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If you are risk averse, the answer is almost definitely no, because it's just way too unpredictable, even with the right setting / mood / people around you. The
by genidoi 8y ago
If you are risk averse, the answer is almost definitely no, because it's just way too unpredictable, even with the right setting / mood / people around you. The experience is so personal that anyone's anecdote bares virtually no weight for predicting how you'll react to it. Not even your close friends.
Ultimately it exposes the underlying machinery of your own consciousness in a way that you've never experienced before.
How you'll react to that sort of exposure is anyone's best guess. Tread really, really carefully with psychedelics. They are not to be taken lightly in the same way that weed or alcohol can be.
That being said, when in the right environment, it can be a fantastic, eye-opening experience.
- ethagnawl 8y ago> Ultimately it exposes the underlying machinery of your own consciousness in a way that you've never experienced before. Have you "floated"? If so, did the experience compare to the above at all?
- armitron 8y agoIf you mean isolation tank, it's not comparable because you retain control. With LSD/mushrooms/mescaline/ayahuasca there is no control on your end. It's like jumping into a stormy sea and letting it take you wherever it wants, the force is just too much for you to resist or attempt to control it. At best, you may be able to -- a (diminished) degree -- guide how the experience unfolds, but that depends on dosage and how experienced you are with psychedelic states. Finally, it's also a matter of what it does to you. LSD/mushrooms can go way beyond mere hallucinations and at high doses let you witness the fabric of perceived reality before blowing it and 'you' into pieces. There is no coming back from such annihilatory experiences, the transformation will last for the rest of your life. For some people, this is the whole point of the psychedelic experience.