Top Ten Things To Forget While Tripping

1) Forget all the propaganda horror stories you have ever heard about LSD. The odds of having a lasting negative psychological problem are less than 1% based on the medical literature.

2) Forget about that past due bill, your homework assignments, issues at work, that leaky faucet. Basically forget about all the mundane things that need to be taken care of. They will still be there tomorrow, and there is probably not much you can do about it at the moment your tripping anyway, so why spend the time thinking about it.

3) Forget about that list you made of all the stuff you want to do while tripping. Just go with the flow and let the experience itself dictate what you do.

4) Forget about "having" to listen to "trip" music. Listen to the type of music you like. It will still be an awesome experience, even if it's country & western.

5) Forget about all the trip reports, evaluations, determinations, and things you have heard and read about LSD, even mine. Let your experience be your experience and don't think it needs to align with or conform to another's experience.

6) Forget about controlling the experience. It only leads to an uncomfortable time. Relax and breath, you aren't dying, physically at least.

7) Forget about everything you took for granted as defining reality. Those rules and definitions may get completely dissolved and holding on is another sure way to have an uncomfortable time.

8) Forget about trying to compose a trip report while you are on your trip, (I notice I do that at times) it just gets in the way of experiencing it.

9) Forget all the definitions and restrictions that you use to define your sense of self and your place in society. They don't apply in the psychedelic realm. If you have an ego-dissolution experience, all those trappings of self and society will be stripped away. How easy or harsh the disrobing is you determine by your willingness to let go of you.

10) Forget fear and dishonesty. The only thing you will encounter is yourself. Don't be fearful or dishonest with yourself about you. Fear and dishonesty about who you really are when nobody is looking is another sure way to have an uncomfortable experience.

 

Great list!

 

I like 3 and 9 in particular.

3 sometimes often happens regardless I've found sometimes.

 

Not fighting or analyzing the experience while you're having it is rather annoyingly hard to do. It's just too damn interesting to not analyze!

 

I don't even bother with a list anymore. Well at least nothing more in depth than, listen to music, talk to a friend, go outside, but that's more of a running list I use for pretty much every trip.

 

forget trying to pick up all the acorns off the forest floor.. It aint happening..

Ok,, once upon a time. I gave my gf some cid. She was in the kitchen for the longest time. I went to see what she was doing, she was sitting on the floor a dirty old floor at that.. she was trying to scrub off a spot. I looked there was no spot, She was convinced thats there was. I let her go, she was happy with trying to clean it... it was just the design of the floor.. "i cant get this spot up, it just will not come off" .. I lold..

 

Forget showing up to work, you won't be very efficient.

 

forget your cell phone

 

Forget collecting firewood at night time. It's not going to happen. The search for wood consumes you and your mind starts to imagine everything as possible firewood because you can't see properly.

Also, in regards to rule 3, I find it sometimes helps to have a loose list of things you can do in the environment in which you're tripping. Each location produces activities which you may not have had the chance to enjoy when tripping, and you may not again. For example, I rarely trip inside, and one time, my friend put on these trippy visualisations from iTunes on his TV screen. Obviously, trying to rigidly stick to a physical list is silly and problematic, but I don't think it hurts to have a few ideas in your head of stuff you can do.

 

i feel like this list could have been made shorter by saying:
"forget everything."
or maybe just ..let go

 

This is a good, experience based list. My one flaw and great strength, in general with this list is the stuff about the trip report composition. Which of course ties into analysis. i try not to be too OCD, but i do try to pay attention, especially when adding DMT to the mix which can completely wipe the memory for the experience most of the time if i do not make a very strong and conscious effort to lay down the memories when i am still within the altered state of consciousness. If i waited until i baselined, i wouldn't get 10% of the trip reports i've gotten . . .oftentimes for me this content is metaphorical/symbolic and very helpful . . .

The stuff about not fighting, basically surrendering to the experience, eliminating outside interruptions, tabling stressors and setting aside "normal" ideas about reality is worth it's weight in gold, . . . or at least kind bud . . .

Peace & Love,
Spicey Cat
Purrrr!

 

Cool

 

Well I imagine with DMT you kinda do have to jot it down before it fades completely back into purely visual info and beyond the grasp of verbalisation.

This list is one I have to remind myself of, your results may vary.

p.s. I really think the artist who did your sig pic needs to change his last name to Thompson or Taylor or Toodles, as long as it starts with a T.

 

You can also end up trying to gather wood on a 45 degree slope, slip & loose your balance, wrench your shoulder, and it won't be right again for months...btdt.

Forget that the shortcut between your house & the beer store runs right through the parking lot of the cop shop....

 

Thankfully, there aren't many things that one needs to forget, as your mind will do the forgetting for you. Problems arise when you try to remember what it was that you forgot; just let it go, your mind forgot it for a reason.

 

Another great post PB. I really have to work on 3 and 8. The others I'm good with but I find that I let 3 sometimes actually prevent me from tripping even when I want to because I worry too much about possibly being "bored" (as if you could?) or deciding halfway through the trip that I don't like my setting/surroundings and getting stuck there... bah. Always worrying that without an arsenal of carefully planned trip activities and backup ideas, it's not going to be the best it can be instead of just fuckin' doing it!

 

damn double post, see below

 

One helpful thing to do is to focus your mind on the upsides of every setting, keeps you from entering into a panic attack over some perceived imperfection in your surroundings. I.e, the color of the carpet on the floor... sounds simple, but really upset me one time (not with lucy, but oral DMT) but it still can happen with any of the psychedelics... just stay positive, don't get hung up on anything you don't like.