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[–] 71 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They smell like plastic, metal, complex hydrocarbons, and death.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Richard Stanley was hired to direct "The Island of Doctor Moreau" but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn't want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.

    You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it's full of weird details like that. It's called "Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Doctor Moreau"

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    People may think he's crazy, but part of psychedelics is hypersensitivity. I doubt he could actually see in the dark and smell landmines, but his brain probably recognized very small details and fabricated hallucinations based on what little he did pick up on.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I sort of believe the seeing-in-the-dark thing. I was at an LSD party with my friends one night and we took a black frisbee out onto an unlit field (no moon) and threw it around without once dropping it. We just knew where everybody else was and where the disc was at all times. I dunno, maybe we could smell the frisbee.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Contrast in the dark is far better on psychedelics, I assume because of the massive pupil dilation

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Petition for OP to crop the horizontal image from the vertical borders.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder if his memory of 'seeing in the dark' stemmed from his pupils being extremely dilated.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Let's pause for a moment and focus on that intent:
    I'm going to take LSD in a war zone.

    It's like the psychedelic revolution smashed right into The Right Stuff test pilot daredevil attitude. Some people truly seem to be made different than you and me.

    That said, it probably wasn't one of those legendary "heroic doses", as a certain low-to-medium range (which varies from person to person) does sharpen awareness of things we normally filter out automatically.

    If this guy did LSD in a war zone, he's probably done it many times before, is familiar with its' effects, a medium dose for him might be a heavy one for the rest of us... mere mortals.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure that's Harlan Williams.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'm not saying he could smell landmines, but apparently elephants and rats can.

    Though I'm assuming their snouts are fairly close to the ground.

    Who knows, maybe LSD unlocks the part of our brain which can smell landmines, and he was spiderman crawling in front of the camera crew, sniffing around like a TSA dog.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe somewhere in the DoD, someone is thinking of setting up an experiment on this.

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    That video is one of the best and oldest I can remember, from back when you saved videos to the cool videos folder because YouTube didn’t exist yet. Poor guy in the beginning having a bad trip. The soldier throwing the headphones down like “I can’t fucking do this”, cord stretched across the tree, while absolutely laughing his ass off always gets me. I wonder how many micrograms they were dosed with. Ahh, tripping in the woods.

    “He himself then relapsed into laughter”

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, you guys can't smell landmines? I thought everyone could do that!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Shortly after that he made Hardware, a pefect Christmas movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9tKss2_oU

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    It's not stupid, if it works.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Almonds. Explosives smell like almonds. Or cow shit. Depends on the kind.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Cool but please crop it next time, it's annoying on mobile.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    lol!! This crazy ass. He just got lucky af.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Like battery acid/Plasticine and cheap cookware. Kind of like the used pots aisle of a Goodwill

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Fuggin' goat!

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