I was going to do a large dose healing trip today but than got cold feet as I realized I don't have that "one person" to call, if needed, that I trust to hold space. If I was in the States I'd just rely on Fireside but I'm in Canada.

I used to have a person, and phone support worked just fine. She assured me that yes, time still exists and another time helped ground me when I felt shame and self loathing. She didn't have to say much but the connection helped a lot.

Trip support is pretty basic it seems. Essentially it's emotional support. I suppose that's why I'm pretty bummed I currently don't have a connection like that. Does anyone else relate? I mean I suppose it's a bit of a weird thing to ask a casual friend. I'm a guy so more so it seems, to be that vulnerable with another guy.

I've done 3 healing trips with psilocybin with amazing results. It's such an an amazing medicine and yet here I am, not having support for it's use. I guess I'm bummed and needed to vent.

Edit: I'm aware there is a chatroom for live help but that is nothing like hearing the sound of another human voice to feel connected.

Does anyone know if drinking while doing shrooms will have negative impact on the trip

My partner recently decided to take shrooms to help their mental health. They had previously only done upwards of a gram. This time they started with 3g and then took another 4 over the next few hours. MAYBE an hour after they took the rest of the 7 grams, they tried to convince me to let them have more (we had another 7g) and I refused. They ARE pretty tolerant to drugs, but I did NOT feel comfortable letting them have their total way with the shrooms, especially since we had agreed they would start small and work their way up.

They tried to get me to let them and told me to trust them and that they needed to see it through to completion, but i still refused. I’ve read that you’re usually supposed to just let them guide their own trip, which i totally get. but it didn’t feel safe. What are some thoughts?

The title says it all :) a little nervous because it’s been a while. I’m letting it go and letting be and would love a fellow Naut to check-in with in a bit ❤️😊

I rarely drink, and I never previously smoked before this. I got tipsy on seltzers and I hit a friends THC pen (At least I thought it was THC) apparently I inhaled too much because 20 minutes later I was spiraling. I had a full blown panic attack accompanied by the worst cosmic horror existential shit ever. I thought I was experiencing literal hell, ascent to godhood, quantum singularity event, or some shit like that. I thought my brain was going to collapse into a literal black hole. I am not being hyperbolic. I thought I wasn't real, that I was god, etc etc.

I kept on swinging back and fourth from clinging onto hope that it would finish eventually, to full blown horror that I would be trapped in this infinite void forever. My friends sat with me through it and I just wouldn't goddamn stop talking about shit that I would never in a million years confess, because I thought I was being tested by the universe and I needed to work out all of my issues in order to be freed. I talked about all of my pent of insecurities and fears about losing my friends, literally begging them not to leave me after the trip was over.

I was constantly telling them that i'm sorry and that I ruined the party (it was a birthday party for my friend). When I was in literal hell in my head I screamed out loud and the whole house heard. I usually keep my emotions tightly TIGHTLY under wraps so I tried to ride it out myself, but 30 minutes in I needed to be held by someone and have a cold towel against my head. I was told it would take me 2 hours to calm down so I asked constantly how many minutes had it been and eventually I had it in my head that I would experience 2 main waves of terror and it would match up with the amount that my jaw tensed up.

For the bulk of it I NEEDED to be close to my friends and I was hyper aware of their reactions to me and terrified that they would leave me. I am a profoundly touch-starved person and I just needed constant warm bodies against me. I obsessively sought validation that this was a normal reaction when one gets high and whether they had seen this sort of thing before. The most comforting words were that they had seen worse and that it would end eventually

Eventually the horror slowed down and I was able to be laid into bed and fell asleep. I just woke up from it and what the hell do I do now? I fucking ruined the vibes of the party, probably gave multiple people panic attacks, and I don't know how to approach this. Everyone stayed later than planned to make sure I was okay and I said some pretty terrible things that I know they are just going to think of me differently now. I dont know many of the people very well and in the time they have known me I have been just such a cringe individual. I am the youngest in the group, 22 yo. I already felt like the most annoying person ever and now Ive gone and had a bad trip on my friends birthday celebration. How do I ask them questions about what happened? How do I apologize? How will I ever face them again? I would have to give up my biggest hobby in order to avoid seeing them, so I just really don't know what to do. Help? The only thing I know for sure right now is that I am never doing weed again.

