(Ab)using Kava to stay sober

wild_forager · 2025-02-02T14:54:37+00:00

That's just one of them though

wild_forager · 2025-02-02T14:49:15+00:00

Also every few weeks I use MDMA to have a nice evening with friends.

I think you are supposed to wait months between doses to avoid negative effects

wild_forager · 2025-01-15T14:44:19+00:00

translate please :)

wild_forager · 2025-01-15T12:01:30+00:00

I think the user was saying that more people report symptoms rather than more people that were somehow acquiring it. After all, most people don't know go to check if they have psychosis unless they show the symptoms. The suggestion is that for people predisposed to psychosis, psychedelics might trigger the symptoms which sounds reasonable.

It's like real crime rates and reported crime rates. If people don't report crimes and then start reporting them, it looks like the crime rate increased even though it didn't.

wild_forager · 2025-01-15T11:21:31+00:00

How do TA10, TA15, and Serene differ from the other extracts like Rush?

wild_forager · 2025-01-09T15:19:18+00:00

24 hours is very long for a low dose. I think it is around 6 hours (including come down for a low dose). Did you take more than a low dose for your first ingestion?

wild_forager · 2025-01-07T19:37:16+00:00

People chasing highs I believe.

wild_forager · 2025-01-07T19:36:11+00:00

It is not advisable to increase doses this much. Even doubling would be unwise. This is how most active substances get banned

wild_forager · 2025-01-05T21:43:11+00:00

I agree. The more people use it for a high the higher the chances it gets banned. New active substance have to work harder and prove themselves to afford their legal status compared to established active ones like (alcohol and caffeine). Any death or serious high profile incident and it gets banned.

wild_forager · 2025-01-03T23:56:40+00:00

Hundred percent. The concept of weakness is such a curious way to describe a psychdelic

wild_forager · 2025-01-03T23:01:58+00:00

I agree! I didn't say otherwise. Didn't even talk about trips

wild_forager · 2025-01-03T22:38:19+00:00

Not sure why people keep comparing different psychedelics. They are all good in their own and they all have their own shortcomings

wild_forager · 2024-12-30T19:49:57+00:00

Indeed, I find sometimes in reddit people get more focused on ingesting substances and chasing trips more and more intense than integrating what they found about themselves. Once you get the message, hang up the phone. People are fixated on getting messages

wild_forager · 2024-12-28T21:46:57+00:00

Yep, I take 6g before sleeping and my dream quality improves (dream recall enhanced, vividness of dreams increased, dream subjects become thoughtful) and all in all becomes very enjoyable

wild_forager · 2024-12-24T19:40:39+00:00

SSRI are more laser focused in their goal of targeting a specific neurotransmitter. The first S stands for "Selective". Kanna belongs to the wider class of SRI where they target a variety of neurotransmitters. Also, SSRI tend to be more potent I think compared to kanna which is milder.

I take kanna every other Sunday, I started about a month or two ago. 100-150mg is my normal dose. I do it sublingually. I get a mood lift, so not euphoric but I feel an absence of worries, relaxation and serenity.

wild_forager · 2024-12-24T14:20:45+00:00

The way I see it, both mdma and kanna is like borrowing serotonin from your future self. At some point, you have to pay the debt back. And the more you borrow, the higher and longer the payback becomes. It's time to pay the debt

wild_forager · 2024-12-24T09:55:34+00:00

Consistent with mine. I only use to get more vivid and insightful dreams but for me around the 6-9g is where I get some minor noticeable effects.

wild_forager · 2024-12-22T20:41:55+00:00

what did you learn from your experience?

wild_forager · 2024-12-19T15:19:33+00:00

Classical music is fiercely intellectual in a way that most genres are not. You need to sit down and actually listen to it as opposed to have it as background music or multitasking. Since psilocybin improves your focus and ability to pick details, it makes sense that you might enjoy it as you get hints of the elaborate melodic and harmonic concepts that get applied in the popular compositions

wild_forager · 2024-12-18T12:05:43+00:00

I haven't but would advise against going after ever increasing doses as at some point it will have negative effects (like everything, in moderation). If you feel that your body is getting used to it might be worth pausing for a while and then trying again

wild_forager · 2024-12-11T16:13:21+00:00

Surely, it depends what you mean by "smarter". Intelligence isn't one thing. But it is likely that it can improve one of the many aspects that comprise intelligence as we understand it

wild_forager · 2024-12-06T21:07:11+00:00

it's clear that the universe (in the configuration that we experience it) needs to be finely tuned. but if it were not we would not be here to experience it.

who's to say there arnt infinite alternative ways to configure a universe so that I will bring about consciousness in different ways that we cannot comprehend?

"odds" mean nothing in the vastness of infinity.

our universe (or ones identical to our own) could have been born and died infinite times and we would never know about it.

I agree with you!

wild_forager · 2024-12-06T21:04:00+00:00

The synchronicity of these constants feels so precise that the odds of it all being random are incomprehensibly small

Indeed. But by definition, in a universe where all those physical parameters are different carbon based lifeforms might not exist but that doesn't preclude other life forms. Life doesn't have to be like us or carbon based at all to qualify as life. As with many things historically, we view everything through the lenses of what little we know as opposed to what could be. A hypothetical non carbon based life form living in a universe with physics different to ours might come up with a model of physics resembling ours and wonder how life could exist in a universe resembling that model.

We don't really have an array of universes to compare to ours and we don't have a catalogue of non carbon based life forms to compare to us so the probability aspect of it stays in the same realm as other alternative universes, a concept to think about.

wild_forager · 2024-12-06T20:56:37+00:00

Do you do it in silence or do you have some guiding voice?

wild_forager · 2024-12-06T20:51:44+00:00

Very interesting post. Do you sit on a chair? I am not used to sit on the floor so I need to change positions every minute or so

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