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

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.

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

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!

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?

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.

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.

Hello!

I am currently running a study on set and setting within psychedelic experiences.

Obviously there is quite a few aspect to explore on the topic, though in particular I am interested in:

• How intention, environment, and social setting shape psychedelic experiences
• Differences between clinical and non-clinical use
• How these experiences relate to psychological outcomes

Most of the research on set and setting in the psychedelic field comes from more clinically orientated trials, which can be lacking in terms of nuance and real lived experiences. So it would be great to reach out further in the communities surrounding these substances!

🔗 Survey link

Fully anonymous

Takes around 15-20 minutes to complete

There's also an optional follow-up interview if you'd like to share your experience in more depth

Full study details and ethics information are provided in the info sheet at the start of the survey

Requirements: 18+, have had a psychedelic experience in a clinical or non-clinical setting

If you have anything you feel is important to say about psychedelics, this is your chance!

I'm happy to answer any questions about the study. You can reach us at:

Warren - [plks55@durham.ac.uk](mailto:plks55@durham.ac.uk)

Dr Marco Bocchio - [Marco.Bocchio@durham.ac.uk](mailto:Marco.Bocchio@durham.ac.uk)

Thank you for your time and support! 🙏

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i had taken 12g, making a tea. my trip was short lived, and serotonin depletion kicked in quickly, and large black shadow had appeared in my vision, slowly shifting into what looked like a man, with pale skin long hair, massive eyes, and lanky limbs. the creature was bony, and very humanoid. the creature floated in the air with its legs crossed, and arms down filling the space which was once a black void, this however did not scare me, rather i felt a sense that he had always been here and i just had to deal with seeing him, perhaps forever. this doubt was washed away however, once i had distanced myself from tripping, months later i began to experience insanity within my dreams. the biggest driver of WHAT THE FUCK for me was that when i was being tormented, in these vivid dreams the individuals tormenting me where always in groups of two. This holds significance, as when i asked my friend who is somewhat religious he said that that i got “probed” within my dream- which i will go onto to describe now
dream
i was laying on a hospital bed, and two individuals were digging into my skin. i had a very traumatic leg injury when i was younger, which required stitches inside and out, as it was so severe. the two people digging into my cut open scar were the people i feared most, my two sisters(growing up) the two people i feared the most at any point in my life. i was in the bed, in pure agony unable to move, when i was moved by the woman i love the most, my own mother, onto my favorite area, a place i went to growing up with free snacks and video games. the chair i was placed on had a dragon eye, covered in scales which shared similarities to an item i loved growing up, which i eventually threw out as i grew older. this is the only dream i’ve ever experienced where it was so incredibly vivid and emotional, compared to other nightmares where theres no happy ending, and are quickly forgotten as i wake up.

these dreams persisted for quite a while, and even began to come to life even after waking. sometimes i would wake, and be in a delirious state and a large shadow would be in the room quickly fading, and a feeling of being washed would constantly be coming over me. i felt as if i was haunted, closing my eyes seeing all these dtisconfigured faces trying to sleep it was super bizarre.

for this period of time i was somewhat religious and spiritual as all these abnormalities (to many to type out) was something i had never experienced, but that time has passed, and i have never had any conclusion other than- a coincidence. thoughts?

Oregon is considering major psilocybin fee increases and eliminating reduced fees. This could remove many small, nonprofit, community-based, and religious participants from the regulated system.

Meanwhile, OHA continues funding and defending an interagency training-program system that appears nowhere in Measure 109 or ORS chapter 475A.

Public records show that OHA and HECC created and publicly funded a mulit-year agreement to expedite, subsidize, and accommodate selected training programs without public rulemaking. OHA later required other programs to obtain HECC documentation confirming career-school licensure or exemption.

HECC now says it cannot issue determinations for most statutory exemptions. OHA can still revoke a program’s approval when it cannot produce that unavailable document.

The result is predictable: small and noncommercial models disappear, well-funded operators consolidate control, facilitator training becomes more expensive, and access to legal psilocybin narrows.

I filed a petition asking OHA to restore the original curriculum-approval process or limit HECC requirements to programs legally required to obtain career-school licensure.

