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The Big & Dandy 'How have Psychedelics changed You' Thread

Well I haven't had a spiritual or super enlightening experience, but I did have 2 insanely over-the-top disorienting and chaotic 5-meo-dmt trips that have left me wandering if any of this is real. Maybe you're all a part of my imagination? :D

As for other psychedelics, I've dabbled with them, but never went far. With 5-meo, I didn't have a choice. With 2-ce, I'll hopefully work my way up.

Btw, OP, I'm sure there are already about a billion threads on this topic.
 
Somewhere in a park there is a tree known as Bruce that a lot of high school kids smoke weed and do other illicit things under. Taking mushrooms at age 17, and communicating this tree was probably one of the most spiritual experience of my life. The tree told me it's name was Bruce and now it is known by name by at least fifty people I that don't know. I became a kind of animist and a pacifist. It was the second time I took shrooms and I took an 1/8th. My other mushroom attempts after that were not quite as good. LSD blew my mind and was way better than shrooms but it didn't change my life at all, I was just like, "Wow this is awesome!"
 
I would definitley say so..

It wasn't until my 6-7th time on LSD.. that i experienced a life changing trip. I had always tripped with friends.. but my last trip was on my own at home.. when your stripped of your ego peice by peice untill your left just staring up at the ceiling.. and then in a sense been reborn.. it truly has an impact.

I felt so unbelievable after that trip i decided to go for a long walk in the sun in the morning as i was coming down.. big fucking grin on my face as i stared at 'life' itself. It's made me more appreciative and compassionate then i use too be and WAY more accepting of peoples opinions and views.. everyone has there own way of seeing things, and i shouldn't be forcing my subjective views onto them.. essentially it's impossible to get into an argument with me :)
 
i haven't really had any single moment epiphanies i can think of but i believe psychedelics increased my confidence and ability to stand up for my self over time. also made me appreciate clouds alot more thats for sure.
 
I forgot to add I pay super attention to minute details and textures to things,
such as grain in wood, the fibers of clothing, and things I normally would walk past
 
malakaix said:
It's made me more appreciative and compassionate then i use too be and WAY more accepting of peoples opinions and views.. everyone has there own way of seeing things, and i shouldn't be forcing my subjective views onto them.. essentially it's impossible to get into an argument with me :)

Same for me. I realized that I haven't been mad at another person for at least three months, but I think MDMA did this to me even tho I haven't rolled for like 5 months. After psychs you realize that the shit people do that should piss me off is still their fault but I feel bad for them because of why they do the things they do.
 
I quited all the hard drugs after I got into good trips with psychedelics, now I only use cannabis and psychedelics, and I don't consider them as drugs, they are tools. I also started meditation and cured my depression. So do they have changed my life? YES!

Actually I'm looking some psychedelics (& cannabis) only forums, because I'm not interested about any other drugs anymore.
 
I'm pretty much certain that without psychedelics I'd be (much more of) a mess psychologically as losing my hand at age 13 did a lot to mess me up, but through my encounters with psychedelics it allowed me to put things in perspective and not dwell on what others think of me

Basically it comes down to "why should I be so hung up on what other think of me as everybody is a fuck up in some way, so what's most important is how I feel about myself & why should they have more insight into me than I do?". I have LSD to thank for that
 
Yep.

I had some sort of psychedelic leanings before I tried em. Then on doing so I found a framework into which they fitted or were confirmed. I think it is important to keep rational about them. The truth is never as straightforward as it first appears. So its about realising how to integrate what they can teach you about yourself and keeping your wits about how you do.
In my first LSD trip, it changed me in the sense that I was shown how radically you can alter the way your mind works and how you see things. And I had never imagined that before, so it introduced a kind of sudden reappraisal of all my beliefs. But it also gave me faith in some of my convictions, since I had seen how far from within me they originated.
Pipp
 
I would say it has made me much happier over the last few years . I used to be really sad all the time and after using LSD and other psychs heavily for the past few years Im no longer sad . Im actually really happy and off of hard drugs . I used to use heroin all the time and now im happy with a nice trip every couple of weeks . I think thats a great thing in itself.
 
psychedelics have opened me up sexually, and shown me my true feelings about the meaninglessness of gender roles in our society. also, I have learned how complex a concept human communication is.

I have gained even more endearing feelings towards nature and the earth, new perspectives on music, and just recently my long creative drought was cured by a hugely difficult LSD trip. since then I have been drawing on the daily again, as well as starting to make music again. DMT made me highly curious about meditation and lead me to attempt it sober.

when I trip and something about my lifestyle is bothering me, often I will be working on that issue the next day and trying to fix it. for example, I was slipping into an unhealthy diet... I had a heavy psychedelic trip and decided I would start a food log for while, to look at what I and how much eat more carefully.

on the darker side (and there certainly is one), I have been faced with aspects of myself I didn't want to confront, and aspects of society I'd rather not dwell on. difficult psychedelic experiences are VERY hard to stomach... however, I still feel that in the end dealing with all of those dark things have made me a more positive person in my sober life.

