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The Value of Low Dose trips

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I know that we can all be a little hedonistic about our doses, shooting high rather than aiming low. Afraid we're not going to 'get there', an experience of total immersion.

I find that I don't want to trip as much these days due to some of the medium to upper high doses I've taken in the past and how such intense experiences are starting to play with my head, even so long after the initial experience.

Dose low, get a comfortable level in where the anxiety/visuals don't drive each other in manic directions. People think they can handle a lot, but people are naive creatures.
 
Some people can handle a lot.

Low doses can be fun too. Unless it's mushrooms, then it's really just a waste.
 
Low doses are just as good as high ones I reckon, but for different reasons.

I usually find low doses to be more recreational, I feel sociable, etc. However that doesn't mean that I wouldn't find them uselfull in a different setting. Higher doses, I prefer to be either alone or with one other person, and I never consider these doses recreational. I'm one of those many that reside on this forum who appreciate the therapuetic (sp?) nature of psyhedelics.
 
A couple weekends ago I was reading from Peter Kinglsey's book Reality while on 24mg of 2C-C, which is a relatively low dose (it was low enough that I was able to read without the words melting off the page...;)) I found that what I was reading made sense to me in an intuitive way, and I got a lot more out of it than I did when I read it sober.
 
Splitz said:
Low doses are just as good as high ones I reckon, but for different reasons.

I usually find low doses to be more recreational, I feel sociable, etc. However that doesn't mean that I wouldn't find them uselfull in a different setting. Higher doses, I prefer to be either alone or with one other person, and I never consider these doses recreational. I'm one of those many that reside on this forum who appreciate the therapuetic (sp?) nature of psyhedelics.
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This.

I have noticed that I tend to take relatively low doses more frequently than massive ones more as I get more ancient by the minute though. I tend to binge - mostly on high-dose combos - for a while then settle down into less frequent, low-moderate dose use for longer gaps than I used to when the gaps barely existed these days. I <3 high and low dose pysches best at different times but is kinda binge and purge stylee really.

Also, The Low-Dose LSD Appreciation Thread.
 
^ Haven't ever dosed quality acid, though I find that RC's are much easier to measure effectively than unknoiwn blotter hehe.
 
After I'd experienced a very high dose of LSD I wanted to experience low doses of acid so I did this and I enjoyed them.

I would take low doses of LSD for an entire week daily before college classes once during the start of the fall semester and once during the spring. I enjoyed it and I was not tripping so hard that I had no idea what was going on and I had no idea who I was and language itself was not completely destroyed like it was for a period of time on the very high dose of acid I took.

I've never taken a low dose of mushrooms but I've heard how it can sort of be like being stoned but you've eaten shrooms and not smoked/vaporized/eaten herb.

Don't drive while tripping.
 
bighooter said:
Can you still be in comple control on low dose and drive a car safely
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nope. dont risk it. doing stupid things like this can result in accidents and wreck peoples lives, as well as give fodder for all those hating on drugs

i love low doses of stims from time to time, but i have to say that mushrooms i wouldnt do below visual levels, as the body load alone is not getting me anything. lsd is fun at single blotter level for a fun night out with close friends.
 
Low dose the way forward :) - big advocat, enjoy being able to enjoy the experience in my life as a part of it rather than being warped into wtf land and having no idea, other than coming out and going woo-hoo!!! - that was fun, probably.
I appreciate the learning of extreme experiences and have done the full ego-melting-God-realised states that can be achieved with chemical experimentation, but having discovered 'The Answer', I no longer feel the need to push it and can sit back and enjoy the more subtler experiences.
There's a time and a place for high and low, but if you are going to push it, please be aware of the potential fatal danger of the new RCs and measure, allergy test and enjoy

Dx
 
I've had great results with low doses of phenethylamines and LSD.

Tryptamines (at least the 4-substituted ones - Low doses of 5-MeO-MiPT are good, but apparently completely different in character from high doses) don't seem to give such great results - I'd nearly written off 4-HO-MiPT after taking it at 12.5mg (a light trip with an uncomfortable come-up, but little trip after that), but then at 18mg, I had a great time (definitely a full trip for me), similarly, I was caught off guard by 4-AcO-DMT being stronger than i'd expected based on low-dose experiments - as others have said of shrooms, low dose 4-AcO-DMT will produce more of a stoned feel than a trippy one.

Phenethylamines, IME, work much more consistently at low doses. At very low doses, they provide a mild mood lift and some energy. At low doses (5-10mg) they give you a taste of the compound's effects. Although of course the experience at 5mg of 2C-I and 20mg is very different, it's mostly a matter of intensity.
LSD seems to behave similarly to phenethylamines in the low dose regime.

I go through phases of favoring low vs high doses of psychedelics.
 
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By the Erowid.org dosing for mushrooms, it seems I have always taken "common" doses from 1g-2.5g.

I've never taken a mushroom dose below 1.5g, either in pulverized powder, or whole dried mushrooms.

Still, there is a large difference from 1.5-->2.7g. But an even bigger difference from 2.7-->3.5+g. The two eighth mushroom trips I did (3.5g and 3.8g [hefty eighth]) were much more spiritual in nature in the sense that the introspection was much more intense and involving. I think there was honestly less focus on the visuals during those trips than in the lesser amounts, even though the visuals themselves were more intense. Anyone know what I'm saying ??
 
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Janja said:
Still, there is a large difference from 1.5-->2.7g. But an even bigger difference from 2.7-->3.5+g. The two eighth mushroom trips I did (3.5g and 3.8g [hefty eighth]) were much more spiritual in nature in the sense that the introspection was much more intense and involving. I think there was honestly less focus on the visuals during those trips than in the lesser amounts, even though the visuals themselves were more intense. Anyone know what I'm saying ??
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Definitely know what you're sayin man :)
 
If you sit down and read the first ten pages of a glossary you witness 10 pages of glossary info. Or you could choose to try to read the entire book in just one sitting.
 
Janja said:
I think there was honestly less focus on the visuals during those trips than in the lesser amounts, even though the visuals themselves were more intense. Anyone know what I'm saying ??
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Totally. I think that's why erowid has the OEV/CEV's on mushrooms listed in the 'neutral' section, as opposed to positive on LSD.
 
Low doses on 4-aco-dmt are nice.

I used a low dose around 5mgs after smoking just to enhance my experience, and it was beautiful. Very psychedelic mindstate, without a full blown breakthrough.
 
I tend to make the most of low doses. Seriously though, low doses of shrooms I just end up yawning and getting teary eyes the whole time.. annoying as hell.
 
Well, I didn't know about the peculiarities of dosing low with shrooms.

For most everything else though, the synthetic stuff, it would be wise to dose low if it's something that can go crazy like many of the tryptamines and more potent PEAs.
 
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