Psychedelic Experiences Puns

My own story.

I took five grams of wavy caps in a wooded Park with my girlfriend at the time. We sat there by a huge lake in the autumn so the leaves were changing colours and the sun was setting and there were cormorants fishing on the lake.

I can't really describe the feeling 100% but it was kinda like I could feel a warm comforting presence emanating from the soil, the trees, the lake, Everything. I looked up at the sky, because that's where everyone tells me god is but I remember thinking "no, my gods arnt above me like some commanding dominating force, they're everywhere around me, like an equal"

Now I consider myself a none denomination pagan, I believe in an infinite amount of nameless "gods" (more like a kind of energy than actual deities) that represent the concepts of both life and death.

I'm really interested to hear other people's experiences

So i have decided i want to try Psychedelics once in my life. I was to try LSA first but dont want nausea to well happen the whole trip.... Am 24 now, 68kg (150lbs), 175cm (5"7'in). I will be taking 1.5G of B+ Strain. I currently have TPB as well. I have experience with weed, but no other substance whatsoever. I have 3G B+ and 2.5G TPB on my hands. Decide to eat it old fashioned way. Munch munch!

So my real question is is 1.5g too less or too much for my first ever Psychedelic experience? Sadly i will be tripping alone. My set and settings are all set i guess... I will be tripping in the afternoon time, in my house alone. My mental health is okie, with no stress and stuff.. yet.

So...

1. Is 1.5 a good spot to start? Should i reduce to 1G? I dont want any underwhelming nor overwhelming... Am afraid to go 2G since idk what to expect

2. Any thing for me to expect for my first Psychedelic experience? What should i prepare...? Abit scared of a bad trip but i think my set and settings are okay

3. Other recommendations? Or experience u wanna tell me?

Thank You in advance!!!

Update 1: So after talkin here i have decided to increase the first dose to 2G on 11Jan ... Wish me luck

Update 2: After all the comments and such, the fear of a bad trip has dissipated... But imma stick with 2G still :)

Update 3: So.... out of curiousity, i will be taking 1G tonight, 2.5G (To compensate the tolerance next Tuesday) Lets see how will it go! https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/rv4jxo/1g_first_ever_psychedelic_trip_report_live/

Some albums feel like being wrapped up in a fur blanket and dissolving into the universe.

Here are some that I know of, or perhaps they are just gems that I have forged a strong association with…

Bent - Aerials

DJ Koze - Amygdala

Prolapse - Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes

What are yours?

I OD' ed on dxm (scariest moment of my life) but I'm still abusing dxm because I am not afraid of the consequences. Help? What psychs will set me straight because I shot through the void five times and I'm still not scared. Idk what to do I just want help. What is my next step?? Please help.

So on thanksgiving my Brother took his first ever bong hit.

He definitely took to big of hit and I knew immediately he was gone. First he started pacing back and forth for about 5 min. Then you could tell he couldn’t keep his own balance and he was going to fall over. My cousin and I grabbed him a chair and sat him down. He then went mute for the next hour or 2. You could tell when looking him in the eye he was looking back at you but he could not speak. He was trying to communicate something but could not.

Anyways he ended up being fine and just slept it off but the story he told in the morning was similar to that of a DMT break through. He left his body; saw the Big Bang and the creation of man kind. He said he saw the Mayans the Aztecs and the whole 9 yards. He said he talked to our dead cousin, grandfather and god. He said God was so powerful he couldn’t look directly at him and had to have his back turned to him. Keep in mind this kid is very straight edge and wouldn’t really have any psychedelic type experience archetype in the back of his head.

God told him it wasn’t his time yet. He asked god “when is my time” god said “93”

My cousin died tragically at 25 about 10 months ago and he said my cousin was super surprised to be seeing my brother. She said “Hey you don’t belong here, I’m sending you back”!

I’m just curious have you or do you know anyone who has had this type of experience on cannabis?

I haven’t even gotten to this level on psilocybin.

Edit : if I can recall McKenna had lectures about cannabis and how he would use it very rarely and when he did he treated it as a psychedelic.

