Has anyone ever watched this whilst on drugs… ?!
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haewatein — 14 years ago(May 01, 2011 08:08 AM)
"If you watched this film on drugs, you probably wouldn't come out alive. "
lol, that's exactly what I thought when I watched it first (sober)
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TheReelMcCoy — 20 years ago(February 20, 2006 03:29 PM)
Me and a friend would routinely watch this movie while smoking some very potent marijuana back in the early 90's. The most important insight I was able to recognize was a profound understanding of how specific chemicals, coupled with the undying search for the ultimate truth and ingested with the right external stimuli, can turn you into a hairy monkey
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Howlin Wolf — 20 years ago(March 01, 2006 06:01 AM)
The most important insight I was able to recognize was a profound understanding of how specific chemicals, coupled with the undying search for the ultimate truth and ingested with the right external stimuli, can turn you into a hairy monkey
A lesson learned, there, I feel
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Aphostile — 20 years ago(March 10, 2006 07:11 AM)
Given that this movie tends to attract people interested in altered states of consciousness, it's probably fairly common for people to watch it messed up on all kinds of substances.
What you are watching though is nothing more than a dramatization. Watching the abstract imagery of what was supposed to represent Dr. Jessup's trips is no more like the real thing than boxing matches in Rocky movies were like the real thing.
Those scenes were plenty captivating, disturbing and trippy in their own right to watch however (especially the one with the many-eyed goat). I hope most people are smart enough to realize that no matter what mind altering substances they ingested and no matter how long they were to spend in a sensory deprivation tank that they simply would not be physically regressing geneticly into a cave man.
I almost wish that whole physical regression thing was left out of the movie- it was just too absurd and really gave the film a cheesey sci-fi aspect it would have been better off without. -
steviepp — 20 years ago(March 28, 2006 11:21 AM)
Ive watched it coming dwn from LDS (when you cant sleep and your body is still tensed up things arent crazy but they still arent right) and it is no run in the park. It messes with you on some levels but then again the whole monkey regression thing killed the feeling for me. If you want to know what else not to watch on substances, one flew over the coo coo's nest and the history channel special on the last days of the reich
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panthergeo — 19 years ago(December 20, 2006 10:23 AM)
I'd like to add my own experience watching an '80's film while on a hit or two of blotter. I was past the peak stage when I tuned into a man vs. nature flick on one of the pay-TV channels many yrs. ago that was called "Razorback". I think the star was Gregory Harrison, who was on the late '70's TV spinoff of "Logan's Run". Anyhow, his character in the movie is obsessed Ahab-style with capturing this monsterous Outback porker. Sometime in the movie he has a bedroom scene with this hot Shelia (that's Aussie for babe) and he turns over and sees her rise up wearing this hog mask. He naturally startles awake to indicate that it was a dream image. The Psychotrophics in my synapses triggered intense laughter.
If I gotta connect this post in some way tangentally to "Altered States", lemme mention that the 2nd episode of the live-action DC Comics' "The Flash" series from 1990-91 has the titular speedster facing off against this mad geneticist who devises a way to de-evolve himself. He becomes a primordial creature who runs amok in Central City killing homeless people. Clearly the writers were lazily copying from the basic premise of "Altered States". -
nitaant-1 — 18 years ago(April 01, 2008 10:04 PM)
Because that is the nature of consciousness study and finding an ultimate finality. The finality is intangible to us in our current paradigms. The only way to achieve transcendence is to challenge reality. Not to just challenge it in theory, and then return to it when things get scary, you have to let go of all your conceptions of reality, let go of your current consciousness.
You will lose your ego, or the illusion of what you think you are, and find the core finality that is beyond question or rational explanation in this dimension. -
jon19809 — 16 years ago(November 06, 2009 04:04 PM)
i love taking acid and watching good films,tryed performance and vanishing point and phantasm on acid,but i would love to see this one on the stuff.cant bloody get any at the moment tho
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racewaybob — 16 years ago(November 07, 2009 04:56 PM)
Many of the posts on this thread deal with speculation; allow me to present the case for the "enhanced" experience. This is THE BEST "drug movie" ever! I have watched this movie several times with friends while tripping, and it is extraordinary. If you're into the acid, you may need to remind yourself "It is only a movie," especially during Act 3.
An All-Star movie marathon for the psychedelic fan: Start with "Altered States" followed by Pink Floyd's "The Wall", finish with the animated "Heavy Metal." Relax. Enjoy. -
KuD261 — 14 years ago(June 26, 2011 06:14 PM)
man, I wish I hadn't watched this high, well, I mean, not totally, it was an experience for sure, but one that left me anxious for the entirety of the movie.
It didn't help that my friend was kind of spurring this thought in my mind that I was going to activate some dormant schizophrenia, and that my mind was going to become overactive with images.