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UltraIchi posted...

You might know this already but LSD and exposure to Eastern music is what drove the Beatles to make psychedelic music (eastern music scales, heavy reverb/delay, and analog synths are like candy when tripping), and tame impala's following in their footsteps. Next time you get a tripping opportunity I suggest you try their album revolver. You will probably feel like a time traveler

Thanks for the suggestion. It was very unnerving but also exciting how each song could illicit such different feelings. Tame Impala was mostly happy and upbeat, didn't feel weird at all (posthumous forgiveness made my chest feel very heavy and full...was very aware of my breathing). Then my wife played this strange EDM music and I was starting to panic a little. Then a very relaxed trance song with bells and wind effects made me calm and she started crying. Interestingly, her crying made me less anxious and grounded me more to reality because that's the kind of song she would normally cry to even while sober.

When we turned the music off a lot of my psychedelic effects wore off pretty quickly. I don't know if the music was just that stimulating or if the trip was coming to an end (it had been about 2.5 hrs) but it felt right.

UltraIchi posted...

It makes sense you're avoiding a bad experience, and it's probably for the best you familiarize yourself with this realm before you let yourself fully surrender to the experience. Time dilation/distortion is typical and it's human nature to not want to dissolve or melt so it might take some experience before you're able to comfortably relinquish control

Yeah I told my wife 2.5g isn't gonna be that much (after all the "research" I had done on Reddit) and I am so glad she told me to try 1.5g (1.56g exactly) at first. Had I done more I definitely would have had some existential crisis or severe panic attack. We didn't have a trip sitter, my wife had just taken a smaller dose than me. I think that made me super worried during parts of the trip. I would be okay with "surrendering" to the experience if I was being watched by someone sober, or if I was completely alone. I could feel myself getting there but definitely was not in the right setting nor ready to get there at that moment.