Hello all! I just tripped for the first time! Here’s my trip report:

Background: I’m a novice pothead who recently became interested in psychedelics. I did my research and decided 1.5g shroom lemon tek tea was the move. I completed all the prep-work: set up a trip cave, wife agreed to tripsit, day off from work, and obtained the shroomies. I think I went a little overboard with the safety precautions. I had trip killers handy, moved all sharp objects out of trip cave, set phone to airplane mode, etc. I wasn’t too sure what to expect. I regularly dose quite high THC edible doses (100-200mg), and I figured these experiences were at least some sort of preparation for what was at hand with psilocybin.

The Trip: 8:00pm: I wrote myself encouraging notes in my trip journal. Then on an empty stomach I drank my mushrooms, went to trip cave, laid down, eye mask, headphones, playlist.

8:30pm: I slowly began to feel some effects. Very mild bursts of euphoria and I got the giggles whenever I tried to talk to my wife.

8:45pm: While moving around trying to put on a vinyl, I realized my coordination was that of being drunk. While trying to speak I found myself stopping halfway through sentences and loose track of thought and forget what I was even talking about.

9:30pm: A short time later I began painting and listening to music. This is where things got a little weird. I was having a nonsense internal dialogue about family drama that had happened earlier in the day and I was like symbolically painting my internal dialogue. I tried to describe what was happening to my wife but I had no idea how to verbalize it and that lead me into a fit of laughter lasting a few minutes. Eventually I told my wife: “Choosing colors for my painting is as important as choosing which family member you spend certain holidays with.” She goes “Damn, so choosing each color is pretty important then huh.” I reply “That’s not at all what I meant.” And died laughing. This was another effect that happened throughout: I would try to verbalize something I was experiencing to my wife, and I would say something cohesive that was adjacent to what I meant, but not at all what I actually meant. This made me feel kinda dumb like when I would get too stoned when I first started using THC.

10:45pm: I peaked during this hour. I painted to whole time, blasted music in my headphones. I experienced what I’m calling “Activity Locked”. Whatever I was doing, I was zoned the fuck in and I had a lot of troub

So this is going to be shit long post so if you just wish to read my thoughts on what could be bladees intention behind the song, you can just skip my personal story and scroll to the "analysis" heading since my personal story of what led up to what my experience is quite long.

So I had some 2cb and ketamin stored away, which I had forgotten about, and impulsively I ingested both substances without any care of checking the dose. Why did I do this because of being dumped earlier that day, and feeling sad and heartbroken. I've had some experiences with LSD and 2cb which produce similar effects, but i've always been careful with moderate doses, but still never had an altogether positive experience. Usually It´s resulted in a psychological struggle in which I alternate between letting go of my neuroris and clinging to it , and switching between 2 perspectives of how to approach some aspect of my life. This back and forth for the duration of an 8hr trip is always super draining and after 2-3 hours I usually try to end the trip by taking a benzo.

This time the 2cb with ketamin and my emotinal state created the most chaotic and confusing, mindbending horribly destructive trip in which nothing made sense, I lost control to the point that I couldnt understand how to open my phone, or basic tasks such as to when i somehow managed to open the phone to use the stopwatch on my phone. Everything was morping to the point that I couldnt even comphrend the geometric dimensions of my phone.

While this was happening ofc I had exeter, E, gluee and a lot of trippy music and a some RGB projector produced these rotating color dots around my room. I Can't explain it but somehow I got stuck on open symbols(play) be in your mind, and it calmed me down. I gained some control so I had the ability to use my phone and put the song on repeat. Then I began to stare at a random point in my celing , (at this point I think the ketamine had worn off) not moving sitting completely still and listened to the suggestions in the song to be in my mind. It became a mantra, and with each loop I think I got closer and closer to a state which I'm hesitatant to call "enlighetment" or "nirvana" or whatever term you wanna use because I think is way to bold and delusional way to describe it, but imagine something similar to descriptions of it.

The end result was that no pain, discomfort, pure experience of void. "I" didnt exist it felt like, but somehow -I- could and would ha

Make a ranking of your top 3, for euphoric I also mean at the level of pleasure and and satisfaction for the experience itself.

