Indoor trip in just over a week! What to do :)

[morthos]

Good day mushy people!

It looks like I'll have the chance to trip in a nice safe spot in just over a week from now, during a week off in BC. Its in a small shack in front of a lake, which will be frozen.

I intend to make a strong tea and trip in the night, with posters on the walls. I have a small stereo, but tend to go silent on the heavy trips so as not to be distracted by 'the flow' of my mind in this state. I'll have pipes, bailey's & juice.

Any thoughts on what else you might include in this?

I could go outside and even walk around on the lake, but I find when very high I'd rather be seated in a secure place, with everything I could want around me. I plan on tripping in late evening/early night as there are far fewer distractions around...there is a road behind the shack and a number of small mansions on the other side and down the way along the lake. Paranoia people!

All ideas welcome!

[carl]

I usually try to 'preload' my brain by checkin out some trippy art(MJ's stuff is really cool & it tends to stick with ya!)and anything nature related. Also some good soft low level lighting, even some lava lamps always work wonders for me.Best yet stay relaxed and enjoy the journey!

[orchid]

if you and i were walking along a road paved in shrooms or lsc this is where we would depart. i would much rather trip in the morning. especially surrounded by all of natures beauty.

folks want to be comfortable on trips....
thats like not wanting to sweat in a work out to me.

i hope im not being insulting but... trips should be scary if they are scary. trips should be whimsical if they are whimsical. make preparations. turn your environment into a comfortable place and for gods sake, play music that you find interesting but don't take the fucking wheel. just follow where the white rabbit leads and tell us all about it when your done!

we are looking for a few good psychonauts
the only question is, can you handle the truth?

[Hippie3]

incense
turn off any phones
first clean house, do dishes
shave and bathe.
i like PLANET DRUM by Mickey Hart-
just drums and chants you won't understand
but it helps
take you away...

[morthos]

Thanks for the respones guys!

I like the idea of the low level lighting...I may need to take a lamp or two with me and get an assortment of bulb wattages; I want to be able to look at the posters with decent light, but at the moment the main light is the ceiling light (with fan that I disable as it imposes an artificial pulse rythem in sound and light). I'm thinking 30~60W glazed bulbs.

I have a trio of old lava lamps that I could take with me, red, green and purple. Historically I find the green to be positive and well-lighting.

I understand your morning trip preference Orchid, but it is a matter of how to get from my shack to an isolated place where I feel I can trip out; last year plus a week I was at the same place and started going up (and uphill) the road into the woods to find such a place, but I could still hear traffic and even people. This hightened the usual xenophobia. Also with roads the feel became how far I should go, and if turning back was turning away from the purpose of what I had started..?

I can go down to the lake and walk on the ice, but knowing that anyone can see me and snowmobiles can come up for a chat at any time is not ideal. I can just hang out at the shore, but I would still be quite visable.

To be honest when on a level 4~5 trip I like to just sit & stare. Walking/hiking is less of my thing at that level...I'm always looking for somewhere to crash and zone out. Also I spend too much time and get frustrated trying to think if I should go further, which direction, back to base, etc.

I will have a number of things on hand...a laptop that can play movies, incense, candles, pot, marbles, etc. Suggestions here more than welcome please!

On that note, suggestions on trippy movies (no Japanamation thx) or pre-trip movies for mood? Before my last trip I watched 'Planet Terror'...was sweet!

The layout of the place will be tidied and reorganized so I make it feel 'mine' and customized.

The car will not be used...completely out of the question.

I do prefer to shower and such before tripping...much more enjoyable to feel clean when the senses are hightened. The cell will be off. I may shave my neck and such, but otherwise I plan to grow my beard out a little for the novelty.

I may make the tea with as much as 18g of a 2.5 year old vintage...in October I made tea with 10g and it was quite good, could have done more...I know I can do 12 for certain...not sure where to draw the line as the age of the mush makes calculating difficult. If I make the tea with 18g, would the magic be lost at all if I only had 2/3 at the start, then the remainder 4~6 hours later?

