What was your most profound psychedelic experience?

Oh god, the loneliness...

I did 5 as a first time (I was told that was an okay dose), nothing happened in 3 hours so we were like fuck it, let's smoke some weed and go to sleep.

I took one puff from a blunt and my head went full "oh oh..." and the following 5 hours were pure insanity with loneliness. I hated it so badly that I didn't try again for years now

Always taken by the wanderlust.

As a pack we'd walk miles, all night, usually guided towards bodies of water.

The kid in the 24 hour garage would nod as we strolled past, along the large brick wall that felt like the scales of a giant lizard.

I dunno about profound, but it was pretty chill. I took a handful of fresh Uncle Ben's fruits and made ramen with it. Nothing crazy, but I did put on some chill tranceish type long jam tracks, got under the sheets and chilled. Within about twenty minutes I remember one closed eye visual very clearly. I was floating down the n64 Mario kart rainbow road, and the cosmic owl from adventure time was off to the side jamming with some of those double sided maracas.

I like doing tea usually, but didn't want to go through the drying out, and in very small but not quite micro doses. I like to feel it a little. And that was one of my favorites.

not from a drug, but from a fever gave me some mild auditory hallucinations.

isnt it, they represent all forms reproduction, most are very long lived or immortal (if they vegatively clone themselves indefinitely) have enormous genomes and powerful defenses(chemical, or otherwise). weedy ones are almost impossible kill.

Damn, what storytelling !!

I've had a few quite profound experiences, one where I saw all the patterns in the universe, a peak behind the curtain of the maths that creates all natural phenomena. And another where I dissolved and became the northern lights

I also became the mushrooms once, I was in the ground amongst the soil particles existing as the mycelium threads, then decided to grow upwards as the fruiting bodies of the mushrooms above ground

I've had some amazing experiences of being other things in nature

What a beautiful experience, you've put in words a similar experience I had, but so much better. It triggered a very happy memory and a big smile 🥰

_...The elements do not conspire against you. They have their own desires..._

_...When one spies a great peak, the natural inclination is to begin climbing..._

I don't think I could get out of such an experience unscathed, but I sure do like hearing the stories

Opiates after being resuscitated. I have a lot of stories to tell and it took about half a year to get out of my system.

Now I live with that knowledge and memories but luckily I am not a drug user nor have access so so risk of relapse.

Shrooms/psilocybin: Called and cussed out my parents, put all the shit my family talks about behind each others backs into a groupchat, changed my phone number, and quit drinking completely (12 pack nightly) now for 2.5 years total all within about 12h.

My #1 recommendation for anyone in a similar situation is that you are not allowed to have your phone or computer for 72h. A week if you can arrange a vacation. Watch videos on DVD / vhs if you can or read a book. Listen to music or predownload a podcast / audiobook. Go for walks. get a coloring book. Hopefully other people will add in some good analog activities. But do NOT contact the outside world at all for 72h.

It needed to be done but I could've done it with a LOT more grace if I'd waited.

Thought about reconnecting recently actually then I had this dream:

I was at a family reunion and mentioned the thing that my dead sibling did that left me with one of those early childhood harcoded fight or flight responses. Like it's not existential; I'm not actually like afraid of just thinking about it but if it actually happens my body will just involuntarily freeze. Anyway in the dream my still living sibling responds by doing it to me "as a joke."

I did not wind up reaching out. I think my body was trying to tell me something.

It did give me some perspective, I'd say. I used to set an alarm and take notes then go back to sleep, to record dreams, which is how I found the precognitive ones, I recommend that method if you think you don't have much dream life, I suspect everyone does but we forget them as part of healthy sleep cycles. But that one dream I can still see the tree, the setting, and remember the feeling it was like unzipping my body, not scary. We really are just ephemeral happenings and part of the universe, we are not as separate as we think.

I do just like you !! I keep a notebook on the nightstand. I've been dreaming more and more after starting this habit

I took two tabs of acid and found religion and (unrelatedly) realized I wasn't interested in my fuckbuddy anymore and that our friendship had gotten weird since I'd started my relationship with my now wife.

The finding religion bit was basically me meditating within the pool of the divine feminine and seeing where I belonged within it.

Idk psychadelics mostly just call me on my shit and connect me to the whole of humanity and the earth.