First LSD Trip: What to Expect Alone at Home

I just took like half a tab of acid and im stuck at home alone. What should i expect this is my first trip

Expect whatever you want to happen, to happen. Let go of your ego and enjoy higher consciousness.

@sage5042 somehow this makes sense i just dont know how

How did it go

@debigcheze panicked for a while but after I realised i dont need to concentrate on anything around me the trip went from “i hope it passes” to “ i want to enjoy this more” now im just chilling in bed trying to fall asleep but im seeing inter dimensional space travel

You should draw something

@debigcheze ill try

@yes haha just let go. You don’t need to know how, you just need to let go of the thing that doesn’t know how. It somehow made sense because at some level you knew that already, you (and the rest of us) just need something or someone to remind you every once in a while. The key is to reside in the awareness of the present moment, not in your ego thats trying to making sense of it all through mental structures. I.E find the place that is witnessing your thoughts, you are not the thinker of thought, you are the one who perceives thought, like if your observing a concert you are the one perceiving music not playing it. Psychedelics are a means take you past the rational mind and its mental structures (ego) and through levels of consciousness or reality of which society deems irrational because it is beyond our 3 dimensional reality of which you are taking a trip to. Plain and simple but not really haha. What people call bad trips occur when the rational mind or ego holds on tightly to its default reality (often called the default mode network in neuroscience) without letting itself dissolve into the present moment in the presence of higher consciousness brought to us via the psychedelic. When our ego holds on and resists letting go of itself our nervous system perceives that resistance as a threat to oneself which causes us to experience to fulfill that illusory negative perception that the ego caused in a sort of positive-feedback loop fashion. The reason why psychedelics are so life changing is because in the right set and setting they temporarily show us what reality is like behind our default mode network or habitual mental conception of our reality. The same can indefinitely be “achieved” (not literally achieved rather metaphorically speaking, though in a much different context yes literally) be through spiritual or yogic practices, such as meditation, breathwork, etc Psychedelics just give us a small taste of what reality is or what our lives are outside of our default perception. I.E they get us really high only for us to come back down again, but in doing so they give us a taste of how high we could get. It’s all about how you frame it, trust the process and let it happen, and paradoxically don’t let your ego not let it happen by Letting It Happen. I can go so much further haha so if your interested or have any questions about anything I said please let me know, I love talking about this stuff :)

@yes Exactly! You stopped resisting it to letting it happen. You went from resisting it to allowing it! That’s what I’m talking about! From one traveler to another, enjoy the inter-dimensional space travel. You’re not just seeing the travel, you are doing traveling, for now at least ;). I agree that you should try to draw what you’re seeing, post reflection and integration of trips is super duper important to stay grounded.

@sage5042 im just laying here trying to understand all this but imma just let it go. Thats how i how rn like its not important to try and understand it but accept it

@yes your exactly right! All you need to do is to do let it all go and accept your present experience as it is. No need to understand or rationalize it for now, like you said all that isn’t important right now and can wait till after, thats the post trip integration which’ll make it count. Enjoy your trip my boy. Namaste, Sage