The title says it all! Excited to hang in the other dimension for a bit. Would love to find a grounded soul to check in with later :)

I guess this is more of a funny situation, I’m not tripping but I’m pretty high on weed and still very unsure of what is happening in my mind

Anyway I’ve been pretty firmly nonbinary for a long time and am even out to my family and have a pretty solid rep for being nb,

WELL NOW ALL OF THE SUDDEN I feel completely trans masculine! I USED to want to be a voice actor (literally my biggest dream and everyone knows it) so I didn’t want to start to in fear it would mess with my voice, but know I don’t even want to to that anymore, I want to start a full dose of T and grow facial hair

God do I want a beard, I want to buy menoxodil and use it religiously I want to use rosemary oil and grow a beard

I want to come out to my family and transition

I also suddenly want to be a tattoo artist and move to la or Oregon and have a little hipster tattoo shops like that ones you see on tiktok

Oregon would be a match for that place I keep being in my dreams!! WHAT IF I MOVED TO IRRLAND OR WVEN A NORDIC XOUNRTEY

Oh my god I feel like I’ve been struck by divine inspiration

Anyway no one be concerned I am 100% going to wait until I’m sober before acting on any of my life changing decisions

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Hey all! I'm going to post this in a few subs (sorry). I am considering sitting for a friend but have read a few posts about friends sitting or co-tripping and when their copilot gets sad or goes to some "dark" recesses of their mind there seems to be a few people that think that changing the topic or talking their friend down from whatever ledge they are on is ok. I'm a bit confused as to when (if ever) this technique should be used. I have never sat before although i work in an industry where people are in all kinds of existential anguish and consider myself proficient and holding space for people to grieve. I want to be responsible and do no harm.

My question is: should i allow the psychonaut to go through whatever comes up or should I try and change the tone somehow to something safer (happier/more fun/?neutral)? Obvs if it looks like a psychotic break (risk of physical harm to self or others or major psychological trauma) then that's different. And if it is existential and has elements of trauma how and should i adjust anything? If there any benefit to allowing people to just experience their pain? I would argue yes...but that's for me. Your thoughts please

so basically 4 days ago i tried to attempt on sertraline and i had sterotonin syndrome and i was in hospital about to go to sleep and i told the nurse i felt sick so she gave me cyclizine (an anti sickness) through my iv and the second she put it in my arm everything went so weird, everything started going in slo mo and i started panicking really bad and my mum and the nurse were telling me i’d be ok and that was just the start, i started absolutely tripping my bollocks off, my mums face was morphing into loads of different people, the clock on the wall was literally flying around the room, i kept forgetting where i was, i saw my cat and i got up to try and get him to come to me, i watched a whole episode of friends just to blink and be staring at the wall, i finally fell asleep around 8 am and woke up an hour later and i felt fine and i went home but i took a nap later that day and woke up around 6pm and i felt so weird i started hyperventilating because i did not feel real and it’s been 4 days and this hasn’t gone away i haven’t been able to eat or sleep or anything can someone please tell me this will go away, i’ve tried searching loads and i’ve not seen anything about tripping on cyclizine

I’ve done mushrooms a handful of times, but it’s always been mild and pleasant for me. I live about 6 hours away, so I can’t be there in person. I’d leave my house in an instant if that would help anything, but I’m assuming it would be resolved already by the time I could get there.

I’m here asking for tips from anyone who has experienced a bad trip to help me get him through this.

For context: he’s going through a breakup and his gf moved out, leaving him living alone for the first time in years. Outside of the bad trip he’s in a very fragile state right now so I’d just like to help him without triggering him more.

More context: his main complaint is extreme anxiety.

Hello!

Recently gotten interested in trip sitting for others. Have been on countless shroom/ayahuasca ceremonies of my own, as well as trip sitting for close friends and family. Would love to learn more and to share space with others outside my own circle.

