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Make sure you have a close friend or family member, that you fully trust, when you try psilocybin or LSD. I also recommend you start with a smaller dose and wor
by LocalH 7y ago
Make sure you have a close friend or family member, that you fully trust, when you try psilocybin or LSD. I also recommend you start with a smaller dose and work your way up. My first LSD experience was 50µg, and my second one was 100µg, and that second experience made me happy I'd chosen to respect the substance and not consume it alone at that level - I felt that I would have been really susceptible to being pulled into a "time loop" had my friend not been there and been assisting in providing me a source of continuity. I think I'd be open to a 50µg trip (or lower dose as well) by myself, but that's about it.
Psychedelics also have different effects on different people. My psychedelic experiences have manifested in largely time-related ways. With approximately 40-50mg DMT, I experienced the sensation of being dragged kicking and screaming, so to speak, through a time loop that began at the point of consumption, and ended at what was "now", and the sensation of being ping-ponged back and forth. My 100µmg LSD trip was much more subtle, almost feeling like I was a sinewave oscillating around the "axis of time", and at the points where I was perfectly in sync, there were no visuals and a perfectly clear mind, while at the "out-of-sync" parts, I felt like every moment was a "flutter" of time, and I felt like I was gently being "tugged" back to the aforementioned axis.
Highly subjective, and largely our brains interpret these experiences based on our already lived life, and the experiences that have shaped our psyche.
Be safe, be careful, be respectful of these substances, and they can teach you quite a bit about yourself and about reality. They can also help you dig deep and find potential solutions to psychological issues (but if care is not taken with regards to set and setting, those issues can be exacerbated).
- Fnoord 7y ago> Make sure you have a close friend or family member, that you fully trust, when you try psilocybin or LSD. Yes, a so-called "babysitter". Even more so with Ayahuasca. It is DMT with a MAOI. If you consumed MAO, it can be ranging from unpleasant to life threatening.
- LocalH 7y agoI have yet to try ayahuasca. I'd like to some day. I'm still a fairly novice psychonaut. I tend to err on the side of caution, I'd rather have a lesser experience that's not as intense, over jumping in head first with a large dose.
- Fnoord 7y agoMind you, I'm also addressing the reader in general :) Everyone reacts different. I, for one, am very sensitive to drugs in general (probably related to my autism). My Ayahuasca came with top notch documentation (bought it from a smartshop), but otherwise a website like Erowid has likely good lists of which foods to abstain from and which foods to avoid. A sure way to achieve, is fasting. An alternative could be very light food intake. Take note of any medications you use as they likely interact (badly) with a MAOI. Once you got yourself informed and took the precautions there is nothing to worry about. Personally, I had no 24/7 sitter though I did inform my mother (whom I lived with), I was more than happy to be lonely, and I had the best visual experience ever (which were almost always rather disappointing on mushrooms). I also felt very lethargic though, a bit akin to Fly Agaric or feeling very stoned. The ability to lie down on bed (with music) was pleasant.
- LocalH 7y agoI'm lucky in that sense, as I take no regular medications. I seem to be quite sensitive to psychedelics myself, 100µg of LSD was much more intense for me than I'd learned it has been for many others. I've also not read about too large a number of significant time-related hallucinations in reading others' experiences (other than general time dilation, which my experiences went far past).
- beagle3 7y agoWhere in the world is it legal OTC? "Smartshop" implies the netherlands, but AFAIK it is not legal there.
- Fnoord 7y agoI bought my Ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, truffles, fly agaric, and a whole plethora of other smartdrugs from a Dutch smartshop. All of these were legal back in the days (in The Netherlands indeed, but in ~2004-2007). Not sure about the legal status nowadays, apart from magic mushrooms being made illegal by Ab Klink. Growkits and truffles were also still sold in 2007.