Colour distortions

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There is some discrepancy in the various characteristics of color distortions caused by psychedelic substances, as we only describe one variant (color shifting) which is named ambiguously.

Definitions

  • Shift (move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.)
  • Shifting (changing, especially unpredictably.)

Ambiguity

Though "Shifting" is potentially reasonable, it can give the impression of an element moving position rather than changing in quality. In the following example, "shifting" is used to refer to the misalignment of RGB channels. An experience I have had with a high dose of 2C-C specifically.

Shifting.jpg

We also describe diffraction in an article which appears to represent this quality:

 Caption
4-AcO-DMT
TMA-6
Experience:LSA (20 HWBR seeds) – A pleasant adventure with a harsh body load
MiPLA
Βk-2C-B
3C-P
4-AcO-DET
Allylescaline
Methallylescaline
2C-D
TMA-2
Experience:75 mg - Good tunes feat. Jeb Bush
DOI
25C-NBOMe
Psilocybin mushrooms
AL-LAD
4-HO-MiPT
Experience:12 mg AMT - Nicely Surprised
DET
5-MeO-DiPT
Experience: 80mg EPT - Bummer
25I-NBOMe
3C-E
Experience: 80mg EPT - Slight improvement
LSM-775
4-AcO-MiPT
Experience:3 Grams of Mushrooms - Reset on my Life, Experiencing Satori and the Cosmic Perspective
MPT
25C-NBOH
4-HO-DiPT
25I-NBOH
4-HO-MPT
DOC
25B-NBOH
Experience:2mg 25C-NBOMe - Experimental trip to test personal limits of NBOMes
1cP-AL-LAD
DOB
DOM
1P-ETH-LAD
25D-NBOMe
4-HO-EPT
4-HO-DPT
MET
Psilocin
EPT
Proscaline
1cP-MiPLA
Experience:5g Mushrooms - Failed attempt at a Terence Mckenna style trip.
ETH-LAD
Experience: 200µg 1P-LSD (sublingual) + 12mg CBD - The Vortex of Empathy
Diffraction.jpgDiffraction Shades by capture-life-with-lens.tumblr.com
PARGY-LAD
Glare.jpgGlare by Anonymous
PRO-LAD


There is also a phenomenon called chromatic aberration, caused by distortion of a camera lens, which appears like this:

Chromatic aberration (comparison).jpg

Aberration.gif

Also, as the size of an aperture like the iris increases, diffraction distortions become apparent:

Aperture Sun Flare.jpg

Issue

In our article for color shifting, the images examples we refer to exhibit colors which change in a cyclic nature:

 Caption
Experience:3.5g psilocybe cubensis - Relinquishing of Material Chains/Fear and Desolation
1cP-LSD
Experience:40mg DMT - Second breakthrough
25B-NBOH
LSD
3C-P
Ibogaine
LucytheFairy.gifLucy the Fairy by StingrayZ
Colour shifting field.jpgField by Anonymous
2C-I
MiPT
Methallylescaline
LSA
LSM-775
ETH-LAD
Amanita muscaria
MET
Flowers by Chelsea Morgan.gifFlowers by Chelsea Morgan
2C-T-2
Experience:3 Grams of Mushrooms - Reset on my Life, Experiencing Satori and the Cosmic Perspective
Experience:300µg LSD - Togetherness and the Silent Dusk
25I-NBOH
Experience:2.5g - Swim's first mushroom trip
1P-ETH-LAD
Experience:100ug 1P-LSD - A Fear and loathing into Bliss
Experience:170mg 4-AcO-DMT - Recklessness rewarded
4-AcO-DiPT
ΑMT
Experience:Mushrooms and Snuff Films -- Trip Report (3.5 grams)
2C-B-FLY
Experience:LSA (20 HWBR seeds) – A pleasant adventure with a harsh body load
2C-D
5-MeO-DiPT
Bufotenin
Experience:LSD (230 ug) - An amazing adventure by vikilikepsych
2C-C
25B-NBOMe
TMA-6
Experience:DXM & DPH in combination
TMA-2
4-HO-DPT
Escaline
4-HO-MET
WcYKq.gifPainting by Anonymous
Βk-2C-B
4-AcO-DMT
Experience:4x 200ug tabs - You do not need to understand
4-HO-DiPT
Garden Painting by Anonymous.jpgGarden painting by Anonymous
1B-LSD
4-HO-EPT
25I-NBOMe
5-MeO-DMT
Ayahuasca
Proscaline
4-HO-DET
1cP-MiPLA
DOM
Efavirenz
Bromo-DragonFLY
1P-LSD
25C-NBOH
DPT
5-MeO-DALT
Japanese Maple.jpgJapanese Maple by Anonymous
2C-T
LSZ
PRO-LAD
MiPLA
Psilocin
DOC
2C-T-21
4-AcO-MiPT
4-HO-MPT
DOB
2C-T-7
AL-LAD
Experience:1000 Morning Glory seeds - Rediscovering the Self
Allylescaline
2C-E
DOI
Experience:BK-2C-B - Various experiences
4-AcO-DET
2C-B
DET
25D-NBOMe
MPT
Mirtazapine
4-HO-MiPT
Psilocybin mushrooms
4-AcO-MET
5-MeO-MiPT
1cP-AL-LAD
3C-E
1V-LSD
25C-NBOMe
PARGY-LAD
2C-P
25E-NBOH
Mescaline
Experience:150mg MDMA + 20mg 2C-B - I designed it this way myself
DMT
Gaboxadol
ALD-52
5-MeO-DiBF


Description

Colour shifting can be described as a visual effect in which the colors of various objects (particularly bright or out of place objects) shift and change their appearance through a repeated cycling of varying colors in a strange and fluid motion across their surface. For example, moss on a rock could physically shift from green to red to blue to any other color and then back to green again in the visual style of a smooth and seamless animated loop.

Proposal

I propose that we rename the cycling of colors to one of the following, so that we can also describe other color distortions.

  • Leave as is Colour shifting for historic reasons
  • Colour cycling (move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events.)
  • Colour changing (make or become different.)
  • Please add anything else which might be suitable!

With an alternative name we can then describe the misaligned channels effect as something below.

  • Colour dispersion seems most fitting currently wikipedia
  • Colour shifting (changing, especially unpredictably.)
  • Colour displacement (the action of moving something from its place or position.)
  • Colour misalignment (the incorrect arrangement or position of something in relation to something else.)
  • Please add anything else which might be suitable!