I have tripped exactly once, 8 years ago or so. The experience was fucking wild and it stuck with me for a while, but there was always a few blips that stuck the most. I want to share and entice discussion around one of those blips, and see if anyone has had a similar experience.

First of all, I say the Doppler shift because it’s a rough descriptor. It’s really the red shift blue shift effect. Short description from space.com: “Redshift and blueshift describe the change in the frequency of a light wave depending on whether an object is moving toward or away from us.” Moving away= red, moving toward = blue.

When I began to trip, I was staring at a cardboard cutout of Chewbacca. In a moment, 2 copies seemed to emerge from each side, and on the left was the same cutout but this time blue, and on the right was the same but red. And in the middle was the original.

I haven’t been able to find anything online about similar experiences while tripping, but I am very interested to know if others have had similar experiences. I am not saying what I witnessed was literally a Doppler shift as that wouldn’t make any sense. But I am still curious nonetheless