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It is an adjective that describes something related to a type of drug that produces altered states of consciousness or visual/auditory hallucinations. You can use it to describe a person's appearance, an experience, an object, or an event. For example, "The sixties were a psychedelic time, filled with colorful patterns, extravagant fashion, and mind-altering experiences."
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psychedelic
adjective
Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness etc.
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Its psychedelic headquarters doubles as a cafe and cantina, a cheap and cheerful bistro, which serves vegetarian during the week with a meat dish on Saturday.
Despite their dangers – which are many – no one could deny that the works of Bob Dylan, the Beatles or Syd Barrett, and countless others, have been enhanced by the electric glow of the psychedelic experience.
For most of the afternoon before the show, the police were busy tearing down psychedelic fly-posters – "Blossom Toes, group Auglicki" – which, despite the armed patrols, had appeared in the city centre overnight.
Joint favourite with Plan B to take the prize is Richard Hawley for his sixth album Standing at the Sky's Edge, which saw the Sheffield crooner venture out across heavier, psychedelic territory.
Clearly, it developed a liking for psychedelic rock, and – as described late on in the book – accompanying doses of a certain "chemical which alter[s] reality".
Mr Burger will be joined for a back-to-back session with his fellow Norwegian, Telephones, whose sunny yet psychedelic productions have featured in the playlists of every house jock worth their salt lately.
There is even a very rare Carlyle anecdote about how he waltzed into the school playground in psychedelic shirt, shorts, and waist-length hair, only to be sent home by the teacher for forgetting to wear shoes.
Who: Led by the psychedelic maverick and one-man band Kevin Parker, Tame Impala broke out from Perth, the most remote city in the world, with their second album, Lonerism, which catapulted them to the upper echelons of festivals all over the world.
Django Django: Born Under Saturn A warm, psychedelic offering from the London-based four-piece, picking up where their critically adored 2012 debut left off.
Radioactive Facebook juice seeps through the ceiling, as imagined by psychedelic muralist Jen Stark.
His penchant for "natural" psychedelic drugs, such as peyote - used by bushmen tribes - adds to the hippyish, quasi-visionary persona.
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