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LSD """Psychotherapy"""

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PedroSara

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Hey guys, I don't know about everybody else but music dictates the mood of my trip. I've been building a playlist to listen to during my next LSD trip. I've been trying to build the playlist based on music I used to listen to on different periods of my life.
I have three main purposes with the creation of this playlist:
1st: I don't want to worry whether the music playing or the next song is going to be a song I'm familiar with or just avoiding undesired styles of music and rhythm that aren't very pleasant to listen to while you're trippin.
2nd: I want to focus totally on tripping and not worry a single moment about anything else in the intent of having the best trip ever
3rd: I want to use the music to take me back to different "eras" of my life as each part seems so different form each other and I want to relive these different eras being slightly suggested by the current music playing from Adulthood to childhood basically based on the theories of memory regression used in many Psychoanalytic theories from Freud to Carl Jung and also used in LSD Psychotherapy performed by Stanislav Grof, also called Psycholitic Therapy,
What do you guys think? Is it possible? Ive never tried to go back in my own history and I think this would be really mind opening/boggling lol
 
I think it's possible. You can use music as association to specific time, situation in your life and bring memories from it on top of your mind. Grof, Freud and others were using many associative tools as pictures and photos, texts, people and so on, for bringing patient to his/her past and I think this should be possible with music also.
The fact, if your trip would be the best ever (2nd point) depends on your past associated with that music. I wanted to do the same as you some time ago, I've prepared few songs that are connected to some events in my life, but most of them were bad (events (brake-up(s), deaths, bad-times with gf,...)), so I decided to not to play them while tripping after all.

- MHF
 
The fact, if your trip would be the best ever (2nd point) depends on your past associated with that music. I wanted to do the same as you some time ago, I've prepared few songs that are connected to some events in my life, but most of them were bad (events (brake-up(s), deaths, bad-times with gf,...)), so I decided to not to play them while tripping after all.

- MHF[/QUOTE]

I plan on actually going through all those bad vibes while trippin in the intention to have abreactions and kind of deal with everything that my past has to do with how I feel presently. I'll go through some bad shit, but there will be good songs that'll remind me of incrdible moments in my life. I expect to cry like a motherfucker lol be it from happiness or from being reminded of a difficult part of my life, and I'll see I got through it, and I'll always will.
I don't remember much of my childhood, my parents got divorced when I was 10 and I don't even remember my parents being married, it seems like it never happened and I think that if I could remember when they were married somehow, I'd feel a bit more wholesome, I hope that makes sense ...
I hope in the end it'll be worth it

PS: I hope I'm not getting too much into details
 
I think it won't be so easy like just playing a song and than reading all from your memory and unconscious of that past moment the song is associated to. The main response will be emotional - you will be probably feeling like in that moment, and as you may known, emotions are intensified on LSD. Of course, you may profit from LSD effect of being able to watch your thoughts and emotions from 3rd person, and you will be able to identify and review them.
I recommend you to focus only on some of the pars of your past - only some few songs and take a break between them to be able to think about it and "feel about it" and ""trip about it"".
Also useful thing is to record audio from your trip and talking about how you feel, what you see, what are your thoughts and so on, and you will be able to analyse them lately.

I'm now analysing my last trip - it's 10 hours record :D and writing a detailed trip report from it.

- MHF
 
The best paper on this topic is most definitely The Use of Music in Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy by Helen L. Bonny and Walter N. Pahnke. You can read it here:
http://www.csp.org/practices/entheogens/docs/bonny-music.html.

Also read and re-read Grof's LSD psychotherapy in detail! Also find someone you can work with, a sitter you can trust and don't go into this alone. And find a psychotherapist you can work with and that can help you integrate your experiences. A holotropic breathwork practitioners are also quite skilled in this area.

Good luck!
 
I'll definitely record the session, I really regret not having recorded my last session when I took about 1200 micrograms and I was pretty sure I found out the meaning of life but it just seemed to slip away LOL
 
In my experience music from my past can play fukery with my emotions - I have sat and wept as a few old tunes that I had nothing but positive associations from floored me with memories of great times never to be repeated. In other tunes with less emotional charge a particular pattern of cords or a half listened to lyric asserts itself and sends me scurrying for a complete different play set, no guarantee with psychedelics in my opinion. Plus if a lot of time has passed then the person you are (should be) is unlikely to be the person that first listened to that music again changing the trip with notions of permanence and the temporary, (thankfully) nature of life.

Be interested to see how you get on, safe travels.
 
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