There are other things a state can do, like provide safe injection sites with on-site medical personnel to prevent overdosing. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the right wing exists, and they believe that criminalization is the ONLY way to influence behavior.
@@Fluffkitscripts The state isn't justified in it's existence, even if it is socialist in nature. It can certainly be -better- than a right-wing state, but it's not a good enough alternative to actually be a justified hierarchy.
@@Fluffkitscripts I mean we could just use communtiy-built coalitions for those exact same things without the threat of violence or jail time. People already do this, they just don't have the resources to do it on a larger scale because of the conditions we live in right now.
The first time I did acid, I had a disconnection of mind and body. It felt like an objective view. and during the peak of rolling I vivid remember thinking "Ive harmed this body, why did I do that?" over and over again and I found no answer Anyways I haven't self-harmed since
@@cjboyo(content warning: suicide stuff) I'm not going to say they will, but I can personally speak to the power of psychedelic drugs in regards to helping with depression, even severe suicidal depression like I had. I still feel down sometimes, but I don't sit around every day yearning for death anymore. For that I can thank 3 tabs of LSD and an intensely personal and self reflective trip that realigned my perspective of life itself and what it means to exist, to me personally not in the universal sense. I used to think of my loved ones as chains, I was imprisoned in my own life by their love for me, and my refusal to hurt them. I felt like I had no purpose, no reason to exist other than suffer. That night I realized I don't exist to suffer, that something was broken inside but that it could be fixed. I thought about my father's suicide, how the grief broke me at 18. How'd I'd wasted years being a shell of who I used to be. I decided it was time to let go of my pain, he's gone, I'll always love him and miss him but I can't exist simply to mourn his death. I made what peace I could make with it that night. I knew I had to rebuild myself with love and patience, and once I had I could use what I'd learn to build others up, starting with my family but turning into anyone I can reach out to. My purpose in life is to uplift others in any way I am capable. I plan on volunteering at suicide hotlines and possibly following a career is crisis counseling so I can use my own experience to help others get through theirs, and hopefully save some people the pain I felt when I lost my father. LSD helped my see all of this, all the pieces were there but the drug helped me put them together and see the picture on top
Yeah, taking that too far is called second-option bias and that's how you get tankies and conspiracy theorists. But coming to realise that much of what you were taught was propaganda of a form meant to sell you a worldview from childhood-even if it wasn't literally always wrong and sometimes was even mostly correct in certain places-is an extremely important part of maturing intellectually.
ha I made a pb&j on my last trip too! wow. We were on the beach and there was sand everywhere and I was also very enamored by watching the peanut butter spread across the bread
At the risk of sounding like a filthy neoliberal, I have to wonder if Borger Slimerini would approve of such gendered nouns like "Master" or "Mistress", or maybe an as yet uncoined gender-neutral noun like "Masteress" maybe? Though, while looking for possible unigender monikers, it occurred to me the fact that Matt is a dyed-in-the-wool anarchist would mean a rejection of such hierarchies outright... 😬 Disregard everything I just said unless the person being referenced actually voices concern. On a tangential note, this comment (as well as the cat pillow) were very entergaging for me.
LSD was the beginning of my radicalization. I sat and thought about how little sense the system here in the US made for like 4 hours. The other 2 hours I was blown away by a soda can that was "breathing"
@@williamcozart9166 yeah swim had a 3 year long gram a day habit and a bit of a breakdown after coming off them they don't regret it though as learnt a lot and had to grow as a person due to it.
