Psychedelic Bump XXXIV

Details, please.

 

Bump for my first dab. I did 1 large hit and felt like I was on a potent edible or like one of my first times smoking pot.

I found my thoughts were fairly clouded, often juxtaposing intended meanings in my head, leaving me somewhat stagnant or slowed in response. Interestingly, it made me aware of how pattern accustomed we are in dialogue, something which I initially was kind of turned off by, but then came to the realization that that is an aspect of character.

There was a refreshing sense of wonder which I got from the experience, reminding me of early Pot highs and something I didn't get from Ketamine over the weekend. The sense of wonder is probably best utilized outside with a picturesque backdrops or my favorite music/entertainment on but I decide to kind of gauge where I'm at with some coding stuff, which much like the juxtaposition of thoughts felt both frustrating and fascinating.

My vision was softened with very light visual distortions persisting, particularly around lights and defined border edges. There was an interpretive aspect to these distortions but I didn't spend much time staring at the walls to see how complex they developed and I could mostly ignore them if I so chose.

I found dabbing fairly remarkable in regards to the amount I smoked(dabbed) for the trip it delivered. Due to the intensity and whole setup it has, it's not something I really desire to do with much frequency but several people I've talked with have talked highly of it and I'm glad I finally got to explore it.

 

bump for 150 mgs MDMA + Weed

 

Bump for ketamine last night, for the first time in 3 years. Feels good man.

Mixed it with 75mL of green dragon (may have been a bit more), which by the concentration I made it should be about 2 grams of oral cannabis, plus a fair bit more smoked. Decent combo.

I'd like to try making absinthe, followed by nitrous infusion of the absinthe with cannabis. That should make a slightly more psychedelic drink..

 

30 mg mxe at a one night forest party. Not really a psychedelic bump - more like an inebriated state with a psychedelic tinge - but maybe the psychedelic part was was due to hanging out with some psychedelic people. Anyway, a very good time. I spent the night before the party at the venue with one other person - coyotes howling and yipping all night.

It feels like it's going to be a good festival season.

 

The transition or "update" of this forum cost a lot of posters. What other forums do people post on similar to this?

Terrence McKenna said dying without having had psychedelic experience is like dying without having had sex. I'd add rolling to that.

 

I've never liked that quote much. I get where he's coming from, but personally I think the psychedelic experience touches on something more common to all of humanity than a trip. Religion, meditation etc. can bring you to a similar place.

But I think I've mentioned this on HF before and no one agreed with me. Either way, it sounds like you had a pleasurable roll recently

 

The quote is in terms of equating the experiential aspects of such experiences. McKenna likely meant Psychedelic experience in a strict context of Psychedelic Drugs, rather than other modes of attaining higher states of awareness, but if you were to include meditation and the like, wouldn't that still make the quote appropriate?

The dissolution of self and experience inside the realm of knowing the ineffable is an appropriate comparison being made here.

 

Oh agreed, I actually never did consider it to be "psychedelic experience", but I have rather read it is psychedelic drug experiences.

My issue with this quote may stem from the kinds of people I see using it who set the psychedelic drug experience on some sort of pedestal. Personally, my trips have shown me that I am more like everyone else than I ever thought before tripping. And plenty of people seem to use their trips to drive a wedge between " us" and "them", followed by backing it up with this quote from McKenna.

Not trying to take a shot at you TM, although it may have come off that way.. I need to stop browsing HF early in the mornings, lol.

 

sounds pretty sweet. i mean, as long as the coyotes were keeping a fair distance
you could always crank up the music loud enough to scare them away

yeah it seems like that lost us a lot of members, but some of them might just have busy lives/not trip anymore. but still it would be cool to hear from them - ahem, mr. writer

only other forum sorta like this i know is bluelight

 

I think dying without having ever had something on par with 5 grams of psilocybin is an injustice to myself. I've just been playing in shallow waters really. I guess my highest, but not necessarily the strongest was 42mg 4-AcO-DMT and 30mg 2c-e (separate times). I just came to this idea most strongly recently and am determined to follow through with it.....

