EPOCH6

I had a fairly wealthy 30-something year old classmate in university who went on a 3 month ayahuasca / datura retreat in the Amazon jungle with some dreadlocked hippie tour guides immediately after he graduated. His rationale was that he wanted to experience something drastic and overwhelming to cleanse his mind of years of monotony and dry electronics / physics research. I think the longer people get stuck in a daily grind the more they build a desire to do something peculiar, alienating, or dangerous, I suppose it provides a sort of mental punctuation for transitioning from one chapter of your life to another.

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DwnWthVwls

Yeh I get it, it's just the effects didn't sound like fun drug stuff. Ayahuasca sounds like it would be wayyyy better if you wanted something that mind altering. To each their own I guess, I'd love to try some extreme psychedelic but I don't think I'd handle it well with my anxiety.

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EPOCH6

Psychedelics do have some history of being used experimentally to treat PTSD and anxiety in patients. There's a broad spectrum of experience for all psychedelics entirely dependent on dosage size. I couldn't imagine any possible way to psychologically rattle yourself on 1 - 2 grams of mushrooms. There are a lot of people out there that take 2 gram doses all of the time, even on regular work days, and claim it has magnificent psychological benefits. Lower doses of psilocybin are very comfortable, manageable, and enjoyable. You reap all of the giddy, lighthearted, playful psychological effects without crossing over into hallucinations or sinister runaway thoughts. If you're itching to experiment I'd say that's definitely where you ought to start.

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DwnWthVwls

I have multiple times in the past, acid and shrooms. I stopped when I ate an 1/8th and had a bad trip. Very minor hallucination of a drop ceiling tile floating in the air and moving around instantly set off 4+ hour panic attack that ended with me puking.

I'm sure I could handle a gram or 2 and enjoy that giddy body high still. I just haven't tried it since. Even weed sets me off sometimes which is why I don't smoke nearly as much as I used to.

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EPOCH6

I find strong weed much more intense than small doses of mushrooms. I very rarely smoke weed and can't remember the last time I truly enjoyed it. The bummer is that mushrooms are harder to find and have a lot more stigma attached to them. I've seen people smoke joints next to cops on a regular city street in the middle of the afternoon, you get caught with mushrooms you're ****ed.

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Mondo Bungle

Deadly nightshade is a poison. Weird right?

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simplephysics

I use to smoke that K2 ****, and one night after too many hits I thought my body was shutting down. I had to call my boyfriend so he could talk me out of it. That was the last time I ever touched the stuff. It's definitely bad news.

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GuD

Datura is supposed to be like PCP- it's something only a very few particular minds can handle. I don't remember if it was Datura or DMT laced in the weed I was smoking with those streets kids on new years eve but I remember them talking about it very clearly. The girl, I thik her ame was Gibby, was a tripper-extraordinaire and had done both PCP and Datura and said it changed her life forever. She was convinced she was alive in an infinite amount of other dimensions and that when she died she the part of her mind in this dimension would morph/be distributed to every other dimension's minds. It was some heavy ****.

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Chula Vista

I was one of the grooms at a wedding along side a groom cop. We got totally f*cking baked after the reception at an all night house party. Cool dude. Hated busting kids over pot.

Highest I've ever been?

I either passed out and forget or puked my guts into a toilet. Both forgettable.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Mondo Bungle

Scopolamine is a deliriant so the "trip" it produces is just a series of delusions that you think are real. You could be in your kitchen, talking to your pal about how awesome yesterday was, then in a split second you're lying on the floor, totally alone, no one around, and after some thought, you realize that it is yesterday.

PCP is a dissociative with effects much like DXM. Mind and body separate, and while you may be able to see with your body (through your eyes, you know), it's more of an observation to your mind, as opposed to being totally connected. All the hallucinations are there, but it's like a video game. You're controlling this figure from another plane.

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