channel5 from patreon - Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder - 5CAST with Andrew Callaghan (#4) feat. Dr. Wesley Ryan

I hope you see a clear sky again AC!

Vlad Loenko

2025-08-29 16:56:48 +0000 UTC

Yo, that Dr. Wesley Ryan seems like an idiot. Regardless, appreciate the episode! = )

Aron Lloyd

2025-07-14 16:22:51 +0000 UTC

Would love for there to be a follow-up video about if you went down the route with doc/meds and how things are going for you! I showed this video to my sister and she realized she has hppd, and experienced depersonalization during a traumatic medical procedure and it really really messed her up. Your research and interview helped her feel a lot better just to know what was up. Appreciate all your work sincerely!!

Megan Rouch

2025-06-15 01:04:56 +0000 UTC

Both times I’ve watched this I have indeed, been high

Megan Rouch

2025-05-31 04:26:24 +0000 UTC

I'm not an abstinence advocate by any means, but I completely stopped using drugs and alcohol other than nicotine around 10 years ago, and I still have HPPD symptoms, but they have gotten gradually less severe over time. I don't know if it has anything to do with being clean and sober for a relatively long time, and truthfully, I doubt that it does, but if it affects any of you like it affects me, it might be worth a try. Shit sucks.

Payton Wilkes

2025-05-26 00:57:35 +0000 UTC

Casually listening to this while working at UCSB. You’re not that far off Andrew.

aviatorjbc

2025-05-23 18:05:15 +0000 UTC

I thought everyone saw visual snow until you talked about it in that interview a few years ago. Learned so much about myself since then and you really helped me open that door. Thank you so much for talking about this

Faith Covert

2025-05-22 02:54:06 +0000 UTC

always name dropping toby n shout out my khmer

binktard

2025-05-20 01:32:41 +0000 UTC

so happy this is being talked about. i'm a licensed therapist in both oregon & colorado and there's a lot of talk about shrooms/ketamine in a therapeutic context. i've gone to a lot of seminars & conferences to learn more about it. i think a lot of the psych world is excited about this but imo their current research is not thorough enough... i feel like current researchers & psychologists have rose-colored glasses on with this new modality. i'm feeling nervous about a lot of other side effects that we just haven't had enough time to study. like in the immediate aftermath of a trip, we often see a decrease in anxiety, depression, & trauma responses in many people .... we also see a HUGE amount of breakthroughs. but what about effects that might pop up years later? i'm not against ketamine or shrooms but wish they would do a little more research. anyway, i also struggle with derealization and i always describe it as the Sunken Place in the movie get out lol

jules

2025-05-15 03:29:56 +0000 UTC

Loved this conversation! In some regards you seem more well-informed about the subject than Wesley. You've probably heard about Hamilton Morris. He's super well informed on psychedelics and drugs in general. One of the few other people I support on Patreon. Would love to listen to a conversation between you and him.

Nicholas Sharkey

2025-05-14 04:31:30 +0000 UTC

I was very surprised to hear that Lamictal is supposed to help with HPPD. I was prescribed Lamictal because I have epilepsy and it was supposed to have less side effects than the medication I was taking at the time. Unfortunately I misunderstood the doctor telling me to take 250mg and took 350mg instead. After a few weeks I started to have strong visual distortions, I was seeing objects double, had no sense of balance and had this feeling that I was out of my body not being able to really take in informations. Luckily those things stopped after I switched back.

Laurence Rodriguez Startz

2025-05-13 19:46:54 +0000 UTC

Glad to see Renton from trainspotting in this vid!

