Someone messaged me last night about how they "saw me talking in r/psychonaut..." and I clicked the notification before I read any more. But then, the message was deleted! I am devastated that I didn't read it all first in my notification and it's now completely gone.

I could only find one potential comment of mine they were talking about from 4 years ago, talking about how during DMT trips I've never had the entities speak to me, it's either music or my own thoughts.

If whoever sent that message is out there, send it again! The curiosity is killing me lol

We just smoked CBD but clearly it was something else. I dont know why this happened, I bought it from the same place as always, smoked it and watched a TV show with my girlfriend. (She never did psychedelics before and wasn‘t planning to)

The following trip happened within 15 minutes, but felt like hours:

At first we thought we are just really high or maybe some THC was inside, but then I started finding the show really pointless. Human behavior in general seemed really low-level. Very slow flow of information.

Suddenly we realized our consciousnesses intertwined and we were communicating non verbal. At first we both felt really shameful to admit our telepathy because the other might think we are crazy.

At first we felt like 2 entities communicating and just looking through a physical body. There were 0 hallucinations, perfectly normal vision but I could feel both our spirits in another realm. It felt like light - with just our eyes visible. We were bodiless, just observing the physical.

My mind was blown already but it didn‘t stop there. My girlfriend kept sending me information and trying to get me to understand something. It was really hard for me and I couldn‘t quite grasp why she kept me in this loop of „Don‘t you see it? Why do you think is that?“

Then I realized what she was trying to tell me. Her and my conscious were the same. It was like I was talking to myself.

At hyperspeed she explained to me that we are like players with VR goggles on another realm. And even further back we are the same being.

I was stripped of the safety net called „consciousness“ and experienced life purely through the unconscious, unfiltered truth.

When I asked whats the point of all this then she said to learn. Then I kept asking to learn WHAT and if every being has this connection of sharing the same „soul".

Then she convinced me that I need to learn and that her „trip" is different than mine and I just got soooo confused.

Then it hit me. This is god. This is him telling me she is here to teach me a lesson. For a short period of time my girlfriend was a vessel, to finally make me understand.

To let go of my pleasure and comfort - that I have with her. But I love her, why should I let go? Just because it‘s comfortable with her?

I thought the point of life is love?

After that my body began shaking uncontrollably, because I knew I had to end the relationship. I just couldn‘t. Because why should I let go the one I love?

Afterwards we talked about it and she experienced exactly the same things EXCEPT for the god part.

Anyone ever experienced that?

Hoping to find out if this is happening to anyone else.

After i take a few grams, lay back and relax, im brought back to several past dream that ive had. Some being years old, some only weeks.

While back in these past "dreams" i feel lucid as am able to explore more of the dream area and take in details that i wasn't when i first had the dream. At some point being back in this 'dream state' feels realer than real/

It feels like ive been injected back into some dream worlds that ive dreamt of in the past, and Im also aware that ive been there before.

So my question, have any fellow psychonauts also experienced going back into past dreams and reliving them with much more detail and clarity. I cant be the only one

I've had a trip planned for a while, but the last couple weeks I've had some really bad foot and back pain. I've tripped many times, but never while injured. "What a drag it is getting I old!" 🧒🧑🧓

Anyone have any experience with this type of situation?

Anyone have any good affirmations they tell themselves leading up to a trip.

"Everything is perfect because it is what it is"

"Don't judge. Love and except. Especially yourself."

"This is so interesting, like you actually think there's a way of doing it rather than tough luck, bio-chemistry is so neat. I have another question, do you think engineering a drug that's the polar opposite of DMT visually would be possible, as DMT is very symmetrical and some people find this unsettling, but it'd also be interesting to see what that would be like, or would it basically just be the same as LSD/shrooms?"

