I’ve probably tripped around 20 times throughout my life. I did it mostly because I bought into the idea that psychedelics would improve my life and habits in some way. I don’t believe that anymore, and I don’t think psychs really changed my life at all except it gave me lots of cool memories. I kind of feel some level of nostalgia for that reality-bending feeling of being on psychs, even though the last time I took it was only a couple months ago. It’s just so different from everyday experience.
After taking LSD a few times, I gotta say it’s pretty fun. I enjoy experiencing the world through the eyes of a kid again. It’s also enlightening to see your life in third-person, as if you saw your life from a friend’s perspective. It definitely makes interacting with people interesting because you’re so attuned to the minutest signals: you can read people like a book.
Relevant to this forum, I had an interesting revelation while tripping that we exist at a non-exceptional time in history. The feeling that we are existing during what will be just one more page in the book was palpable. I think that gives me a lot of hope, even though things seem so dire at the moment.