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I was about to go to sleep and decided to do the wim hofs breathing before going out. I started with 3 rounds then went to 5 and for some reason I decided to continue on ( I do 40 breaths). At the 7th round I started to see this weird geometrical figure, the kinda thing you would see on psychedelic drugs. At the 10th round I saw the geometrical figure morph into a dark face and in my mind the name satan kept coming up in my head as I went further on. After 10 rounds I started to believe I was talking to satan and that I sold my soul. Once I stopped I was all sweaty and hot, so I decided to go outside in my boxers. It was snowing out and when I got outside I was super aware of everything and I had very little to no thoughts in my head. Every single quiet sound I would pick up on very easily and my sense of cold was very different. I would compare this feeling to a rly high dose of amphetamine high. It was interesting, but the whole delusion that I sold my soul to satan wasn't very nice and instead of usually just becoming more relaxed after doing the breathing Im more anxious and paranoid. Interesting experience tho. Anyone else experienced familiar things?

The last psychedelic bard before Ben Schneider was Terence McKenna. Terence’s gift was communicating the depth of experiences he had through connecting many complex ideas and thought patterns. In my opinion, no man has ventured further into the unknown than this man. Ben is certainly giving him a run for his money, though.

For those that haven’t had this realization yet, Lord Huron’s music is very pointedly about the psychedelic experience. References to “her” in their music often refer to the personification of that experience. It’s allegorical, it’s not about an actual girl (maybe with exception to a couple of songs). There are some obvious examples that refer to the psychedelic experience fairly explicitly, such as “Into the Sun”, “Until the Night Turns”, “La Belle Fleur Sauvage”, “Cursed”, “Way Out There”, “Never Ever”, “Vide Noir”, “Meet Me in the City”, “Twenty Long Years”, “Back From The Edge”, and several others.

These men had/have a mission to spread this message, and the profoundness of their message, coupled with their natural talents, provided the perfect foundation to do so. The most obvious common thread is that both of them surrender absolutely to the experience, and as a result are given the gift of true knowledge.

I always loved this quote from McKenna:

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”

I was always a huge fan of both of them and am surprised I haven’t seen any other associations / cross-references.

Linked below is a speech from McKenna. Listen from the beginning and there’s an “easter egg” this community may enjoy just after 2:50:

https://youtu.be/uj1N-U9xN8I

Psychedelics can provide incredible experiences. While not certain they can offer experiences which people describe as being transformative, sacred, self-transcendent, mystical, religious, metaphysical , peak etc

They often make people question reality, themselves, and change their worldviews

Does anybody else think that our cultures (well, mine being UK so maybe yours is different) is ill-equipped to deal with these profound experiences?

Assuming these experiences offer something of value, which I think the therapeutic results and peoples personal transformation points to, when people look to their culture for help integrating and making sense of the experiences do you think there is much there for them to find? These experiences seem to be capable of making people feel isolated , which is rather ironic considering the content of the experience , is this partly why?

I get why people would turn to religion, it at least seems to mention things like transcendence, unity, sacredness , transformation etc but personally I just don't find the main religions frameworks tenable though mysticism is interesting. I'm interested in Buddhism/Non-dualism as well.

Where does a secular atheistic/agnostic person look to for help sense making and integrating these experiences ?

I'm personally building some random ecology of various interests/practices but there's no real coherent framework yet

My mother and sister have recently expressed their interest in mushrooms, and I would love to safely show them that side of their consciousness. Has anyone had any experiences with their family? How did you prepare and how did it go? Any insight is appreciated.

Context: My sister struggles with extreme insecurity and materialism, while my mother is much more independent and in tune with her spirituality. My sister is 35, my mom is 56. Neither of them have tried any psychedelics. I am 25 and have been using mushrooms for about 4 years.

Looking to get a headset soon, not sure if I’ll go cordless or not since my main use case is 3d drawing/sculpting programs. Options are endless, got any favorites that might be fun to trip with?

EDIT for people who find this thread and want clear summarized information:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11xBLSOfyE0UBoH7BOIWoNGN76rzQ5Sbe1RUMY5Lhc1w/edit

Synthesized from all of your suggestions (thank you!)

For example, people describe when being high and listening to music they experience colours, shapes and textures. Also that they are able to make links between things which require a high degree of abstraction, or have more vivid imaginations and dreams.