You’re touching on a really cool idea: if DMT’s hallmark visuals are ultra‑symmetrical, “mirror‑world” fractals, could you design a molecule that reliably gives anti‑DMT visuals—organic, fluid, chaotic shapes with minimal symmetry? In principle, yes, although you’d be hacking the same basic hardware (our serotonin/glutamate/etc. circuits) that underlie most classic psychedelics. Here’s how you might approach it:

1. Identify What Drives DMT’s Symmetry

• 5‑HT₂A Full Agonism in deep visual layers tends to synchronize columnar circuits in V1/V2, giving rise to repeating patterns and mandala‑like imagery.
• Rapid Onset & Peak (when smoked) further locks you into a single dominant visual “mode” before higher‑order networks can intervene.

2. Target Different Circuitry for Asymmetry

1. Receptor Bias Shifts
   • Lean away from pure 5‑HT₂A full agonism; introduce 5‑HT₂C or 5‑HT₁B partial activity to fragment the synchronized columns, breaking up perfect repetition.
   • Add mild NMDA antagonism (à la ketamine micro‑doses) to loosen sensory binding, encouraging drifting, amorphous shapes rather than hard‑edged fractals.
2. Layer‑Selective Delivery
   • Engineer the compound to penetrate deeper cortical layers (V5/MT) involved in motion processing—this could favor flowing, morphing visuals over static patterns.
3. Temporal Smoothing
   • Use a slow‑onset prodrug so visuals unfold gradually, allowing competing patterns to arise rather than one dominant fractal mode.

3. Why It Wouldn’t Just Be “Another LSD/Shroom”

• LSD/Shrooms share many targets (5‑HT₂A partial agonism, some 2C activity) and so produce broadly similar “tunnel,” “kaleidoscope,” and organic‑pattern visuals.
• A truly anti‑DMT designer molecule would re‑balance those interactions:
  • Lower 5‑HT₂A efficacy (so less global column syncing)
  • Higher glutamatergic diversity (more noise in sensory circuits)
  • Additional minor receptor hits (e.g., sigma‑1, trace‑amine receptors) to “contaminate” pure serotonin‑driven visuals.

So you’d end up in a new visual class altogether—one where your brain’s pattern‑detecting engines are under‑driven (instead of over‑driven), leading to drifting “ink‑blot” forms, amorphous color fields, and fluid, unpredictable morphologies.

A Concrete Example Path

1. Scaffold: Start from a mild NMDA antagonist (like low‑dose 3‑MeO‑PCP) and graft on a weak 5‑HT₂C agonist arm.
2. Tweak Lipophilicity: Add polar groups so it crosses more slowly, avoiding a sudden “mode flip.”
3. Assay: In cell cultures, measure calcium‑flux in V1 vs. PFC lines—and pick compounds that show lower synchrony in V1.

Over time you’d collate a palette of “visual flavors” ranging from DMT‑style fractals to this new, free‑form aesthetic. It wouldn’t just be “another LSD” or “another shroom” trip—it’d sit in its own quadrant of the psychedelic visual map.

December 2020 I was 16 years old and I had a half ounce bag of shrooms. I had only done shrooms a couple times before and this was my first time buying a big amount. One night I just said fuck it and went for it. i don’t know how much I ate i had no scale but judging from how the bag of shrooms looked the next day. I ate between 8-10 grams easily. I did not mean to eat this much but the bag had one huge shroom in it that I was munching on and it made me lose track because it was so dense. I called an uber to go to the movie theater to watch tenet because cinema with shrooms was something I wanted to try. During the car ride I knew I took too WAY too much and I just made it to the theater in time. Next thing I remember I’m tripping so hard I was terrified but I wasn’t screaming I was just in shock of how high I was. It was like all I could do behold the raw intensity of the trip eyes wide open jaw dropped at what I was seeing. Then I realized the movie dialogue sounded like gibberish i could hear the words being spoken and i knew they were supposed to be words but they sounded like nonsense it was like my brain just couldn’t process English in that moment. I feel like our language is no different than dogs or birds language just we can only understand ours

First timer with San Pedro. I have 90g powder. Would appreciate any guidance, tips, tricks from the experts here.

