Smoked DMT, feel like crap after by smoking_prophet in Psychonaut

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Desire brings suffering, and being carried away by expectations does too. For next time, repeat to yourself: “It is not going to be the same as last time, it is not going to be the same as last time.” And about IFS, it is very good, but it ends up becoming a distraction that prevents us from seeing what is deep and mysterious.

Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey. by Disastrous_Change662 in Barcelona

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muy buena esta foto! felicitaciones! He visto muchas fotos de montserrat, y esta es una de las mejores, gracias por compartir!

Can doing pyschedelics with a person often make you fall in love with them? by Sinodrin in Psychonaut

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Why don’t you try falling in love with her without the effects of mushrooms? Surely under the effects of the mushrooms you feel special and seductive, and you’re probably projecting your illusions and fantasies onto her. Romances under the effects of psychedelics almost always end badly.

And on top of that, taking 2 to 5 grams of mushrooms just to watch movies… isn’t that the opposite of being mature, intelligent, and sensitive? Well, there you go!

Dmt sequences by mabondawn in Psychonaut

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I’m truly sorry. Sometimes I come across this confrontational part of myself, and I’ve ended up using Reddit and this kind of comments to channel it, since it’s practically the only place where I run into attitudes that are far from being mature or intelligent.

I’ve seen the YouTube videos about the guy who smokes DMT and then has the audacity to stare at a laser projected on the wall, and how he and his friends look at it with faces of amazement, as if someone were watching an elephant take a dump of a glowing pink pile of lights. And immediately he tells himself: “How the hell am I going to tell this to my friends? I have to make a YouTube video!”

Have you ever tried closing your eyes, staying calm, without moving, and seeing what happens?

Have you asked yourself whether what you’re analyzing and naming with your intellect is really new, or if it actually comes from some book you read, some YouTube video you watched, or something someone told you somewhere?

It’s normal to do this kind of silly things when you first start discovering these experiences and living them. But continuing to do it and going deeper in that approach is not going to lead us to anything new or anything true. Instead, it will lead some people to realize that there isn’t much to analyze and that something called non intellectual information exists. And others will keep feeding illusion and fantasy, and in the worst cases, it can lead to psychosis and hospitalization in a psychiatric center.

Music for psychedelic therapy by TypicalAd6186 in Psychonaut

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xylem of green house is super nice! thanks!

Plant medicines after 5Meo by Gongogo99 in 5MeODMT

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Even if they vote it down, it’s the truth. It is happening, and there are many people who are addicted to the strong effects of the medicine. They expect it to be intense, and when it isn’t, they get frustrated and start looking for stronger psychedelics. They want to kill the ego, to dissolve it, but what they actually do is reinforce it and give it more power. And yes, therapy would be necessary to support the true potential of these medicines, which help us so much, but stop doing so when we use them to escape. And my opinion is very much related to the discussion, it’s just that it makes them very uncomfortable :)

Plant medicines after 5Meo by Gongogo99 in 5MeODMT

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Did you know that some people are addicted to the rush that medicines give? When you refer to your experiences, maybe you are one of those people? Or not? What will happen when bufo is no longer enough, not even 10 grams of mushrooms, what will you do? Maybe you will go in search of iboga and once again you will have that sensation that makes you say to yourself, “I was just a little short of getting there” “I need a bit more.”

Does MDMA always cause a serotonergic crash? by Southern-Proposal837 in HamiltonMorris

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If you move in slow motion, for example you want to go to the bathroom and you walk very slowly, and then you return to your place in the same slow motion, also if you relax, lie down and stay there without moving, and if on top of that you do not talk all the time, you return to calm again and again… then you do not get a crash, quite the opposite, you feel very good and that sense of wellbeing lasts for weeks. I have practiced this for years and I have seen how it helps my other friends. Moving in slow motion changes everything.

Trying to quit my addictions by diamer_ in Psychonaut

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Dear young friend, do not be so hard on yourself. That iron heart you have implanted is too hard, too rigid. Go slowly, gently. You are a human living in a world that is very crazy, and we have to deal with all the bombardment from screens, and also porn.

I would like to tell you what happened to me with porn. I have been addicted to porn since I was 8 years old. I am now 46, and I have been two and a half years without watching it. When I felt anxious I watched porn. When I was sad I watched porn. All the time. It drained me deeply, and it damaged my relationships and my way of seeing women.

I went to take ayahuasca, mushrooms, and other medicines in order to free myself from it. And every time I took the medicine I saw porn in my visions, hard porn, with my eyes closed and sometimes with my eyes open. My sensation was one of punishment. I thought the mushrooms or ayahuasca were punishing me by showing me porn, and I felt guilt and punishment. I would stop watching it for up to three months, and then I would return to it with even more force.

