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Frumious Bandersnatch
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encounters of the gelatinous kind
A lot of metaphors that arise during tripping are light and fluffy, perhaps the product of an associative imagination. Well not these ones folks. These are metaphors you can poke a stick at. Here's the metaphor: energy likes to flow and when it doesn't it stagnates. What exactly is flowing and stagnating is poorly defined, but we can feel it when its released, and well here's where it's hard to disconnect the metaphor from the manifestation: in some cases we can get shockingly bizarre and unpleasant physical excretions in the form of ooze and slime. Anyways, I've never been one to dwell on this stuff. Down the drain it goes. I had some recollections about it last night though and a few really strange occurrences in my life that I suppose I'll share. The good news is on the other side we feel lighter and refreshed, our energies all sparkly and clean. The reality remains that we can have some strange encounters of the gelatinous kind while tripping and I've heard enough stories about it that I thought I'd start a thread on it.
Let me start:
—> This one trip on mushrooms, I decided to take a bath during the come-up. As the shrooms came on I felt like a limp soggy mass floating in a pond. My eyes were closed and I saw green everywhere. This pond was in full algal bloom. Tadpoles and frogs were swimming through it. After a long time laying there in this cesspool of filth I couldn't take it anymore. I stood up and spent the next 20 or so minutes wringing what felt like slime from my extremities. I showered and pulled the plug on the drain. To my horror the water in the bathtub was viscous. Not like jelly or anything, but something way thicker than water.
—> This one trip with my sister really stands out. My sister is really afraid of tripping but has always been curious about it so I sort of proposed a suitable compromise with some DOC I had. We both took about 1 mg, which is a light dose by most peoples standards but will definitely add a psychedelic touch to your day. Anyways, we had a really great time talking. We got into some really deep and personal topics. There were tears, hugs and laughter. Later I was totally baseline and so was she except perhaps the faintest of glows. I went out to see a movie. During the movie she calls me. She was throwing up something so otherworldly she was freaking out. Snotty, slimy strings the likes of which she had never thought possible. She said she was literally pulling ropes of this stuff with her hands out of her mouth. Anyways, I never saw the evidence (grateful), but later that night I had to drive her to the emergency room for some intense kidney pain. Turns out she was passing a kidney stone. Good thing too, if it had stayed much longer without passing the doctors said it would have had to be surgically removed.
Well, there we have it, those stories stand out to me though I have many more. Perhaps someone has a better explanation for this other than my interpretation of stagnant energy or perhaps some strange stories of your own to share. Honestly, this topic makes my stomach churn and I'm gonna go take a shower now. Have a great lunch.
A lot of metaphors that arise during tripping are light and fluffy, perhaps the product of an associative imagination. Well not these ones folks. These are metaphors you can poke a stick at. Here's the metaphor: energy likes to flow and when it doesn't it stagnates. What exactly is flowing and stagnating is poorly defined, but we can feel it when its released, and well here's where it's hard to disconnect the metaphor from the manifestation: in some cases we can get shockingly bizarre and unpleasant physical excretions in the form of ooze and slime. Anyways, I've never been one to dwell on this stuff. Down the drain it goes. I had some recollections about it last night though and a few really strange occurrences in my life that I suppose I'll share. The good news is on the other side we feel lighter and refreshed, our energies all sparkly and clean. The reality remains that we can have some strange encounters of the gelatinous kind while tripping and I've heard enough stories about it that I thought I'd start a thread on it.
Let me start:
—> This one trip on mushrooms, I decided to take a bath during the come-up. As the shrooms came on I felt like a limp soggy mass floating in a pond. My eyes were closed and I saw green everywhere. This pond was in full algal bloom. Tadpoles and frogs were swimming through it. After a long time laying there in this cesspool of filth I couldn't take it anymore. I stood up and spent the next 20 or so minutes wringing what felt like slime from my extremities. I showered and pulled the plug on the drain. To my horror the water in the bathtub was viscous. Not like jelly or anything, but something way thicker than water.
—> This one trip with my sister really stands out. My sister is really afraid of tripping but has always been curious about it so I sort of proposed a suitable compromise with some DOC I had. We both took about 1 mg, which is a light dose by most peoples standards but will definitely add a psychedelic touch to your day. Anyways, we had a really great time talking. We got into some really deep and personal topics. There were tears, hugs and laughter. Later I was totally baseline and so was she except perhaps the faintest of glows. I went out to see a movie. During the movie she calls me. She was throwing up something so otherworldly she was freaking out. Snotty, slimy strings the likes of which she had never thought possible. She said she was literally pulling ropes of this stuff with her hands out of her mouth. Anyways, I never saw the evidence (grateful), but later that night I had to drive her to the emergency room for some intense kidney pain. Turns out she was passing a kidney stone. Good thing too, if it had stayed much longer without passing the doctors said it would have had to be surgically removed.
Well, there we have it, those stories stand out to me though I have many more. Perhaps someone has a better explanation for this other than my interpretation of stagnant energy or perhaps some strange stories of your own to share. Honestly, this topic makes my stomach churn and I'm gonna go take a shower now. Have a great lunch.
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