#bangface

I felt as though I could see *everything*, simultaneously I could see my surroundings through my eyes and from some higher vantage point, looking in through the ceiling. I felt as though looking at people around, I could see all the sociological dimensions of their existence as well as the physicality of them. I looked at my phone and had an intuitive shape of its all-round shape, not just what I could see, and I was aware of it as a block of matter projecting a thick flow of light. I was able to see my own hand as a tumult of molecules and energy, a whirlwind of elements. In all it felt as though I was subjected to the complete torrent of information in the universe, too quickly for me to integrate any piece of information before I was overtaken by more. I marveled at the volume of information -- how could my brain possibly have the bandwidth, even to act as a conduit for it? -~-~-~- At some point as I was standing on the dancefloor, enraptured by the light show. I saw a snake/dragon weaving itself around a sword, 2-dimensionally like a rich illustration. Time began to creep by. I was in ecstasy. In terms of the four Bardos described in the Psychedelic Experience, this corresponds to the second Bardo -- the byzantine and alluring visions that begin to draw us back into ego games. Time was passing so slowly... the relentless intensity of the music and the lasers above, made everything seem like one long moment. "This is incredible!" I thought to myself. "I wonder when it will stop?" Gradually fear set in, the fear that this would never end.  This corresponds to the third Bardo, the struggle to regain normality.