They smell like plastic, metal, complex hydrocarbons, and death.
I wonder what they smell like.
Submitted 8 months ago by in4aPenny@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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CountVon@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be fair, they only develop that hint of death just the once.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 8 months ago
People may think he’s crazy, but part of psychedelics is hypersensitivity. I doubt he could actually see in the dark and smell landmines, but his brain probably recognized very small details and fabricated hallucinations based on what little he did pick up on.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I sort of believe the seeing-in-the-dark thing. I was at an LSD party with my friends one night and we took a black frisbee out onto an unlit field (no moon) and threw it around without once dropping it. We just knew where everybody else was and where the disc was at all times. I dunno, maybe we could smell the frisbee.
elfin8er@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Your pupils get massive when you’re on LSD, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re able to let in more light to let you see better.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Was anybody smoking? We always take a drag when we want the disc in the dark, bright cherry gets the toss
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s super cool
Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Contrast in the dark is far better on psychedelics, I assume because of the massive pupil dilation
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
No expertise here, but I wonder if neurons are more excitable on LSD. If every cell in your retina and optic nerve is trigger happy, you’d see more in the dark. More noise, too, I suppose.
lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe the elevated brain energy along with the will to survive or to avoid imminent death might coerce other areas of the brain to align with survival.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is essentially the point I was trying to make across, but worded better.
yamanii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Petition for OP to crop the horizontal image from the vertical borders.
aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If you add a section to eviscerate those erroneous commas, I will sign that petition.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wonder if his memory of ‘seeing in the dark’ stemmed from his pupils being extremely dilated.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes. But, I’m sure the visuals didn’t help.
tourist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be fair they didn’t specifically say what he saw in the dark.
Night patrol or machine elves. He saw what he saw.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Let’s pause for a moment and focus on that intent:
I’m going to take LSD in a war zone.It’s like the psychedelic revolution smashed right into The Right Stuff test pilot daredevil attitude. Some people truly seem to be made different than you and me.
That said, it probably wasn’t one of those legendary “heroic doses”, as a certain low-to-medium range (which varies from person to person) does sharpen awareness of things we normally filter out automatically.
If this guy did LSD in a war zone, he’s probably done it many times before, is familiar with its’ effects, a medium dose for him might be a heavy one for the rest of us… mere mortals.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dude read about Dock Ellis’s no hitter and said hold my beer and watch this
in4aPenny@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love that story.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ryan213@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Pretty sure that’s Harlan Williams.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right?
aport@programming.dev 8 months ago
See ya later, pups!
Zozano@lemy.lol 8 months ago
I’m not saying he could smell landmines, but apparently elephants and rats can.
Though I’m assuming their snouts are fairly close to the ground.
Who knows, maybe LSD unlocks the part of our brain which can smell landmines, and he was spiderman walking in front of the camera crew, sniffing around like a TSA dog.
Deebster@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Rats definitely can (also for TB), and you can sponsor them to do so: apopo.org
Magawa was a famous example: time.com/6138994/magawa-dies-landmines-cambodia/
DMBFFF@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe somewhere in the DoD, someone is thinking of setting up an experiment on this.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
deranger@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That video is one of the best and oldest I can remember, from back when you saved videos to the cool videos folder because YouTube didn’t exist yet. Poor guy in the beginning having a bad trip. The soldier throwing the headphones down like “I can’t fucking do this”, cord stretched across the tree, while absolutely laughing his ass off always gets me. I wonder how many micrograms they were dosed with.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 months ago
Holy shit they gave them bazookas. Mad lads, the lot of 'em.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Limmy: “It was not long thereafter that O had to be sedated”
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Wait, you guys can’t smell landmines? I thought everyone could do that!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wish I couldn’t. It’s extremely distracting as I’m trying to go about my daily routine.
stepan@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Cool but please crop it next time, it’s annoying on mobile.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not stupid, if it works.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Shortly after that he made Hardware, a pefect Christmas movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9tKss2_oU
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think he’s dead jim
Num10ck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i loved that movie, way ahead of its time.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Almonds. Explosives smell like almonds. Or cow shit. Depends on the kind.
Carlo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
One time, we pried the backs off some claymores, and daisy-chained them together with det cord. Smelled like a new can of tennis balls. Plasticizer off-gassing, I gather.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably. I was just trying to set up a poop joke but no one took the bait.
Towerofpain11@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What a lad
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 8 months ago
lol!! This crazy ass. He just got lucky af.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Maybe but it would not be the first time to theorize that light doses of psychedelics may increase environmental awareness.
Stoned ape theory has hunter gatherers discover a benefit to grains with trace amounts of ergot i
Not comparable to tripping oc and the experience of smelling mines is far out but maybe there is more to it then just dumb luck.
TwinkleToes@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Plastercine and cheap cookware. Kind of like the used pots aisle of a Goodwill
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Fuggin’ goat!
rarbg@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
yahoo.com/…/ios-17-lets-crop-photos-073146402.htm…
https://support.google.com/photos/thread/223840042?hl=en&msgid=223842957
considine@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Richard Stanley was hired to direct “The Island of Doctor Moreau” but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn’t want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.
You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it’s full of weird details like that. It’s called “Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Doctor Moreau”
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He also directed The Color out of Space with Nicholas Cage recently.
considine@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Good film. One of the few good Lovecraft adaptations, IMHO.
red@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Having enjoyed that truly good but weird movie, this story suddenly makes more sense