Miki

2025-05-11 10:13:01 +0000 UTC

I gained hppd when taking a 4 gram dose at 15. And many more doses after that . I had no idea what I got myself into. My depersonalization is hell and only thing that helps is Xanax

Jeff Johns

2025-05-11 02:31:20 +0000 UTC

I've also developed dpdr after hppd . Which was brought by heavy psychedelics abuse. (yes, you can 100% abuse psychedelics) It'll barely affect me nowadays but when it does I recognize enough to not get sent into a panic attack , but it happened quite often while I was driving in the highway and it was quite scary... Because it feels like being in a K-hole looking over your body like in third person and being completely disassociated of self, and that happening while I was driving at 80 mph in the highway was scary af. It eased out, but when it started it would happen often throughout the day and it was incredibly debilitating as I was having constant panic attacks trying to fight against it ... The weird part is that I had a somewhat strong mindset, I could do about anything (and mostly a lot of it, which is probably the main issue) and never felt anxious at all. After hppd/dpdr most things give me crazy anxiety , which I've learned to deal with it pretty well so I'm not freaking out so is not debilitating. But it still there like a splinter in my brain and the anxiety always there to remind me.

Wendell Oliveira

2025-05-09 17:15:14 +0000 UTC

VSS/HPPD patient from Toronto. I'm so happy to see this being talked about. We are on the verge of some real tangible treatments.

Matthew Karas

2025-05-09 14:06:33 +0000 UTC

Amazing video once again Andrew, UCDavis represent!

setblock

2025-05-08 17:42:23 +0000 UTC

My brother is called Mathieu Seynaeve, he's one of the doctors directly responsible for the decriminalisation of psylocibin. His PhD studies into the treatment of longterm, therapy-resistant psychiatric ailments is directly quoted in multiple legislations. Even he, agrees with a lot of the points you make in this video. That's as far as my knowledge about it stretches though. I am an alcoholic and recreational drug user that has been sober for for 2 years. But I also suffer from chronic pain due to nerve damage so I'm not opposed to more therapies being available to me. Esp since I'm Belgian and we're behind on all that stuff.

Skroeftie

2025-05-08 11:52:09 +0000 UTC

I was at the Summer 2024 screening of Dear Kelly in Sacramento, CA and was sitting right behind this young dude who was brave enough to talk to Andrew about about having HPPD in front of the whole theater, and Andrew acknowledged his struggles and proceeded to come give him a hug. Poor dude had been kinda skittish all night but when Andrew interacted with him and validated his suffering he seemed really overjoyed and happier for the rest of the night. It was a beautiful thing to see and I'm glad that Andrew is using his platform to talk openly and honestly about some of the potential consequences of more widespread psychedelic use. Much love from NorCal and keep up the great work - this Patreon membership and the money I spend on merch is beyond a doubt some of my best money well spent, and it's been a privilege to ride along with AGNB + Channel 5 for 5+ years now :)

Matthew Rowe

2025-05-08 02:01:06 +0000 UTC

Don’t have HPPD but I have endured “flashbacks” and heightened anxiety since consuming LSD and having a “bad trip” 5 years ago. More research and open dialogue about this gives me comfort, I hope it wont always be this way. Definitely going to look into the magnesium OTC treatment :)

Erica esparza

2025-05-08 00:09:44 +0000 UTC

I have this but not as severe as Andrew. Nice to see a video on it because I haven’t seen anyone mention this in a long long time (probably back on 420chan).

Alejandro Many Moons

2025-05-07 23:26:54 +0000 UTC

I experienced that extremely rare averse reaction to Lamictal which is a rash that can be life threatening if not treated quickly. It popped up out of nowhere after a month of use and positive response (as intended) and manifested a lot like heat rash or poison oak but not localized and seemingly in spots all over the body simultaneously. Psychiatrist had me stop taking it immediately and it went away in a few days.

Kelby Dayton

2025-05-07 16:17:16 +0000 UTC

Thank you Andrew and Channel 5 💙

Jack Stein

2025-05-07 15:49:51 +0000 UTC

The discussion of DRDP reminded me of when I was a kid (maybe 7-9yo) I convinced myself that reality and all of the people in it was a big illusion fabricated and controlled in real time by God to test whether I would get into Heaven or not. I theorized that the illusion did not exist beyond what I could directly see or interact with. If I was reading about a person or place I had never seen, it didn’t exist outside of whatever information was perceiving in that moment. Can’t imagine living an adult life with that existential anxiety.

Alec Pflaumer

2025-05-07 11:47:43 +0000 UTC

The first minute and a half was worth my Patreon subscription for the year

Tyler

2025-05-07 04:06:22 +0000 UTC

In good faith I might add, that many educated people are or come off that way. I think many times it’s not intentional, but a by product of a knowledge base that to them seems obvious.

