Flickering
Bluelighter
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Thought I'd share this - not that it's overly important, experiences are what they are, but this is how I categorise my own hallucinogenic journeys when I think back on them. Think of it like Shulgin's + scale, only a bit more specific.
(Threshold) - it's possible you're just imagining the effects.
* (Light) - effects are definite, but gentle and manageable. You can almost ignore them if the situation calls for it.
** (Moderate) - effects are powerful and unmistakable, but they're not outside your comfort zone. You can still venture out in public on this dose.
*** (Powerful) - the trip enters challenging waters. The reality you came from may become distant and abstract, and you'll hesitate to wander too far outside if you're wise.
**** (Extreme) - disorienting and overwhelming. You're still connected to reality, but it's a tenuous connection indeed. If you let go at this point, you could learn a lot; but if you hold too fast to the world you came from, things could get very nasty indeed. This is the sort of experience I tend to have on 4g+ of shrooms.
***** (Breakthrough) - speaks for itself, this is the point where you leave Earth behind and enter into a totally different universe that might be heaven, hell or any measure of other, otherwise unimaginable, realities.
Again, not something I take too seriously, but I've had a lifelong fascination with fitting qualitative things into boxes, and I felt like sharing this. Maybe you'll relate, or find it useful.
(Threshold) - it's possible you're just imagining the effects.
* (Light) - effects are definite, but gentle and manageable. You can almost ignore them if the situation calls for it.
** (Moderate) - effects are powerful and unmistakable, but they're not outside your comfort zone. You can still venture out in public on this dose.
*** (Powerful) - the trip enters challenging waters. The reality you came from may become distant and abstract, and you'll hesitate to wander too far outside if you're wise.
**** (Extreme) - disorienting and overwhelming. You're still connected to reality, but it's a tenuous connection indeed. If you let go at this point, you could learn a lot; but if you hold too fast to the world you came from, things could get very nasty indeed. This is the sort of experience I tend to have on 4g+ of shrooms.
***** (Breakthrough) - speaks for itself, this is the point where you leave Earth behind and enter into a totally different universe that might be heaven, hell or any measure of other, otherwise unimaginable, realities.
Again, not something I take too seriously, but I've had a lifelong fascination with fitting qualitative things into boxes, and I felt like sharing this. Maybe you'll relate, or find it useful.
. Also, a +++ with mushrooms is vastly different imo than a +++ with something like mescaline when it gets down to the nitty gritty. In the end though, I think it's fine to have personal intensity scales but on public boards I think one established barometer is more than enough, to prevent confusion and all...
