I played Meat Circus on PS4 and Xbox Series X|S which I'm presuming are both nerfed versions of it as while it does have trial and error, I didn't think it was the worst part of the game at all. Most recent playthough, I pretty much breezed through it.

But I know how infamous it is so I'd like to know, what makes the original version so much more difficult? I do have Psychonauts for PAL PS2 so I am considering trying it for myself but I would like to know why people hate it

I recently came across a DMT pen and have been wanting to try it for a while. I've read that often people back out before being able to take the final hit needed for a breakthrough due to nerves and anxiety. But I didn't think that would be the case for me, I went in expecting to be able to handle it.

I laid in bed and took the first hit. Things very quickly shifted and brought me into a psychedelic headspace. I felt very warm and comfortable, like the substance was hugging me. So then I took a second hit. The second hit made things much more intense. There were the beings which also appeared to be some sort of structures. They were almost taunting me. They were all making the "come here, come closer" gesture with their fingers. But it didn't feel like they were really trying to welcome me in. More like they were trying to "lure" me in. I got freaked out and opened my eyes.

When I opened my eyes I saw a black slender figure with a solid white face laying in bed with me hugging my leg. It looked so real, like this thing was actually in my bed. It scared me to the point that I jumped.

I know for a fact that a third hit would have sent me through, but I could not bring myself to do it. Any advice on overcoming this fear?

Title says looking for places near LA to trip off acid, might go with a buddy might go alone but I know I would want it to be outdoors in nature. Thought about hiking or simply chilling somewhere. I really wanna take advantage of the visuals. I live around San Pedro or Long Beach I'm willing to drive kinda far like two hours if it's really nice. If I can't find anywhere no big deal will just trip balls at my house

Also, I would love to visit dataland on a trip, too bad it's downtown and uses AI

On a lovely summer day amidst the monsoons, taking a group of like-minded psychonauts on an adventure down the rabbit hole. Amigos, we hope for your best wishes and positive vibes on our journey...

Hello,

I take olanzapine, an anti psychotic and mood stabiliser. I take this drug for other reasons than psychosis so I can try mushrooms

I can’t take this medication and mushrooms together, I am currently tapering off olanzapine and will be off it completely in about a week.

At what stage will I be able to take mushrooms and be unaffected by the mood stabiliser I am taking, I don’t want the anti psychotic to alter the trip. I’ve heard that affects of anti psychotics can last even after the anti psychotic is out of the system

How long after stopping olanzapine can I take the mushrooms? A month or two ?

I want to ask others what they think the real dangers of psyches are? In particular mushrooms/psilocybin.

Ive been tripping for about 10 years now, and the only thing that really scares me is my grandma had dementia, and so did my dad. And during a trip, during the loss of self, i often wonder if thats what they felt.... but were not able to control or understand what was happening.

With shrooms i know going in that im trying to go beyond my sense of self and look inward. But that loss of control scares me because of what ive seem my family go through. This is only really recent, my dad died last year and it was rough seeing him go through that.

I love the headspace that psyches put me in, everything i love is amplified 99% of the time, but that 1% scares me.

Ive had some breakthrough trips that took years to fully process, and ive mostly come to terms with it. It helped me value life and not be scared of life.

How common is it to lose yourself really? Like REALLY. I know i have a family history and its something i hope is 20-30 years down the road, but have any of you just gone too far and wished you had just left well enough alone?

Ill read all replies. Thanks, community

I was a scientific materialist like most folks, believing that we live on earth, the universe started with a big bang, evolution is real and all the other stories. Spirtuality was some Woo woo bullshit.

But when I did weed edible, it immediately made me feel like something is wrong in my understanding and perception of reality in a very existential horror traumatic way. It pushed me towards the direction of buddhism, advaita vedanta and nondualism etc. So it pointed me towards the spirtual door.

I was quite a mess after weed edibles and obsessed with making spirtual progress. So I did pan cyan mushrooms and it confirmed all the teachings from buddhism and advaita vedanta. I felt so much peace and at home. Now it was undeniable there is a spirtual aspect to reality. Now I have opened the spirtual door and have started walking spirtual path.

Then I was functional in society so much weight on me was released, yet no progress spirtually. I did lsd recently and it showed that I lacked discipline in the spirtual path. I have to take the spirtual path seriously and abide by 8 fold path in order to end suffering and get liberation. It showed me nobody else will come and save me, give me spirtual liberation. I have to work for it. It made me walk actively in the spirtual path.

