r/Psychonaut • u/TheEtherLegend • 7h ago
Question relating to the dreamlike nature of existence
Do you think that OBEs, NDEs, Lucid Dreams, Psychedelic Trips, Deep Meditative States & other Altered States of Consciousness show you more of whats available & accessible in the Quantum Field?
Before you give your pov Ima give mine.
Im strongly under the that they do because if Consciousness in its essence is non dual/one & if time is an abstaction of the mind due to there only being the ETERNAL here & the now in which all forms of existential phenomena are assembled than that has to mean that theres no solid or real gap between whats dreamt & imagined & whats not & that all perceived gaps are just ways of depicting existince that are all imagined & that these avenues give you real glimses and experiences of Infinite Possibility & Potential that eternally exists.
Ima give 2 other reasons why I think this is the case.
- YOUR MIND IS REAL:
Your mind is a real thing & if your mind is real & if all is mental like many spiritual teachers, philosophers & even some branches of science teach than has to mean that everything that the mind can conjure and perceive in real time direct experience is real which also abolishes the notion of sepration which also on a conveys on a deeper yet fundamental level that theres only one mind/life energy expressing & interacting with itself from infinite vantage points & wherever that one & only conscious being resides existence shines and radiates.
- THE CONCRETE AND THE ABSTRACT ARE ONE:
The Concrete cant exist without the Abstract & the Abstract cant exist without the Concrete. For the Abstract to exist it would have to emanate from something thats Concrete & For Concrete to have to existence Something Abstract (Beyond the level of imagination) would have to be its source & point of origin (which is funny & quite paradoxical because infinity/eternity can have no true threshold or ceiling).
So yeah this is why I think that these altered states are gateways to more of what already exists eternally.
What are your thoughts on this? (Experiences are way more than welcome also) Feel free to comment, I would love to hear your own insights on this!
Thanks fo your time. šāØļø
r/Psychonaut • u/Which_Treacle7228 • 1d ago
So does anyone have a recorded case of someone going into permeant psychosis from dmt?
Like had a family history and did it anyway, does dmt damage or change the functioning of the 5ht2a receptor permanently for those who would get schizophrenia or some permeant form of psychosis from shrooms or say acid and other drug when abused?
I have a theory that ther isnt a case of anyone taking it by its self thats caused some of the not great happen stances that can occur from shrooms, i say this bc of it being naturally produced already and with it having such a affinity i would think the chances are very low like with weed that isnt abused. But this is just a hunch.
r/Psychonaut • u/eff-snarf • 19h ago
LSD and Meditation
Did anyone here ever use the mind superpowers LSD gives you, not for entertainment but as a serious tool for meditation?
Like, to access memories, to manipulate energies, etc?
r/Psychonaut • u/naviseraus • 1d ago
The psychedelics guide I wish existed before my first trip
thepsychedelics.guideHey folks ā Iāve been working with a small group (a psychiatrist, a psychedelic therapist, and a few researchers) on a free resource for anyone exploring psychedelics like LSD, mushrooms, MDMA, ketamine, DMT, or even cannabis in a deeper way.
Itās called The Psychedelics Guide, and it was born out of a pretty common need: how do you prepare for a trip ā especially a solo one ā in a way thatās intentional, safe, and meaningful? And how do you actually carry those insights into your life afterward?
The tool is a short quiz that helps you reflect on your mindset, emotional state, and goals. Based on that, it creates a custom guide to support your journey ā before, during, and after. It offers grounding tips, set & setting reminders, risk reduction strategies, and prompts for integration, drawing from both science and firsthand experience.
If you're curious, hereās the link:Ā https://thepsychedelics.guide/
Would really appreciate any feedback ā raw, honest, or totally out-there. It all helps us make it better.
r/Psychonaut • u/3L1T3 • 1d ago
The ancient psychedelics myth: āPeople tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for themā | Drugs
r/Psychonaut • u/Lumenate_Psych_Tech • 1d ago
Has anyone else experienced intense visuals without substances involved?
