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It comes in waves
#26620626 - 04/22/20 05:20 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Anyone else find that the urge to use psychedelics comes in waves?
I can pass 6 months or even a year without thinking about doing psychedelics then suddenly the idea will come to me. I can keep ignoring it but it moves from being an idea, to be a want, to being a burning need that pesters me from the moment I wake. Then when I do it it's fantastic and I want more! Once is never enough. The need for it comes on strong and the desire to push it further and further increases the more I do it.
Then suddenly I'll be satiated again. The "real" world is enough stimulation and everything snaps back into clear focus. And months will pass by...
Anyone else get this?
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It always has for me. After some time I feel like I miss the experience, being at a place I could only dream of normally getting to. I also feel like I can read emotions better 'cause usually I'm bad at that, both of those make me miss the experience!
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I definitely feel that, I haven’t had a good trip in at least several months but i can feel the urge coming back. It’s not the lack of having mushrooms its just i feel like they get my head where it needs to be then im good for a long while. I think probably once a year theres 2 or 3 months where i love to trip and trip every week or 2 then i take a break.
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: SFS96] 1
#26620673 - 04/22/20 05:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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In a manner of speaking, yeah I can relate to that in some ways.
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Interesting isn’t it? Just like a trip that waxes and wanes, so too does desire for it.
Definitely been my experience so far as well.
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100% northerner,
Went 11 months from Nov 2018 to Oct 2019 with no desire to trip whatsoever. Then I’ve spent a few months tripping every fortnight, sometimes every week.
I’ve now not tripped effectively for about 2 months. The desire to trip is still very much there, and I don’t think it will go away until I’ve had at least one more successful trip.
It’s not a burning desire like you’d get from an addiction though. It’s definitely a strange “addiction”!
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: DJ Ed] 1
#26621414 - 04/23/20 03:17 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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You read my recent post(s). Im at the point where im good for now. I pushed it a little far, my last experience had me feeling guilty the whole time.
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Absolutely. I try to time my usage around solar events, like solstices, etc. This last one was my best, most intense trip to date.
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Quote:
Northerner said: Anyone else find that the urge to use psychedelics comes in waves?
I can pass 6 months or even a year without thinking about doing psychedelics then suddenly the idea will come to me. I can keep ignoring it but it moves from being an idea, to be a want, to being a burning need that pesters me from the moment I wake. Then when I do it it's fantastic and I want more! Once is never enough. The need for it comes on strong and the desire to push it further and further increases the more I do it.
Then suddenly I'll be satiated again. The "real" world is enough stimulation and everything snaps back into clear focus. And months will pass by...
Anyone else get this?
Yup. But sometimes its several years in between. Once it was ten, just walked away from them in the middle of a grow. And when I went back, it was like no time had passed at all.
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I've forgotten about psychedelics for years at a time too, I think the longest ever was about 5 years.
I wonder if one day they'll just be old hat to me, a thing of the past. It's hard to imagine, but it's also hard to imagine, now, just forgetting about them for years at a time as well.
I notice that tripping gets much easier over the years too, even with big breaks added. Better coping mechanisms of more experience or something. Maybe just less baggage.
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Oh, I didn't forget. I just didn't have the desire for quite a long time. And then it returned stronger than ever, and I was thinking "Why did I ever quit?" This is usually what happens.
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Yeah well a decade is "quite a long time". 
If I get bored I want them more than ever too. Like right now I'm kinda over my career (my 3rd one), and the urge to trip is coming on strong pretty much daily. Just keeping it for weekends is hard, could happily trip far more if I didn't have stuff to do. I need to change up, level up, reinvent myself. Psychedelics always seem to help with that process.
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It was a long time, as humans reckon time anyway. But I was working a lot. Then the desire suddenly came back, and somebody I knew mentioned this site, so I joined it (in '09) and that really got me started again. Better than ever actually.
Now its been a few years since any serious tripping and I'm growing a shit-ton of PE for some extensive experimentation this summer. Fuck Covid I'm going there regardless. World needs more serious trippers.
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How bout walking away rom mushrooms for 30 years guys? Had other reasons not to trip though I never “forgot” about tripping. I have always been drawn to psychedelics, ever since hitting my first peak on LSD; I remember hitting the peak and thinking; “this is what I’ve been searching for my entire life”.
No, basically I believed the media hysteria and taboo that I’d been brought up with! It was only through desperation, most, with depression getting worse and then taking SSRIs, for 7 years; life never got as bad as it did on SSRIs, ever.
So came off SSRIs after much research, and returned to mushrooms. The first successful trip, with intense come up, and wild anxiety, brought back 30 year old memories. As P.S. and northerner both sid, it was like I’d never been away!