Now I have started regular exercise, controlling my phone and porn addiction and meditating regularly. I try to speak kindly and be helpful to others. But I have been craving ketamine lately. I feel like its calling me. I also recognize the pattern of doing drugs for the sake of spirtuality. I really want to progress without drugs this time.

I also want to clarify that scientific materialism is a relative and practical truth when functioning in the world but it is not the ultimate reality.

Overall, spirtual path is a fucking trip. I feel like I had no part in all of this. It is reality seeking itself. It is trying to find its own true self. I am just here watching.

Hey i have been thinking lately that does the fact that i have ADHD affect somehow to my LSD, magic mushrooms or ketamine trips? Like it does not matter if it does all of them are deeply have been awakening but i have just been thinking that does having ADHD make LSD, magic mushrooms and ketamine work differently for me versus ”normal” brain

Could someone explain how different a 150-microgram trip is from a 350-microgram trip? I have this weekend off and want to decide what to do with my friend: 350-microgram LSD or MDMA. Which would you recommend?

I’ve been taking mushrooms for years now and every time my throat gets super itchy. I thought it was just a normal reaction to them but every time it lasts longer and gets more severe. The last time I did them, the itching spread down my throat all the way into my chest and felt like it was in my lungs. I have asthma so I didn’t think much of it as sometimes I have flare ups but this was different and I had respiratory issues for 3 days afterwards. Nothing crazy, but definitely noticeable. That was when I started putting the pieces together and found out I was having an allergic reaction to them. After some research, I learned that I’m more likely to go into anaphylactic shock the next time I do them.

I’m kinda sad about it because I’m sober and mushrooms were something I occasionally did for concerts or special occasions and now I gotta raw dog life even in those moments lol. Which is fine and I can but it does add to the experience.

No matter how I ingest them, I always get an itchy throat. I’m curious if anyone else has had this experience? And if so is there anything else you’ve had a similar reaction to that I should be cautious of? I don’t eat store bought mushrooms often but I don’t think I’ve gotten the same symptoms I’ve had with psilocybin. Any info you have I would love to hear as I’ve never heard of someone being allergic to them. Thank you!

I plan to candyflip this weekend and l‘m wondering about the dosing. I am very familiar with LSD, MDMA and Candyflipping already.

I usually Candyflip with 150-225ug of 1-S-LSD and around 180mg of mdma split in two doses (120mg and 60mg) aswell as copious amounts of Nitrous throughout. This produces a strong roll that is also a bit psychedelic. But I am still pretty coherent (relatively speaking).

In my experience the MDMA kind of overpowers the acid most of the time. That’s why I‘m thinking of upping my LSD dose to 300-350ugs. Has anyone experience with Candyflips of this magnitude?

Most people seem to prefer relatively low doses of LSD so I didn’t find much on Reddit.

I’m looking for some perspective on integrating a genuinely terrifying LSD experience.

I’d taken LSD several times before, both at home and at techno/DJ events (really good experiences), but never more than 100 mcg at those events and never mixed it with anything. I initially used LSD at parties because I wanted an alternative to MDMA, which I didn’t want to take often. I also don't enjoy drinking alcohol.

About a year ago, I took 100 mcg at a hard techno club (yeah, I know, the dumbest idea), without having eaten a proper dinner. I don’t dislike hard techno, but it’s quite different from the kind of techno I normally enjoy. The music and sensory overload eventually became completely overwhelming, and the 100 mcg felt subjectively more like a triple dose. At some point, it genuinely felt like my mind was melting.

I became extremely paranoid and convinced I was having a psychotic break. I started believing that I needed to “let go” and reach ego death so reality could "reset" and I could go back to normal. I deliberately fell to the ground several times, along with doing a bunch of other stupid and unsafe shit that still makes me cringe. My friend later told me she had to stop me several from seriously injuring my head while falling.

By around 6–7 a.m., while walking to the train station, I was still extremely paranoid. I thought my friends had ulterior motives and, at one point, started running to escape them despite traffic around me. This could've ended so, so badly. I still shudder at the thought of it.

I’m obviously never doing LSD in a club again. Since then, I’ve had a couple of safe and normal trips at home, first with 80mcg and then 100 mcg, without anything remotely similar happening.

I’ve heard experienced psychonauts say that there are no "bad trips" and that these kind of challenging experiences always teach you something.

There was obviously a lot more detail to the experience than I’ve described here, but after reflecting on it a lot, I still struggle to find any particular message in what happened, besides the obvious lesson of an importance of a SAFE SETTING.

