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I'm really sorry to hear that your hppd is getting worse, ): but I think I've got the remedy for a bad day

I haven't gotten an MRI since I got Hppd, but reading up on the matter makes me further believe that our brains produce an out of whack electrical field. A neuron's dendrites( the branches that receive signals) probably aren't functioning up to snuff, so the signals we receive through other cells are coming in all whack. I think of it like this, though this most likely isn't a very accurate connection, a signal comes in that is at 96.5 fm, our dendrites act as a radio antennae. The antennae's all jacked up and perceives it as 96.2 fm, thus we get some of the information, but also a lot of static. That maybe the cause of VS....hmmmm But anyways, your tinnitus should lessen on its own in a week, tops, in my opinion. Listen to some white noise, you can find it on youtube, and it's suppose to help with tinnitus. Also, Fuck that binaural bullshit. I'm sure there are some actual compelling facts that state that these beats do help the brain. I tried some 5ht binuaral beats to promote serotonin potentiation. I really don't think it did shit. I don't doubt that binuaral beats have something to offer, but when they're made by random people and put on youtube...I just don't trust em.

Yeah, definitely seems like the lesser of two evils. I'm on day 4 now, and I'm not even getting the slightest of hunger pains anymore, and I have more mental clarity, so there are definitely some perks to going more food abstinent, in your diet and not giving in to the vicious hunger/obesity cycle America loves to promote. I have to tell you though, I have no desire to do anything right now lol, I am so incredibly weak. I feel like this is worth it though, fasting promotes your body's natural healing processes. I truly believe your body is the best MD you'll find, and I don't care if people tell me I'm buying into some new wave hippy bullshit lol. I contacted this user on bluelight who claimed he cured his hppd by fasting. I honestly didn't know if I could trust the guy at first (I think hppd makes you more prone to not believe people), but he won me over when he replied the very next day, even though his last use of his profile was like 5 months prior. I'll post the messages he sent me, because they make more sense than any way I could explain it, and they have some science to back em up.

Yeah totally, I have to say though, i never had a problem with weed until I started experimenting with more illicit drugs. I would guess if we never did other drugs we would be perfectly fine, smoking up the ganj, having a great time. Oh well, shit happens. :/ I've never been able to remember how different rc's made me feel. But is 25c the one that makes you feel like you're on a rollercoaster? Like adrenaline but not really adrenaline? Or was that 2ci? I don't know, but the one that gave me an intense body high is one of the trips I most enjoyed. You might have, but it probably be way more mild and easy to manage. I feel like bad trips really fuck your brain up. I'm guessing a rule of thumb would be to not do drugs with names only comprised of numbers and letters lol.

Bigpapachakra= BPC, sorry I'm lazy And I'm sorry to hear that, I had a bad trip on synthetic weed where I thought I was a squeak toy, I kept shouting to my friend "what the **** is this!!!!" He started freaking out and was all "I DONT KNOW!!" Haha you had to be there, it was really traumatizing at first, but I look back at it and laugh my lungs out. I'd agree with that connection, this has been one looong hangover.

And here I thought that pun was punintended It's probably not healthy for you at all XD but hey, I know some women that would kill to lose 20 pounds that fast, I always tell them to get on the tape worm diet...for some reason they always think I'm joking. Lol, not trying to bash anyone, I could totally benefit from losing some pounds as well. Fat jokes aside, what meds are you on? If you don't mind me asking? I'm not a strong advocate of pharmaceuticals, but if this fasting thing doesn't work I'd be willing to try some. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to hold out more than 3 days myself, I feel like I'm at fat camp and chocolate bars are the only thing that don't judge me. X)

I know you were directing that to BPC, but I'm a nosy Nancy and to put in my two cents, being able to visualize and see increasingly complex/abstract thoughts is not hppd. Hppd, I believe has to be accompanied with the visuals, not just with thoughts. When I first started doing trippy, I had a skyrocket in creativity. I could write fairly decent songs, and for me, that's incredible lol. I could see myself accomplishing goals, which helped me work hard for things, etc. none for that hindered my quality of life until I got hppd, as I was not hallucinating. I do believe that visualizing more or opening the minds eye is part of the formula for hppd though, because right before I got hppd from synthetic weed, I had taken 2ci or some variant, and after that trip ( I didn't particularly enjoy it, I had to babysit my friends who were also on it, and at that point I had done enough trip to where it wasn't interesting at all) I was thinking at like 5 thoughts a second, like my brain felt it was on hyperdrive. When I would sleep, I would have like a slide show on fast forward of a multitude of different images. It was insane. I was a señor in high school (hppd was my grad present! Haha) and I could write the most clever sarcastic 3-4 page papers, drenched with personality, in like 15 minutes. It was insane! I was also a total douche at that point, and I think karma caught up with me and my brain crashed..did you feel like that prior to hppd and after the end of your last trip? Maybe the 'software' in our brains simply crashed and we need to reboot ourselves?

