[tcmb]

That sounds like a profound experience, would you say these insights had any lasting impact on your life? And, if may ask, in what way was it a bad trip? I once took LSD and was hoping for that level of experience, but only got nice visual sfx and some bad emotions later on.

[throwaway64389]

I would say it has opened a door to different way of seeing reality, and I can open that door whenever I want, but I don't think it has changed any of the practical decisions I've made.

It was a bad trip because the fractal nature of time implies that your life repeats itself infinitely many times (probably with the exact same details). You can never rest, it's all an infinite loop, and that idea made me extremely distressed, like this fractal nature was some sort of punishment or permanent purgatory.

[pmoriarty]

"It was a bad trip because the fractal nature of time implies that your life repeats itself infinitely many times (probably with the exact same details)."

This echoes Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, which he thought would in fact be terrifying to the ordinary man, but the overman could live their life in such a way that the infinite repetition would be fully and unreservedly welcome.

[swayvil]

Consider that you're remarking on his takeaway here. The "insights". The conceptual end-product of all that strange-seeing.

But it's the strange-seeing that's the real feast.