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Insane Nostalgia While Taking Psychedelics?

Tryptamino

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Whenever I take psychedelics, especially LSD (my psych of choice), I always find myself feeling an intense nostalgia of "I've been here before", but not because i've taken it before and i'm remembering the familiar effects, but something along the lines of "This has been a continuous existence for longer than i have been aware", like almost that the psychedelic experience is something my brain was already used to, almost like it was programmed for that experience. My friends report feeling this as they come up rapidly on DMT, I was wondering if anybody else out there has experienced this, and maybe has some thoughts on it?
 
Yes, I have found on various psychedelics that it feels like I am returning to a very familiar place, something that feels more like 'home' than any civillized notion of 'home' made out of bricks and mortar. I feel I'm touching base with truth (if the experience is going in the right direction).

I think the reason for this is because it cuts the crap and brings us closer to the realization of impermanence, interbeing and karma. No death, no birth. Psychedelics give your mind the potential (that they would not normally have in survival mode) to understand time from a completely different perspective, and that there is no true temporal order, only that which exists in your thoughts. Because of that, you are able to return closer to the blissful essense of eternity.

It's like going back in to the womb of creation. It's not only a place you have been before, it's a place you have always been. You are 'there' now, you just don't see it that way.
 
Yes, I've had this, though I wouldn't call it nostalgia so much as a sort of very convincing deja vu. I believe what's happening is that the brain is picking up on similar situations you've been in before, or noticing similar thought patterns and emotions, and drawing connections that you normally wouldn't be aware of. That, or it's just randomly firing off the sensation of deja vu in light of being high on acid.

I have noticed though, that especially early during the peak, I have the strongest sense of having recently dreamed what I'm experiencing right now. Or, sometimes, of going back into the same dreamlike consciousness while awake. This tends to be a vague feeling, not linked to any solid memory, but still compelling.
 
Bigfanofthemdrugs said:
"This has been a continuous existence for longer than i have been aware"
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I had a similar experience on 2C-E. There was a point where I felt as though I had always existed in that state, and the entirety of my life had been set so as to culminate in that moment.

I've also had a general feeling of nostalgia (very different from the "I've always been in this state") on psychedelic doses of JWH-122 and 203.
 
iv felt the same thing when i feel the strange alien godly presence and intense nostalgia is beautiful
 
on dmt* its a weird feeling like its a place i was before i was born i think i could explain it. iv heard during birth and death your body has higher amounts of dmt? and during birth because your pineal gland is bigger and ur body is small and as you grow it shrinks and calcifies so less dmt? or is this a bs myth?
 
This is mostly unresearched afaik and perhaps just a myth (as is the notion of the pineal gland producing active levels of DMT in adults).

NKB said:
The feeling of coming home(/belonging) I get on dissociatives, nostalgia is something else entirely. Home is where the heart is as they say, nostalgia is more...a fond remembrance of the now irretrievable, generally set about by recollection or reenactment.
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I experienced something similar with dissociatives: that state or place I feel 'coming home to' is a strange entanglement of some kind of abstract archetypal home and magically distorted, dreamlike memories. So perhaps I had both of the things you distinguish happening in an interwoven fashion. I do agree though that they are separate things.

Interestingly I sometimes get very intense deja-vus during some sober everyday activities. For example I read the newspapers and the wording of the description of some unrelated event triggers the very strong feeling that my consciousness went through exactly that state and impression during some intense trip with nitrous oxide almost a decade ago (had several experiences with it that I can only describe as a 'hole'). Strange stuff.
 
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