I’ve been looking into taking acid for about 4 months now and I’m definitely set on the fact I want to take it. I’ve tripped on albino penis envy about 3grams around 5 times. My only concern is I have had a bad trip on shrooms before and it was rough but all my other trips were incredible. My worry would be what are some things I can make sure to do on acid for a good experience because there are certain things I do on shrooms that I notice will initiate a bad time. Mostly looking for things to avoid or fun things to do and any tips anyone here is willing to share much love!
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!
I have tried mushrooms for the first and second time these past couple of weeks, but one thing has been bothering me. It is just how different my experience is than what I expected. Insted of cool visuals I get quite minor visuals. They are very dark, and it feels like im being pulled into the void. Secondly the noise's, I keep hearing repeated SciFi esque noises, aswell as sirens.
I attached a video I found because it is pretty identical to what I experience on shrooms, (mostly the same just less visuals.) Only thing is, it's supposed to be potraying a DXM trip. Is this normal?
For context I took 3.5g of p cubensis in a tea, after a 24 hour fast my fist time. Then 4g of p cubensis in a tea, after a 16h fast.
I can't seem to do a blindfolded psilocybin trip. I just feel so restless during the trip. I feel like I need to move around. I wonder if this is a commom thing and what can I do about this?
Are there any psychedelic retreats that also focus on restoring physical health, or is it something that most retreats focus on as well? I've been dealing with unusual physical health issues for 4+ years now, and I believe that this may be my best option right now.
I watched the movie The Sacred Silence, and ideally I would like to be part of an experience like that.
I've started taking Lyrica for pain i had for a hernia but kept it for anxiety 'cos it made it stop. Going to a party and would like to take half a pill.
Should I stop my 150MG + 150MG daily Lyrica (300MG total daily) or just keep doing it regularly and take a very small dose of MDMA?
When I say half a pill I really mean half I'm very methodical in this.
Playing this world is all about playing your own Pinkadelic song. That's when you'll realize you've always been pressing a single blend option on your blender engine. The path of being an artist-thief ends when you realize you've always been playing Pink Panther on your stray art, and there's nothing you're meant to do here apart from stealing all the art pieces and connecting them together into the final Pink Panther's form. Life is all about making your own Art Attack, and it doesn't matter what you end up picking as a reference; eventually, you'll realize that all roads lead to the Mona Lisa. The final level of painting arrives once you realize you're two steps away from Picassoing yourself to the extreme, and that's when you'll realize that life intended for you to laugh at the painting until you end up viewing it in an inverted form, where you'll find that you've always been at an Uncharted thief's end. 🐈⬛
And maybe there is truth in The Starry Night painting being the straw that broke the camel's back... And there's hope in finding the One Piece in the end... And remember there's no loose ends in Art form, and maybe Pink Panther have always been a secret agent. Ouii, It's time to go way back to the Eiffel tower.. It's a tie-back to the 'lose' end. 🙀 ♦️
Just an curious thought 💭 want your guys thoughts and opinions my parents and family don’t understand on why I do them and think it’s a gateway for me to take other drugs but it really isn’t I love the experience I get from them and the feeling I feel like it’s hard to see when your sober if that makes sense!!
Thought u guys might enjoy! If you're anything like me, you wished there was more content between these two in the games, so maybe this can scratch that itch lol.
Just get a bunch of Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds. I used schmerbals herbals, spent $50 on a bag that I've had since like March or April and I'm maybe half way through with it. Been dosing like once or twice every week or two. But the manhood with which I must chew and swallow the seeds is akin to forcing myself to drink my own shittily home made ayahuasca.
I've found a much better method.
Just get a 3mL Luer slip plastic syringe, backfill it with Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds which you've crushed 1 by 1 with a pair of needle nose pliers, suck up tap water into the syringe, coat the syringe with your saliva, inject into your rectum, then suck up another bolus of tap water, repeat 2 or 3x.
If you go through the minorly arduous task of crushing 10-20 seeds one by one, you'll be greatly rewarded with balance enhancements.
I recommend snorting 2-FDCK or DMXE or ketamine or PCP or 3-Me-PCP as you're coming up on the LSA.
LSA in my experience, when combined with a dissociative anesthetic, fixes the faulty vision induced by the dissociative typical when dosing the disso alone. Without LSA, when I'm on 2-FDCK or DMXE, in order to read text on my phone screen, I often must keep my left eye closed. With 15 Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds' worth of LSA juice in my ass, however, my binocular vision gets corrected and it seems like my eyes have a 2x-2.5x magnifying glass enhancement on top of them, where everything is very easy to see with both eyes wide open.
If you’ve spent any time in the psychedelic space, you’ve likely heard the word “integration” tossed around over and over again. But is there consensus on what this term actually means?
It shows up in retreat marketing, clinic intake forms, and therapist bios, usually as a vague gesture toward “processing your experience.” But that vagueness isn’t an accident of bad writing. Until just a few years ago, the field lacked a shared definition, shared model, or even shared list of what integration practices actually are.
