I have taken psychedelics and frankly I'd say it does feel like that, just in a non-enjoyable, "bad" way.

One makes you notice tiny details and the beauty in them, the other paints everything as grey and uninteresting, one makes you thing about the greater scope of things, the other barely lets you think much outside your circumstance. I really think it does translate.

"State of consciousness" is a technical term that describes a mode of your experience. Sleep is a state of consciousness. That trance-like hyperfocussed flow experience is a state of consciousness. You can induce a state of consciousness by meditation. Depression may just be a state of consciousness.

States of consciousness can usually be measured and distinguished from each other with standard brain-scanning methods.

Not all shift in these states need to be as flashy as a LSD trip. In fact, very few are.

I feel like my depression can change the way I interact with and percieve everything.