✦Description
At and around threshold, ordinary surfaces begin to breathe, ripple, melt and flow — walls pulsing in and out, floors rolling in slow waves, edges softening as if everything were made of liquid, wax or living tissue. Objects seem to inhale and exhale in time with the traveler; textures crawl and reflow; solid matter takes on a wet, gel-like or candy-like plasticity. This animate-liquid quality is often the first sign the substance has taken hold (in the ambient, eyes-open phase) and returns during the descent as hyperspace 'melts' back into the room.
✦What the sources say
Lower-intensity visual effects include continuous morphing, breathing and flowing of surfaces before defined geometry takes over.
'Plasmatis' — 'the multicolored constantly shifting gel-goo' decorating space; 'Candyland' — reality 'as if made of colorful candy,' polished and plastic.
Reports of surfaces and forms in continuous fluid transformation as a baseline feature of the visual style.
Questions
What is Breathing & Liquid Surfaces?
At and around threshold, ordinary surfaces begin to breathe, ripple, melt and flow — walls pulsing in and out, floors rolling in slow waves, edges softening as if everything were made of liquid, wax or living tissue. Objects seem to inhale and exhale in time with the traveler; textures crawl and reflow; solid matter takes on a wet, gel-like or candy-like plasticity. This animate-liquid quality is
Is there research on Breathing & Liquid Surfaces?
Corresponds to Effect Index/PsychonautWiki 'drifting' (morphing/breathing/flowing/melting) effects and to low-level geometry animating static surfaces — attributed to unstable, continuously updated edge and motion processing under the drug.