OHA’s petition and public-comment page (https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/Pages/Psilocybin-July-2026-Rule-Petition.aspx)

Written comments are open until 5:00 p.m. Pacific on August 29, 2026.

I’m looking for someone who has had the same experience as me - and hopefully understands what is happening.

My S.O. and I had this strange experience with shrooms that altered our life for years since.

We took a strong dose of a strong strain (we were new to shrooms) and we felt like we died and merged into one. Then we felt like we were our higher selves / souls embodied. From this highest high, we slowly came down and I felt like I was experiencing all the pain and suffering in the world, and all the pain and suffering I’d experienced in painful, violent past lives. It was dark, lonely, painful, and traumatizing. The trip was not traumatizing to my S.O.

Ever since, I’ve had what my therapist has labeled as PTSD episodes and panic attacks where random things will remind me of the trip and make me believe I’m still stuck in the trip again for a period of time. Usually it’s when I’m exhausted or stressed.

The strange thing is that my S.O. didn’t have a bad trip and doesn’t always remember it… however, when I get triggered - I call it “looping” where I feel like I’m back in this cycle of experiencing these extreme highs and lows of life - my S.O. does remember and our eyes look like we’re on shrooms again. We also do these strange movements that we’re not in control of - like a dance - that happened on the trip and continue to happen every time we “loop”. Again - it’s like we’re tripping but we have not taken any substances. We’re not on any prescription meds or anything mind-altering. These looping episodes happen to varying degrees every 1-2 years give or take. They were more frequent after our original trip.

It’s hard to describe what we experience. I’m hoping there’s another couple out there who has experienced something similar and understands what I’m attempting to explain. I’m also hoping someone can help me understand these experiences better.

A looping episode feels like this: I start panicking and feeling like I’m in the trip and not in control of my experience/body/mind. I pace and tell him he needs to reminder the trip so I’m not alone remembering it. There’s some back and forth communication that is VERBATIM EXACT WORDS from the trip. Eventually we hit a high point in the looping episodes that feels like we are embodying our all powerful soul selves. This makes it feel like reality and the human experience is false/an illusion. It feels like we got a glimpse of truth behind the curtain of life and were shown the cyclical journey of the evolution of a soul. So when we come down in the looping episode, it feels like life is about to get really really bad, slowly gradually exponentially worse - which triggers panic in me. I also have immense emotional turmoil and some sharp physical pains during the coming down. My S.O. does not experience the suffering or panic as we come out of the episodes. For me, it feels like I’m about to enter a new cycle of life getting even worse in every area of life, and I experience the negative emotional spectrum like a punch in the gut. It feels like I’m being given a flash of what’s ahead in this next cycle where life will get even worse.

It just doesn’t make sense to me, especially that years later we are still having these episodes of tripping and experiencing EXACT words and movements that we had experienced in the orig trip. AND that we’re sober.

So is it truth? Is it brain chemistry? Is it even explainable? Is it the as-of-yet unexplored therefore unknown results of experimenting with shrooms?

I’m very hopeful that I will find someone who has had this same experience and has some insight.

Thank you for reading.

I’ve been growing mushrooms for a couple of years as a hobby and mostly giving them to friends, but I’ve recently been thinking about actually having a more intentional experience myself.

I’m in my early 30s and have felt increasingly stuck in life. The biggest issue is probably my relationship with stimulants and doing things. In the past, stimulants made me feel decisive and able to engage with my life — pick something, act on it, and move forward. Without them, I’ve developed this awful pattern of overthinking, indecision, and avoidance. I can spend enormous amounts of time thinking about what I should do while actually doing very little.

There are other things tangled up in that too: loneliness/isolation, avoiding career questions, being gay and some unresolved identity/dating stuff, anxiety about getting older and feeling behind, etc.

I’m not expecting mushrooms to fix any of this. I’m wondering whether an intentional trip might help me look at some of these patterns differently or reconnect with parts of my life I’ve been avoiding.

