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How do you go about letting go of your good experiences/trips?

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X3DFX

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Hi,
I've found that the same problem is created whether holding on to a negative experience from the past, or a positive experience from the past.
I guess with negative or traumatic experiences, psychedelic or not, its a matter of coming to terms with the pain and feeling it, and letting go of trying to prevent it from happening again. OK

What about beautiful experiences? I find I can hang on to certain images or things that represent a high amount of love, and then I find that hanging on to it gets in the way of being present in this experience - or that I am comparing and measuring this experience versus the old one. Do you find this also? Do you have any methods for 'not looking back' even when it appears to be a sweet thing to look back upon?

I suppose there's a bit of fear that goes like 'shit i just set the bar so high, what if I cant reach that state again? I'd let myself down, and let down anyone who shared that state'. Sigh I wish I had normal people problems lol.
 
Psychedelics are all about the journey. Use them to get to an amazing place, then spend a good long while trying to reach that place again without the aid of a chemical. You know, grow and mature in your life using what you've learned from your psychedelic insights. By that time, when you trip again, it'll be like taking off from a much higher baseline, and thus a much higher plateau can be reached when you trip.

Am I making sense?
 
Yeah you are. Good advice but I don't know if that addresses my concerns about holding on to things.
 
X3DFX said:
Hi,
I've found that the same problem is created whether holding on to a negative experience from the past, or a positive experience from the past.
I guess with negative or traumatic experiences, psychedelic or not, its a matter of coming to terms with the pain and feeling it, and letting go of trying to prevent it from happening again. OK

What about beautiful experiences? I find I can hang on to certain images or things that represent a high amount of love, and then I find that hanging on to it gets in the way of being present in this experience - or that I am comparing and measuring this experience versus the old one. Do you find this also? Do you have any methods for 'not looking back' even when it appears to be a sweet thing to look back upon?

I suppose there's a bit of fear that goes like 'shit i just set the bar so high, what if I cant reach that state again? I'd let myself down, and let down anyone who shared that state'. Sigh I wish I had normal people problems lol.
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that's what I was replying to. The rest is a bit hard for me to make sense of as my head is full of blue dream.
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I know what you mean. You hold it to a high degree, so you must 'beat it'. I asked someone the same question, addressed a different way, what I found out was that you either accept it, or 'you know.' I think you already know the answer, which is to either accept it, or whatever you might be thinking of.
 
Sometimes I wake up from an extraordinarily good dream, only remembering a fleeting moment of the whole and it ruins my entire day. I'll try to tell myself I can re-enter where I left off, but it never happens. I've experienced the same thing on LSD many times. I'll be in such a heavenly place and in an instant it can all crumble back to into my subconscious.

I'm super stoned right now, so I'm not going to elaborate further, but I know what you're talking about.
 
Yes, just like that. I don't know what kind of conversation to have with myself that is the right one for letting those things go.
Seems like I just keep pulling up the stupid images that 'represent' such a 'good place' and then seeing that I'm doing that, and it doesn't actually re-create the place, rinse repeat. Its exhausting.
 
I find it's important to remember that every life experience is unique. No two trips could ever be the same. And it's only your judgement of these things that grants one a status as a superior experience. You determine the comparison. Without that comparison, they are simply experiences.

You will never re-experience your favourite trip except through memory. Be at peace with that fact.

Think back to this trip. Did you expect that it would be your best, before the experience?
 
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