My friend and I saw the exact same thing on LSD and I still need some help explaining it
When I was 24, I had an LSD experience that has stuck with me harder than almost anything else in my life, and I’m posting this because I want to know if anyone has experienced anything even remotely similar.
I wasn’t going into that trip trying to “have a spiritual experience” or force some big revelation. I had already been opening up a little more to deeper questions in life at that point, but I was not sitting there trying to manifest aliens, God, simulation theory, or anything like that. This just happened.
I was outside in a field with one of my closest friends at the time, and we were peaking. At some point, the trees completely changed. It was like they were no longer just trees. They were showing me what they actually were underneath what we normally see.
I could see what looked like energy and information moving through them. The best way I can describe it is colorful electricity or some kind of intelligent current. It was moving upward and through them in a way that felt alive, organized, and conscious. It didn’t feel random or like “just visuals.” It felt like I was being shown the inner workings of reality through nature.
And this is the part that still gets me:
My friend saw it too.
Not in some loose, suggestible way where one person says something and the other just goes along with it. We were both seeing it in real time and reacting to the same thing at the same time. We were both overwhelmed by it. It brought us to our knees.
Then the sky changed.
It looked like the sky itself cracked open, almost like an eggshell or some kind of false surface splitting apart. And behind it was just this pitch black void. Not “space” exactly. More like the backdrop behind everything. Like whatever is behind the stage set.
And when that happened, I also saw what looked like some kind of scrolling strip or screen moving through that blackness, almost like tape rolling by, and on it were symbols that looked like Egyptian hieroglyphics or some kind of ancient coded language. It felt like it meant something. Like I was seeing information I wasn’t supposed to fully understand yet.
Despite being on lsd, it felt more real than anything I have ever seen. Down to my bones I felt the truth within it. It was not like “I hallucinated something” and more like something was revealed to me for a second.
I know people will say LSD can create shared suggestion, pattern recognition, etc. and I’m not against grounded explanations, but I also know what I felt in that moment. It did not feel fake. It felt more real than normal life.
What really gets me is that she saw the same thing, and to this day that’s one of the reasons the memory hits so hard.
Has anyone else ever experienced: • trees or plants appearing like intelligent energy systems? • the sky “opening” or reality peeling back? • ancient symbols / hieroglyphic-looking visuals that felt meaningful? • a shared vision with another person?
I genuinely want to know if this connects with anything other people have seen.