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Same experiences. Dropped drinking, started exercising. The LSD dose was much higher and the after effects listed lasted for weeks. However, the mushrooms dosag
by iknowSFR 5y ago
Same experiences. Dropped drinking, started exercising. The LSD dose was much higher and the after effects listed lasted for weeks. However, the mushrooms dosage was lower and while the after effects were similar, it didn’t last as long. Truthfully, I felt a deeper connection with the moment post-LSD.
The LSD trip kind of hurt but after the first few hours, became a solid 6-8 hour span of self reflection. Mushrooms started out chill and evolved into a pretty painful experience before moving into that self reflection stage.
What’s happening during that self reflection stage is best described as a feeling of losing it all. Family, friends, etc. but not so much material items. In that moment, I felt complete loneliness and the fear associated with that loneliness. That fear led to asking what would make me be alone and the answer was my personal ego. It ultimately was a confrontation of personal flaws like narcissism or selfishness. Later in the trip, like 5-8 hours, a feeling of being content with who I am and where I need to improve to not lose the things that truly matter was the result.
I don’t know if I’ll ever try either LSD or mushrooms again but the reset on my personal ego made me value a lot of important things that get backburnered in the grind and stress of life.
- siloed 5y agoWhat's being described in the study is not self-reflection but serotonergic psychedelics' effects on the 5-HT2A receptors in the brain. For example, escitalopram (Lexapro) may help with self-reflection as well but this study was specifically studying patients with treatment-resistant depression.
- pmoriarty 5y agoThe study doesn't describe self-reflection, but that doesn't mean that the subjects of the study didn't engage in it. I'd be very surprised if they didn't.
- sdedovic 5y ago> What’s happening during that self reflection stage is best described as a feeling of losing it all. This reminds me of a passage from Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception: We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes...
- peteradio 5y agoTry catching your wifes eye as you both watch your children play.
- e40 5y ago> The LSD trip kind of hurt Can you explain that? I don't grok it.
- iknowSFR 5y agoYour body feels exhausted but your mind is quite awake. So you’re exhausted and energetic at the same time. Your joints can kind of feel tense if you’re not moving. Walking is enough but then you can also feel overheated pretty easily. Hours 1-4 were largely uncomfortable for me on both. LSD gave me diarrhea for a solid 4 hours. I think that’s rare but I felt better the next day than I had in years. Probably something to do with gut science but I have nothing to back that up other than my story here.
- pmoriarty 5y agoAre you sure it was LSD?
- iknowSFR 5y agoFair question and yes. Received from a reliable individual and also personally tested. Even still, I’ll admit that even after testing I Googled symptoms of meth use a few times during the early stages of the trip.
- e40 5y agoWow. Thanks for sharing. We know there is a much stronger gut-brain connection that we ever though possible. Interesting stuff.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoGut is a bundle of neuro cells, and nerves. Either you needed some stuff out, or your body wanted the LSD out!
- postingposts 5y agoYou want to go to sleep but the final paper is due in 8 hours and you haven’t started. You are going to write this paper and nothing stops the paper from being written. As you find yourself at hour 4 or 5, well past any joy of ideation, you realize that you must still finish the paper. Caffeine is pounding in your head and you have wrestled the entire day before, now your brain is thinking at full capacity whether you like it or not. Oh it’s not a pain that can be seen but have a migraine and say that’s not real or work a hard day and have to walk more. It’s the hurt of causing your brain to be more active than it ever has. Similar to making someone who plays video games all day hike up a mountain. They’re gonna feel it.
- alsetmusic 5y agoSound like ego death. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death