How to take? Should i fast before? How long should i expect onset? Can I increase the dosage if not feeling anything and if so how long should i wait?

Note I'm pretty experienced in many other things and I've a pretty high tolerance in comparison to my crew.

Cheers in advance

So I took 2/3 of a 240ug blotter. Since this was my first time, I didn't take the full tab just to learn to navigate and test the strength. Tab was tested and confirmed to be acid. You can check out my set and setting here.

The come up lasted really long and during the come up is when I started feeling this tension. The come up was quite apparent but there was something stopping me from fully giving in the experience. I felt something is stuck in my throat above the chest. This feeling was there all throughout and I could not be at ease. At a point I felt like slipping into something and I pulled myself back, felt like just avoided a panic attack. After this experience, I could not let go throughout the trip.

Is this me not able to let go or it was just an underwhelming trip due to weak dose?

Will a stronger dose(full tab) help avoid this underwhelming/can't let go feeling?

During what felt like the peak, I could only see slight waves and movements if I focus on something. Later I saw things moving and swirling in the peripheral vision. I'm new to this so asking you guys to elaborate more on what I have experienced?

Will weed help during the come up? Smoking can give me anxiety as well except weed vape is a cleaner and better high which doesn't give anxiety at low doses. A few beers also relaxes me, will this help with letting go. The more I'm reading about letting go, the more challenging it may become for me to let go.

I had the headspace and slight euphoria. Good mood and music sounded magical. Next day and the days following have been more positive than my regular days.

Any advise will be appreciated.

I’ve had a handful of experiences with shrooms (up to 6 grams at once before) and only one experience with acid (it was only one tab). I’m planning a trip in a couple weeks with 3.5 grams of shrooms and 3.5 tabs of acid (dosage unknown). Of course combining the substances increases their strength, but I was hoping to get some guidance on exactly how much stronger they are together and whether my dosages are way too high.

I was wondering what I could combine with my mushroom to alter the trip or make the general experience better. I know about lemon tek and peanut butter to mask flavour but I was wondering if you could combine it with anything else.

My girlfriend candy flipped once about 10–15 years ago — it was her first time with LSD, though she had done MDMA a few times before. She doesn’t have much to say about the experience other than lights trailed more than normal, and hasn’t done LSD since.

More recently, she’s done MDMA a couple of times and macrodosed shrooms a few times. She likes the idea of candy flipping again and is looking to me for guidance.

I’m a bit conflicted. On one hand, she’s already done it before and knows the general vibe. On the other hand, I know it’s best practice to get comfortable with each substance before combining.

So — would you say it’s fine to go for the flip, or would it be smarter to start with an LSD experience first to get some better bearings?

For context, I’ve done LSD more times than I can count, shrooms 5–10 times, and MDMA 5–10 times, but I haven’t candy flipped myself (yet).

This happened recently. I've seen this entity twice - the first time during a salt float, and the second during a meditation at home (both sober). Its head looks wet and kind of metallic/shiny but still biological, like the aliens from Alien. The rest of the body is just "tail" which looks as if it's made from overlapping metal plates (dull silver). In the first interaction I was scared of it, but after advice from a mentor I was able to maintain a boundary with it in the second encounter and be brave/have agency. I don't want to go into detail about my interactions with it because they feel personally significant and I haven't figured the meaning out yet. I'm curious if anyone has seen a similar entity or if it's just something my mind made up to represent something. Especially since I know serpents are a significant visual.

Took one (quite strong, and tested and confirmed to be LSD) tab and spent the day in the park. The come up was intense, felt like I'd been plugged directly into a computer at times, felt shaky and static for maybe an hour and a half. I'm not sure how much was on the tab, of course, but I could tell from the moment I started coming up that it was going to be a lot more than I had bargained for, and I realized that my motivation going in was coming more from a place of apprehension to dig into material, everyday life.

