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As title states, what is it like in the warp. I am not talking warp infested planets. I mean the actual warp.

We know through stories and events that the warp needs an "anchor" to manifest. The wall in Ruinstorm could be passed through once they destroyed the planet anchoring it.

Demons are a physical manifestationa nd representation of their warp self. The warp is just emotions running crazy with psychic energy.

So when a part of the warp imprints itself in the materium, does it behave like the upside down? It almost snap shots the materium realm and uses that as a template for its own creation. This could be alot of Chaos Astartes still look like their geared in heresy armour etc.

Or once that portal closes it just becomes an incomprehensable mass of energy like the time knife from the good place?

What are people thoughts of what the warp is like to be in?

I’d imagine it depends upon the eye of the beholder.

As a reality, it’s utterly, incomprehensibly alien to us. And so it all has to piped and translated as best it can through our senses.

What I see would be informed by my own emotional state, whichever god or entity held sway in that general area, and my own experiences. And so, you might see something completely different. Very shortly before we both went completely, irrevocably insane.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’d imagine it depends upon the eye of the beholder.

As a reality, it’s utterly, incomprehensibly alien to us. And so it all has to piped and translated as best it can through our senses.

What I see would be informed by my own emotional state, whichever god or entity held sway in that general area, and my own experiences. And so, you might see something completely different. Very shortly before we both went completely, irrevocably insane.

So the time knife then. thousands of realities and possible pasts and futures folding in on themselves all happening at once into a single blade.

I agree we would go insane. But would we even be? would our bodies rip apart being within the immaterium itself?

The Warp is a vast ocean of thoughts, feelings, and psychic energy with masses of "life" in its depths in the form of Daemonic or Warp entities. Some swim as shoals of creatures only truly manifesting when they come into contact with a physical (i.e. real) object such as a planet, Space Hulk, or starship.
Planets do exist within the Warp and are sort of nexus areas where reality starts to bleed in but does not take control. Take the Plague Planet for example. It is the domain of the Death Guard, shaped by Mortarions will. It is real in that you can land on it, walk around and build fortresses. A being of great sorcerous or psychic power would have greater control over the constructs made there and while they are objects, they could not exist in Real Space.
Time is not really a thing in the Warp and in one location months can pass whereas only seconds passed somewhere else. Beings within the Warp are also subject to this lack of time.
For example, a band of Space Marine renegades is hounded into the Eye of Terror after their Chapter is destroyed for some unknown heresy. After spending years in the Warp they join a raiding party of the Iron Warriors and one of their number is captured and tortured. His genetics are revealed to the Inquisition who traces them to a seemingly loyal Chapter based near the Eye of Terror. They decide this Chapter has been corrupted and destroy it, with the remaining Marines fleeing into the Eye of Terror.

 SeanDavid1991 wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’d imagine it depends upon the eye of the beholder.

As a reality, it’s utterly, incomprehensibly alien to us. And so it all has to piped and translated as best it can through our senses.

What I see would be informed by my own emotional state, whichever god or entity held sway in that general area, and my own experiences. And so, you might see something completely different. Very shortly before we both went completely, irrevocably insane.

So the time knife then. thousands of realities and possible pasts and futures folding in on themselves all happening at once into a single blade.

I agree we would go insane. But would we even be? would our bodies rip apart being within the immaterium itself?

Physical bodies probably wouldn't be ripped apart simply by being in the warp. We have things like space hulks that go into the warp and maintain non-daemonic populations, plus there are occassional gellar field failures. There's a good chance the daemons and warp fauna will tear you apart, but your body won't just get meat'sploded by being there.

Also, I know you're drawing a distinction between the warp and "warp infested planets," but are you including things like crone worlds in the Eye? Thus planets have been dunked in the warp since before the Great Crusade, but humans, marines, and occassionally eldar have been seen to walk around on such planets without going (immediately) insane.