I posted the guide to a google web page. You can find it here:
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[b]Introduction[/b]
Psychedelic tripping is one of my favorite things in the world, you get the chance to escape reality and find out more about yourself and the universe around you. You are given the ability to see things in a way you have not seen them before.... in a beautiful and magnificient way. In this guide I will explain the fundamentals of tripping, activities and things to do, suggested tips, and even tips to coming back to blissfulness after flipping to the dark side. The basic function of a psychedelic drug is to alter the cognition and perception of the mind.
Psychedelics go to bend the mind and make you see things in a way you wouldn’t see things normally. In greek, the term psychedelic comes out to be “mind-manifesting” and that is excactly what it is. There are a variety of different psychedelics in the world today including: LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, ergolines, DMT, and even the new research chemicals such as 2c-x products. Most psychedelics today are illegal in the U.S. but with a bit of luck you may be able to score something now and then. Psychedelics may not be as popular as they used to be back in the 60’s and 70’s but are still being widely used around the world today for medicinal, religious, and recreational purposes.[url=http://i45.tinypic.com/155rp0w.jpg" imageanchor=1" rel=nofollow]
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[b]Recommended Products for Tripping[/b]
Recently, I have learned about many herbs that you can purchase at any local store in the vitamins department, these herbs include effects as in reducing anxiety, promoting happiness, inducing the intensity of the trip. These products range from 5-30$ but are well worth it for the effects and amount you are given. I own most of these products and use them every time, I am only learning more about them and plan to purchase more as I read up about them. Anyways here is the list so far:
o [b]Valerian Root[/b] – A natural herb said to promote relaxation. In taking this before a psychedelic trip you gain a sense of calmness and serenity. Anxiety and overexertion is lowered leaving you less likely to go down under.
o [b]Vitamin C[/b] – Slightly intensify the effects and give more closed eyed visuals. More reports tend to use vitamin C with shrooms, but the effects will go with any psychedelic.
o [b]5-HTP[/b] – Increases the amount of serotonin in the synapse, giving you a more strong and rigid trip. Is claimed to promote happiness, and is completely harmless combined with psychedelics.
o [b]Melatonin [/b]– A great sleep aid, the after hours of a trip will leave you tossing and turning to get to sleep. Take melatonin and get the well-needed sleep you need after a trip.
o [b]Cannabis [/b]– The most available and used drug in the world, cannabis helps in relaxing and making you happy. A quick bowl before, during, and after a trip can help you all throughout as well as intensify the effects.[url=http://i45.tinypic.com/ajq87b.jpg" imageanchor=1" rel=nofollow]
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[b]Activities and General Tips[/b]
1. Before a psychedelic trip I make a playlist of a great variety of music so that I am not fumbling around trying to find songs to listen to while tripping. While doing this, I have collected a large amount of music that I know is good tripping music and can use every time. By a good variety of music, I’d say to find music such as post-rock (explosions in the sky, if these trees could talk, the dodos), trance (armin van buuren faithless, infected mushroom), jam bands (sts9, disco biscuits, beardfish, arcade fire), world music (deep forest, the very best), dubstep (bassnectar), psytrance (tristan, bizarre contact, skazi), and rock (tool, defttones, kansas, the beatles). This is just an example of the variety of music you can choose from, you don’t want to listen to one genre for an entire trip. It’s excellent to explore and see what is good while tripping. Long, and story-telling songs tend to be my favorite and can take you on an awesome mind journey. Music is not necessary in tripping though if you are outdoors, the great sound of the mother nature can also supply you with some good hearing experiences. I would not recommend listening to no music inside though, as the solitude of constant sound can drive someone to go down under as what had happened to me once.
2. The same goes with movies, there are plenty of genres to choose from including: life, space, anatomy, earth, or even history documentaries to watch. Documentaries are one of the best things to watch while tripping as you produce a giant interest in the world around you when you are tripping. The movies can take you there and make you experience first hand the beauty of life and the world around you. Usually when I begin a trip I like to start off with a funny movie. It helps to get everyone in a happy good mood and laughing, not to mention that psychedelics make anything ten times funnier then a weed high. Cartoons are also great for tripping, some of my favorites have included: Tom & Jerry, Adventure Time, Pokemon, and really anything else that portrays happiness. When it comes to movies, the only thing I do [b]NOT [/b]recommend is horror movies, even if you believe you can handle it, that is just straight up asking for an awful terrible time. I also strongly recommend video games, even though you might be distracted for the game.