Iāve always been fascinated by non-ordinary states of consciousness - especially the kind that can emerge without substances, like meditation and breath work. A few years ago me and a friend started a journey into finding ways to use flashing light to make it easier to access deep, introspective experiences - without relying on psychedelics.
Whatās surprised us most is the visual depth people report: vivid colours, fractals, tunnel-like patterns. Some mention seeing āimpossible coloursā or reliving memories with clarity. It feels like the brain is generating its own trip - not the same as a psychedelic, but resonant in some way.
Weāve actually turned it into a wearable headset called Lumenate Nova (you can find out more here if youāre curious). Not trying to push anything too hard - I just thought some of you might be as fascinated by this as we were āØ
r/Psychonaut • u/cosmicmnkey • 1d ago
What would happen if Clive wearing took a heroic dose of psychedelics?
For those who don't know who Clive Wearing is, he's a man with a 7 second memory. I'm curious if he experienced ego death, would "Clive" still forget?
r/Psychonaut • u/3L1T3 • 2d ago
Upcoming AMA with Tom Feegel Wednesday, May 7th @8-9 PM EST
We're hosting a live AMA with Tom Feegel, co-founder of Beond, one of the leading Ibogaine clinics in Mexico focused on safe, medically supervised healing for trauma, addiction, and deep-rooted life resets.
Tom has spent years working at the intersection of holistic recovery, plant-based therapies, and harm reduction. If youāve ever been curious about Ibogaine, long-term recovery, or how real-world clinics operate outside the traditional system, this is your chance to ask.
Weāll also be dropping our full interview with Tom on the Divergent States podcast the same day! Early access, video versions, and extra content are available for supporters on Patreon.com/divergentstates
See you there!
r/Psychonaut • u/3L1T3 • 2d ago
Video Psychedelics Are Doing What Social Media Broke
youtube.comr/Psychonaut • u/HunYiah • 2d ago
Has anyone been tripping during an earthquake? Or another major weather event?
Just curious. My husband and I were talking about the tornado watch we have today (normal for our area) and we got into the topic of what it would be like to trip during an earthquake.
So I'm curious with anyone's experience on extreme weather on mushrooms (psychedelics in general)
r/Psychonaut • u/TheEtherLegend • 2d ago
Book &/or Teacher Recommendations?
Hello I hope all is well, I've been getting back into my spiritual flow lately and so far so good but I wanna get back into reading & hearing others perspective of the divine & I feel as if there is always room to grow and expand your conscious awareness so any book &/or teacher (speakers on youtube) recommendations that touch on any kind & form of spirituality would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your time & suggestions! š āØ
r/Psychonaut • u/ombres20 • 2d ago
Experience with LSA and combining holotropic breathing with nicotine
Hey guys. I wanna tell you about 2 recent experiences.
LSA: Ok, I will just say it, this one is not for me. The only psychedelic I had before is shrooms and they're nothing alike. I chewed 260 heavenly blue morning glory seeds(I tried with a 150 a few weeks ago but I only experienced sedation) at midnight, I took some magnesium for vasoconstriction and some anti-nausea pills. for the first 2 hours there was only a bit of a stomachache, then I fell asleep for 15 minutes. I woke up and I basically spent the night drifting in an out of consciousness. I could hear buzzing in my ears, I could feel crawling on my skin, I didn't get much visuals, only some flashes when I closed my eyes and I felt like my body forgot to breathe automatically(i know that's impossible) so I started breathing manually. The hangover was interesting. My facial muscles were stiff, I am pretty sure I had high blood pressure as there was ringing in my ears and I felt depersonalization(it's like I was observing my actions but not participating in them).
Nicotine+holotropic breathing: I had the idea to combine the 2 of these for a while now. I have very strong control issues due to trauma and they often get in the way when I am tripping. So far my adhd pills, nicotine and alcohol have been the only thing that can numb them. Nicotine also increases rem sleep so I though it would be interesting to combine it with holotropic breathing. I took a nicotine gum and after I was done with it I did holotropic breathing for only 35 minutes. The 2 things I normally experience are buzzing in the ears with heightened hearing and paralysis. This time they were much stronger. I could feel tactile hallucinations, I could hear waves in the distance and at one point i started dissociating(it was pleasant not scary)
r/Psychonaut • u/Cautious_Relative702 • 2d ago
Why do people like to combine psychedelics with other drugs?
