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The Big & Dandy 'Age and Psychedelics' thread

If you use psychedelics, please tell us: how old are you?

  • < 12

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 12-15

    Votes: 11 3.9%

  • 16-18

    Votes: 45 16.0%

  • 19-21

    Votes: 87 30.9%

  • 22-25

    Votes: 52 18.4%

  • 26-30

    Votes: 33 11.7%

  • 31-40

    Votes: 31 11.0%

  • 41-50

    Votes: 11 3.9%

  • 51-65

    Votes: 9 3.2%

  • > 65

    Votes: 3 1.1%
  • Total voters
    282
Merged this in with the previous thread on similar topic.

In answer to the question, first notable pychedelic experience was ~300ug of LSD when I was 16/17. Think I'd played around a bit with various herbal things (and plenty cannabis - including some hefty oral doses which would possibly count as psychedelic) previously but that first bit of Lucy Luvvin' was the real eye-opener <3
 
swilow said:
LSD/MDMA 14 or 15.

OP, don't try and use this to justify what your trying to justify man. Seriously, why do you want to be a "psychonaut"?
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you obviously havent gained from psychidelics what id think you would, ur into synth's which im not into, psilocybin mushrooms and those type of things are sacred and have been around for millions of years. doing mushrooms is one of the few things you can do of any significance that humans millions of years ago did. before there was such a conflict of right and wrong and truth
 
^ Dude, don't put others down because you think your drug is better than someone else's. I used to be like that when I first got into psychs. I did shrooms and thought I had risen to a level above everyone else, and developed quite a superiority complex and ended up isolating myself. Don't do this to yourself, you'll pay for it in the end. Don't ever think you're better than someone because you use psychedelics "sacredly" and everyone else is just a fiend.

If you do psychedelics do them for your own reasons, and don't subscribe to labels such as "psychonaut" it's just a bunch of egotistical elitist hooplah.

Edit: BTW Things like LSD and MDMA have given me and many others very beautiful spiritual experiences. Synthetic psychedelics can be quite "sacred" in that respect.
 
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straycatphizzle said:
you obviously havent gained from psychidelics what id think you would, ur into synth's which im not into, psilocybin mushrooms and those type of things are sacred and have been around for millions of years. doing mushrooms is one of the few things you can do of any significance that humans millions of years ago did. before there was such a conflict of right and wrong and truth
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Humans millions of years ago? Huh? Homo Apillus? There is no foundation to Terence's theories; they are simply hypotheses. Very interesting, but not exactly scientific. Why are mushrooms sacred? What does that even mean to you?

Also- how do you know I'm into synthetics? And how can you say your not- as you've never taken a drug? Personally, I love DMT- which is not synthetic. I also like mushrooms. :\ :)

Please try and not make naive assumptions about me too mate; its just rude and, dare I say it, childish. I've gained a lot from psychedelics- I've given a lot too, so please try and be a bit more respectful, or act your age. Actually, forget the latter :D

Anyhow, you didn't answer my question- why do you want to be a "psychonaut"? I'm merely curious- not attacking you. Perhaps you do need an ego-strippin' to help you along, but I doubt you'll "gain" anything like what you imagine. Psychedelic drugs are one of the defining features of my life, but the idea of "gaining" some kind of hidden knowledge is something you'll probably learn won't happen. All they do is show you yourself, to yourself, stripped bare and thus wholly complete.

Sorry to get pissed off a bit here, but your comment annoyed me. :)

PS. psychedelics, sunshine. :) <3
 
swilow said:
Humans millions of years ago? Huh? Homo Apillus? There is no foundation to Terence's theories; they are simply hypotheses. Very interesting, but not exactly scientific. Why are mushrooms sacred? What does that even mean to you?