I became spinal cord disabled 17yrs ago, and connected to this, a year ago I was diagnosed with an extremely rare complex brain disorder. I have a ton of thoughts on this subject, as a result of my life and experiences, and why I think it is that our governments won't even consider legalizing psychedelics. But it basically comes down to the fact that the benefits of legalizing psychedelics would help people that society sees as "lesser" and we are ableist as FUCK. I'm a wheelchair user. I speak from long and storied experience here. The thing that kills me, and I mean just absolutely rends my heart, is their use in end of life patients and the people who are dying RIGHT NOW without access. And yes, this is overtly personal to me - I'm sitting here with a 7yo daughter and facing deep vascular (experimental) brain surgery in the middle of a global pandemic just to stay with her a few extra years - what on fucking earth could I do with a medication that made me feel a deep sense of well-being and belonging to a greater whole that just myself? The worst part of this is the math. "How much can I teach her about life and love and standing up for herself if I can maybe make it four more years? What if I make it ten? Can I teach her that she needs only know that she is strong and smart, and no one else needs to see those qualities in her for them to still be true?" These math problems I do every day, every night....the S.A.T.s had nothing on these. And as I am doing this, and watching myself fade away in front of this child's face, I am also fighting a government trying to take medications away from dying people based on a falsified "opioid epidemic" and keeping good, natural, highly effective compounds away from us out of......spite? Tradition? "Well, the Injuns used those, and we're the whyte mayun....." The only good thing that came out of Joe Rogans show is that a bunch of people found Paul Stamets, who I have been a fan of for a crazy long time. He is a huge advocate for the legalization of psychedelics (specifically psilocybin and derivatives), and is an academic and mycologist based in the PNW. I HIGHLY recommend following his socials.
You are STRONG! And you speak with a "voice" I believe I recognize, and RESPECT. 💗💗💗💗🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️ As a mother, the fact that you put your daughter 1st the WAY you do, with the FOCUS and GOALS you have expressed, is just completely..... soul-fulfilling? Faith in humanity renewing? "Oh Gods, I wish I could know her and her daughter and mine could totally hang out!" inspiring? Words are so hard sometimes!!🥵 There is a substance that is regulated in 2 states only. Kratom. Please, if you haven't already, look into it? I highly, HIGHLY recommend doing so. BEFORE it was illegal in my state, I came to know it pretty well. I was struggling as a mom, both with physical pain and emotionally. I truly do not know how I would have survived and progressed without it. Briefly - Red vein strains are best for pain, and can be great for sleep, also anxiety, but SLEEPY. White vein can actually energize, with a little relief still of pain. It MAY help with anxiety etc, but try to be sure you have something to physically DO, or it may increase anxiety like caffeine can for some. Green veins are often a good "middle" with not a lot of noticeable effects for mid-day, but overall relief of symptoms. For daytime pain relief, some find a red/white or red/green mix works well. These can be personal ratios or something pre-mixed. Also sometimes, other mixes for other needs. I found "K" LLLOOONNNGGGG before it was illegal ANYWHERE. The rhetoric that is out there now about it is, well, misleading and sad. Please let me know if you have questions? I hope you have support!! You, and your DAUGHTER, truly DESERVE IT.💗💗💗🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️
Your post is heart-breaking, and I wish with every fiber of my being that people in situations like yours could have free and safe access to life-changing medicines like psilocybin. I have my own struggles, but I cannot imagine the hardships you face on a daily basis. You might appreciate the talks of Dennis McKenna, brother of the late, great Terrence McKenna. He's the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute. It's a non-profit concerned with the potential of the therapeutic uses of psychedelics in society. I saw him give a talk about the "stoned ape theory" at a psychedelics conference at the University of Massachusetts a few years ago, and I really enjoyed it. An organization known as MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) organized the event, you might consider following their progress on various fronts or even attending one of their events when covid is over (it's really nice to be around like-minded people for a change). I wish you the best, fellow human, and though we have never met nor will likely ever meet, know that I love you and will think about you from time to time now that I have read your post. Yes I am a shameless hippy.
It's almost as if we should have heavily trained and knowledgeable people who could discuss with you the pros and cons of any drug use before administering it in a safe environment and-- oh, doctors. They're called doctors. If only half the world utilised them to be actual care practitioners and not part of the capitalist system.
Doctors did a real bang up job when prescribing opiates. Right? If they get a financial incentive for prescribing something they will follow that incentive.