Kannibal Kory

2025-05-06 23:19:26 +0000 UTC

the doctor seems kind of pretentious.

seasidezoo

2025-05-06 21:34:37 +0000 UTC

i've had hppd since i was 16 and it's so cool to see you talking about this andrew. shouts out for spreading some awareness and hopefully we can find out how to denoise our eyesight again so i can read without feeling like my eyes are on fire because i stared at the sun

Jacob Schultz

2025-05-06 21:20:13 +0000 UTC

Open youtube in brave browser on iphone and u can bypass that. Go in full screen on the vid, swipe up to go to your homescreen and the video should still be visible, then turn off your phone. Depending on your phone and browser you can also use "request desktop site" and sometimes that lets you do it. On mine (android), i do that, turn off the phone, then the video pauses automatically, but then I can click play from the lockscreen and it resumes.

Shawhin Layeghi

2025-05-06 18:59:08 +0000 UTC

I'm sorry man

Shawhin Layeghi

2025-05-06 18:56:32 +0000 UTC

I do not have HPPD, but I've experienced visual snow ever since I can remember. I still don't know if thats a common thing experienced b all humans, or if its just more pronounced with me. I remember asking my mom when I was little why the dark areas of my room and shadows looked more "sunflowery" (sunflower seeds array patterns were the best way I could describe what I was seeing as a kid) and she said that was normal.

B3RNi3

2025-05-06 13:03:08 +0000 UTC

Hi! Also suffered from ddd probably from weed in my teens. Had a rough time a year back with it, but has been taking a small amount of antidepressants for a while now and its been helping a lot. Hope your doing well wish you nothing but the best🌟

Sebastian Larsson

2025-05-06 10:56:55 +0000 UTC

Holy fuck dude that just messed with my brain really hard. I was unfortunately diagnosed with ADHD when I was 9 years old and hearing you talk about how riddilin can have this affect of people really fucked me up just now. I remember vividly as a kid going through what you are explaining. I want to thank you for finding my solution and letting me know this crucial information. I’ve been haunted for years over the things that happened to me when I was a child.

Joseph Ambeau

2025-05-06 07:48:47 +0000 UTC

As a The Last Of Us fan listening to dude talking about mushrooms permanently changing his brain... https://tenor.com/view/pedro-monkey-puppet-meme-awkward-gif-15268759

Chris V

2025-05-06 03:43:52 +0000 UTC

I'm smoking weed while watching

tryztan derouzze

2025-05-06 03:19:25 +0000 UTC

good luck, hope you get it worked out

Joshua Rose

2025-05-05 20:58:18 +0000 UTC

once again, thank you guys so fucking much for caring about and listening to your viewers/supporters. i asked yall to upload the 5cast to patreon separately cuz youtube (unlike channel 5) DOESNT care about me and won’t let me listen w my phone locked. AND YALL ACTUALLY DID IT!! yall are the motherfuckn best

Owen Altheide

2025-05-05 20:35:15 +0000 UTC

Every interview for this just was just so good so far, awesome guests everytime. Keep em comming!

koschilein

2025-05-05 20:26:58 +0000 UTC

5Cast is my favorite evolution of your projects. Keep it up.

Mark

2025-05-05 20:09:38 +0000 UTC

Chillest doctor i've ever seen

David Silva

2025-05-05 18:49:46 +0000 UTC

Rubbed my eyes 50x while watching this. LOL. Hey guys, if anyone out there struggling with HPPD reads this, perhaps it will help to know I use to have much worse visual perception distortion, and I too did psychedelics in early adolescence. I even briefly experienced some of the depersonalization early on. It may provide so help to know that I've been sober 8 years now, and the visual distortions are practically gone, 99% of the time they aren't noticeable, and I have no other issues. As I said in a previous comment I hadn't thought about it in a ling time until this video. Great work channel 5

user_22

2025-05-05 16:53:38 +0000 UTC

I have it too. I forgot about it until now, thanks a lot Andrew!! (jk about 'thanks a lot' not jk'ing about having it, but really, I don't think about it at all these days and it doesn't effect my daily life at all either, it was hard at the initial onset). Thanks for the good work.

user_22

2025-05-05 15:53:04 +0000 UTC

Might be placebo effect, but the vast majority of my ocular (snow, floaters, afterimage) and nervous system issues (tremors, twitches) are controlled (not cured or gone, but controlled) thanks to Magnesium L-Threonate. Been on it for 2 years now. Life changing for me.

