psychedelic
Swirling neon hallucinations
Psychedelic describes drugs that alter perception and consciousness—LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline.
The experience typically involves vivid visual hallucinations, intensified colors, and distorted sense of time.
The adjective extends to art, music, and design that evokes these altered states: psychedelic rock, psychedelic posters with swirling patterns and Day-Glo colors.
The sixties were the heyday of psychedelic culture.
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
- mescalinePsychoactive cactus alkaloid
- ayahuascaPsychoactive Amazonian plant brew
peyote · magic mushrooms · salvia · acid · blotter · tabs · shrooms · ketamine
Showing constantly changing patterns
- trippyResembling a hallucination
- colorfulFull of varied hues
- fluorescentEmitting light when energized
- vividIntensely clear and bright
swirling · fractal · iridescent · saturated · luminous · glowing · radiant · neon
Perception without external cause
- visionsImagined or prophetic sights
- alteredChanged from before
- synesthesiaInvoluntary sensory crossover
- mind-bendingOverwhelmingly strange or disorienting
ego death · trip · distortion · euphoria · transcendence · dissolution · peak · set and setting
Sixties counterculture member
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
Timothy Leary · Ken Kesey · acid test · love-in · commune · drop out · tune in · turn on
Hallucinogenic fungus-based psychotherapy
- integrationCombining into a whole
- clinical trialHuman subject research experiment
- Johns HopkinsBaltimore research university
- depression treatmentAddressing clinical melancholy
PTSD · addiction treatment · mystical experience · healing · microdosing · set and setting · facilitator · breakthrough
Drug-influenced heavy music
- psytranceHypnotic electronic dance genre
- jam bandImprovisation-heavy live music group
- Pink FloydProgressive rock band
- Grateful DeadLegendary jam band
Jimi Hendrix · Jefferson Airplane · sitar · wah-wah · phaser · feedback · droning · improvisation
Graphics for wall display
- album coverRecord's illustrated sleeve
- mandalaCircular spiritual diagram
- paisleyCurved teardrop textile motif
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
LSD
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
- mescalinePsychoactive cactus alkaloid
ayahuasca · peyote · magic mushrooms · salvia · acid · blotter · tabs · shrooms · ketamine · MDMA
kaleidoscopic
Showing constantly changing patterns
- trippyResembling a hallucination
- colorfulFull of varied hues
- fluorescentEmitting light when energized
vivid · swirling · fractal · iridescent · saturated · luminous · glowing · radiant · neon · patterned
hallucination
Perception without external cause
- visionsImagined or prophetic sights
- alteredChanged from before
- synesthesiaInvoluntary sensory crossover
mind-bending · ego death · trip · distortion · euphoria · transcendence · dissolution · peak · set and setting · flashback
hippie
Sixties counterculture member
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
flower power · Timothy Leary · Ken Kesey · acid test · love-in · commune · drop out · tune in · turn on · underground
psilocybin therapy
Hallucinogenic fungus-based psychotherapy
- integrationCombining into a whole
- clinical trialHuman subject research experiment
- Johns HopkinsBaltimore research university
depression treatment · PTSD · addiction treatment · mystical experience · healing · microdosing · set and setting · facilitator · breakthrough · neuroplasticity
acid rock
Drug-influenced heavy music
- psytranceHypnotic electronic dance genre
- jam bandImprovisation-heavy live music group
- Pink FloydProgressive rock band
Grateful Dead · Jimi Hendrix · Jefferson Airplane · sitar · wah-wah · phaser · feedback · droning · improvisation · concept album
poster art
Graphics for wall display
- album coverRecord's illustrated sleeve
- mandalaCircular spiritual diagram
- paisleyCurved teardrop textile motif
surrealism · blacklight poster · concert poster · body paint · lava lamp
- music genresblues, pop, jazz, rock, classical
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- retro stylesart deco, art nouveau, mod, hippie, disco
- Sixtieshippies, Beatles, Woodstock, Vietnam War, JFK
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- design stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, art nouveau, Bauhaus, minimalism
psychedelicmuted
Made quieter or softer
dull · monochrome · colorless · subdued · colourless
psychedelicsober
Free from intoxication
clear-headed · grounded · normal · straight · unaltered
psychedelicrealistic
True to life
conventional · traditional · minimalist · plain · understated
- psychedelic artHallucinogen-inspired visual style
- psychedelic mushroomsFungi inducing hallucinations
- psychedelic rockHallucinogen-inspired music genre
- Psychedelic musicHallucinogen-inspired sonic genre
- psychedelic therapyTreatment using consciousness-altering substances
- psychedelic printsVivid, swirling decorative patterns
psychedelia, psychedelics, psychedelically, psychedelic rock