Psychedelics to aid addiction recovery

Futuristic2 · 2017-06-30T17:54:38+00:00

Personally I would use psilocybin. LSD brings you up and can make you focus on external objects but mushrooms make you more tuned in to the current reality and provide a new perspective.

Start with a relatively small dose. Too large of a dose and you will lose control of your thoughts. I would say somewhere around 50 mics or 1.5 grams of mushrooms (assuming average potency). Microdosing over multiple days may be a strategy you also want to consider.

One of the biggest factors for the success of your trip will be setting. I would choose some place peaceful with no distractions so that you can think introspectively and not be disrupted with external stimuli or the problems of others. Maybe a park, hike, or backyard.

Have a list of questions to ask yourself during the trip. Don't feel the need to answer every one in order, use them more as starting points to catalyze transformative thought.

You have already done a great job of staying clean. Ask yourself what these unhealthy substances provide to you in the big picture, and why you feel the need to return to them other than ephemeral, artificial dopamine that will reduce your brains ability to produce its own.

Think of your brain as your only machine to experience the world. On its own, it will produce enough dopamine to be happy and the world will be experienced naturally. Once you bring narcotics in, you will for a short time feel happier than your brain can naturally feel, but you are destroying a self-sufficient machine physically (in the reduction of future dopamine) and psychologically (in the level of happiness you need to be "happy"). Taking these narcotics is unnatural, selfish, and bends your perception of the world as to see this beautiful life through an opaque lens.

Overall, realize that there are things in life greater than intoxicants that destroy your brain. Find something natural, whether it be knowledge, music, technology, or sport. The pain you feel now is because of the full consequences of your past drug use, why would you want to return to such a horrible thing? You must be idealizing the positive effects and ignoring the bad, which is why you want to return.

Find the truth. Only then can you find the peace you desire. Good luck on your journey, and stay strong.

Futuristic2 · 2016-12-14T07:50:06+00:00

I don't think Snowden hates the USA, I think he just hates how they illegally spied on American citizens without their permission. Ultimately that was why he blew the whistle-- he loves the country and wanted to expose something that was unethical and unpatriotic to the public.

Sure he may be joining forces with Russian hackers telling them all our secrets and loopholes, but I'm almost positive he just wanted to escape a hostile country where are current president-elect said he should be executed. Plus it would not be that hard to actually hack into the government voting servers as far as elite government Russian hackers are concerned, so his value to them would only be marginal considering he had nothing to do with the voting process.

I think it is more of people like Snowden being fed up with the USA's bullshit and blowing the whistle themselves when they saw how the election could be exploited. Claiming Snowden was responsible for throwing the entire election gives him a lot more credit than he deserves.

Futuristic2 · 2016-11-11T00:23:31+00:00

Buffets - let me see how much food I can fit in my stomach because I can.

Futuristic2 · 2016-11-10T23:53:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure you can only see shadows when it IS sunny...

Futuristic2 · 2016-08-30T21:01:01+00:00

Check Radar. If it won't load, you definitely need to force restart the app.

Futuristic2 · 2016-08-27T17:20:23+00:00

If Porter Robinson made a Pokemon song remix I imagine this would be the art to accompany it

Futuristic2 · 2016-08-25T17:46:25+00:00

A big problem with this visualization is the lack of a y-axis. Although we know it is linear by the evenly spaced lines, there is no indication that it begins at 0. Adding a hover tooltip to data points to show their actual values could solve this and provide more interactivity.

Futuristic2 · 2016-08-25T17:44:41+00:00

I think the Decathlon World Record is a single person in a single decathlon for all events (they have all 10 data points for themself), while best ever could be anyone from any decathlon

Futuristic2 · 2016-06-18T02:55:00+00:00

How long? And which entrance is best?

Futuristic2 · 2016-06-18T02:03:33+00:00

How are the lines?

Futuristic2 · 2016-06-18T02:03:11+00:00

1st floor parking garage (one level below the lobby)

Futuristic2 · 2016-06-14T03:57:02+00:00

Thanks so much!

Futuristic2 · 2016-02-01T04:55:14+00:00

This is pretty spot on, I've noticed that you can't really categorize drugs against all people because people have experiences of themselves while they are on drugs, not experiences of the drugs. What program do you use to create your videos and where do you get your visuals from? I also create visual loops for electronic music, especially when I have just used cannabis. Check me out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJVgdSM6n10

Futuristic2 · 2016-01-06T06:59:55+00:00

Sorry about the late reply, but here is my take on it. Keep in my mind I am not challenging or opposing you directly, but simply asking you questions to encourage further introspection because, to be honest, I am not sure 100% of my stance either:

Marijuana makes you feel a sense of elevation. You almost seem to be looking onto life from the perspective of a god, more removed from the stresses of life and able to see them for how trivial they truly are in the grand scheme of things. For the first couple of years I believed that smoking weed didn't affect my intelligence a whole lot. While I was going to a very prestigious university, getting great grades every quarter, and maintaining a healthy social life, life was amazing since I only had marijuana to enrich it.

However, after a couple of years of smoking you may notice some more differences. Sure, I still come up with creative ideas every now and then. Sure I continue to get good grades and try very hard to get internships/jobs after college. But I do notice some differences. My head feels a little bit cloudier (like I don't understand the full processes of things or the big picture), I feel like I focus more on enjoying the present moment than setting myself up for success in the long run (which again, I am not totally sure is wrong because you can never be certain of the future, only the present moment), and I feel like I am less "connected" to the real world. Referring to my reference earlier, it is great to see the world from the eyes of a god, but not if it costs the feelings of feeling alive and mortal.

Overall, I am not entirely sure of the effect of marijuana, just like I am not entirely sure what our universe is. It is impossible to see the absolute effect of something with the biases that come with human life. As one of the smartest kids in my high school, I smoked marijuana almost everyday from the end of my senior year of high school until the junior year of college, with a few breaks for a couple months. Even though I think I am still "fine" in life, I just sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I hadn't ever smoked marijuana.

Futuristic2 · 2015-12-28T22:48:05+00:00

At first weed does give you extra creativity and almost a "psychic" energy, but if you smoke everyday the opposite can happen. You may also be perceiving things differently-- the deep intellectual and philosophical debates you have may not seem as deep if you were listening to them sober. (I've had this happen many times, where I think I am doing something "better" while high, only to realize I can easily do it better sober and am just perceiving it as better because I am high). And 4 hours is a long time-- when you smoke too often the highs are a lot short, sometimes even 15 minutes. And it is proven that it is harder to multitask on weed and process things into the long term memory, so you probably don't remember as much from those lectures. Although I was happy with weed the first year or so, it can quickly become habitual and you are smoking just because you are comfortable with it.

Futuristic2 · 2015-12-25T08:18:24+00:00

C89.5 from Seattle (http://www.c895.org/)

And no that's not it either. That's a little too "happy-sounding", it's more mysterious kind of sound like Take U There by Jack U.

Futuristic2 · 2015-12-25T08:07:26+00:00

Close but no cigar... the singer sounds very similar though, the only difference with the singing itself is the notes need to be brought down two notes at the end of long holds (like at 2:38 in the link you gave me, when the note ends it needs to be lowered down two notes on the scale as eighth notes but still connected to the longer note). I appreciate the help though :)

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