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Psychedelic Questions: When is "Set" good enough to safely trip?
| My question is: How do you know when your mindset is safe enough to take these drugs and have a positive experience? I wouldn't say I'm depressed but I'm not necessarily happy overall either. Just sorta meh, not particularly optimistic or pessimistic, just sorta going through the motions. Would you say that my set, providing I actually had a good setting and now knowing what to do on a trip to not send myself into a spiral, is safe enough for me to trip again and have a good time?
| I plan on taking psilocybin mushrooms instead of LSD in order to have a completely new experience that has no expectations to it since I feel like the memories of the LSD comeup may throw me into a flashback, whereas a different comeup that feels different such as with a different psychedelic will hold no emotional baggage to it for me.
And also, all of the "don't do drugs" or "just die junkie" people inevitably reading this, just please go somewhere else if you don't like this.
| -Psychonaut-In-Training-
| >How do you know when your mindset is safe enough to take these drugs and have a positive experience?
You don't. That's why you start slow, and you create a good setting (friends, a few pleasurable days ahead, comfort). The rest is out of your hands. Setting also include age and mental health. If you're in your twenties, with an history of depression or other mental illness, I wouldn't go there.
Low dosed psilocybin is a nice start and will tell you if you're up to it or not.
| When your at a good point in life and are with people you trust without a doubt
| Also you can always have a bad trip, as long as you are over 21(or 25) your brain will be fully developed and nothing bad will happen to you <3
Also don't take it too often (chemicals drugs like maximum 1 time a year). It fucks with your serotonin(and other chemicals in your brain) so it can be personality changing.
But when you take it one time a year it's like you have an operation per year where you get strong drugs for it.
And maybe test your stuff before so you know it's clean
| McKenna often recommended being alone in a safe environment and in silent darkness.
https://youtu.be/ZDDfULgmSs8
Education is the first step to being confident in letting go.
| Also get some fruits and water.
Banana's help your serotonin levels.
And eat and shit and drink water before, so you don't have any crazy needs.
| >>409498
You don't throw up from fruits and water. Only if your LSD is spiked with some other shit.
When you are high between 8-14 hours you still need to fuckin eat and drink dude.
Learn about safer use before you spat out shit on the internet.
| >>409266
Uncle mckenna always said that shrooms was almost always gentle on newbies, his words. Although i woundnt know it.
I always took between 1/4 and 1/2 of an lsd tab at home at it always went well and positively.
Weed on the other hand gives me panic attacks, go figure
| I love listening to mckenna, i mean he had some weird ideas, and i woulnd subscribe to 2/3 of what he says, but he is very eloquent non the less and that last third of his ramblings is very intresting and enlinghtening
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| I've done LSD once in my life and it was a very traumatic experience for me. I blame it mostly on having a terrible set and setting as well as not knowing how to give up control and let go, I kept trying to outthink the trip and think myself back to sanity because I felt like I was actually losing my mind. At the time I was curious but also not necessarily at the greatest place in my life, and as well the setting was pretty shitty.