I have two young children and I am always very clear that caffeine is a drug. I want them to understand that drugs come in many forms, and it is best to fully understand the drug and side effects before engaging with them. I also try to make sure to impress upon them that being fully developed physically is best before using any drugs.
true but also, i'm so thankful for it bc it rly helps with my ADHD lmao. if they regulated it like other, more intense stimulants, i honestly probably would not be alive bc it turns out having to constantly fight your brain to do the barest minimum on something literally anybody else can do without problem makes you feel REAL bad all the time haha
@@sirrivet9557 I actually found that it made me super anxious and exacerbated my ADHD. Quitting had the same effect as taking anti-anxiety drugs, which is more than enough for me to consider it a drug. Obvs not everyone's experience but drugs work differently for different people.
When I was a teen a friend of mine was shot in the head because of coke money. A friend of mine left everything to live in the streets because she was addicted to crack A couple of friend entered a car crash and the girl died, they were drunk I was already an adult and appart from my drug friends but one of those got in a bike and crashed into a tree, splashing his brains on a church door. He was drunk and on coke. The only thing lsd did bad for me or my friends was make one poor friend of mine leave their water running because she like the sound. And i puked one time because the pizza tasted shity Also sex is shitty on psilocipbin
@@cedricappleby2006 I have a friend who just came back from the absolute brink of alcoholism. He stared right into the heart of the abyss and flinched. Nearly lost it all - and when hes trying to raise a daughter who's 3 now and planning to marry her mother. He had gotten to that horrible, horrible point where he'd been drinking so hard so much for so long that it had absolutely SAVAGED his liver, and the alcoholism had taken a firm, DEEP root within him. So continuing to drink was raping his already fucked liver more and more, and on several occasions caused him to suffer a stroke (or maybe it was merely a severe seizure). However at the same time, NOT drinking caused him to suffer MASSIVE and SEVERE alcohol withdrawal symptoms that absolutely raped the fuck out of his already fucked liver and on several occasions caused him to suffer a stroke (or maybe it was merely severe seizure). So there was literally no option. Drinking was causing MASSIVE damage to his liver & body and causing him to suffer strokes/siezures, while NOT drinking was causing him to suffer MASSIVE withdrawal symptoms that caused equally MASSIVE damage to his liver & body and caused him to suffer equally strokes/siezures. No way out, both options had the same result, may as well take the one where you get to be drunk too right? Fortunately he manned up and got the professional help he desperately needed and spent 2 months in intensive detox kicking the addition while medical professionals made sure that the withdrawals didn't literally kill him. Now he's all clean, staying far away from the bottle, reunited with his fiancé and daughter and taking back his life. And he managed to do it all without becoming one of those hilariously weak-willed, preachy douchebag Christian 10-step cunts. He doesn't go around preaching the virtues of rehab & sober living and never shutting the fuck up about it like these people who wind up making the fact that they're former addicts who went to rehab the friggin _cornerstone_ of their entire personalities. No, he's just the same ol' pal of mine...only finally sobered up, incredibly healthy both physically & mentally, and ready to take control of his life back and I'm so gosh-diddly-dang darn-doodly-oodly proud of the old boy. Many others are nowhere near as lucky....fuck alcohol.
@@dildonius why is it necessary to refer to the effects of alcohol on your friend's liver as "raping" it? there are plenty of equally impactful verbs that don't boast sexual assault as a definition
Mushroom nerd detail: The mushrooms in the thumbnail are not at all psychedelic. They are Boletes, most probably Boletus edulis (commonly known as Porcini or Cepes) or a related species.
additional mushroom nerd detail: mushrooms can be fused together at early stages, so you could actually make a porcini psilocybe. (you wouldn't be able to cook it, though, because the psilocybin will denature)
I bet you're fun at parties. Not in the mean, sarcastic way that most people on the internet say it, but genuinely, this was a thing I enjoyed learning, and I think it would be a legit joy to meet and be talked at by a self-proclaimed mushroom nerd at a party =]
H coralloides? That's an interesting pick. I'm a huge fan of amanitas. (Not just A. Muscaria and not to do. I'm more of a cubensis fan. I love my gold caps.) What do you like/find interesting about H. Coralloides?
