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Sub-Easy said: P.s time is still not the same for me as it used to be.
I used to be able to get so much done in a day just a year ago, but now I'm still going at the same pace, but the time just runs past me and the day is over.
For some reason It doesn't seem to effect my reality because I still can pay rent, and get everything done that needs to get done, and no one is telling me to hurry up or that I'm not getting enough done in the day, but it's like, by the time I get my shoes on in the morning, it's already lunch time.
It's like the world's laws have changed but I'm the same.
You would think that people would notice that I'm coming into work and hour later and getting half as much done, but no one seems to notice or has ever said anything to me other than I'm doing a great job. It's like I'm the only one who noticed.
Also, I never know what day of the week it is, and I'll get up and wake everyone up for school or work and it's Saturday, or I'll think it's Friday and it's only Tuesday.
That happens all the time, and never did before mushrooms.
I think I may have lost a day while tripping, or repeated a day, and that explains the identical trip, and would also put me a day behind the original timeline.
But who the fuck knows?
It hasn't seemed to affect my life or others, so I guess it's cool.
Obviously, I'm of a right mind, and know those things are impossible, but I'm just saying what I've observed. Regardless of the fact that I know I can't believe any of it is true.
It doesn't really make any difference in my life though, and I don't really think about it, or do anything about it, so everything is as it should be, but I would say it seems a little strange.
I haven't noticed any other strange things like that, but I really have had some strange new developments when it comes to time.
I know that when I was a kid, an hour long meeting, or something like that, would feel like three hours, and also as we get older, time seems to speed up. That stuff is normal for everyone, but I definitely don't think it's normal for the day to go by so fast as it started to after I did mushrooms.
I kinda think of it like how a turtle can't see an eagle fly past because it's brain doesn't process things that fast, but a hawk will see everything in slow motion.
Maybe the timing in my brain got thrown off. But instead of processing stuff slow like a turtle, I actually process it much faster now (than before) and have actually excelled in my job and am much more looked at as the go to guy when it's time to figure something out.
This is interesting...and somewhat concerning, even though it doesn't seem like it's been the cause of much trouble, for you. Time distortion sounds like it could be problematic.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this (not necessarily during a trip, but for a while afterwards)?
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Shroomsandstuff said:This is one of the things that worries me about trying mushrooms. I don't want to start believing in things in which I currently don't believe, as a result of hallucinations. It seems useful if one is near the end of his life, but that's not me.
Well…. What is God? Nobody knows and it’s deeply personal... [edited quote: I cut out a chunk here]
See what I’m trying to get at? I’m not necessarily a Christian. I will often say yes to avoid all this lol but I wouldn’t really say that I am. I typically say “God, The Universe, quantum field, energy…. whatever you want to call it. It doesn’t matter.”
Yea, I see what you mean. I wish there was a more uniform use of various terms like those, to make these kinds of discussions simpler and more efficient.
Personally, I use all of those terms to refer to different things: god - an omnipotent/omniscient, intelligent being the universe - "all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos" quantum field - I don't use this term, because I don't know anything significantly useful about quantum physics, and I don't like to just create a definition for a word/term. energy -"the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other various forms" / I don't use this to describe any sort of mystical/spiritual force
When people say things like "it's up to the universe", I'm usually curious if they think that there is some sort of intelligent force in play, or if they literally just mean that nature will take its course.
For instance, I don't believe that you can literally ask the universe for things, unlike what is taught in "The Secret", or by a lot of people who talk about "manifestation". I think you can use visualization to help align your actions with your goal, so you can achieve it in the future, but I don't think that the act of visualizing yourself with a boat, in and of itself, will somehow attract a boat into your life.
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pepz said: I had no appreciation for how conscious non animals were. The lack of education in the scientific community wasn't so obvious before.
This is interesting. Are you referring to plants/fungi/other living organisms, or to everything? I ask because I've heard people speak about sensing some sort of consciousness or life force present in inanimate objects, while on psychedelics.
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pepz said: I feel sorry for those who can't handle them. I think they're going to hell and the mushroom exposes it to them. Sometimes people are already in hell and they make it out and others never ascend. Dude was my friend before he turned Israel spy and he felt so ashamed at how he betrayed me, he kept asking me if he should cut his finger off.
When you say "hell", do you mean in the biblical sense, or in the sense of just having a miserable life, here, on Earth.
Either way, did you always hold such beliefs, or did psychedelics influence them?
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Jim I.T.I said: as for the post that said they're afraid of hallucinations causing belief in something... if you go through a true psychedelic experience, you may realize you were "believing" in a non pure way. or, what you believe in now will only be reinforced. or, that you need to shift your beliefs. in a good way. or that you're clinging to a material world / ego which was by no fault of your own or necessarily your teachers, taught to you.
and yeah, i think jesus and all his deciples were trip'n balls AF. literally EVERY religion has psychedelic art. visions. why can't they all be saying the same thing, just in different languages and metaphors/perceptions of different cultural and environmental stimuli? while passing elements of the previous dominant belief system down the line?
That's an interesting perspective.
I suspect that a lot of religions/spiritual beliefs are based on people's psychedelic experiences, too.
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rocky_raccoon said: Some posts here get me really concerned if I should continue taking mushrooms. Completely losing touch with reality isn't one of my life goals.
Lol Yea, loss of touch with reality is something that concerns me, as well. Despite all of the things that I think psychedelics, particularly mushrooms, can help with, I don't consider the benefits to be worth losing any sort of connection with reality.
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