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The Big & Dandy 'How have Psychedelics changed You' Thread

To someone who has never tried psychedelics but intends to, most of these effects sound very positive in the long run and make me want to try them.

It's just the mention of becomming more introspective and more focussed on small details that makes me think twice. These are effects i've heard reported from friends I know who take them.

I'm already quite introspective, and sometimes i find that gets in the way a bit with my social interactions. Not much, but a little. And in my university work I frequently over analyse things need to remind myself to "look at the big picture" and not get hung up on little details, so i'm hoping psychs won't amp that tendency up too much. Oh well you don't know till you try :)

To those that have mentioned these effects - would you consider them positive or negative changes overall?
 
white_magic said:
Not to diminish the importance of your revelation here, but IMO it only seems natural that these situations would be awkward in every-day life, so just how awkward did you find them to be while on acid? Did you suddenly have intensely vivid representations of your own 'tangents' of concepts or ideas brought up in conversation?
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basically, the concept I'm describing is commonly known as "mis-communication". the idea about what causes them came from analyzing all the mis-communications that have happened to me on LSD (and there's been ALOT!) and noticing that often times, it's not really about the person mishearing you so much as that they are hearing you and making their own associations in their brain which then complicate the whole process of understanding what you're saying. and of course, I've been on the association-making side of it a million times as well.

definitely awkward moments are much more awkward on acid than normally, but I have a hunch (and of course there is plenty of room for me to be wrong on this) that tripping or not tripping many mis-communications come from that same sort of issue.

one example off the top of my head would be this would be this:

person a: *mumbles* can I pet your dog?
person b: (recently watched a television program about animal abuse) did you just ask me if you could hit my dog?!
person a: of course not! that's outrageous!
person b: sorry, I must have misheard you.
[cue awkward silence]

that's just one (really random and completely made-up) example of what I'm talking about. I wish I could think of a better way to illustrate it...
 
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feelgoodhit said:
also, the SOCIAL aspect of psychedelics - not only being on them around others, but meeting others who share the same interest! I self-identify as a drug geek, and it's wonderful meeting and talking to others who share that niche on Bluelight, and getting involved in the psychedelic trance community where I live. going out to raves and other events involved with psychedelics has helped me to develop my social skills and shown me that I am not alone in wanting to explore altered states.

sorry for the long posts! <3
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Is there a psytrance community in new jersey . If so i would love to meet these people =D
 
feelgoodhit said:
basically, the concept I'm describing is commonly known as "mis-communication". the idea about what causes them came from analyzing all the mis-communications that have happened to me on LSD (and there's been ALOT!) and noticing that often times, it's not really about the person mishearing you so much as that they are hearing you and making their own associations in their brain which then complicate the whole process of understanding what you're saying. and of course, I've been on the association-making side of it a million times as well.

definitely awkward moments are much more awkward on acid than normally, but I have a hunch (and of course there is plenty of room for me to be wrong on this) that tripping or not tripping many mis-communications come from that same sort of issue.

one example off the top of my head would be this would be this:

person a: *mumbles* can I pet your dog?
person b: (recently watched a television program about animal abuse) did you just ask me if you could hit my dog?!
person a: of course not! that's outrageous!
person b: sorry, I must have misheard you.
[cue awkward silence]

that's just one (really random and completely made-up) example of what I'm talking about. I wish I could think of a better way to illustrate it...
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I fully understand. Though I have to say that since every concept or idea we have has a personally identifiable tangent or slant to it (usually with its own visual and auditory representation), you could argue 2 people are never talking about the same thing 100.00% of the time.
 
It showed me that i should be happy with simply being alive... no matter how shitty life can get, things have a way of working themselves out....

They have made me more comfortable with who i am.
 
How many trips have "changed your life?"

For me, the most reality-altering and life-changing drug experience I've had is the first time I did mushrooms. That was about a year ago, and prior to the trip I only smoked pot three times. I almost feel it was so intense I don't need to trip again, like there is no purpose for extra trips. Now, I divide my life into pre-shrooms and post-shrooms. I got HPPD from it, though. People have halos/auras now. Anyone else feel this way about a single experience?
 
most of my life changing trips were in the beggining of my tripping career (6-9 years ago). i can think of a couple happening in my first couple years, when i was still getting to know the substances (LSD and mushrooms in high doses were most effective in producing those results). most recently it was my first break through on DMT which occured close to 2 years ago.

these days they are few and far between, even with large doses of psychedelics (which to be honest i dont even take these days except for ketamine).

i think its about time i bust out my machine and put in a couple hundred mg's of that sparkly white spice ive been saving for a special occasion.
 
I will only mention my first 3 trips as they were very impacting, on real LSD...I am certain I had true LSD and not DOx which alot of people get.

All 3 of these trips were significantly different because each one had different intentions as I gained more experience with the chemical LSD.

First trip: 1 and a half hit(dropped on sweet tarts). Taught me the beauty of simple things such as flowers, a carpet. Everything looked amazing and colorful and it was warming to my soul. I laughed ALOT at what seemed like nothing, sometimes I laughed when I thought of the things that usually make us mad or upset in our daily lives....it was hilarious to look at it in another light and just laugh at it and be jolly.