3. Explore the outdoors, it is not a fulfilled trip if you have not experienced atleast a little portion of the trip in the great outdoors. You may find yourself talking to inanimate objects and just feeling and seeing life and plants in a colorful and beautiful way. You want to make sure it is a safe explorable location where you will not have to deal with public strangers, and even a rare chance of dealing with authorities. Try laying in the grass and just looking at the stars (if night) or clouds (if day). By doing this, you are in for an experience that you will definitely enjoy. I don’t recommend going out to places (such as movie theatres, theme parks, or a zoo) unless you are an experienced tripper, psychedelics usually aren’t what you think they are going to be so if you feel and deem yourself ready then go ahead and go. I would not recommend doing anything besides walking around in the yard or neighborhood if there is a first time tripper, or if it is your first time. The only place I would recommend taking a psychedelic for the first time is a concert, as everyone is fucked up anyways and most concerts are filled with good vibes and music.
4. Set and setting – the golden rule of psychedelic tripping, and preventing a bad trip. You must make sure you are in a perfectly good state of mind (not depressed, sad, upset, angry) as well as being in a good environment for your trip. By a good environment, you want to have a safe indoor location, an explorable outdoor location, a variety of music playing to keep everyone on track, and like-minded friends whether or not they are also tripping. This is the formula for having a fun and having a enjoyable trip. Make sure that the people you are tripping with (if you are tripping alone, it is always a good idea to have a knowledgable trip sitter) know how to handle a bad tripper, as the bad tripper would greatly appreciate being calmed down so they can enjoy the rest of their trip. Tips for a bad trip are located later in this guide.
5. Never take more then you can handle, and do your research before tripping. Such as for shrooms, I would recommend going with an eigth for a first time. Erowid provides an excellent dosage table for most psychedelic drugs. Every time I have tripped on a new drug I make sure to go to erowid and read everything I can about the drug, about what it’s effects are and the things that are in stored for me. Psychedelics aren’t just about seeing random visuals and feeling a different way, they really fuck with your head and can mess you up if you use them wrong. The higher the amount, the crazier and more intense the trip will be, and the more risk you take in not only flying off the deep end, but being able to control yourself.
6. Last of all, have fun. Enjoy yourself, and make sure that your friends enjoy themselves. Have a great experience that you can look back on and love. Let everybody do their own thing if it makes them happy. Don’t be an asshole or prick as that pulls off some negative vibes and don’t tell anybody they can’t do something (unless it’s harmful to themselves or others). Have some good conversations with your friends and even play some simple games. I remember on one of my trips that me and my friends started all talking at the same time and saying the funniest shit, just keep the environment happy and everyone will bond together as a whole. Psychedelics within a group can bring out deeper feelings and thoughts within people whether they are good or bad and also create a sort of spiritual bond with the people you are with.[url=http://i50.tinypic.com/2ueqo1g.jpg" imageanchor=1" rel=nofollow]
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[/url][b]Bad Trips[/b]
I recently underwent a bad trip in which I was stuck inside my own mind for a few hours, it was a time of mental torture and unfortunately I had not known the things I know now for preventing or snapping out of a bad trip, as well as my friends being uneducated in handling a bad tripper. Getting ripped apart by demons, falling into a never ending void, or claiming permanent mental insanity may be a insane and terrifying thing but it is just one of the risks you take with taking a psychoactive. It is best to go into any trip with an open-mind, not expecting or thinking about anything in particular. Just go with the flow and see where the trip may take you whether it is a place of epic proportions or a place of undescribable hell. I have known and seen people in the past who have liked to write things with a sharpie on their hand/arm such as “stay calm” or “you’re on a psychedelic”. I have also seen them place these sayings on sticky notes and place them on their phones or a door, and even have a friend write something that sounds caring on the other hand/arm.
If it is a small dose, you are usually able to calm down and relax without the assistance of others. If things start to get dark for you, remind yourself that you are in a psychedelic produced state of mind, that you paid for the experience, that It WILL end, and you should chill out an enjoy it. If you are stuck with uneducated friends on this topic and have taken a higher dose, the best thing you can do is stop fighting it and go with the flow. If it’s frightening, enjoy the sensation of being afraid, and it could possibly become more exciting than it is frightening. There is not much you can do when you are trapped within your own skull, and your mind can be very deceiving in convincing you things are real.
