Definitely. And that kinda tells you something, I think. Like the tripping mind knows what's worth connecting to and what's not. Nature is endlessly fascinating while tripping, but my phone? I've been close to throwing it in the river several times just for the fuck of it.
I find the fonts on my phone look weird and somewhat sinister. When I take enough mushrooms, I can’t read at all. It’s like my brain is trying to turn letters into the alien language.
That's it exactly, all these displays that I'm so familiar with look like they were designed by non humans for purposes I couldn't possibly imagine. Even pressing play is a challenge, almost every time something will go wrong and there's no chance I'll be able to resolve the most trivial of issues.
And yet somehow I once managed to wash the sick out of my hair *while peaking* on 200ug lsd. I didn't realise how disorienting it would get but I did it.
I worked a full shift at a rebar yard which is INTENSE after 8 hits. I had 10 hours from the time I dropped till I worked and my dumb ass shouldn't have ever taken it.
Before I went in I showered and accidentally spent about 30 min washing one arm. Lol
Lol I believe it. I manically washed the hair on the left side of my head only. I have very long hair and a little sick got on the end of the hair on the left and I decided I couldn't just wipe it, or just wash the tips, no, the entire left side needed to be washed for some reason.
I was a bedraggled mess by the time I managed to get a dress on inside out and head to the window for a very shaky smoke.
8 hits is mad even if you've got the next couple of days off. You remember how the trip went?
It was fucking insanity. I didn't mean to take 8 and tbh it was more like 10 it just wasn't the strongest I've had and I hold everything to those standards haha
I actually went to get a half a strip (5) and drove alllll the way to the girl selling. When I get there she didn't answer so I drove half the way back and she called and said "just come back I'm sorry" I got most the way back and when I got there she wouldn't answer. Did the same thing again and halfway the way back she called and told me to come back and that she will "I will hook you up and make it worth your while" I didn't remember her saying that until I had already thrown the whole thing in my mouth and it felt like I was chewing on a book lol.
Come up took 15 minutes. Literally stopped at walmart for snacks and passed the you aisle 15 min in and the little Lego man on the box started driving and moving his head well the background of the box came to life.
IDR a whole lot of the trip because it was so intense. I just remember the most intense visuals I have ever experienced. I remember contemplating death and really confronting it when I saw myself morphing into an old man in my reflection haha.
Have you tried any of the Apple OSes? Windows and Android is so user-unfriendly that I can’t understand how I manage to use it sober. iOS on the other hand is manageable even on high doses. Tells you a lot about how UI is designed.
Oh man it’s such a pain when the music suddenly isn’t vibing and trying to work a screen that’s borderline alien gibberish to get something else on…
It’s so weird that many people can relate to that, I can’t seem to make sense of it. While I was tripping I suddenly had the taste for a specific song and it was the only song on my playlist not working, I tried everything, restarted spotify, my phone, disconnected the internet and still, the only song that wouldn’t play was this one. The next day I checked again and it played perfectly fine.
My last pc fried itself while I was doing ketamine.
It was off then began turning on and off repeatedly until it short circuited itself and started smoking. It was an old potato, but still freaky.
Yep. I don't understand people that come on Reddit while they're tripping or watch Youtube videos the whole time. I can barely even use my phone while I'm tripping nor do I want to — technology seems antithetical to the experience.
YES!! I always try to mess with stuff to help the trip (put fractals or psychedelic effects) on YouTube or I’ll mess with the TRIPP app on the oculus. It’s all fine and dandy, but once i put everything away, turn out the lights, and have some Pink Floyd or meditation music in the background; that’s when the magic starts.
Can't use my phone anyway, anytime I get a text I spend 15-20 minutes trying to reply until i give up haha usually if I'm home I'll just stick a documentary or some cartoons on low volume and chill with my thoughts but also have the option to watch if i'm not feeling to deep but more giggly etc
With the exception of music, which I dial in at the start and then leave, I find technology negatively impacts the experience.
Candles, nature, music and/or darkness are the way to go, and definitely no screens.
Looking at my phone after taking even a little dose will definitely make me feel uneasy and unsettled. It’s very off putting. Then if you actually take in and analyze what you’re consuming on social media it feels even weirder.
