What are you trying get from psychedelics?

What are you personally trying to achieve from psychedelic drug use?
Not just trying to get high, but what are honestly attempting to get from LSD?

 

If I did LSD, it would just be to get high.

When I do shrooms, it's just to get high. The types of thought processes that shrooms put me into are intriguing, inspiring, etc. but it's just a part of the high.

But I probably won't ever do LSD, and was responding more to the title than anything =P

 

im trying to discover and establish new neural pathways, for the sake of becoming a more expanded form of awarness

 

the code...

 

a good time. if i tried to better myself or inlighten my soul.....blablabla wtf/ i have a good time trppin. oh and for science . hahahaha i like that responce

 

if i were lokin for a new pathway, i'd just get lost.

 

cant be lost if you dont care where you are.

 

haha something like that. i use them for spiritual and mental growth and an expanded consciousness.

infact, i'm pretty strongly against the pure recreational use of psychedelics.

funny, i was just about to make a thread like this.

 

A different perspective for the time being. From there many things can happen.

 

interesting insight, good time, very fucking interesting insight. and a good time.

 

gettin fuuuuuuuuuucked up!

 

I really don't know. At first I just had to know what it was like. Ever since my 6th grade (before I even smoked weed or cigarettes) health teacher said acid makes you hear colors I thought to myself "That's something I need to checkout"

Now it's a mix between boredom, just living the experience, trying to stay honest with myself (harder than it sounds in theory), and maybe the bliss of every so often knocking my brain into such an impaired funk that I can realize one of those pure simple truths in life that get so muddied by the bullshit of day to day life that I just can't see it anymore.

And every once in a while, I get to take something that makes me see the world with the dumbfounded amazement of a child. Everything feels new again. There is something to that lie.

But one thing I've realized. The drugs are not going to make me happy. They are not my path to enlightenment or understanding. But they help me warp my mind into thinking something different, so at least I don't have to look at life with the tunnel vision of certainty. I don't think it's good to be 100% sure about anything.

I don't trust them, but I just need to hear it.

 

I get something different every time. I usually don't go into the trip with any specific goals. I ride it out and always lean something. If I take 1 microgram, or I take a million micrograms, Im always going to learn something. Thats how life works. I take LSD because I enjoy it.

Sometimes I do go into a trip with a specific "background" goal. I will let the trip do its thing, but I will also keep in mind that this trip has a specific purpose. When I do this, it is always to help myself deal with my irrational phobias. With less than 10 sessions, I was able to turn my biggest phobia into a great pleasure. A complete 180. LSD has helped me develop my awareness and understanding, which are great tools to deal with phobias.

 

Duh, I'm trying to get to the next level.

 

Honestly, I am not 100% sure.

I have "improved my life"/lost many past insecurities when I did not plan to. Yet, when I actually went into a trip with a goal, nothing worth mentioning happened other than the trip itself.


The first reason that comes to mind (and the main reason now that I think about it more) is to, as reckless as it seems, visit the unknown and hand over the controls. The most profound, eye-opening and enjoyable trips have involved me losing the ability to communicate efficiently (or at all) and temporarily losing awareness of this reality (best way I can explain it).... with uncontrollable laughter bits scattered between.

The first trip was to discover but mainly to enjoy a jam band. The rest have been for the reason in the above paragraph ( I type this with a smile on my face).

 

Well by 'pure recreational use' you are probably referring to when people are like "lets get fucked up on this shit bro", but for most people they don't discover psychedelics through searching for spiritual and mental growth; rather they think "that sounds like a fun experience I'd like to try" - wouldn't that qualify as purely recreational?

 

DudeBro, my shit is so fucked up I have to shoot/slice you in the face, it's straight up dawg time

 

discovering the unknown depths of the mind and of consciousness. conscious evolution. transcendence.

 

Depends on the psychedelic but I find and search for:

New perspective on reality
Spiritual Growth
Music enhancement (both listening and playing)
sexual enhancement
increased creativity
More comfortable dancing
alternative to my 'unproductive' drugs (alcohol, cocaine, opiates, tobacco)
Confront personal issues

 

getting my mind blown over and over and over again