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The Limbo between Tripping and Sleeping

Solipsis

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Hey guys! :)

Have you ever tried to go to sleep when a trip died down, only to discover that when you lie still with the lights out you can go miles deep. I've had this with different psychedelics and it's an interesting, but vague and most often uncomfortable dreamspace isn't it?
You just want to get some rest, but before drifting off there are al those dreamy thoughts which after a while make it quite a grey area of being conscious or not.

I do like the times I have a benzo to skip that part although I would never recommend that for less-experienced users. It's much more natural to let everything run its course but sometimes it's worth it to ease the electric feeling in your weary body.

Share your experiences! <3
 
I've got a DOI trip report on Erowid called "Totally Wide Open." As probably everyone here knows, DOxes have a long come-up. I dosed and lay down to read until it came on, ended up falling asleep, and woke up tripping. It was a really fascinating experience to be in between wakefulness and sleep, not sure if I was dreaming or tripping. Pretty surreal. :)
 
LOL yes not only have I read about more people doing that, I have done it myself before ever reading about it - but with my first time DOB.

It was somewhat strange but all was fine, also in thanks to the crystal clear amphetaminic clarity.
 
12 strong HBWR seeds at college did this for me. I tripped for a few hours, peaked and came down a bit, and tried to get some sleep after the trip died down, and spent hours and hours wandering through wild lucid "trip-dreams" (eyes closed, not asleep, but definitely "dreaming"!). I don't think I actually slept that night, although I was definitely lying down with my eyes closed. I love that kind of experience, although it can be exhausting and disorienting, especially when you open your eyes and get up.
 
I've got a DOI trip report on Erowid called "Totally Wide Open." As probably everyone here knows, DOxes have a long come-up. I dosed and lay down to read until it came on, ended up falling asleep, and woke up tripping. It was a really fascinating experience to be in between wakefulness and sleep, not sure if I was dreaming or tripping. Pretty surreal. :)

I've had a similar experience with mescaline - dosing, falling asleep, waking up and realizing I was tripping balls. An unusual experience to say the least...
 
Just after the peak effects I tend to just lay in place where I am, smoke plenty of bowls and just drift into "reveries" of thought and i9mage and perspective.

I like to trip alone because I usually just like to sink into the floor when I trip, get the most out of visuals.

very interesting phenomenon on lsd with my eyes closed, I can really see myself. it's anylitical yet disattached.
 
I always try to stay up as long as possible after a trip, usually many hours after the trip is over. Sometimes that means skipping a night's sleep, but the advantage is that you avoid lying in bed frustrated, just wanting to go to sleep but not being able to. By skipping a night I've had many excelent wasted sundays, and slept like a baby when I finaly collapsed.
 
yeah this happens to me on 2ce. try to sleep but my mind goes into space. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep once.
 
I think it depends on the extent of your trip. You should never try to force yourself to sleep if your on an intense 3-5 hit acid trip, even if your exhausted, those trips usually last about 24-36hrs. My experiences with trying to fall asleep after a trip were always troublesome because of that strange dreamspace, I find that my visuals are more intense and it was almost like a delirium state. It worried me so I did a little research and theres something called the hypnagogia which occurs before onset of sleep, this is where lucid dreaming is supposed to take place. Maybe the use of psychedelics just intensifies this state of mind and maybe even prevents us from entering heavy REM sleep, its like being stuck in an acid crazed lucid dream...8o

Its usually a pretty insightful state of mind despite the wild hallucinations (i.e. 8oJohn lennons face mouthing I AM THE EGG MAN over and over again). Does anybody find that its easier to fall a sleep on shrooms rather then acid or 2cb?
 
Hm, I've never taken a benzo at the end of a trip, and I really couldn't imagine skipping this part of a trip. That electricity keeping me awake, making my head wander and fly around, vivid OEV/CEV's. I love the peak, but it almost feels like too much is being shot at me and I can't comprehend it. This stage at the end of a trip allows me to recollect my thoughts, and come to new conclusions about life, myself, and a lot more.

I have had some of the most intense experiences right at that moment when you are drifting between worlds also, very weird dream-esque hallucinations and such. To a completely different degree from the vivid dreaming on opiates though.
 
Stormrider, whats not even mentioned is the fact that laying down in your bed is like close to a sensory deprivation chamber. Hence the increased dissociation, giving way to a circus in your head.
 
when you lie still with the lights out you can go miles deep. I've had this with different psychedelics and it's an interesting, but vague and most often uncomfortable dreamspace isn't it?

I've definitely had that feeling many times :]] I actually think that lying down with the lights off has produced some of the most amazing psychedelic effects, sensations and visuals that I've had; probably one of my favorite ways to trip. I also like to explore nature and my surroundings, but if I'm inside, I prefer to succumb fully to the trip in the way that you mentioned. ^ Anyway, I love it!! :D:D
 
Haha yeah! With uncomfortable I mean physically by the way, as in residual body load or feeling wired, still.
Mentally it's just ye olde maelstrom. :) Just... neither here nor there. ;)
 
I purposely try to fall asleep during the come-up of trips. This leads me to a feverish waking-dream state where I can explore and resolve my issues and lets me emerge cleansed like after a night of good sleep, relaxed and full of energy, with shivers of pleasure running through my body, with the bulk of the trip still ahead of me.

On the come-down of a good trip, the last thing I want to do is sleep. Usually, I am full of energy and imagination, the world looks fresh and alive and I'm itching to go out and do something.
 
I purposely try to fall asleep during the come-up of trips. This leads me to a feverish waking-dream state where I can explore and resolve my issues and lets me emerge cleansed like after a night of good sleep, relaxed and full of energy, with shivers of pleasure running through my body, with the bulk of the trip still ahead of me.

That sounds really, really interesting.... I'll have to try that sometime!! :] I'm not sure that I could fall asleep while awaiting a trip, though! Haha.
 
Last time I did shrooms this happened to me for maybe 10 min, however I find (some) tryptamines can put you to sleep very easily compared to 2c's or especially DOx's.
 
That sounds really, really interesting.... I'll have to try that sometime!! :] I'm not sure that I could fall asleep while awaiting a trip, though! Haha.

I'm not sure, but my general impression is that anxiety and tension on trips are caused mainly by trying to retain control of my mind and preserve my sober patterns of thinking. The dissolving action of the psychedelic on the come-up phase pushes against this inexorably and makes it a huge effort to control my thinking, and the unavoidable loss in this struggle brings anxiety.

I've noticed that all of this goes away when I just let go, the anxiety turns to joy, the stress turns to profound relaxation and the physical tension turns to shivers of pleasure, so subsequently I've tried to let go on purpose, as early in the trip as I can. But this is easier said than done for me, and the best way I've found is the same way as a natural process of letting go of mental control, namely sleep. I've found that by trying to 'go to sleep' during a trip, even though I can't actually sleep in the normal sense of the word, I can 'let go' of a lot of my mental baggage and wake up inside the psychedelic mindspace as in my new home.
 
on a related note - i was in like 10th grade and one school night i woke up in the middle of the night and for some reason i decided to eat a blotter and go back to sleep - so almost exactly 45 minutes later i woke up again this time fully tripping.. :) the transition was pretty fun...
 
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