I have always associated music with colours, textures and shapes quite vividly. I can't help it in fact. It's not intrusive its just there. I make connections between things other people find it very difficult to understand, its as if things go through a look-up table in my brain and it returns something unrelated but it makes sense to me.

I have never tried psychedelics but people describe effects and sometimes I think 'don't you do that anyway?'. I might be completely off here but interested what people think.

So you have like thousands of songs on your Spotify, pandora, iTunes, whatever... but when you trip.. even low dose... Even if I’m clicking through the same songs I shuffle through everyday... I truly STOP TO ADMIRE the artwork on them... that’s how I KNOW that I’m trippin’... I zoom out and think that some artist may have spent hours on that picture or photograph... I have more of a science geared brain... but art... damn... ART I WISH I HAD THE TIME FOR IT

What was the most amazing or shocking experience you have had? I've had quite a few but I think one of the top was when I snorted like 60mg of 2-CB HBR and I telepathically communicated with a reptilian. Either that night or the next day (honestly don't remember) I did it again and saw extradimensional beings in my condo. More telepathy. What have you experienced/seen? Do you believe these to be real entities or mere hallucinations? I firmly believe them to be true.

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I hit a bowl my friend gave to me before leaving the house and I had a really bad “trip”. After I hit I sat there just coughing for 5 minutes and once we left the house my vision just completely disappeared. All I could see was a complete shade of purple and green dots. Only thing I could barely make out was the silhouette of my hand just BARELY. I started to panic and freak out. My friend grabbed my hand and helped me walk because I was completed blind. After about 3 minutes of total blindness, I grabbed the water bottle he handed me and my vision started to come back. When my vision came back it was stuck is this tunnel vision view and was like this for another 5 hours. Any explanation to this??

Hey guys,

If you could explain the psychedelic experience in a phrase or one paragraph, how would you do it? I know the experience is different from using language/mental constructs but it's an interesting challenge.

If I were to explain it I would do so:

The seperation between you and the world fades away. "You" become space for the world rather than the experience of just being underneath the skin, in the head, behind the eyes. "You" are the qualitative, conscious expression for the computational processes in the brain. There is no subject/object relationship, there is just the world.

I've done psychedelics a hand full of times (i know, generally irresponsible with a disease like diabetes but in my defense i always over-play the safety with sitters and harm reduction) but recently I've been getting some intense lows with very minor visuals, almost unnoticeable but still there as a side effect.

i also see slight a slight highlight effect around text, and my vision gets mildly blurry. anyone else experience this or just me? care to share any weird hypo/hyper side effects you think is just you?

It feels as though my psychedelic experiences have introduced a lot of nihilistic beliefs into my life and as a result I’ve completely given up on most things.

I’m 19 and still live with my parents, and it feels as though being opened up to the idea that reality is very far from being objective has pushed me against the values of our society and has sent me down a rabbit hole of depression. A couple of my “uncovered truths”:

1. In a reality where only you give meaning to your life, it is ludicrous to work for other people and devote any amount of your conscious experience to anything you don’t want to do.
2. A government that pushes objective truth doesn’t have the best interests of everybody in mind and should be advocated against.

After reading this sub these seem to be some fairly common conclusions to come to; however they are seriously impacting my life in a harmful way. Because of #1 I haven’t been doing much these days except sleeping in my room and exhibiting classic signs of depression. There’s no thought of moving out from my parents. At first it was empowering that nobody controls my life except me but now I’m using the mantra to reinforce the belief that it’s easier to stay in the house and do nothing instead of working toward any ideal lifestyle. I’m not really in support of the concept of jobs anymore.

2 has caused a crisis because even if you don’t agree with the way society is structured, you must participate in it in order to have the basic luxuries of life (food, clean water, warm shelter, etc).

I am still new to psychedelics and so I am wondering how you guys respond to these issues when/if they arise. Judging from some of the posts on here it seems as though I may have worsened my depression or introduced unhealthy thoughts by having these experiences.

