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“Mindfulness”, being present Versus Cannabis tolerance
#26354068 - 11/30/19 03:14 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I’ve noticed something really, really interesting lately.
I smoke a lot of weed, I have/had a decent tolerance. I’ve also been microdosing mushrooms a bit lately
I’ve noticed microdosing mushrooms greatly enhances my ability too let go to the present moment, be more present in general, and have an overall better sense of what’s important
I’ve also noticed with these enhanced perceptions, I get much higher when I smoke cannabis not only while on a micro dose, but even for a day or so after.
If I continue microdosing for a few days (real microdosing right at or below threshold effects like .1) it feels as though my tolerance too cannabis has physically lowered. Even when I stop for a few days, it is significantly less than it was before
Obviously my tolerance too cannabis has not physically lowered. But every time I smoke, I need much less too get more than the effects that I feel smoking copious amounts with a tolerance.
This is because I’m noticing the effects more, I notice the taste and smell more, I notice the come on more.. I notice that I’m high for longer..and I’m enjoying everything else in my life more. The act of getting it out smelling it and packing it into the bowl has become as fulfilling as the illusionary end goal of smoking it and being high
So What I’ve discovered with myself, is that while definitely some, the vast majority of my tolerance too cannabis has nothing at all too do with any physical chemical interaction.
Rather, a numbness...a sense of baseline...a normal-ness aspect falls over the effects of cannabis if i’m smoking a shit ton of it everyday, and taking a lot of the effects or experience of using it in general for granted which is easy for me too do, and always chasing the end goal of it, “the high”, and never being fulfilled because of this sense of normal-ness..
I always thought that normal-ness was something that depended on the physical chemical, and something I couldn’t get past
While in earlier usage the same thing that allowed me and opened me up in general too the possibility of becoming more conscious, and learning about myself and this reality on a fundamental level, I’ve overall clinged too hard and have used for unconsciousness/subconscious desires habits and addictions
But now, it’s regained its position as that sort of “mindfulness tool”....but I can see how easily I can use it as detrimental too my life tool and for self destruction...and I’m now choosing which one I want to use it as and which direction I want to go with my life every second of the day whether it’s directly with cannabis or not
I know there’s a lot of people here who smoke a lot of weed as well, so I’m curious what you guys have discovered with this sort of thing too...why u keep secrets???
This would raise some pretty interesting questions for any materialistic understanding of the mind I would think...
I mainly shared this cause I thought it was super interesting but now I see you might have too be me too see how interesting it is...oh well it’s typed
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Re: “Mindfulness”, being present Versus Cannabis tolerance [Re: The lurker]
#26354157 - 11/30/19 04:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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same for me too - micro and moderate cannabis, but I spell "to" with one "o" unless I want to mean something else.
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Re: “Mindfulness”, being present Versus Cannabis tolerance [Re: The lurker]
#26354241 - 11/30/19 04:58 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mindfulness is useful in alot of applications. The human mind has alot more power than most give it credit for. We think alot of things into existence. I loaned my friend one of my bongs since I have 2 really nice ones and last time I was over he was like Dude this little bong gets me so fucking ripped. he grows lbs and smokes the fattest joints that always knock me on my ass while my bongs rarely seem to do the trick for me. So I took a huge rip after him and a few minutes later I was thinking damn, this thing really does buck lol. and now we always look at each other while smoking it and are like dude, i'm fucking ripped, and it's like we speak it into existence lol
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Re: “Mindfulness”, being present Versus Cannabis tolerance [Re: The lurker]
#26354324 - 11/30/19 05:31 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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When I first started using mushrooms it was always consisted of smoking large quantities of weed. Most of my mushroom trips have encompassed consuming big fat cigars filled with potent weed. Only recently have I begun to eat mushrooms without weed because I stopped smoking. Weed is an excellent catalyst to the psychedelic experience of mushrooms and vice versa. Weed allowed me to reach highs I would have never achieved with just the mushrooms. It was always ritual for me and my tripping buddies to smoke a lot on the comeup and throughout the trip if we can handle it (sometimes it can be hard to roll up). It's an amazing plant because it can be so versatile in its effects. I've smoked weed during a trip to reach new highs and also to come back to earth. There have been times I was tripping that weed saved me from having a bad trip. Sitting there in a cold basement starting to trip the fuck out from feeling time was eternal when a friend notices I was tweaking and says "hit this it will help you" hit the blunt and in an instant as I feel that dank smoke fill my lungs I regain composure and exit a dangerous thought loop that would otherwise have consumed me. Tripping nowadays without weed Is much easier because there is less mindfuck to the whole experience but it sometimes feels like something is missing. I may not be the best example because I have hppd so my conciousness is much different from other people.
In short weed and mushrooms potentate the effects of each other and using mushrooms or other psychedelics can make you more sensitive to the effects of weed. When I smoke weed the effects i experience nowadays are much different than when i first started smoking, prior to the use and abuse of stronger psychedelics. When I smoke weed I get full blown open eyed visuals like moderate mushroom trip. Oddly enough eating small amounts of mushrooms will make me feel as I'm just really stoned. Hope someone finds this interesting I talk about this kind of shit alot with friends its interesting to see how different people react to these substances because everyone has a unique experience.
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Re: “Mindfulness”, being present Versus Cannabis tolerance [Re: Shroomhunts]
#26354877 - 12/01/19 01:24 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just want to make sure I understand correctly, OP - you're smoking the same amount of cannabis daily as always, but feel like your tolerance is lowered due to micro-dosing shrooms?
OR
Did you just forget you went a bit without smoking, and thus actually did lower tolerance a bit? I've done this before and misattributed tolerance to other things. Not accusing you of this, just wanted to be clear that I understood!
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Re: “Mindfulness”, being present Versus Cannabis tolerance [Re: Loaded Shaman]
#26355144 - 12/01/19 08:34 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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So I’m smoking less cannabis daily than always and have stronger effects than when I was smoking copious amounts at a time all day. I haven’t gone a day without smoking at all, but due too feeling the effects more I am smoking less frequently and smaller amounts.
My physical tolerance probably is lowered a bit at this point, but too me it’s a consequence of the microdosing allowing me too be more present in this moment, which allows me too feel the effects of cannabis more (even while not directly on it) which allows me too smoke less often and less amounts because I’m more fulfilled with every other aspect of my life rather than chasing the end goal of cannabis
The weird thing too me is there’s an actual tolerance that I can “sense”, a sense of normal-ness, that has nothing too do with the physical chemical interaction at all
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