Zen

2025-05-05 15:47:57 +0000 UTC

If you ever wonder if your videos make a difference, this video has stopped me from taking some psilocybin pills my buddy gave me. I was not aware that it could cause permanent damage - I was just warned about nausea. Also, full agree on marijuana being a gateway drug to mushrooms - that's actually the path that got me here. I'll stick with the occasional green and take it no further!

Michael

2025-05-05 14:51:33 +0000 UTC

Cure my man!!!

Keegan Sinur

2025-05-05 14:17:34 +0000 UTC

Thanks for sharing, Andrew! You had mentioned HPPD at our local screening of Dear Kelly, so I was excited to see this deeper investigation. Your openness and advocacy for the Perception Restoration Foundation is appreciated. This was a constructive and intelligent conversation, built upon your personal experience, and connected to a wider conversation of clinical pharmaceutical research, decriminalization and cultural stigmatization. Keep up the great journalism and I look forward to future updates!

D. Running

2025-05-05 11:43:59 +0000 UTC

I have no affiliation whatsoever with this company, but Last Podcast on the Left does a pretty in depth dive in to MK with comedic spin. Touches on some of these issues; that being said, I haven’t done my own research on the specific topic. Ky here, love following you, and thank you for doing the honest journalism; it’s extremely refreshing. If you ever get a chance, I’d love to see you do an expose on the foster care system; specifically in CA. I grew up in it, and it’s something that is not talked about. Which is awful.

Kyllis Jahn

2025-05-05 10:22:14 +0000 UTC

he's said before he strictly avoids psychs since taking psychs again if you have HPPD can only make it worse. not taking psychs also makes HPPD go away for a lot of people over time, anywhere from months to years .. so if you want to hope to recover, taking psychs again is the worst thing you can do (i read a bunch of wikis/forum reports)

qrqrqr0515

2025-05-05 10:12:27 +0000 UTC

Boring as hell but sorry for your vision n shit

Spliff Jackson

2025-05-05 09:49:31 +0000 UTC

Man I hope Lamotrigine works for you, but as a fellow being that also has hppd and was prescribed lamotrigine for a bipolar diagnosis for a few years, it didn't really do much for the visual snow, the floaties that can take shapes, the paintings in the clouds, and the infinite amount of tiny little refractive stars when I close my eyes. The cloudy/muted brain part of lamotrigine really bothered me though, a great example is that it would have taken me about an hour to write this out back then and it would be even less cohesive than this already is lmao. And fuck, the withdrawals when I missed/was late with a dose were a little worse than opioid withdrawals, but not as bad as full on GABA withdrawals (pregabalin, alcohol, etc.) and sort of on the level of benzo wd in terms of brain zaps. Shit sucked to deal with, weened off, Hppd remained same until mindfulness, and that shit isn't overnight. A lot of patience, a lot of will, yada yada...y'all have probably heard that rant ten thousand times already. It's annoying that it's true and works(for me), but it's also liberating in the same beat. This isn't some hypocritical preachy "just stay natural man" bullshit, especially not when I'm cooked as fuck while writing this. It's all just a footnote from my subjective experience of navigating within the mental health system for decades. Everyone's biological-potluck is what it is. Y'all know yourselves better (i hope)than these thoughts of mine that're being displayed as bits of noise on your screen ever could. Thank you for existing.

ᶨ̶̸̢̠͜𖨫̅𓄸

2025-05-05 08:16:54 +0000 UTC

If you do try Lamotrigine or any other medications for this, please update us on your experiences.

