Poll of the Day > I'm about to trip for the first time

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Literally sipping 1.5 g of mushroom tea as I type this. Will report when I'm done

play the kid a mnesia exhibition on ps5/pc

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or just listen to kid a mnesia

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Remember to not let the dark feeling come. You'll know when you get to that point where you could start freaking out but just stay calm don't go down that route. I've never had a bad trip though some of them I could feel that darkness but don't give in and it'll go away and you'll have a great trip. Freaking out is the worst thing you can do.

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Say hi to the universe for me

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Y'all this is Awesome

sodium-chloride posted...

Y'all this is Awesome

You love sea horses?

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1.5's a pretty safe dose. Enjoy the ride, listen to some music with detailed low end

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https://youtu.be/_lFszLolK0M

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Wow that was wild

Goddam music is absolutely completely different. Played music for most of the trip and it felt like I was hearing new parts of songs I thought I knew 100%. Things were slowing down and distorting. I could have really had a bad trip but I was able to ground myself and redirect my attention. Definitely would do it again out in nature and during the day.

Muscles posted...

Remember to not let the dark feeling come. You'll know when you get to that point where you could start freaking out but just stay calm don't go down that route. I've never had a bad trip though some of them I could feel that darkness but don't give in and it'll go away and you'll have a great trip. Freaking out is the worst thing you can do.

This is good advice. I had to remind myself numerous times not to let myself go during the trip. At times I could feel my lips and teeth melting into each other. If I had let that feeling continue I feel like I would have just disintegrated into nothingness. Other times I felt like I had no sense of time even though I knew it had only been two hours since I drank the tea. I forced myself to just focus on something else like my spouse or just the fact that I'm in my house.

UltraIchi posted...

1.5's a pretty safe dose. Enjoy the ride, listen to some music with detailed low end

Tame Impala sounds amazing while not tripping. It sounded even more amazing somehow while tripping. I think I greatly appreciated the musical enhancements and distortions moreso than the visual ones. The vocals reverberated and harmonized so naturally it was like listening to a different version of each song.

I'm still waiting on my Mazapatec spores from asshole Lil Shop of Spores but yknow I guess everyone just can't stand the fact that it's my sole purpose in life to manufacture medicine

Good job though, enjoy the ride

i prefer gaming on drugs

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yeah, tripping in nature, under the stars this year was one of the best experiences of my entire life lol

it was just so profound for me

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The old pagans had the right idea. Just chill in the woods, do drugs, and have sex.

this whole society thing is all the way dumb

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"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans"

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I think if I had tripped alone and not with my wife I would have been more willing to surrender to the emotions and the complete experience. I was definitely resisting at times because I was so scared of losing sense of control. I have never lost control of my ability to rationalize things, even when I drink or the one time I got high off of edibles. That trip was the first time I felt any sort of true fear or worry that something bad might happen if I lose control.

Definitely do not regret the experience though.

Next time play Katamari Damacy

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sodium-chloride posted...

Tame Impala sounds amazing while not tripping. It sounded even more amazing somehow while tripping. I think I greatly appreciated the musical enhancements and distortions moreso than the visual ones. The vocals reverberated and harmonized so naturally it was like listening to a different version of each song.

You might know this already but LSD and exposure to Eastern music is what drove the Beatles to make psychedelic music (eastern music scales, heavy reverb/delay, and analog synths are like candy when tripping), and tame impala's following in their footsteps. Next time you get a tripping opportunity I suggest you try their album revolver. You will probably feel like a time traveler

sodium-chloride posted...

This is good advice. I had to remind myself numerous times not to let myself go during the trip. At times I could feel my lips and teeth melting into each other. If I had let that feeling continue I feel like I would have just disintegrated into nothingness. Other times I felt like I had no sense of time even though I knew it had only been two hours since I drank the tea. I forced myself to just focus on something else like my spouse or just the fact that I'm in my house.

It makes sense you're avoiding a bad experience, and it's probably for the best you familiarize yourself with this realm before you let yourself fully surrender to the experience. Time dilation/distortion is typical and it's human nature to not want to dissolve or melt so it might take some experience before you're able to comfortably relinquish control

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Next time play Katamari Damacy

Do this and you will be forever exposed to the horrors of consumerism

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Soup_or_Science posted...

i prefer gaming on drugs

I often do you play sober in contrast?

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Muscles posted...

Remember to not let the dark feeling come.

Let them come.

A bad trip is not a bad trip but your mind bringing to light the things you are struggling with subconsciously.

Tripping is about realization and self acceptance.

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UltraIchi posted...

You might know this already but LSD and exposure to Eastern music is what drove the Beatles to make psychedelic music (eastern music scales, heavy reverb/delay, and analog synths are like candy when tripping), and tame impala's following in their footsteps. Next time you get a tripping opportunity I suggest you try their album revolver. You will probably feel like a time traveler

Thanks for the suggestion. It was very unnerving but also exciting how each song could illicit such different feelings. Tame Impala was mostly happy and upbeat, didn't feel weird at all (posthumous forgiveness made my chest feel very heavy and full...was very aware of my breathing). Then my wife played this strange EDM music and I was starting to panic a little. Then a very relaxed trance song with bells and wind effects made me calm and she started crying. Interestingly, her crying made me less anxious and grounded me more to reality because that's the kind of song she would normally cry to even while sober.

When we turned the music off a lot of my psychedelic effects wore off pretty quickly. I don't know if the music was just that stimulating or if the trip was coming to an end (it had been about 2.5 hrs) but it felt right.

UltraIchi posted...

It makes sense you're avoiding a bad experience, and it's probably for the best you familiarize yourself with this realm before you let yourself fully surrender to the experience. Time dilation/distortion is typical and it's human nature to not want to dissolve or melt so it might take some experience before you're able to comfortably relinquish control

Yeah I told my wife 2.5g isn't gonna be that much (after all the "research" I had done on Reddit) and I am so glad she told me to try 1.5g (1.56g exactly) at first. Had I done more I definitely would have had some existential crisis or severe panic attack. We didn't have a trip sitter, my wife had just taken a smaller dose than me. I think that made me super worried during parts of the trip. I would be okay with "surrendering" to the experience if I was being watched by someone sober, or if I was completely alone. I could feel myself getting there but definitely was not in the right setting nor ready to get there at that moment.

Llamachama posted...

Let them come.

A bad trip is not a bad trip but your mind bringing to light the things you are struggling with subconsciously.

Tripping is about realization and self acceptance.

I'd be okay with that at some point but last night was not the right time for me lol. Went into the trip without hesitation or worry but became very anxious for a number of reasons at various times. Had I been alone or with someone sober I think those worries would have been much less intense or maybe even gone. Was definitely not prepared for what I was gonna feel but now I have a better understanding and would be more open to giving in (in a different setting I think). I probably started off on too high a dose for the first time.