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Did 5g change your life?
#26514908 - 03/03/20 04:17 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have experienced 3g but it didn't do much for me. I was expecting to have answer to why I am like this or like that so I could solve it. 3g made me laugh a lot, but no lessons. I plan now to do 5g soon. My question here is, did 5g somehow change your personality? How you were before and after?
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Empyrium] 2
#26515103 - 03/03/20 05:43 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's up to you to draw inspiration from your experience on the influence of these substances. They aren't magical teachers that show you a roadmap with marked routes to your enlightenment. They're a tool to use to access different perspectives and insights.
Simply just the change in perception from low doses is enough to change a lot of people's way of thinking. In the transformation from hallucinating to sober, you gain an appreciation for your uninfluenced self. You usually go through a phase of deep introspection and self-reflection that has you analyze and criticize aspects of your being, leading to a heightened awareness of your values.
My life/perspective was deeply changed from just 1.5g that I took 16 years ago. I still hold that one experience dear to my transformation into the person I am today. Sure, 5+ grams can send you deeper into a dissolution of your identity and the subsequent reconfiguration, but it's still of your own making to make that experience worthwhile.
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: footpath] 2
#26515112 - 03/03/20 05:50 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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 The experience itself can be deeply moving and shatter your current perspective on life. Don't expect it to change your life if you're not willing to implement the mushrooms lessons into your daily life though. They're a teacher, it's up to the student to study
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Empyrium] 1
#26515114 - 03/03/20 05:51 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've had somewhere around 250 trips over the past 10 years, and I don't think I've had any single trip that was "life changing" over night....
....but psychedelics have absolutely played a big role in shaping me into who I am today.
Sure a trip an be life changing...No doubt about that...Some folks have had trips that drastically change their lives over night.
But don't go thinking that if you just eat "5 grams" that you'll have some sort of life changing trip and some epiphanies that will change yourself and life forever. Doesn't usually work like that, though it is possible.
For myself...it took a few years and a few dozen trips over those few years before I really started to get a lot from my experiences and started to change aspects of my life and my point of view of the "universe"/existence.
A single trip might do it...but I find it's best to work with these things over time and not expect one single trip to be the one that is "life changing".
But to answer the question of the title of the thread, "Did 5g change you life", I'll say it kinda did .....The first time I took 5g was the first time I experienced that classic/cliche "merging with the cosmos", I experienced a complete loss of my identity/name/memories (forgot entirely about my life and didn't even know I was ever a human in the first place) and experienced all that ever was or will be as one single "thing"...It was not quite life changing in the classic sense, but it absolutely changed my perspective of things/existence and gave me A LOT of food for thought and things to think about. That experience certainly left an impact on me.
But the psychedelic experiences that have left the biggest impact on me didn't happen until like 4+ years and 50+ trips after that time I took that 5g (that 5g dose was my 3rd or 4th trip ever).
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: openmind]
#26515655 - 03/03/20 11:49 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Korean Jesus said: Only reason I'm considering this is because of how good the 5g dose was for my life. I did not get into pyschedelics looking for therapy, but therapy it gave...
I completely fixed close personal relationships and I'm pretty much in a better mood all the time now. I haven't been angry or upset for more than a few minutes at a time in the past couple of months, which is pretty insane to me. I haven't been anxious while sober (weed can still get my heart racing if I overdo it, haha) pretty much at all, and overall my life is just better.
A few hours of misery is a very small price to pay for these things.
The thing is, many of the problems I fixed on 5g were problems I didn't even know I had before the mushrooms showed me! I wonder what other things I'm completely unaware of that I'm doing wrong. Things that I may never figure out without the help of dissociation and forced thoughts.
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5gs is my go to dose, Iv had some very profound trips at 5 gs but it takes me 7+ for me to really loose myself and then find myself again but it’s normally pretty scary.