OMG, like, I knoooow, riiiight? I was totally thinking those looked weird there. I'm so new to mycomania and have much to learn, but so glad to read your comment. MYCONERDS, UNITE AND TAKE OVER! :)
I definitely think they should be legal, but as someone with severe anxiety, prone to panic attacks and persistent intrusive thoughts, I am very afraid to try them myself.
completely valid. something to remember is that you don't have to trip. microdosing is a wonderful way to experience the effects without noticeable psychoactive experiences and you can always add more to your dose each time you take it until you're officially tripping. one main factor is that the come up can be a bit scary like reaching the top of a roller coaster, even if experienced.
Set and setting, and an experienced trip sitter could help you if you want to go down the road. I feel you on the anxiety, but I really do want to try psychedelics. 😅
Kathryn Gates i rarely trip with other people anymore. i find i have way more fun when alone. i also have social anxiety and feel i can’t be my true weird self and do everything i want when i trip with others. i feel obligated to not allow my emotions to take over, even tho sometimes you need full emotional breakthrus.
"It's at once frivolous and profound, and it vascilates between those two extremes so fast that you can barely tell the difference" Me: Wait, is he talking about Acid or The Muppets?
Before I tried it for the first time, my friends told me “LSD isn’t magic. It will just amplify whatever is already inside of you” and in my personal experience, they were right. It was amazing the first time. One of the best days of my life. I will never forget that day, nor what I felt, discovered and learned.
When i was a kid i had a really hard time in school and got to a point where i was failing every subject because i found it all boring. At 15 i tired lsd for the first time. I noticed the empty vacuum that was my brain and found my self hungry to know everything ever. Looking at the world made me want to know how every little thing worked. Those effects didn't stop after the lsd ran out. My grades become bs and As subjects i hated became fascinating. I was able to sit still and focus. To this day leaning and critical thinking are supreme and i owe it all to not listening to the man
Dang, is that too young? But I'm glad it helped you unlock your brain, there's nothing more fun for me than having an infinite desire to know, though I haven't tried any psychedelics yet.
I used a lot of psychedelics in my late teens-early 20s, it helped me no end. Didn't touch anything like that for a few years just because I didn't feel the need to and they weren't easily available anyway, and I definitely felt a lot of those effects fade over time. A few years later, I had an emergency surgery and ended up on strong painkillers for a few years. I had to do the whole taper and kick to get off them after a while, and I felt like my brain was just missing something, even months afterwards. Opiates change your brain man, and I didn't like it. Took some LSD hoping to 'reset' after all that time. One trip. Just one day on acid. And I felt like I understood myself and my mind and my life more than I had in years. My psychiatrist wanted me on benzos and anti anxiety meds and all kinds of things, but I didn't want to be on meds I had to take every day and face down withdrawals if I stopped (or 'discontinuation syndrome' as they're called when it's psych meds). Haven't had to take any of them for months now after that trip.
just sitting there, radiating love, with an ever so soft blue and pink aura (from the lighting but still) it even looks alluringly fuzzy, as though its made of some sort of velvety material... yeah, the imaginary version of thought slime that has tried psychedelics knew what he was doin'...
fff, i have adhd, an unquenchable curiosity and am easily enthralled with small things. i have little micro episodes like what matt tried to explain this stuff to do while completely sober and now i am kind of concerned that there are people who might not actually ever feel this way
If you mean the part starting with “being amazed by its pigeonness”, hard same. When I was just 6 or 7 and finding some buddhist principles about enlightenment and interconnectedness I was like “well duh, is that it?” and all the grownups insisted I haven’t experienced the True experience because even they haven’t, but lately I wonder if I was just… that much closer to it than any of them already and didn’t need as far of a journey?
