What drug experience changed you for better or worse?
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Lyrica (nerve pain drug)
Still have side affects.. killed all my emotions and feelings towards humans.. it is like smoking weed but 1000 times stronger - you literally just exist.. nothing else!
Would highly recommend staying away! You?
I remember watching a documentary set in Northern Ireland about Lyrica (Pregabalin), it is very widely abused over there. Some of them even snort it😳.
Yeah.. it’s fucked up!! Never snorted it.. mine was used for nerve pain.. misdiagnosed at the end of the day but still worst drug ever!!
They should give it to rapists and pedos because it fucks with your sexual function so badly…
I’ve only ever tried marijuana
In college, my friend baked brownies, and I was too impatient so I ate way more than I should have
Soon after was a horrible experience that I was completely unprepared for
Instead of couch-locked, I was floor-locked; thinking this is how the rest of my life would be and the sharpness of my mind would never return
Closing my eyes meant dizziness so there was no safety there
Eventually it ended and the next day I had to have my best friend’s dad drive me to class where I battled through until I could eventually get home to sleep it off
I was done with drugs after that for years
It wasn’t until the pandemic that I had began to consider micro-dosing because so many people had such different experiences than I had, which seemed to be truly enlightening or beneficial
Then one day I took a 5mg edible while listening to a podcast with Michael Saylor and my mind was opened in a way where I began to question entire paradigms that I had never thought to challenge before
Those questions led me to Bitcoin and eventually here to Nostr
Awesome!! Funny how people get led to BTC… first time I heard about it was in 2013 January when I was making sure someone whom I knew was safe after he was making Pablo blush in the bathroom and he said to me… buy as much BTC as you can 🙋♂️ the dude is prob in jail or dead unfortunately 😢
DMT.
For the better, right? 😅
Absolutely. I extracted it myself as well so it was a beautiful, amazing and profound personal experience.
Can you point me in the direction of how that's done please🧐? Extraction etc...
Very cool! I recently watched an interview with the DMT-X study participants. It was really interesting!
If I could only put it properly into words; I experienced where all potential ideas reside.
Any encounters with entities?
I’m not sure I’d say I experienced entities on DMT, but I think what’s actually happening is an interaction with your own cellular metabolism. As the trip peaked and started to come down, I definitely felt something - almost like a presence - cheering me on as I grasped something deeper.
Not so much a change me for the better or worse kind of thing but the first few times I took MDMA, I was like OMG, I did not think it was possible to ever feel like this. I have taken A LOT of different drugs, MDMA was by far, my favourite🙏🏻.
I have experienced quite some substances during my youth and the most beautiful experience was and still is when I go into a state where my brain produces DMT on its own while meditating and breath work! It's just the next level and no crashes, no downs, no aftereffects. Just fulfillment and the most profound visions and downloads 💫
What practices helped you to achieve that level of meditation?
1. It is a type of Kundalini practice to give it a name... By breathing deeply and consciously while tensing the abdominal and pelvic floor muscles, the air is drawn up through the nose, over the spine and into the third eye. Then holding the breath and suck air in through the mouth one or more times to completely fill the lungs, holding for as long as it feels good, then release the muscle contraction and breathe out through the mouth and let go completely. Allowing the body to flow.
2. Holding your breath while fully exhaling can also bring you into a very spaceless state.
3. Also a type of box-breathing, for example, breathe in to the count of 6, hold at 6, breathe out at 6, hold at 6, etc. Depending on how practiced you are, you can adjust the counting to 3, 4, 5, etc. It regulates the nervous system and gives heart-brain coherency.
There are many different ways of when and how you can draw the air up by holding and relaxing the muscles, also different ways to breathe out...
When new to this, it's important to practice sitting down until you know your limits well enough. Holding your breath and sucking in your breath for too long can cause severe dizziness and even fainting, and if you don't know your limits, you can injure yourself, especially when standing, because you lose control of your body.
We could arrange a meditation group 😍 That would be really cool!!!
Didn't do drugs apart from a beer every now and then until one summer holiday at my friend's house in Malta.
One morning they made a nice stash of brownies and I didn't know that they were special 😆 I ate one after the other until someone asked if I don't want to slow down a bit. Oh boy, after half an hour I slowed down so much 😂😂😂
I didn't feel bad or sick, everything was just slow and far far away. I enjoyed the feeling and still doing it every now and then.