Psilocybin and DMT are both super accessible to source and use safely, with neither being neurotoxic. Psilocybe mushrooms are the easiest kind to grow in passive bedroom conditions and the /r/unclebens tek. It's simple to dose at any level with microdoses being like an antidepressant/antianxiety that works and large doses being 3-4 hour meditation while camping. DMT involves working with a couple chemicals you have to be careful with (lye and lighter fluid), but Mimosa hostilis bark powder refined twice using an acid-to-base tek will give you a very safe psychedelic that lasts five minutes and then makes the world a warm summer morning for the rest of the day.
RCs scare the shit out of me. I'll use some of Shulgin's but those labs are completely amoral and those substances are interacting with us in novel ways. Too many unknowns for me, like buying MDMA in any form except crystalline.
That's where microdosing comes in. A recreational dose of psilocybin is 1-3.5g, with 1 being such a gentle psychedelic experience that it's just feeling curious and introspective while visual details like light shimmering on tree leaves stands out more. A microdose is 0.1-0.4g. Zero visuals, but your vision is sharper and you have a better eye for patterns. Zero loss of control or cognitive impact, but in anxious situations it's like having a single beer. You won't have scattered and trippy thoughts but creative and systemic thinking feels much more natural. A microdose day for me is one where I go on a hike and everything is interesting, engaging, intricate, and easy to deal with. I can perceive the ecological patterns and every flower looks 30% more beautiful, with the motivation to sit down and study/photograph it as if in a low-grade zen state.
There are contraindications for psilocybin certainly- mental illnesses more serious than depression and anxiety especially if there is a psychosis component. Short of that, you wouldn't get any kind of trip from such a low dose. It's just the psychedelic headspace of being in love with an interconnected world and the energy of a pot of coffee.
edit: You also apparently can with DMT but I haven't tried it myself because a recreational dose is in the 0.03-0.05g range and cutting 1/10th of an amount as small as 30mg is hard with my scale.
When people struggle in clinical trials, or when someone goes to the ER for a bad time with psychedelics recreationally, doctors typically administer benzodiazepines to calm their anxiety and tone down the trip. Anecdotally, this is said to kill the "headspace" of the trip almost entirely even as some other aspects, like visual disturbances, persist.
Sometimes doctors will offer to prescribe a few benzos to patients with anxiety when they describe a specific limited scenario that triggers panic attacks, such as an upcoming flight that will be complicated by an intense phobia of flying.
2f-DCK and a ton of other analogues are cheap and easy to get (unscheduled) and fun to see which tend to help with depression the most. At least they were easy to get a year ago when I stocked up. There's also DXM which has serotonergic activity to boot.
Very understandable. I felt the risk (for me personally) wasn't any higher than the street drugs I'd used, in some ways were even lesser. And the RC's were cheaper and not illegal, so the benefits outweighed the risks, but it's absolutely a concern and something everyone would have to weigh out for themselves.
Note that if you are looking to try DXM for treating depression and are on an SSRI or SNRI (or any other drug that prevents serotonin reuptake or causes increased production), do not take it if you haven't completely stepped off of the medication in question (and made sure that you've gotten past the half-life for having it in your system). Serotonin syndrome is bad news.
Not sure if SSRI/SNRIs interact with ket. Probably wanna check that too.
Very late response, but I just wanted to say you're absolutely right, thank you for saying that, and I really should have mentioned that in my comment. I feel kinda bad that I didn't, actually.
this shit is like 500-750 for an infusion lol. insane.
ill stick to snorting random isomers and pretending its helping me thanks
Psilocybin and DMT are both super accessible to source and use safely, with neither being neurotoxic. Psilocybe mushrooms are the easiest kind to grow in passive bedroom conditions and the /r/unclebens tek. It's simple to dose at any level with microdoses being like an antidepressant/antianxiety that works and large doses being 3-4 hour meditation while camping. DMT involves working with a couple chemicals you have to be careful with (lye and lighter fluid), but Mimosa hostilis bark powder refined twice using an acid-to-base tek will give you a very safe psychedelic that lasts five minutes and then makes the world a warm summer morning for the rest of the day.
RCs scare the shit out of me. I'll use some of Shulgin's but those labs are completely amoral and those substances are interacting with us in novel ways. Too many unknowns for me, like buying MDMA in any form except crystalline.
I'm too anxious to use psychedelics to treat my anxiety because I'm anxious that my anxiety will make it a bad trip :kitty-cri-screm:
The ouroboros of mental illness
That's where microdosing comes in. A recreational dose of psilocybin is 1-3.5g, with 1 being such a gentle psychedelic experience that it's just feeling curious and introspective while visual details like light shimmering on tree leaves stands out more. A microdose is 0.1-0.4g. Zero visuals, but your vision is sharper and you have a better eye for patterns. Zero loss of control or cognitive impact, but in anxious situations it's like having a single beer. You won't have scattered and trippy thoughts but creative and systemic thinking feels much more natural. A microdose day for me is one where I go on a hike and everything is interesting, engaging, intricate, and easy to deal with. I can perceive the ecological patterns and every flower looks 30% more beautiful, with the motivation to sit down and study/photograph it as if in a low-grade zen state.
There are contraindications for psilocybin certainly- mental illnesses more serious than depression and anxiety especially if there is a psychosis component. Short of that, you wouldn't get any kind of trip from such a low dose. It's just the psychedelic headspace of being in love with an interconnected world and the energy of a pot of coffee.
edit: You also apparently can with DMT but I haven't tried it myself because a recreational dose is in the 0.03-0.05g range and cutting 1/10th of an amount as small as 30mg is hard with my scale.
When people struggle in clinical trials, or when someone goes to the ER for a bad time with psychedelics recreationally, doctors typically administer benzodiazepines to calm their anxiety and tone down the trip. Anecdotally, this is said to kill the "headspace" of the trip almost entirely even as some other aspects, like visual disturbances, persist.
Sometimes doctors will offer to prescribe a few benzos to patients with anxiety when they describe a specific limited scenario that triggers panic attacks, such as an upcoming flight that will be complicated by an intense phobia of flying.
"Sometimes I get nervous on airplanes."
Yep the only solution is just to hold your breath and do it anyway
taking notes, this is good
Check out GordoTek on youtube. Great info on easy techniques.
I would also recommend 90 Second Mycology
It sucks that when I wanted to learn how to cultivate mushrooms I was immediately put on a watchlist
What do you mean?
Yhe only results were for growing psychedelic mushrooms
how do you know?
I'm a fed
2f-DCK and a ton of other analogues are cheap and easy to get (unscheduled) and fun to see which tend to help with depression the most. At least they were easy to get a year ago when I stocked up. There's also DXM which has serotonergic activity to boot.
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Very understandable. I felt the risk (for me personally) wasn't any higher than the street drugs I'd used, in some ways were even lesser. And the RC's were cheaper and not illegal, so the benefits outweighed the risks, but it's absolutely a concern and something everyone would have to weigh out for themselves.
Note that if you are looking to try DXM for treating depression and are on an SSRI or SNRI (or any other drug that prevents serotonin reuptake or causes increased production), do not take it if you haven't completely stepped off of the medication in question (and made sure that you've gotten past the half-life for having it in your system). Serotonin syndrome is bad news.
Not sure if SSRI/SNRIs interact with ket. Probably wanna check that too.
Very late response, but I just wanted to say you're absolutely right, thank you for saying that, and I really should have mentioned that in my comment. I feel kinda bad that I didn't, actually.
It's cool - I just keep a long list of drugs I can't try so it stays at front of mind.
2fdck is the bees knees .
almost identical to racemic ketamine.