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AA2277
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How long before do you start prepping?
#5774380 - 06/20/06 10:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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How long before a trip (shrooms, dex, or acid, or dmt or w.e, psychadelics) do you start prep work?
I like to start around a week before hand.
Making sure i avoid all arguments, and work heavy amounts of VIt. C into my diet. Any other thats needed....
anything other than this you guys like to do?
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Psy Baba
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: AA2277]
#5774390 - 06/20/06 10:05 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Turn off my cell phone. Make sure I have no plans later in the day.
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AA2277
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: Psy Baba]
#5774410 - 06/20/06 10:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Also:
get a camera for myself
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MauiGanjaMonster
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: AA2277]
#5774422 - 06/20/06 10:11 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I dont prep I go with the flow, whatever will be, will be.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: AA2277]
#5774444 - 06/20/06 10:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I dont try to avoid confrontation before tripping anymore... I gain lots of insight to problems and situations if ive had an argument with someone prior to a shroom trip.
The only way i prepare nowadays is read lots and lots of what i enjoy before the trip, eat very little or nothing at all the day of and make sure i have a good place to trip and can come down safely.
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AA2277
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: Acyl]
#5774509 - 06/20/06 10:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice, thats what i should do. I just make sure i have a good day afterwards that i can use to recover if i need it. Its hard for me to turn off my cell phone, but the main things i like to have are:
Bus pass Cigs and a lighter, a good one Pen and small pad of paper Tape recorder and camera a VERY GOOD amount of money...for food and maybe i hotel if i get lost in town...this is a good thing to keep with you.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: AA2277]
#5774573 - 06/20/06 10:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Usually, the day I plan to trip I do a mind-check.. See if I am in the right place to trip, physically and mentally. And I never antecipate it a lot.. Just go with the flow..
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: squ1d]
#5775764 - 06/21/06 08:25 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't go out of my way to avoid arguments in preparation for a trip, but if I've had a rather heated argument with someone, or have gotten into a heavy roughing during basketball (happens a lot when you play shit kickers in a mid-week competition), then I'll postpone the trip for another week, after I've settled myself down and worked out my anger or whatever.
I generally drink a lot of orange juice into my system anyway, so I've no real need to prepare for vitamin C, but there's no harm in drinking a little extra ;>
If I remember, I'll go out and get some piracetam if it'll help with whatever I'm planning to trip on. And I'll eat a little less than usual during the day.
That's about it...
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: triple_]
#5775808 - 06/21/06 09:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I meditate often, and keep myself at a ready state all the time. You never know when a friend is gonna walk up with a 10 strip he wants to split.
For DMT/Aya I do things a bit different though. Usually prep a few days before with some intense focus and relaxation meditation. I also spend more time trying to keep my mind clear throughout the days. Usually I save things like that for when I dont have to work the days in advance.
Just depends on my mood and what I want out of the trip too...
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: AA2277]
#5775809 - 06/21/06 09:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I usually don't plan a trip ahead of time but decide the same day that I'm going to trip. My decision usually depends on what's been going on lately, and how much time I have on my hands. I also try to never trip when I have any work to do because I tend to over-think my responsibilities while tripping.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: triple_]
#5775823 - 06/21/06 09:13 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm a bit torn on this one, finding a happy median between total lack of preparation (which seems to always lead to trouble or anxiety when something happens you weren't anticipating) and over-planning your trip to the point where your mind is in a state of OVER-analysis is probably the key.
I'd say that now days (after passing through my ULTRA-serious phase of thinking i could guide a trip) I just have to make sure I'm in a safe environment. Also, I find that fasting more than a couple of hours has a negative effect on my mindset leaving me feeling slightly negative and not in the mood to trip after all. Also the hunger over a long period continually reminds me that im going to trip - and while this is good in a sense it can make me think too much about the approaching change in my perception.
Most crucially of all (for myself) I've learned to ALWAYS obey that voice in my head at the last minute, even if i've been looking forward to this for weeks and am determined to feel altered, as it's nearly always right. It may feel like an anticlimax but there's no point wasting mushies on an unwilling mind,
that got stupidly long....to sum it up: I prepare but don't plan.
Edited by wiresandleaves (06/21/06 09:14 AM)
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: wiresandleaves]
#5776147 - 06/21/06 11:31 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hmmm. Well it seriously depends. Most of the time I will get the boomers, then within 2 days I will do them. But mostly the anticipation is pretty great and makes me want to do them the moment I get them.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: Paroxysm]
#5776354 - 06/21/06 12:30 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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28 days before: Begin making notes of music I want to listen to during the trip. 7 days before: Ensure all necessary shopping is complete. 6 days before: Begin arranging note tracks into a continuous playlist. 3 days before: Begin a full tidying of house / room / etc. 1 day before: Ensure everything is ready so far. 7 hours before: Ensure that I do not eat anything from this point. 3 hours before: Arrange food, drink, etc. for the trip. 1 hour before: Contemplate the trip in quietness. 10 minutes before: Arrange comfortable place to lie down in middle of speakers. 0: Eat mushrooms, start playlist, turn lights off, lie down, close eyes.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: TurricaN]
#5776366 - 06/21/06 12:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I pick em, then I eat em. What happens, happens. Never had a bad experience, just some very emotionally intense ones.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: TurricaN]
#5777280 - 06/21/06 05:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice list, - it does take a while to come up with 6 hours of music.
Being prepared keeps me extra calm.
Got to have music especially. I even have a back up music box that runs on 8 D batteries just in case the power goes (happens around here every so often).
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TurricaN said: 28 days before: Begin making notes of music I want to listen to during the trip. 7 days before: Ensure all necessary shopping is complete. 6 days before: Begin arranging note tracks into a continuous playlist. 3 days before: Begin a full tidying of house / room / etc. 1 day before: Ensure everything is ready so far. 7 hours before: Ensure that I do not eat anything from this point. 3 hours before: Arrange food, drink, etc. for the trip. 1 hour before: Contemplate the trip in quietness. 10 minutes before: Arrange comfortable place to lie down in middle of speakers. 0: Eat mushrooms, start playlist, turn lights off, lie down, close eyes.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: lakeglim]
#5777298 - 06/21/06 05:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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If its during the school year, I'll do homework-marathon and get ahead i n my homework/reading before tripping - last thing I want is to be mid-trip and remeber 'fuck, I have an essay due Monday' -- I make sure taht essay is done and ready to be handed in first.
The day of tripping, I'll clean my house, catch up with my parents and ensure I'm in a good headspace. I'll usually get things ready that I may want/need (clothes, CDs/setup playlists/etc), but homework responsabilities aside - not much more prep goes into it other than the day of the trip.
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: AA2277]
#5777556 - 06/21/06 06:51 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i used to have a bath and fully clean my self. i would also think about pass trips and wonder about the next. but it all depe3nds if i remeber or if i knew i was taking and shit like that. i also make sure i eat a good few hours before hand so i can come up quicker.
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TurricaN
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Re: How long before do you start prepping? [Re: lakeglim]
#5781238 - 06/22/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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lakeglim said: Nice list, - it does take a while to come up with 6 hours of music.
Being prepared keeps me extra calm.
Got to have music especially. I even have a back up music box that runs on 8 D batteries just in case the power goes (happens around here every so often).
Thanks... 
You're right. Being prepared helps to release and to stay calm. The hardest part about finding music is that I usually try to find music that I have never experineced on previous trips. Naturally, that's becoming more difficult as I gain more experiences.
I usually used my laptop for playing music in case the power goes. It was quite frequent in my university house last year (24 computers in one house does tend to use a fair bit of power).
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