Of course everyone's different, but to me "hallucinate" is a bit too strong of an expectation anyways. Or perhaps "hallucinate" is technically accurate, but I've found that uninitiated people expect to have crazy full immersive seeing-things-that-aren't-there experiences on psilocybin (like how DMT trips are described) but almost everyone I've talked with about this stuff has "visuals" and certainly interesting mental imaginings, but not full-fledged hallucinations.
Like shifting patterns of colours and light that overlay your regular vision? Sure. Morphing patterns in things that are actually there like plants or carpets, like your brain can't "keep it straight" for more than a millisecond? Yup. Ability to "travel" in your minds eye into past memories? Totally. Feelings of union with God/Source/Divine/Other/Higher_Reality? You bet.
But not like full-fledged high-fidelity sights and sounds that one would mistake for reality as you normally perceive it, like a man standing there or a crazy monster appearing right in front of you.
Interestingly, it appears different strains of mushrooms produce different amounts or types of visuals too, and I'm sure there are hundreds of other variables also at play (captured in 'set and setting').
Thank goodness this stuff is being studied properly again.
> but almost everyone I've talked with about this stuff has "visuals" and certainly interesting mental imaginings, but not full-fledged hallucinations.
so, many years ago my roommate asked me to get some acid for him and his girlfriend for the fourth of July, I did, it was pretty good stuff. We spent some time sitting in his truck giggling and then we went to watch fireworks.
We got done and they seemed somewhat underwhelmed by the experience, I admit I didn't think it was that great although as a general rule I hate fireworks this was one time I thought it was nice. But he was having a fun time talking shit "oh, perhaps it's like this for everyone, some funny lights and laughing, but for Bryan it fryyyyssss him!" This was while we were walking away from the fireworks which was at the University of Utah, we came around a corner where you could see every car on the street with their lights on and the police cars with theirs sirens and people running around setting off their own little fireworks and it was just a hilarious moment of going from little sensory input to incredible overload and the two of them couldn't handle it.
We drove back to our place and they were both freaking out and they thought they were going insane and would it be like this forever, I had to go out to get away from the general bad vibes.
Anyway not real hallucinations (although I did have a jalapeno open its mouth like it wanted to eat me one time which put me off eating it) but your post just reminded me of my ex-roommate and the chipper attitude before rounding that fateful campus corner.
Magic Mushrooms can absolutely be DMT like and users can have full blown life like hallucinations of entities or landscapes. Most people simply dont do enough and have a light experience. DMT is simply less forgiving in this regard.
A technique to see full-fledged hallucinations is to stare at one point for while, without moving your eyes. While you are staring at one point, focus your mind (in the right way that you just need to figure out yourself), on the thing you want to see, for example focus on Super Mario and you should be able to see Super Mario appear in front of you.
Like shifting patterns of colours and light that overlay your regular vision? Sure. Morphing patterns in things that are actually there like plants or carpets, like your brain can't "keep it straight" for more than a millisecond? Yup. Ability to "travel" in your minds eye into past memories? Totally. Feelings of union with God/Source/Divine/Other/Higher_Reality? You bet.
But not like full-fledged high-fidelity sights and sounds that one would mistake for reality as you normally perceive it, like a man standing there or a crazy monster appearing right in front of you.
Interestingly, it appears different strains of mushrooms produce different amounts or types of visuals too, and I'm sure there are hundreds of other variables also at play (captured in 'set and setting').
Thank goodness this stuff is being studied properly again.