(06-24-2023, 04:42 AM)MisterSpock Wrote:(06-24-2023, 03:41 AM)Schmoe Wrote:(06-24-2023, 03:07 AM)MisterSpock Wrote: Interesting descriptions.
It's been so long since I did anything like that, in my youth I frequented both LSD and Shrooms, much preferred the shrooms to be honest. Only did LSD about a dozen times, but shrooms, I did them much more. Usually with others, but a fair amount by myself.
For me, It was always a positive experience, the sensations, the content and the visuals were always an experience and for days after, I'd have that euphoric feeling or feeling of "substance" after.
As for DMT, I'd never much heard of it, the only thing I was aware of in my youth that I didn't try was Peyote.
At this point though, I don't really care much to revisit any of it.
Oh yes, I can't decide what my favorite part of shrooms was. I loved eating them inside, waiting for them to kick in, then going outside. Colors were so vivid. I also love the "shroom comraderie" when doing them with others.
Interestingly, my one bad trip came when I did them at night. Every other time has been during the day.
If you've done them many times, you've certainly done much higher doses than I have. Every time I did them, I ate the standard eighth. I've heard of people experienced in both DMT and shrooms, experiencing DMT-like effects at very high doses of shrooms.
I always did them at night, mostly with others, but enough times alone, but back in the day there was a nice small town "roving" culture. So you could bounce from click to click and know just about everyone. My best overall experience was alone, at night. Ate a bunch with plans to meet others, ended up just driving/roaming around til the early hours of the morning.
I was just driving, seemed like only for an hour, driving, smoking a bit and then I started to come down and realize I was about 3 hours from home and it was 4 in the morning. I was literally lost in a different world just taking it all in.
That is so cool. It was sort of like that at college, there were a few cliques for everything. I had my hockey clique, my nerd clique, and my clique who smoked and did shrooms. For me, shrooms weren't something I wanted to do often. MAYBE every couple months. You need a good 6 hours to devote to it.
That's another reason I love DMT. Short, sweet, and to the point. 10 minutes, and you're back, sober as you were before you started. Fortunately for me, my mother likes taking my kids for sleepovers every couple months, and daddy gets to do his psychedelics
(06-24-2023, 12:23 PM)quintessentone Wrote: I too, in my teen years, tried two different types of acid during the daytime and both were positive trips, but I have never tried shrooms.
Well my daughter bought me some as a Christmas present and there it still sits on my dresser. My daughter keeps asking why I haven't tried it yet. Well I told her it was because she told me she took a larger dose of shrooms and was freaking out in the bathroom - she said she was floating in the cosmos without a body and started freaking out. I thought to myself, yeah, no thanks. I can float around the cosmos by simply doing an OBE, which I've accomplished before with my brain intact in it's normal state.
Anyway, I asked hubby if he wanted to do the shrooms with me and we could float through the cosmos and maybe together we might be able to explode some atoms with our minds. He said 'no' and I said 'you chickenshit'. I am also a 'chickenshit'. Basically I don't want to do it alone. So here I am with untouched shrooms.
It's very interesting what's happening in the medical field with shrooms because they have finished many clinical studies and the doctors say they are amazed at the positive results they have seen on mental illnesses. Even in these clinical trials the patients are never left alone and they are walked through every stage of the trip by the doctors. Maybe I should just research the stages of the shroom trip so I will know what to expect and when.
See, that's what appeals to me about these psychedelics. Going places you might not imagine. There are people who think about floating in the cosmos who say "screw that," and others say "sounds awesome!"
When you take these substances, it feels like you're unlocking bits of your mind. I forgot to mention a few things about that trip, but along with the feeling of unconditional love, I had the realization that everything is connected. We're all parts of a greater whole, and one day we'll return to the whole. I'm not doing a great job describing it, but it felt something like that.
It's interesting to me too what you said about a self-induced OBE. I've heard of people accomplishing this through meditation and certain breathing techniques. I've never attempted it myself, these days I just don't have the time to devote to it, but I'm open to it in the future, to compare to the DMT effects.