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What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

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Post by dmos62 »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #145
NickC25 wrote: post #4

Have no idea what variant of LSD I last consumed, but I remember some deep feelings of profound thoughts and self-reflection quite almost instantly when the stuff "hit" (maybe 30-45 minutes after ingestion), I was still cognizant enough to be able to write it all down. Some of what I wrote was indeed stuff I needed to work on in my own life and it was pretty helpful. I then spent the next like 12 hours on my couch re…

> I then spent the next like 12 hours on my couch realizing that the entire concept of time is a manmade construct that is absolutely meaningless and irrelevant in the grand scheme of the universe. People knew this already without taking LSD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9Tc9eRUzU But try having LSD in your brain at random moments and you never know when it is going to happen. That is my life with a mental illne…

Interesting. How has it influenced your life, do you think?

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Post by daneel_w »

ogogmad wrote: post #184
daneel_w wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spare me and others the FUD. I tried salvia after years of reading about people's experiences with it.

I wish tech people would stop using the term "FUD". "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt", or "FUD", is how you don't ruin your life in one shot: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shipscode > I tried salvia after years of reading about people's experiences with it. So it's all about you.

> So it's all about you.

No, it really is about everyone else and not forfeiting their chance to experience something new by dissuading them with misinformation or some cautionary tale about an isolated fate that possibly was not at all about salvia.

I didn't bumble into salvia with no information on hand. I went there after reading about it, its effects, potential risks, chemistry, first-hand experiences etc. for years. A lifetime of side effects is not something associated with salvia.

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Post by refurb »

animal_spirits wrote: post #151
raducu wrote: post #16

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> deep feelings of profound thoughts. I remember dreaming about profound answers and equations about everything and being extatic in my dreams in uni. Then I woke up and wrote down what I dreamt and realize it was just garbage :). The same this one time I was traveling with friends and bought some very dubious hashish and smoked it and I got incredible visuals where I could see, open-eye a matrix of videos starting f…

The brain can mimic the _feeling_ of having had an incredible idea when in reality nothing actually incredible or mind opening has been understood. But some people do indeed have deep realizations, while others just deeply feel the feeling of having had a deep realizations, if that makes sense.

This is very true.

Hallucinogens trigger all sorts of pathways in ways they aren’t triggered in sober life.

I think it’s pretty common to have a mind blowing realization during a trip then once sober realize it wasn’t that mind blowing.

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Post by scns »

morserer wrote: post #88
aeve890 wrote: post #86

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>Take my word for it, Datura and Dramamine aren't worth fucking with. If you are determined not to take my word for it, Dramamine is pretty similar and a lot safer. Dramamine the over-the-counter medicine to treat nausea and motion sickness?

That's the one. You can get all kinds of (very questionable) highs from tons of OTC drugs: diphenhydramine (benadryl/zzzquil), dextromethorphan (Robitussin), doxylamine (NyQuil)...

Dextromethorphan is sometimes combined with Paracetamol where an overdose can kill you.

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Post by yard2010 »

raducu wrote: post #16
NickC25 wrote: post #4

Have no idea what variant of LSD I last consumed, but I remember some deep feelings of profound thoughts and self-reflection quite almost instantly when the stuff "hit" (maybe 30-45 minutes after ingestion), I was still cognizant enough to be able to write it all down. Some of what I wrote was indeed stuff I needed to work on in my own life and it was pretty helpful. I then spent the next like 12 hours on my couch re…

> deep feelings of profound thoughts. I remember dreaming about profound answers and equations about everything and being extatic in my dreams in uni. Then I woke up and wrote down what I dreamt and realize it was just garbage :). The same this one time I was traveling with friends and bought some very dubious hashish and smoked it and I got incredible visuals where I could see, open-eye a matrix of videos starting f…

Are you a person dreaming about being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming about being a person?

It's safe to assume that sleep is the default mode of living, since it predated being awake. That one cell living happily in the ocean long time ago probably slept 24/7.

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Post by yard2010 »

renewiltord wrote: post #107
NickC25 wrote: post #4

Have no idea what variant of LSD I last consumed, but I remember some deep feelings of profound thoughts and self-reflection quite almost instantly when the stuff "hit" (maybe 30-45 minutes after ingestion), I was still cognizant enough to be able to write it all down. Some of what I wrote was indeed stuff I needed to work on in my own life and it was pretty helpful. I then spent the next like 12 hours on my couch re…

This is baffling to me. I recall this comment from the last week but it currently reads "4 hours ago". Algolia also shows it posted "4 days ago". Some sort of reposting functionality? Considering the topic, it made me consider if I was having intense deja vu.

Now how much exactly did you take?

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Post by gloomyday »

daneel_w wrote: post #116

When I was in my 20s I tried salvia ( Salvia divinorum ) several times as tincture and by smoking dried leaves, and I'd like to share my experiences: The first time was with tincture. My entire left body half became intoxicated in the exact same way as when drunk on alcohol. The left half of my body had difficulties with balance, coordination and motor functions. The vision on my left eye was impaired by the eye refu…

Maaan, you reminded me of a LSD trip where my mind felt kind of shattered, in the sense that there were several parts of my brain with different levels of self-conciousness.

It was an incredible experience. I had the "talking part" trying to describe what it was perceiving, while the other parts were mostly surprised they were actually "found." I remember a part was a "major player" like the talking one, but it couldn't express things in words. I remember also a part that focused on fear and a sense of urgency. Wild stuff.

I got out of the trip reconsidering a lot of things about myself. It made me be less focused on my obsessions, and pay more attention to my needs. It is sad I forget so many things from trips like this.

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Post by janderson215 »

dostick wrote: post #218
pineaux wrote: post #212

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There are also other problems: while on acid once I came to a realisation that really changed how I experienced things later on. My realisation was that most of my perceptions of things were really "coloured" by a layer of society. For example, during that trip I found some husks of dead lobsters, that were sundried and quite rotten and gory. But during the trip they were this amazing structure of iridescent crazines…

Did you at any point in the story stared at the lamp, and someone called to you…. And you had a wife and child?

“This is not my beautiful wife…”

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #211
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #182

I feel as if taking LSD makes you temporarily schizophrenic/schizoaffective. i.e. May be fun to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Source: Used to take a lot of it. Been a while. A long, long, while. Used up my quota by the time I was 18.

Well yes, when it was first studied they called it a "model psychosis" because it gave one temporary psychosis which then wore off.

The tipoff is that absolute certainty that you get in your thinking.

It seems as if "the veil has been lifted," and we suddenly "see the connections." Our mind seems sharper, more analytical, etc. Quite compelling.

I remember once, that I wanted to record the "great thoughts" that I had, while tripping, so I kept a notebook nearby, and wrote it all down.

Upon coming down, I read the notebook, expecting to be wowed.

I was. It was pure gibberish.

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Post by smnplk »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #21
guardian5x wrote: post #14

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Isn't that kinda scary? I mean when some parts of your brains don't work or not work properly?

Depends on your attitude. I consider life and reality incredibly, painfully boring. That's why I LOVE alternate states of mind, even if they are scary. Nothing excites me more than the prospect of feeling thing and seeing things I have not experienced before.

Surely you do not want to experience EVERYTHING. It's better to not exist than to experience all the dark things in life. Although, according to my onthological beliefs it's not possible to not exist and therefore I do fear death, not just the process of dying , but death itself. Because there is some uncertainty there.
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