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My first "trip" I came away with the following insights, which I would not describe as particularly profound. First, that I could sometimes be too hard on myse
by at_a_remove 6y ago
My first "trip" I came away with the following insights, which I would not describe as particularly profound.
First, that I could sometimes be too hard on myself, for no benefit.
Second, that I had a tendency to drive my body around like a crappy old station wagon I didn't care about, some kind of hand-me-down; I realized "I am the station wagon, when I wreck this one, that's it."
Each subsequent trip did leave me with a kind of refreshed feeling, like I had the vents blown out and the floor scrubbed. That's about as ineffable as I got. Perhaps I lack imagination.
- xtony 6y agoI don't think it's really that you lack imagination; it's that the human condition is quite universal in a lot of ways so the insights you gleaned were not particularly novel. But the real value is in actually taking the insights to heart, rather than dismissing them as empty platitudes.
- vlasev 6y agoPerhaps you lack imagination, perhaps you lack dose, setting, mood, etc. Have you tried different kinds of music to go along with these? Have you tried to isolate from most of your senses like sight? It's a very different experience to trip fully awake and out and about vs headphones in, eyes closed, lying down.