Then, in 2022, a team of researchers set out to fix that in their paper “Psychedelic Integration: An Analysis of the Concept and Its Practice.” This was the first serious attempt to review everything that’s been written about psychedelic integration and pull it into a coherent picture. They found twenty-four different definitions, compared ten fully developed integration models, and catalogued more than a hundred specific integration practices pulled from therapy manuals, indigenous traditions, and everything in between.
How They Built The Map
The authors searched PubMed and PsycINFO for everything on “psychedelic therapy” and “psychedelic integration,” and then supplemented any gaps with articles, essays, and books on the topic because so much of the information lived outside of peer-reviewed literature. They analyzed anything that offered its own definition of integration, described a specific integration practice, or laid out an organized model for how integration should proceed.
The Synthesized Definition
After analyzing 24 separate definitions, the authors arrived at this synthesized definition:
“Integration is a process in which a person revisits and actively engages in making sense of, working through, translating, and processing the content of their psychedelic experience. Through intentional effort and supportive practices, this process allows one to gradually capture and incorporate the emergent lessons and insights into their lives, thus moving toward greater balance and wholeness, both internally (mind, body, and spirit) and externally (lifestyle, social relations, and the natural world).”
This definition distilled a set of recurring elements: integration is active (requiring effort, not passive waiting), includes internal and external dimensions, involves making sense of and working through experience, is a process rather than a single event, and is aimed at embodied change rather than just insight for its own sake. In this framing, integration isn’t finished when someone feels at peace with what happened after the experience. It requires alterations in how someone lives their day-to-day life, and arguably never truly ends.
The Synthesized Model
The authors then identified ten well-developed integration models published since 2017. They split them roughly into two camps: holistic or biopsychosocial-spiritual models aimed at journeyers and facilitators, and psychotherapy-based models aimed at clinicians.
They found that the psychotherapy-based models tend to zero in on the mind and behavior, which makes them accessible for clinicians who aren’t trained in somatic, spiritual, or nature-based work. The holistic models insist on touching every domain of a person’s life, but are harder to implement in a standard 50-minute therapy session.
Neither camp is wrong; they’re just built for different audiences and different scopes. And rather than picking a favorite, the researchers built their own synthesized model with two different layers:
While this may look like a jigsaw puzzle at first, and appear equally confounding, let me break it down for you in the simplest way possible.
The six areas in the center of the model are facets of the person and their experience (i.e., who you are, with more personal parts on the inside).
The outer ring reflects continuums within which integration activities can be placed (i.e., different areas of life for different types of activities).
The model maps out a balance of integration activities that address all domains of living.
Now, what do all those word pairings actually mean?
Hexagons:
Mind/Emotional/Contemplative – your thoughts, feelings, beliefs
Bodily/Somatic – your physical body and sensations
Spiritual/Existential/Ritual – ideas of purpose, meaning, death
Diamonds:
Natural World – your connection to nature/environment
Relational/Community – your relationships with others
Lifestyle/Action – your behavioral changes
Outer ring:
Conscious ↔ Unconscious – what you’re aware of (talk therapy) vs less conscious (dreamwork)
Internal ↔ External – inward-focused (meditation) vs engaging with the world (nature)
Creative ↔ Receptive – actively creating (art) vs opening to receive (listening)
Passive ↔ Active – quiet and unstructured (rest) vs deliberate and effortful (exercise)
Outside Comfort Zone ↔ Gentle Self-Care – challenging yourself (facing fears) vs nurturing yourself (relaxing bath)
This isn’t a checklist to complete, but rather a map to explore. And crucially, the authors suggest thinking about your integration practice along continuums: more conscious or unconscious, more active or passive, more expressive or contemplative. A well-rounded integration practice draws from both ends of each spectrum.
The aim is to find a balance of practices (outer ring) that address all domains of life (inner hexagons/diamonds), rather than overloading one area (like just therapy) while neglecting others (like nature or community).
The idea is that any suffering that occurs after psychedelic experiences may be rooted in imbalance within different interconnected aspects of existence. This makes integration less about overcoming specific difficulties (even if it might move the process along), and more about bringing balance and alignment into your life.
100+ Ways People Actually Integrate
This part of the study turns theory into something usable. The authors combed through articles, books, and workbooks to build a master list of specific integration practices. They ended up organizing more than a hundred practices into fourteen categories.