I've never really fasted before, and this idea was totally spontaneous, so I don't really know the circuits and gears of it. From what I understand you can simply do a calorie restriction, which is to say, eat only 500 calories a day. I read somewhere that this method doesn't really do anything to the brain though. Theres also intermittent fasting, which to my knowledge is to go a day or two, and then eat for a day, and then cycle another two days of not eating, etc. I like to take things to the extreme if there's a chanc I'll get a sweet reward, and there is nothing I want more on this earth than to be hppd-free, so I'm going the full 5 or 7 days ( not to certain on which yet) on strictly water. I'm on day two, and This is counterproductive, but I smoked gratuitous amounts of ciggs yesterday, and drank coffee...sue me lol. Today I'm hoping to ween myself off ciggs so for the remainder of my fast I can go without any toxins whatsoever. Sorry if that was hard to follow, I dreamt of instant made ramen noodles last night and I almost creamed myself...I'm really hungry haha

I know where you're coming from, I too question whether I should live a life not worth living. You just got to muscle through it. I take comfort and solace in knowing that life constantly changes and nothing will ever be the same. Life isn't the same for you when you were 8, to when you were in high school, to now. Time will change everything. Not to get all Confucius on you, but that's what makes life beautiful. I've only had my hppd for a minuscule amount of time compared to you, but I do feel your pain. Try to indulge in all the small things in life man. Those fleeting glistening gems are what life's all about. Just try to get yourself out there. The more you occupy yourself, the easier hppd is to manage, in my opinion. I know this is hard to do, but just try too enjoy yourself whenever you feel you can. The meaning of life is to live, right? I know you feel like a constant trip, I do too. But life's a total trip!

Planning on fasting for 5-7 days, I'm currently on day one. hoping to promote neurogenesis. Feeling like Gandhi right about now I'll let you guys know if i have any success. http://www.dana.org/News/Details.aspx?id=43223 “Fasting is a challenge to the nervous system, to the energy regulating systems,” says Mattson. “And what we’re thinking, from the standpoint of evolution, is that animals living in the wild, including our ancestors, often had to go extended time periods without food. If you haven’t had food for a while, your mind becomes more active—it has to become very active, to help you figure out how to find food.” That activity manifests itself in neuroplasticity; in mouse models, Mattson and colleagues have shown that intermittent fasting helps protect the brain from both oxidative stress and direct injury. Those protective effects result in the upregulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) as well as anti-oxidants, DNA-repair enzymes, and other gene products that help promote plasticity and survival of neurons over time.

Ghormeh, I think I'm in love with your brain....Haha! Big ups, Fight static with static, simply brilliant.

Well at this point the VS, trails, And floaters are basically the only symptoms I have. I got my hppd from synthetic marijuana, but I'm sure the constant indulgence in research chemicals didn't help. Mine does not seem to be degenerative, as it has been slowly getting better...or so I think. When I first got it, it was accompanied by a constant pounding migrane, which has subsided now, which has led me to believe the MA without infarction and hppd may have something to do with a change in the em field of the brain. Haha or maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about. Thank you Blunderbuss, your post has been totally helpful

I would also love to know what hertz you listened to. Please keep me posted

I don't doubt it if using that whole LSD perspective "I am you, as he is her, as we are all the same in everything". It kinda makes sense seeing that everything is comprised of energy and energy is just vibrations. This may be a little off topic but in quantum physics there's this phenomenon called quantum entanglement. I don't really remember what it entails but googles got a phd in just about everything. It's something along the lines that if two electrons were shot at each other at super speeds, and then sent off from one another, changing the spin of one electron could indirectly change the spin of the other electron, no matter where it was in space...a bunch of crazy science bs, but it's documented. So premonitions aren't too far off from that. I wish I had a premonition story, but I don't. Lol. I would go with these foresights though, it's kinda like a super power if you think about it.

That's doesnt sound bad at all. Alcohol is poison anyways. I'd much rather snort rails of white then drink anyday, if my anxiety didn't go though the roof! Can you still do drugs like a rock star or do you have to moderate considerably now?

Alright, so with the onset of hppd, a lot of people developed tinnitus, VS, brain fog, etc. My question is: why so many seemingly different symptoms? When I first got hppd, I could see like a rift in my eye sight towards the upper part of my vision, and I only noticed it when I looked at the sky. It was like a black hole of static, and hella floaters were perturbing out of it. That was the prelude of what was to come. I remember the next day I was checking myself out in the mirror ( thinking damn I'm a stallion) and all-of-a-sudden, BAM! I felt my brain literally deflate. Almost as if I was falling from the cloud 9 I had built up from years of drugs....I miss drugs ): I noticed over the course of some time the aforementioned 'rift' in my vision had encompassed my whole field of view. I didn't see static and floaters in one spot of vision anymore, but EVERYWHERE! The brain fog then rolled in, then my tinnitus. The tinnitus is gone, and my brain fog is approx. 60% cleared up ( or so I think, I really don't like using stats because This I'm not some final fantasy character) I still see floaters more often then I would like, my VS is slowly declining, and I still see after images and tracers like no bodies business. So the point I've been rambling on about in this post would be, what do these symptoms have in common? A certain lobe of the brain? Certain brainwaves? Don't alpha waves stem from the occipital lobe? Would that be the issue? I highly doubt there are multiple separate problems to this equation. It's an equation none the less, so there has to be an underlying cause? Has anybody had any luck with binaural or isochronic beats? Would meditation regulate brai. Wave activity? Am I wearing pants? ( no) why is KFC so damn fucking tasty?? I have so many questions left to be answered!! D:

Hey! New to the discussion board, but I've been lurking in the shadows for quite some time now I so graciously acquired the 'gift' of hppd around 3 months ago. It's been quite the hassle to say the least. I was wondering, what's the difference between migrane aura and hppd? I mean besides the whole prior hallucinogen use thing. I mean there are visual distortions implicated right? Just a thought.