Also- how do you know I'm into synthetics? And how can you say your not- as you've never taken a drug? Personally, I love DMT- which is not synthetic. I also like mushrooms. :\ :)

Please try and not make naive assumptions about me too mate; its just rude and, dare I say it, childish. I've gained a lot from psychedelics- I've given a lot too, so please try and be a bit more respectful, or act your age. Actually, forget the latter :D

Anyhow, you didn't answer my question- why do you want to be a "psychonaut"? I'm merely curious- not attacking you. Perhaps you do need an ego-strippin' to help you along, but I doubt you'll "gain" anything like what you imagine. Psychedelic drugs are one of the defining features of my life, but the idea of "gaining" some kind of hidden knowledge is something you'll probably learn won't happen. All they do is show you yourself, to yourself, stripped bare and thus wholly complete.

Sorry to get pissed off a bit here, but your comment annoyed me. :)

PS. psychedelics, sunshine. :) <3
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i apologize if u didnt understand what i was saying, im not saying synthetics cant be used in a "sacred" fashion. im just saying ( and i guess im not saying this with personal experience) that mushrooms provide the mindset for me that im doing something that hasnt changed in all the years it has been around. it grows from the earth and it grows because of a chemical reaction and a combination of molecules in nature, but why? why do they combine? not because one element in a molecule is a hallogen and the other an alkali metal. or lets go deeper than that, why do alkali metals and hallogens combine? my idea is, there is a driving force in the universe. it causes our hearts to beat and our consciousness's to exist. i want to be a psychonaut because i believe that some psychidelics at certain doses can give u a small peak at whats on the other side and by that i dont specifically mean the afterlife. but i presume u know what i mean. i feel there is more reality than im seeing. i guess all this time ive spent thinking cud be my lack of trust in other people and the fact that im a self-hating narcissist elitist if that makes any sense. But i think even if psychidelics dont take u to another plane of consciousness, and ur just tripping. does it matter? because what is real to you is more real than anything else because u percieve reality thru urself and that is it. i may have many conflicting thoughts and shit i have a lot of thoughts but i think i may have made some type of sense to you in all i have written
 
ha im rambling, but i guess thats what i always do. im pretty sure i understand on some level that im just searching for meaning
 
uniter said:
^ Dude, don't put others down because you think your drug is better than someone else's. I used to be like that when I first got into psychs. I did shrooms and thought I had risen to a level above everyone else, and developed quite a superiority complex and ended up isolating myself. Don't do this to yourself, you'll pay for it in the end. Don't ever think you're better than someone because you use psychedelics "sacredly" and everyone else is just a fiend.

If you do psychedelics do them for your own reasons, and don't subscribe to labels such as "psychonaut" it's just a bunch of egotistical elitist hooplah.

Edit: BTW Things like LSD and MDMA have given me and many others very beautiful spiritual experiences. Synthetic psychedelics can be quite "sacred" in that respect.
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i apoogie for this to, and i didnt realize that i was doing this but thank you for pointing that out and that unpleasant trait i had is banished. ive noticed i can do that now, i can just figure out what is wrong with me and destroy it. search and destroy!
 
Know exactly what you mean, Straycat. Is a common misperception of psyches that irks some a lil though. Every psychedelic I've sampled has shown me a new facet of that glorious, ineffeble "thing" that we are all searching for amongst the swirls. Mushrooms are no more or less important than any other path, in my view. They also taste icky :D
 
Shambles said:
Know exactly what you mean, Straycat. Is a common misperception of psyches that irks some a lil though. Every psychedelic I've sampled has shown me a new facet of that glorious, ineffeble "thing" that we are all searching for amongst the swirls. Mushrooms are no more or less important than any other path, in my view. They also taste icky :D
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thank you, what im aspiring to do is to see as much of it as i can before i die, jut in case it rly is all a cosmic joke and we go blank after death
 
salvia... age? between 18-20.

shattered my perception of the world forever.
 
