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People who just want to see pretty colors

If you ask me, psychedelics are far too powerful to be used frivolously. There's nothing intrinsically wrong about watching TV while tripping, but if you're only interested in seeing pretty colors, are you going to be able to handle yourself when the trip takes you down an entirely different direction? Part of the reason I'm so good at handling myself on psychedelics is because I openly embrace the possibility of a difficult experience, on the grounds that it'll be constructive on the long run. There's nothing wrong with enjoying yourself while tripping, but you shouldn't go into the experience with a pleasure seeking mindset. In fact, you shouldn't go in with any fixed mindset.
 
I don't like the effects on the mind, makes me feel crazy. I like the visuals and all the effects outside of the mind (weird body feelings, gravity shifting, synesthesia, etc.). That's why dissociatives are my cup of tea, they relax the mind, whilst producing so many other strange effects without me feel like a full on schizo. Ahh, what once was anyways. I don't get much from dissociatives anymore, so I've decided I will give psychs one last shot at either enlightenment, or psychosis, gonna be sober for 4 months first though, for optimal possibilities, I found that all my good drug experiences are when I'm not abusing weed, all the bad ones are during big weed abuse times, and most of my good experiences were towards the beginning of drug use, before I muddled up my brain, so sobriety may help me achieve a good trip. I already have the 2 hits of LSD wrapped in tinfoil, sitting in the fridge, now all I need is to get sober, haha.
 
IAmJacksUserName said:
If you ask me, psychedelics are far too powerful to be used frivolously. There's nothing intrinsically wrong about watching TV while tripping, but if you're only interested in seeing pretty colors, are you going to be able to handle yourself when the trip takes you down an entirely different direction? Part of the reason I'm so good at handling myself on psychedelics is because I openly embrace the possibility of a difficult experience, on the grounds that it'll be constructive on the long run. There's nothing wrong with enjoying yourself while tripping, but you shouldn't go into the experience with a pleasure seeking mindset. In fact, you shouldn't go in with any fixed mindset.
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I think that's a jolly good point. One should be mindfully unprepared. I suspect it's generally not a good idea not to engage with cognitive and emotional effects, although I can't be sure that's always so for everyone..
 
I never really prepare or plan anything for a trip - just go with what feels right at the time. Sometimes it means I end up giggling at stupid stuff, sometimes it means I spend hours pondering the meaning of existence. I just go wherever it takes me really :).
 
^ Same.. I like to mix up what i do when i trip.. try different things, sometimes i'll just sit and listen too music and just think about everything.. other times i'll actually go for a wonder looking around at my surroundings..

Watching movies on LSD is quite amazing.. last time i watched a movie i felt like i was in the movie.. and the characters were speaking too me, i started to feel the emotion of the characters.. it really tripped me out.

I've had intense trips where i've been stripped of my ego piece by piece untill i die and then re-awake.. which has had a dramatic effect on my outlook of certain issues.. but its also good to just trip and laugh at things aswell, wherever it takes you really :)
 
OP

all I have to say is:

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What you find interesting someone may find boring, and vise versa. I love both trips-- the introspective, deep and "love" trips. Then there is the exact opposite-- non-stop laughter at the stupidest things, and staring deep into the pretty visuals. It really depends on the mood. There is nothing wrong with watching TV if that's what you "feel" like doing.

Don't control it.
 
Hey listerbean, I think we'd trip together well. ;)


I'm cool with anyone using any substance for whatever recreational/spiritual/medical intents they may have, BUT -- anyone who is going to be using psychedelics should seriously give the spiritual/introspective trip a chance.

It's such a blatantly different experience, too. It's SO much more deep, and intense, and blissful than the 'pretty colors' type trip (IME); and I think that everyone on earth should experience it at least once.

I like to recommend that people try a moderately strong (not insane) dose of LSD, either by themselves, or with a close friend, in a comfortable environment. One time or another, something magical will happen. :)

Peace & Love,
TAC
 
^ Additionally, I think that anyone who is into psychedelics should try tripping "just for fun," for the pretty colors, laughs, etc. while watching a movie or what have you at least once for the experience. It can be just as eye-opening but in a completely different direction. Such trips serve to remind me that I can (and should!) simply have fun without there having to be anything mindblowingly profound about it. What makes play so much fun is that it's just that: play. Deeper trips have their place too, but I prefer to get the full spectrum of experience including, yes, even the "shallow" trips. Why limit myself?

I think we all ought to be more tolerant of how others choose to use these tools. Being fascistic about it is what leads to banning certain substances and ways of thinking. Let us not make the same mistakes.
 
I tend to experience heaven and hell, fun and introspection, love and regret in every trip, pretty much. I find it hard to control my trips beyond the basic setting adjustments.
 
listerbean said:
This is sort of a rant. I just don't understand those that trip solely for the perceptual effects. I dosed LSD with a friend the other night and started talking about society, life, and all that good stuff and he was just like, "shut up I don't want to hear that, I just want to laugh at stupid things on the TV".

Maybe it's just me, but once I'm tripping, it's almost as if the visuals are just a side effect that I have to put up with to experience the real mind-blowing effects of LSD or other psychedelics. When someone asks me what I see, it seems to be a stupid question. What I see doesn't matter-- it's what I feel and what I intuit. THAT is what matters.

And the whole TV thing. How can anyone watch TV while tripping balls? When I trip, I see the TV for what it is: a light projector that projects tiny pixels on a screen. Who wants to watch that stupid boxed-in psuedo-reality generator? Let's explore! Let's go outside! Let's... do anything but watch TV. What do you think?
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all I wanna do when I'm on psych's is listen to music, sit, think and let my mind take me for a ride. I can talk about politics/curent events/whatever untill I'm blue in the face after a few drinks and a few bong hits but psychedelics are way less social, and way more introspective for me.. I also avoid tripping in social situations. Usually just myself and a friend or two. I use alcohol and ocasionally mdma for socializeing :)

I definetly wouldn't want to sit down infront of the TV. I find it just reminds me how far I am from feeling normal at the time, if you know what i mean. hehe I dunno its kind of hard to explain.
 