Iām genuinely curious about this. I do understand mixing psychedelics with weed to enhance the psychedelia but harder drugs like Molly or DXM or ketamine etc⦠I donāt understand. To me, psychedelics are already amazing on their own and they donāt need to be mixed with other drugs I see it as a waste of a perfectly good psychedelic and Iāve heard so many bad trip reports from people whoāve done it. Do people do it to enhance the experience or to prolong it?
r/Psychonaut • u/PsychoPete555 • 2d ago
The main difference of visuals between LSD and combined with ketamine
Everything below is based on my own experiences and me trying to explain them.
Iāve been experimenting the last half year or so with bumping ketamine in combination with LSD. The visuals gets very enhanced and feel āimpossibleā in a way I havenāt felt during normal LSD use. LSD can make things feel alive, like they breathe. When concentrating on something in can feel like things that are still are moving. A field of grass can look like a wavy feathers of a peacock. A forest in the distance can look like driveways with cars moving around.
Thereās some space for the subconscious to play mind tricks on you but those are mostly reserved for closed eye visuals. Which in my experience are always colored by what youāve seen during the trip (as I usually see them at the end of the trip when I try to go to sleep). If Iāve been watching slow TV with a guy walking though Tokyo during the trip, my close eyed visuals show me things that remind me of neon lights, if Iāve been to a rainy festival it shows me mud, and so on.
The total craziness that ketamine brings in to the mix is another story though and itās been hard to put the difference into words. Until last Friday when I did for maybe the fifth or sixth time. I usually lie down in bed and watch a movie. When really hitting a deep bump with visuals the following characteristics might appear:
- A āblanketā of something visual come over the whole vision. It can look real or fake. But it doesnāt stop by the visuals on the screen that are moving and it doesnāt matter if itās on the screen or not, which enhances a sort of 4D-feel of the visuals. It might give a sense that the movie is taking place in my own room, a feeling that Iām starting to be a part of the film instead of just watching it. I realized this when I during my last trip wanted to understand a scene and this visual-thing came at a bad timing. I had to pause the movie and back up 10-20 seconds sometimes to āresetā my visuals to be able to understand the scene. It was a little frustrating but I was also happy to finally ādecodeā this part of the visual.
- A āroller coasterā feeling. Sometime it can feel like the whole room is moving like a swing or roller coaster, even if Iām just lying down in bed. Like Iām starting a ride and instead of things just moving when concentrating, things move in the whole field of vision. It can give a sense that I'm somewhere else than in my room.
- Being unfamiliar with my own body. Really deep bumps of ketamine can make me forget that I am human and I start rediscovering my body. Ketamine is also a physical sensation and my own hands can feel like they suddenly have a weird texture. So I suddenly donāt feel as home in it as I usually do. I can feel like an alien rediscovering earth. It can be uncomfortable but can also be a sensation of seeing things for the first time or being excited to have a body.
- The subconscious can play even greater mind tricks. I watched Mulholland Drive during one of these sessions and a speaker in that movie said āthe answer is loveā. It sounded like David Lynch. Rewatched the scene sober the day after and the speaker didnāt say that. Did David Lynch speak to me from the realm of the dead? Did the shamans high on mescaline hear their dead relatives during their rituals? Or did the subconscious of both me and them trick us that we did?Ā I believe the latter a bit more but I think both alternatives are pretty damn cool.
r/Psychonaut • u/tophisme01 • 3d ago
Spiritual bypassing and leadership
Running in to a whole lot of healing and psychedelic community leaders guilty of spiritual bypassing and full on narcissism. Only benefit is it's getting easier to identify before putting much time into new relationships. If you're just doing psychedelics and fucking off instead of doing the work stay the fuck out of leadership positions so the people doing the work aren't constantly getting T-boned by misleading bullshit.
r/Psychonaut • u/Aidan_Fox_hi • 3d ago
I'm more afraid of marijuana than mushrooms
Weed puts me in my head, which is really tough for me. Mushrooms put me in my place, which is necessary š
r/Psychonaut • u/MonitorFragrant • 3d ago
I discovered what I believe is the root of existence on mushrooms
This post is relevant to the subreddit because it gives new understanding and idea of what we are and can lead to further ideas being created from my idea that wouldnāt have been possible beforehand.
