psychedelic
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk/
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- On one side, you had counterculture, poetry, and psychedelic substances; on the other, very rigid, dogmatic politics.
- psychedelic drugs
- psychedelic use
The the the key to successful classic psychedelic trips is surrender.
- The the the key to successful classic psychedelic trips is surrender.
- Not the most chaotic like psychedelic drug experience that you've ever had.
- You have a show which is built around your psychedelic experiences.
- And many people describe the psychedelic experience in sort of near death experience terms.
- But I would I would, I would summarize my psychedelic experience.
- So I'm super intrigued by what's going on in the areas of psychedelic research on that.
- We are also currently fighting with the DEA in courts to make sure that psychedelic research is not stopped.
- This means you won't face prosecution if you possess or use a psychedelic brew, but only in these cities.
- Maybe it was because it was the psychedelic time and this was so weird.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, says the man who runs the Psychedelic Institute Institute.
- What do you think about that as a psychotherapist and as a psychedelic assisted therapist?
Examples
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On Tuesday, Detroit voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
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Indeed, it is remarkable just how often ancient shamanic experiences are echoed in contemporary psychedelic ones.
Academic text (1990) -
You have a show which is built around your psychedelic experiences.
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And basically they were responsible for the psychedelic movement.
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You get into psychedelic drugs; you have to be prepared to give everything else up.
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And psychedelic trips can function in much the same way.
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The psychedelic experience is a confrontation with the divine.
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And this creates, as you might imagine, as this is a talk on psychedelics, quite vivid psychedelic trips.
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And this guy's doubting a lifelong belief in the afterlife because of a psychedelic cactus he just ate.
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The artist's latest collection features psychedelic patterns that mesmerize viewers with their vivid colors.
Synonyms
Strange like a dream and not real
Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
Causing a person to see or hear things that are not real
Makes a person think or feel differently
That makes someone see or hear things that are not real
Causes big changes in how you think or see things
Looks like a strange dream with changing images
Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
You are very still and not aware of things around you
Showing very strange dreamlike scenes with bright melting colors
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Antonyms
Compounds
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A drug that makes you see or hear things that are not real and changes how you think and feel
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Rock music from the 1960s with unusual sounds and effects that suggest drug experiences
How Hallucinatory
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Psychedelic comes from the Greek parts psyche ('mind') and -delic ('to show'), so it literally means 'making the mind visible', which fits experiences that cause vivid, strange images and feelings.