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EGO DEATH (my story)

derejrcar

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It was the last day of school. I'm sitting in my english class, reading the erowid page for shrooms for the 100th time. I'm so siked--me and 3 of my friends have been looking forward to this all week. Isnt it awesome that I'm reading the erowid page for these shrooms when theres 3 eigths of DANK ass shrooms sitting right next to me in my backpack?? Yeah, it is pretty cool. My friends didnt eat lunch, it was all their first time doing shrooms and they didnt want to eat anything for fear of throwing up. I've done shrooms twice before, I knew i wasnt going to throw up, so I ate a small lunch. Anyway, 2:40 comes and we're the first ones out the door (quite a feat on the last day) and we head straight for E's car. We all hop in. I start taking out my shrooms...full eigth for me, half eigth for all the other dudes. 1+.5+.5+.5 . That makes 2.5/8. I had half an eigth left! Well eating a few extra caps would be no big deal right? Anyway, I'm really excited and im the first one to eat the shrooms, literally in the car before we leave school. I'd say i ended up eating a little more than 4gs. L also eats his half eigth with me in the car. Anyway, we get to the park were going to trip at. Everyone has eatin their shrooms, we brought towels to sit on, were all chillin. The trip comes on just like the other 2 times. I feel excited, a little nauseus, and things start looking different. As time goes on, I start to have the best visuals I've had! The trees were dancing for me! The grass looked like a forest when i was up close. A beetle flying around fascinates me. Anyway, to get to the point, we all take a walk around the park and see some pretty cool shit. We come back to sit down at the towel, and slowly i start getting this strange feeling. Everyones talking...except me. I'm sitting there, completely silent. In my head, I was questioning everything and anything, particularly things that are important to me! Like my relationship with my girlfriend, random shit about my parents, honestly none of it made sense or had any type of cause to it...at the time I had no idea, but I now know i was definitely going through ego death. Now, at this point i had never heard of the term 'ego death'. It wouldnt be until later that night that I'd read about ego death and discover what was happening to me. It was all the classic symptoms--i felt pretty alone, and just like nothing. But, at the same time I handled it very well. I was able to sit there, not get particularly upset, and I was sure that these feelings were only from the drugs. Honestly, it was a really bad experience for me, I felt like shit and basically decided I wasnt going to do shrooms again. Yet, looking back months later, I think I'm realizing that if I would have known about ego death, and what to expect, the experience wouldve been much different. It wasnt really that I couldnt handle this feeling, I think it was more that I wasnt expecting it and didnt know 'how' to feel about it. Does that make sense? Anyway, what do you guys think? Do you think that, if I had known about ego death at the time, it would have changed the experience? I'm now thinking about trying LSD and shrooms again maybe, and I'm pretty confident that if I went through the same type of loss-of-ego again, I would handle it differently and have a different experience with it altogether...rather than trying to question things, I would try to feel 'at one' with all the things around me. Lemme know what you think, and also if any of this makes sense to anyone else. lol. peace!

Summary: I went thru ego death without knowing what it was and had a bad time. I now know what it is, and I'm thinking if it ever happened again, I would handle it much differently and have a different experience. What do you think about this? Would it change my experience?
 
That doesn't sound like ego death to me...
In my head, I was questioning everything and anything, particularly things that are important to me! Like my relationship with my girlfriend, random shit about my parents, honestly none of it made sense or had any type of cause to it.
Ego death is when your identity completely dissolves. When the boundaries that normally divide your being from the rest of the world disappear. There is no you, basically. You sound like you had a pretty normal trip, mushrooms can be quite "headfucky" and anxiogenic.
 
Definitely sounds like an average mushroom's trip going down hill to me. Like Vader explained ego death is something incredibly strong that dissolves who you are and to me the idea of what/who you are. I can still remember thinking to myself on a ++++ on LSD, "Who am I.....anyways?" and the only answer I could respond with was "Ryan "Insert last name here",", which is my name but it meant nothing to me, it was simply a jumble of letters that did not weigh in any fashion or form on who I was as an individual and carried no weight or bearing at that current time on me or what I was. Mushrooms often make people think about life, the point your at currently in it, and how it all revolves and equates out. They certainly have the power to crush egos but it sounds like yours was fairly intact.
 