There is a lot you can do to help your friends get through a bad trip, and they will appreciate your friendship much more if you help them through the rough time. The best thing to do is to talk and comfort the friend, but only after asking for permission. Pass the time with them until they start to feel better, even if you are tripping yourself. A bad tripper can bring upon negative vibes to everyone and a bad trip could soon become contaigous within the group. Reassure them in a calm, matter-of-fact tone that you are with them and watching out for them, and nothing bad will happen. Reassurance is a great help, comfort and love also help more then you think.
Another good method for snapping someone/yourself out with or without the assistance of others is changing a factor with the environment. By this, I mean if a song or movie is making someone feeling negative, change it immediately. If you are sitting in a dark room, turn on the lights. If you are inside, go outside and look at something beautiful, change your clothes, take a shower, just get some sort of change that isn’t related to what the person/yourself was doing when the negative effects were occuring. I would have loved if my friends knew what to do when I underwent my bad trip, I was having a great ass time until it came about. Don’t worry about bad trips though, don’t even think or make them an option for a trip as they come at the most unexpected moment possible[url=http://i47.tinypic.com/alkoao.jpg" imageanchor=1" rel=nofollow]
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[/url][b]Useful Links[/b]
§ [url=http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/" rel=nofollow]http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/[/url]
§ [url=http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/faqs/psychedelic_crisis_faq.shtml#disclaimer" rel=nofollow]http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/faqs/psychedelic_crisis_faq.shtml#disclaimer[/url]
§ [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug" rel=nofollow]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug[/url]
§ [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychedelic_drugs" rel=nofollow]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychedelic_drugs[/url]
§ [url=http://taimapedia.org/wiki/Taimapedia" rel=nofollow]http://taimapedia.org/wiki/Taimapedia[/url] (currently down)[/release]
Very nice thread, Raspo. :smile:
+1 wrench
Very nicely made thread. This should be stickied.
another useful tip when ur losing it on a high dosed solo trip; change setting. putting on a different tune or walking into another room helps a lot.
a way to prevent a solo trip going bad i put up some goals such as; listening to music, watching cabaret, cycling around.
[QUOTE=Raspo;22173850]Canabis – The most available and used drug in the world, canabis helps in relaxing and making you happy. A quick bowl before, during, and after a trip can help you all throughout as well as intensify the effects.[/QUOTE]
just so you know, cannabis kills the effects of acid. also, the idea about building a playlist before you start is a great idea, i learnt that after totally failing to listen to good music whilst tripping due to not knowing which would be good. look through it first.
^ Did you smoke sativa or indica? When i smoke haze strains during shroom trips its like going up a fewl levels while super kush kind of 'eased' the effects untill i took another bowl of amnesia haze later.
[QUOTE=Zeemlapje;22180052]^ Did you smoke sativa or indica? When i smoke haze strains during shroom trips its like going up a fewl levels while super kush kind of 'eased' the effects untill i took another bowl of amnesia haze later.[/QUOTE]
i'm not talking from experience; i've never smoked weed whilst on acid, but from what i've read, it lowers the effects.
[QUOTE=Pome;22180131]i'm not talking from experience; i've never smoked weed whilst on acid, but from what i've read, it lowers the effects.[/QUOTE]
If you smoke too much, yeah.
You spelled cannabis wrong, spacing & other formatting is nonexistent, and you're just a pretty bad writer overall. Your writing style appears young, which immediately makes me take your guide with a grain of salt & wish that someone else had written, only better, because you actually have some good information in there.
Also, your focus on "bad trips" is heavy-handed. In my experience, the best way to avoid a bad trip is to not think about bad trips. I suspect that having a "bad trip blanket" sitting at the ready would stress me out horribly and cause a bad trip itself. Same thing with having a friend say, at the beginning of a drug-soaked evening "IF YOU HAVE A BAD TRIP HERE'S WHAT YOU DO!". If someone said that to me a minute after we had both dropped acid, I'd just leave.
This is what happened when universities were studying the effects of LSD & bad trips in the 60's. They'd pump some poor bastard full of Acid and plop him in a chair in a weird room after explaining everything they could about the terrible experience he was about to maybe have. Then, after ingraining these bad trip ideas in his brain, the science dicks would sit around him and stare, with clipboards in hand, until something bad happened.
And I'm not saying you're staring at me with a clipboard (because you're literally not), or that your guide doesn't have good information (because it really does). I just think you need to spend some more time editing/formatting to make it more readable & look less like a middle-school English project.
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Sorry if that was too much, I might've taken that suggestions line at the end too heavily.
Great guide, but you need some formatting to make it less of a strain to read.