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Empyrium]
#26515875 - 03/04/20 05:22 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nah, it didn’t. Mushrooms in general never really did change my life at any dose. But I’m sensitive to psilocybin/psilocin, and 5 grams really wigged me out. Incredible visuals, but once the wigging started it was hell. I have had life changing trips off LSD, and LSD + MDMA though. The difference there is what I put into it/how I worked with the experience. I’d like to revisit shrooms with this new mindset/attitude towards psychedelia & see if I do get the benefits of them. When you have a strong psychedelic experience, the most important part is actually the comedown. You’re very vulnerable/suggestible in that state, which makes it perfect for imprinting. That’s how I have had truly life altering experiences. I focused on positive self-speak & on the changes that I wanted to make within myself during the imprinting phase of the trips, and that made it a reality. If you work with your preferred psychedelic in a similar fashion you can have similar results. That’s what makes them so great for therapy. It’s less about the dose you take, and more about what you do with it. Took me a lot of years to learn that.
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Empyrium]
#26515988 - 03/04/20 07:20 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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My first trip on mushrooms I ate 5g for breakfast washed down with some OJ and my mates and I smoked some giant backwoods filled with some sticky icky. It was awesome and definitely impacted my life forever, it made me more appreciative of how lucky I am to be alive and the beautiful world we live in.
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Shroomhunts]
#26516005 - 03/04/20 07:29 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomhunts said: ... it made me more appreciative of how lucky I am to be alive and the beautiful world we live in.
Yeah, I don't know how everyone doesn't get that from their very first time tripping. The stark contrast between worlds is just some awesome, you can't help but be elated with life... even if only temporarily when processing 'what the fuck just happened to me..?'
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: footpath]
#26516060 - 03/04/20 07:56 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Definitely wasn’t my first time tripping, I knew what I was getting into. I wouldn’t recommend that kind of dose for someone with no experience. That being said don’t fear them because you may never get to fully experience the magic.
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Shroomhunts]
#26516132 - 03/04/20 08:59 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is a bit of a ramble/blog post.
My first two or three trips (2-3g) is when I had revelations about my personal life and what were things that needed fixing. I've since unfortunately regained some bad habits and behaviors but some lessons still guide me today so overall I feel I've benefited although a psychologist might disagree. Before tripping I had a lack of understanding about myself and how I operate, learning what makes me tick helped a lot. These days I don't focus on myself very much, I actively try to detach from my 'ego' and dive as deep into consciousness as I can to see what fantastical things are hidden inside. I sort of believe in some kind of god or divinity now. For a while I had such real and wild experiences that I started believing what I was seeing was THE truth and not just hallucination and that sober reality is a complete lie. I've snapped out of it after taking a break.
Mushrooms confirmed my suspicion that I'm very prone to addiction. Even though the substance isn't addictive, the experience is. I can easily quit by just not growing any more, but when I have shrooms I'm tripping almost every week. I used to smoke weed daily and I only quit after my first trip showed me how much better life is without it.
To summarize, tripping will inevitably change your life in some way that you might not even see coming beforehand. if you're anything like me you'll fix up your life and personality here and there but become a little bit unhinged in the process. You sacrifice something and get something in return. I'd go down this rabbit hole again for sure. Ideally trips should be done a few times a year but I can't wait.
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: Empyrium]
#26516374 - 03/04/20 12:01 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Empyrium said: I have experienced 3g but it didn't do much for me. I was expecting to have answer to why I am like this or like that so I could solve it. 3g made me laugh a lot, but no lessons. I plan now to do 5g soon. My question here is, did 5g somehow change your personality? How you were before and after?
Hey Empyrium,
Some great posts before mine, great feedback. I can relate to more or less everything that’s been said to you.
I returned to mushrooms in 2016 to help me deal with a lifetime of depression. I have had quite a few 5g trips, didn’t really change my life, just gave me new perspectives. So I have worked with the mushrooms since then, concluding before Christmas last year that my depression has gone.
As people have said, generally takes time working with the mushrooms to change your life, assuming also you’re integrating the lessons the mushrooms gives to you.
Many videos and blogs etc on the internet where people had one psychedlic experience which change their life and they never needed to take psychedelics again. I don’t believe that is generally the case though, it takes time and effort.
Good luck, and please report back 👍🏻
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: DJ Ed]
#26517419 - 03/04/20 08:59 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: nomad165] 1
#26518032 - 03/05/20 06:23 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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No mushroom trip has ever changed my life. Though, the time I've spent on self-reflecting thoughts, have built up overtime and have shaped me who I am today. Even the thoughts that go beyond myself. Thinking about how lucky we are to experience something so magnificent.
