The general consensus tends to be that you should be in a relatively good emotional place before tripping, but I wonder if that's only to make letting go easier. I've read reports of ppl suffering from depression then eating acid and the experience melts away their depression permanently. Perhaps any emotional state is fine as long as you understand acid well enough and can still let go of negative emotions? We know that acid dissolves our conditioning and that it goes deep and even if you bring positive emotions to the table they are annihilated and replaced by a non-egoic force. Where is the line between your emotions influencing your trip and your emotions having no bearing on it at all? Is it the same difference between letting go and not letting go? It's likely I'm overthinking it, but my context is not that I'm consistently sad or anything, but it's been a rough month with a horrible sinus infection and some judgemental friction with my brother whose current opinion of me is much lower than I had thought. All this has de-centered me and my energies feel out of alignment. I normally carry a spark of an afterglow until my next trip, but this time I don't feel I have much to "offer up." My core will feel bitter or empty one moment, then pure or content the next, but there's been more of the former than the latter. It might just be the typical challenge I get leading up to a trip that makes me second guess, and I'm just now realizing those challenges have gotten more complex each time. I know no one can tell me whether or not I should trip, but does anyone have any remarks on times when you didn't feel like yourself but dosed anyway and how the trip turned out? happy trips and Thanks for letting me vent:cheers2:!!
my friend has come to town with sugar cubes and im willing to try im one of teh most philosopic people you might ever come across with and under stand the chakra alinment and emotional readiness but want to know the math of an acid tripp do you as the tripeaa define your tripp or does the tripp define you explain please im a very much on the bus brother the cube duration is suppose to be 18 hours
A friend yesterday said to me.. And they are not regular psychonauts.. While they was tripping on shrooms one of the peoples moms died and they said they couldnt think of a better time for her to die. Cause they was tripping and felt this everlasting presence when they heard the news.. They said they didnt greive or feel sad. Later they thought something might have been wrong with them to not feel bad cause dudes mom died.. When dude told me this, It made me see them in a different light cause they really are not ones to talk about psychedelic things.. It has opened some doors for me to enlighten them more..
self medicating with acid is one thing, and really you only need like one or two trips for the 'self medication' or whatver you want to call it and anything after that is just tripping. so you can't really put tripping in a bad state of mind in the same kind of context as that. ultimatly your emotions will dominate your trip. it really just depends on how in touch you are with your emotions as to whether or not you will be able to tell if your emotions will effect the trip in a bad way. you could have alot of ego constructs clouding your vision of your true self, in which case you might consciously think you are in one state of mind while you are truly subconsciously in another state of mind. then given that you truly know your state of mind you need to be able to recognise what kind of effect that will have on the trip. you want to be in as clear as a state of mind as possible ideally, and any kind of baggage that you carry with you into the trip will get blown up and if you don't deal with it during the trip which can be a bitch then you are going to have to deal with it after the trip and it is going to be much more embedded into your psyche and will be much harder to deal with. trust me. things should be like if you were about to die it wouldn't matter a whole lot. meaning all your relationships with all kinds of people are solid and in a place that you would want them to be, and that your ego's karma is in a good place as well and you could stand before god's judgement and say 'yeah, im ready.' buuuuuut acid can be used as a tool to work on some of those baggage issues. as long as you are really aware of what they are and are willing to work on them and take the dive into the oceans of your subconscious to figure out what is going wrong! good luck, hope this helps, and happy tripping!
It's funny, some people deal with emotions and relationships during a trip, and others like myself, deal with violence and chaotic irrational demons. I guess everyone has skeletons but, evil is the strangest presence. I dont know that emotions ever bothered me, I've never planned out a trip and never tried to get myself into a balanced state before dropping. It's always been 'heres your paper' and off I go. The only problems I have run into, aside from confronting death and the non-localized state of being, have been disturbingly violent in nature. But I walk em off like a bad back. Maybe that's why I love God :cheers2: Whatever it is
this is exactly what my deal is. the emotions I felt were manufactured by my own psyche. I did some deeper meditation last night and talked to my brother and there really wasn't anything to be upset about. I feel very much ready to plunge into the Realms now. My eyes and brain feel cleaner and more absorbant of energies and the egoic walls are thinner. haha I seem to get either type and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with my pre-trip state,but rather random more trivial things that I encounter on the trip. Violence, death and the like tend to not bother me at all on a trip, and I can understand why someone might say the death of a loved one can be better handled by introducing some psychedelia. In certain states humans dying is as noteworthy as dominoes knocking each other over, but one tends not to come out of the experience with an indifference for life, but a zeal and a love for it.
At one of the most difficult emotional times in my life I took some acid with the belief that I would experience what I needed to help me through such a difficult time and the trip was a wonderful success!
As long as you have a deep desire to grow and improve yourself. I don't think it matters where you start off from.
That is probably not LSD but rather DoX, which lasts about 18 hours and the dosages are too large to put on blotter so often sugar cubes are used. Heads up, read up on DoX before you do these.
I had a total of 89 trips from 1980 to 1995 (I started counting them after #10 when I saw BOC at Aloha stadium in the early 80s). Most of the time I preferred to be in the company of people I trusted or otherwise in an environment I considered to be cool. My favorite way to trip is locked down in the house with a naked woman (one time it was 2!) a goodly sack of aeromatic appetite stimulants, Cartoons, food that doesn't require intense prep work with knives, the Violator CD by Depeche Mode, Astroglide, the Willy Wonka video, a laser pointer, a mattress on the living room floor surrounded by pillows and covered with many layers of bedspreads, a few cans of iced coffee and diet coke, phones off and everybody thinking I'm out of town on a job. But tripping at the Texas Jam was pretty cool too. So was shrooming at the Rolex 24 in Daytona and microdots in Memphis. It's been a long strange one indeed. Jal
sounds like my first trip i was afrade because i dident know what it would do but i did it anyway it was going good until my buddy started freaking out he took one hit an was afrade of permitriping an i took 6 and was fine but once i heard that word it all went wrong but after he left it was all good. so i think you learn from your emotions before your trip
So far, I haven't had a bad trip at all. But the last time I tripped, something weird happened. I was lying on my back staring at the ceiling. All the lights were off and music was blaring. There were shadows on the ceiling from the light outside and at one point, one of them started transforming into a monster and coming for me, trying to suck me from the spot I was in. It looked like something from the scene in the Matrix where Neo puts his finger in the mirror and the [glass?] starts moving around his body. So anyway, this thing is trying to hurt me or something. But instead of feeling afraid, I felt in control. I started manipulating the image. Not changing the monster, but I started firing energy balls at him, kind of similar to Dragon Ball Z. And it worked. It gave me energy and power, and the anxiety I had at the start disappeared. But apart from that and one time when I was out in public, never had any bad experiences at all. I feel like I'm king of the world on acid.
because of my personal tripping history, my pre trip emotions are fully of anxiety now. the hardest part for me is buiding up my courage to take them. i dont know how to trip for fun anymore, its all about healing and examining my life and how i can live with more open hearted and centered.
