Pushing into the psychonaut world :-)

Well, I had my first acid trip this past weekend and LOVED it, so thought I'd stick up a trip report of what I can remember.

Setup a few things in advance and made them really easy to find, like home bar icons on ipad hooked in to my tv/sound system - highly recommend doing this, it makes things so hassle free with the magpie effect.

I'm very glad I setup a decent playlist ahead of time, it really positively affected my trip. For the time I spent inside, it guided my trip quite a bit - love how each song can turn into its own little experience/story/trip.

There were two tracks that I wasn't too fond of, they gave me some horror visuals - but it wasn't scarey at all, more of an "eurgh, next song please!"... change the track and a new trip begins

My music of choice is what I refer to as "tuneful" trance... ie stuff that isn't just a beat - it needs a good melody and usually some decent vocals. Interesting how it seemed to slow the tempo down. But I also wanted to experience some other music that I generally like and thought could be quite interesting under the influence, so later on I lined up my classics playlist.

Turned out I enjoyed this even more! Stuff like Pink Floyd and David Bowie make so much more sense under the influence... one line really comes to the front of my memory... "You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon" - it just fits. I plan to dedicate a future trip to this kind of music, it will be really interesting to explore, great fun on acid.

I found I had an interesting combination of lucid dreams and more grounded realities - I'd never know where it was taking me until I had that snap/break back to reality... damn that's a fun feeling!

Sometimes it was as if I could experience all different possible universes, experiencing every possible option and outcome - all at the same time! Only when each little trip was over would I realise which was the true reality. Every time I tried to count the number of different timelines I experienced, it would just add another 0 to the end of the number - I experienced trillions and trillions of different timelines in the space of a single night.

My girlfriend had experienced it before me - she was going to be the one looking after me and a good friend that evening... although, once we'd settled in to our trip and realised we were on good trips... we invited her in to join us, so all three of us where having a blast. This combination seemed to make the trip so much better, we could play off each others' imaginations - push them further and also create our own trips from others' ideas - that was great. My friend is quite experienced with acid and this lead him to be able to manipulate my head very well - I loved that feeling. At some points, I didn't know if the conversation was in my head of coming out of my mouth - my friend was able to play on that extremely well.

As for the main visuals I remember:
- I had a short whizz around the galaxy - not too much detail, but it felt like I was flying through the stars.

- One song gave me a mental toy box that seemed to last for hours, but was only a single track. I could manipulate everything and create anything I desired or change everything into anything. I could create these amazing shapes in front of me and do whatever I wanted to them. It started off similar to a fusion reactor, which then expanded in to a donut and then I just kept adding new levels of complexity & lots of extra layers. I was a bit sad when that song ended - I didn't expect quite that level of control which was interesting.

- I explored multiple dimensions in visual representations of shapes. I pushed past the 3rd dimension into the 4th & my complex shape effectively started folding in on itself and adjusting itself in some interesting ways. For the next part, words do not exist to express what I was able to visualise - I experienced both the 5th and 6th dimensions. I can still picture this, but I just don't have the vocabulary to explain what I saw, never been quite so stumped for a description! Finally, my brain tried to explore the 7th dimension - and it broke! It couldn't figure it out and physically jolted me out of the trip! I broke my brain! haha! It gave me this physical jolt and I sat up - gave me a break from visuals for a few minutes.

- I saw the construction and destruction of a universe... from OUTSIDE the universe. All within the space of a few seconds in the trip, quite a fast construct/destruct. It's actually made me think about the big bang in a different light - I didn't much like the theory previously, too many flaws... but my experience made it make more sense. I'd always thought of it as more of a bubble than a bang, this was confirmed. But the new thing - the universe seemed to be floating in a sea of energy and after the collapse, it sucked in more energy than it released in the explosion/bubble. Hard to describe, but the collapse was almost like pulling the plug in a sink - albeit without the swirling, just a straight flow in to the center. And this "draining" kept going for a little while after the collapse, sucking in new energy from the field/pond of energy that the universe resides in. Then once it had what it needed, it would pop back in to existence again. It's interesting how much scientific advancement has occurred since the introduction of LSD, now I know why! It's given me ideas I never thought I had

- Sitting outside on a clear night is INCREDIBLE - we had really good weather for it. When I was outside, the stars created this weird little prism effect that split the light in to red, green and blue. I could see the moisture in the wind affecting the distribution of light through the atmosphere - so it was as if the stars were blowing in the wind. I think I was seeing reality more than I usually do with that - that kind of distortion happens all the time in real life, but our brains compensate for it.

