So I see a lot of people here ask questions like "how often should I be doing >insert psychedelic here<?" and "How long should I wait between trips?". Well I think this is incredibly subjective. It depends on so many factors, only you as an individual will know the answer. It depends on your mental state, your personality, the nature of your most recent trip, the dose you are taking, your environment and so on and so forth. But what I think is the most important thing about using psychedelic drugs is how well you manage to reintergrate after tripping. By reintergration I mean how well you manage to put what you experienced back into your life, and how well you manage to decipher what all those emotions, visuals, and themes meant when you were tripping. What did it all mean? Did certain points even mean anything at all? I think if you have trouble with reintergrating over the following days after your trip then that's probably a strong indication that you should probably leave it for a while as another trip might just create more confusion and possibly lead to some problems. And of course I think most of us who trip on a regular basis have had the thoughts and feelings like; "Just one more trip and i'll work it ALL out I swear!". And I think it's easy to succumb to temptation and trip again when you really aren't ready for it. I mean of course, the couple of days after tripping everything can seem a little boring too, but then tripping again for that reason could quickly turn into a pattern of escapist behaviour...Again for me it's about just going with these feelings, asking myself "Why do I find it boring?" and "How can I make it more fun?". Reintergration. I think it really pays to be completely honest with yourself. Ask yourself why do you want to trip again so soon after your most recent trip. Really consider it. Ask yourself why you can't feel you can wait another week or month to trip again. It pays to be this cautious with these incredibly powerful drugs. To me they are tools to be worked with, not just recreational drugs. I think if you give them your total and utter respect you'll get so much more out of your experiences. Intention is incredibly important. I think this is reflected in the fact that people who go into using psychedelics as if they were like pills or cocaine learn very quickly that they are not too be fucked with and treated like that. I think you get exactly out what you put into psychedelics, and especially with LSD. You go into it just wanting to get as "fucked up" as possible in a negative mindstate, then that'll reflect back onto you ten fold. You go into it wanting to learn in a positive responsible mindstate, wanting some introspect and a bit of fun, then you'll probably get some insight and some very profound experiences. And of course, it's all well and good having experiences of 'interconnectedness', egolessness and other mystical experiences, and it's good that often your trip will give you some amazing insights into certain aspects and situations in your life, such as how you feel about certain people around you, relationships with others, or about an important choice you have to make...But really this means nothing if you don't act on it. To me that is the real challenge, putting all the pieces back together, working out what it all meant, then putting what you learnt into actions, into practice. To me that's the whole point. It's the whole reason why I take these drugs. Regards Pete
Yes peterness, if using your brain while using psychedelics possibilities are limitless. Some, majority, dont know what they are dealing with, for them its fun, incredible tiem kill , and visuals.. but nothing more.... if u are smart with these drugs u can even more smarter, as for my self i will be using psychodelis for teh rest of my life and only fro good purposes, as i an athlete and i wanna be come a pro soccer player, oh i practise even more and better, my nutrition plan is just a part of psychedelic exp, i nearly brought it to perfection with all research on all foods and its benefits i will leave 100 years , be rich and famous, and enjoy psycholdeics as much as i can anything is possible.
Great post man, I agree You get out of it what you put into it... it's a tool. I've seen people trip over and over and get nothing out of it. I've only tripped a couple of times, and I feel it had a tremendous mind-expanding, eye-opening, wisdom-imparting effect on my life.
iv done acid once. had a great trip and feel better for it. i dont feel fucked up at all, if anything i feel more normal since doing it. My question is should i keep doing it, or should i just consider myself lucky and not get crazy and mixed up from acid. i want to do it again, perhaps 5 times would be ok? give me your honest opinions, do you regret not stopping at one tab once?
I agree with the threadstarted 100%, however...I think the learning experience that comes with an lsd trip is often times over analyzed a bit. I always come to new realizations when I trip, obv...However, its not like after every trip, I sit there and meditate, and then all of a sudden all of those crazy revelations tie into the ultimate meaning of the universe and what it means to be human... Integrtion is very important...but in my opinion, one should trip however many times in however long a period you desire, make sure your comfortable though with the space in between though, some people are not meant to dose all the time. And dont over analyze the themes of your trip, if they are important (and believe me, some are and some arn't) they will integrate themselves into your daily sober existence without much effort...if they are epic, they will definatly stick...you dont want to read into everything too deeply, LSD is afterall a drug, not a Demi-God...even though I garentee a high enough dose would knock even Zeus's lightening bolts sideways :-D
there was a really good post i was half way through reading here, and its been deleted. it was really interesting, post it again.
Yes, you are spot on, and this is what I meant when I said this: ...sometimes it means fuck all. Did those aliens you saw over the walls mean anything, or was it just the pattern on your wallpaper being manipulated? Or indeed both? Work it out for yourself...Keep it in perspective. Sorry you couldn't comprehend what I was trying to get across in my post. I've taken many drugs, many too excess, but psychedelics are about the only type i've taken in moderation and i've had no real issues with. I'm not glorifying it in any way whatsoever and am somewhat confused as to how to arrived at that conclusion. I'm only advocating a responsible approach to there use. I also believe in there massive potential for use in therapy, if used correctly I believe they could completely cure certain types of psychological problems and disorders. I also believe this could poentailly be a reason why they were initially banned, since other addictive and less effective drugs such as benzodiazapams are much more profitable (due to there addictive nature). Perhaps you could share with the group why you feel such hostility towards the use of such drugs and elaborate further as to why you think i'm "glorifying it"? I believe much of my post was doing the opposite (eering on the side of caution to say the least).