I love psychedelics and I am hugely grateful for their impact on my life. I plan to continue using them, though lately a little less often, which is good I think.
 
also, the SOCIAL aspect of psychedelics - not only being on them around others, but meeting others who share the same interest! I self-identify as a drug geek, and it's wonderful meeting and talking to others who share that niche on Bluelight, and getting involved in the psychedelic trance community where I live. going out to raves and other events involved with psychedelics has helped me to develop my social skills and shown me that I am not alone in wanting to explore altered states.

sorry for the long posts! <3
 
My story is very similar to yours feelgoodhit.

LSD helped me quit fighting myself and enjoy life for what it is, for all it is, "good" and "bad." It taught me to love both "good" and "bad" aspects of my personality. It gave me a chance to listen to myself, and what I really wanted deep down inside without bullshit, baggage or external expectations. I also came to understand why I've been severely depressed for so long, and why I do and feel the things I do. Questions which had been bugging me for quiet some time now.

On top of all this my faith in falling in love was restored, I had been hurt very badly by the last guy I fell in love with. It was two years ago, but I hadn't been the same since. Something inside of me was just closed shut, and I thought no person could possibly be right for me because I was so complicated and damaged and just a strange person. I learned that was false, and that there are other men out there for me who will make me feel exactly the same way because there were really only a few qualities that I look for in a partner and the rest of the shit I thought I wanted, I didn't really need.

I also think I must have been an acid freak my last life, because it felt like I had done it before and I remembered it almost.

My whole life I've always felt like I was supposed to be somewhere else, I just had no idea where. First time I did acid, I felt like I had reached that old place finally and everything made sense.

Now I no longer feel out of place in my life.
 
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I've had a few trips that made me realize some profound things that will help me get over stuff that is bothering me. One in particular made me realize people are just the way they are, and even though things do hurt you, you're mostly in control of your own happiness. That same trip made me feel completely at ease about my ex wife cheating on me (multiple times, and I wasn't at fault, she was just immature and selfish but that's who she was and I can't change that). It bothered me for years but after that, it kind of just melted away.
 
elaborating on what I learned about communication: LSD really cemented the idea that when person A says something to person B, person B's brain usually makes a seemingly clear connection to something completely unrelated (trying make that statement fit person B's subjective reality), and it is person B's role to then try to ignore that unrelated connection and just hear the statement for what it is. if he doesn't, awkwardness or unnecessary conflict will ensue.

this is what causes alot of "awkward acid moments", and really alot of awkward every-day life moments... it's a struggle everyone faces many times a day (assuming you talk to people). did that make any sense at all, or did I not explain it well enough?
 
feelgoodhit said:
elaborating on what I learned about communication: LSD really cemented the idea that when person A says something to person B, person B's brain usually makes a seemingly clear connection to something completely unrelated (trying make that statement fit person B's subjective reality), and it is person B's role to then try to ignore that unrelated connection and just hear the statement for what it is.

this is what causes alot of "awkward acid moments", and really alot of awkward every-day life moments! did that make any sense at all, or did I not explain it well enough?

yes! this makes a lot of sense.. i learned the same thing from my experiences with weed.
 
Thats interesting.. could you give me an actual conversation that might be interpreted this way (from both perspectives)?
 
feelgoodhit said:
elaborating on what I learned about communication: LSD really cemented the idea that when person A says something to person B, person B's brain usually makes a seemingly clear connection to something completely unrelated (trying make that statement fit person B's subjective reality), and it is person B's role to then try to ignore that unrelated connection and just hear the statement for what it is. if he doesn't, awkwardness or unnecessary conflict will ensue.

this is what causes alot of "awkward acid moments", and really alot of awkward every-day life moments... it's a struggle everyone faces many times a day (assuming you talk to people). did that make any sense at all, or did I not explain it well enough?

Not to diminish the importance of your revelation here, but IMO it only seems natural that these situations would be awkward in every-day life, so just how awkward did you find them to be while on acid? Did you suddenly have intensely vivid representations of your own 'tangents' of concepts or ideas brought up in conversation?
 
Psychedelics have definitely deepened my perception of things. They have opened my mind and helped me better identify with my emotions. LSD also helped to bring out a gleefully spiritual side of me I did not know I had, and I'm a thousand times thankful to the chemical for bringing me closer to realizing that.

So yeah, I guess so.
 
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