Regular weed user here.
If I’d have to describe my average weed experience in a few words, it would be fun, warm, soft, calm, soft fuzzy blanket
If I’d have to describe my few psychedelic experiences similarly (mushrooms only), it would be cold, hard, sharp, alone and from one horror trip (I was given way too much and after hours of nothing, smoked a little weed which I regretted 10 seconds later) chaos, mayhem, extreme loneliness from being the only person alive in the universe
Wife has similar experiences and after our last fucked up trip vowed to never again try it.
Are these experiences typical? I see so many positive experiences but I hated the cold and lonely feeling I had with it every time. How could I have a pleasant trip with shrooms, or say, lsd even?
I had a life transforming experience on psychedelics. I tried them only a few times.
One of the craziest trips was when I took hawain baby woodrose seeds. I entered a deep trance-like feverish state and I relived my whole life. It was insanely vivid. I could smell, taste, experience complex emotions, and see everything in color.
I was highly depressed then unable to process my childhood trauma. What I realised at the end was that I was concentrating on the bad parts. There were many good parts that I forgot about or gave little importance to.
It kickstarted my recovery.
I don’t do psychedelics anymore. I switched to meditation which gives me a steady and long term supply of happiness.
I smoked weed quite a bit for a few years. It is only to feel good and kill time for a few hours. It wasn’t helpful.
Set and setting. Y’all are probably stressed by something around you. Smoking weed when you take the shrooms mellows the onset and makes it much less jarring to kick in. Take a tiny amount first, like a half a gram of shrooms. I recommend being in nature when you do it, I have found for most tech exposure and fear of “being caught” are the biggest spook factors when it comes to a bad trip. Have a bag of personal things that comfort you and a designated “alone” place so you have a place to meditate and collect yourself if you need it. Often shrooms and LSD encourage self reflection, if you dont reflect on yourself and try to force having a good time it can turn bad too. Follow where your mind takes you, do what you’re gravitating towards instead of preset plans and you’ll have a better time too. Also, until you are able to take shrooms comfortably without worrying about a “bad trip,” I recommend not doing LSD. I’d describe shrooms as an hour to kick in an hour to the peak, then a gentle ride down (like a steep hill with a gentle slope down the other side), but LSD is 15min to kick, 4 hours of increasing intensity and 4 hours decreasing intensity (like a steep mountain up and a steep mountain down).
I am also a frequent, regular weed smoker. I have done mushrooms twice in my life, and LSD once.
Tge LSD was slipped to me unknowingly and kinda freaked me out when my vision started doubling and everything seemed like it was shifting around like sand dunes or water reflections. I would be willing to try it again knowing what I am taking, if I had the chance as frame of mind really played a role in how the whole experience felt.
The shrooms, both times, just made me feel exactly like being drunk, complete with the queasy sickness and “spins” as it peaked. I don’t have any desire to try them again, as I don’t even drink alcohol because I don’t like that feeling.
What you’re describing for weed, is what I feel about mushrooms
Only typical during a bad trip for me.
Maybe try a different form of shrooms? For me if i just eat shrooms whole i feel a bit upset in the stomach and that can affect my trip. Instead i make a shroom tea and that gets out some of the stomach ruining shit and my trips are great.
Also don’t trip when you’re in a bad head space. If you think you’re going to have a bad trip you probably will.