Patreon

2025-05-05 06:30:10 +0000 UTC

i’ve been waiting for you to talk about this for years, thank you.

mar

2025-05-05 05:58:24 +0000 UTC

Psymposia is a big reason why the FDA did not approve mdma. If you actually look into their accusations against the MAPS clinical trial it's ridiculous to call it abuse or unethical practice.

Dugan Nash

2025-05-05 05:49:21 +0000 UTC

Interesting question. Have you ever tripped again since your condition? Would tripping again maybe fix the visual static problem?

Desert Rat Explorations

2025-05-05 05:18:45 +0000 UTC

Lamotrigine is also widely prescribed as a mood stabilizer to combat bipolar disorder. I’ve read they don’t really understand why it works for both epilepsy and bipolar which is interesting

dicky

2025-05-05 05:18:20 +0000 UTC

I got HPPD after an out of body experience caused by eating 0.6g of questionable molly in barcelona at 19 (didn’t know what I was doing). Constant hallucination of flat surfaces rippling very slowly and eerily. It was hard to deal with at first. It fortunately became less and less over the years until now at 31 I almost never see it

dicky

2025-05-05 04:35:33 +0000 UTC

Two Guns is the shit. That abandoned swimming pool there always has some new tags and art. Apache Death Caves is wild too.

Desert Rat Explorations

2025-05-05 04:00:08 +0000 UTC

Every video is a banger, man. Love seeing the content and you'll have my $5 a month till I die.

nagelbagel

2025-05-05 03:16:49 +0000 UTC

man it feels like we are watching you evolve andrew. this was really good

Alien Nation

2025-05-05 03:13:08 +0000 UTC

Great interview, thank you for this. As both a health professional and someone suffering from PTSD who has considered psychedelic treatment, it’s good to know some of the possible negatives that seem to be glossed over by other sources. I don’t have HPPD, but if lamotrigine doesn’t help I’d consider exploring ‘Pain without suffering’ by Vidyamala Burch. It’s aimed at chronic pain, but she presents some useful techniques to reduce suffering associated with any incurable condition

GratefulSnakers

2025-05-05 02:35:07 +0000 UTC

Thanks for covering this subject, as someone whos had negative experiences with weed and psychedelics im glad im not alone in suffering negative side effects from their use.

Kareem

2025-05-05 01:51:29 +0000 UTC

great talk!

Dreg McGade

2025-05-05 01:48:58 +0000 UTC

Did a good amount of psychedelics as a kid, never had a bad trip. Matched my symptoms with hppd on the Wikelpedia pretty soon after I started. Very cathartic to see the news guy I watch has had a very similar experience, keep it up 5 real

Pablito Lophophora

2025-05-05 01:09:58 +0000 UTC

Hey Andrew, not sure if you'll remember me but I was the one who asked you about HPPD at the Portland stop on the "this place rules" tour. I found your answer to be very insightful, and it's helped me navigate the difficulties this condition can bring. It's hard to explain the psychological impact of having permanent visual effects to someone who hasn't experienced it, and it can be particularly alienating to feel as though you're the only one on the planet who experiences it. Words cannot articulate how much I appreciate you speaking on it as a public figure, sharing your experiences and helping to dismantle the stigma surrounding HPPD. Until I watched an interview of yours and heard you talking about it, I had no idea that what I was going through wasn't a hardship exclusively endured by me, or that it was even an actual disorder. I've been taking lamotrigine for a little over 3 years now, and it has improved my life immensely, I truly hope it can do the same for you. Thank you for being you, please never stop. Much love!

PiffKilla

2025-05-05 00:59:04 +0000 UTC

good shit brother

BlueDeww

2025-05-04 23:21:22 +0000 UTC

I don't suffer from PPPD, but I still found this interview extremely interesting. I would love to know if lamotrigine has helped with your PPPD, or if you've tried magnesium as a treatment and how they've compared. As a side note, your channel has drastically improved in the last couple years, and I can't wait to see what direction you end up taking it. You're doing great work to bring awareness to topics that most people aren't even aware of. Keep up the good work!

Christopher

2025-05-04 23:19:17 +0000 UTC

yeeeeeaaaah BUDDY!