[QUOTE=Pome;22180131]i'm not talking from experience; i've never smoked weed whilst on acid, but from what i've read, it lowers the effects.[/QUOTE]
False. I've done acid 3-4 times in which i've smoked before, during, and after the trip. The effects were definitely intensified, and a relaxing sensation was brought upon me. Cannabis goes with just about any drug, even acid.
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[QUOTE=Hap;22180696]You spelled cannabis wrong, spacing & other formatting is nonexistent, and you're just a pretty bad writer overall. Your writing style appears young, which immediately makes me take your guide with a grain of salt & wish that someone else had written, only better, because you actually have some good information in there.
Also, your focus on "bad trips" is heavy-handed. In my experience, the best way to avoid a bad trip is to not think about bad trips. I suspect that having a "bad trip blanket" sitting at the ready would stress me out horribly and cause a bad trip itself. Same thing with having a friend say, at the beginning of a drug-soaked evening "IF YOU HAVE A BAD TRIP HERE'S WHAT YOU DO!". If someone said that to me a minute after we had both dropped acid, I'd just leave.
This is what happened when universities were studying the effects of LSD & bad trips in the 60's. They'd pump some poor bastard full of Acid and plop him in a chair in a weird room after explaining everything they could about the terrible experience he was about to maybe have. Then, after ingraining these bad trip ideas in his brain, the science dicks would sit around him and stare, with clipboards in hand, until something bad happened.
And I'm not saying you're staring at me with a clipboard (because you're literally not), or that your guide doesn't have good information (because it really does). I just think you need to spend some more time editing/formatting to make it more readable & look less like a middle-school English project.
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Sorry if that was too much, I might've taken that suggestions line at the end too heavily.[/QUOTE]
That's why I preferred the word document over facepunch, as it fucks up all the formatting I made in the original document. I will shorten up the bad trip section into one paragraph later, that's a very good suggestion and I never thought of it before. I will definitely work on it more and try to make it look a little better. Without comments like yours, it would have been left like it is now.
Also, for the google docs page, I can make it allowable for others to edit. Should I enable it so you guys may edit and add things?
God, it's Cannabis.
Good guide though.
[QUOTE=Dan The Man;22182136]God, it's Cannabis.
Good guide though.[/QUOTE]
Stop being such a spelling nazi, I forgot to hit n once..
[QUOTE=Raspo;22182518]Stop being such a spelling nazi, I forgot to hit n once..[/QUOTE]
throughout.
MAJOR UPDATE, hope you guys are happy. :)
[QUOTE=Pome;22180131]i'm not talking from experience; i've never smoked weed whilst on acid, but from what i've read, it lowers the effects.[/QUOTE]
No, it definitely doesn't. I've smoked heavily throughout all of my LSD experiences, and it most certainly boosts the effects.
[QUOTE=Anubis678;22184419]No, it definitely doesn't. I've smoked heavily throughout all of my LSD experiences, and it most certainly boosts the effects.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the reassurance. I knew something was wrong when he said that, I was pretty sure it had boosted all my trips. It also brings the trip on a lot faster, I can remember waiting slowly two hours waiting for an acid trip without weed and waiting what felt like five minutes with weed.
Also, if you guys would like to see any extra sections, please do suggest.
I don't think I've done a heavy psychedelic without smoking before, during, and after.
I'm generally blazed as fuck when I take it, and we keep smoking until it kicks in, and then as soon as we find our foothold in the experience, we start smoking more.
The weirdest sensation ever: Coming down off of weed while still tripping. It happened to me on 2C-T-2 the other night. The weed wore off long before the 2C-T-2 did, and it was very noticeable.
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[quote]With good things, also come bad things and everytime you take a psychedelic you take a risk of going down under and being stuck in mental torture for a few hours.[/quote]
Please remove this line. That's definitely not something you want some rookie tripper reading, and it's not very accurate.
[QUOTE=Anubis678;22184697]I don't think I've done a heavy psychedelic without smoking before, during, and after.
I'm generally blazed as fuck when I take it, and we keep smoking until it kicks in, and then as soon as we find our foothold in the experience, we start smoking more.
The weirdest sensation ever: Coming down off of weed while still tripping. It happened to me on 2C-T-2 the other night. The weed wore off long before the 2C-T-2 did, and it was very noticeable.
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Please remove this line. That's definitely not something you want some rookie tripper reading, and it's not very accurate.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Herb will EASILY boost you a full + on the Shulgin scale with most psychedelics. I've taken 2C-E before, having little to no visuals, and then smoked a few bowls of dank and had the sky rocket into this giant swirling hazy magenta cloud.