Me too! I have ADHD, I once spent a half hour (sober) staring at a patch of lichen, and I'm a big fan of The Muppets. I honestly don't know what psychedelics would do to my weird brain. Fun fact, Jim Henson of Muppets fame once took acid, and saw literally no result. Another Muppet performer (I think it was Frank Oz?) remarked that Jim's brain must be too weird and creative already for psychedelics to work on him.
at my current place in life im straightedge-not because i want to demonize drugs or alcohol without thought, but bc of trauma , and... man. it's frustrating to see people using experiences like mine as an example of 'drug bad' 'alcohol bad' despite not consulting me and others on what was really the cause of harm in the situation. this was a rad video. also yes i did enjoy the cat pillow. w i d e boi
Psychedelics does wonders for those with treatment resistant depression. After 9 years of getting tossed around in the system, with no real help, a friend of mine tried psychedelics and I for the first time sinced we were kids heard him utter the words "I think I have hope now". I have personally looked at myself in the mirror, crying and smiling because for the first time in my life I truly felt in my heart that I was worthy of love. (hypothetically, of course)
No lie whatsoever, that pillow was so optimally placed that I was actually focusing on it the majority of this video the same way I might focus on an innocuous pillow while on psychedelics. You are an artist, my good fellow, an artist.
My brother killed himself nearly two years ago. I was very close to him and I considered him my other half. His loss destroyed me. I tripped on acid and MDMA with a sister. After two long years of feeling dead, feeling alone and broken, feeling hopeless and terrified, I felt like I reconnected with my brother. I felt whole again. Even after the experience, I started to rebuild my hope for life. I felt like I could live again.
Few tips on mushrooms: - DO NOT eat more than 2g of dried ones(2,5g if they are stored for over half a year) for the first time. I'm talking abaut Cubensis here. Azurescens in that dose would be way too strong in my opinion. - Shred them into small pieces and soak in water or eat with instant ramen to almost completely eliminate nausea. - Do not eat something tham can give you stomach pain on trip cause it will make you feel really terrible. Some fruits should be okay. - Have a bottle of water on hand. - Dark room and music is a nice setting. But tripping and walking between fields of barley and meadows full of flowers in the middle of a day is amazing if noone bothers you.
So here's a totally fictional account of me hypothetically taking ~8 dried grams of mushrooms at once (which is a thing I do not recommend): I sat outside with a few friends of mine, talking about random BS for about 35+ min. They went in, I stayed out and had a smoke, watching a large moth on the wall.. a dog barked next door, but for the briefest of moments I thought it was the moth.. and so it began. Went back in to watch friends play some trippy indie interactive sound game for a while.. they asked how I was feeling, and I began calmly and very candidly in a stream of consciousness, to relate it all very much like an Elcor ambassador from Mass Effect 2. (Clearly state emotion, intent, and frame of mind, then express thought.) There was about a 15 minutes where I could tell the future, precisely like in Donnie Darko, where I could intuit the actions and motivations of others before they transpired.. and I was acutely aware that whatever presence, posture, and emotion you exude in your environment, directly affects the subconscious actions and mannerisms of others within that environment.. the tiniest expression at the right time, manipulates the foundation and basis for future events. My friends then put on, "Little Shop of Horrors," which I Sincerely wish they hadn't. For some reason, about a third of the way through the movie, I got this sense that I'd somehow repressed a thought of accidentally killing someone.. which was absolutely never the case.. but I climbed wayyyy into the back of my mind to chase that thought, and wound up catatonic for about an hour. I lost all track of time and reality, and began to think of my whole life as a movie; for the first time I was from the perspective of the projector operator.. looking frame by frame through my history. I remember thinking it was very sweet of the 'actors who were my family' to keep up the charade, even though clearly they must have known 'none of it was real, even though I didn't know that.' Essentially, Truman Show-ing myself in my disassociated imagination. Regaining the slightest bit of lucidity, and seeing that my consciousness was stuck in some void outside of time and space, and I'd been silently staring agape on the couch for an indeterminate amount of Way too long... I realized I was still holding a cup of water from earlier.. and in a triumphant act of human defiance against the cosmos, splashed myself in the face to 'wake back up.' The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful by comparison. All in all, that was entirely too much to take all at once. I went overboard because in past (totally fictional) experiences with mushrooms, I hadn't taken enough to really notice anything.. and sorely over-corrected as a result. If that sounded entertaining to some of you out there, I learned that night just how close the human mind is from slipping for good. We are terrifyingly fragile creatures, and it is only by our brain's own gracious virtue of operational ignorance, that we do not generally know that.