Dylan

2025-05-04 23:04:50 +0000 UTC

Yoooooo!! Someone gave me LSD when I was 11 and I had this hpdd from 11-20s and into 30s and still get relapses sometimes. Anxiety would trigger it and for me it wasn't always visual, it was a helicopter feeling on my hands and legs and I couldn't walk or move. It was awful. I've done nitrous oxide recently and triggered the same feelings and I have this understanding of it in a new weird way. I've done a ton of drugs, all of em. I relate to this standoff-edness and no eye contact afterwards, etc etc I could totally relate about this one. So much to say

Virginia Hanna

2025-05-04 23:04:00 +0000 UTC

Hey Andrew, thank you so much for this video. I related to a lot of what you shared with HPPD as well as DPDR. Experiencing DPDR was, I think, some of the scariest times of my life that I find few people to understand, and I appreciate the insight and care you took into sharing this information with others. These can be debilitating and completely isolating experiences, that can really feel like you are loosing your gd mind. I started psychedelic usage pretty early on as well--I was 18 and often times took doses that could be considered "heroic," (a few times that were complete accidents even). And as amazing as psychedelics are, there are definite risks that need to be shared and more normalized as well. Anyway, all this is to say that watching this made me feel really seen and I appreciate you. And btw, I also take lamotrigine, and it has helped me a lot not only for my DPDR, but has helped with my post traumatic stress, panic attacks, and general anxiety as well. Thanks Andrew, you a real one <3 -Kim

Aaron Smith

2025-05-04 23:00:19 +0000 UTC

I'm a neurologist who has helped people with PPPD. very excited to check this out and see your thoughts on it. I've found success treating patients in a similar way that I approach patients with functional neurologic disorders (FND) (see FNDhope.org great resource for this category of conditions). Psychedelics create changes in the brain that allow for an alteration of perceptions in the way we perceive the world. That can be perception in a physical sense such as visual phenomena or perceptions in thought such as working through ptsd trauma Our brains have the ability to perceive the world in a new way while under the influence of psychedelics. The perception changes are a result of receptors activated by the psychedelic substance. Similar to FND conditions, I've found that some people with PPPD are experiencing a learned pathway formed as a result of psychedelic substance use. Particularly in people with underlying anxiety or underdeveloped brains - psychedelic use can induce these new visual pathways while on the subance and those visual changes are also associated with the euphoria and high associated with psychedelics. untreated anxiety or depression can return upon sobering up from the subance. The brain may then default to activating the pathways associated with psychedelic use as a result of the association with the euphoria. Over time this can become a reinforced pathway for the brain leading to more frequent symptoms. For patients with PPPD I've had them begin tracking emotions and correlation with symptoms. For a subset of patients they've found that worsening off pppd symptoms were associated with more feelings of anxiety or depression or ptsd related symptoms. After identifying this pattern it opened the door for more intensive FND specific treatment which lead to reductions in PPPD symptoms. may not be the case for all patients but FND conditions have a wide spectrum of neurologic symptoms and it would make sense that some patients with PPPD symptoms may be having symptoms as a result of a FND process.

Adam Sitzmann

2025-05-04 22:45:47 +0000 UTC

As a kid I often experienced derealization and HPPD episodes when I had high temperature fever, but I can't remember when the last time was I had those. I think the link to brain development is very likely to be right, concerning the higher risk of suffering from one of those mentioned disorders or psychosis. In my opinion what also has really risk-reducing effects on a psychedelic experience in general is a (sober) trip-sitter, who knows what you are experiencing (preferably has experience in a psychedelic trip himself) - Timothy Leary was right here. Watching TV while tripping may also not be the best idea, because it's a really decoupled experience in a sense of perceiving your surrounding (opposed to being outside / in nature for example). Most of the diseases developed by psychedelic experiences i think are dissolved mechanisms of brain-functions and filtering mechanisms. To align these, my theory is to perhaps develop kind of a specific/personal "training method" to use neuroplasticity to reorganize/rebuild the affected synapses etc. Psychotherapy is maybe the most common method in this regard, but there are many other ways.