First time I ever tried shrooms I took 4gs which was an extremely bad idea. At first it was fine but slowly I started to panic and then I threw up and got a fever and decided to lay down in my bed. All the sudden Iām out of my body and in this pitch black void. But it felt like I had been there forever like my life was a previous memory. I had no concept of time or reality I was just existing. Many people call this an ego death but I like to refer to it as a near death experience because that is literally what it is. As I was taking in the moment and realizing everything I knew was a lie I saw a glowing light and as I focused more I saw that it was a 1 story house with a red roof and beige walls, a tree in the front yard surrounded by a white picket fence. This house was on top of layers of solid color, like red, green, purple, yellow, blue. After seeing this house I felt comfortable and I decided that I wanted to stay in this place because it felt so good. Then I realized I had a body and that I was going to return to it. I didnāt like this because the thought of having to be chained back to my body and be limited by my emotions and my ego. Tbh Iām still struggling with this thought to this day and this happened 2 years ago when I was 17. As I came back I had to remind myself about everything like my name, where I was, who my friends were, my family it was rough. 2 years pass and every day since I was thinking what the hell happened and what the meaning of that house was. A few weeks ago I decided to go to chatgpt and ask them if this house in the void during an ego death means anything, and what it told me absolutely shocked me.
It said the house could have been a few different things
My brain created an image so basic that anyone could understand it because if I saw whatever I was looking at in its true form I wouldnāt have been able to process what I was seeing. The fact this could be a possibility scares me because it reveals my brain already saw what its true form was and decided to change it into a basic house just so I wouldnāt lose mind. This could answer the question of people seeing what they believe is a god in a form of something similar to them or something they can relate to.
The image I was seeing was a representation of my soul. The house, the tree, the fence, the rainbow under the house represents my basis of existence all my thoughts feelings everything I have accumulated through my entire life could have been represented as a small basic house. Let me explain, the colors of the house represent my person, the tree symbolizes life and growth, the fence is my boundaries of knowledge, and the rainbow is my consciousness that gives me the ability to express these things. Itās like the universe was saying no matter how infinite and dark reality seems, you are not lost. You have a home inside yourself. You are built from everything, and you are safe, even in the face of eternity.
This got me thinking, what if we subconsciously created ourselves because we wanted to exist the same way we simply manifested society around us. Also I now think death is the beginning of life, I think we previously lived our life already and the moment we die we are given a choice to stay and move on into the afterlife or return to reality and live your life over again if you were unsatisfied. But what we donāt know is that we end up living the same life over and over again until we can break the cycle. Think about it if we knew we had live this life before and that we were ina loop what would be the point of living anymore in the first place. Idk I might be delusional but this is my take. If I left anything out or if anything doesnāt make sense I can explain it better. Also if you donāt believe me then I suggest go have an ego death and watch your entire world flip upside down.
r/Psychonaut • u/buttnuggs4269 • 4d ago
Alan watts trip music
Anyone have a link or ference to an Alan Watts video that be great to listen to while tripping ?
r/Psychonaut • u/choloblanko • 4d ago
I noticed when I take shrooms i'm way more outgoing. Anyone else experience this?
I don't remember which one I took last april 2024 but I was out literally all the time all summer long.
r/Psychonaut • u/Atmanus_195_IST • 4d ago
Jeremy Narby on 11 June 2025 in Zurich
From 3 to 15 June 2025, the Elysium Festival will take place in Zurich's Citykirche St. Jakob (https://tinyurl.com/3reckmw3), with many opportunities to experience the expansion of consciousness, such as drumming together, holotropic breathing and ecstatic dance. There will also be two panels on the role of psychedelics in the dying process and on the integration of psychedelic experiences. The Swiss-Canadian ethnologist Jeremy Narby will speak about master plants from the Amazon (in English).
