I'm 100% with Glog on this one. I feel that "coming down" is part + parcel of the experience, and that it is an important time of integration. If any true personal growth is to be achieved, then via the comedown, looked at and experienced naked and fully oneself, imho.
Having said that, I do use alcohol, Ghb, or low-dose benzos on comedowns from time to time. Either because the next day requires me to be alert and sleep is deemed necessary - or because I simply have no desire to deal with what's happening inside me after the few hours of intense insights and "de-patterning". As old patterns gradually creep back into my thought processes I tend to get disappointed and choose a coping ritual....
I am fully aware that this is ABUSE rather than USE of psychedelics, but then I have found that sometimes it's best to be forgiving to oneself and not push it too far all at once. I have done vipassana meditation retreats in the past, and so I know I would be able to ride it out if I wanted to. I just get so undisciplined and let me addictive side take over in order to getsome instant comfort that requires no special effort or perseverance from me.
Still, makes me feel like a cheat now and then... But then i tell myself there's nothing wrong with using the psychedelics for recreational purposes. This 'feeling like a cheat' if I give in to the need to escape from How I Feel is also the reason I gave up on prescription antidepressants a long time ago.
My attraction to psychedelics is also totally contradictory - on the one hand Ifind it truly pleasurable to be "baked" . . . on the other, I feel that most times I come out a changed person, I almost always take something valuable with me... and these insights are never 100% comfortable for me at first . . . why do we want to go on the Ghost Ride at the Fun fair? Why do we want to go on the Roller Coaster?