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: DJ Ed]
#26623775 - 04/24/20 01:51 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Without Doxxing yourself, what changed in your life that brought you out of depression and all that?
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Through almost 4nyears of mushrooms use, I have now learned what makes me tick, how and why I used to get pi55ed off, and what it is I really want out of life. I have also become much more accepting, of myself, of those I love, and of society in general.
I still get fed up, but that’s a whole different story to depression.
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: DJ Ed] 1
#26624102 - 04/24/20 07:57 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well done Dj Ed, proud of you.
Amazing little tools for knowing our own minds ehh?
And what a difference knowing makes.
 
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Edited by The Blind Ass (04/24/20 07:58 AM)
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Thank you, and yes, agree totally   
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: DJ Ed]
#26624547 - 04/24/20 11:40 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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except for all the shenanigans about covid, I think we are coming out of the dark ages, but maybe we are going back into them, the world leaders could use a shroom up.
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My tripping is definitely on and off. I call it “active” and “non active” periods. I may trip in non active periods but not as frequently. Generally, the magic is restored after a good time away. I really only go in there when I feel compelled to do so.
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: CountHTML]
#26630246 - 04/26/20 04:15 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Check this video out. I think the title is clickbait and there's no need to gatekeep psychedelia but it's an interesting look into the past. Even for Terence McKenna it came in waves, I think how he put it was in terms of a call and I think I can agree with that.
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I'll be honest and say I feel the same way. I would trip daily if it wasn't such a big deal haha. I say big deal because not only do I have to prepare for the upcoming day I also have to dedicate an entire day to just being alone at home.
Recently I havnt been in the mood but I don't think many people are in any kind of mood from what I have seen haha
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I've actually been in the mood a lot lately. I've been doubling down on my research and doing a lot more cultivating in addition to a very good experience. That may just be me, but I've used this opportunity to sink deep into the wave.
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sabinastreasure said: I've actually been in the mood a lot lately. I've been doubling down on my research and doing a lot more cultivating in addition to a very good experience. That may just be me, but I've used this opportunity to sink deep into the wave.
Yea maybe if my lifestyle wasn't swept from beneath me I'd feel different. If I can only choose one thing to do it would be going to the gym
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for now, clear some space and work out on the floor, squats, pushups, crunches, hand stand, stretches.
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I feel this 100%. Lately with the lovkdown in my state and everything - I've had a lot of free time. I wake up in the morning like "today will be a good day to take mushrooms".. but i never end up taking them. It takes me a lot to convince myself to eat them honestly. My ego always gets in the way and puts up a fight.
Though, I did have a pretty difficult trip last time I took them so I believe that's a huge factor of why I haven't taken them. Also.. like Dennis Mckenna said in one of his interviews.
Its not a drug like coke or a "feel good" drug. Its something where you have to talk yourself into taking them. Like if you're a weed smoker and someone offers you a puff of weed.. youll for sure hit it.
Now let's say you're a mushroom user and someone offers you a dose right then and there. I bet there's a better chance of you saying no other than taking it right there.
I always have the urge to take them.. but the clarity to understand the bigger picture. And I think that's why I also get a lot out of my trips.. even if they're extremely difficult.
My buddies and I are going on a backpacking trip this weekend though.. and I think I'm finally going to take them when we are out in the woods.
Your body and mind will reassure you when it's time to take them again!
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Re: It comes in waves [Re: DJ Ed]
#26638944 - 04/30/20 12:48 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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DJ Ed said: Through almost 4nyears of mushrooms use, I have now learned what makes me tick, how and why I used to get pi55ed off, and what it is I really want out of life. I have also become much more accepting, of myself, of those I love, and of society in general.
I still get fed up, but that’s a whole different story to depression.
My last time did too make me accept myself for who I am. And it was posting my trip report on this community for a user to almost "show" me that its okay to be the way I am. I will find someone to accept me for who I am.
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Is that the number one lesson from mushrooms; to just be yourself?
I hope you have a great trek today with your buddies; I’m not a little jealous
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sabinastreasure said: I've actually been in the mood a lot lately. I've been doubling down on my research and doing a lot more cultivating in addition to a very good experience. That may just be me, but I've used this opportunity to sink deep into the wave.
Yea maybe if my lifestyle wasn't swept from beneath me I'd feel different. If I can only choose one thing to do it would be going to the gym 
Facts I wish the gym was open. I spent a lot of productive time there and working out is a form of meditation for me. My life had been going through massive upheaval right before the quarantine so I suppose I've probably felt a little more comfortable in the chaos. Still a weird time to trip, but that's what made it so important for me. This pandemic is an opportunity for irrational thought patterns, not in my house.
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