- It was a very clear night and the wind was blowing in just the right direction from our viewpoint. Planes were taking off from a semi-local airport and leaving those moisture trails behind them. The swirl effect from the tail was gorgeous. But even better, the wind was blowing the streams in front of a very bright full (or nearly full) moon. The moisture in the streams distorted the light coming from the moon and it looked absolutely amazing - one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Strange that it's the kind of thing you wouldn't even look at twice when sober, shame really - but I think from now on I will notice things like that more often.

- At one point it was as if the stars were waving at me.

- The large shed in my garden turned in to a tour bus.

- I had some silly/funny cartoon visuals - very similar to the style of the Beatles' movie Yellow Submarine.

- At some point we started ******** about the neighbours leaving their outside light on... turned out it was the moon... sadly, we were unable to find the switch

- I got lost in the swishing icons on my ipad, half way through a sentence. It seemed like an eternity, but was only about 4 quick swipes.

- Winamp visualisations are EPIC.


The funniest moment of the night:
It seemed to trick me around about half way through the trip, the nice feelings were going away and I'd managed to convince myself that the effects were fading / I was almost sober. So, reading that weed can bring some visuals back - I loaded a bong while the two who were tripping with me made their way outside to stare at the sky again.

While I was smoking, the footstool started breathing with me. I didn't think this was weird at the time, yet I felt the need to test it. So I held my breath... some reasoning made me convince myself that all would be fine if the footstool stopped breathing with me, but if it kept breathing by itself - then I was going to freak the **** out!

It stopped breathing with me, I thought nothing more of it and went outside to join the other two. Only when I got out to them did I have a break back into reality and realised what had just happened... explained all to those guys & hilarity ensued


My friend kept pulling his phone out of his pocket, only found out the following day why. He thought it was a puddle in his hand that allowed him to see possible futures. Every time he grabbed it, he'd experience a new potential future, all good apparently

He put on some happy hardcore track that I hated at one point... that gave me a physical sick feeling... weird!

Oh, and I LOVE that feeling in the first few hours of the trip where it almost like you have little orgasms exploding all over your body - yet weirdly no sexual arousal.



Those are just the main points that I really tried to force myself to remember - I've forgotten a heck of a lot.

All in all a fantastic first experience and I am well and truly looking forward to the next.

Already have some ideas:
- Pink Floyd / David Bowie / psytrance / psychedelic music trip
- Get a hotel close to the Thames on New Years Eve and experience the fireworks
- Go on a camping trip to the top of the highest mountain I can find - I've been to the top of mount Teide in Tenerife to observe the stars as part of my Astrophysics uni course & the difference with what you can see in the sky versus what you see at ground level with the extra dust and light pollution is hard to imagine... you can see the nebula on Orion's belt with your naked eyes!
- Take a notepad with me

 

Nice report. How many hits were you on and what strength? A couple of friends and I got hold of some for the first time in a year and shared a 10 strip on Saturday. Wasn't anywhere near being epic, but was nice to get into the acid headspace again. We spent a while outside and it was a spectacularly clear night in our neck of the woods as well. At one point, around 1:30am, we thought daylight had come early the moon was that bright. For your 'music' trip, I would like to recommend two albums by the band Critters Buggin, who make acid jazz alternative electronic sounding randomness, with instruments. The first is, 'Stampede', a very mellow, happy trip album. The other, 'Ameoba', is what I'd describe as their spacey, sort of unpredictable in a good way album. And if you want to delve deeper into obscure trippy music, check out pretty much anything by The Residents. My personal favourite albums of theirs for trips are, 'Fingerprince', 'The Ughs' and 'Lonely Teenager'.

 

Good TR - a grand trip.

I would say you're pushing into a psychedelic world. You're a long way from the psychonaut world.

http://soundcloud.com/inertg/alloveus-festival-closing-set

 

Ah - I'm just a simple newbie... so far

Only a 100mg hit

Sounds like fun

I've just come in from outside... the rain felt as though it was exploding in little moisture pockets as it hit the skin of my face - wonderful feeling

Tonight I'm pushing the boundaries a bit for my second trip - dived straight in to candyflipping. I think I got the dose timings a bit off... but i'm still on a good one & enjoying myself Doubled the dose to 200mg and after my last little drop a few mins ago, I'm up to 250mg MDMA too.