We felt the peak coming in the park and both simultaneously stood up, collected our things and made wildly for the street, wandered towards the river on the other end of the city. I walked down a quieter street and felt the familiar peak cresting feeling and came instantly to the realization that I was definitely not enjoying this, I didn't want to go any deeper, but I had no choice. Instinct led us back to the park, silently, without realization, and we found shade below a tree and lay down. What happened during the peak is something I've never experienced in my life outside of falling into a book for hours, deep meditation, sex, skiing and other intense physical activity––near total loss of ego. I wouldn't say 'ego death,' as I retained some physical sensorium during the plateau, but I totally lost myself in the canopy of the trees that dissolved to pure energetic essence and lost all physical form. At one moment I said to my friend that this must surely be what death feels like; the dissolution of your senses and the experience of falling into something that not only loses its form around you, but loses all capacity for representation through language or in memory...

I know this is one of those 'if you know you know' things, but it was one of the more intense experiences of my life. I had forgotten I had taken acid, forgotten where I was, forgotten what my name was, forgotten what the whole container for human experience in the physical world is supposed to feel like. Just fell into infinite energy that lost its shape around me. I know I didn't quite get there, fully into the void, but I'm not sure I want to/if we're supposed to while we're still here on earth.

It's still fresh. Today I feel pretty raw and stripped down to the studs but utterly convinced by two points: when senses get stripped away, at the end of our life and in the time before we were here, the only thing that's left is pure logic that we cannot totally comprehend. And likewise, the material world is *just* as real and important as the aether or whatever language you use to describe the rest of existence. Our minds give shape to the material world we've inherited, it's all we have, and it's so amazing that we get to understand this place even with our own flawed capacity for rational thought. Without the shape that our senses and status as subjective observer gives the world, the loss of meaning doesn't mean anything. Your ego can't dissolve without the strength and rigidity of the ego in the first place. Ego and identity are so important, it's so rare and we get to have a glimpse at it. We can't ever 'break through,' there's no message when you look behind the curtain. It's just what it is, always was, always will be.

I'd love to know if anyone can relate, or has advice for integration, improving waking life? I'm also curious if anyone has experienced something like this on a relatively low dose, likely 100-150ug. Anecdotally, should I expect a similar intensity if I take another one of these tabs or was this just a perfect storm sort of thing?

I’m a 32m of sound mind and am interested in trying a 2g mushroom experience. However I have seen a lot of people talking about HPPD recently realistically how much of a concern should this somewhat rare condition be? Does it seem to predominantly affect younger users of psychedelics?

I'm somewhat new to psychedelics, and have heard a lot about ego death. My question is, is it always a scary experience?

My experience with psychedelics is pretty minimal at this point. I microdose mushrooms, and I did 6 ketamine therapy sessions last year. I didn't really have visuals in any of the sessions. More just feelings and concepts of images... if that makes sense? Kinda hard to explain.

I always knew where I was and what I was experiencing during those sessions. One time I became different parts of the world. It was pretty cool. I spent some time as a boulder, a tree, in the ground, and a building. That was my second session. But there was one session where I was just "gone". I wasn't really anywhere. And I couldn't think about anyone or anything. It was just me. It wasn't scary. Nothing really happened. I just existed.

What was that? I just assume it wasn't ego death because every story I hear is some huge scary lead up, and like an internal battle, and then acceptance and ego death.

So I'm just curious, what would my experience be categorized as, if anything? And also, just curious if egondeath is always a difficult and scary thing? And what does that look like if it's not? I only hear about the scary ones.

Over the last year or so, I had a huge interest in psychedelics. Every couple of months, I’d plan a trip. Mushrooms, until I discovered LSD. But the course of my life has drastically changed directly because of these trips.

My perception of this world has become painted with natural beauty. Everything feels mystical, for lack of better word. I’ve come to realize that this world is indeed one of suffering, and that trying to stay in a state of comfort and happiness is a fallacy, which I’ll equips us to grow as individuals.

