A question about psychedelics.

[Meteva]

Have any of you had an experience with psychedelics (any kind, including research chemicals) that made you question your mental stablility?

Any trip that particularly stands out that seems to have changed a major part of your life?

Just curious.

[GFSummoner]

Isn't that the nature of psychedelics: to alter perception and consciousness?

Through psychedelics I've realized how I wanted to live my life and what I wanted to fill my life with (love and light and joy), instead of holding on to any shortcomings that I have felt or experienced.

Psychedelics also were instrumental in finishing off the vestiges of major depression that I had. It was very ritualistic, looking back on it now.

[DXnobodyX]

GFSummoner

(love and light and joy)

lol

[Gackts_Massacred_Angel]

Hallucinogens are bombass.

They've really changed my entire way of thinking. They've taken me to a realm that I never knew existed and I was able to envision and feel things that I was never able to experience before. You realize more what life is really about and what you are capable of experiencing and then you want to learn more about how existence functions.

I haven't had any in a while, but I still remember the things I'd seen. There were times where I was laying in bed and I was so deep into a trip that I was so sure I was dead. I was completely convinced that I had begun living a new life in a totally different element and realm, and had forgotten the fact that I was ever alive to begin with. It just didn't matter at that point anymore. Everything looked different, felt different. You're ready to experience this new existence. But then you come back. And it all disintegrates into a memory of a life you probably never really lived. But it sure feels real at the time.

[Meteva]

Well said c:
I agree, they can and have been very spiritual.

[krndngr]

GFSummoner

Isn't that the nature of psychedelics: to alter perception and consciousness?

Yes, but it is also the nature of every other drug.

[Love Muffin88]

Meteva

Have any of you had an experience with psychedelics (any kind, including research chemicals) that made you question your mental stablility?

Any trip that particularly stands out that seems to have changed a major part of your life?

Just curious.

Why yes. Yes I have lol Acid was fun, but I don't think I wanna do that again. Thought I was gonna lose my mind. Me and my friends literally walked ALL over the city of Charlotte. We were like super human. LOL! We went down the stairs into a park, and had to hold onto each other because we were melting into the stairs. One friend walking thru a drive thru(apparently you aren't supposed to do that). Fun times.

Shrooms are fun. Won't make you as crazy as acid. I'd recommend for people to not do either by themselves.

[GFSummoner]

krndngr

GFSummoner

Isn't that the nature of psychedelics: to alter perception and consciousness?

Yes, but it is also the nature of every other drug.

not really. aspirin does not affect perception. only psychoactive substances and psychedelics would count to affect consciousness.

[krndngr]

GFSummoner

krndngr

GFSummoner

Isn't that the nature of psychedelics: to alter perception and consciousness?

Yes, but it is also the nature of every other drug.

not really. aspirin does not affect perception. only psychoactive substances and psychedelics would count to affect consciousness.

And that is why aspirin is not a recreational drug. stare

[Iris Trip]

GFSummoner

krndngr

GFSummoner

Isn't that the nature of psychedelics: to alter perception and consciousness?

Yes, but it is also the nature of every other drug.

not really. aspirin does not affect perception. only psychoactive substances and psychedelics would count to affect consciousness.

Aspiring affects the perception of pain. Boom. Invalidated you.

Some people use other painkillers, such as vicodin, recreationally.

Psychadelics are really a mixed back, and many of them are all slightly different in the nature of the trip. But really it depends on the context of the drug use. How are you feeling at the time, do you feel safe and secure, are you around people you trust.

Sure. The trip I might've had with a few friends led to my girlfriend of the time cheating on me and then later breaking up with me without me knowing she cheated.
It was a very mixed bag for me. 2/5 good, 3/5 bad.

[GFSummoner]

Iris Trip

so you're calling aspirin a psychedelic now? I don't see how that invalidates me since, clearly your understanding about the different classes of drugs are not concise enough to generate a substantial discussion. Recreational drug use encompasses more than just psychedelics.

Traditional psychedelics operate within the 5-HT receptors and other related receptors of the brain affecting serotonin production; and by definition, affect the central nervous by crossing the blood-brain barrier. In contrast, aspirint affects prostaglandin production primarily through an enzymatic interaction.

Perception is a vast subject. In this sense, the perception mentioned with psychedelic substances refers to an interior view of self and and exterior view of environment. Pain perception would be referring to a different set of receptors and not heavily associated with psychedelics.

[Yevpraksiya]

The only hard psychedelics I've ever tried were shrooms. Dumbest s**t I've ever done. I didn't feel anything new or different. It was like any other natural psychotic episode I've had other than the visual disturbances and my complete inability to focus, which made the s**t worse. I didn't learn anything and all the hard work I did to build my wall back around my ego and consciousness was destroyed. It was an unnecessary trauma. I think it killed my soul or at least seriously damaged it. I've never felt so dead before in my entire life.
The only thing that stands out or that I even remember clearly in any sense was while I was laying down with my eyes closed. I suddenly had a closed eye visual of a light being sucked into itself and vanishing, leaving only a black void. I jumped up screaming and crying because I believed in that instance my soul had died and left me. I am now even more disturbed than I was before. neutral

[Meteva]

Yevpraksiya

The only hard psychedelics I've ever tried were shrooms. Dumbest s**t I've ever done. I didn't feel anything new or different. It was li... neutral

Damn, reminds me of my first bad trip. Sorry that had to be your first (maybe last?) experience, and I hope you find peace in your head after what happened.

[MistressEnvy]

I will admit that I've done mushrooms, LSD, and 2ce, and MDMA.

With each expierence different from the other, every time I come out of a trip I look at the world differently. Psychedelics have been used for centuries for many differnt reasons from spiritural to recorational.

I've expierenced that when I trip I'm more in tune with my innerself, nature, everything around me. It's difficult to explain really, I know that everything is beautiful, you can feel everything, I don't know like I said it's diffcult to explain. Psychedelics open your mind to things that you never would have imiganed.

[MistressEnvy]

Gackts_Massacred_Angel

Hallucinogens are bombass.

They've really changed my entire way of thinking. They've taken me to a realm that I never knew existed and I was able to envision and feel things that I was never able to experience before. You realize more what life is really about and what you are capable of experiencing and then you want to learn more about how existence functions.

I haven't had any in a while, but I still remember the things I'd seen. There were times where I was laying in bed and I was so deep into a trip that I was so sure I was dead. I was completely convinced that I had begun living a new life in a totally different element and realm, and had forgotten the fact that I was ever alive to begin with. It just didn't matter at that point anymore. Everything looked different, felt different. You're ready to experience this new existence. But then you come back. And it all disintegrates into a memory of a life you probably never really lived. But it sure feels real at the time.

I was basically getting what what you said I just used different words. The last time I did psychedelic was around the summer time of last year. I ate about a half of mushrooms and went on an adventure of a life time. Probably one of the most intense trips I've ever expierenced besides on 2ce...I thought that I was an indian running around the woods. I thougt that the people around me were indians as well. I thought that I was in a different reality you could say.