The Psychedelic Experience: The Best Therapy For Me

[ShimmyShimmYa]

I can remember the first time I ate some magical mushrooms like it was yesterday. The stomach ache and confusion that I was dealing with was such a turn off from the magical drug so I stayed away from them for quite some time. I always asked myself "HOW CAN ANYONE ENJOY THAT?!" That's when I decided to talk to my father about the experiences he had with mushrooms and lsd. He explained to me if it's your first time it's not a party drug, and the weak minded negative thinkers have a hard time dealing with themselves on it. After he shared his experiences I realized that I need to go into a trip happy and with good people.

The opportunity knocked and I scooped a 10 strip. I held on to it like it was gold, I was just waiting for the right opportunity. The semester ends and me and my 3 close friends decide it's time for a night of good chronic, good music, good THO, and an obnoxious amount of adult swim. Needless to say I had the time of my life. After that night I knew there was something magical about these Psychedelics. They unlocked my brain and broke me down to my simplest form. I felt like a little kid with overwhelming happiness and no worries in the world. Since I dabbled that night I can say I'm a much different person with a changed outlook on life and what's truly important.

I love talking about my experiences but I LOVE sharing the different outlook it gave me on life. I believe that it is almost essential everyone trips once so they can think differently and not be the conditioned drone so many people become. I understand it's not for everyone, but I think it's therapy for many. I know I'm happier with who I see in the mirror and I try a lot harder to be the nicest I can be and always share.

I want to know.... What has the Psychedelic Experience done for you???

 

[perpetualdawn]

One small thing: I learned to do track stands on my bike from a mushroom trip. It made me aware of a certain mental stillness necessary to balance like that. A bit mundane, but very concrete!

 

[bees_knees]

Seriously I think mushrooms are like some kind of whole new frontier and I think they can permanently change your consciousness to a mushroomy-world and invoke unconscious processes like advanced healing process, mental and physical, potentially curing diseases and slowing and reversing aging. I attribute my recovering from cannabis-induced psychosis/schizophrenia entirely to mushrooms unlocking some brain pathways that allow the natural intelligence of the body to perfectly target and heal disease, in this case brain disease.

I can't believe they are illegal, unresearched, and generally kept under wraps like this... We are actually living in some kind of nightmarish legal system.

 

[The Dr]

I attribute my recovering from cannabis-induced psychosis/schizophrenia entirely to mushrooms unlocking some brain pathways that allow the natural intelligence of the body to perfectly target and heal disease, in this case brain disease.

How did cannabis throw you into psychosis and not the mushrooms?

 

[bees_knees]

That sir, is what interests me at the moment!

I keep Googling over and over variations of sentences with keywords like psychedelics, schizophrenia, 5HT2A... I'm learning a lot and it seems there is a strong correlation between cannabis and the latent schizophrenics. But there is only one study, ONE, at least according to wikipedia, that suggests mushrooms exacerbate schizophrenia. It was done on two schizophrenic subjects. There has been no other research, since it's a banned non-medical substance in most of the world. What could be the case is the mushrooms caused stress, and stress exacerbates symptoms. What if you don't stress on a trip? Light trips...?

Another thing I've found is cannabis results in large amounts of dopamine activity in the brain, whereas mushrooms do not and do not have ANY affinity for dopamine receptors. Dopamine is the main implicated neurotransmitter/receptor in schizophrenia and ALL antipsychotics strongly block dopamine receptors.

Early research seemed to suggest that cannabinoids – the active constituents of marijuana – did not increase dopamine levels like other drugs do.

Although thought-provoking, the findings would later be dismissed as inaccurate and an overwhelming amount of evidence now confirms that THC – one of the cannabinoids found in marijuana – does in fact cause a temporary increase in dopamine levels.

This rise in dopamine is mediated by CB1 receptors and occurs at a region of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens. Scientists believe that increases in dopamine at the nucleus accumbens are responsible for the reinforcing and rewarding properties of all known drugs of abuse.

http://www.truthonpot.com/2012/12/04/how-does-marijuana-affect-dopamine/

I think calling mushrooms 'psychotomimetic' is wrong, I don't think the experience is anything like schizophrenia.

 

[ShimmyShimmYa]

Quick question: I took 2 hits of lsz and half cut of shrooms Friday during the day. My friend just brought over Molly and LSD. He's doing it tonight and I would like to join. Obviously after tonight I will need a break but I want to know if I take .3 of MDMA and 3-4 hits will I still trip ???

 

[coelophysis]

Quick question: I took 2 hits of lsz and half cut of shrooms Friday during the day. My friend just brought over Molly and LSD. He's doing it tonight and I would like to join. Obviously after tonight I will need a break but I want to know if I take .3 of MDMA and 3-4 hits will I still trip ???

Most likely.

 

[ShimmyShimmYa]

Is it going to be a dick tease of a trip or will I feel the love?

 

[coelophysis]

That's a shit load of MDMA, if you're taking that all at once you're going to be floored man. Given that you know what you have is real MDMA and all..

 

[ShimmyShimmYa]

I would space it out for sure

 

[coelophysis]

Even spaced out you don't need that much. If you have a low tolerance, 120mgs followed by 50 a half an hour later would be plenty.

 

[PepperSocks]

will I still trip ???

lol, yes! Jesum crow, careful man. That much MDMA and LSD, even with a trip a couple days ago will floor you.

Take Laika's dosing advice. Too much MDMA like that can get messy, especially when it wears off. It also works differently than LSZ/shrooms so the main cross-tolerance will be on the LSD side of things.