My friend made this Binaural Beats app to assist with Astral Projection, NHI contact and altered states of consciousness. It's takes aspects of the Gateway Experience and CE5 to create a much more focused experience.

I've been using it as a tester for a month now and I really love the simplicity, but most importantly the Journeys are really amazing. They move between brain states and allow for deeper, more fluid experiences. It also includes a dream journal which is helpful to have inside the app.

Hope you guys enjoy as much as I do. Save travels!

After listening to this interview where this guy was definitely able to gain knowledge from another realm (he was told how Ibogaine is molecular technology that selectively decides what systems in the brain it will affect), I'm 90% sure I need to try this at least once. I'm very experienced with acid, shrooms, DMT, and disassociatives so I think I can handle it mentally. The biggest concern is the cardiovascular risks; I'm very athletic with no personal or family history of any heart problems, is this something I should worry about? I'm definitely on a quest for a scientific/spiritual connection to the other world and this seems like something definitely a part of that journey.

Psychedelics have always fascinated me and I really want to try them (mainly shrooms and LSD), but I'm currently prescribed 125 MG of Zoloft a day. I've heard a lot of different things for different people, some being fine while others have to double the dose or just don't feel anything no matter what, and that there is a risk for serotonin syndrome. So I have to ask, what's the best course here? Would going ahead be too dangerous, or will it just be dissapointing (or somehow turn out great)?

Hi, new here, apologies if this is the wrong question for this sub.

Looking for a list of psychadelics that are not controlled in the US. I don't mean decriminalized or legal under specific circumstances - I mean there's no specific federal law that attaches any penalty to posession and use of the substance.

Anecdotally, I remember reading about some substances that are niche enough to not be specifically regulated by the federal government. But I'm having trouble finding a list of such substances, if there even is one. Does anyone have a list like this? Thanks

So my plug has some golden envy’s in and I was just wondering exactly what that was a mix between penis, envy, and golden teachers or is that a completely separate strain? I’m just curious for potency and dosing.

Looking to hear people's experiences as I've had a few that has given me PTSD I'm pretty sure 🤣

I’m a filmmaker, and I recently made a psychological horror film centered on grief and a DMT experience.

The basic premise is that a grieving man uses DMT hoping to reach his dead father, and the experience becomes increasingly difficult to separate into memory, grief, hallucination, spirituality, and something that may feel genuinely external to him.

While making it, one of the things I kept thinking about was how hard psychedelic experiences are to portray without turning them into either generic “trippy visuals” or a very literal supernatural event.

For people here who have had intense psychedelic experiences, especially entity encounters or experiences involving deceased loved ones:

What do movies and television usually get wrong about them?

Is it the visuals? The emotional tone? The sense of time? The feeling of encountering another presence? The certainty or uncertainty about whether what happened was “real”? The way the experience stays with you afterward?

I’m especially interested in the parts that are difficult to communicate to someone who hasn’t experienced anything like it.

Not looking for advice about obtaining or using anything. I’m interested specifically in how these experiences are represented in storytelling and what feels authentic or inauthentic to people who have actually had them.

about 45minutes after I took them I was as heavy as a rock, thought nothing much was happening until i closed my eyes and didn't really open them for 4 hours, just laid in bed. Not at all what I was expecting, because I thought 2g was considered closer to a baby dose. I expected giggles, euphoria, maybe nature looking especially cool through my window. Instead I was inside a plant, and I was a plant, and it kept budding and I was budding and it was painful, and there were cosmic entities, and I was watching life just multiply multiply multiply die, deform, get bigger, bud, decay, mould, burst open, and it kept going like a mile a minute. it was very overwhelming. im glad i could return to my breath. it was just me being in another realm of earth, experiencing all the panic and power of being a bug, plant, of being fungus, spreading, moving. Like IT WAS SO FAST, A MILE A MINUTE, inescapable.

Not AT ALL what I thought 2g would be.

I do have meditation practice of over 10 years and I wonder if that makes you hypersensitive?

WOW - I understand now why they say start slow with shrooms, everyone is so so different and you have no idea how it could affect you. From the outside looking in I was 100% not home at all, I don't even think I could talk at one point when I tried and could barely move.