Jonas Le Loup

2025-05-04 22:27:06 +0000 UTC

Brother suggesting hair of the dog is no good

William Wimmer

2025-05-04 22:19:09 +0000 UTC

Thanks for such an informative vid. I also have HPPD, I developed it after an acid trip when I was 15 (20 years ago). Last year I underwent Esketamine (a form of ketamine) treatment for depression. It didn't cure my HPPD but it has definitely toned down the visual noise and made it more tolerable, at least for the last 6 months anyway.

Chantelle M

2025-05-04 22:10:42 +0000 UTC

Thank you so much for this info dude. I was just about to sign up for it since I've been getting spam bombed and unceasing scam attempts. My info is def out there, but I know who I WON'T be calling for help now!

B3RNi3

2025-05-04 22:08:11 +0000 UTC

I went to a show in Cleveland and wanted to ask this but didn’t get a chance to. Thank u so much for making this and explaining it!

bpds00

2025-05-04 21:56:57 +0000 UTC

I always forgot to post here and go straight to YouTube. So sorry for the redundancy, if you’ve already read this. ✌️ -My dude, Incogni and all the others are a waste of money. They aren’t scams necessarily but they don’t offer any more protection or security than what you can and should do to limit the amount of personal information data brokers farm and/or purchase from websites and platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter and yup, even YouTube. I don’t think or have any evidence that Incogni is malicious or is “scamming” people, but they are providing a service that is essentially trying to plug an infinite number of holes in a boat. They’re not adding any holes (for now) but it doesn’t matter how many they fix. The water is going to continue to pour in until you do a serious restoration on that thing. It’s tedious and involves a bit of security updates on your phone, tablet, PC, etc as well as creating new emails, logins and password credentials, but it’s much more effective than just paying for a service that really isn’t doing a whole lot. You could actually do a genuinely interesting and informative piece on these companies. Like i said, they don’t seem overtly malicious at this point, but they are absolutely opportunistic entities that aren’t solving any problems. They’re just taking advantage of a country/government that is so pathetically lax, lazy and corrupt when it comes to cybersecurity and the protection of its citizens personal & private information.

MrPooPooJohn

2025-05-04 21:46:13 +0000 UTC

Thanks Andrew for sharing something so impactful to your own life and raising awareness for this chronic condition. I have had bothersome tinnitus for almost 10 years now and HPPD strikes me as somewhat of a visual parallel to that. Being trapped in your own skin suit's limitations of subjective reality is a b. Something that is a big part of the conversation about bothersome tinnitus and wasn't talked about in this conversation is the relationship between the limbic system and the awareness of the condition. Not sure if it's similar at all with HPPD, but with tinnitus it seems to be a keystone to the difference between the folks with bothersome tinnitus vs folks with tinnitus that doesn't negatively affect day to day life. Evolutionarily, the auditory system interacts with the amygdala and hippocampus to protect ourselves from external harms like predation. Noise, particularly out of place noise like a mountain lion in tall grass when systems are functioning as intended or the high pitched tones of tinnitus when disordered, induces a release of stress hormones via the limbic-HPA-axis. Noise, both functional and dysfunctional, can affect hippocampal LTP, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis and memory. Functionally speaking, teaching the brain that those grass sounds are a mountain lion so we can protect ourselves from harm. Dysfunctionally, when the noise has no cause like in tinnitus, the limbic system plays a major role in tinnitus proliferation because the brain has nothing tangible to pair the sound with and continues "hunting" for the non-existent cause. This limbic feedback loop causes the intensity of the tinnitus symptoms to be overwhelming. One of the therapeutics for bothersome tinnitus is anti anxiety meds. I'm on Lexapro and so far it has helped tremendously. I went from frequent panic attacks and fearing death would be the only way to experience silence again to living with a mostly manageable condition. SSRIs, at least for me, have helped to disentangle the limbic feedback loop, allowing me to ignore the sounds for most of my day which in turn reduces the intensity. I really hope you get a chance to try those medications and that they are somewhat positive for you. I'd be curious if there are any similar connections with HPPD and the limbic system worth pursuing. I'd also be very interested in C5 doing more reporting like this on tinnitus or other chronic less-understood diseases/conditions. Dr Gans is a good resource in San Francisco if you wanted to interview someone about tinnitus. Peace.

