*the pre-1990s formula)

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If most kids shows are psychedelics then Kipper the Dog is a nice mellow spliff - I cannot recommend it highly enough. The kids loved it, and it left neither them nor I horribly overstimulated.

The fact that they have since moved on to iCarly rates as one of my bitterest disappointments in parenting, unlikely to be exceeded before they start dating

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Tra la la, la la la la Thanks for putting that in my head.

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3 at the time: Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

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Teletubbies?!

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Hell, that man was EVERYWHERE in the 70s. CNR!

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OK, those are creeptastic.
One of those heads reminds me of the singing dolls from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Well, except the CCF ones were kind of melty.

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A person who has Carlos Castaneda prominently displayed on her bookshelf is not common observer.

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“Harry and his Bucket full of Dinosaurs” is also a slowdown, quite pleasant, and from Nelvana.

I like the theme song. It’s not super-fast, kinda mellow, and … steel guitars in the background? Or just slide?

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The fact that you remembered that makes me feel like I’m being stalked.

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From the i-can’t-throw-out-books thread. It struck me at the time (since he made the whole thing up, like Jonah Lehrer, etc.), but I didn’t say anything. Seemed on-topic, here.

http://songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/42598/

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I’ve always understood that marijuana isn’t a psychedelic, and I’ve never tried DMT, but watching the first 15 minutes of “Enter the Void” while ODed on pot felt right up there with children’s TV.

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I’ve had what I could only describe as somewhat psychadelic experiences with cannabis. I’m a very occasional user, so I have pretty high sensitivity, and a few times smoking hashish, I’ve had very interesting experiences tripping out and going down the K-Hole.

I admit that I’m too much of a chicken to take mushrooms or LSD. I know that I’m a naturally paranoid person, and I know that I’d have a bad trip. But the intense introspection and the immense change in perspective I’ve managed to achieve with cannabis is something entirely different from what most pot heads seem to experience. I end up with images of “zooming in or out” in my perspective, and I take account of the universe at different scales, and use the math I know to understand it, and marvel at the stuff I don’t have the math to understand.

It’s a fun ride to say the least.

But it’s not the same as having my consciousness mostly in the present but not being able to tell what’s real and what isn’t. That seems to be what happens with mushrooms and LSD for a lot of people, and that doesn’t seem like it would be any fun for me. The cannabis experiences are to me like using an Oculus Rift, but as far as I can tell, something like LSD is hard to differentiate from schizophrenia, or having a psychotic break.

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Banana Splits. See Other Michael’s video post, or don’t unless you want to be humming this 40 year old tune too!

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Let’s not forget that some videos are “gateway videos”:

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