What have you learned from psychedelics?

[LeoNardoDaVinci]

In the recent tripping/shrooms trend I have seen here I wanted to ask what have you personally learned from mushrooms, mescaline, acid, e, etc. I know I have learned alot of things like humility and compassion and acceptance but I have also learned alot of bad things about life and how I feel about the rat race and everything. Just curious what wisdom or deeper understanding the ever willing tutor called psychedelics has emparted on you.

 

[Guest423]

i learned over doing it can fuck with you for a long time, makes you realize that little thing you ate can mess you up hardcore....i always thought drugs couldn't phase me until i over did the shrooms and acid one night lol.

but i learned it opens your mind and you can think and feel things you normally can't, your permantly more smart and are more creative, i think it makes you use parts of your mind that we normally don't.....i guess you can tell my opinion difference from good and bad trips lol

 

[slyfoxberg]

the moon can smile at you.
bryant gumbel is an asshole.
cops get a kick out of mellow tripping people.
the grateful dead kick ass.
lsd makes airplane trips shorter especially if you are reading a hunter thompson book.

 

[Guest]

Everytime I trip I am really reminded how large a roll energy plays in this world. I learned this first trip and am reminded everytime.

I also learned not to trip with certain people or it could lead to having a not so good time.

 

[stoner 13th]

i learned over doing it can fuck with you for a long time, makes you realize that little thing you ate can mess you up hardcore....i always thought drugs couldn't phase me until i over did the shrooms and acid one night lol.

but i learned it opens your mind and you can think and feel things you normally can't, your permantly more smart and are more creative, i think it makes you use parts of your mind that we normally don't.....i guess you can tell my opinion difference from good and bad trips lol

coulndt have said it any better- im the same way-- good trips are great, bad trips might be one of the worst things i have had to deal with in the drug world ( only ever ate shrooms though, never did the cid)

 

[Guest423]

I also learned not to trip with certain people or it could lead to having a not so good time.

amen, thats what triggered my bad trip, i was with a group of people having a great time in the woods tripping around a camp fire and everyone started crying and sitting indian style rocking back n forth sayin "i can't handle it anymore" and "when is it gonna stop".....tripped me out so i walked home.

 

[pieceofmyheart]

I forgot.

 

[LeoNardoDaVinci]

I forgot.

Lol how true, I had that happen on shrooms but then later I did e and had dejavu and remembered the vision I had of energy leaving and entering a large glowing light, I believe this is where we all return when ending our true through the cosmos.

 

[GMT]

I thought I learned how to remember the future, what a wild trip that was. As said previously, choose your company wisely was the most important lesson. Doubt your senses as they can trick ya was another. What is widely considered as common sense isn't that sensible was another.

 

[Laxpunker]

Never walk into a 7-11, they know you're tripping and will steal your change (Bastards!).

 

[LeoNardoDaVinci]

Never walk into a 7-11, they know you're tripping and will steal your change (Bastards!).

Lol I went into a Circle K Liqour store to make a beer run for a buddy and I have to say I have never seen Circle K so beautiful lol but all I could do was set beer on the counter and when the cute check out girl who was now absolutely stunning tried to talk to me all I could do was smile and hand her money(which I was very cofused by). Money hurts my hands when on mushrooms, so do my keys, cellphone etc.

 

[Poster Nutbag]

lol amen on the grateful dead kicking ass and phish. ive learned how to be a happier person and how to solve some of my problems from the inside. ive learned that nature is very mysterious, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

 

[Guest]

Psychedelics have expanded my mind, enchanced my perception, and really, they changed the whole way I thought about the world. I used to be a lot of people would refer to as "a dick", and drugs really ruled my life.

One faithful trip, I just learned that there is so much more to life, to the world than just myself and my needs, the people who I am around and the world I live in, (even if I can never be sure of their actual existance ) are beautiful things, and I love it all, even if I don't like parts and people.

Also most importantly, I never looked at drugs the same way again, from that point on they weren't for getting fucked up (My old childish preception of them), they're tools that should be treated with respect, and NEVER abused. Marijuana is by for the best tool man has at its disposal, they just haven't all realized it yet.

 

[Guest]

I learned that some times you know before you really know, but you don't really know yet, so you don't know that you really know. Yet you do.... (As convoluted as that sounds, I guess that you had to be there...)