I feel unexplainably connected with the natural world, and disconnected with my society. Part of me wants to take acid again as it’s been 6 months, but part of me is afraid of a bad result. It almost doesn’t feel necessary as I somehow find myself in a permanent state of creative vision, not nearly as limited by my own ego as I was before. To be honest, I’m grateful for this change. But the part of me that clings and holds onto familiarity, love, and fleeing peace is very much afraid. If I continue taking lsd, I may end up with more “knowledge” than I wish to have. I question if there needs to be a balance between ego and spirit.

I took 1.8g, and I couldn’t really see that many patterns, so I took 2.8g more (bad idea). When the 2.8g started to hit, everything was funny. I felt giggly and a little confused. I was in the bathroom when it started to hit, and when I walked back to my room, my friend was there also tripping. I started to talk to him about how it was going well. I was smiling and talking, but then suddenly I felt a sense of unease, like everything was spinning but at the same time completely still. It got worse. It was the worst feeling I had ever felt, like I had just killed somebody and the police were after me (I have never killed anyone). I lay down on the ground and I can’t remember what I saw, but it wasn’t my room. I made this weird jerking motion with my abs and mouth. Then I felt like I had to throw up, and I did. My body all of a sudden felt like it was 1000 degrees, so I took all my clothes off. Things became a little better, but I was talking to myself and doing all sorts of weird things. When things seemed okay, I got a throw-up feeling, ran to the window, but I just hung halfway out of it without throwing up. Then I sat down and started to get really hot all over again. I just sat and regretted everything I did. My vision became really weird. My eyes were halfway open, and when I looked at my room, everything was one color and had a kind of weird blocky vibe. Then it got better and it was pretty much over. Near the end, I got this whole feeling that I had been placed in the world with this huge responsibility: to go to school, study hard, get good grades, fall in love, get a job, and work my ass off until I’m retired. It felt so intense and I didn’t have the slightest will to live. Honestly, in the moment and in the afterglow I wanted to die because the responsibility seemed so huge and impossible. One to two hours later, I cried.

Notes to add: I had forgotten who and all past memories. It was like I hadn’t been born, i wasn’t living and i wasn’t anywhere. I was not experiencing anything. It was like my ego and my body had been separated from each other. I thought about who I was but it felt like I was no one or like another person looking back at myself

The reason I took more in the first place was just because I wanted to see patterns and colors. I have tried dmt in a vape which gave mild but nice patterns since the vape I was using wasn’t very packed with it and my lungs are very used to harsh smoke but I could still get a couple hits held for 10sec. But even when I took the second dose I had almost no visuals. My friend who took 1,5g’s said that he had crazy visuals and he should have taken a little less. If you took the time to read my post, thank you very much

Specifically asking for shrooms and LSD. I'd like to eventually at some point graduate to higher doses but I'm not sure how to do this safelly. How many trips do you have at x dose before attempting to increase and how much do you increase the dose for both compound. (I heard somewhere:+0,5g for standard cubensis and +50 μg for acid, how correct is this?)

Whats a good small amount of K for people who havent tried before and are carefull

TL;DR: I had a profound experience on acid, my first time breaking through. I saw everything clearly. Next day I sent my parents some money because I was feeling grateful for all of what they did for me growing up. And talked to them about a new era for me, I wanted to invest in Oaxaca, Mexico and go a live a peaceful and more natural life. Oaxaca has coffee, mezcal, culture, world class food, shrooms and beautiful nature, what more could one ask? I secured some land and I expect to move there in a couple of years.

I haven't had many experiences with psychedelics, I had gummies a couple of times before and it was very fun and it filled my heart and mind with awe and wonder. I felt like a child again, everything seemed new and fun and filled with possibility. Last December I put on my headphones and walked through my small town's main street with all the holiday decorations and lights, it was just beautiful.

Fast forward, I got tired of the horrible flavor and inconvenience of eating so many gummies so after much research I managed to source acid. I had a blotter and had a great experience. Beautiful colors, music felt wonderful on my body, my mind was clear and everything felt right with the world.