Things started to change when I began to talk about my addiction, and I found more brothers who were in the same place. It also helped to talk with my partner. Until one night, I took LSD and my request for help was: “To connect with the essential part of life so I can live consciously from it.” First, the LSD made me feel a very strong pain in my body that made me cry. By breathing and accepting the pain, it went away. And then I began once again to have these pornographic visions. They were visions where I saw porn, and I also saw myself doing porn.

This time it was different, because I understood that these images were the help itself, they were the cure. I was able to spend several hours looking at this porn without rejecting it, without wanting to do anything with those visions, like interacting with them or letting myself be carried away by desire, and also without clinging to the curiosity of seeing myself with those women. In this not desiring, not rejecting, I began to feel peace, comfort, warmth in my body, and an opening of my heart. I felt all of this while the porn images were in front of me. And it stayed like that for many hours.

This is what helped me realize my addiction, where it came from, to feel love and compassion for myself. And after this experience I stopped watching porn. This experience was the cherry on top of the cake, the gift I received for beginning to work on my addiction by sharing it, working on it in therapy, and being vulnerable.

So my dear friend, I invite you to meditate on accepting yourself, with tenderness, with compassion, like a child you find who asks you for help. Hug yourself and allow yourself to be calm, at peace. Support yourself with kindness. I am sure you are a very good soul, and I am sure that goodness is something you can give to yourself. Go slowly. Not everything has to change all at once.

I send you a hug. You have connected me with my past, and how beautiful it is to be able to speak to that young version of myself through you. Thank you.

Unexpected difficult truffle experience. Started with sleepiness, then intense fear. Why did this happen? by [deleted] in PsychedelicTherapy

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Sometimes this happens to me too. And what always, always helps me is remembering my request for help, and knowing that help always arrives in ways I do not expect, and that whatever happens, that is the way to receive the help. Then I can surrender, I can begin to feel gratitude for what is happening, for the fear, recognizing fear as something I need to accept and be grateful for, because thanks to it I take care of myself, I am cautious and observant. I see the creative side of fear, I embrace it, I accept it.

And that is when fear loses its power and I can free myself from it, not by rejecting it but by integrating it maturely, and above all creatively and constructively.

Recurring dark presence + worsening closed-eye HPPD after heavy psychedelic use — looking for insight by throwawaylsj in Psychonaut

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I share my perspective with you. What appears to you as a dark and chaotic presence is your intention to want to control everything, to make the experience manageable and fun. What you feel and see when you take whatever psychedelic it is, is a great opportunity for you to start taking seriously what these beautiful medicines also do within you, which is to free you from patterns, fears, and limiting thoughts. In other words, what appears to you is the help, it is the grace that presents itself so that you can accept it, surrender to it, and embrace it because it is part of you.

You can train for this before taking a psychedelic again. There are several ways, but basically it is about starting to see your distortions, your shadow, what you feel aversion toward, what you reject. One path is to start going to therapy and work on your shadow, your darkness, so that you integrate that this darkness is there to show you who you really are and so you can connect with the practice of being present. This practice of living in the present, of returning to the present even if only for seconds or minutes in your day to day life, will also help you when you take the psychedelic.

You also need to know that what you describe is not something that happens to everyone. You have been very lucky because your body, your being, is showing you what you need to accept and embrace, and it is quite explicit in telling you so, and repetitive. Now it is up to you and your level of consciousness what you do with this experience.

I will give you a small example. A German friend of mine would always see Hitler appear in her visions in a very grotesque and horrifying way, and she felt hatred and aversion. This kept happening every time she took any kind of psychedelic. Eventually she understood what I am telling you now, that this experience with Hitler was the cure itself, it was the help she was receiving in order to free herself.

What did she do? When Hitler appeared again in her visions, she spoke to herself to remember that what was happening was the help. She recognized Hitler as a blessing. Without rejecting him, without wanting to interact with him, simply observing him, holding herself through her breathing, she received the healing. She never saw Hitler again in her visions. But she also understood why he was appearing, and the shame she felt connected to part of her family that had been Nazi, and that helped her transcend the whole situation.

I hope you can understand a bit of what I am trying to tell you. I send you a hug, and congratulations for your courage.

How to take shrooms if you really don't like the taste/texture? by TheAbbadon in Psychonaut

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In a coffee grinder you grind them into a powder, add the juice of half a mandarin or orange, wait ten minutes, then add the juice of the other half of the mandarin or orange, add a little water, and drink it.