^Thats it; I could talk about real life when tripping, but its less then meaniingless- and isn't that the point? Personally, I've had dudes chewing my ear off with philosophy, discussing the ego and its forms, without relaising that making me talk about what YOU have discovered is actually egoic. The nature of most psychedelic experiences is very personal to me; unutterable for the most part, and something that is EXPERIENCED, not neccesarily analysed durng said expereince.

But yeah, when I watch a TV when tripping, it is just to obvious to me that I am watching a box with pictures on it....I could probably just as easily watch a wall, but I rather watch the back of my eyelids; spectacular happenings there, pretty colours and depth to boot.
 
Mr Swilow said:
The nature of most psychedelic experiences is very personal to me; unutterable for the most part, and something that is EXPERIENCED, not neccesarily analysed durng said expereince.
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Absolutely :).

Although I may have a minor quibble over all the tellybox-bashing going on in this thread cos I've had some rather "deep" experiences that were primarily precipitated by said infernal contraption. For me, as I said before and will continue to say, whatever feels right at the time is right at the time. It may seem inconsequential when observed from outside ("You spent 10 hours giggling at cartoons?!? What a waste of good drugs!!!") it can be as "deep" as any long, dark night of the soul in my view. As you suggested, swilow, the lessons learnt can take a while to show through but - whatever you do when tripping - they are learnt nonetheless :).

I also agree with the charges of some kind of psychedelic elitism - directed at no specific people cos you're all just dandy by me - going on here. If someone chooses to learn their cosmic lessons via the medium of South Park (or whatever) then good for them. Not for all tastes, for sure, but each to their own :).

I repeat, the lessons are learned no matter what the lesson-plan is :).
 
There was actually a period in my life when I would refuse to watch television at all.

Too many doses...Of course, I also had a hard time being around anything red, and I broke many a telephone in my day.

This reminds me of a night I was tripping L with close friends, and a girl came over to buy a couple of hits. She kept yapping on, asking us what we were seeing, if we saw pretty colors, animals, etc, and she just wouldn't shut up. We were all listening to 'Are You Shpongled?' and having an in-depth conversation, and this girl just didn't get it. I took every bit of energy I had within and unleashed it with the most violent sounding scream of "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

There's just so much more to using psychedelics than seeing pretty colors.

Of course, I can't put the experience into words. It just wouldn't be right.
 
i think the problem is that some people are less educated/articulate. they are having an internal experience but they dont know how to communicate what is happening, i mean fuck it takes a real genius to translate even 1/10th whats going on in the psychedelicized mind, only a handful like huxley have even come close! so how can you expect a stoned 16 year old who plays videogames all day to whip out some really engaging ontological observations out of a mind which is fed garbage from morning to night. half the trippers i know are unable to saying anything other than IM TRIPPING BALLLZ, its not because they are only in it for the pretty colors its because they dont have the education to say anything else...
 
i think the "problem" is that some people are less educated/articulate than others. they are having an internal experience but they dont know how to communicate what is happening, i mean fuck it takes a real genius to translate even 1/10th whats going on in the psychedelicized mind, only a handful like huxley have even come close! so how can you expect a stoned 16 year old who plays videogames all day to whip out some really engaging ontological observation from a mind which is fed garbage from morning to night. half the trippers i know are unable to saying anything other than IM TRIPPING BALLLZ, its not because they are only in it for the pretty colors its because they dont have the education to say anything else...
 
Tripping and watching TV is cool.

Tripping and discussing society, life, religion, etc is cool.

Tripping alone is cool.

Tripping with friends is cool.

Hey what do ya know....different people like to do different things. I like to keep an open mind, but it is pretty shitty of your friend to tell you to shut up.

I like to watch dating shows while tripping. I did that on DOC once. It just showed me how fake everyone is. You can learn a lot about a society from what they watch on tv.

I also never realy plan out what my trip will be like. Sometimes it will be insightful and sometimes it will be a laugh fest, but when I am in the presence of others, I try to keep an open mind. Unfortunately, I have been stuck with some people who have been trip incompatible, and it sucked, but I committed to it and had to make the best of it.
 
I love pretty colours

hey this is my first post, whoa ! I've been lurking on bluelight for like a year now, but no more!

I think tripping out JUST to see pretty colors is kind of silly. But i would be lying if I said i didn't really enjoy putting on some music and watching the backs of my eyelids. I think that while visuals CAN be a distraction from the main event, they can also add to the main event, even become an integral part of a trip. Even though you don't get "enlightenment' or insight from them directly, i've had trips where the CEVs i get kind of line up with my thinking in such a way that what I see and what I think become really hard to separate, it's usually quite pleasurable.

One of my earliest high dose mushroom trips i had when i was 18 or 19, i remember navigating thoughts as though my minds eye was something akin to windows (while sober thinking was kind of like DOS or something haha). But it was really something to be able to navigate thoughts that were soooo tangible seeming. It's a difficult thing to describe, but it was definately some really really far out closed eye visuals.

All in all, there is FAR more to a psychedelic journey than just rainbow fractals and trails, but in the same breath, i absolutely love a good fireworks show, especially when it synchronizes with "the good stuff".
 
Visuals can sometimes work themselves into my introspective trips. Closed or Open Eyed visuals sometimes reflect my trip themes or whatnot and emphasize the esoterics that I'm trying to articulate and understand.
 
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