I’m literally copying and pasting what I wrote in my trip journal. First time making a post like this, so open to feedback. I’ll write a little summary/introspect at the end. Previous I did a trip with 2.5g of yeti. For comparison, in that 2.5g yeti trip all I wrote in my journal was "You are hurt, there is nothing wrong with you".

📋 Trip report

Dosage  
2.53g of White Rabbit

Setting
Studio apartment with two cats. 

Mindset and intention
Sat down cross legs and said this out loud:
“Mushrooms, give me the experience that you think I need today. I am here to receive your knowledge and your wisdom”

Did the serenity prayer: 
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.
They will be done, not mine.
Amen.
Namaste.”

8:20am 
*took the medicine*

9:30
Why is it that something that hurts us also gives us so much pleasure?

Why do I want to date a “slut” so bad? Not just sleep with her, but date and love her… and why does it make me sad now? 

I feel like it’s been “9:30” for 30 minutes… time is a construct

9:33 (this is what the microwave is “saying”)

I decide to take an additional 1.03g of white rabbit, I am ready, why am I afraid?

I must NOT fear. FEAR is the MIND KILLER.

Nothing to fear but fear itself. 

I want to go deeper 

Having a lot of conversations with myself. ALmost wanted to listen to music, but instead I am going to lie back down with my blindfold.

The concept of “horny”. What actually does it mean to be horny?

9:46 (microwave time)
maybe looking at the time is affecting my trip, going to cover up the time with some tape. 

Mindfulness can be stressful

The words mindful and stressful share the last 3 letters. mindful stressful. 

It’s 10am (removed the tape from the microwave clocked and looked at it)
1 hour and 40 minutes since I started the trip
Mushrooms are weak? Or maybe the strain isn’t affecting me as much?
I am visually tripping but not feeling super introspective

They are paying me for all the time and knowledge I’ve spent building a relationship for the mushroom

When you tell me no, it means that you trust me

I should put truck nuts on my nuts

The truth will set you free
Reality lives in your head!!!!!

Why does it feel “wrong” to want to have sex with my friend?

The laughing Buddah 

People get anxious because they can’t meditate

We have to figure out everything (where we come from, where we are going) and that causes us pain. We DON’T have to try to figure everything out, just be here, be here now.

My golden path is to teach people not to take life so seriously

I have to be careful if I have sex with someone on mushrooms, I need to be intentional 

Sex does not equal love

It can be, but it isn’t by default and there is nothing wrong with pleasure

IDK know what time it is, leaving the apartment now, it’s sunny outside

Maybe I am too attached to ego death. But I should still do it because it will give me perspective and I will be better prepared to guide someone through a potential ego death trip.

During this whole trip, mostly no pain in my arm

I am judging people for being judgy, and that in itself is judgy

DUNE - the quote about atrocities
(this wasn’t in my trip journal (but the above is referring to the quote below)
“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”

11am
Going to go outside, I’m not taking my trip journal 

Summery/introspective thoughts
So it’s 4:15pm now and the trip is over. I ended up walking outside and it was fun. Sunny day, smoked some weed along the way, dipped my fit in water and it felt really good. The trip itself wasn’t as deep as my other trips with 2.0g and 2.5g of yeti. I wonder if this strain of white rabbit was weak? I’m also thinking, maybe I don’t have any additional insights to gain on this dosage? I wish I would have stuck with the yeti strain. I started with 2.5g because the last 2.5g trip felt pretty strong, then I took an additional 1g but tbh I didn't feel much of a change. I think next time I will jump to 3.0 off the back and try to do it with yeti. 

This trip/strain was still nice, much more mellow.

Any thoughts on what I wrote? Not sure where the mushrooms were taking me, a lot of the things I wrote are relevant to things going on in my life right now.

See you, space cowboy 
👁️🚀👁️

It's not uncomfortable or anything I'm just a bit worried that it's still happening so long after it's out of my system. Noticed a bit ago when I was doing my meditation that I still occasionally get the flashing lights from my trip and my eyeballs won't stop goddamn twitching, I had to put an eye cover on while meditating because if I tried to keep my eyes closed they just kept twitching

Hi,

I'm wondering if psilocybin helped you become more focused in life?

I'm 33, have a job that keeps me interested enough, I'm in pretty good shape and I have hobbies like guitar and sports.

