Ayahuasca/Summary

Main article: Ayahuasca

Psychoactive class: Psychedelics

Chemical class: Unknown

Harm potential

• • Not habit-forming
  • LD50 is around 50 times a regular dose

Physical effects

• • Muscle contractions
  • Perception of bodily lightness
• • Stimulation
• • Appetite suppression
  • Motor control loss
  • Sedation
• • Dehydration
  • Diarrhea
  • Muscle tension
  • Muscle twitching
  • Nausea
  • Stomach cramp

Visual effects

• • Acuity enhancement
  • Colour enhancement
  • Magnification
  • Pattern recognition enhancement
• • After images
  • Auditory distortion
  • Colour shifting
  • Colour tinting
  • Drifting
  • Scenery slicing
  • Symmetrical texture repetition
  • Time distortion
  • Tracers
• • Geometry: Eventually leads to level 8B geometry
• • Autonomous entity
  • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination
  • Perspective hallucination
  • Settings, sceneries, and landscapes
  • Transformations

Cognitive effects

• • Autonomous voice communication
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Enhancement and suppression cycles
  • Multiple thought streams
  • Time distortion
• • Analysis enhancement
  • Creativity enhancement
  • Emotion intensification
  • Empathy, affection and sociability enhancement
  • Immersion enhancement
  • Increased music appreciation
  • Increased sense of humor
  • Novelty enhancement
  • Personal meaning enhancement
  • Suggestibility enhancement
  • Thought acceleration
  • Thought connectivity
  • Thought organization
  • Wakefulness
• • Addiction suppression
  • Language suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Personal bias suppression

Auditory effects

• • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory enhancement
  • Auditory hallucination

Multi-sensory

• • Dosage independent intensity
  • Machinescapes
  • Scenarios and plots
  • Synaesthesia

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index