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For sure man. I'm just kinda thinking out loud is all. My first most prominent symptom was dp. Which I was wiring through and indeed nearly recovering from. I then went parusing through hppd, searched and searched for symptoms I 'might' have and then proceeded to look very very hard for them. Hence where the split second pos after images came from. Now that I've noticed I can't unnotice, but did not notice prior. That coupled with the fact that I've never done hallucinogens and that it didn't arise after my bad weed experience is kinda strange. Weed 'HPPD' is a funny one. I think it's along the lines of GAD, where anxious individuals are hyper vigilant, and actively searching for visual anomalies. Floaters, after images and visual snow all occur in healthy individuals, but poeple with GAD or some such take them as life threatening, negating the fact that these these anomalies have always been in their visual field. Just never noticed before. (Not to offend anyone or discredit anyone's suffering).

Nah man, just doesn't add up at all. I've never done psychedelics in my life, and have not done any kind of drug whatsoever in 6 months. Furthering that, I've never heard of anyone aquring HPPD from weed, synthetic weed maybe, but not a puff on a j. Even if they did, it's usually visual snow etc. which I do not have. I think it's definitely a case of suggestibility, anxiety and heightened sensitivity due to dp. The chances of me having HPPD in my case are so incredibly slim that it's almost impossible. Wierd.

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Hey all, Might be some tl;dr action in this post, apologies. So, about 6 months ago I smoked a j with some mates and had a bad-ass anxiety attack, fearing I'd triggered schizophrenia (yes I know, soft drug to do so on). Long story short I woke up feeling foggy and wierd. Found out about DP/DR and it instantly matched what I was feeling. No visual disturbaces to note, apart from the classic foggy DR vision, which cleared up pretty well on its own. Only visual disturbace was streaky lights, for example if I flicked my eyes repeatedly over a light source it would streak. Life was on the up and up, feeling increased moments of recovery and what not. Anywho, I've known about HPPD for months, but it never worried me. For some reason I decided to do some in depth research a couple of days ago. Hey presto! I'm fucking seeing split second positive after images every damn where, streaky vision, even swore I saw some geometric patterns in the silver mesh of my mates guitar amp, rah rah. Unless my vision has SEVERELY decreased over the last two days I've either: 1) not noticed it before and now I'm hyper aware of everything, and looking for it everywhere. 2) accidentally taken lsd in the last 48 hours hahaha. I definitely think there's some hyper awareness/confirmation bias happening here, but thought I'd post anyways. N.B - I've never done any hard hallucinogenic, worst I've done was ecstacy like 4-5 years ago which I suspect was mostly speed.