mind-altering
Affects your perception
Mind-altering describes substances or experiences that change perception, mood, or consciousness.
The term most often applies to drugs: mind-altering substances, mind-altering effects.
It can extend to intense experiences that shift one's mental state or worldview: a mind-altering documentary about climate change.
Causing sensory distortions
- trippyResembling a hallucination
- LSDPsychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- mescalinePsychoactive cactus alkaloid
DMT · ayahuasca · acid · shrooms · kaleidoscopic · visionary · synesthesia · fractals
Affecting brain and mood
- narcoticAddictive sedative drug
- hallucinogenDrug inducing false perceptions
- stimulantAlertness-boosting drug
- sedativeDrug promoting calm
opioid · depressant · cannabinoid · intoxicant · drug · controlled · illicit · synthetic
Causing drunkenness
stupor · lightheaded · befuddled · disorienting · euphoric · sedating · numbing · blurring
Exceeding usual boundaries
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- expandedMade larger or wider
heightened · trance · meditative · mystical · out-of-body · ego dissolution · peak experience · cosmic
Mental interpretation of stimuli
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
- sensationPerceived stimulus or phenomenon
reality · consciousness · awareness · judgment · memory · time perception · inhibition · coordination
hallucinogenic
Causing sensory distortions
- trippyResembling a hallucination
- LSDPsychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
mescaline · DMT · ayahuasca · acid · shrooms · kaleidoscopic · visionary · synesthesia · fractals · microdosing
psychoactive
Affecting brain and mood
- narcoticAddictive sedative drug
- hallucinogenDrug inducing false perceptions
- stimulantAlertness-boosting drug
sedative · opioid · depressant · cannabinoid · intoxicant · drug · controlled · illicit · synthetic · recreational
inebriating
Causing drunkenness
groggy · stupor · lightheaded · befuddled · disorienting · euphoric · sedating · numbing · blurring · hazy
transcendent
Exceeding usual boundaries
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- epiphanySudden profound insight
expanded · heightened · trance · meditative · mystical · out-of-body · ego dissolution · peak experience · cosmic · revelatory
perception
Mental interpretation of stimuli
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
sensation · reality · consciousness · awareness · judgment · memory · time perception · inhibition · coordination · hallucination