20+ years. There are people on here who I bet have been tripping over 40 years
How is it different after 30 or 40 years? I mean in the first decade or less you get much more experienced and acquainted, so IME the trips stop being unmanageable for "unnecessary" reasons, but of course you are never immune to get your ass handed to you... it's rarely so unexpectedly paradigm shifting for me now, which is not necessarily that intensity dependent but more 'change potential' dependent. But after that? Even more differences over time?
1970, was the year I started dose's, in the San Francisco Bay Area Calif.
I would dose once or twice a month perhaps for the first 3 years or so. Although the first year was once every two weeks, (OUCH).
I then tapered off to 2 to 4 times a year until present. In the in-between times, I would dose Shrooms or Mescaline, 2 times a year.
Up until 10 years ago, I would slip in a few favorites RC's.
LSD is my staple, my to go brain reset buddy.
Is it a form of addiction? Maybe. I can do without it too. Not that first year though curiosity killed that cat in me LOL.
It has been 4 months now, family life has priority over my need to explore.
Family and responsibility to them, myself, is most important. and should be for everyone.
Namaste
How is it different after 30 or 40 years? .... But after that? Even more differences over time?
9 years here
I'm 24 almost 25 !
First proper psychedelic experience was 4.5 grams of mushrooms alone in my bedroom around Fall 2015. So I guess I've only been tripping for about 2 years, I'm 23 now.
I started doing DXM back when I was about 16 though and did a lot up until a few years ago before I branched out into the other dissociatives. I used a lot of MXE, 3-MeO-PCP, etc. the past couple years but I'm looking to mostly "hang up the phone" in regard to those type of compounds and dive deeper into psychedelics.