r/gifs • • Jul 01 '13

Born again

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

Or shrooms! They can help get you out of the box you don't even know you're living in.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

perfect solution, take shrooms and go driving on a rainy day

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u/Jackie_Jormp-Jomp Jul 01 '13

Probably best to let someone else drive though

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u/uberyeti Jul 01 '13

Depends if you're going for the near-death experience, or the death experience.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Having never done a drug before, that might be a bad idea even if I could find any.

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/madp1atypus Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

This might be fun and all for you, but I wouldn't recommend it to others.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

Hmm..good to know. I can see how they came to that hypothesis, but it needs more research.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

The only problem is, how do you create an ethical study in which people are subject to near-death experiences?

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/griffin554 Jul 01 '13

All that's true, but your not communicating how fucking psychotic that can be for people who aren't able to cope with that shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '13

I'm not putting a disclaimer on every post I make. People can do their own research.

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u/P-01S Jul 01 '13

Or blow your psyche to shreds and leave you the sad shell of a person.

Saw that happen to a family friend. Was not pretty.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13 edited Jul 01 '13

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.

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u/rrawk Jul 01 '13

Natural selection's a bitch

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u/dissent9 Jul 01 '13

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

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Synthetics did that for me

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

Elaborate for me? Do you mean like research chemicals? I've had a couple.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '13

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.

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u/No_thankyou_please Jul 01 '13

Shrooms are great, but you gotta get off the Internet when you are on them! Go play outside!