Word: macropsia
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Grinspoon's account of the drug's effects are both scarier and, somehow, more prosaic: "Micropsia and macropsia (or megaplosia) have been frequently reported [as well as] the sensation that [people and objects] are rushing toward [the user] at tremendous speed, increasing in size as they approach." He doesn't mention that this peculiar sensation can happen stone-cold-sober when trying to get an autograph at Disney World. I was seven. I was so excited. I walked right up to the Mouse and thrust a pen in his face. Suddenly, I heard a disconcertingly masculine voice emanating from...
...blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits an occasional laugh or yell, and slaps his thighs in selfesteem. Evidently, the Waika on epena experiences what the psychiatrists call macropsia: in his eyes everything is enormously magnified, including himself. He sees gigantic animals and birds. He feels not 10 ft. but 10,000 ft. tall, for his head is among the clouds. And after he has slept off his trip, he reports that he has talked with...
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