Psychedlics and death.

I remember before my journey into psychedelics when people i know died it made me upset, sad and depressed. I felt empty. Now after my experience when someone i know dies i feel completely different about it. It's like i have finally found the beauty in it. I still feel sad that there gone but there’s an eerie beauty about the transition of life that calms me. Like I’ve finally come to terms that it's there, it happens to everything and it will happen to me. It's nature. How have psychedelics affected your views and emotions towards death?

 

They have unquestionably affected my views towards death, I'm not sure if it's in quite a positive light as you. I have certainly had experiences that have made it seem beautiful and possibly give me hope for transcendence into an after life or something but I've had other experiences that just make it seem pointless and kind of make life seem pointless and death seem scary.

 

I had a salvia trip that's made me really afraid of dying.

 

I don't know if it's because of psychedelics, but I very much look forward to what happens when I die. That's not to say I want to die, but I'm certainly not scared of it. I hope I die happy/content though, or at least for die for something important.

My hope is that the process is similar to the bardo, as outlined in the Tibetan Book Of The Dead or as depicted in Enter The Void.

 

Psychedelics, or one psychedelic trip rather, changed my ideas about death. I was having an unpleasant trip on 3-4 grams of some potent cubes, and got very confused. I didn't think I was going to die at the time, but I SAW death ahead of me. I felt as if I full grasped the concept of mortality. I realized that throughout life, people shove death under the rug, thinking "oh that won't happen for a long time." Someday, there would be a time when I was lain down, and I could no longer shove death away. I would have to say "Ok, in 5 minutes, I will die, and there's nothing I can do about it." This really scared me, but I learned a bunch.

 

with dmt, salvia, and mushrooms once i have completely disassociated with reality. I think the feeling of being conscious while unable to percieve your body is the closest to death you can come without actually dying. While psychedelics certainly give insight into what dying is like, I for one dont feel much more comfortable with the concept from my experiences, as I have been to some hellish places I pray I'll never return.

My outlook now is that death is the ultimate trip...its the real one.

 

why are people so caught up on death?

do you know what its like to be dead? no? so then how do you know what its like to be alive?

death doesn't even exist lol, its just some idea we invented and we love to pretend like we know what it is...

 

my infamouse bad trip on mushrooms caused me to believe i was dead... everyone froze and gave the coldest feeling imaginable just looking at me, all i could hear is YOU ARE DEAD (my name) and i was like wow this is really the end.... but yeah i guess i lived past it even tho i met the real death.makes life 1000xx more real and meaningful

 

Because we humans just love a good puzzle XD It seems to be in our nature to question everything...to death! LOL

 

I was in the infantry in a war for >year, so death was all around all the time.

Psychedelics (after the war) were a big part of how I came to working in a hospice.

Last year I got fairly close to death - on a vent in surgical ICU, 11 days in the hospital. The first ~4 days, when there was serious doubt that I would live, it was basically, okay. Glad I paid attention in life and lived the best ways I could - and my relationships are current with no regrets. After I was sure I was going to live, I was happy, but not overjoyed.

So yes, psychedelics have been an important part of my journey toward death.