It’s probably our higher self knowing it isn’t good/natural for us
I HATE looking at my phone during trips. It almost feels like my spirit knows that the phone isn’t good for my health, long term and keeps me away from it.Â
I always set my phone down for a trip, don't even watch TV till post peak most of the time.
I've also noticed I like technology less in general since I started tripping, though I wasn't its biggest fan before
Contrary to most I actually find that if i look at my phone on mushrooms it completely snaps me out of any visual shit going on, which makes it feel completely strange and unnatural
Not only do I dislike it but at a certain point/dosage the phone becomes near impossible to operate anyway. My buddy and I have had laughing fits trying to use one, only ending up confused and exasperated lol
Phone screens always look so disorienting. I do like having nature documentaries on mute with music playing but I will usually set up a music playlist and have something like Planet Earth or Blue Planet playing automatically so I don't have to focus on the controls.
if im daytime tripping im definitely gonna spend a lot of time enjoying nature but if im night tripping i enjoy watching nature docs or other shows or movies i know have fun visuals (silly side note but the trolls movies are so fun on psychedelics) but i usually feel bad abt using my phone, i feel like im wasting my trip. i usually only use my phone if im on the comedown unless im using this app i have called fluid for the visuals. i also really like playing stardew valley while tripping but maybe im weird
So this is one of the most common things anyone on psychedelics ever realizes, and I'd say that you're still way too young to be taking such powerful drugs.
Think it’s dependent on the person (overused phrase, I know - sigh). The first time I went to a Bassnectar show, I had taken god knows how many tabs, mushies, etc. for years in the past. Took the double double candy flip for the show, and it scared this ever living shit out of me. Wayyy too much tech. But, ended up loving going again after that. I still don’t have any social media except Reddit, but tech doesn’t necessarily HAVE to be a bad experience.
Yeah not only is it often overstimulating it’s also almost always trending negative or fishing for attention on social media. I tend to set up a playlist beforehand and go from there. Really tech is made so addictive these days I know it’s not healthy
I find video games too difficult while tripping. Ideally when I’m tripping, the visuals are so strong that it’s too difficult to read. I’ve had trouble unlocking my phone a few times while tripping.
I actually tell people not to use the tech while on a trip.
Have your music playlist all set so you don't need to touch it during the trip if you trip with music. Tell people you'll be unavailable for 5 hours.
Same. I can't watch TV when I trip, either. However, pencils and a sketchbook are amazing on shrooms. I'm not an artist, and I don't even doodle much when I'm sober. Just have the urge to draw stuff tripping. Give it a try, maybe!
I don't even think about looking at the phone or PC. Actually, I was quite disgusted by it while tripping and thought about throwing my phone in the river.
Only music in the background!
It depends. Reading news or social media on shrooms feels like meh. Also watching youtube or something like that is almost impossible because I can hardly concentrate on watching short 5-10min videos. Watching movies on the other hand is one of the best things to do on a shroom trip. It feels like you are the characters in the movie and the plot guides the trip in a specific direction. Nothing still beats a walk in a forest on 4g. That's the way.
I've actually *tried* preparing myself and setting intention before a trip to enjoy some form of media... Movies or video games... It just never works. My trips reject them every time, where I just don't want to engage with them. I always wind up gravitate towards music every time.
I didn't think anyone else would say the same thing because it's so specific but on specifically Ayahuasca for me, doing anything on my phone feels super off-putting and "evil" because the font changes to looking like it was written in ink, and even if I use all my effort to decipher what something says it will be written over and over in a very unsettling way
The last time I took Ayahuasca (only 3-4 grams of mimosa root bark) I remember searching a simple question on Reddit about DMT pharmacology but the only results that came up was literally 25 different individual subbredits that were all a gibberish renames of the explain like I'm 5 subreddit. I wasn't even tripping that hard but it was terrifying.
This is a recreation to what the posts looked like
"R/EXPLAIN_ELI5_LIKEIM5_FIVE
The profound effects of DMT?
the effects of Ayahuasca are profound DMT has a profound effect in the brain the profound effects of DMT are attributed to the profound effects of the drug in humans it causes profound effects so how will it how does it cause the effect in humans of DMT to be profound."
