psychedelic experiences

have you had any? what were they like? did you encounter an 'ego death'? do you think there's anything more significant to the experiences we have while on psychedelic chemicals, or are they just our brains playing pretend in a tiny room with lots of colours?

share yr thoughts, pls.

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[Live Wire 03]

Have you ever had a serious fever dream, or you had the cans IOU’s thought to move, and even though you are fully awake, it feels like your trying to lift bricks

[Sorren]

One time I had way too many edibles (weed) and spent 16 hours dying, unsure of which direction I was dying in.

I could write a whole book on it, but the short version is that it messed me up for like a year, and I don't like weed very much these days.

[Super Trampoline]

I lounged in a stream next to a small waterfall while on molly once after a short fairly flat hike. It was exceedingly nice.

Also I do acid, mushrooms, molly, or edibles about once every three or so months. 'Tis fun but I never do heroic doses. I like to augment reality, not escape it; not to imply there's anything wrong with doing that.

Hope we can trip together later this year or next year.

[Brasta Septim]

I've had a decent amount of acid, mescaline, tryptamine analogues and dextromethorphan over the course of about five years, so I think I'm a little bit qualified to weigh in on this. Acid in particular is like... at first it's like drinking a whole pot of coffee at once, but it lasts for a while. You're kinda jittery, you want to move around, you have this sort of growing, increasingly-euphoric sort of energy-burst. Then the hallucinations start coming on- you don't really see anything that isn't there, at least at low doses, as much as that what you see is distorted, morphed, more vivid. First things look brighter and more sharp, like someone just turned the sharpness up on a tv and as if edges were etched like the lines of a drawing. Then things start drifting, moving, changing, your vision seemingly moving at multiple frames per second. You could look at the floor and see the tiles moving, little squiggly lines like worms moving about. The carpet moves too, the ceiling as well- you look up at the ceiling and after a while, towards the end of the trip, there's sort of this electric spiderweb of colours across your vision, constantly changing colour. The best part, though, is music. It doesn't even matter which music, as long as it's not going to make you nervous- take any pop song from the 2010s. The bass will sound delicious, the guitar chords will be hypnotising, the beat will sound infectious, and for some songs you can literally be crying happy tears and writhing on the floor in pure nirvana from being fully able to process the beauty of it. There's a lot more to it than that, but that's the basic common things across classical psychedelic trips.

[duithy]

1) yes a few
2) my favorite thing was getting a bad case of the "profounds" were everything is a deep metaphor for life love or happiness or something its neet until you're trying to pee and you just want it to stop being a metaphor for life and just pee
3) tripped on a low dose by my self (not a great plan) had an argument with my self and my self-image bitched me out for a wile

[creativeprocrastinator]

So to start i have a ton of anxiety whenever I think about death and spiral into existential crisis when I do think about it, it is a Ben difficult to write that much out without triggering an episode but I was once on ketamine and it was the one time I was able to feel ok at the thought of dieing. I felt like I was falling through a constantly folding white void as time lost all meaning and the minutes stretched into eternity. I could hear the world around me but my eyes couldn’t perceive it. It was almost a spiritual experience as for the first time I felt it would be ok to die if this was death. I even turned to the direction that I remembered my wife being in and telling her that “if there was a god he and I were good”. Looking back I wish I had some music at the time hell even that goodbye Moonmen song from Rick and Morty would have been amazing.

[Willsons]

LSD was my favourite I guess, shrooms felt to organic and like it wasn't just me in my head anymore and DMT was just all round pretty intense. LSD definitely had the worst comedown off the lot and it's a long trip time but your mileage may vary. Never "broke through" on dmt, felt close a couple times but very situationally dependent imo. Don't go in chasing the profound the first few times you do anything, try em and see what fits. Wouldn't advise solo or to eat too much and just don't fight it. Roll with it, remember you've taken a drug and it'll end.

[Gaz888F]

I personally have done LSD on one occasion and I went through a few loops of mental gymnastics about a number of things both personal and nonsensical. The personal ones were just me over-analyising my relationships but the didnt amount to much. I tried to experiance a few of my favourite things to see if it would enhance it in anyway and tried some new things to see if I saw something maybe I missed before.(Tangent/recounting from here)

Keep in mind I was with a long time friend group and was in a very relaxed environment, I also had some initial anxiety about it but I took a mental plunge by putting on a film I had never seen before (Pitch Black), which really helped with just getting it done.

The film in question is nothing special and the visuals were wacky at times on thier own but once it kicked in they just seemed that much more exagerated.

Later I also tried to play the long dark to see how it changed my perception on it, which resulted in me losing myself to the expericence much more than usual.

Then I tried to let my mind wander by staring blanky at a painting of David Bowie I have in my living room that is rendered with alot of colour to begin with, but after a bit the colour and experession would warp and change slightly but I never saw anything to extreme becasue I kept breaking myself out of the stupor.

After that I put on a show I really enjoyed (Avatar The Last Airbender) and whilst watching with my friends I kept on critquing and simultaneously praising the world building, focuing mainly on the military strategy shown in it and the quite realised magic in the show.

At this point it had been about 6 hours after taking it and I just kept watching the show, most of the effects had worn off but one thing is that you tend to be pretty wired even after that so i couldnt sleep for like another 5 hours or so. I did eventually fall asleep and woke up only like 3 or so hours and felt perfectly fine. There were bits of time in between this where I did other things but nothing worth mentioning.

After all was said and done I don't think I tripped to hard but I did a lot of thinking whilst on it, so I think if you have alot of negative thoughts then I wouldnt reccomend doing it unless you have some ways to keep youself occupied. I personally would attempt it again but may go for a larger dosage or something, I rely on one of my friends for this kind of stuff and they have a lot of knowledge on it, which is something I'd reccomend with any kind of drug.

If you read this then thank you for bothering with my ramblings.
(Edit: I also have a story about being on mushrooms but I'll leave that for if someone finds interest in this and asks for it)

[Final fantasy forever]

I have had none at all

[Sunny]

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Late but all this is pretty accurate to my own experiences as well

As for me, hah, its easier to recount in IM, because I've had more experiences than I can readily account for now, in terms of 'I dont think this is just my neurons now firing differently'.

To much...doesnt add up, so to speak, to say it's just the brain ticking differently, for me