@@post-leftluddite 2-2,5g gives extremely pleasurable experience full of visuals and you can actually do basic stuff while on it. 7g would make most people suicidal. Unless you are tripping every weekend and smaller doses basically do nothing to you.
@@nunyabidnis3815 that’s fascinating, back before I was medicated for psychosis I had very similar experiences about going over my life and thinking it was all fake. I was also convinced the floor was a hologram that I’d fall through if I tried to step on it. For years I’ve recognised that my brain gave me a really unpleasant time but I had never thought of it as “close to slipping away for good”… so that perspective is making me recontextualise some things. Maybe I’m stronger than I thought.
@@kaitlyn__L "Maybe I’m stronger than I thought." True. I wonder how else I may have worded that with a different perspective in mind. That experience may have given me some insight into psychosis, in that, it's really not even a big change; it's just a little change in the mind in just the right places, with some very big results. Like when I learned that schizophrenia is effectively just one or two microscopic differences in the brain that cause conflict with where dopamine goes, and how a few receptors develop. The end result of which being registering everything (sometimes massively) different. I had to start taking anti-psychotics at one point in my life (probably still should, but US prescription costs made me stop.) As many people are, I was hesitant to take them, wondering what effect they could have on me in the big picture. Would they change my reasoning, personality, etc.? My brother had some helpful words: "If there is a drastic unwelcome change, you bring that up to your healthcare provider. If not, think of it like steering a ship across the ocean... If your steering is off by even 2 degrees, you could wind up in a completely different country when you arrive. If something can help to course correct those minor differences from becoming big set backs, it's worth seeing if they'll work." As for the events in my post, I was struck with how few differences I could recognize _at the time_ between my standard base line thinking, and an induced disassociative, delerious, catatonia. I'd like to think I can empathize more closely with people experiencing, at least some forms, of psychosis. There may be some interference in the signal, but they're very much still just people, just a degree or two off from where I may find myself. Thanks for the response, and I wish you all the love and support in your health care.
I’m Native American, and one of the things for us is peyote. It’s a little cactus button that provides most of the exact same benefits as LSD, and it’s considered especially sacred in our culture. It’s also considered a schedule one drug and was only legalized for us to use in religious ceremonies (and only then) in fucking 1990. In a country that was supposedly founded on religious freedom, the people that were here first had not been allowed to fully practice their religion until thirty years ago. It really makes me upset to think about. (Also, it was only decriminalized one a couple of major cities last year. So there’s that.)
The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal, yet the men who wrote that OWNED SLAVES. My point is that “religious freedom” only applies to the people in power and their race/social/economic group. Oh you’re an ethnic minority that has no representation in government? well then your religion doesn’t count.
Fun fact: a native friend of mine in the military found out that they never really bothered to make the military’s policy clear so as long as you’re a member of the right native church, the way the instruction is written you can basically take it all the time unless you’re standing duty in 24 hours.
Here in Oregon we've actually managed to get legalized psilocybin for therapeutic use on the ballot for Nov. 2020! So excited to be able to vote for legal and safe access to mushrooms in my life time! I work with hospice patients and have read numerous studies on the benefits of psychedelics for those dealing with terminal illness and can't wait to see how many people we can help with this!
In my first neuroscience class in college (where I majored in it) one of the profs was an expert in psychedelics and he spent the first 10 minutes of his first lecture was about how safe LSD was and how it should be legalized and everyone should take it. I mean, it was the early 90s and not now, but still.