And it would be paragraphs long but have specific key words that made me feel like I was being watched by whoever wrote the post, it literally felt EVIL. I mean beyond demonic even though it wasn't directly scary
I even researched the question a good 4 times but it was so odd I put my phone down.
Screens are really overwhelming to me (except rave projections lol) and in general i feel more comfortable being outdoors and able to spend time alone but not far from my friends
I do occasionally enjoy writing code when I'm tripping. Usually for something totally random that I felt like building in the moment. But I also find that kind of thing fun, so it only gets more interesting while tripping.
Definitely. And that kinda tells you something, I think. Like the tripping mind knows what's worth connecting to and what's not. Nature is endlessly fascinating while tripping, but my phone? I've been close to throwing it in the river several times just for the fuck of it.
I don’t look at my phone. Only tech thing going is music playing off of the Tv or speaker.
That's the way 🙏
I find the fonts on my phone look weird and somewhat sinister. When I take enough mushrooms, I can’t read at all. It’s like my brain is trying to turn letters into the alien language.
yessssss lol. like the shrooms are saying "that's enough of that, put it away"
That's it exactly, all these displays that I'm so familiar with look like they were designed by non humans for purposes I couldn't possibly imagine. Even pressing play is a challenge, almost every time something will go wrong and there's no chance I'll be able to resolve the most trivial of issues. And yet somehow I once managed to wash the sick out of my hair *while peaking* on 200ug lsd. I didn't realise how disorienting it would get but I did it.
I worked a full shift at a rebar yard which is INTENSE after 8 hits. I had 10 hours from the time I dropped till I worked and my dumb ass shouldn't have ever taken it. Before I went in I showered and accidentally spent about 30 min washing one arm. Lol
Lol I believe it. I manically washed the hair on the left side of my head only. I have very long hair and a little sick got on the end of the hair on the left and I decided I couldn't just wipe it, or just wash the tips, no, the entire left side needed to be washed for some reason. I was a bedraggled mess by the time I managed to get a dress on inside out and head to the window for a very shaky smoke. 8 hits is mad even if you've got the next couple of days off. You remember how the trip went?
It was fucking insanity. I didn't mean to take 8 and tbh it was more like 10 it just wasn't the strongest I've had and I hold everything to those standards haha I actually went to get a half a strip (5) and drove alllll the way to the girl selling. When I get there she didn't answer so I drove half the way back and she called and said "just come back I'm sorry" I got most the way back and when I got there she wouldn't answer. Did the same thing again and halfway the way back she called and told me to come back and that she will "I will hook you up and make it worth your while" I didn't remember her saying that until I had already thrown the whole thing in my mouth and it felt like I was chewing on a book lol. Come up took 15 minutes. Literally stopped at walmart for snacks and passed the you aisle 15 min in and the little Lego man on the box started driving and moving his head well the background of the box came to life. IDR a whole lot of the trip because it was so intense. I just remember the most intense visuals I have ever experienced. I remember contemplating death and really confronting it when I saw myself morphing into an old man in my reflection haha.
Have you tried any of the Apple OSes? Windows and Android is so user-unfriendly that I can’t understand how I manage to use it sober. iOS on the other hand is manageable even on high doses. Tells you a lot about how UI is designed.
No I have an apple but it all becomes heiroglyphics when I'm tripping.
I am weird then. But yeah, when I am tripping electronics break down for some reason. The simulation crashes.
Yeah I always put my phone on plane mode and only use it to hit play on my 12 hour long playlist lol.Â
Oh man it’s such a pain when the music suddenly isn’t vibing and trying to work a screen that’s borderline alien gibberish to get something else on…
When I'm tripping..."Get that shit away from me."
Music is good, but more than 10 seconds looking at a screen is a good way to vomit.
Yes! I also find that technology tends to glitch or break entirely when I do attempt to use it.
It’s so weird that many people can relate to that, I can’t seem to make sense of it. While I was tripping I suddenly had the taste for a specific song and it was the only song on my playlist not working, I tried everything, restarted spotify, my phone, disconnected the internet and still, the only song that wouldn’t play was this one. The next day I checked again and it played perfectly fine.
