Cataloging Trip Dates: A Chance to Study One's Patterns

[thoughtsUnThought]

Has anyone else ever recorded when they tripped over a period of time, like years...?

When i was in high school, i had my 'trip calendars'. i drew a little mushroom every time i ate them, wrote LSD, etc. on certain, particularly crazy months, i filled the whole calendar with fucked up cartoon images which encompassed all the little trip markings into one big picure...lol, one is a seal with a thought bubble involving a storm....

I also, after a year or so, would go back and put little side notes of the main events of each trip.

Anyways, the significance of this, has served my own maniacal pattern recognition :D i wrote down about 3 years worth of trips, without much 'referring to the books'...and after the third year or so, i started looking back at what trips happened when. and started seeing undeniable patterns, certain trips happened on the same days, which had similar themes as the previous years. as well as, i was given a solid reference as to what my life was like during periods of certain psychedelics dominant-use.

lol, and i was tripping a lot back then...something like once a week on avg. sometimes more. and after a few years i went back to 'do the math' to see just how much i'd tripped on each of my main three....mushrooms, lsd, and mescaline cacti. the numbers were astounding...lol, all together something like 13% of my life back then was psychedelic exploration. but i'd have to consult the books to give definite numbers (lol, i love that i can do that...hence this thread..!)

As we all probably know, patterns emerge from any 'random' data. which i am aware of, and not trying to deny. however, i have learned much about my seemingly spontaneous use of psychedelics. and the patterns have definite value, at least to myself.

I am curious if anyone else has ever 'cataloged their trips'...and if there is any value to them of these 'maps' :D i wouldn't give up my trip calendars for anything...i love them! i would maybe be willing to take pictures of some 'excerpts' for the benefit of this site, if anyone is interested...like i said, even if the patterns aren't evident to you (since you weren't there, and don't know what my life was like during those periods) the art is trippy to say the least :D

i think i have 05, 06 and 07 filled in...which is when i became spiritually as well as very very very physically sick. and the onset of this sickness fell on a trip, on a very significant ticking of the earth-clock...the summer solstice. but all of that is a story for another day....needless to say, i stopped tripping a lot after the onset of the sickness. i tried to still trip regularly, but i was in so much pain that i couldn't enjoy, or benefit much from the trips.. those were hard fucking times, not from the lack of trips necessarily, but the pain was constant. it deafened all sense of contentment in my life....but enough sob story, that's why the calendars end there. but this year...!! i am having a resurgence, i am finally over the majority of the pain, at least to the extent that it cannot rule my occurrence anymore. and i've been keeping track of this year's adventures...though not weekly, they are still catalog worthy

curious what you guys think about all this...my friend's who were my trip buddies were envious i had all my trips cataloged after it was all said and done. and i'd like the show this practice to the BL world...:D

 

[ChronicHD]

I don't write the actual dates down but I like to keep track of how often and on what substances I trip.

 

[allium]

Thanks for sharing!

I also love to record date of my trips(as well as dose and substance). I have only about ~1.5 years of psychedelic use with only 35 trips. I am not sure about "global" patterns, but there are distinct "local" patterns.