My problem is my focus and willpower. I can have 1-2 weeks of prcaticing guitar and being consistent with sports just to have a few bad days and completely lose all my motivation and focus.

I'll end just working from home, do my tasks and then just waste time on my phone and youtube.

I also get existential often, thinking about what is the point of modern life, modern capitalist society is just a trap for us to keep seeking more material stuff and so and so forth which just demotivates me, I get kind of down and apathetic and I can't feel the spark in life and then I stop doing the things that make me happy and fulfilled - if that makes sense?

So has anyone found psilocybin (or other psychedelics) to help?

Shrooms are a no go for now since I'm on antidepressants so it'll be a waste; i only smoke/eat weed.

So far I've tried a Leary Biscuit with about 1/4 of the remaining of a joint, was a good experience but not that strong.

Right now i don't want to experience something deep, mostly having a really good time listening to music.

Is it possible to get hallucinations on weed? I figured i would try my way up little by little with weed before i go into the stronger stuff.

Also if I'm not wrong benzos can kill trips in case I'm not feeling good, right?

Thanks in advance.

i had taken 12g, making a tea. my trip was short lived, and serotonin depletion kicked in quickly, and large black shadow had appeared in my vision, slowly shifting into what looked like a man, with pale skin long hair, massive eyes, and lanky limbs. the creature was bony, and very humanoid. the creature floated in the air with its legs crossed, and arms down filling the space which was once a black void, this however did not scare me, rather i felt a sense that he had always been here and i just had to deal with seeing him, perhaps forever. this doubt was washed away however, once i had distanced myself from tripping, months later i began to experience insanity within my dreams. the biggest driver of WHAT THE FUCK for me was that when i was being tormented, in these vivid dreams the individuals tormenting me where always in groups of two. This holds significance, as when i asked my friend who is somewhat religious he said that that i got “probed” within my dream- which i will go onto to describe now
dream
i was laying on a hospital bed, and two individuals were digging into my skin. i had a very traumatic leg injury when i was younger, which required stitches inside and out, as it was so severe. the two people digging into my cut open scar were the people i feared most, my two sisters(growing up) the two people i feared the most at any point in my life. i was in the bed, in pure agony unable to move, when i was moved by the woman i love the most, my own mother, onto my favorite area, a place i went to growing up with free snacks and video games. the chair i was placed on had a dragon eye, covered in scales which shared similarities to an item i loved growing up, which i eventually threw out as i grew older. this is the only dream i’ve ever experienced where it was so incredibly vivid and emotional, compared to other nightmares where theres no happy ending, and are quickly forgotten as i wake up.

these dreams persisted for quite a while, and even began to come to life even after waking. sometimes i would wake, and be in a delirious state and a large shadow would be in the room quickly fading, and a feeling of being washed would constantly be coming over me. i felt as if i was haunted, closing my eyes seeing all these dtisconfigured faces trying to sleep it was super bizarre.

for this period of time i was somewhat religious and spiritual as all these abnormalities (to many to type out) was something i had never experienced, but that time has passed, and i have never had any conclusion other than- a coincidence. thoughts?

Hello!

I am currently running a study on set and setting within psychedelic experiences.

Obviously there is quite a few aspect to explore on the topic, though in particular I am interested in:

• How intention, environment, and social setting shape psychedelic experiences
• Differences between clinical and non-clinical use
• How these experiences relate to psychological outcomes

Most of the research on set and setting in the psychedelic field comes from more clinically orientated trials, which can be lacking in terms of nuance and real lived experiences. So it would be great to reach out further in the communities surrounding these substances!

🔗 Survey link

Fully anonymous

Takes around 15-20 minutes to complete

There's also an optional follow-up interview if you'd like to share your experience in more depth

Full study details and ethics information are provided in the info sheet at the start of the survey

Requirements: 18+, have had a psychedelic experience in a clinical or non-clinical setting

If you have anything you feel is important to say about psychedelics, this is your chance!

