Only typical during a bad trip for me.

Maybe try a different form of shrooms? For me if i just eat shrooms whole i feel a bit upset in the stomach and that can affect my trip. Instead i make a shroom tea and that gets out some of the stomach ruining shit and my trips are great.

Also don’t trip when you’re in a bad head space. If you think you’re going to have a bad trip you probably will.

What you're describing for weed, is what I feel about mushrooms

I had a life transforming experience on psychedelics. I tried them only a few times.

One of the craziest trips was when I took hawain baby woodrose seeds. I entered a deep trance-like feverish state and I relived my whole life. It was insanely vivid. I could smell, taste, experience complex emotions, and see everything in color.

I was highly depressed then unable to process my childhood trauma. What I realised at the end was that I was concentrating on the bad parts. There were many good parts that I forgot about or gave little importance to.

It kickstarted my recovery.

I don't do psychedelics anymore. I switched to meditation which gives me a steady and long term supply of happiness.

I smoked weed quite a bit for a few years. It is only to feel good and kill time for a few hours. It wasn't helpful.

Is it typical? I don't know for people generally but definitely not at all for me.

I have only done shrooms a few times but LSD 100+ times so most of my experience is with that.

As someone else replied, set and setting. It seems silly having no experience with the substances but where you come up will colour the entire trip from then on so if you are more fragile, like you seem to be, then you need to make sure you get this right to set up your trip going forward.

For me if I am alone at home then that will definitely make the trip more introspective and it will have more moments of self analysis.

If I am in public then it makes for a lot more sociable high and I am more likely to engage with other people and as an introvert who generally avoids people that is quite a nice change of pace for me.

Either way though I never feel cold and lonely and those things you were describing.

Smoking a bit of weed can take the edge off of coming up but be cautious of smoking during your trip. For me personally it is the best combination and I will rip bongs throughout a trip because I love the spacey disconnected high you get from mixing the two but I have also seen people who absolutely could not handle the combination. They were also regular smokers and people I thought would be OK but I have seen more than one friend crying curled up in a corner after smoking weed during a trip and it took it in a less favourable direction. So just be cautious with mixing the two.

I'd probably advise to leave the weed alone during the heights of the trip and maybe have a bit a lot later to smooth into the come down until you have tripped a few times and know yourself and what to expect from those drugs a bit better.

I'm pretty sure I'm an outlier as when I was super into acid around ten years ago I used to try and take it in the weirdest times and places I could think of just to kind of see how it went and for me it always made any activity infinitely more enjoyable. I never had a bad trip, but I also realise that a lot of people aren't like this at all and would not have had such a good time.

If you are gonna go for it again I think you should really concentrate on the set and setting part. Set yourself up in a good place and be in a good place mentally going into it. As the other poster suggested have some shit around you that you enjoy and is comforting to you but also don't plan specific things and try and follow a schedule, just let it do its thing and ride it out.

It may just be that it isnt for you too and that is alright. Get some MDMA instead and have a cuddle puddle with your wife xP

I am also a frequent, regular weed smoker. I have done mushrooms twice in my life, and LSD once.

Tge LSD was slipped to me unknowingly and kinda freaked me out when my vision started doubling and everything seemed like it was shifting around like sand dunes or water reflections. I would be willing to try it again knowing what I am taking, if I had the chance as frame of mind really played a role in how the whole experience felt.

The shrooms, both times, just made me feel exactly like being drunk, complete with the queasy sickness and "spins" as it peaked. I don't have any desire to try them again, as I don't even drink alcohol because I don't like that feeling.

If you keep it up it will be ready for harvest by the time your kids retire! :P

Harvest the seeds and try to make some more :⁠-⁠D

Mine came to life as little green blobs, but sadly none made it through...

Beautiful!

ah, flower of cactus

Yay!!!

A live Pokémon!

I have always resented the christian notion that you should let your guilt guide your morality. Are you really accepting your flaws and moving on as a person by focusing on your sin? Like, don't allow your ego to fool you into believing yourself an exception, but also being unable to forgive yourself is not healthy. The notion that some third party has to forgive me of my sins is kind of absurd. Whoever I have sinned against doesn't have to forgive me either, but it would be healthier for themselves if they did. If Christ is about anything, shouldn't it be about that? About our ability as humans to forgive ourselves and each other and through that we can grow and move on from our misdeeds? The churches view of guilt smacks of deception and manipulation.

There's never going to be any schedule that works for everyone. My recommendation is to work one out for yourself. 0.01mg doses 1hr apart until you start feeling it then stop. The next day or the one after take your regular trip dose and see if it still works for you. Adjust as needed.

That makes sense to me.

Tolerance for THC builds fairly easily, so a micro dose won't do the job for long, especially when you're seeking that minimal high regularly.

Ehy! Little update: I actually tried to do a small dose balancing with cbd, after learning that the stuff we had till the 90s was definitely not the stuff we have today (20-30% of THC) but rather something more similar to a 5%, with a ratio THC:CBD 1:3 or even higher on the cbd side. Edibles were probably usually consumed with sosages up to 5mg of THC which was well balanced by cbd as explained before.

So I simply tried to honor what the wild plant would contain and did some edibles with very low THC (2.5-3mg) and ratio 1:3 with cbd. It worked wonderfully.

The feeling is definitely different from a microdose, but you do get some of the benefits. It is physically similar, and you get some of the mind space, but it feels like less creative/less novelty seeking mechanism, but can be helpful, iI feel like for me it can work on short term but cannot do it for weeks and keep achieving good results like with psychedelics.

I would say just because it doesn't qualify as microdosing doesn't mean it has no benefits.

But I am a maxidoser, so...

Thanks! I appreciate it.

Impressive!

Ya, some of those images can be disturbing. I'm kind of drawn to them however.

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate that. This drawing took about 50 hours over the course of a month.

Not me. One of my kids had a breakdown over trypophobia once. Got stuck in their heads after one of those internet images of a person with holes in their skin was posted.

Like the quality is insane, how long did that take you??

Haha, probably used to it.

Thank you! I'm sorry if it triggered something. I apologize.

Thank you! I'm happy to hear that. It definitely is creepy.