[QUOTE=SKuM;22187694] I've taken 2C-E before, having little to no visuals, [/QUOTE]
:byodood: you must have one mother fucker of a tolerance lol.
[QUOTE=Pome;22179158]cannabis kills the effects of acid[/QUOTE]
niqqha what
[QUOTE=catch33;22194754]:byodood: you must have one mother fucker of a tolerance lol.[/QUOTE]
My 2C-E experience was rather lacking on visuals, as well.
2C-T-2, on the other hand...
What is your guys favorite RC? I plan on buying an RC this summer once I get a job, I was planning on going straight for 2c-e but i'm not sure. I have access to every RC myself, though i'm not sure which ones the best.
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2C-T-2, on the other hand...[/QUOTE]
Fuck, i really want to try that but i can't find any. Heard it's petty good but it's meant to have some body load. If you've done 2c-T-7, how does that compare to 2C-T-2?
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[QUOTE=Raspo;22195757]What is your guys favorite RC? I plan on buying an RC this summer once I get a job, I was planning on going straight for 2c-e but i'm not sure. I have access to every RC myself, though i'm not sure which ones the best.[/QUOTE]
2c-e closely followed by 2c-b
[QUOTE=Anubis678;22194854]My 2C-E experience was rather lacking on visuals, as well.
2C-T-2, on the other hand...[/QUOTE]
lol Anubis raving at RC :P
[QUOTE=Qwerty?;22195758]Fuck, i really want to try that but i can't find any. Heard it's petty good but it's meant to have some body load. If you've done 2c-T-7, how does that compare to 2C-T-2?[/QUOTE]
I haven't done 2C-T-7, but I plan on trying that soon, as well.
The body load really isn't that bad. IMO, the body load on 2C-E was much more uncomfortable. With 2C-T-2, you just feel like lounging around, but it's really, really, really easy to get comfortable (unlike 2C-E), and once you do, it's like pure fucking bliss. I felt like I was wrapped in a warm, fuzzy blanket all night. You feel physically stoned, to the point where you don't want to move or even talk, but your mind is racing (not in an anxious way). It's not good for big social events, but I was just around a few close friends, so it was very nice. It was a very relaxing experience. I remember riding around with my friend, and I just couldn't worry about anything. I was too empathetic and euphoric, too open to the world. I was okay with anything we were going to experience. I wanted to talk to random people, but I could barely communicate with my friends, so that would have been a bad idea.
I also never had any problems with nausea. Most/all of the trip reports I've read on Erowid complained about persistent nausea/vomiting, but I never once felt the slightest bit sick. Perhaps it was all the marijuana we smoked, but I'm not sure. I didn't have any nausea problems on 2C-E, either, as far as I can remember.
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[QUOTE=kobilica;22195912]lol Anubis raving at RC :P[/QUOTE]
Haha, I was laying on a park bench at 2 in the morning, watching clouds turn into faces, watchin me back, and then watching the stars dance across the sky. It was absolutely magical.
[QUOTE=Anubis678;22194854]My 2C-E experience was rather lacking on visuals, as well.
2C-T-2, on the other hand...[/QUOTE]
Interesting, 2C-E is VERY visual for me :fuckyou:
Awesome guide, but you should have included Psytrance in the music side. People like Far East Ghost (darkpsy fyi before you listen to this and trip, I got lost in a creepy fuck jungle while tripping to this D:), Tristan, Psysex, DJ Eskimo, Skazi, 1200 micrograms, and Bizarre Contact. Straight up trance like Armin etc. would be for rolling. Psytrance has this organic feel that is on a totally different level than the mechanical feel of trance. lol maybe I'm just going off on a totally different tangent about this and looking like a total douche bag about this.
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[QUOTE=Creesco;22197485]Awesome guide, but you should have included Psytrance in the music side. People like Far East Ghost (darkpsy fyi before you listen to this and trip, I got lost in a creepy fuck jungle while tripping to this D:), Tristan, Psysex, DJ Eskimo, Skazi, 1200 micrograms, and Bizarre Contact. Straight up trance like Armin etc. would be for rolling. Psytrance has this organic feel that is on a totally different level than the mechanical feel of trance. lol maybe I'm just going off on a totally different tangent about this and looking like a total douche bag about this.
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I'll add some psytrance suggestions in. Thanks.
I've listened to Armin's ultra music festival set on acid and it was pure magical, it was definitely an awesome hour of continuous journey. I guess when I thought of him I just thought of his DJ sets, though he does have a lot of chill songs too.
you spelled The [B]Beatles[/B] wrong...
also cool post...
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