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Well, I love my therapist, and research suggests that psychedelic assisted therapy is effective. I've never taken a large dose of mushrooms because I am nervous

Well, I love my therapist, and research suggests that psychedelic assisted therapy is effective. I've never taken a large dose of mushrooms because I am nervous about where it would take me, so personally doing that with my therapist could be pretty nice. Tho expensive lol. I've only really done LSD once tho and it was interesting, and seemed more low key than shrooms, so maybe I should try that again.

recyclelater 4y ago
It’s not more low key it’s actually much more intense, or rather can be depending on dosage. Easier to exact dose with LSD. Mushrooms are over quicker and as a result can be more pleasant.
akvadrako 4y ago
Well you can get a guide (or just an experienced friend) for less than a therapist. Also, LSD is not lower key than shrooms; maybe you took a smaller dose or personally have a tolerance. But with high doses they can both be very intense.
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  Shrooms bring up a lot of emotions for me, while LSD felt more cerebral. I found the LSD easier to deal with. But then, I have less experience with it.
ActorNightly 4y ago
You likely did a starter dose of LSD. Also, it doesn't depend on stomach processing to activate, which means its not diet dependent - shrooms very much are. Plenty of people make a mistake of taking shrooms after eating a meal, not getting anything after an hour, taking more thinking their shrooms are weak, and then when it hits they are taken for quite a ride. The right way to dose shrooms IMO is not eating 4 hours prior, ground up fine (and optionally put into gel capsules if you can't stand the taste), and taken with OJ. This gives you a very strong and peaky trip at minimal doses, but the peak lasts for 2-3 hours, whereas LSD is generally a whole day affair event at lower dosages. Its also worth while imo to grow your own shrooms. There is this philosophical meta element of taking charge and creating your own medicine which then you take can better your own life, which can be a very positive thought during the trip.
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  Oh sure. Yeah I've done all that, including growing them. And I always take them on an empty stomach. The thing is that shrooms bring up a lot of deep emotions for me which can be hard to handle. I don't have much experience with LSD but that trip was more cerebral and easier to deal with than the emotional roller coaster of shroom trips I've had. Maybe it was just the dosage, I don't know.
  - denton-scratch 4y ago
    I'm sure your LSD dose must have been low. A good dose of LSD creates the most powerful experience I've ever had, and it's not really controllable. Shrooms are much more gentle; it's much easier to "look away" from the experience.
    - LocalH 4y ago
      N,N-DMT is my preferred psychedelic when my intent is a strong, "reset" trip. It's given me the absolute highest amount of focus control and seems to diminish the effects of my dopamine deficiency almost entirely for the better part of a couple of months, and the positive effects are still very slow to fade from there. Even today, three years after my last deep DMT trip, I find I still pull personal philosophy from it that guide me in the direction of kindness and warmth towards others. Especially for such a short duration in consensus time (my trip was about 45 minutes, a bit on the long side but again I smoked a cigarette directly before consuming DMT, which I understand has MAOI properties and thus can extend the duration of DMT), DMT is one of the most powerful substances known to mankind. Perhaps 5-MeO-DMT might be more powerful, but there is physical risk involved there in such a way that isn't present with N,N-DMT.

recyclelater 4y ago

It’s not more low key it’s actually much more intense, or rather can be depending on dosage. Easier to exact dose with LSD. Mushrooms are over quicker and as a result can be more pleasant.

akvadrako 4y ago

Well you can get a guide (or just an experienced friend) for less than a therapist. Also, LSD is not lower key than shrooms; maybe you took a smaller dose or personally have a tolerance. But with high doses they can both be very intense.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Shrooms bring up a lot of emotions for me, while LSD felt more cerebral. I found the LSD easier to deal with. But then, I have less experience with it.

ActorNightly 4y ago

You likely did a starter dose of LSD. Also, it doesn't depend on stomach processing to activate, which means its not diet dependent - shrooms very much are. Plenty of people make a mistake of taking shrooms after eating a meal, not getting anything after an hour, taking more thinking their shrooms are weak, and then when it hits they are taken for quite a ride. The right way to dose shrooms IMO is not eating 4 hours prior, ground up fine (and optionally put into gel capsules if you can't stand the taste), and taken with OJ. This gives you a very strong and peaky trip at minimal doses, but the peak lasts for 2-3 hours, whereas LSD is generally a whole day affair event at lower dosages. Its also worth while imo to grow your own shrooms. There is this philosophical meta element of taking charge and creating your own medicine which then you take can better your own life, which can be a very positive thought during the trip.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Oh sure. Yeah I've done all that, including growing them. And I always take them on an empty stomach. The thing is that shrooms bring up a lot of deep emotions for me which can be hard to handle. I don't have much experience with LSD but that trip was more cerebral and easier to deal with than the emotional roller coaster of shroom trips I've had. Maybe it was just the dosage, I don't know.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  I'm sure your LSD dose must have been low. A good dose of LSD creates the most powerful experience I've ever had, and it's not really controllable. Shrooms are much more gentle; it's much easier to "look away" from the experience.
  - LocalH 4y ago
    N,N-DMT is my preferred psychedelic when my intent is a strong, "reset" trip. It's given me the absolute highest amount of focus control and seems to diminish the effects of my dopamine deficiency almost entirely for the better part of a couple of months, and the positive effects are still very slow to fade from there. Even today, three years after my last deep DMT trip, I find I still pull personal philosophy from it that guide me in the direction of kindness and warmth towards others. Especially for such a short duration in consensus time (my trip was about 45 minutes, a bit on the long side but again I smoked a cigarette directly before consuming DMT, which I understand has MAOI properties and thus can extend the duration of DMT), DMT is one of the most powerful substances known to mankind. Perhaps 5-MeO-DMT might be more powerful, but there is physical risk involved there in such a way that isn't present with N,N-DMT.