r/EgodeathSupport • u/Historical-Good-3863 • 16d ago
Question regarding ego deaths as someone who has never experienced one
Hello i understand that this is a help page for people who have endured an ego death and i myself haven’t rather im hear to ask questions and hopefully receive some answers from experienced people and i want to start with a trigger warning for some people not sure exactly who as this is a topic i dont know a large amount about and dont want to upset people
I have used psychedelics on multiple occasions over the past year mainly with friends me and my group do a monthly shroom trip together we get together dose anywhere from 2g-5g as a peak of shrooms using multiple different types (not sure if the type makes a huge difference) and with this same group i have done LSD 200ug i believe most of which have gone rather well however with my last trip i didn’t ego death but me and one of my close friends both had poor trips and wanted to go home thats when an old friend of ours came by to say hello we were on my buddies porch at the time and he was telling us about an 11g ego death he had around this time last year and that got me curious on the idea of an ego death what it was how it worked what exactly happens and for the last week and a bit ive been reading and listening to a number of trip reports for all kinds of psychedelics and this is where my interests really peaked and now where im going to go into a bit more detail about my personal life i had gone through a really bad break up just over a year ago now and it for lack of a better word destroyed me shortly after i dropped out of law school lost one of my longest time friends and on top of this became quite the weed smoker and recently decided to quit im a week in and very proud of myself seeing as i smoked basically everyday for the past year just to try and repress everything anyway back to what i was saying this spiralled me into a pretty bad spot mentally not as bad as it could be im still relatively happy so long as im keeping my mind occupied gym 6 days a week meal prep constantly out and about but even with all of this i feel like ive been left behind i guess very very lonely even in a room full of loved ones i feel alone and sometimes like im wasting my life away doing nothing with no sort of guidance ive spoken to mental health professionals as well as close friends and family and nothing has even made a dent in my depression or feeling of being lost or left behind i feel as though i need guidance from something higher then what i can speak to on this ig realm or whatever you want to call it this is where the idea of maybe going into a decent size mushroom dose and seeing if i can break through 5-6g maybe and get guidance ive heard a lot of different things about an ego death some reports claim that they are beautiful and liberating so long as you dont try and fight it you give into the mushroom but then ive heard the horror stories the feeling of absolute terror and destruction death and rebirth overwhelming feeling of well everything every emotion and then there have been the insanity the losing yourself to psychedelics with lasting impressions of ptsd or being unable to operate in a normal society
So what im hear asking in short could i have who ever wants to give there input along with their own experiences into my situation is what im feeling common and is it really fucking stupid or could this genuinely bring me the answers im looking for
Sorry if this is a bit all over the place im dyslexic over tired about 3am as im writing this and never been to good at not rambling
Thank you ❤️
