u/dotfred

I was planning to take a high dose for the very first time; I’m quite sensitive, so 250ug is a lot for me. My intention was to travel deep into introspection, so I was basically lying in bed with ANC headphones and a sleeping mask. I also did a 36-hour fast to clean my body and had mild sleep deprivation (I think I was so excited and a little bit nervous because my setting was not the best, but I decided to challenge it).

On the come-up, I listened to The Dark Side of the Moon, the visuals were amazing! Around the peak, I played Aboriginal tribal music and let the didgeridoo put me into a trance-like state of mind. I was practicing a sort of meditation, letting go of every thought and just being in the present.
It felt like there were several layers of the trip that I can describe as follows:

1. Conscious - that’s where I usually trip on lower doses. I feel my body and I kinda know where I am and what I’m doing. Although, this time the visuals were so vivid that with open eyes, it took 2–5 seconds of staring without moving my eyes for the visuals to completely take over my vision and send me into the fractal universe. Also, in this layer, my day-to-day struggles were haunting me (in both a negative and positive way).

2. Unconsciousness - I had to lie down, relax, and surrender to the visuals, my body disappeared and I became an amorphous point in the universe. The visuals became stronger, and I started hearing voices, squishy and bubbly sounds, although I had already turned off the music and had just ANC on. This state is also known to me, and here I tend to dissociate from my day-to-day life, and nothing worries me there.

3. Depths - this was new to me, and reaching this level was a bit hard to achieve, but I managed to get there several times during the trip, every time taking the same path from the upper layers through meditation and letting go of all distractions in my mind. Suddenly, the 2nd layer started falling apart, very slowly in the beginning, and then there was a boom. I describe it as being inside a colorful Lego house, where the bricks started evenly separating, and at one moment the house exploded in every direction away from me. In between them was pure nothingness, an endless dark space with floating elements that I think were pieces of the real world. For instance, my dog was sleeping by my side, and when he moved, I knew that the sensation of him against my body was that one element floating far away in the endless universe, but it didn’t distract me in there. I also saw a dead body (not sure if it was me or who it was) that slowly separated into elements, but I had a strong sensation of the soul remaining in that space - only the body dissolved.

4. Going deeper - even though it felt like there was nothing deeper than the vast, endless darkness, one mental practice deepened the experience even further. I forced my mind to stop being an observer of what the heck was happening around me, and I surrendered. There’s a certain movement with my eyes that I can do while sober, which I later learned is described in yoga as Ajna - looking with the third eye. I remember doing a similar practice in there, and suddenly I became one with the universe. All the remaining elements disappeared, and it was completely dark in there. I couldn’t hold this state for long, though, but I came back several times using the same practice.

5. The entity - once I was there, one with everything, an electrifying silhouette of a door appeared, which I opened to the left, but there were other doors. I remember opening at least hundreds of them, exponentially speeding through them. Suddenly, I reached the last one, and behind it was again complete darkness, but now, in the bottom right, a purple entity appeared, floating in the dark. It didn’t communicate with me, I observed it for a moment, and then it threw me back into the previous layers, and I couldn’t reach that deep again anymore. It looked somehow like on the attached image, but purple, with more hands & more eyes on the forehead, and of course, not at all cartoonish like this..

On the come-down, I did the MEQ30 - Mystical Experience Questionnaire, and the EDI - Ego-Dissolution Inventory. The mystical experience score was all in, no doubts about that, with partial ego dissolution as well. I honestly didn’t know this was possible on LSD.

It seemed to me like what people describe as a DMT waiting room, the entity there was also similar. Is it possible to reach the same state of mind through a trance-like state, meditation, and a high dose of LSD? In the end, it’s a similar overstimulation of serotonin receptors on LSD, DMT, Psilocybin, Mescaline..

After all, it was a physically tough day, but 100% the best experience in my life!! Looking forward to getting back one day.

Has anyone had a similar experience on LSD? And is there anyone with experience with both DMT and LSD who could connect the two worlds for me?

I’ve just learned that mosques in Iran are decorated in a way that resembles one of the most accurate representations of OEVs I’ve ever seen in the real world.

Do you know of any other art from around the world that carries the hidden message, “I know you know”?

https://preview.redd.it/h4wmv6m6bilh1.jpg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a5f6d9237fe3737d66a61a2b5d201bd8b910500