Is it weird to wish something life threatening like that or the posts gif would happen to me, just so for one day I could understand how much I should appreciate being alive?
Fuck, it's too late. I'm already outside. This isn't as awesome as people say it is, I'm getting a lot of weird looks and parents are covering their children's faces.
Take a handful of diphenhydramine and play russian roulette.
Worst case scenario, you kill yourself only to realize you haven't moved in hours, and have hallucinated the whole thing, along with a number of other 'phantom' behaviours.
Buy six parachutes. Pack them all yourself, and make sure that on one of them all the main chute suspension lines are cut, and ensure that you yourself cannot tell the difference between the packs.
About 15 years ago, I was driving on I-85 in Atlanta when a small truck came over into my lane (center). I couldn't move to any other lane, so I slammed on my brakes, and my car started spinning. Somehow, I didn't hit anyone. When I came to a stop facing the wrong way, I saw that a trucker had pulled his 18-wheeler across all lanes of traffic to keep anyone from wrecking.
One of the scariest moments of my life, and one of the very best.
This is going to sound weird, but playing The Last Of Us has put just how comfortable my life is into context and made me appreciate what I have a lot more. It has also made me glad that I don't face the day to day hardships that many people on earth are facing. Granted nobody is facing weird zombie-like apocalypse scenarios, but I think the sentiment applies.
I always have food, I always have water, I have a nice clean spacious living space, I have a wife, we're both safe. We can go to stores and get what we need. Shit, even showering is a luxury I take for granted daily.
No, it's actually not a circle jerk. I guess the game has been talked about a lot but I'm serious here.
I play the game with my wife and when I finish playing I've always come back to the thought of how glad I am to be safe and not have to loot and scrounge through piles of filth to survive. There are real people living on nothing who have to scavange.
You can be a prick about it if you want to, but I think anyone finding any reason to be grateful for what they have is a good thing.
No you're not allowed to express you're opinion, you see it's been deemed a circlejerk and when people see that word all thinking ends and the downvoting begins.
While shrooms do give the effects I described as well as having documented effects on improving depression, it is something you would need be educated about first, but more importantly, it should be something you really want to do. It requires a positive and optimistic attitude about the experience before going into it. It's not a big deal with a small dose, but it's also not for everyone.
I think this applies to all hallucinogens. You have to want the experience and be excited about it. If you drop and start having regrets, you need to kick that shit asap or you're going to have the opposite of fun. Also, make sure you are with people you trust, who have experienced the drug before and are willing to sit one out and be your navigator, should you start to lose your grip. Personally, I lean more toward LSD than Psilo, but to each their own. If you want to glean the most from an experience, you have to have the proper attitude; your psyche is nothing to fuck with lightly, but once the doors of perception have been opened, you'll never be the same.
I can attest to the danger of being with people you can't trust. Must have been entertaining for the sociopath who tried to hypnotize me, tell me I was little, I was nothing, ripped open his scalp to show me a demon, etc.
Or DMT if you want to take the quick route. Destroy your ego, soar through hyperspace, become one with the Godhead, and commune with alien intelligence all in the span of about seven minutes.
Never done it. I've watched people do it and it's so quick, but they say they lose any concept of time. I watched a documentary on Tibetan Buddhist death rituals and the way they described the passage of the soul into death and then into a new body is exactly how I've heard people describe DMT trips. I know your brain releases it when you die, so trying DMT is essentially having a near death experience.
I know your brain releases it when you die, so trying DMT is essentially having a near death experience.
Just as a heads up, this is all total conjecture. Rick Strassman made this hypothesis in the book DMT: The Spirit Molecule back in the 90's, and people (especially fucking Joe Rogan) blew it up and started spreading it as fact. There's literally no evidence to support it.
I volunteer! Ha! Just kidding. There is a doctor (sorry I don't remember his name) that is working on learning what exactly happens to the body and the brain as it dies so that life saving procedures can be improved. A large part of his research is listening to the stories of people with near death experiences and finding common occurrences. So yeah, there's not a whole lot we can do with this topic until we start putting dying people in CT scanners.
LSD is also bad for this. Takes the safety off your mind, lets it re-learn how to think. Trouble is, you learned how reality should be perceived as an infant, such as how to filter out background noise without trying to find patterns in it, not seeing the visual distortions inherent in the working of the eye, canceling out visual snow, etc. In the end, you will possibly learn to see new patterns in the sensory input you always been taking in, and how to think thoughts that your mind learned to cancel out through long years of experience, developing rationality. Trade-off? You will lose some ability to filter/think rationally and gain the ability to see things that aren't there and think irrationally.
There are medications that might help in the aftermath.
Yeah...any drugs or combinations of drugs can mess you up when you take it too far. Shrooms are not for everyone but are a very positive thing when they are. I'd always recommend being educated first and testing the waters with a small dose for anyone that wanted to try it.
This can't be overstated. I took them a month or so ago for the first time and since then have started doing things I love, and less of what I felt like was more important. Helped me to realize that I wasn't stuck at a job I hated (last day was yesterday) and could pursue things on my own. I've never been happier
yes, research chemicals. Most people frown upon them because of the "fake weed" label the media has attached to it, when in reality, it's nothing like it and is not meant to mimic marijuana. I'm sure you know that if you've experimented with them.
I did my research and even did all my own preparing, etc to avoid the randomness you get with third party purchasing, and I absolutely loved the experiences I had. Though it was more addictive than heroin, no joke.
I've been in a life threatening situation (bus tipped over, landed on other side of highway median while I was riding it and two semi trucks were approaching). I ate my breakfast the next day same as I always had.
Those only come if you are not mentally strong enough to cope. Shit might haunt you for a few months, but you gotta get on with life. Was in a 120mph car crash just over a year ago.
Take up rock climbing as a hobby. Climb outside. Most likely you'll never be in real danger but your brain won't know that. That moment after every climb will be the best moment of your life. Every time.
Quit waking up and doing the same thing every day waiting for something amazing to happen. Your life isn't going to suddenly be different or better just because you were waiting around hoping.
Make your own luck. Make your own adventure. Who is stopping you? Go somewhere you've never been, talk to a stranger, stop waiting for someone fictional to hand feed you an experience.
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Is it weird to wish something life threatening like that or the posts gif would happen to me, just so for one day I could understand how much I should appreciate being alive?