Thanks Hippie3, I will try to find/download Planet Drum. Any other suggestions for trip music I could gather? I think I would prefer rythmic music as compared to lyrical. I would be placing it on my IPod and playing it on a small stereo with speakers movable with length of wire. (I didn't like 'tune in, drop out')

What truth are you referring to Orchid? Truths of the further states of tripping or truths of myself?

Thanks guys!

[twoguysupnorth]

the night is pretty awsome too, mornings are great, but if you could time it to where you get to see the change. please be carefull as it is winter and you could freeze easily. it sounds lke you have it covered, but a clean house and no phones never seemed so important as it does right now. i'll hopefully be visiting a similar place soon, after about 8 yrs. hope you have a nice journey. just take it easy and keep warm. candles would be one thing i would bring.

[weeeeeee]

the milkdrop or milkdrop 2 plugin for winamp are both amazing both on drugs and sober big long playlist or you could just pull up that thread about the music vidz some good stuff on there

[Leary's Ghost]

Originally Posted by carl

I usually try to 'preload' my brain by checkin out some trippy art

i like to preload too but i usually do it with some spirtual dialogue. i like to listen to Huston Smith, Alan Watts, Brother David etc--all before anything starts to turn on. here is a cool short video that always seems to put me in a good mindset:
"A Good Day" video - Brother David Steindl-Rast
enjoy!

[pareil]

thanks for that, l.g.

[Leary's Ghost]

my pleasure to share it!

[orchid]

Originally Posted by morthos

What truth are you referring to Orchid? Truths of the further states of tripping or truths of myself?

you know, i've been reading my post and wondering the same damn thing... i should really keep myself from posting when im ripped to the gills.

i guess i'm just concerned... um.. about your ability to handle truth... maybe you should wear gloves and protective eye wear while handling truth and it goes without saying that you should never mix truth with anything else. it is after all, very volatile.

i hope you have fun on your trip and a blast with your novelty beard

be sure and write us a trip report, this has the makings of a stelar jaunt.

[morthos]

I find on heavy trips I will be up until the dawn anyway, so I may see it before passing out. Best thing was in October when this happened, and it just rained all day while I slept it off. Was nice to wake up to.

I have found a functional bit torrent for PlanetDrum 1997-07-12, but the other 2, "1998-10-25" and "Global Drum Project" seem hard to find working bit torrents for. Can anyone provide a link to working ones?

I won't splash truth around in public, don't worry! One has to be careful with that kind of thing.

[coastalite]

Originally Posted by morthos

I may make the tea with as much as 18g of a 2.5 year old vintage...in October I made tea with 10g and it was quite good, could have done more...I know I can do 12 for certain...not sure where to draw the line as the age of the mush makes calculating difficult. If I make the tea with 18g, would the magic be lost at all if I only had 2/3 at the start, then the remainder 4~6 hours later?

as much as 18g? wow. How did it go, or have you not done them yet?

[waylitjim]

Listen the Mood Doculators
Have fun

[Gorfydded]

If I was going to be by a lake in the forest I would do it in the daytime personally. If I am in a city surrounded by a bunch of nutjobs (myself included) I would probably trip at night with some jazz playing or complete silence. I think going out in the jungle and getting lost for a couple of hours is the greatest, but when I want to trip really hard I find it best to just curl up into a fetal position in my bed and see the weirdness that abounds with my my eyes closed. Hippie3 made a good point about turning of the phones, an unexpected call can really fuck shit up. Anyways do what makes you feel comfortable (or not), and enjoy

[Teonanacatl*38]

Originally Posted by Gorfydded

If I was going to be by a lake in the forest I would do it in the daytime personally. If I am in a city surrounded by a bunch of nutjobs (myself included) I would probably trip at night with some jazz playing or complete silence. I think going out in the jungle and getting lost for a couple of hours is the greatest, but when I want to trip really hard I find it best to just curl up into a fetal position in my bed and see the weirdness that abounds with my my eyes closed. Hippie3 made a good point about turning of the phones, an unexpected call can really fuck shit up. Anyways do what makes you feel comfortable (or not), and enjoy

Right on man....You gotta love jazz at night while beshroomed. Light a couple candles, get a stick of insence going...and slip into the otherworld. I did that last night. Great suggestions all around.