Two stand out. While under the influence.

The experience of time stopping or freezing after bumping into someone at a music festival, it was only for a perceived 5-7 seconds. As I swung off this dude and began to lose my footing everything stopped. Sounds, people moving, the trees swaying, everything. The external physical world stood still as did my physical form but my brain and thoughts was still moving at regular speed, able to understand the outside world had stopped but do nothing about it. The closest I’ve found to explain it is a guy having a seizure in the shower and perceiving that the water had frozen, I simply cannot explain this one.

On a separate occasion, fish made of little black dots, almost like flies, swimming around my living room. They were perfect in form and movement, like being inside a fish tank. It was the strangest thing because they were full external visual hallucinations that I seemed to have no control over but could perceive as real. They appeared as real as the room around me.

loss

For product or experience based things not typically. For example if I was researching which space heater to buy and I asked it to summarise people’s experiences of the best three space heaters it normally comes back with a few reviews from random blogs and a couple of Reddit links, none of which have ever caused me a problem.

If I asked it about a very specific problem I was having with an Azure data factory pipeline. It might come back with some Microsoft documentation. They generally don’t work and the links to said documentation are complete hallucinations, which is quite ironic, given Microsoft’s massive investment in the company.

I have done some research on a recent workplace dispute using the deep research feature and I have to say I found it to be reasonably good in the sources it choose to go with and they were all valid.

I know I sound like a OpenAI shill but, it’s generally been quite good for me in recent memory. Apart from referencing technical documentation specifically for Microsoft products.

This is of course my personal opinion, and they’re like arseholes, everyone’s got one.