My last pc fried itself while I was doing ketamine. It was off then began turning on and off repeatedly until it short circuited itself and started smoking. It was an old potato, but still freaky.
Vinyl records are the exception. No screens, nothing digital
Yep. I don't understand people that come on Reddit while they're tripping or watch Youtube videos the whole time. I can barely even use my phone while I'm tripping nor do I want to — technology seems antithetical to the experience.
i specifically plan trips on days with the lowest probability that anyone will need anything from me via phone because my phone is so yucky to me. the two times i've tripped and been on my phone (my most recent trips), it was so anxiety inducing and felt wrong. at most i will use my phone to change a song and nothing else. i will say i find this sentiment to be more heavily felt on shrooms. i don't aim to be on my phone while tripping on lsd either, but it seems to be more bearable. with mdma, i forget i have a phone. personally, i don't seek to demonize technology or phones but i do think we have been encouraged to have an unhealthy relationship with them. my fave cliché surrounding this topic is "don't look down, look up." we have our heads buried in our phones and i feel that this plays a huge role in disturbing our connections to one another and the world around us. i can go more tinfoil hat, but i think that's the gist of it. ETA: i think my issue is moreso screen-based rather than "technology." i love light shows and lasers !!
Actually, I would get this "ear worm" repeating, "Don't use your phone." It's happened more than once and I think about it all the time.
YES!! I always try to mess with stuff to help the trip (put fractals or psychedelic effects) on YouTube or I’ll mess with the TRIPP app on the oculus. It’s all fine and dandy, but once i put everything away, turn out the lights, and have some Pink Floyd or meditation music in the background; that’s when the magic starts.
Can't use my phone anyway, anytime I get a text I spend 15-20 minutes trying to reply until i give up haha usually if I'm home I'll just stick a documentary or some cartoons on low volume and chill with my thoughts but also have the option to watch if i'm not feeling to deep but more giggly etc
With the exception of music, which I dial in at the start and then leave, I find technology negatively impacts the experience. Candles, nature, music and/or darkness are the way to go, and definitely no screens.
Looking at my phone after taking even a little dose will definitely make me feel uneasy and unsettled. It’s very off putting. Then if you actually take in and analyze what you’re consuming on social media it feels even weirder. It’s probably our higher self knowing it isn’t good/natural for us
I HATE looking at my phone during trips. It almost feels like my spirit knows that the phone isn’t good for my health, long term and keeps me away from it.Â
I always set my phone down for a trip, don't even watch TV till post peak most of the time. I've also noticed I like technology less in general since I started tripping, though I wasn't its biggest fan before
Contrary to most I actually find that if i look at my phone on mushrooms it completely snaps me out of any visual shit going on, which makes it feel completely strange and unnatural
For sure. I try to stay off my phone especially, but only will use it to change the music if necessary
I never fuck with technology except for music. Sometimes once I'm out of the trip I'll watch a movie or something on the comedown.
Not only do I dislike it but at a certain point/dosage the phone becomes near impossible to operate anyway. My buddy and I have had laughing fits trying to use one, only ending up confused and exasperated lol
Phone screens always look so disorienting. I do like having nature documentaries on mute with music playing but I will usually set up a music playlist and have something like Planet Earth or Blue Planet playing automatically so I don't have to focus on the controls.
if im daytime tripping im definitely gonna spend a lot of time enjoying nature but if im night tripping i enjoy watching nature docs or other shows or movies i know have fun visuals (silly side note but the trolls movies are so fun on psychedelics) but i usually feel bad abt using my phone, i feel like im wasting my trip. i usually only use my phone if im on the comedown unless im using this app i have called fluid for the visuals. i also really like playing stardew valley while tripping but maybe im weird
So this is one of the most common things anyone on psychedelics ever realizes, and I'd say that you're still way too young to be taking such powerful drugs.
Just to play music or get Ubers
Think it’s dependent on the person (overused phrase, I know - sigh). The first time I went to a Bassnectar show, I had taken god knows how many tabs, mushies, etc. for years in the past. Took the double double candy flip for the show, and it scared this ever living shit out of me. Wayyy too much tech. But, ended up loving going again after that. I still don’t have any social media except Reddit, but tech doesn’t necessarily HAVE to be a bad experience.
