What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by jampekka on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @11:11AM (#43173714)

A sober, or an experienced trustworthy, tripsitter is almost a must. A small amount of MDMA (especially if you're not familiar with it) before taking a psychedelic can be helpful as mentioned. Having some sedatives just handy just in case may itself lessen the probability of unpleasant effects.

Micro-dosing is mostly placebo. But a good idea is to start with small doses (check e.g. the "threshold limits" at Psychonaut Wiki), and maybe faster shorter acting substances like 2C-B or mushrooms rather than longer acting like LSD.

Also good to acknowledge that psychedelics just aren't very enjoyable experiences for many, and even for most they are rarely unambiguously good.

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Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by ge96 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @11:21AM (#43173845)

Yeah I'm wondering if you can tell like I can't smoke w because I get paranoid/scared of people. I just drink in a social setting

edit: tell as in if you can't handle w, shouldn't do acid/psychedelics ha

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Re:What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowi... by jampekka on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:46PM (#43175013)

Psychedelics aren't necessarily as anxiety/paranoia inducing as weed, and even the effects in general aren't necessarily as intense. Of course it depends on the dosage, the person and the setting, and paranoia from weed most likely correlates with difficult psychedelic experiences.

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