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I've experienced this firsthand. It reminds you of who you are in a deep, basic way.

by macawfish 7y ago

mousadafousa 7y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by that? What did it mean for you to be more yourself?
- Raphmedia 7y ago
  Imagine that you are suddenly in a vacuum where social constructs do not exist, that you have no ego and that you feel connected to everything and at peace with the world. Who would that person be? For many people, it would be a new person. It's a simplified explanation, but you get the gist of it.
- macawfish 7y ago
  I shared some more details in a different reply!
knowa42 7y ago
Does it remind you of who you are on a personal level, i.e. core values, aspirations, and what makes you happy? Or does it just remind you of your humanity, thus that you're connected to billions of other people through that alone?
- travisjungroth 7y ago
  For me, more the latter.
- asynch8 7y ago
  it can remind you of both, but mainly the first. I've read that during the peak of tripping LSD(assuming that something similar happens with mushrooms) your neurons and their patterns weaken, before being 'restarted' and forming even stronger bonds than before.
- ericmcer 7y ago
  Lower doses are more about the former, lots of introspection and viewing my life from an altered state. Higher doses are all about the latter, a lot more ego death and huge weighty difficult to describe type emotions.
kinleyd 7y ago
i have experienced both depression and anxiety at different times in my life, and have just learned about psilocybin a few weeks ago. Though I've found my own peace (mostly) nearly two decades ago, I'm still determined to get to the bottom of this psilocybin thing!
macawfish 7y ago
I need to be open here that I originally misread the title and missed the "cancer patient" part! I just had a single dose of psilocybin way back when and it calmed me for years. I have not been a cancer patient. That said, a lot of my depression and anxiety was rooted in losing my father to cancer at the age of 10.
- Bootwizard 7y ago
  What do you mean by "calmed me for years"?
  - macawfish 7y ago
    It gently blew away some basic hangups and insecurities I had about myself, stuff I'd been wrestling with for a while as a young adult. I think I was in my early/mid twenties. Examples: how other people saw me, my image, my superficial appearance, the future, my difficult longing to be loyal (to people, beliefs, institutions) in ways that weren't bringing energy back to my life. It's not like the habits I'd built worrying or caring about those things went away overnight, but they did very rapidly stop having top priority in how I directed my energy. That brought immediate and sustained relief. I was instead reminded of my own capacity to appreciate simple aspects of life, stuff I'd come to take for granted. Suddenly I remembered that I could let go of all that stuff and that there was this whole ground of life under my feet and all around me, that it was there to support me all along. Here are some examples of things that felt profound, that I relearned or maybe even had a chance to learn deeply for the first time ever: - Just being outside in the park with a couple of friends gave me so much peace and joy. We sat and found pleasure in the most basic stuff. We giggled. We had our minds blown. - Woah... look at those ducks, they live in this park. This is where they live. - Trees are alive, breathing, and likely aware of us on some level or another. Their bark seemed like an elephant's skin to me. Life is everywhere. - The sun and earth are locked together. It's up there all the time, just buzzing, and its energy is amazing and abundant. Like holy shit it's powerful can you believe that thing is up there? Don't look at it! - Check out that man jogging. He's just pulsing with life and vitality. I want to jog! It looks so satisfying and quenching to be alive like that! - Everyone has their own reality. My reality is different from your reality and that's just fine! If someone tries to come at you with their reality, that's fine, it's their reality! I have my own reality and you have yours. - People are deeply remarkable. - I can make some pretty nice rhythms with just a rock and a wooden back-scratcher. I can pretend that the rock is my friend. That's fine to do and it's fun. I can refer to it as "my friend, the rock!" and introduce it to my human friends, and this will be plenty of fun and is perfectly acceptable. No shame, just a little silliness that's all. - At this time I'd made a habit of looking at my face in the mirror to check on different blemishes or see how I "looked". After my little mushroom journey, I remember looking at myself in the mirror and seeing through all my scars of age and my blemishes, looking into my own eyes and seeing myself, a living being with emotions and spirit and needs and vitality. It felt so good to just acknowledge my own basic being on a simple level. Maybe this moment could serve as a metaphor for the rest of the experience. I didn't have any "negative" experiences except for one moment where I saw that there was some stuff inside of me that felt pretty shadowy, stuff that I could get stuck in if I focused on it. I decided not to focus on it and that was that. But my intuition is that if I ever did eat mushrooms again and did have a "bad trip", it would most likely feel something like an intense grieving, realizing and processing difficult stuff I've accumulated over the course of my life and remembering who and what I care about.