You get me and my trusty guitar, the medicine, as well as a good ear and a gentle guide to go with you wherever you will happen to go, whether you will need me to really be there and to hold space for you or whether you’ll want a background DJ/smoothie blender. Interested in hosting at an Airbnb (perhaps somewhere more nature), or alternatively your own home/space. Whatever feels right. I am new to trip sitting with strangers so I’ll be learning with you. Please DM me if interested.

Good Morning

I was wondering if I were to microdose 5 days and on and 2 days off if I’ll still build up a tolerance?

The goal is to do a macro dose for my first journey this Sunday (2-2.5grams) and I’m going to be micro dosing Monday-Friday or I could do till Thursday so I have 2 days off before.

My question is: “Will I build up a tolerance with the micro dose that will affect my macro dose come Sunday?”

Thank you

So I drank alcohol before taking 300ug tablets and smoked weed on the come up of the trip, I took this tab before and it was chill. So around an hour thirty after I took the tab is where it started going to a bad trip it started in the middle of a black mirror episode (social media one) where I started thinking that I was stuck in the screwed up version of that show. I was around other people for a while.

After this I had auditory and visual delusions, almost everything that I heard or saw was not real for around 2 hours where I had moments where I would think in my head and then I would hear me saying it in a different room then I realise my body isent where I think it is then I would try communicate with my friends to try get myself in my body which was hard due to the delusions as the room my body was in was littilerly glitching out.

I later found my body where I believed that I saw simulation when re entering my body. There were other delusions than this but you get the point.

I then stayed up for another 22 hours watched more shows then smoked in the morning where delusions came back then eventually I went to bed where I had delusions the whole time trying to get to sleep.

In total my trip lasted for around 25 hours on and off.

My trip is over but I am struggling to regrasp reality if that makes sense what is the next step in a way?

looking for available people who i could text or talk to during my acid trip tomorrow just incase. it will be my second trip, 2 tabs, alone under a tree on a sunny day at a park. all suggestions are well appreciated and thx for all those who volunteer a little chat.

Please keep your judgement to yourself, I know I probably lost all of Molly’s magic, but I just want to get back to feeling okay. This all happened when my lock box opened and my wife and I who are both poly addicts had something to celebrate and it kept escalating.

I’m a heavy guy, and this is what I used over 9 days:

• 4g MDMA
• 1g of washed and then cold water separated speed to get the caffeine out (so about 700mg amphetamine)
• 150mg 5-MAPB

And 6 days before then I took 50mg 5-MAPB at a party.

Before this I was using my prescribed lyrica a bit much and was using 800mg instead of my prescribed 600mg. I am also prescribed Xanax for panic attacks, which I take 0.33mg of three times a week. During the binge I changed to taking 1400mg Lyrica a day (which I got to get back down to 600mg) and instead of the Xanax I’m taking 0.5mg Clonazepam (estimated cause it’s a third of a crushed up pills that are supposed to be 2mg) three times a day.

I started taking NAC 800mg 2x a day and using medium doses of MXiPR for intense depression.

I know I need to get off the clonazepam as soon as possible and back on my normal schedule because I heard clonazepam is probably the hardest drug to get off from.

The next thing I need to do is reduce my Lyrica. The first reductions need to be large and then get progressively smaller because if I stay on high doses too long my script will run out.

I’m getting some Valium to switch too after the clonazepam because after 1/6 of a crushed up Clonazepam pill (so 0.25mg clonazepam), it can have hot spots that make the less strong pills a pain for tapering, but 1/6 have been pretty accurate. Once I’ve lowered the clonazepam enough I will do a slow Valium taper during which I want to work again.

The next priority is probably the lyrica reduction to 800 or smth cause of the script running low if I continue like this. Maybe I should do that at the same time.

I have 9 days before I have to work again, so those can be painful, after that it has to be easier. I can possibly extend it by using vacation days to 16 days. I have done a slow lyrica and Valium taper while working, so once I’m there, I can do it myself. I’m doing therapy 2 times a week, which helps. I’m also changing my sleep schedule back by an hour each day cause I currently go to sleep at 6am and need it to be back at going to sleep at 11pm and the only thing that has worked in the past was just moving it forward 30 minutes to 2 hours each day until I’m back around the clock.