2nd trip, 3 hits(dropped on sweet tarts). I learned what the spirit was, it didn't concern myself or my EGO. It was the universe and everything in it all together as one. Extreme happiness doing nothing, learning to turn the music off and just pay attention to divine revelation.

3rd trip, 2 hits(dropped on sweet tarts). This time knowing what I experienced in the last 2 trips, especially the 2nd. I meditated and saw myself objectively as "the buddha". It occured to me that literally we ARE all the buddha and can feel compassion for everything by simple being still in a meditative state.. Extremely spiritual and I will never forget that day when I had a glimpse of an enlightened state.

Of course to be truely enlightened you must follow a path and deliberate yourself from many pleasures and desires. But LSD showed me a simple hint of what it might be like, complete bliss and being naturally high and content.
 
lifechanging? oh, around ~500 or so, the last several hundred with DMT, save for that accidental 20,000 mikes of LSD a few weeks back, but who's counting? i guess my life changes alot...
 
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my first time taking mushrooms alone is the real winner, but every trip has "changed my life"
 
Absolutely none.

I'm being dead serious. I've had over 50 shroom trips, some with up to 7 grams and as low as 1 gram. And done acid twice. DXM twice too.

None of them changed my life and all the shroom trips were nothing but good ones/experiences. Acid on the other hand, both were bad. Maybe that's why it didn't change my life. I didn't agree with the thoughts it made run through my brain.
 
nanobrain said:
lifechanging? oh, around ~500 or so, the last several hundred with DMT, save for that accidental 20,000 mikes of LSD a few weeks back, but who's counting? i guess my life changes alot...
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Yeehaa :):) 20mg- be careful (I know you are of course) <3

As everything is constantly changing, I cannot say for certain what trips have "changed" my life. Salvia gave me a decent shaking up- ie. it scared my fucking mind shitless, and bought out even more strongly my anxiety; that said, DMT and DPT have bought me to a closer understanding of why I am an anxious person; or more to the point, I am that way simply because I believe it.

But ya- only one life changing trip should be allowed per person. We need some consistency here :D
 
The first time I tripped (other than ~240mg DXM a few times which isn't the same sort of thing), which was mushrooms, back in 2001. That trip changed everything forever. I went from being an etheist who had abandoned Christianity that I was raised with, to a person in touch with his spirituality. And that has never gone back. Many other trips have impacted me and changed some things in my mind, but that first one truly did change the course of the rest of my life forever, and it still does. It was the perfect trip.

One other one did as well, in retrospect, although I had a few others that I felt were life-changing at the time (but in retrospect I didn't really change anything long-term). It was my +4 with AMT, 2C-B and 4-AcO-DMT (the report does not reflect everything this trip has come to mean to me since it was written during the experience). In it I again directly connected to the universal mind, only this time I was still completely in control of my faculties. It made me aware that the root of everything is love, and it showed me beyond a shadow of doubt the correct way to live my life. It also gave me a mission regarding the coming change and for months before and afterwards my life, I felt us stirring as a group consciousness.

Nothing has been the same since then, even though in some ways it has... but it sort of pulled it all together and gave me a sense of peace about the future.

I have also had a +4 on 2C-E, which is pretty well-read online. That was the most intense experience of my life and it certainly was important, but it didn't really end up changing the way I live my life. It did however change the way I understand some things.
 
Just read your 2CE report, wow, interesting stuff.

*edit: I guess I'll contribute a little.

My first trip on mushrooms would have to be the most life changing experience I've ever had.

I dosed somewhere around 6.5g dried, because (and I quote) "I wanna like go to outer space and look at galaxies and shit"

So that's how much my friend gave me.

Let's just say I never made it to outer space, but I had the complete and absolute death repeated ever 2 seconds for a good 3 hours.

Constant melting... like a puddle... into the ground. The house ate me. I'd touch something like a phone only for my arm to melt off and then my body. I'd crawl around and with every crawl, i'd melt more and more and time would warp as the everything around me would collapse and break and i'd spawn at a random point in my friends house. At one point i tried to unpeel a bannana only for myself to start unpeeling and melting into the chair i was sitting in untill i was a puddle at the other side of the kitchen.

The cat had many faces. like 8 or 9. each one would meow,meow,MEOWMEOWMEOWMEOWMEMEMEMEEEEEEEE untill reality broke (glass breaking sound accompanied by my visual field getting shatterd down the middle in lightning strike pattern and then the glass falling apart)

At one point i was trapped in a constat 2 second repeating instance of melting in slow-mo, unmelting very quickly in fast-mo taking a step or two or touching something then meeeeeeeeeeelttttttttttttiiiiiiiiiiiiiing again. This went on for what seemed like ages.

at one point all the walls in my friends house came closing in on me and i had to experiance suffucation (the worst death imaginable, trust me) when the walls closed in I could feel every part of me being squished and cracked untill i was nothing more than a waste.

I was convinced i had died, I thought that at somepoint during the trip I had been struck by a car and was now in never ending hell.

Coming out of that trip was rough... but the single moment i figured out I was still alive, . fuck. Pure bliss. I felt reborn.

(oops looks like i ranted a bit.. lol )
 
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The vast majority of my 406 psychedelic trips completely changed my life.
 
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