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- not doing this alone - very carefully vetting the people you're entrusting your safety to Agreed, strongly. Set and setting are important for psychedelics.

- not doing this alone - very carefully vetting the people you're entrusting your safety to Agreed, strongly. Set and setting are important for psychedelics. They should ideally be taken in a comfortable environment with people you trust…and hopefully they’re not tripping as well. Or at least, they have experience. The first time I took LSD was by myself. That was…perhaps not the best idea. It turned out fine, but whoo, it was a lot.

jahnu 5y ago
Also just want to emphasize how correct this is. And yeah wow on your own the first time. Damn. I was with 2 others taking and 2 people not to guide in a comfortable environment and it was a lot even then. It's just an incomparable experience and while bad trips are actually very very rare and you should not worry about them if you've prepared everything else right, the experience is still just.. well.. wow!
- loves_mangoes 5y ago
  I've always tripped alone, as an introvert, and I love having the whole space to myself and just having a good time without worrying about other people too much Agree with all the above, but I'd also emphasize dosage. I think I remember a study that showed the risk of people having a bad reaction is very clearly correlated to taking too much. Which should be pretty obvious. Start slow! You can always take more.
  - pmoriarty 5y ago
    The main risks of doing 5-MeO-DMT alone are: 1 - you can vomit and choke on your own vomit while being completely out of your body and without any consciousness of the outside world or bodily control 2 - some people move around a lot on it, while being effectively unconscious of the world around them... this can cause them to hit their head or otherwise injure themselves So it's much safer to have someone watching over you.. someone who is trained to put you in to the recovery position if you start vomiting, and to otherwise keep you physically safe.
    - loves_mangoes 5y ago
      Absolutely, that sounds like very good advice for 5-MeO-DMT specifically.

jahnu 5y ago

Also just want to emphasize how correct this is. And yeah wow on your own the first time. Damn. I was with 2 others taking and 2 people not to guide in a comfortable environment and it was a lot even then. It's just an incomparable experience and while bad trips are actually very very rare and you should not worry about them if you've prepared everything else right, the experience is still just.. well.. wow!

loves_mangoes 5y ago
I've always tripped alone, as an introvert, and I love having the whole space to myself and just having a good time without worrying about other people too much Agree with all the above, but I'd also emphasize dosage. I think I remember a study that showed the risk of people having a bad reaction is very clearly correlated to taking too much. Which should be pretty obvious. Start slow! You can always take more.
- pmoriarty 5y ago
  The main risks of doing 5-MeO-DMT alone are: 1 - you can vomit and choke on your own vomit while being completely out of your body and without any consciousness of the outside world or bodily control 2 - some people move around a lot on it, while being effectively unconscious of the world around them... this can cause them to hit their head or otherwise injure themselves So it's much safer to have someone watching over you.. someone who is trained to put you in to the recovery position if you start vomiting, and to otherwise keep you physically safe.
  - loves_mangoes 5y ago
    Absolutely, that sounds like very good advice for 5-MeO-DMT specifically.