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Update: I’m the guy who took the shroom gummy’s

So, I’ve looked at my lab results and heard what my parents have told me. When EMS arrived on scene, my heart rate was in the 200’s. I was given Ativan to calm down, which failed to work barely lowering my heart rate into the 160’s. From there at the hospital my heart rate peaked at 199. I was questioned on what I took and i was accused of lying (which oddly set me off). Another thing I remember is in the trauma bay I was staring at the curtains watching them morph and move into things my mind could not fully comprehend. Anyways, I’m in and out of consciousness throughout my stay at the hospital, only thing I remember is my chest xray, and attempted urine sample. To elaborate further, I was given 2 IV bags of fluid and was unable to pee a single drop for the drug test, I somewhat remember this and the struggle it was to pee, yet I was able to pee in the end. Results for the urine/drug test came back and I only tested positive for thc (they didn’t test for psilocybin). There’s was a high amount of protein in my urine meaning kidney damage. This is odd because neither shrooms or thc should have that drastic of an effect on my kidneys, further leading me to believe the shrooms were laced with something. Anyways I’m feeling somewhat better and don’t feel high anymore, just dealing with severe DPDR at the moment

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u/Suspicious_Simple981 — 4 hours ago

How often is too often to smoke dmt

I fell like I would like to do it again I just like don’t wanna do to much again for context I don’t have any extra it would be just old shi that is still in the pipe I’ve been wanting to get back into it a little bc I was having bad trips on shrooms and lsd so I’ve stepped away from all of em and I’m trying to dip my toes back in lol

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u/dillpill2hoe9 — 3 hours ago

Ego dissolution is the easy part. What are you supposed to rebuild toward?

Hi. I recently gave a talk (then published as an essay) at a psychedelics conference. I'm doing a philosophy PhD focused on psychedelics, and this is the first time I've put my more academic work out there publicly. Psychedelics have been a huge part of my life for about a decade (I even wrote a book about my own experiences with it), and I figured this sub would be a good place to share it.

Most of the field is stuck in a false dichotomy, typically viewing the mystical experience has nothing but brain dynamics (relaxed priors, default mode network, etc), or it's evidence we need to revise our metaphysics toward something like idealism/panpsychism etc (tldr mind having some more fundamental role and against materialism). Both sides quietly agree on something I think is wrong, that the experience is a proposition to be scored true or false, a report on whether you contacted something real out there. I'd argue that's not actually how cognition works. Meaning is co-constructed between agent and world rather than simply found or projected, so a "mystical" state is better described as a shift in disclosure, in what shows up as mattering, than as a metaphysical claim awaiting a verdict.

That reframing matters most in the part of the field I think gets underweighted: what happens after the self loosens. Dissolution gets almost all the attention, understandably, it's the dramatic part and there's ofc decent neuroscience behind it. But dissolution just flattens existing structure, and a flattened structure can reorganize in more than one direction, toward something healthier, back to the old pattern, or into something novel but still pathological (the person who keeps doing psychedelics, keeps feeling like they're leveling up, and is quietly getting worse, as sometimes pops up here). None of this is visible from the neuroscience alone, a real insight and a confident delusion run on the same machinery. So the honest question isn't just "did the self dissolve," it's "reorganize toward what," and nothing in the pharmacology answers that.

What actually seems to answer it for me is attention, and specifically that attention is morally loaded, not just a spotlight you point at things. Attention functions as precision-weighting that structures the whole field of what counts as relevant to you moment to moment, and since we're social animals that field gets shaped by other people's cares too. I lean on Weil and Murdoch here, who argued attention is less something you force and more something you become receptive to, letting go of ego enough that the real, other people especially, shows up undistorted instead of through your own projections. Murdoch's specific claim is that moral change comes from attention whose result is a decrease in egoism and an increased sense of reality. This is the same 4E picture that makes set and setting causally powerful in the first place: cognition is world-involving, so both what you register as relevant and what the drug experience amounts to are shaped by agent and environment together, not generated by the molecule alone.

Put together, I think "the sacred" is best understood not as a supernatural object but as whatever sits at the top of that attention hierarchy, your highest concern, the thing that orders everything else you attend to. That's one piece of a larger dissertation argument, but it's a meaningful chunk of the overall direction I'm taking. I think it also bears on two things the field tends to shrug at: why some people get nothing from a full dose (in the sense they don't heal), and why effects fade over time (even if they heal, they return to their pathological state). This aspect of both context during the experience + integration through attention-mediated cultural system what can likely improve both.