I'm happy to answer any questions about the study. You can reach us at:

Warren - plks55@durham.ac.uk

Dr Marco Bocchio - Marco.Bocchio@durham.ac.uk

Thank you for your time and support! 🙏

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hello, i have been exploring the ketamine space but having a lot of trouble with just the ketamine powder. it's hard to be exact, hard to do repeats. I like to have a controlled amount, time my trips, document, etc. I had a friend who would create nasal sprays for LSD and I have read it is possible for ketamine as well. Any guidance on the solution, the concentration I should aim for, and even the nasal spray (if someone knows a brand or a product that will spray a controlled amount), or any other tips at all! Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you! :D

(TW- SA mention)- I (f24) have taken shrooms 4 times, with my first three experiences being very chill, calm, and not a super crazy trip. The first three times I took about 3-3.5g, along with smoking some weed. I saw mild visual hallucinations, but nothing crazy. Last night, I really wanted to experience a more intense trip. So I took 5.5g after smoking a bunch of weed. (I also have diagnosed adhd, autism, and anxiety if that matters). At first, everything seemed like normal shrooms. The walls started getting all wavy, the lights were brighter, I was listening to my records, and my two roommates (also my best friends of many years) were hanging out with me, just smoking weed and baking. All of a sudden, something changed. I accidentally left my record on too long and it started skipping. I freaked out, ran upstairs into my collection room (I am a Barbie collector and have an entire room full of them). I looked around and my entire room was destroyed. My dolls clothes were ripped up, they were all over the floor and I thought my shrooms were all over the place as well. I started panicking, wondering how I messed up my entire room and tried picking them up. I went into my bedroom and found it was also destroyed. I was panicking hardcore at this point, and started to believe the cats got into the shrooms, ate them and died. I kept thinking of the movie obsession, where the cat died from Bear’s pills and thought I did that to them. I went downstairs and the entire house was a wreck. I thought I blacked out and destroyed all of our shit and killed the cats. I started trying to pick things up, and at this point my roommates intervened because I was about to throw away a bunch of my stuff because I thought it was trash. I was hysterical, sobbing and apologizing to my roommates for wrecking shit. They sat me on the couch and wrapped me in a blanket and tried to calm me down, but I was inconsolable. They showed me the cats were okay, but I still couldn’t calm down. Eventually I fell asleep and had an extremely graphic, real feeling nightmare in which I was stalked and repeatedly SA’d by a gross old man. I woke up suddenly sobbing at 2am, still paranoid about the state of the house, but when I looked around everything was fine. Nothing was wrecked or broken, I hallucinated everything. I violently threw up the rest of the shrooms and attempted to sleep, but I probably only got 4 hours. It’s now the next day, and I still feel horrible. I’m exhausted, I feel emotionally drained and empty, I feel disconnected with reality and keep disassociating. The thought of doing shrooms or any other psychedelic again terrifies me, and I even feel turned off from weed despite being a huge stoner and smoking almost every day for the last 2 years. How do I get out of this fog and feel like myself again?

I’ve been growing mushrooms for a couple of years as a hobby and mostly giving them to friends, but I’ve recently been thinking about actually having a more intentional experience myself.

I’m in my early 30s and have felt increasingly stuck in life. The biggest issue is probably my relationship with stimulants and doing things. In the past, stimulants made me feel decisive and able to engage with my life — pick something, act on it, and move forward. Without them, I’ve developed this awful pattern of overthinking, indecision, and avoidance. I can spend enormous amounts of time thinking about what I should do while actually doing very little.

There are other things tangled up in that too: loneliness/isolation, avoiding career questions, being gay and some unresolved identity/dating stuff, anxiety about getting older and feeling behind, etc.

I’m not expecting mushrooms to fix any of this. I’m wondering whether an intentional trip might help me look at some of these patterns differently or reconnect with parts of my life I’ve been avoiding.

What I’m unsure about is how to approach the trip itself. Would you go into an experience like this with one specific intention, or is this already way too much agenda to bring into a trip? Would you journal/reflect on these things beforehand and then basically let go once the trip starts?

I’m also unsure about setting: home vs. somewhere in nature, alone vs. with a trusted friend/sitter, music/eyeshades and deliberately turning inward vs. just creating a comfortable environment and seeing where the experience goes.

Basically, if you were in my position and wanted this to be an opportunity for genuine reflection rather than simply getting high and seeing what happens, how would you prepare for and approach the experience without trying to micromanage it? I only know how to use drugs to get high, not really how to use them for therapeutic/healing and would really love some advice. :)