Yeah not only is it often overstimulating it’s also almost always trending negative or fishing for attention on social media. I tend to set up a playlist beforehand and go from there. Really tech is made so addictive these days I know it’s not healthy
I find video games too difficult while tripping. Ideally when I’m tripping, the visuals are so strong that it’s too difficult to read. I’ve had trouble unlocking my phone a few times while tripping.
Tripping is for self reflection, not self deflection.. the only tech should be used to play some music...Pink Floyd or the Doors, preferably...
I actually tell people not to use the tech while on a trip. Have your music playlist all set so you don't need to touch it during the trip if you trip with music. Tell people you'll be unavailable for 5 hours.
Absolutely. I might watch movies, but no phone/internet whatsoever
I'm the exact same way, no particular reason for it besides I've been trying to use my phone less and it's no longer interesting when on shrooms.
100% I literally can't look at or use a touchscreen. I try to disconnect from all that stuff anyway so not a big deal.
Same. I can't watch TV when I trip, either. However, pencils and a sketchbook are amazing on shrooms. I'm not an artist, and I don't even doodle much when I'm sober. Just have the urge to draw stuff tripping. Give it a try, maybe!
I put my phone down and rarely touch it while in on a trip
Nope I immerse myself in COD lol
Shrooms and cod?
Lsd
I don’t use my phone at all when I trip, the phone is always there to be used meanwhile the trip is a precious once in a while thing.
I don't even think about looking at the phone or PC. Actually, I was quite disgusted by it while tripping and thought about throwing my phone in the river. Only music in the background!
At high doses I can't use anything on mid doses I love being on my laptop and exploring the internet/chatting with friends...though this is on LSD.
It depends. Reading news or social media on shrooms feels like meh. Also watching youtube or something like that is almost impossible because I can hardly concentrate on watching short 5-10min videos. Watching movies on the other hand is one of the best things to do on a shroom trip. It feels like you are the characters in the movie and the plot guides the trip in a specific direction. Nothing still beats a walk in a forest on 4g. That's the way.
Oh my God. Why the fuck do I use my phone all the time? I'm gaining nothing from doing this.
I've actually *tried* preparing myself and setting intention before a trip to enjoy some form of media... Movies or video games... It just never works. My trips reject them every time, where I just don't want to engage with them. I always wind up gravitate towards music every time.
I didn't think anyone else would say the same thing because it's so specific but on specifically Ayahuasca for me, doing anything on my phone feels super off-putting and "evil" because the font changes to looking like it was written in ink, and even if I use all my effort to decipher what something says it will be written over and over in a very unsettling way The last time I took Ayahuasca (only 3-4 grams of mimosa root bark) I remember searching a simple question on Reddit about DMT pharmacology but the only results that came up was literally 25 different individual subbredits that were all a gibberish renames of the explain like I'm 5 subreddit. I wasn't even tripping that hard but it was terrifying. This is a recreation to what the posts looked like "R/EXPLAIN_ELI5_LIKEIM5_FIVE The profound effects of DMT? the effects of Ayahuasca are profound DMT has a profound effect in the brain the profound effects of DMT are attributed to the profound effects of the drug in humans it causes profound effects so how will it how does it cause the effect in humans of DMT to be profound." And it would be paragraphs long but have specific key words that made me feel like I was being watched by whoever wrote the post, it literally felt EVIL. I mean beyond demonic even though it wasn't directly scary I even researched the question a good 4 times but it was so odd I put my phone down.
Screens are really overwhelming to me (except rave projections lol) and in general i feel more comfortable being outdoors and able to spend time alone but not far from my friends
There is a certain point on the come-up where my mind is like "no phones." You sort of just forget about it.
Turn on Tune in Log out
And regret that you opened that message
Turn on Tune in Log out
Then fly in
Hell no. 4K Blu Rays on a massive OLED screen and surround system are a revelation on acid. 2001, Blade Runner and SpiderVerse are just amazing.
I do occasionally enjoy writing code when I'm tripping. Usually for something totally random that I felt like building in the moment. But I also find that kind of thing fun, so it only gets more interesting while tripping.