My moms going to die really soon. Like a few days probably.. She has multiple myeloma cancer. I really wanted to give her a psychedelic trip before (it was ideally professional but that’s hard to get) to help her feel more at her ease but she deteriorated really rapidly this week and I had to fly out to be with her. I just want her to be comfortable and at ease. Different psychedelics have helped me a lot with being okay with death. I’m wondering your educated opinions on if this would be a good idea or bad idea. She’s on an snri. OxyContin. Hydromorphone. Lorazepam. Thank you ✌️

Desperate for nose job but am too scared of the anaesthesia.. I'm scared of general because of the risk, and I'm scared of twilight because of the potential to have a trippy experience. I'm also scared of the experience of general too. I've never had either anaesthesias but had a history of illegal drug use and terrible experiences on psychedelics which have caused me a lot of anxiety around drugs in general, including the medical kind.

Hi Psychonauts! I'm conducting a social experiment for us explorers! I will jump in the boat with you to explore some thoughts, opinions and experiences that changed your life. I am interested into what you think and what you've lived. I have no studies into psychology or anything related to the experiment in doing. It's purely out of interest and curiosity so I'm not a professional in the matter but will be happy to receive some on the podcast.

I'd prefer having 18+ for moral purposes but everyone is accepted. It will be going for a month and I will be receiving one guest at a time, but could have multiple guest per recordings. If you feel like you have something to share with your voice it will be the place to be!

You can also join the podcast while tripping to spark some interesting conversation. Your information will be kept private unless you choose not.

Since I have no base experience, I will first record all audios and then publish it.

Let me know in the comment if you'd like to participate or have interest into listening others experience and opinions!

Recently, I found myself listening to podcasts and audiobooks about the relationship between psychedelics and themes found in ancient civilizations and rituals. Graham Hancock, whatever you may think about his theories and methods, peaked my interest especially, because he does not take a scholarly approach, but rather incorporates his own experiences with psychedelics. Although his theories fascinate me, he does fail to convince me because in my opinion, he fails to acknowledge the influence of preconceived ideas on psychedelic experiences.

For example, he discusses the common theme of meeting an all powerful being/deity on a DMT trip. He himself experienced this as well on multiple occasions, describing the being in great detail, corresponding with existing images and themes in the ancient South-American culture he was studying at the time. He then argues that this must mean that the imagery and themes must be a result of the shared psychedelic experiences of this ancient people. This would also explain the similarity between the imagery found in other ancient civilizations found around the world known to use psychedelic substances.

Another example of this I found in Joe Rogan’s podcast, specifically the episode with Brian Muraresku and Graham Hancock. Muraresku has found compelling evidence for the influence of psychedelic experiences on the religions of the antique periods in Rome and Greece, as well as early Christianity. Muraresku himself does not have experience with psychedelics, and I appreciate his more scholarly approach here. He argues that the description of certain rituals that prominent figures in ancient Rome and Greece underwent, corresponds with common themes experienced in psychedelic experiences; Meeting gods or other all knowing beings, as well as losing the fear of death.

Eventhough I understand that these are very common themes, that keep humans busy outside of psychedelic experiences as well, I cannot shake the thought that both Hancock and Muraresku underestimate the influence of preconceived ideas on psychedelic experiences. In my own, rather limited experiences with psychedelics (mainly psilocybine, 2CB, and various disociatives), I have noticed that similar to dreams, circumstance and my current interests were the biggest factor in the psychedelic experience, visuals or thoughts. I recall a particularly immersive and realistic experience on high doses of ketamine, was highly influenced by a week of studying for European Po

My own story.

I took five grams of wavy caps in a wooded Park with my girlfriend at the time. We sat there by a huge lake in the autumn so the leaves were changing colours and the sun was setting and there were cormorants fishing on the lake.

I can't really describe the feeling 100% but it was kinda like I could feel a warm comforting presence emanating from the soil, the trees, the lake, Everything. I looked up at the sky, because that's where everyone tells me god is but I remember thinking "no, my gods arnt above me like some commanding dominating force, they're everywhere around me, like an equal"

Now I consider myself a none denomination pagan, I believe in an infinite amount of nameless "gods" (more like a kind of energy than actual deities) that represent the concepts of both life and death.

I'm really interested to hear other people's experiences

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