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Brando
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Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome
#5628034 - 05/14/06 11:04 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I drove to Albany and met up with 9 friends to go see Pearl Jam on Friday night and brought some Golden Teachers that I grew with me. I had my mind set that I going to eat shrooms that night whether or not I could get anyone else to do them with me. I’ve been doing them a lot lately and been having some great experiences. Anyway, me and two of my friends ate about 2.5 grams each before we went into the show. Our seats were all scattered and I was stuck with one of my friends that was totally sober. The trip started off terrible but in the end turned out to be the better than anything I could imagine.
Coming up was really difficult. I was standing there next to my sober friend, listening to the music and seeing the band I’d been looking forward to seeing all week, but I was suffering. My stomach hurt, I was tired, and i could feel aches and pains throughout my entire body, especially in my shoulders because of tendonitis. The more I thought about it the worse it felt. My mind was racing and I started thinking about all the problems I have in my life all the inadequacies I thought that I have. I also started thinking about life and how nothing means anything and everything means nothing. I thought, what is the point of living if we are all going to die one day anyway and consciousness for all will end. I was wondering why anyone does anything and how in the grand scheme of things nothing matters at all. People spend their entire lives trying to make themselves happy and make names for themselves and even think “I want to be remembered when I die” but when you die you won’t be able to conceive of anything at all. Its as if you were never born and never existed. You consciousness is totally gone. These are thoughts that I have often on shrooms but this time it was really overwhelming and I thought I was totally screwed and all I wanted to do was go home, eat some valium and try to sleep it off.
After the coming up period was through and I started to peak I felt a million times better. I felt perfect in fact. I came to so many realizations that were monumental at the time. I realized that reality is whatever you make of it and can be whatever you want it to be. I realized this when I noticed that I hadn’t been thinking or focusing on my shoulder pain for the past 10 minutes or so and therefore it didn’t exist. I wasn’t focusing on it so it didn’t hurt. If something was bothering me, I would either choose to not think of it, therefore make it not exist, or analyze the situation, figure out why it was bothering me and change my perspective on the situation to make myself feel good about. I realized that everyone's experience of reality is totally different and I could mold my existence to whatever I wanted it to be. I put myself in total control of the entire situation and ended up going on a huge power trip. I owned that stadium and out of the 50,000 people that were at the concert, I felt like was the most important and everyone else was there because I let them be there, and it was true. If something or someone was bothering me…poof, it was gone out of existence. If I didn’t think about it, then it didn’t exist.
I acknowledged and spoke to people that I felt like speaking to. When I spoke to them I was in control of the conversation. It was a privilege for them to be speaking to me, someone who is so in control of every situation. I knew what people were going to say before they said because I made them say it based on what I said. Everyone was a part of my reality. I still knew that everyone has their own reality but the only one that mattered was mine and I could shape it however I wanted. The universe (my universe) would bend at MY WILL.
I could even change the pain I was feeling in my shoulders. I would acknowledge the pain and focus on it and realize it was just a source of energy that could be manipulated by my brain, just like I was manipulating everything else. I focused on the pain and turned it into positive energy. I took that source of positive energy and spread it though my arm, chest and eventually my entire body. Now I felt even better, like a ball of positive energy that could just keep absorbing more and more positive energy….and I could do anything. I was tripping balls, on top of the world listening to PEARL JAM, my favorite band ever. It couldn’t get any better. I was 100% I was perfect.
After the concert we all went to a bar and I was still in total control of everything. I had some of the most meaningful conversations with people I’ve ever had. I approached random women and dudes and made friends with a ton of people. I could look people in the eyes and know what they were thinking and connect with them on a level I never thought possible. If I was talking to someone and they made me feel uncomfortable, I figured out what created that feeling and fixed it or I left the situation and forgot about it and didn’t let the negativity take over, I flushed it out with my positive energy. My perception of life and my interpretation of reality became whatever I focused on.
I don’t want you to think that because I was in this mindset that I was a complete asshole, because the opposite was true. I respected everyone and everything. I was happy and wanted to everyone to share the happiness with me. I wanted to spread my positive energy, not poison people with negativity to fuel my ego. Anyway I could go on but this is probably way too long already. I just wanted to tell you guys about the awesome experience I had and that mindset has stuck with me somewhat in the past couple of days and this is the mindset I hope to keep because with it, I can do anything I put my mind to.
Edited by Brando (05/14/06 11:10 AM)
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Brando
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Re: Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome [Re: Brando]
#5634021 - 05/15/06 06:03 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Anyone ever feel like this when on shrooms?
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CptnGarden
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Re: Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome [Re: Brando]
#5635419 - 05/15/06 10:23 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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no.
my experiences are usualy weirder.
ever had 5 headed goblins jump out of your cat while eating cottage cheese out of strap-on horse feeders while dancing to songs you listened to in your childhood playing loudly while rotating in circles around you?
*takes gasping deep breath*
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toology
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Re: Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome [Re: CptnGarden]
#5640382 - 05/17/06 12:05 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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i cant see how a concert would be the type of(my ideal) placid and tranquil place to trip.
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today mylove


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Re: Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome [Re: toology]
#5640944 - 05/17/06 06:20 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've had mushrooms trips like this, where there is unbelieveable anxiety and fear at the beginning but then something hits you and the trip turns wonderful and awe inspiring. It's happened to me a few times, but also I've had times where I can' get past that initial fear and loathing and the trip ends up being terrible. Although I've never tripped at a concert and I would be weary of seeing pearl jam on mushrooms. I'd probably get drunk as hell seeing as Ed Vedder always has some form of alcohol on stage with him
Nice trip report man. I liked it a lot!
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Brando
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Re: Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome [Re: CptnGarden]
#5643125 - 05/17/06 06:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Too bad ShroomieofDoomie, sounds like your trips are more frightening than enlightening....Thanks TodayMyLove, I knew someone would appreciate my trip report!
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kaniz
That one, overthere.


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Re: Pearl Jam Concert on SHROOMS = Awesome [Re: Brando]
#5650209 - 05/19/06 01:20 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sounds like the typical cycle of a mushroom trip for me. Starting off with some difficult thoughts/realizations, followed by an extremly positive and uplifting trip.
Great report
and - why would a concert be a bad spot for a trip? Music+Mush = the best, Live Music + Mush = even better, that is if you can handle tripping comfortably in crowds.
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