I'd love feedback from anyone more philosophy-inclined, but I'm especially interested if any of this maps onto your own experience, not just a single trip, but the longer arc of what psychedelics have actually done in your life. When you hear the word "sacred," what actually comes to mind for you? Does it make sense to you that a trip isn't really "true" or "false" but somehow beyond the dichotomy itself?

u/rp_tiago — 10 hours ago

okay so the internett or ai says my tolernace is too high. lsd + shroms

I did 260ug on Sunday or like 2 tabs that were 130 ug and i spat one out after 30 min and swallowed the other. Im planning to do 260ug tmrw w a friend (Wednesday)+ 5g of cambodian cubensis shrooms. But Ai says I wont feel anything because my tolerance, the guy I am with says I will but. What do you guys say? Do you have any experience with this?

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u/Odd_Rice663 — 6 hours ago

Let talk about this masterpiece ! SALVIA DIVINORUM👀🪩

Write something? @discussion.

u/drugistM — 13 hours ago

Shroom gummies and weed trip report

I’m gonna be upfront, I’m a minor who did all this and I want this to be a lesson to others about how dangerous these street drugs are. Anyways here’s my actual trip report.

So I don’t have the exact time that I took this “proprietary shroom blend” gummy but it’s around 11:15 when I do so, I smoke a little bit of weed right after it and prepare for my trip. In about an hour in and I feel absolutely nothing. So I turn to Reddit for guidance and ask if this stuff is real or not, and if I could smoke more weed without an adverse reaction. One user says it’s good to do some more weed if I feel nothing, so I do. Around 12:11 is when I do my first blinker. Second blinker at 12:14. Third blinker at 12:17. And fourth blinker at 12:22. While I’m doing these hits I’m watching a Joe Bart video and the man he’s reacting to seems like a robot, his motions were all extremely smooth and his face was oddly absent of flaws. After staring at this man’s face for 3 seconds I’m hit with a wave of anxiety (maybe like some uncanny valley typa shit). At 12:25 I make the realization I’ve taken too much weed and am telling this to my very asleep friend. Making sense of my incoherent jibberish I say that my whole body is stinging but in a good almost orgasmic way. I note how in tweaking the fuck out at 12:32 where just minutes later I start to see vivid hallucinations of these watermelon seed sized creatures all over mu bed. Then for some reason, the yt vid I was on was a video about derealization and depersonalization. Conveniently enough. Both topics and their symptoms almost perfectly described the experience I have having. As for the time from 12:35 to 12:50 (when I call poison control) I only remember my eyes and mouth being bone dry with not a hint of moisture. Accompanying this was my tyachacardic heart rate.

It’s 12:53 now and the EMS have been called. I get up to turn on my light and kinda prepare myself for what’s gonna happen and as I walk I feel as if I’m moving in 30 fps, as if my brain was only comprehending information at said speed. Skipping forward a little bit, I’m outside with an officer asking me what I took and all those details they needed by then I’ve completely lost all sense of coordination of my body. At this point I’m speaking with EMS as they’re checking me out and making sure I’m ok. The EMS logged my heart rate around 150 I think (my watch measured it at 170 during the 911 call).
It’s at this point where they carry me to the ambulance where they ask my questions, monitor my heart, start an IV, and tries some maneuver to restart my heart (that’s what they told me it was). At this point im basically hooked up to an EKG and IV line. After a while we finally leave to the hospital where I fall in and out of consciousness but not rly (really weird experience). Once we arrive at the hospital I’m hit with a strong sense of mental clarity.
They hook me up to another EKG where they find my heart rate to still be in the high 140’s (where I’m laying basically lifeless on the stretcher).

It’s at this point where I’m moved into a trauma bay, where I’m questioned by the hospital staff about what I took and all the other necessary details. One of the physicians (I think) is asking me question and I’m answering them truthfully, to which he calls me a liar. This completely sets me off (in my mind, my body can’t move or do shit at all. After this point my memory is completely gone. I was given meds to help relax me (lorazepam I think, I don’t remember much). I’m discharged around 5:30 i assume, since we got home at around 6:00.

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u/Suspicious_Simple981 — 12 hours ago

How common do you think HPPD is? If you have it, how severe is it and what instance brought it on? Have any of you developed HPPD during your first few trips? I’ve never touched psychedelics and a friend wants to do shrooms while on vacation, multiple times. I’m worried. Any advice?

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u/Bored_So__lm_Here — 11 hours ago

Activitys to do while tripping?

I'm going to take 30mg of 4homet I'm wondering what I should do I don't wanna just sit around the house like I did last time

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u/LightningMC_qweef — 15 hours ago

So I’m the guy who took the shroom gummies yesterday

So uh, I’m alive thankfully. So last night I took one of those gummy’s and smoked way too much weed… I ended up at the hospital due to my elevated heart rate and blood pressure

Edit: I’ve posted my trip report!

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u/Suspicious_Simple981 — 15 hours ago

First Salvia experience soon. Any advice?

Hi!