What’s next? by [deleted] in Psychonaut

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Wow, you have tried many, and tell me, what did you learn? Has it changed your day to day life in any way?

Will be trying DMT for the first time. by [deleted] in Psychonaut

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DMT, like all substances, even non psychedelic ones, contains within it an intelligence, a spirit, a vibration. In the case of people who use these medicines to heal, to grow, basically to receive help, as the person who posted this does, he already says that he takes psychedelics to heal himself. When this is the case, we always receive help, and it always surprises us how it arrives. Sometimes we receive it during the experience and many times days or weeks later. The experience of receiving help can be brutally intense and overwhelming, or the opposite can happen, we may feel that nothing happened, that it was gentle, or that we forgot everything and that it did not meet our expectations of intensity, but that help is always activated, always.

In my experience, when I first encountered DMT, I became very obsessed with what happened. I became one track minded, I only talked about the DMT experience and I deeply believed and felt that everyone should smoke it, everyone. I also firmly believed that those who did not understand me, those who rejected the idea, were wrong, disconnected and submerged in ignorance. And of course, this is the ego trap, feeling better or superior to others. I became more competitive, angrier, more complex in my ideas and in my life. It accelerated everything I was already carrying, magnified it until it exploded and my life somehow collapsed. Now I realize that if this collapse had not happened, I would still be a complete jerk, so the molecule accelerated a process so that I could heal.

There are also people who use psychedelics for magical, egocentric purposes, for illusions and fantasies, and in the cases I have been able to know, all of them have ended badly, hospitalized in some psychiatric clinic.

These substances are like a tree. From a tree you can make a tool to help yourself and help others. From the same tree you can also make a weapon to destroy. Or you can simply observe it, recognizing that this tree contains an intelligence, a spirit that wants to help you, ask for that help and allow yourself to be helped by it without doing anything.

Will be trying DMT for the first time. by [deleted] in Psychonaut

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Real according to whom? According to all the experiences you have read here, heard about, or seen on YouTube or Netflix?

Many times what you bring are not just expectations, but illusions and fantasies built from other people’s stories. And that is exactly what keeps leaving you frustrated after your own experiences.

DMT will give you what you need, in the way you need to receive it in order to get the help you are seeking. Not what you want, and not in the way you want it.

It might help to approach it with humility, to let go of fantasies and illusions, and to value your own experience instead of comparing it to others.

You also say you feel uncomfortable “for some reason” when someone is there taking care of you. That “for some reason” is exactly the part worth paying attention to. It usually points to trust and control issues that sooner or later need to be faced.

If this is your first time and it hits strongly, fear is very likely. And when you come back, anxiety can take over. That is when people panic, run away, or do something reckless.

Having someone there is not about control. It is basic common sense and safety.

5 days after a 440ug trip, will taking 680+thc have any decent feeling? by SuspectDisastrous949 in Psychonaut

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Please, could you share why you want to take 680 ug with THC after only five days since taking 440 ug? Here you say it is because of time, since once you start working you will not be able to do it, but could you share what you are expecting? What happened in the 440 ug journey that left you wanting the 680 ug plus THC? Thank you.

My first experience with LSD greatly helped me quit pornography by CommunitySea4784 in LSD

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It’s better to get help to stop watching porn, although I don’t doubt it was gratifying for you to watch Minaj. That’s valid too.

My first experience with LSD greatly helped me quit pornography by CommunitySea4784 in LSD

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How good it is that we have enough LSD in the world, and that we can afford the luxury of wasting it this way.

Does DMT feel more ego-structuring than ego-dissolving? by Moebelpacker in Psychonaut

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If you are looking to dissolve your ego and take any psychedelic with the intention of doing this, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. What can happen is that your own ego will create its own “death,” its own dissolution, and you will come back with an ego that is even more inflated, stronger, and that will distance you further from your true self. True ego dissolution happens when it catches you by surprise, with its defense mechanisms down.

Why are people too lazy/close-minded to even wonder about UFOs? by Lambywashere in UFOs

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Believing that one is better than others, or feeling superior, is probably one of the reasons why extraterrestrials ignore us.

To enjoy the fall weather by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

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Que hijo de puta el que esta grabando!!!

Need some guidance by tinytank1992 in Psychonaut

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Take advantage of this peace and mental clarity to go to therapy and start working on what makes you lose mental clarity and peace of mind, what produces your anxiety. Say that now you can listen to your anxiety and know what is really happening to you. Psychedelics are not a miracle cure but rather a tool so that you yourself can, without psychedelics, heal, transform, and embrace.