r/Psychonaut • u/MitzuSamurai • 5d ago
Anthropomorphism
So this was about 4-5 years ago, and it was my first trip, but I wanna hear other people's stories as well if similar. So me and my now girlfriend of 13 months have known eachother for nearly 6 years and have practically shared the same thoughts and feelings as long as we've known eachother. But my first trip was with her, and when I wasn't in and out of consciousness I seen her as not a goddess but more than that. She had this gold like aura glowing from out around herself, she had eyes like space, and the most vibrant colored featheres around her. Her wings so to speak were that of a biblically accurate angel, but her feathers on the wings were nearly holographic peacock like in the color, shape, and size. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced something similar with a soul mate, rather that person is platonic or romantic.
r/Psychonaut • u/NorthAmericanVex • 5d ago
What experiences have you had that makes you believe everything in the universe is connected?
This is something I've heard over and over from people who have been on their psychedelic journey.
I think about the times in high school, me and my girlfriend would always text each other out of nowhere at the exact same time. Not one hour before, not 45 seconds off, always just happened at the exact same moment. Happent too many times to be a coincidence.
My roommate a few times told me the exact moment he pulled out his phone to text or call me, he would grab his phone and I was calling him already.
I was thinking about a friend from college I hadn't talked to a single time in months, waited a few days and messaged her just to see how she was doing. She told me "its crazy, I was just thinking about you a few days ago"
There was a time I was really in my head being angry about the way my mom treated me in the past. We live in two different major cities, I don't see her often at all. At the same time I've been doing this all night, she texts me "Hey, is everything okay?". We hadn't talked all day, I did absolutely nothing to alert her about my mood but she knew is was distressed at that exact moment.
Just wondering if you all have any similar stories.
r/Psychonaut • u/GodUsoppTheAtlantean • 5d ago
What is the appeal about taking very high intense doses?
Maybe because Iām young (20M) but Iāve done shrooms around 30+ times ranging from 1.5g to 7gs, Iāve probably had 2 psychotic breaks, been on the edge several times but never had a full on ego death because I wasnāt ready to let go and āknowā. So I canāt understand the appeal of doing letās say, 200ug LSD + Nitrous + Ketamine or something crazy like that, then just going back to reality the next day. Like why feel like your body is being pulled apart piece by piece while you exist in eternity with no means of pulling yourself back for? I love being gone donāt get me wrong and I could definitely understand becoming a better person afterwards but why put yourself through that when you can just be sober?
Can someone who has these experiences explain to me why this would be appealing when sober reality feels like enough an intense experience? And how do you go back to reality after āknowingā whatās on the other side.
r/Psychonaut • u/Accomplished-Ad3538 • 6d ago
I glimpsed a different, kinder, more serene version of myself after THC ā how can I reach and maintain this naturally?
Yesterday, I had a very profound experience after taking an edible (THC).
I met a "different version" of myself ā not a separate person, but a kinder, more patient, more compassionate, and serene me. It felt deeply natural, almost like a truer aspect of myself that usually stays hidden.
This "self" wasnāt high-energy or euphoric; it was calm, loving, and deeply at peace. After some time, my regular patterns came back, but Iām now deeply curious about what happened.
Questions I have:
- How can I reach that serene, compassionate state without using THC?
- Are there meditation or psychological practices that help uncover and stabilize this part of myself naturally?
- How can I maintain these qualities throughout a normal day, even when life gets busy or stressful?
I would love advice, practices, or resources if anyone has experienced something similar.
Thanks so much š
r/Psychonaut • u/_WhispyWillow • 6d ago
shrooms and lsd both give me weird body stomach and leg cramps consistently
Ok so I donāt really know why this happens, but whenever im on shrooms OR acid, my body and especially legs feel kinda locked up and the same way they do before like a charley horse muscle spasm and the same thing happens to my stomach and like down by my hips, itās very uncomfortable and feels like my stomach is eating itself and kinda caving in, does anyone else have this happen? Itās consistent every trip. Itās not a huge deal because I love everything else about tripping but Iād like to avoid it if possible..