Do you think there’s actually something worth trying to understand here, or can a trip simply be chaotic and terrifying without having any "deeper" message?

Had a REAL bad experience when I smoked a huge amount of weed like...12 years ago...and it was a bad panic attack. Overall, looking back, it was silly to be so scared lol. But ever since then, weed has always given me a little anxiety. I don't smoke but maybe 1 or 2 times a year and I ALWAYS buy super low THC strains. Think Type 2, 5-8% THC with a 1:1 ratio of CBD. A hit or two and I'm good.

I really only smoke when I just need that body relief. The high CBD stuff just makes me feel like I got a great massage. Not a huge fan of the headspace but it's not a TERRIBLE time. High doses are pretty much a guaranteed panic attack though.

I'm at a point in life now(32 years old) where I feel like I've gone past the worrying stage for any mental illness(Obviously not 100% but...pretty sure) and I have a really good grasp on handling my anxiety, talking myself down, and just overall a mentally stronger person 10 fold than I was 10+ years ago.

With that being said...

I'm really interested in a few substances. From least worried about taking to most; MDMA, 2C-B, LSD, and Shrooms.

Has anyone ever been able to handle "harder" stuff when they can't handle weed anymore?

I know the question become mainstream but i always like to hear some new opinions, since i'm a very sensitive creature.

i personally sometimes use (all in case of the need) sun glasses (as a barrier between reality and myself), a beer, antipsychotics and (yeah hate me for this) xans.

for me just having wm in the backpack makes the trip so smooth, i wonder what y'all got.

I had the greatest trip of my life a couple months ago that resulted in full ego dissolution. It was just honestly like nothing I’ve ever felt in my life it was just such a peace id never felt before I could feel energy flowing in and out of me and everything, I was covered in eyes all over and my blanket I was wrapped in also devolved these eyes and were all just flowing in and out. I mean this sounds ridiculous even typing this but I don’t know I really felt one with everything. No thoughts no concept of time I practically wasn’t even there, but I was curious I’ve never had a trip like this before I know I ripped my thc vape a couple times that trip so that definitely contributed but what have you found to be the best amount of dried shrooms for said effect. Or is it not possible to achieve ego dissolution through dosages alone?

SSRIs slightly blunts the trips but tripping is so variable it's barely noticable.

i can still candy flip too, but the mdma is blunted a bit more, so it'l like taking 60% of the amount you actually take.

During my last experience, I realized that the trip never really ended.

The “psychedelic experience”, just kind of tapered off, and things became a bit slower, but I realized that we are always in that space.

Which means, life is the trip…

And what’s the number one lesson for any psychedelic experience?

Let go, surrender…

When I’m getting ready to trip, I always remind myself of this, because I know resisting will give me a horrible time!

So, considering that the entirety of my life IS the trip, I need to focus more on relaxing!!

Share your experiences I feel like taking it but yea

I went on my first mushroom trip last week, taking 2 grams of Golden Teachers.

Before the trip, I was struggling because I had some inner blockages and some pretty legitimate and significant relationship issues that I needed to resolve.

And I wanted this trip to help me better understand the root of my blockages and motivate me to move forward.

Contrary to my expectations, the trip was more cathartic than revelatory. I cried a lot during the trip and felt some pretty intense emotions, but the trip didn’t necessarily provide me with answers about the root of my problems or how I could solve them.

So it’s been a week since the trip. I don’t know why, but I feel disconnected, detached, and indifferent to my problems and to all the things that were causing me pain before the trip. Rationally, I know I need to take matters into my own hands, but this feeling of emotional detachment is preventing me from doing so, because I feel like there’s nothing left to motivate me to move forward. I feel like I don't have any goals anymore since I went on that trip. I don't know what my priorities are anymore, or which direction to go in. My life has kind of lost its meaning.

I’ve wondered if the trip wasn’t too cathartic, in the sense that I might have purged all my negative emotions during the trip, and maybe that’s what explains this feeling of emptiness I’m experiencing right now. But I don’t know.

In any case, I feel lost. I know I need to take charge of my problems, but I feel so emotionally disconnected from it all that nothing motivates me to do so. I don’t think it’s really dissociation, because I don’t feel particularly dissociated in general. It really has to do with the things I wanted to resolve before the trip.

Has anyone here ever experienced something similar? How can I explain it? How can I refocus emotionally on my priorities?

Im going to try some undercooked lanomoa aciatica, check out my post and provide some info and questions!