Going to be having my first experience soon. It got delayed because I got this milligram scale for my mushrooms which doesn't appear to be working. Anyways, I got 10g of plain leaf, and 1g of 20x extract. I've been reading around on here, and found some dosage charts online. I have a glass bong, as well as one of those little six shooter pipes. Just gotta get me a torch lighter for those.

Meanwhile, regarding quidding, do you have a preferred dosage/method? What's the experience like? I have heard some do a couple-few grams for quidding? If that's the case, I do have a food scale that measures in grams. The replacement mg scale will be here soon enough.

Would love some thoughts and advice in general... I will be starting low and going slow of course. I plan on having someone here with me for the first time. It will be my first time experiencing something with someone present. Other experiences have been solo.

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u/Verdreckt — 16 hours ago

shrooms and ssris

My friends and i have been planning our first shrooms trip however, Iv been taking wellbutrin for a few months and prozac for a couple of weeks. iv researched if it’s safe or not, and iv found that it is but it significantly dulls the affects. Anybody on ssris that’s taken mushrooms? if so what was your experience and what should i expect?

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u/Fuzzy_Revolution674 — 15 hours ago

4aco dmt felt nth like shrooms?

I recently tried 4 aco dmt and it felt like shrooms but if it was missing something. The only way I can describe the difference is shrooms feels much more immersive and has some like soul and warmth to it or sum idk😂 4aco felt like I was half sober half geeked and the visuals were completely different (shroom visuals usually make everything and anything wave and deform beautifully while 4 aco js gave me boring patterns on my walls. Another weird thing I noticed was whenever I take shrooms and watch movies I notice humans and just the movie itself looks odd and uncanny and sometimes ill stare at the screen for 15 min and not know what the hell im looking at, but on 4 aco everything looked completely normal and the visuals mostly only effected the walls and my surroundings. Another thing is after taking shrooms my hands and body will look weird and have fractals all over but I didnt get that either, also no deep introspective thoughts like usual

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u/Low-Buy9285 — 13 hours ago

Where are trip reports for these modern mushroom gummies?

Or are people going in completely blind? That's bonkers to me that some one'd do that. Is there a place where people can store their reports from certain brands or is there no modern thing like that? I'm uninterested in consuming these products entirely, I just think for harm reduction sake some type of reporting on experiences from these packages would be smart for us to have.

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u/omnitions — 19 hours ago

Does anyone else get a weird feeling before or just thinking about dosing?

I was remembering it is just about time to trip again. The rotation, probably metocin or a Silly Dot. I also have some 1p and 1v LSD but I like to change out. Anyway, to the point of the post, I notice even before I dose my neck and throat get a funny feeling, kind of like what I experience sometimes during come up. This time I'm not even dosing today but just thinking about it I kind of got that feeling. I don't really mind it, it's just kind of weird.

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u/MirrorEither1554 — 12 hours ago

I feel like a lot of people aren't very respectful to psychedelics

Like I understand they're fun and all and can be a wonderful tool but it's not like weed or alcohol you're causing every part of your brain to interact and severe abuse can be detrimental to your mental health. Also people act like they're strong willed because they take insane doses and that's a horrible way to think because these molecules will humble you very quickly if you let your ego grow too much. You shouldn't take psychedelics to prove something to yourself you should take psychedelics to explore this state of mind and learn about yourself. I'm not against recreational use of psychs they're very enjoyable and fascinating but it's not something you can mess around with whenever you want it's not a toy it's a tool and gateway. Sorry I just had to rant it's frustrating

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MAL?(Methallylescaline)

Does anybody know about this drug? I cant seem to find info about it anywhete but I know its a synthetic analog of mescaline but what makes it different than mescaline and what are the effects/durations of effects?

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u/Low-Buy9285 — 14 hours ago

Is this shit real

I took one and haven’t felt anything yet… I took it around 11:15. Should I like make myself puke or am I js gonna have a shitty trip. (Also took a few puffs off a preroll sooooo)

What activities you begin to live after doing psychs a lot?

What are some of your favourite activities that you started enjoy after doing psychs ? For me, i think I started loving walking, traveling, playing team sports. What else?

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Why do people not like to look in the mirror on psychs

It seems like a big thing for a lot of people who trip... to avoid looking at mirrors. But I don't fully understand why. Do people just find those visuals unsettling or is there some specific reaction I'm missing?

Personally when I trip I love staring at myself in the mirror and I could do it for a while. Its cool to see your face change and I'll get some of the strongest and most memorable visuals this way.

I've definitely experienced some weird disconnect from my body while doing this, so maybe thats the undesirable part? But psychs kinda do that in general lol

If you avoid mirrors and/or don't like to look in them when you trip, whats your reasoning?

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u/blood_is_beautiful — 1 day ago