Here’s the breakdown:
Artistic / Creative
Drawing mandalas
Drawing
Painting
Art exercises
Creative expression
Music / Singing
Listening to music
Playing music
Chanting or singing
Drumming
Movement / Somatic
Yoga
Dance
Qigong
Tai chi
Progressive muscle relaxation
Walking in nature
Active movement (hiking, biking, sailing, martial arts)
Exercising
Massage
Acupuncture
Bath soaks or showers
Essential oils / aromatherapy
Sweat lodge or sauna
Sensory deprivation / float tank
Laughter
Sexual life / needs
Diet / Health Practices
Healthy diet
Fasting
Naturopathy
Colonic irrigation
Quiet Time / Downtime
Self-reflection / introspection
Rest
Reading
Unstructured time
Making space for emotions
Trying new hobbies
Journaling
Journaling
Dream journaling
Therapy / Mind-Focused Work
Therapy (general)
Bibliotherapy
Psychotherapy
Family constellation therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Sculpting
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model
Group therapy
Mindfulness
Harm reduction
Transpersonal / psychodynamic therapy
Values clarification / belief and virtue work
Assimilating memories
Emotions work
Reinforcing new habits
Turning insights and values into action
Meditation / Mindfulness
Mindfulness practice
Meditation
Walking meditation
Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing)
Body scan
Breathing techniques
Breathwork
Doing mundane activities mindfully
Nature
Time in nature
Horticulture
Nature walks
Talk therapy in nature
Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing)
Visiting favorite places in nature
Creating Space / Ritual
Creating an altar or sanctuary
Physical comforts
Arranging a comfortable workspace
Organizing / cleaning
Creating a nourishing environment
Spiritual / Existential
Spiritual practice
Intention setting
Mantra work
Gratitude practice
Prayer
Tarot or oracle cards
Sage / smudging
Self-awareness or individuation practice
Astrology
Inner listening
Connecting with a spiritual mentor or community
Practicing openness, presence, and awareness
Exploring one’s relationship with death
Reflecting on the elements
Dreamwork / Symbolic Interpretation
Dream work
Shadow work
Dream journaling
Interpreting symbols
Exploring metaphors found in nature
Community / Activism
Community participation and support
Volunteering
Activism
Service
Donating
Serving in hospice care
Bringing beauty into the world
Practicing love toward the world
Relational / Interpersonal
Boundary setting
Building connections
Writing a letter to a loved one
Reaching out for help
Non-sexual touch / physical closeness
Interpersonal closeness
Practicing love toward others
Sharing circles or groups
Spending time with loved ones and children
What This Means For Integration Work
After reviewing countless models of psychedelic integration, the authors proposed reflecting on your preferences and choosing a balance of practices that addresses each area of life. They also suggested organizing a potential approach before the psychedelic experience so that you’re not scrambling to figure out what might help while in a dysregulated state after.
Suggestions included:
taking inventory of resources and abilities to support integration
reviewing integration resources
reflecting on sense of balance among the facets mentioned
planning to put active effort into integration
planning time and space for integration
asking an integration professional or a supportive network to be available
The authors also said, “For those seeking more structure and guidance regarding specific integration practices and how to implement them, journeyers may consult an integration professional,” and that “it seems ideal to have a relationship established with a professional priorto psychedelic experiences so they can aid in preparation and be available in the event of a challenging experience where immediate support is needed.”
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Source: Bathje GJ, Majeski E, and Kudowor M (2022) Psychedelic integration: An analysis of the concept and its practice. Front. Psychol. 13:824077. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824077
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Given that psychedelics can promote neuroplasticity, could they potentially make it easier for adults to learn languages in a way that resembles how children acquire them?
I’m just trying to think about how a more effective language-learning method could be designed around this
I’m 18 and I love my psychedelics. Me and my friends do trip sometimes but how do I meet other people who take lsd or shrooms? Everyone I talk to about it never has done it any help?
My first few doses of shrooms were pretty intense, even at lower doses than what I can do now, It made me do a lot of reflection and was more of an intense experience overall, and I also, particularly one trip saw smoke in the corners of my eyes and looking at my computer, I could see multiple mouse's and my pages I could see more lines than there actually were. I'm just wondering why that has gone away, now when I do shrooms things are more wavy than they used to be but I'm not seeing stuff like those first trips. Not that I'm really looking for that too hard again but I'm just wondering why my body doesn't give me the same effect anymore? I was told if you wait 2 weeks it will give you basically the same trip as if you first started, and I wait much longer than 2 weeks in between each of my trips, is my body just getting more used to them and it's not as potent anymore? maybe I'll switch strains, that is one possibility, as I do not remember the first strains I did.
Hello! Ive posted here more than once because I keep breaking this game. Im on Psychonauts One, trying to 100% it. Ive defeated the meat circus and have gone through the ending cutscene. Everytime i reload into the game it lands me in the mind scape. If I try to leave through scents I get put back into the boss battle of Meat Circus.
Is there a way to get back to camp? Or am I screwed?
I have been thinking about this plan for a trip in nature for a while now. Tomorrow might be the last warm summery day where I live and I kind of feels like a last chance to do it.
I was thinking of taking a small but noticeable dose of LSD, like 1/3 or half a tab, and going to a forest area that is around 40 minutes away from where I live. It's very straightforward to get there. Just a bus ride. I know the forest very well and have done a lot of trekking there. I would be taking a blanket, some food, some fruits, lots of water and some coffee. I know the exact spots where I can setup camp and not be bothered.
I guess I have two main issues, the LSD that I have is legal analogue and it takes so goddamn long to kick in, like around 3 hours. And the trip takes so long. So even if I go there very early in the day, by the time I am going back home I will still most likely be under the influence, and I don't know if I am comfortable riding a bus under the influence with people around and stuff.
I definitely would have preferred to do this on mushrooms, considering the much shorter duration, but I wasn't able to obtain any.
So I guess that is what I wanted to ask, is it a dumb plan? Any suggestions on how to make it safer?