Gave me a huge appreciation for all living things. All trees, plants, clouds. We're all just "doing" what the universe set us up to do. Quite crazy. But it definitely has humbled me.
I step outside on a Sunny day and my endorphins get firing just towel witness the beauty, same with the snow. Theres so much beauty around us.. we forget to look because we are SO distracted by so much.
Put the phone down. Step outside. Look into the sky. And take a gander of how lucky you are to be in the experience. You could have easily been not born.
Things like this mushrooms really opened me up to. But, with mushrooms they have a way of REALLY getting deep into your emotions. They're not just thoughts, they're emotions. You FEEL the gratefulness, the love, the compassion, the soreness, the hardship. Mushrooms are beautiful.
It's all about how you perceive your own experiences and place it into your every day conciousness. Though, it's more difficult to keep that same mindset to a full degree while sober, it's still there And with anything - the more you practice the better you get at it!
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My first trip (3.5g) changed my life almost over night. But I was at the lowest point in my life and I drove cross country to the desert (not expecting them necessarily as I didn't have any) and I was presented with a situation in the desert to take them with some people. So I did.
It restructured the functional aspects of my mind. It did away with a lot of the negative thought patterns and gave me new perspectives into my childhood trauma. Although I had smoked a lot before that experience, nothing could have prepared me for the perspective shattering experience. It was like a kaleidoscope of dreams. The mental exploration was beyond anything I've ever encountered. And the feeling of bliss and universal love was overwhelming.
But this was a Novel experience (completely new and unexpected). I've had a handful of trips ranging from 1.5-3.5g since then (and an even larger pool of micro dosing experimentation). Nothing has had as immediate an impact as my first experience. Nothing has been as singularly transformative even when a trip might have seemed, in some aspects, more "intense" than that first.
However, as most members have stated before me, this is a journey. The consistent exploration with these tools causes progressive transformation. And although nothing has yet to compare to my first time, in terms of immediate impact, every experience has brought something to me (even if it was simply enjoying the moment). All of my experiences together, up to this point, have collectively contributed to my continued transformation.
Now I've yet to take 5g so I can't speak on wether it will be a "life-changing" experience when I reach that level or not. But I don't expect it to be. I imagine it will contribute to my process of self-actualization but I doubt it will flip my life upside down (like the first experience did).
Take the dose, have no expectations, and come whatever may.
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Great advice, Socrateshroom
Expect nothing, let the mushrooms show you what they want to show you, and don’t fight them.
I reckon your upcoming 4g is going to be spectacular, but as we all say, don’t expect anything....
❤️ DJ Ed
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Re: Did 5g change your life? [Re: DJ Ed]
#26518695 - 03/05/20 01:24 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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DJ Ed said: Great advice, Socrateshroom
Expect nothing, let the mushrooms show you what they want to show you, and don’t fight them.
I reckon your upcoming 4g is going to be spectacular, but as we all say, don’t expect anything....
❤️ DJ Ed

Thanks! It's my week off so I'll have a couple days before hand to explore nature and myself in sobriety and a couple days after to integrate. But whatever comes, I'm just excited to take another step forward, irregardless of the outcome.
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That’s perfect, Socrateshroom
Any kind of repeated preparation you do leading up to the trip will influence your ‘set’ and hence your trip.
A while back I was reading Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods; the following trip was very Egyptian and hieroglyphic in nature; it was spectacular!
That’s why I tripped last Thursday, a few days before the new job; I had been put on “garden leave” for my weeks notice - sent home on full pay (though they didn’t pay me, that’s another story......). Nothing better than a full week to dedicate to a psychedelic trip.
I hope it works out as I expect it to, and it springboards you forwards in your journey 👍🏻
❤️ DJ Ed
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If there is something that you’re trying to change, I highly recommend that you look into imprinting, and focus on those changes during that phase (the comedown) of the trip. That’s the way I actually made lasting improvements via psychedelics. Without that focus, I had all kinds of great ideas & high hopes that nothing came of, as I didn’t put in the work. But by focusing on it at the appropriate time, it became ingrained in me....and I found myself living it in the subsequent days, weeks, months.
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