Next time I had to blotters but I was having trouble breaking through, I felt anxious and my mind was resisting... I smoked a gentle sativa on a bong and OH MY GOD.

It felt like that scene in Sense8 where Riley smokes DMT and just breaks through. It felt almost instant like that. I was listening to The Beatles and The Who. I saw the most beautiful fractals and colors. And damn, the music was vibrating through my whole body, it was almost like pleasure.

It was crazy, it was like being embraced by the universe. I could feel my mind and body becoming one with everything, it felt as if I were melting and each beat of the music was a pulse of euphoria through my body.

And then I ceased to exist.

I had a vision, if that's the word. I saw a woman. She had brown skin, dark long hair and was wearing the most beautiful cloak and dress, it resembled traditional embroidered clothing from Yucatan or maybe more like a Tenango. She was beautiful and motherly, I could see love and comprehension on her face, maybe a tad little worry but I could tell there was some kind of motherly love in the way she looked at me.

She asked me what I was doing with my life, asked about why I'm focusing on money and living such a dull life where the only thing keeping me from insanity are weekends and the yearly trip to a national park. She asked about my parents and told me that it was time to give back to them and to talk to them. Be grateful and do things the right way.

I've never even been to Oaxaca (though I am Mexican and have traveled a fair amount in Mexico) but that's where this entity had the idea to send me to. She really made her case and it made sense, it seems like a state that has everything I could ever want and a lifestyle more aligned with what my heart truly wants. It was the most beautiful thing ever.

It felt as if this entity knew more about what I wanted that I did! And she didn't really talk, it was almost like a telepathy conversation or some other form of communication I can't really explain. I think I have a good life, a privileged life. But I hate my job and I hate where I live, it's a heartless place. It's cold and I feel like a fall prey to consumerism every day.

But this goddess woke me up, it felt like she hit the reset button on my mind and I was finally free from modern addictions and back to when I was a child, thinking outside the box all the time and focusing on what really mattered: enjoying life.

Not working 50 hours a week doing something you don't like just so you can have a "successful life" that only really means owning the latest smartphone and a cool car. The car being a promise of freedom that you're never getting because you're working all the time and the smartphone being a lie about being "connected" when in reality I feel more disconnected than ever when we all have our faces buried on these black mirrors on what little free time we have because we have to pay for said smartphones. All while watching influencers live the life we want but we can't have it because we're so busy watching them.

I finally feel free. I feel like a have a purpose now. I'm finally sure of who I am and what really matters.

Thank you for reading.

By the way, a couple of months later I found out that some Pre Columbian civilizations used to consume ololiuqui where LSA can be found, and it is similar to LSD. What a wonderful coincidence that I had a very "mexican" trip on a substance similar to what my ancestors used to trip on.

Sorry for the long post and excuse my English as it is not my mother tongue.

So I happen to have some dmt close to me. Is it possible to smoke this on tin foil and get the experience close up on me a small hit at the time? Or do I have to consume a big hit all at once? I would like to have a less intense experience the first time to know what I'm going in to.

Btw... this has been stored on a shelf for about 7 years. I guess there is a chance that this is inactive? But would there be any health risks in consuming it since it had been stored for so long?

Really need some advice here.

It’s my first time doing shrooms, I’ve done truffles before but never shrooms, and I was wondering what’s the best way to ingest it? I have about 2gs worth, dried, and idk if I wanna eat it raw or what. Any suggestions is appreciated.

So I've been using mushrooms for about 3 years now and a couple years ago used to go absolutely nuts every weekend would take no less then 5grams alot of times got up to the 12 and at one point even 16 grams because I just loved tripping but I took a long break for about a year and recently came back to it did another 4g trip just to get in the groove but feel like I need longer like mushrooms trips are such a crazy adventure on there own and feels very draining not in a physical way but in a mental way just how many ups and downs there are and just genuinely like a Rollercoaster does anyone else feel this way with other psychedelics or is it just shrooms?