Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?

• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Someone once said to me that from a Buddhist perspective they’re not helpful because they provide a one time view rather than a continual shift in mindset.

  That’s true, but you can take that experience and apply it to sober life. You don’t need to take acid all the time to appreciate psychedelia, but a few trips help broaden the horizon so to speak. My memories of psychedelic experiences sometimes return to me quite vividly when floating in a float tank.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for sharing! That’s cool. I wonder why specifically in the tank?

    Maybe I should reword it that similar experiences in meditation can be had naturally, whenever and for as long as one wishes.

    That said, I haven’t experienced either. Float tank was fun though.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think probably because there’s no sensory input and I’m just there floating in the darkness with only my breathing and heartbeat. It’s not like the whole time I’m in the tank I’m tripping, but I have had some psychedelic adjacent experiences. Not so much the visual and auditory hallucinations, but rather the psychedelic thoughts. Pondering the nature of my existence, fleeting moments of feeling cosmic and eternal, that sorta thing.

      I wouldn’t recommend psychedelics to everyone but I’m glad I’ve dabbled. Those in a stable mental state would probably have a worthwhile experience eating some shrooms and sitting down in the woods.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Comparing alcohol to psychedelics is wiiiiild. Psychedelics changed my life. Alcohol mostly just makes me sad and sleepy. Occasionally giggly, at best.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As you can read I didn’t compare them.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right, but I wasn’t being argumentative, just fyi. My intention was to say, “If you’re thinking of them as at all similar, PLEASE DON’T.” You should totally give psychedelics a try if/when it works for you, because they’re nothing even remotely comparable to a buzz, or being very drunk, or adderall, or weed (okay, POTENTIALLY mildly similar, but rarely), etc. It was just intended to share my own experience with the two and how they compare, since you noted you’d only tried the one. But I do see how it could’ve come across. Wasn’t trying to be smarmy and corrective.

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sorry misread your tone then and replied such. Thanks for clarifying

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