Forgeting a trip

[floppypeter]

Wren it comes to mushrooms, I usually cannot remember what the buzz felt like a week later and the memories of the visual hallucinations fade rapidly as well. Thought patterns during the trip are forgotten easily, every trip in this way, for me, is a new experience. almost like doing it for the first time.

Most of the time it seems I end up laughing my ass of when im on shrooms. Sober I am a relatively humorless person When I take shrooms I see humor everywhere and smile at the hilarity of the world. When tripping it seems more like a psycic purge for me. Over time, stress seems to build up from regular life events; work, family, friends, etc. Shrooms seem to help me process this stress, or at least distracts me from the stress and gives me some hilarity in my life. Every month or two I start to think "wow, I'd really like to dose".


Is tripping is really helping to process these issues or if it is just masking them or pushing them down. I think the answer lies in the middle. Maybe the psychedelics aren't ridding me of these problems but instead, its taking down the swelling so to speak, taking out the inflammation and agitation of my stresses. So the stresses don't go away but are lanced like a festering boil bringing them back to a manageable or realistic size.

The idea that when my problems and worries get really large and all encompassing a dose of psychedelics can perform a trick of giving some perspective on them, thus reducing there "size" in relation to the positives in my life. What a valuable tool !

I was wondering if psilly had this effect on others ?

[oibchip]

Pscilly has a very similar effect on me. I think that it helps me to look at life's responsibilities whether they be pleasant or unpleasant in a perspective that isn't so isn't so "in the middle of it" I am able to look at things as though I am on the outside looking in most of the time. I see irony in things that wouldn't normally strike me as ironic.I think that my appreciation of rhetoric is at an all time high. On the other side of the coin if I have also been immersed right smack in the middle of "bad" situations going on in my life by the the high pscilly gives me. I can't say that I have ever had a truly "bad trip" from it but I can say that I have had some difficult times when I really have had to look at what was going on in my life. I know that on larger doses I feel like a conduit for situations/energy that are happening in my world at that moment in time and my perspective of time really, really slows down for me so that I can "break" things down and find humor where in a "normal" (whatever that means) state of mind I wouldn't usually pay attention due to everyday events dominating my attention span.

Fortunately I am able to remember alot of my trips though and I feel like I am able to apply what I learn and see to my life and make choices and try to surround myself with people/places that kind of "fit" into my ideals.

I drank some coffee this morning so I am rambling. Cool thread FP

[spacecake]

To bad you don't remember them well.
My trips are more of a next episode, each time I dose...
Totally different then the first one,but I learn something new ,and it looks like it is going to some sort of direction,..or maybe I'm learning to control them better and get 'more' out of them each time I dose...

Whatever it is,it's a great mind tool.

[steeq]

Interesting thread

I find some of the things that you describe similar to conclusions that I have made regarding tripping for me. Especially the purging of stresses and emotions through laughter, fear etc.

I also find myself laughing at my problems, which I typically cannot do when I'm not dosed. I tend to take life a little to seriously in my every day living and dosing has showed me the harmony and humor in life that is sometimes hard to view otherwise.

On a side note, it has helped me to deal with what I believe to be post traumatic stress which had played into some mild depression and not so mild frustration. I tend to find myself constantly replaying out traumatic events in my life.

Shrooms bring those played out events to my attention and they are taken to the next level of actually accepting the cycle and seeing the beauty and truth in it, rather than being frustrated at the cycle and being in a state of denial. Meditation has been working good for me while taking small doses.

[floppypeter]

in opposition to mj , psilly in my experience, gives perspective and helps reduce stress.

MJ reduces stress for me but in a different way, it seems to quiet me down, like calming of a rough sea. Psilly, dosn't so much make the storm (stress) calmer as remind me how strong my vessel is and that, "it's ok, so smile, relax"

psilly in a sense makes me more comfortable where im at, pulls me into the moment. To the extent i can stay in the moment and smile im more happy and stress has less of an effect. If im concentrated on planning or thinking of the future or the past i'm more open to, and exhibit the physical effects of stress. (Ie. worrying about the mortgage, kids, savings, investments, health, decisions of the past and futre, etc.)

something we don't talk about often is why we want to take psilly, mj, lsd, mdma etc. and what the value of that experience is. People say it was "cool", "life changing" etc., but they don't really say how and why this drug makes them feel a certain way and its lasting effects.

Trip reports seem to be mostly reports full of descriptive literal detail, but very vacant when it comes to motives, and why's?

[mushroommaster7]

i agree with you most definately on that one obichip... psilocybin has a way of keeping me in check... a constant reality check keeps my prospects in close view... weather they be, like you said pleasant or the opposite of that...

"Fortunately I am able to remember alot of my trips though and I feel like I am able to apply what I learn and see to my life and make choices and try to surround myself with people/places that kind of "fit" into my ideals."

man you said it perfectly... i do the same thing... realize things that are invisible to the sober eye and try to apply what was learned to the exterior living.. provides for a very aware lifestyle...

[seedlessstinky1]

Yes Majic Mushrooms make me look at myself in an introspect kind of way, i feel so much more at peace, with the world in general. Not only during the trip but for several days afterwards. I come to this place in my mind that i would never have experinced without mushrooms, and like most everyone else is sayin, whether they remember it or not, that is what brings them back to the majical world of the mushroom. For centuries it has been like this, and those of us who have been lucky enough to experince this awesome realm should be grateful, which is how mushrooms make me feel. B4 i ramble on too much i just wanna say GOOD TOPIC...."I shroom in peace"