Hi everyone
My first post here on bluelight
So I had my third ever mushroom trip yesterday which was partly to get a good experience with mushrooms again after a bad trip and partly for therapeutic use. Since my second trip ended in a bad trip I wanted this to be a low dose, and ended up taking less than 1 gram, although it was ecuadorian cubensis - the strongest of ecuadorian. Previously I have done higher doses. Overall it was a good experience and it restored my positive image of psychedelics - not that it was ever really otherwise, but it's something else to experience a good trip again.
The second intention with the trip didn't work out so well. I had set myself up to go through pretty much whatever presented itself and not avoid certain thoughts/bad memories as I did on my first trip. The slightly disappointing and interesting thing is that I didn't really find solutions or new angles to the 'problems' I worked on. Some of the things that came up I have been thinking through many many times, to the point that it's just rumination without any new thinking. Lying with closed eyes and a playlist made for psychedelics studies I had some slight visuals, but my thoughts wasn't very different from normal - and it seems to me my thoughts may have to be further from the usual to break these long standing thoughts.
Since it was a good experience but with a limited change of thoughts it seems natural to me, to up the dose for my next trip. Here I'd like to hear what experiences people here on bluelight have with different doses and especially if people have worked through things on low doses? It could seem to me that there's a tradeoff so that when dose is increased, risk of losing control/badtrip/not really learning anything is increased with it, but the likelihood of finding new solutions/angles is increased too - up to a certain point. This reminds me of an article a few years ago about researchers finding the perfect dose - which might in itself be one good answer to my question. However I prefer to hear from people here and share our experiences.
My first post here on bluelight
So I had my third ever mushroom trip yesterday which was partly to get a good experience with mushrooms again after a bad trip and partly for therapeutic use. Since my second trip ended in a bad trip I wanted this to be a low dose, and ended up taking less than 1 gram, although it was ecuadorian cubensis - the strongest of ecuadorian. Previously I have done higher doses. Overall it was a good experience and it restored my positive image of psychedelics - not that it was ever really otherwise, but it's something else to experience a good trip again.
The second intention with the trip didn't work out so well. I had set myself up to go through pretty much whatever presented itself and not avoid certain thoughts/bad memories as I did on my first trip. The slightly disappointing and interesting thing is that I didn't really find solutions or new angles to the 'problems' I worked on. Some of the things that came up I have been thinking through many many times, to the point that it's just rumination without any new thinking. Lying with closed eyes and a playlist made for psychedelics studies I had some slight visuals, but my thoughts wasn't very different from normal - and it seems to me my thoughts may have to be further from the usual to break these long standing thoughts.
Since it was a good experience but with a limited change of thoughts it seems natural to me, to up the dose for my next trip. Here I'd like to hear what experiences people here on bluelight have with different doses and especially if people have worked through things on low doses? It could seem to me that there's a tradeoff so that when dose is increased, risk of losing control/badtrip/not really learning anything is increased with it, but the likelihood of finding new solutions/angles is increased too - up to a certain point. This reminds me of an article a few years ago about researchers finding the perfect dose - which might in itself be one good answer to my question. However I prefer to hear from people here and share our experiences.
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