Me, I'm quite firmly anti-synth, but I have my reasons, which I would rather demonstrate and discuss when appropriate than preach. I don't use synthetic medicine, try hard to use as little plastic as possible, avoid synthetic food additives like I avoid poison, and never buy synthetic clothes and so for certain avoid synthetic psychedelics, but I won't discount their value, and I won't preach against them to people. It would be like judging meat eaters as immoral being a vegan, which is a douchey thing to do and makes us all look bad when someone does it.
 
straycatphizzle said:
ha im rambling, but i guess thats what i always do. im pretty sure i understand on some level that im just searching for meaning
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Ramble on brother, thats PD is here for....<3

My view on why hallucinogens are presnt in nature is this- just because. :) I don't beieve in any external god-force that shapes our lives, for we are nothing in the face of the universe/multiverse...The god is in our heads, and is here NOW.
 
Nibiru said:
I'm 22. I'm successful according to my own standards. Never developed a serious addiction but was a heavy, heavy pot smoker until I gave it up for good (I hope) less than a year ago. I never was formally educated, dropped out of high school with two course credits needed to graduate and got them later (well, halfway through the last one now). But I'm alright. I make enough money to survive and stay very happy. I live in the country, live off of farming, people think I am okay for the most part and I spend most of my spare time working as an environmental activist, or making art. I don't use drugs barely at all anymore, but I've used all sorts of drugs, including amphetamines, MDMA, psychedelics, cannabis and opiates. The only thing that has ever been an excessively negative influence on my life was cannabis, and it was the only drug I ever developed a habit of.

Were psychedelic drugs a mistake? No, but that's relative to my life. I've had some pretty strange circumstances in my life, including a very strong and accepting family presence, and a wierd cultural background. By a lot of peoples' standards, I'm probably just a wierd hippie. By my own standards and my family's standards I'm doing just fine, even though I'm not rich and without any real formal education. And I don't use drugs anymore, for the most part. Although I could see myself eating some mushrooms or cactus sometime not so soon, I really have taken enough drugs, psychedelic or otherwise and feel that I got enough of it out of my system at a young age because I was allowed to without taboos or shame around it. At the same time, I did a lot of retarded shit that almost made me dead when I was younger and stupider, and I wouldn't like to see people do the same.

Really it's all relative to your background, your personality, and your life, and I don't expect anybody to have had as peculiar an upbringing and life as I have.
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i dont mean to be rude, and excuse me if i am being but i am so very curious. How exactly were you raised and in what circumstances?
 
15 my first time. By 20 it was old hat. Now approaching 50. It is easier when younger. I remember taking 27 King Tuts and went so far out that I was back where I started from. Einstein's theory for sure. One King Tut was strong, 27 had an initial take off but then back to straight pretty quick. An eye opening experience. I could also do 2 blotters one day, 4 the next, then 8. 3 days in a row. That's being young and curious that's all. No bad effects (on me at least) from such quantity. If anything it gets boring.

Nowadays I really have to make sure I have the time and nerves for it. You'd be amazed at what you can handle as a youngster compared to what you can handle getting older. It gets harder for sure due to so many responsibilities.
 
Took 2.5 hits of blotter when I was 19 at a Disco Biscuits show, one of the greatest nights of my life.
 
dread said:
Because one of them has something the other wants (an electron). Very much like human relationships ;)
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thats very interesting. but that adds to the theory of universal truth, everything is relative. analogies are pointing out the obvious, ur comment just shows that everything has the same natural order down to a molecular level.
 
15
i dropped before going to a high school football game
weird thing was i turned around and saw a dude had a bloody nose
i was like yo homey your nose is bleeding
he was like "fuck another one!!! i've been having them all day !!!! "
he touched his upper lip and was like i dont feel anything
he asked his friend to check out his nose
and his friend said no it wasnt bleeding

i kinda turned around sheepishly and was like dont mind me

but it still trips me out how i hallucinated a nose bleed
on someone that'd been having them earlier that day

feel me ?
 
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