<story><title>The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)</title><url>https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aviancrane</author><text>It seems to me two things are happening. [1] The brain is really good at filling in gaps in its perception of the world and [2] there seems to be some kind of strange loopy recursion in the way the brain analyzes and observes things including itself.&lt;p&gt;I think on DMT and similar, you are actually seeing less of the world, and the recursive&amp;#x2F;fractal aspect is coming from the brain filling in gaps with observations including its own analyzing patterns.&lt;p&gt;The world at our scale has a lot of data and is really complex. These &amp;quot;hypbolic geometries&amp;quot; seem like simplifications. One strand of a flower that happens to follow something roughly like the golden ration becomes a fibonacci spiral repeated at every degree; the sense of self gets muddled with the modeling of this pattern, allowing the pattern to permeate the entire observation, and now you too are the spiral. You notice the observation and how muddled it is with the pattern and the self, creating a loop which also gets modeled, and down the recursive rabbit hole you go.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)</title><url>https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lend000</author><text>A new game called Hyperbolica is being developed to explore new geometries [0]. It will be interesting to see how people playing the game compare the experience to their previous trips.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=EMKLeS-Uq_8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=EMKLeS-Uq_8&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>