I've experienced this firsthand. It reminds you of who you are in a deep, basic way.

mousadafousa 7y ago

Can you expand on what you mean by that? What did it mean for you to be more yourself?

Raphmedia 7y ago
Imagine that you are suddenly in a vacuum where social constructs do not exist, that you have no ego and that you feel connected to everything and at peace with the world. Who would that person be? For many people, it would be a new person. It's a simplified explanation, but you get the gist of it.
macawfish 7y ago
I shared some more details in a different reply!

knowa42 7y ago

Does it remind you of who you are on a personal level, i.e. core values, aspirations, and what makes you happy? Or does it just remind you of your humanity, thus that you're connected to billions of other people through that alone?

travisjungroth 7y ago
For me, more the latter.
asynch8 7y ago
it can remind you of both, but mainly the first. I've read that during the peak of tripping LSD(assuming that something similar happens with mushrooms) your neurons and their patterns weaken, before being 'restarted' and forming even stronger bonds than before.
ericmcer 7y ago
Lower doses are more about the former, lots of introspection and viewing my life from an altered state. Higher doses are all about the latter, a lot more ego death and huge weighty difficult to describe type emotions.

kinleyd 7y ago

i have experienced both depression and anxiety at different times in my life, and have just learned about psilocybin a few weeks ago. Though I've found my own peace (mostly) nearly two decades ago, I'm still determined to get to the bottom of this psilocybin thing!

macawfish 7y ago

I need to be open here that I originally misread the title and missed the "cancer patient" part! I just had a single dose of psilocybin way back when and it calmed me for years. I have not been a cancer patient. That said, a lot of my depression and anxiety was rooted in losing my father to cancer at the age of 10.

Bootwizard 7y ago
What do you mean by "calmed me for years"?
- macawfish 7y ago
  It gently blew away some basic hangups and insecurities I had about myself, stuff I'd been wrestling with for a while as a young adult. I think I was in my early/mid twenties. Examples: how other people saw me, my image, my superficial appearance, the future, my difficult longing to be loyal (to people, beliefs, institutions) in ways that weren't bringing energy back to my life. It's not like the habits I'd built worrying or caring about those things went away overnight, but they did very rapidly stop having top priority in how I directed my energy. That brought immediate and sustained relief. I was instead reminded of my own capacity to appreciate simple aspects of life, stuff I'd come to take for granted. Suddenly I remembered that I could let go of all that stuff and that there was this whole ground of life under my feet and all around me, that it was there to support me all along. Here are some examples of things that felt profound, that I relearned or maybe even had a chance to learn deeply for the first time ever: - Just being outside in the park with a couple of friends gave me so much peace and joy. We sat and found pleasure in the most basic stuff. We giggled. We had our minds blown. - Woah... look at those ducks, they live in this park. This is where they live. - Trees are alive, breathing, and likely aware of us on some level or another. Their bark seemed like an elephant's skin to me. Life is everywhere. - The sun and earth are locked together. It's up there all the time, just buzzing, and its energy is amazing and abundant. Like holy shit it's powerful can you believe that thing is up there? Don't look at it! - Check out that man jogging. He's just pulsing with life and vitality. I want to jog! It looks so satisfying and quenching to be alive like that! - Everyone has their own reality. My reality is different from your reality and that's just fine! If someone tries to come at you with their reality, that's fine, it's their reality! I have my own reality and you have yours. - People are deeply remarkable. - I can make some pretty nice rhythms with just a rock and a wooden back-scratcher. I can pretend that the rock is my friend. That's fine to do and it's fun. I can refer to it as "my friend, the rock!" and introduce it to my human friends, and this will be plenty of fun and is perfectly acceptable. No shame, just a little silliness that's all. - At this time I'd made a habit of looking at my face in the mirror to check on different blemishes or see how I "looked". After my little mushroom journey, I remember looking at myself in the mirror and seeing through all my scars of age and my blemishes, looking into my own eyes and seeing myself, a living being with emotions and spirit and needs and vitality. It felt so good to just acknowledge my own basic being on a simple level. Maybe this moment could serve as a metaphor for the rest of the experience. I didn't have any "negative" experiences except for one moment where I saw that there was some stuff inside of me that felt pretty shadowy, stuff that I could get stuck in if I focused on it. I decided not to focus on it and that was that. But my intuition is that if I ever did eat mushrooms again and did have a "bad trip", it would most likely feel something like an intense grieving, realizing and processing difficult stuff I've accumulated over the course of my life and remembering who and what I care about.