How can I best Prepare myself for a psychedelic experience

So how can i prepare myself mentally, so that i won't freakout and have a bad trip. I know you can never really tell how its going to turn out until you try, but is there anything that i could do to help me stear clear of a bad trip? I've heard meditation is good, but that involves a lot of practise, I was told smoking alot of pot helps? Is salvia good to take first before lsd and mushrooms?, even though most people find it very frightening and intense. I know that you should be in a good environment (setting) but are there steps you can take or alternative drugs you should take to take yourself as close to what the experience would be like so as to get an insight into what im about to get into?
I hope you guys can help.

 

Umm.. don't do any drugs beforehand.. write down something you want to think about during the trip (a problem, worry, etc), have benzos handy and just go with it.. don't fight anything, just experience the trip with empathy towards any anxieties you might get (you shouldn't get too many).

 

if i was you i would take on a healthy pot smoking habit(every day after school and all day on the weekends - as long as your homework gets done) and learn to meditate. smoking weed before you meditate will help you. after at least two years of smoking weed and meditating in addition to all the research you should be doing you will definitely be ready for a good trip. there is a very good chance that you could trip tomorrow and be fine but you are young and you are not going to miss out on anything by waiting a few years.

 

Man I am not gonna get into a habit like that. Pot slows you down in the long run and increases the risk of developing schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. i know you don't believe in schizophrenia and that it is just a human label that people can get over if they believe they dont have it and I'm not doubting your belief. But it's risky smoking pot like that when schizophrenia is in the family. Is reading and researching and listening to stories and trying to understand the psychedelic experience not enough?

 

if your scared to smoke pot why would you take acid

 

Im not scared of pot. I just wouldnt smoke it everyday or every weekend like some people do. It would leave different long term affects than taking acid once or twice

 

DUDE WTF! Do some research, their was never any conclusive evidence that pot increases schizzophrenia. I am sure that heroin definately makes many people schizzophrenic in late stages. Cocaine causes temporary delusions and paranoia during withdraw. BUT anything you learn while on pot is probably true. Just because a drug makes a person realize that society is completely unfair to anyone who does not follow the herd, does not mean it makes you schizz. You are far more likely to suffer from supposed mental illness after taking LSD, because that NECER happens with pot. Unless you smoke top grade pot all day for years and then stop completely, you wont go delusional. EDIT - IF ANYTHING, pot and halucinogens used every once in a while will aid you in becoming a better person. Please do not use pot all day, it is a waste of life. If you need more than a hit or 2 to get high you are smoking way too much. The extremely diverse array of medical benefits gained from use of pot have been covered up for too long. Full blown halucinogens are no exception. The medical benefits are astounding.

 

I do believe it is best to refrain from recreational drug use all together. Do all the acid you want, it is not recreational.

 

pot will never compare to acid "Im not scared of pot. I just wouldnt smoke it everyday or every weekend like some people do. It would leave different long term affects than taking acid once or twice" NO acid will completely change you for the better. Pot never really has lasting effects no matter how frequently you smoke it. Once you stop smoking it for a while, the effects are gone. Acid changes your life forever, it makes you more aware

 

I actually think that very high doses of potent marijuana are every bit as life-changing and intense as LSD trips, but I know I am in the minority.

The best way to prepare for a trip is simply to prepare for life. Get your life in line... figure out what you believe in. Surround yourself with people who love you and whom you love. If you are generally happy and content and take the LSD in a good environment, it's unlikely you will have a bad trip, in my experience.

 

Elfin1mf- i wouldnt know, but i had read in that brain robbery book that pot increases the risk of developing mental illness, but yeah i shouldnt jump to the conclusion and believe it. I understand that lsd changes your outlook on life forever because it is such an intense experience has been revealed to you and helps you understand ur mind and urself and doesnt compare to pot, ive read, but i wouldnt know cos the experience cant be described in words. studies have linked overuse of marijuana to mental illnesses and i've just taken that into account. if pot doesnt compare to acid, how can it help prepare your mind for it?
Im just innocent, curious, inexperienced and asking questions and finding if what i have been told is true etc

 