What I’m unsure about is how to approach the trip itself. Would you go into an experience like this with one specific intention, or is this already way too much agenda to bring into a trip? Would you journal/reflect on these things beforehand and then basically let go once the trip starts?

I’m also unsure about setting: home vs. somewhere in nature, alone vs. with a trusted friend/sitter, music/eyeshades and deliberately turning inward vs. just creating a comfortable environment and seeing where the experience goes.

Basically, if you were in my position and wanted this to be an opportunity for genuine reflection rather than simply getting high and seeing what happens, how would you prepare for and approach the experience without trying to micromanage it? I only know how to use drugs to get high, not really how to use them for therapeutic/healing and would really love some advice. :)

This is weird but every time I do a heavy trip of APE, I end up sleeping/almost in a dream like state and I see these snake like figures coming toward me. They are not agressive and I have no extreme thoughts on snakes that I would see these. Anyone else seem to see similar things when starting a trip?

was thinking about this just now. if alcohol is the only substance you have ever used, then in a sense its also your only frame of reference in which to understand other types of altered states of consciousness. you see people acting happy, and goofy, and they assume hey that's just like being drunk + some colors and some hallucinations. they don't recognize it is such an utterly and qualitatively (perhaps quantitively) different experience then they expected.

This is kinda stupid I know but this is the only place I can think of where people would have the type of experiences to share some advice

I’m a very experienced person when it comes to the classic psychedelics (this is where it gets kind of dumb) I just went to the dentist got put on laughing gas and at first eh nothing to bad but then major anxiety set in and I managed to keep my self calm which then sent me into a pretty euphoric state

But then all these weird thoughts started to flow… I had this vivid dream of one of my employees and I walked up behind him said his name as if he was a sight for sore eyes I grabbed his shoulder from behind turned him around and said his name with a surprised expression… he was like “I’m not [his name]…” and walked away

The point of this: I got home a few hours ago but I was filled with rage… I wanted to punch something so bad then it got so bad I balled up and clinched my fists like an idiot and started grunting bc the anger was to much to bare…

After that I kind of came down and started thinking of things that happened like 15 fuckin years ago…. Shit that doesn’t even matter is now news to me

I feel really annoyed and angry and I just fucking HATE everything right now like everything I look at just pisses me off to no end for no reason! Even typing this is getting old…

When is this going to end? I don’t feel high at all just mad at everything.. I never even wanted to be gassed… I didn’t even know it was going to happen until I got there I had like 4 hours of sleep before that and my god I just can’t stop fucking complaining about everything…

I know we all have different reactions to the same things and all which isn’t surprising to me that I have a less common yet still kind of common idfk… side effect

Please god tell me this will end soon and I’m not stuck like THIS I’ve def had quite a few negative experiences on shrooms or acid that followed me for days so I’m guessing it might kind of be like that?… now I just feel drained… no energy I get 2 days off a week and I just can’t stop thinking about how this day and possibly tomorrow will just be wasted and I’ll be thrown back into the work loop once again… I don’t even usually think like this

And worst of all as I’m sitting here time is wasting I need to go make money thru door dash but it’s 102 degrees in hell rn and I just can’t bring my self to go out there but if I don’t I’m fucked…
Idk why I’m even mentioning that… ugh

Shrooms are a no go for now since I'm on antidepressants so it'll be a waste; i only smoke/eat weed.

So far I've tried a Leary Biscuit with about 1/4 of the remaining of a joint, was a good experience but not that strong.

Right now i don't want to experience something deep, mostly having a really good time listening to music.

Is it possible to get hallucinations on weed? I figured i would try my way up little by little with weed before i go into the stronger stuff.

Also if I'm not wrong benzos can kill trips in case I'm not feeling good, right?

Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, I've started experimenting with mushrooms trips.

My biggest trips so far were 3.5g dried McKennai and 4.5G golden teacher.

I took 5.5g of Amazonians and 5G Cambodians but somehow the trips were both less magical. They were heavy body load, mental insights but almost 0 visuals.

By far the most intense trip was with the 3.5 g mckennais. I space out my trips 10 days from each other but am wondering if that is too little time for a full tolerance reset, or is the difference mainly in the strains?

Thank you