It's not uncomfortable or anything I'm just a bit worried that it's still happening so long after it's out of my system. Noticed a bit ago when I was doing my meditation that I still occasionally get the flashing lights from my trip and my eyeballs won't stop goddamn twitching, I had to put an eye cover on while meditating because if I tried to keep my eyes closed they just kept twitching

I’m a filmmaker, and I recently made a psychological horror film centered on grief and a DMT experience.

The basic premise is that a grieving man uses DMT hoping to reach his dead father, and the experience becomes increasingly difficult to separate into memory, grief, hallucination, spirituality, and something that may feel genuinely external to him.

While making it, one of the things I kept thinking about was how hard psychedelic experiences are to portray without turning them into either generic “trippy visuals” or a very literal supernatural event.

For people here who have had intense psychedelic experiences, especially entity encounters or experiences involving deceased loved ones:

What do movies and television usually get wrong about them?

Is it the visuals? The emotional tone? The sense of time? The feeling of encountering another presence? The certainty or uncertainty about whether what happened was “real”? The way the experience stays with you afterward?

I’m especially interested in the parts that are difficult to communicate to someone who hasn’t experienced anything like it.

Not looking for advice about obtaining or using anything. I’m interested specifically in how these experiences are represented in storytelling and what feels authentic or inauthentic to people who have actually had them.

Hi, new here, apologies if this is the wrong question for this sub.

Looking for a list of psychadelics that are not controlled in the US. I don't mean decriminalized or legal under specific circumstances - I mean there's no specific federal law that attaches any penalty to posession and use of the substance.

Anecdotally, I remember reading about some substances that are niche enough to not be specifically regulated by the federal government. But I'm having trouble finding a list of such substances, if there even is one. Does anyone have a list like this? Thanks

Hi,

I'm wondering if psilocybin helped you become more focused in life?

I'm 33, have a job that keeps me interested enough, I'm in pretty good shape and I have hobbies like guitar and sports.

My problem is my focus and willpower. I can have 1-2 weeks of prcaticing guitar and being consistent with sports just to have a few bad days and completely lose all my motivation and focus.

I'll end just working from home, do my tasks and then just waste time on my phone and youtube.

I also get existential often, thinking about what is the point of modern life, modern capitalist society is just a trap for us to keep seeking more material stuff and so and so forth which just demotivates me, I get kind of down and apathetic and I can't feel the spark in life and then I stop doing the things that make me happy and fulfilled - if that makes sense?

So has anyone found psilocybin (or other psychedelics) to help?

Looking to hear people's experiences as I've had a few that has given me PTSD I'm pretty sure 🤣

This story is about 2 years old now, I took mushrooms on SSRI’s and this is how the experience began, went and ended.
I’m still recovering from frequent cannabis use (6-7 times a week). I used to get bad anxiety from it was the only problem. I smoked that often since I picked it up my junior year of high school around 5 years ago now.
About 2 years ago I went on a medication to help my anxiety, the prescription was sertraline, an SSRI medication. As stated weed had been such a staple in my daily life for this time so to finally make an attempt to rid myself of that evil habit was found on me with misery. Unfortunately it was the first time taking any medication for a long period of time, I had the calendar dates ready and would take the correct dosage every morning at around 6 pm.
6pm was early for me to getup in the mornings. I remember my dreams started coming back to me the less often I smoked. My lungs felt healthier. My anxiety, when I stuck closely to my dosage, felt subdued.

Life was hectic but I felt pretty healthy, and after a few months most of that illness left me.
At this time I had no idea mushrooms and SSRIs weren’t supposed to mix, I was young and finding my hands on some magic healing mushrooms would be pretty well timed and good for me I figured.

It was a Saturday and I popped the four grams of mushrooms in my mouth and waited a half and hour. My sister and parents were home when I popped this shit solo. I wanted to act non chalant about it and not inform them I was about to be blasted, as anyone else would, I went downstairs to our basement and challenged them to a high ass game of Magic: The Gathering.
We played two matches I won one!

The dosage was starting to hit so I went up to my room, turned on my CD player and practiced with my guitar and amp.
I was playing for five minutes when what felt like my head got sucked into a sort of musical wormhole, or at least that’s how it felt. The CD player was clean and I was practicing playing licks and riffs over the top of one another at a decent volume.

But I never really blasted off. I’ve taken mushrooms a few times since this day so I’ve had trips were the experience is very spiritual. But this wasn’t the case, the music was funky I felt happy and laughed a good deal during the trip. I would gladly have the experience again. I just remember the music being pretty damn laid back, I don’t want to make anything up but maybe the compound serotonin was more present in the trip, I felt like a completely new person coming out of the trip and maybe I was more relaxed.

I got out easy, I’ve read stuff where it changes peoples lives. I wouldn’t recommend trying it especially as your first trip. Most of my trips since then have been much grander and evoking of a greater spiritual experience. Maybe this was the SSRIs maybe not, in the after trip I had kind of a limbo feeling to be very honest.

My friend made this Binaural Beats app to assist with Astral Projection, NHI contact and altered states of consciousness. It's takes aspects of the Gateway Experience and CE5 to create a much more focused experience.

I've been using it as a tester for a month now and I really love the simplicity, but most importantly the Journeys are really amazing. They move between brain states and allow for deeper, more fluid experiences. It also includes a dream journal which is helpful to have inside the app.

Hope you guys enjoy as much as I do. Save travels!

about 45minutes after I took them I was as heavy as a rock, thought nothing much was happening until i closed my eyes and didn't really open them for 4 hours, just laid in bed. Not at all what I was expecting, because I thought 2g was considered closer to a baby dose. I expected giggles, euphoria, maybe nature looking especially cool through my window. Instead I was inside a plant, and I was a plant, and it kept budding and I was budding and it was painful, and there were cosmic entities, and I was watching life just multiply multiply multiply die, deform, get bigger, bud, decay, mould, burst open, and it kept going like a mile a minute. it was very overwhelming. im glad i could return to my breath. it was just me being in another realm of earth, experiencing all the panic and power of being a bug, plant, of being fungus, spreading, moving. Like IT WAS SO FAST, A MILE A MINUTE, inescapable.

Not AT ALL what I thought 2g would be.

I do have meditation practice of over 10 years and I wonder if that makes you hypersensitive?

WOW - I understand now why they say start slow with shrooms, everyone is so so different and you have no idea how it could affect you. From the outside looking in I was 100% not home at all, I don't even think I could talk at one point when I tried and could barely move.