I have found potent marijuana can be quite hallucinogenic, and EXTREMELY introspective. Still, without the introduction of LSD the effects of marijuana are not as mind expanding imho. If you have never taken lsd, marijuana is less beneficially in myself and others whom I know. LSD is more profound in high doses than potent marijuana in my experience. It seems to me that the very hazy strains of pot which are best at inducing a trip are not as clear as other pure sativas. Pot which produces hallucinations is not clear headed enough to be as beneficial as LSD. There are very potent strains of cannabis which are completely clear headed, but they fall short of being hallucinogenic in an acid way and this is a widely accepted notion which I share with many others on popular cannabis cultivation forums. Marijuana is very good for realizations about tolerance and acceptance of others in many cases, but the people whom I know would never say that it is quite as mind expanding as acid. Everyone is different though.

EDIT - Unless you grow pot yourself or know others who grow it and can ask for pure sativa strains of hallucinogenic properties, it is almost impossible to get your hands on pot that has that quality. The reason being that coimmercial buds are usually never the more potent sativas, because they are not as profitable as MASS yielding indica hybrids and are much more difficult to grow.

 

"Im just innocent, curious, inexperienced and asking questions and finding if what i have been told is true etc" I realize that the majority of America is fooled by propaganda studies which have been falsely accusing pot of being dangerous for 70 years. The truth is that marijuana is a wonderful medicine for almost any problem a person has and a perfect medicine for problems people dont know they have. Everyone has problems, we are only humans who have been conditioned for selfishness pride and greed by a society who wishes us to be this way in order to profit from the public misfortune. Marijuana is good for any person to use once in a while. I would say just dont ever allow your mind to think about the pot, use it as an actual medicine and use it only once in a while. I wouldnt use it more than once or twice a week but do not use it right now more than once every few months.

 

Mas, if you feel that marijuana will leave you with mental problems from everyday use. You should not go anywhere near acid or any other hallucinogen. The difference one acid trip will make is 10 times more pertinent than if you were to smoke marijuana daily. So if you feel you couldn't deal with daily marijuana use for a year, you definitely will not be able to deal with acid.

I fully agree with 3xi, everyday pot smoking for a year or more is the single best way to prepare for full on psychedelics. It will give you a hint of the type of changes it's going to make and will give you hint a how to control these changes.

Pot doesn't compare to acid at all. But, pot does aim you the same direction acid does. Acid just takes you WAAAAY further in that direction.

But also, I would suggest you do mushrooms before acid as well.

 

Yeah thanks for the advice Rygoody, man I'll probly wait a few years before I try acid and I have had some thought about trying mushrooms before it, people advise that cos alot of ppl say its easier going and lighter than the intensity of an acid trip.

 

Smoking herbs makes me edgy, hyper active, highly self-conscious
and over all uncomfortable, preventing me from relaxing.
But I can, and have, eaten LSD and mushrooms by the hand full.
Everyone is different.
Best way to prepare? You dont need to prepare. When the drug
sinks in learn how to sink in with it. Let is pass you by. If you bug,
dont worry, it wear s off

 

no way of preparing for your first trip its different to anything you will ever exeperience...
you have to learn how to centre yourself...and you can only do that while your on it...bad or negative trips are learning curves...shouldn't be afraid of them...
my first trip was negative but it's like the saying "buy the ticket take the ride"...your trip will have different aspects...its like a rollercoaster bro you just gotta realise you cant get off for a long time so just go with it...

 

Basically, unless you are already insane, or feel that you have the
potential to go insane some day, or that you are a weak, pathetic
person who is vain enough to only care about yourself and your
material possesions, or sleep with every guy/girl in your path, or
self destructive, violent, abusive, out of control, or any other
personality faults that cause you to be socially defunctional, you
will be fine. Worse comes to worse you will lay in your bed holding
yourself begging for it to stop, which it will, and life goes on.

 

and even then a bad trip will hopefully teach you to change your ways

 

Yep. But some people are truly too far gone into their delusions.
The only hope they have to change comes with age and personal
experience of a life of misery when they grow older and all of their
selfish dreams fall apart around them. I know a few people who
are like this, some my age even in my own family, and it seems
that no matter how you try and help, their only help is going to
come by failure and the realization that they caused their own
problems. -