The beauty of purple-hued books dancing on a book case shelf, in a quiet room, surpasses the misery of a house full of screaming people any day of the week. ;^>)

Camp fires are better. They have more intricate features, and are warmer.

Hitch-hiking with an uncontrolable grin leaves a lot to be explained.

If you see a mess, and you're not really sure if it's there or not, clean it up anyway.... It might be real.

Talking to authorities while unable to speak or unable to quit laughing is almost always embarassing.

Not all lodge restaurants think that incessant laughter is good.

Rain is really cool.

Poetry becomes way abstract sometimes.

Being alone with no other stimuli, other than perhaps a fire, feels the safest.... albeit at times quite humbling when facing one's self in that quiet moment.

Accidental sudden movement of objects can stun a person with their flowing motion that seems to 'trail on and on.....' Like knocking over a stack of multi-paged tests during a final exam, and having them resemble 'butterflies gone wild,'as all the pages scatter.

There's nothing more beautiful than rainbow medallion snow flakes in the outer reaches of the headlight beams at midnight on a desolate arctic road with no tracks in the fresh snow.

There's no undoing past mistakes, injuries, or wrongs; there's only choosing whether or not to embrace them with a smile and a shrug.

moose eater

 

[LEGI0N]

I learned not to stare at the sun... jk

I once thought about how simple everything is.. Were all made of the same stuff kind of stuff.. But then it dawned on my how 'complex' everything had to be for it to be that simple.. Not a God freak but I thought about good engineering and how if someone engineers something so simple but can be 'everything' that's very complex... lol I guess I was thinking about atoms or quarks (sp).. I was into the chaos thing too...

It's just really crazy that everything is what it is.. In a way we are the luckiest things in the universe.

Some of the better stuff was just being able to step out of myself and look at my life and where I wanted to be in my life. Soul search, find some mysticism.. I was into the book Dune also.. "The sleeper must awaken.." Really meant something.. It's an awakening of something hidden..

I haven't done anything like that in along time. I sort of miss it but I'd only do mushrooms and only if I was camping with some friends.

Anyhow, be safe.

 

[Suby]

That before I get off the damn couch I have to memorize what the fuck I was getting up for...
Oh how I wander aimlessly whilst high.

 

[stoner 13th]

my calssic line when i was leaving the house and trying not to forget anything

"Did i remmeber to leave the house roaring afire?"

the guy with me just geeked out and said, ya, time to go-

 

[Guest]

there is nothing more beautiful than rust...

... no wait, that was Ruskin

... there is nothing more beautiful than rusks...

was it rusks?

or russles?

I forget

something like that anyway

there is nothing more beautiful than a bus

or was it busts?

breasts?

or busts...

shit - who said busts?

 

[LeoNardoDaVinci]

I am feeling alot of what you people are saying, it all sounds exactly like the point I am at in my life, I am having all these life changing experiences, reality questioning thoughts. Last night I created in the sky with my own mind whatever it was I needed to see. The stars would move and form pictures, they were green stars white stars red stars yellow stars all seeming to speak to me to tell me they ARE aware of me and they want me to feel safe. I saw many designs linking up every star and at the time they seemed like roadways maybe means of transportation between the stars to which we have no knowledge, I even saw wormholes or should I say created, I saw my "eye floaters" become intricite colorful cartoony stars and mushrooms and amebas if I pleased and they would glide across my vision accross the stars. As the sun rised I was able to change the color of the sky at whim, but it was as if my mind at the time could not process the changes in colors of purple in the sky and the colors at the point where they changed looked pixelated like squares of the color of the next shade of purple in the sky, the transition between the shades was not smooth and crisp it was like a computer slowing processing a picture, it intrigued me for hours. I felt the desire to paint the things I saw in the sky, I did draw a bit, I could see the aura of birds flying by it was beautiful. Next time I shall prepare with paints. I will create.

 

[Guest]

>>>Next time I shall prepare with paints. I will create.<<<

20-some and 30-some years back, I used to sometimes write poetry by a camp fire; especially after every one had left.
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Mother Earth, mother earth
How old are you today?
Man has walked and ruined here,
And you look dark and gray.

Steel into your bright green
and Muddy mirky water.
Man has come, man has come
And you've begun to falter

He tore and wounded all that's yours
and left you here to ponder
Man has come. Man has come
And you've begun to wonder.

1975 (moose eater)