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Sedating Psychedelics

Mushrooms can make one quite lethargic and sleepy/dreamy... AMT tends to lay me down in a trance and even to sleep (but that is atypical), I think iprocin was either energy neutral or laidback. I find 2C-C not to be sedating but still deeply relaxing in a way.

Most PEAs are stimulating in some sense though.
4-AcO tryptamines can retain the laidbackness but 4-AcO-MiPT and 4-AcO-DiPT can be strangely energetic.
5-MeO tryptamines are very energetic.

So what's left? We are excluding dissociatives, nootropics and deliriants etc I think?
 
Weed, shrooms, most dissociatives.

Shrooms always made me pass out if I close my eyes.
 
I found 4-AcO-MiPT extremely lethargic, though YMMV. Even dozed off during the peak of a ~35mg experience. 2c-c i agree is pretty relaxing, but not really sedating per se. I also tend to fall asleep during MXE experiences if i'm at my house. If i do it out & about somewhere it doesn't really make me sleepy though. Weird.
 
for me mushroom trips almost seem like they contain an opiate benzo combo-like-feeling if i meditate and concentrate on relaxing. I think the tail end of a gentle dmt trip is also very dreamy and disassociating, I could probably take a short nap after one.
 
MDAI. Although sedating would be the wrong term, more like relaxing.
 
Salvia. Although it's not really a psychedelic in the classic sense. But the afterglow is very peaceful and can be somewhat drowsy.

But it depends what you mean by sedating. If you mean sleepy, then none of serotonergic psychedelics do this. If you mean evoking a sense of calm and peace, then many of them can do it. I have nodded off during the plateau of a DOC trip, and I have slept through a 69mg 2C-C trip before it even started, but I wouldn't call either of them "sedating".

aMT may perhaps be the most peaceful zen-like serotonergic psychedelic. But not sleepy by any stretch.

Ketamine actually keeps me awake, which is noticed if taken before bedtime.

Cannabis I wouldn't classify as a "psychedelic", but just a delirious mushy headfuck. Quite stimulating actually.

5-MeO trytamines are stimulating to the max.

4-HO/AcO tryptamines are stimulating, but in the case of psilocin it can make you lethargic and yawn. But that doesn't mean you are sedated - far from it in fact.

All 2C-x I've tried are stimulating.

LSA can be dreamy and calm, but I would hesitate to use the word "sedating".
 
Oh man yes LSAs are a prime example though IMO ^ . Although the trip is not that much like on mushrooms, the trancy lethargy reminds me of it.

I agree that sedating is a tricky term and a relative one with virtually all mentioned drugs if only because the psychedelia tends to keep you awake in a way that reminds me of nootropics: it isn't so much physical stimulation that prevents falling asleep but the mental activity is often just too roaring.
The least mentally pushing drug for me has been 2C-C, the occasion I am thinking about that makes me say this was a somewhat isolated one (the first time actually) and I was also on LSD and probably GHB and weed at the time... that was super calm. I thought I was or felt like the white sand beach of a reclusive tropical island looking up towards the sky and seeing the surf wash over me very peacefully. Not that much later I saw fuzzy fibers with microscope vision and that was one of the most tactile moments ever for me. Full body orgasm actually. When the 2C-C came up though there were neon fireworks exploding in my face at point blank when eyes closed. Unsurprisingly since I had never taken it and eyeballed and snorted some while my friend did the exact same with 2C-D.
 
I find with LSA the lethargy subsides a great deal after you vomit and then even more first three hours followed by a peaceful stimulation that promotes reflection(this is fairly low dose, say eight seeds for a large person), I really don't like the vasoconstriction and nausea (I must try an extraction one day rather than just seeds).
 
Yeah.... but I find it deceiving, there have been numerous times (esp. with the S-isomer) when I was fooled into believing that I got so phased out, sedated and content that it must be possible to sleep soon after.
But the metabolite(s) - and also K itself - are actually strangely stimulating if only in a way that keeps you awake.

Considering the anaesthetic potential I find all of that counterintuitive. Esp. higher doses.
 
yeah k for me is very chilled and relaxed and certainly not stim-y but i never go to sleep after the trip, i am wide awake chilled but awake
 
Well ketamine doesn't really act as an anesthetic in the normal recreational dose range (even at k-hole dosages) so referring to its use as a general anesthetic is a bit deceiving. I've noticed elevated heart-rate (mild, but present) from normal doses. It is definitely spacey though.

I almost fell asleep on 2c-c: it reminded me of being on hydrocodone while having great visuals (this was 100mg oral).

LSA gets very lethargic and sleepy to me near the tail end, I actually passed out at t + 9hr on one trip, while still tripping.
 
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