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Need to trip alone to enjoy?

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Willydog155

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Hello everyone it's been quite a while. I first came on here when I was experimenting with phycsdelics and it feels funny to be posting again. Over the past year and a half I've had about 4 trips with mushrooms and a bunch of acid trips. All of these trips I've made sure I had a good amount of time and surrounded by the friends I trust the most. Although I created what I thought to be a good set and setting everytime, it seems every trip I ended up being completely anxcious and uncomfortable until my last trip with shrooms. I made it clear to my friends I wasn't going to talk much and I was really just going to keep to myself. To my surprise it was the best trip I ever had. No worrying about acting normal or like everyone else and it just felt great. So my question to everyone here would be do you think tripping alone might work out even better for me? I know I would have no support but it seems just being around people makes me anxcious, makes me worry about the way I'm acting and if everyone is acting the same way. I'm kind of afraid to trip alone because I feel like I'm not going to know what to do with myself. Any suggestions or advice would be great guys thank you.
 
As You are aware, set and setting is more important than the psychedelic substance itself...
Well done.

Now that YOU are interested in tripping by Yourself, perhaps this is an intuition trying to heal YOU ?
Tripping alone gets rid of A LOT of distractions, which is an amazing mind set... SYNCHRONICITY <--------
Please PM Me if You wanna talk shaman / healing through psychedelic compounds.

I am following this thread now. + rep for the confidence and wonder.
 
My first handful of trips were all with other people (including my first one which was profoundly life-changing in a positive way), but the first time I tripped alone, I knew that I only wanted to trip alone for the next round of tripping in my life. I started tripping by myself at home, and I was able to let go so much more easily and get much farther into myself, because I no longer had to worry about social interactions. Tripping was still intense for me, come-ups brought a lot of anxieties, I had some really difficult trips. It's just that I wasn't getting stuck in social anxiety mode, so I was able to think about everything I was experiencing and wasn't getting dragged back to earth. Through years and many trips, I actually got over all of the social anxiety stuff and a lot of other anxieties too. Nowadays (almost 16 years since I started tripping), I usually trip with friends or around other people because I've found that the social interaction brings so much more material, since I have so much experience tripping alone. These days I use psychedelics more for outdoor adventures, music festivals, and going to shows and playing music.
 
sometimes on cannabis I believe I am with people, it can get difficult synchronizing myself with imagined meanings from the interplay.
on acid I'm always alone even when many people are around, I don't have to get in synch, I just have to breathe and relax.
 
pupnik said:
sometimes on cannabis I believe I am with people, it can get difficult synchronizing myself with imagined meanings from the interplay.
on acid I'm always alone even when many people are around, I don't have to get in synch, I just have to breathe and relax.
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funny You say that... I had a memory flashback on LSD the other day. The flashback were memories of the first times I got high on cannabis...
I remember now, in full detail that I thought there was another person with Me/My friends...on multiple occasions.

Cannabis with no tolerance is one mystical, trippy time, especially in nature.
 
I recently went throu a period of tripping with a group of about 9 or 10 people, with four usually tripping while others did other things like drank and or coke/me/etc. Was enjoyable but definitely strange. Personally I love tripping with one or two of my closest friends and that is my preferred way to drop acid, I do enjoy tripping alone although not truly alone as I'll normally have my dog with me, tripping in the company of my dog is probably my favourite actually. I can't decided haha. Definitely rather not trip with a group of 9 or 10 anymore though.
 
I think that tripping with others around can hold you back from the real 'trip' inside yourself. I guess then it doesn't go beyond visuals and altered senses. I'd love to trip by myself!
 
To some extent yes, you can still trip inside when with others, in my experience in tripping with others there are always moments when people stop interacting for some time and you can tell introspection is happening.
It's just that on your own the whole trip or most of it is like that, whereas with others is just moments.

I am the only one who doesn't talk much when in a group of tripping people, not because I don't want to but because my thoughts move too fast for my mouth to keep up. Regardless which of my two languages I use.
 
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i haven't used LSD or shrooms in a while but that type of psychedelic I like to use with close friends, dissociatives I like to use and go about my day, shooting for sobriety now though.
 
Tripping with friends is great. Tripping alone is glorious. But tripping with your partner and going throught the sexodelia is probably my fave thing in this plane
 
The few times I have tripped, I've always done it alone, and enjoy it that way, in part because I can devote my full attention to the experience and not worry about how others perceive me. I've had to respond to unexpected texts/emails a couple times while tripping, and it always takes extra effort to put together a response that feels right.

That being said, I'd like to someday meet people I could trip with. I couldn't imagine bringing up the topic with anyone I know personally.
 
If you're worried about how they perceive you those aren't people you should trip with. It's either an issue on your end or poor choice in tripping buddies. Also when tripping I go into comms black out, no texts, calls or emails.
 
^^ For me, early in my tripping days I worried about how even my closest friends would perceive me. It was definitely my own issue, tripping helped me to realize that and overcome it to a large extent.
 
Pretty much all of mine are alone. I see it as the equivalent of having "me" time to sort out an issue or work through something creatively or spiritually. I find that with people they are always trying to pull you into their trip-though I do have friends in the past that provided such a synergy in thought that it was like one person. For me those moments have been rare and I would much rather be in control of my set/setting-the more people you trip with the more variables are brought to the table that can flavor the trip negatively.
 
Yeah I have a couple of friends, one in particular, who really synergizes with my trips, I love tripping with him because everything is great and we bounce ideas off each other. When going for personal work, and you already have some experience and know how you will react, being alone is better, I find.

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the more people you trip with the more variables are brought to the table that can flavor the trip negatively.
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This is absolutely true. The more people the more hectic it is, and if one person can't handle it it can quickly bring everyone into a bad place. Hence, you should only trip with people you know you can mesh with, and only people you really know well and trust.
 
Always alone, the feeling of needing to socialize with other people (even tripping friends) releases a lot of anxiety for me. I usually trip by myself at home or nature.

On raves, like past weekend when I went to a dub event on 3 hits of acid, I just told my partymates I was on acid and probably won't interact with them on the whole night. I'm the kind of guy that puts his head on the subwoofer with his eyes closed thr whole night without talking to or giving a shit about anyone.
 
Thanks for the responses everyone, I've been working a lot and haven't had a chance to check the thread but I'm happy to have so much feedback. After this couple weeks of work I'm gonna give it a shot solo. I'll definitely report back afterwards to let everyone know how the experience went. From what you guys are saying I feel like this is gonna be much easier without all the social interactions, Plus I don't mind reflecting a little bit I'm actually looking forward to that part of it. Another thing to add I've almost come to a complete stop with my weed smoking due to probation. I'm really curious to see how that effects my trip as well because I've been craving pot like nothing else. Thanks again for everyone's help
 
Tripping by myself is my preferred method. I just always go into a trip wanting to experience some kind of epiphany and i noticed (about myself anyway) that rarely happens when even one other person is tripping with me. Don't get me wrong I always have a fantastic time group tripping. I just never seem to get out of it what I really love about acid which is the introspection.
 
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