Subjective Effect Index
created by Josie Kins, 2011Legacy content. A statistically backed ontology from Mindstate Design Labs is coming soon.
The long-form writing behind the index: the scales that grade how intense these effects are, the substance guides that walk an experience end to end, and the pieces on dreaming and meditation.
Intensity scales
The levelling systems the effect entries and substance pages refer to when they say a dose is light, common, or heavy.
- Psychedelic Intensity ScaleSeven levels from threshold to ego death
- Dissociative Intensity ScaleSix levels of disconnection, including holes and voids
- Approximate Frequency of Occurrence ScaleHow likely a listed effect is to occur, from rare to universal
- Duration Terminology ExplanationOnset, come up, peak, offset, and after effects, defined
See alsoPsychedelic effectsDissociative effectsDisconnective effects
Dreaming and consciousness
States that arise without a substance, documented with the same vocabulary the index uses for drug-induced effects.
Drug guides
Single-substance guides that walk the experience end to end, with their own dosing tiers and intensity models.
Drug classes
The general effect descriptions for each psychoactive class: what its substances have in common, with no single substance in view.
Psychedelics
The visual, cognitive, and transpersonal effects the class shares
Dissociatives
The disconnective effects that define the class, from holes to voids
Deliriants
Delirium and true hallucination; no intensity scale has been written yet