I'm a bit more experienced with MDMA and know that 250mg is where I need to stop and I trust that I will.

I'm typing this in one of the semi-lucid breaks back in reality that you seem to get.

For some reason, tonight Queen and David Bowie are really speaking to me.

Thanks.

I mis-appropriated the term as I've become quite fond of it I hope one days I may be able to class myself a true psychonaut.


Know there was more I wanted to type, but the music's calling me back to the other room. So far these substances are :love:.


Thanks for the replies guys, means a lot

 

I know there are many, many deeper levels to explore with this stuff - far beyond what I've experienced so far.

I want to enjoy the ride... i'm in no rush to push to a high dose or anything - I want to build up my experiences slowly. Build up to the destruction of my ego perhaps?

 

sounds like a great trip, and a great introduction to psychedelics.

i especially like this part
"The moisture in the streams distorted the light coming from the moon and it looked absolutely amazing - one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Strange that it's the kind of thing you wouldn't even look at twice when sober, shame really - but I think from now on I will notice things like that more often."

try not to recreate the experience, especially not too soon or too frequently.

thanks for sharing

 

Thanks for the comments and info.

The weekend just fell well and decided to take advantage - normally wouldn't experience two trips so soon after one another - have done plenty of reading around and know what the recommendations are

Thankfully - I also realise that I'm not trying to "recreate" the first experience - I know that trips evolve & each one will evolve completely different.



If someone got stuck chasing down the exact same thing they experienced the first time, that's the easy way to creating a mental addiction.

Just go with the flow... so this is "next"

I'm really liking popping back through here to see if there are any new comments... then it's "woosh, gone again" haha

 

I'll be sure to check those recs out, thank you :afro:

Listening to that now

 

you should try staring into the mirror.

i didn't like it so much on mushrooms, but on acid it's one of my favorite things to do. if it starts to freak you out, just stop.

i've seen an orange glow around the edge of the mirror, got brighter the longer i stared. i felt like if i watched myself long enough, enough...something was gonna happen, maybe my reflection wouldn't move when i did...maybe it would move 1st?

 

Nice tip - I've already stumbled across that by accident - my house a little bit of a house of mirrors.

- My pupils started dancing
- Then at one point, they briefly seemed to argue with each other
- Another view, for a while after I had convinced myself that I had swapped places with my mirror double and was now living in mirror-world. When everything was the right way round, I was simply... disappointed - lol!

For the most part, I really like looking at myself in the mirror, but it does appear to play on my own pointless insecurities about my weight... although I'm hardly huge, 5'11" & 15 stone... if my thoughts drift toward that - it's very good at over-exaggerating the bits I'm selfconcious about. When it has drifted there - it's not actually an uncomfortable place to be - just makes me take notice in a different way and I realise... I'm not fat (obese) at all.

 

yeah, a psychedelic trip is a lot about your individual mind, so looking in the mirror can also bring up your insecurities. lots of people think it makes them look strung out, or they notice all their blemishes. i sometimes think my nose or some other part of my face is crooked. it's not...except my nose might be a little

 

Sometimes I've seen an eye twitch infrequently

I can feel that it wasn't happening - but somehow it still felt as though it was - because of the visual

Other than the odd bit of overemphasized fatness... it's easy to get lost in my own eyes.. was staring at the pupil of my right eye when suddenly it morphed in to a little trip - i ended up effectively inside my eye, orbiting my pupil - which by then was a black hole. Awesome

It's re-affirming that I don't see any other issues, I quite like how I'm looking again (recently lost 2 stone)... albeit still a way to go, but starting to feel so much better everywhere... better diet = more energy & exploring this new world of mine = better diet for the 'soul'

 

thanks for the replies last night guys, added positively to my trip

 

I found this post of yours in another thread, that story is excellent and in the vid, it was the jump to infinity that my brain couldn't process, hence the jolt

It felt like other parts of my trip let me experience the 6th dimension, relating to things close to me, my surroundings and the people with me. So only a limited number of outcomes and confusion about which was real until the snap back.

Very interesting turn of perception

 

Cool man, nice report. And welcome.. it's harder than you expect, but so worth it.

 

Thanks - I'm loving exploring these new worlds

 

Next awesome trip - http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7425318