Kettle

2025-05-04 21:35:33 +0000 UTC

I’m high right now😂

Kyle Bowen

2025-05-04 21:30:51 +0000 UTC

Maybe hair of the dog that bit you? I bet a strong medical Ayuascha or ibogaine trip would clear it up <3 congrats on living a successful life making great videos despite this condition!

ge

2025-05-04 20:56:25 +0000 UTC

Just a theory; Huberman Lab podcast had an episode on psilocybin and mentioned how it encourages neuro-elasticity and neurons forming new connections in the brain. Not sure if it works this way but could neurons make new connections that bypass those visual cortex filters?

Christopher Grzymala

2025-05-04 20:33:34 +0000 UTC

If AHS was half as interesting as your analogy I'd still be watching

DW

2025-05-04 20:26:10 +0000 UTC

This is an interesting video, I also took shrooms when I was 14 and although I didn't get HPPD, I experienced really intense derealization after that first trip for a long time, and it was extremely scary at the time and I also couldn't go to my parents to tell them what happened. Luckily it has gone away over time or I have learned to live with it, but I relate to using alcohol to cope with the anxiety as well. Glad you are bringing attention to this.

Jonathan Hayes

2025-05-04 20:18:33 +0000 UTC

Smoking green crack thca rn, Knoxville Tennessee. Representatives just voted to ban next year. We’ll see how it goes. Tennessee is like the Alamo of legalization cause of our alcohol culture. Even though we could grow in abundance

rane hill

2025-05-04 20:14:20 +0000 UTC

I've had a fairly traumatic childhood. I remember as a kid saying to the doctor "You don't see those snowflakes and bubbles in the sky?" and they looked at me like I was insane. I never needed the psychs but turned to them anyways. It's more, normal people aren't looking for how your eyes actually work. Trauma and psychedelics remove the oversight filters, and once you notice it, you can't look away. Like a loose thread on a coat

Future_Max

2025-05-04 20:03:50 +0000 UTC

Maybe the psychedelics were placebo...

Future_Max

2025-05-04 19:51:42 +0000 UTC

owlsey stanley and robert hunter are interesting ones from that scene to go down the rabbit hole on as well.

holly

2025-05-04 19:51:30 +0000 UTC

I have all hppd symptoms and I have never taken psychedelics

mud

2025-05-04 19:49:06 +0000 UTC

next 5cast is ac seeing the sky in its awesome glory

L

2025-05-04 19:46:11 +0000 UTC

I want to disagree but anytime I get stressed now and I’m totally sober, I see mandalas on every flat surface 😅 I don’t hate it though

Lara Sea

2025-05-04 19:27:05 +0000 UTC

@channel5 I had this from 16 to 27. Took more LSD and it legit went away.

Cameron Gannon

2025-05-04 19:22:23 +0000 UTC

I still b seeing fractals on flat surfaces 6 years later

Dro mastrr

2025-05-04 18:56:05 +0000 UTC

I might have this due to some instances of extreme cannabis use(testing high dose gummies), I have the floaters and get a sorta low-grade visual snow

Qotice

2025-05-04 18:53:25 +0000 UTC

Occipital*, not Occidental which means "relating to the West". Andrew you're the best news source there is available

Beans-A-Weens

2025-05-04 18:52:56 +0000 UTC

I vividly remember smoking in Utah at my friends dads property in the mountains and I started tripping like I took acid it was insane and I just saw hella tracers and fuzzy vision I think I got it from doing too much acid in high school I’m glad it never got too bad and only happened when I smoked for a small period of time 🙏🏽

Ruben Garcia

2025-05-04 18:40:14 +0000 UTC

I've had that since I was a teenager in high school, ate 2C-I one night 2 decades ago and spent the entire night awake playing Halo 1 on my PC, I was in a dark room starring at my monitor. The next day I was seeing RGB distortion in my vision and to this day hasn't left.

Circumnavigate

2025-05-04 18:36:53 +0000 UTC

I felt like I had this for a period in time after high school but it’s gone now glad to see someone making something on it thank you Andrew