What do you do when you take psychedelics?

[sleep]

So what do you guys actually do? I mean for certain ones like dmt or salvia you don't realy have a great degree of autonomy while on it, all you can do is just lay there and trip balls, but with ones like lsd or shrooms in which you have hours before the effect wears off and unless in very high doses you have a fair bit of autonomy, what do you actually do while under the effects to reap the most out of it? Just lay there? Meditate? 

[Hojo]

i drink 5 beers to not get scared

[RamPhoenix]

Tickle my pineal gland?

Massage my consciousness ?

Climb Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

 

[Holymoly]

III find that you want to not get too busy racing around doing things keep it simple avoid things that will require allot of doing things haha. plan shit out. if you want to go for a walk during your trip make sure you know where your shoes are before you start tripping haha etc. i find i really like to just lay in bed during the first few hours of lsd. once the big break throughs are over i like to play some musical instruments or watever dont worry about it too much the main thing is just being calm and safe. you can plan out your trip with a few activies like that the main thing is you will be tripping and thats the main thing you are "doing"

 

[Holymoly]

its a good question though and you might feel weird like what am i supposed to be doing rn. Im curious how much you have tripped with a long lasting psych like lsd it was defiantly a learning process for me. you want to minimise shitty activities like looking for your shoes 

Edited May 17, 2023 by Holymoly

[Holymoly]

Even things as simple as put your phone on do not disturb you will likely be contemplating and doing serious work and having something distract you like that can be realllly frustrating

[mojsterr]

A long time ago, when I was still a newbie to lsd, I used to listen to music or watch something on the computer, and enjoy the show.

 

Now I just lay or sit on my bed, close my eyes, and go where it takes me.

I like very much to see the inward spirals of me, so I try to see who I am and what THIS is.

[sleep]

@Holymoly I dont rly have a lot of experience, I mean I have a few trips under my belt but nothing too much compared to some of the people here. I feel now that my question was kind of dumb (maybe just me getting insecure or something) but with all the talk about using psychedelics as a form of spiritual practice or way of "achieving enlightenment" I was curious as to what kind of things people did when taking them. 

[Girzo]

On low to medium dose - watch music videos or movies.

[Federico del pueblo]

12 hours ago, sleep said:

So what do you guys actually do? I mean for certain ones like dmt or salvia you don't realy have a great degree of autonomy while on it, all you can do is just lay there and trip balls, but with ones like lsd or shrooms in which you have hours before the effect wears off and unless in very high doses you have a fair bit of autonomy, what do you actually do while under the effects to reap the most out of it? Just lay there? Meditate? 

What I do at the moment at moderate dosages (1V-lsd) is to bring up the limiting emotions I have. So basically I think about what scares me and then really feel into it and allow it to be. It seems like in these states the energy of these emotions flows again as opposed to being stuck. You get all of these stuck, pent up emotions out of their repression and can finally release them. The body reacts with wild movements like heavy shaking, but this feels healing.

Then sometimes I get an urge to cry out the accumulated pain and thus I do exactly that.

I feel like I'm improving with this procedure.

[Holymoly]

On 17/5/2023 at 4:27 PM, sleep said:

@Holymoly I dont rly have a lot of experience, I mean I have a few trips under my belt but nothing too much compared to some of the people here. I feel now that my question was kind of dumb (maybe just me getting insecure or something) but with all the talk about using psychedelics as a form of spiritual practice or way of "achieving enlightenment" I was curious as to what kind of things people did when taking them.

Can I ask is that  your intention enlightenment?

On 17/5/2023 at 4:27 PM, sleep said:

 

 

 

 

 

[Schizophonia]

I turn around in my room.

[Yimpa]

At this point, mystical experiences happen daily to various degrees. When I have those experiences, I surrender as much as I’m able to handle. I take medicinal cannabis daily; not high in THC. I’m not tripping balls to the walls, but it’s subtle enough to be able to immerse myself in wonder and awe.

I’m also allowing myself to have low conscious experiences, since there’s also lessons to learn from them. It’s a mistake to avoid low conscious states, which all these spiritual traditions are demonizing as absolutely bad. What if that demonization is occurring in the same state that you are demonizing from? Can’t that be reframed as hate? Hating yourself unconsciously.

I’m taking a more paced approach thanks to all of your guidance. 

I plan on doing a ketamine again (done it 7 times last year), but I don’t have a strict deadline for it. So in a sense, I’m planning/working my way towards that “big” trip. 

Meta-tripping!

[Schizophonia]

4 hours ago, Yimpa said:

At this point, mystical experiences happen daily to various degrees. When I have those experiences, I surrender as much as I’m able to handle. I take medicinal cannabis daily; not high in THC. I’m not tripping balls to the walls, but it’s subtle enough to be able to immerse myself in wonder and awe.

I’m also allowing myself to have low conscious experiences, since there’s also lessons to learn from them. It’s a mistake to avoid low conscious states, which all these spiritual traditions are demonizing as absolutely bad. What if that demonization is occurring in the same state that you are demonizing from? Can’t that be reframed as hate? Hating yourself unconsciously.

I’m taking a more paced approach thanks to all of your guidance. 

I plan on doing a ketamine again (done it 7 times last year), but I don’t have a strict deadline for it. So in a sense, I’m planning/working my way towards that “big” trip. 

Meta-tripping!

Which isomere ?

It has importance, 

is seems that R-Ketamine is more "psychedelic" than S.
Like R > RACEMIC > S
I have S and it mostly felt recreational and numbing. 

Edited May 18, 2023 by Schizophonia

[Yimpa]

@Schizophonia I don’t know what they use at my ketamine clinic. All I know is low dose is for relaxing, high dose is for getting mindfucked.

[integral]

I think what Leo says is true, that living with a partner makes it impossible to awaken and the reason being 1 hour into an LSD trip we immediately have intense sex. Got to learn some self control. 

Edited May 18, 2023 by integral

[sleep]

On 18/5/2023 at 5:44 AM, Holymoly said:

Can I ask is that  your intention enlightenment?

Yeah, Id say thats my goal. Deep down I probably just want to escape from my mind though, and I see enlightenment as a form of suicide without death and all that it implies for yourself and others

[Razard86]

On 5/17/2023 at 9:24 AM, Federico del pueblo said:

What I do at the moment at moderate dosages (1V-lsd) is to bring up the limiting emotions I have. So basically I think about what scares me and then really feel into it and allow it to be. It seems like in these states the energy of these emotions flows again as opposed to being stuck. You get all of these stuck, pent up emotions out of their repression and can finally release them. The body reacts with wild movements like heavy shaking, but this feels healing.

Then sometimes I get an urge to cry out the accumulated pain and thus I do exactly that.

I feel like I'm improving with this procedure.

You are keep going!! Way to go!!

[Soul Flight]

Lay in bed in the dark with eyes shut. Pop in ear buds with guided meditations or instrumental music. Music which is new to me so I cannot predict it. Maybe listen to Allen Watts. I take inward journeys. If I had a float tank I might use that. In the dark with eyes shut really magnifies the experience. Terrance McKenna recommended eyes shut in the dark and being alone in a room.

I am interested in exploration of the psyche or cosmos. I am interested in spirituality and healing.

[Soul Flight]

It also helps to prepare for the trip. Have some playlists or links to YouTube meditations. Set and setting are important. Maybe fast 6 hours prior. Get in the right mind set prior. Meditate prior. Be calm and happy prior.