Definitely sounds like an average mushroom's trip going down hill to me. Like Vader explained ego death is something incredibly strong that dissolves who you are and to me the idea of what/who you are. I can still remember thinking to myself on a ++++ on LSD, "Who am I.....anyways?" and the only answer I could respond with was "Ryan "Insert last name here",", which is my name but it meant nothing to me, it was simply a jumble of letters that did not weigh in any fashion or form on who I was as an individual and carried no weight or bearing at that current time on me or what I was. Mushrooms often make people think about life, the point your at currently in it, and how it all revolves and equates out. They certainly have the power to crush egos but it sounds like yours was fairly intact.

yeah, maybe youre right. This is EXACTLY what happened: "Mushrooms often make people think about life, the point your at currently in it, and how it all revolves and equates out."
 
same thing happend to me, only a few weeks ago, i tried mushrooms for the 1st time in my life, i was at home with only one other person. i didnt know this could happen, but now i do i also think it wont be a problem next time. you just have to not stay inside your head i guess :)
 
It's a feature of almost every mushroom trip for me, and tbh I don't do them that much these days because of it. Sometimes I've found it to be really useful and productive, but sometimes I just want to trip without having an existential crisis.
 
Mushrooms for me, during most experiences, cause me anxiety. I have only experienced Ego Death from them once, though that time I did not feel anxious.
 
I experienced ego death or something like it on a mere two grams. I was looking around my bedroom in total confusion. I didn't know what my door was, or the heater, or the computer, or the bed or the windows, it was like some alien, non-sensical, perhaps vaguely familiar realm. I didn't know my name, that I had a name, or what my body was, or that I was a human living on Earth. I didn't know the first thing about reality, just could not think of the most fundamental element to it. So I paced around the room saying out loud (because apparently I could still grasp language), "It will all come back soon... it will all come back soon..." amid a string of glossolalia. I spent the next four hours gradually reconstructing my identity and going through various delusions, such as: I am God and no one I've ever encountered really existed; reality is just a figment of my imagination... and, I'm really in a mental hospital, months after the trip, and my family and scientists are watching me from beyond these walls that I'm hallucinating. Horrible stuff.
 
i was definitely just stuck in thought loops and shit. thought loops definitely are a better description fo what i felt than ego death.
 
I spent the next four hours gradually reconstructing my identity and going through various delusions, such as: I am God and no one I've ever encountered really existed; reality is just a figment of my imagination... and, I'm really in a mental hospital, months after the trip, and my family and scientists are watching me from beyond these walls that I'm hallucinating. Horrible stuff.

Oh God this is the kind of thing that I get anxious about when tripping - as in I worry that I will trip so hard that I will think these sort of things and have a hellish time. It must've been horrible I'm glad you came through it relatively unscathed (I hope)
 
going through various delusions, such as: I am God and no one I've ever encountered really existed; reality is just a figment of my imagination... and, I'm really in a mental hospital, months after the trip, and my family and scientists are watching me from beyond these walls that I'm hallucinating. Horrible stuff.

Yeah these scenario's become rather overwhelming, i find what makes them so disturbing is they are possibilities which can't be proven or dis-proven but they are infact been presented to you in such a manner that they appear true. I went over so many psychotic scenario's during my heavy psychedelic years.. at it's worst i couldn't differentiate myself from someone else; i was unable to view them as anyone else other then me, i would observe there actions and qualities in an attempt to understand myself, it was a bit like watching various manifestations of myself act out there existence (Talk about fucking narcissim lol!)

Now i strongly feel that people reflect qualities of ourselves back at us, we learn about ourselves through friendships, relationships and family and when you really get down to it 'All is One'. But when your in the midst of a psychedelic mind-state this understanding seems to become really fused in at a cellular level which creates a world of confusion and discomfort because you begin to actually experience unity within duality..
 
It's interesting how many people I meet who've had enduring psychotic episodes from psychedelic use, yet still use them. One friend spent six months in a mental hospital from the first time he ever dropped two tabs; six years later he did a half tab with me, and loved it. Several people on this forum have described symptoms resembling paranoid schizophrenia lasting weeks or months, yet on they go. Personally I suspect I have derealisation order, and that it's gotten worse since I smoked weed (which I have stopped) but I go right on tripping, albeit currently on a ten-week break. Someone I know IRL who's also on Bluelight has a more lasting and powerful version of this disorder, but trips regularly anyway.

I get flashes of it, often while at work for some reason. (Possibly because as I was coming down from my first san pedro trip, I got called in to work, and was still in the after-effects?) "Reality is all your imagination!" (weed) or worse, "Your every sensation, thought and emotion is zero-dimensional!" (mushrooms). It comes either in a strong flash lasting maybe half a second, or in longer but less powerful stretches of hours. I try not to let it bother me and simply get on with things. It probably means it's time to stop tripping, but I won't.
 
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