What should be my game plan? I can’t think cause of how fried my brain feels and the heavy amounts of gabaergics I’m dependent on. That’s why I ask you, the community: do you have any tips, insights, past experiences? Anything positive? Because I’m in a really dark place and can’t take any more negativity than I am already giving myself. I’m at the brink of ending it all but I know if I plan this right, I can survive.

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I’m going to be taking mushrooms for the first time in 20 years. The goal is take 1.5G of GT teacher tomorrow solo at home as i have from 11am -3/4pm alone.

I’ve done micro dosing for a week at 0.2 of a gram 4 days on and 1 off so hoping that doesn’t dull the affect.

In the past I took them to get messed up and have a good time but I’m coming back to them as a 38 year old to see if I can discover more insights, go inward and see the world through a different lens.

I made a list of things I’ll prep:

• adult colouring book and water colour markers • journal and pen • Bose sound cancelling headset with playlist • movies at the ready, doubt I’ll watch • eye mask for going onward • meditation and breathing video to follow • led candles that change colours • comfy pants, sweater and blanket • water + electrolytes

Anything else that could be handy? Open to suggestions, tips, advice etc.

Thanks everyone!!!!!

After 19 hours still having an lsd comedown, it persists and it’s scary, someone suggested sleeping but I fear that I might wake up crazy

Hey guys i’m just having a little bit of a crazy trip right now. I want to go to bed but just can’t. when will this end.

i’m a super experienced tripper , especially with cid . wouldn’t mind chill psychedelic convo, music suggestions . or really anything . im solo tn because tripping with people makes me uncomfortable although i’ve done it a bunch . do like to have a voice of reason around though

my dad does not know im tripping on a tab of acid so i cant speak to himI feel sudden mood swings + paranoia and stress however i feel fully in control of my psychetowards the end of my trip and i would like to sleep but dont really think i will considering how i feelidk if this is a bad trip but it is my first time with the substanceany tips to help calm me down during the stressier swings would be appreciated

Edit - feeling 80 to 95 percent better now thanks for the considerations from everyone ya helped out a lot

I have a few questions

First off for reference I am a 1401b male with a decent natural tolerance for everything. I've only done shrooms a few times. Once when I was on LSD but I used to do LSD alot.

Question #1: how much is $40 of indoor grown mushrooms worth (I live in fl)

Note: Not that it's important but my cousin is selling me the mushrooms so I should get a little more. I think $40 is worth 4.5-5 grams depending on strain.

Second I haven't done phycadelics in 2 months and I want help dosing. I want to be absolutely blasted. I want the high where you laugh after because you thought it wasn't working at first and then you got your ass kicked.

Assuming I'll have 4g (just assuming the minimum amount) how much should I take?

Any notes?

Again this is my 3rd time taking shrooms but I used to take tons of acid.

It’s been about 4 hours and I keep having looping anxious thoughts, I don’t feel completely horrible but I’m super restless and just want to sleep but can’t because of the “electrifying” feeling acid gives you I keep trying to smoke tobacco/weed to calm down more, I also take clonazepam before sleep usually will that help at all? Any help would be appreciated thankyou

I’m only here in Sedona for two days. I would like help to locate a trip sitter for psylicibin. Experienced with that and ketamine. Anyone have an idea of where I might find one last minute? Have what I need except for the sitter. Thanks!!

So I’m getting a bottle of 10.000ug. I’m an experienced tripper with 50+ DMT trips, Heroic shroom dose, plenty of 400ug Trips. My question is. Would 5-700ug be fine or would it be smarter to stay at 400.

I've been researching psilocybin for like 5 years now, tried cuban shrooms twice in my life and not in the need for another trip.

I've planned to tripsit a different close friend in the past, but we just agreed to trip together. This time, I just want to be a responsible tripsitter. I do have enough research about both the biochemistry of shrooms, and how vastly trips can differ based on your mindset and setting.

And of course, I have the experience needed.

I've already studied the correct way of tripsitting, built a basic plan etc.

But I'd appreciate any tips about tripsitting from people who have tripsitted already!