Far cry 3....NDE's and mushroom trips.

Far cry three, the story of the misfortune of some American tourists which pick the wrong islands to holiday on and are captured by pirates(the local gang).Far cry 3 so far as I have played it has had 2 psychedelic trips in it, comparing these with my own experiences they are probably the most accurate I have seen in a game so far.

Far cry fungi tripping.

The first trip is on a mission to collect some medicinal mushrooms to cure your freind of the poison plants that she ran through try to escape the pirates. You are sent on a mission into a cavern to retrieve these medicinal mushrooms by a Dr. that lives on the island. When you go into the cavern some fungi(not the ones you are looking for) release their spores and you become intoxicated. What you see when you are tripping is lots of purple colours and reality unfolding before your eyes, specifically plants growing in fast forward. I have seen this personally on dmt substances much like ayahuasca. Plants growing in fast forward and also the purples are a colour that in my own experience have been strong colours on DMT substances. They the people that made far cry have obviously done their homework and have brought you an accurate depiction of what it is like to trip on DMT substances which can be found in many plants and mushrooms.

Mysterious Hallucinogen given to you by the "queen' of the jungle.

The second trip. You are sent to meet a woman called citra, lets call her the Queen of the jungle. You are there to ask her for the strength to become a true warrior and rescue your captured friends (or what's left of them). After a confrontation and some ego inflation by Citra, she gives you a bottle filled with a mysterious liquid, which is to be assumed to be some type of psychedelic. When you take this psychedelic time starts to slow down (much like a real trip). Then you are faced with a white light which encompasses your entire vision. If you have read and my other entries on my blog you will know that the white light is the ultimate gateway to the after life and commonly reported by people that have near death experiences (NDE's). You also essentially have a premonition or see into the future in a dreamstate, which is the quintessential shamanic white light trip.

"A near-death experience (NDE) refers to personal experiences associated with impending death, encompassing multiple possible sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. These phenomena are usually reported after an individual has been pronounced clinically dead or very close to death."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience

 Now it is up for debate as to whether any psychedelic will directly help you reach this point, it is proposed by Dr. Rick Strassman that DMT (which is most likely what the substance would contain in real life or a type of DMT) is produced in your pineal gland during dreaming and dying. When you come through this white light you find yourself falling from the sky and when you reach the ground you are with all your friends which have been killed by the pirates. Hmmmm white lights and talking to the souls of you dead loved ones, seems like this is pretty damn accurate to the reports of real life NDE's, after you walk away from your friends to follow a man in a suit, you see the plants growing out of the ground in fast forward(seen myself on a dmt trip) and it also worthy to note that the leaves and branches dance, which is also a phenomenon which I have witnessed myself.

Well that's as far as I have been up in the game so far as I have had some account issues logging in. I will however update this the more I get through the game. If you read the rest of the blog and do some personal research on NDE's and entheogens(psychedelics) I am sure you will be able to make your own correlations. :)