Ever since my beginnings as a psychonaut a few years back most of my trips have been steriotypically trippy. By this I mean my trips are very like those that are shown in movies and shows. Not the biased shows where the characters hallucinate and things like that of course, but the more accurate depictions of trips. My question is do you think our preconceptions od what trippy is and what you are "supposed" to feel like on a trip alters how we trip? Would someone that has never been exposed to societies' notion of what a trip is feel the same (I know that no one is exactly the same bit their are certain similarities between most trips)
i think it does alter the way a lot of people trip. and because of that, it seems like the people that aren't afraid of it aren't quite ready for it and they have a more unpleasant experience while the ones more afraid have lower expectations when they eventually try it. one of my best friends was one that was afraid and when she eventually tried it, shes said it was the best experience that she thought ever could've ever happened. while another one of our friends wasnt afraid of it but was just in it for the high part and every single damn time he shroomed or fried, he was fuckin flippin out on the cops and shit. the preconception of the psychedelics make a preconception and thats just what people need to get rid of before a trip
That's strange, no trip of mine has ever been like what it's been shown in shows, even documentaries on psychedelics.
The way movies depict tripping.. is well, a lower dose of tripping, a fun trip with hallucinations. Take an extremely high dose, and enter the reality of consciousness. A whole other dimension to a reality you've never dreamed of. Not for the faint of heart/mind. Movies, studys, books and written essays.. do not appropriatley describe what acid can really do for you. Go explore your consciousness some.. and your preconcieved conceptions of tripping will dissolve before your very eyes. It will no longer matter what the definition of tripping is, or how people percieve it; you'll know.
The first minute of this video is probably the most accurate representation of what happens when i trip (except for the camera panning to the guys head are like 35 seconds in... weird). But the rest, everything slowing down, then the picture/frame kinda freezing, then the image slipping out of focus and off deap within the mind/music spiraling away to the depths of the psyche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdq5ogkOnQg&feature=PlayList&p=CC1AFA3CE6C63965&index=0&playnext=1"]YouTube- Shpongle - a New way to say Hooray
I'm starting to think some people don't go past threshold due to impotent/weakened doses. You'll know what it's about when you really start tripping. People exposed to doses in medical surroundings decades ago have described it better than most people on here and that's when they could voyage into a trip as an experiment and not something that had negative social stigma. Check out this PB_Smith linked to it, http://www.psychedelic-library.org/child5.htm
I have had the same strength stuff of innumerous others and have been able to get there while others havn't. I think it is MOSTLY the enviroment you put yourself in, lying down, music, contemplative, privacy, etc. Yes you need a certain amount to get 'there', but lets be honest... the amount isn't THAT high. 3-4 drops would be enough for the majority of people to get there if they would allow it, to fully submit themselves to the experience and slip away. Although when I hear of people dropping ten strips at concerts and stuff and dancing etc... (i remember reading a post by prone about having a 10 strip and then going around having converstations with people... how the hell were you able to walk, let alone get a single word out!) it really makes me question the strength of whatever they're taking... It couldn't possibly be more than 20ug per hit IMO.
I've never really trusted media. I pretty much knew tripping would be nothing like how it is usually portrayed in popular cinema. During my search for, and pseudo-obsession of acid before i was able to get my hands on some I talked a lot with friends with experience and read a lot of trip reports, etc. And even so, I eventually found, nothing could have truly prepared me.
