psychedelic

     

The wor psychedelic is an English term coined from the Greek words for "soul," ψυχή (psyche), and "manifest," δήλος (delos). A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are an array of experiences elicited by sensory deprivation as well as by psychedelic substances. Such experiences include hallucinations, changes of perception, synesthesia, altered states of awareness, mystical states, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.

Trivia about psychedelic

  • Meaning "spirit" & "visible", this adjective for hallucinatory experiences came into heavy use
  • A type of far out 1960s music, or the class of drugs that inspired it
  • 1957: An adjective meaning "mind-revealing", used of certain substances

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