 

Yeah, I'm sure McKenna meant psychedelic plant or fungus or drug experience. I place great importance on psychedelic experiences. They changed the course of my life in profound ways and I'm grateful.

One thing about tripping - it leads kind of inevitably to the idea that each person gets to do their own trip. That's a pretty nice way to be, I think!

 

Bump for 3 grams of Psilocybin Mushrooms

 

Wow! What a wonderful trip. I got some quality visuals, good introspection and a giggling fit brought on by my ceiling fan "coming to life". There was a lot of yonic symbolism that came to mind, a very dreamy and relaxed experience that has left me with yawns (still) and a pleasurable afterglow.

 

The highest I've gone is 5.5g, and one piece of advice I can offer is to not dose in a public park known for public security presence with a big group of other people fucked up on mushrooms. It would have been more pleasurable without the sketchiness, but it was a good trip nonetheless. Definitely a worthwhile experience, but a bit of a high dose for being in public.

I too am extremely grateful for my psychedelic experiences. I wonder what life would be like without them. At this point it has been so long ago that I started using psychedelics.. I think it will have been 8 years ago since my first trip this summer. I sometimes take it for granted that everyone sees things through the same paisely-tinted glasses, but they probably don't. Nothing to be done about it now anyway


On another note, bump for 25mg of aMT yesterday and seeing Andrew Bird live.

I dosed about 30min before getting to the venue and by the time we got there I was coming up lightly. By the time the opening act came on, about 75min after dosing, I was coming up decently hard, and I was very happy to trade the sound of everyone talking around me for some loud music.
The opening act was okay, very droney type music which wasn't quite my style. I definitely felt some hardcore yawning coming on during that part of the show, and for a little while I was thinking heavily about sleep. I guess it was a yawning type of tripping day, haha.
One odd thing was that I got far more temperature swings than I usually do while coming up. By the time the openers started I literally had sweat pouring down my face, which is unusual for me. Not sure what that was about..

During the opener, I was getting anxious about waiting for the change between the opening and main act, during which it would go back to people talking all around. By the time the openers ended, though, I realized that most of the anxiety was in my mind when thinking about the future. I laughed at my silliness and suddenly felt a lot more "in the moment".

Finally, Andrew Bird came on, and I must say that he is a very decent act to see while tripping. Some musicians seem very tight, and on some sort of high horse. But he was joking with the crowd, very at ease up on stage and extremely fun to watch. The visuals were amazing, very liquid and flowing. Lots of red and blue tinges to the visuals, especially later at night when I was lying in a dark room and listening to some music.

My only complaint would be the long, long duration. It took me 4 hours of lying in the dark to finally fall asleep, and I did have obligations today. Extremely pleasurable afterglow however. I really don't get how 25mg was so strong. I've done 50mg orally before, and it was nowhere near as strong as this trip was. My only thoughts are that my scale could be broken, or something to do with oxidation of this batch.

Either way, that gave me some new respect for aMT. I always considered it to be a bit of a "soft" psychedelic, or perhaps candy would be a better description, but it isn't to be taken as lightly as I once thought.

 

I know I posted the 3 hour prequel, but not sure if I ever posted its successor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MG5gFtZ3U8

The guy's channel has some great vids and even his own music which I really enjoy.

 

You can get to the same places with meditation and psychedelics in my opinion. But the psychedelic is the guaranteed short cut for everyone. Really mastering meditation like that takes practice and not everyone will manage it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdxWhKxpF8

 

I personally never got there with meditation - for one thing, I already had psychedelics! Would I have practiced meditation if I hadn't taken psychedelics? Probably not. I work hard in some ways, but in others am lazy, spiritual discipline being one of them.

Haha, but psychedelics aren't a path for the faint of heart!!!

 

Bump for 200 mgs MDMA

 

Anyone have any experience with a single dose of MDMA in the ~ 400 mgs - 500 mgs range?


I'm curious to how hard that is physically?

Last night, I had some super cool overlaps from my computer and alarm, they both looked holographic and I had some mescaline-esque pattern formations on my blanket.

I think 500 mgs is the maximum dose I'd consider given the nature of the drug but I kind of want to push those boundaries to see where it goes.