Bro, this professor was promoting it in the 90’s?! That professor was hella ahead of his time given the war on drugs was at its peak in the 80’s and 90’s.
@@staticaleel5068 I'm pretty sure he'd been giving that same spiel to students since at least the 70s. The dude was in the field when the invented it. :)
Taking shrooms is the most I’ve ever felt perfectly comfortable in my own body. It really started to make me understand my gender and significantly made me see the feminine parts of my body and makes body dysphoria. If you’re trans and are in an okay state mentally and want to go on a journey about gender, I would recommend 100%. Just make sure your okay and body dysphoria isn’t too bad before you take them.
Ego death... I remember the first time I experienced it on mushrooms, that inner monologue completely disappeared, I felt completely as one psychologically, as opposed to being "pulled" between the past, present, and future at every given moment, and all doubts, all lack of self esteem had completely evaporated... I know it sounds corny, and I'm not a new age, hippie type at all (identify as a Post-Left Anarcho-Primitivist), but I truly felt as one, a whole being, completely engaged in the moment and completely fulfilled with it, imething I've always had difficulty with, and because all doubts had disappeared within me, I felt completely capable of effortless love and empathy for all people and beings (speciesism is a far too ignored hierarchy), whether I knew them personally or not. That batch of mushrooms was intense... A few years later I was reminiscing about that batch with a friend of mine who had taken them as well with some of his friend and I had remarked: "Those mushrooms changed my life man", to which he replied, "Those mushrooms changed A LOT of people's lives" haha
actually...for me it's a bit different. Gender makes no sense for me when I'm on LSD. After I tried LSD for the first time, a few months after my Outing, it really made me unsure again for a few days
Hey Thought Slime! As a harm reduction and substance use researcher, I just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I really do think we need more people speaking out about the potential benefits of psychedelics as well as the general decriminalization of drugs generally. Your video on the topic was really well done and argued. However, I do have one thing I want to point out: generally we're trying to shy away from the term "abuse" when it comes to drug use, and instead opt for "[insert drug here] use dependence," or "misuse" (in the case of a prescription drug being used outside of the prescription). Personally, I think using those terms is less stigmatizing and should be adopted more broadly. Not trying to call you out here, just wanted to be informative. Side note: try (in your fictional universe) sub-anesthetic doses of Ketamine, if you haven't (in your fictional universe) tried that already.
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” -Bill Hicks
@@williamcozart9166 There was a big picture of Bill Hicks captioned 'another dead hero' in the original cover art of the album when it was released on CD. It was part of a fancy lenticular jewel case that was made specially for the album, though, and it had different, cheaper artwork in some later versions.
@transylvanian Have to agree. Sure psychedelics make you more open minded and such but I have never thought that what I am experiencing is fact. I have seen mini UFO's landing on my coffee table while tripping but even while high, I knew it was the drugs effects. I think it can be good for your mind to safely trip once in awhile but once you start taking it's effects as fact, that's when you should consider laying off it for awhile.
I nearly cried when I saw you’re advocating for psychedelics. Thank you. I was a really angry kid, and I think a big reason I became an anarchist instead of a nazi (or killing myself) is because of the healing that LSD helped open me up to. I had a few bad trips because I was a reckless person. I didn’t have a bad trip whenever I took the preceding day to emotionally prepare, and when I was around folks I trusted. Some of the trips that were very difficult or intense are where I made important breakthroughs. I wasted a lot of time doing drugs as a young person, but I do NOT regret taking psychedelics; they were NOT a waste of time.
The literal worst thing that's ever happened to me while tripping is being forced to process some unresolved trauma at a less than convenient time. Meanwhile, I don't have enough space to write out all the awful things that have happened to me while being drunk, on a perfectly legal drug.
I did a grade 8 science class presentation about how LSD and psychedelics aren't as dangerous as they are framed as being. Seems like I was ahead of the game on this one, but really it just shows how easy it is to find out that psychedelics are being wrongfully prohibited, even for an EIGHTH GRADER
"when the only tool you have is the state, everything starts to look like a crime" love that quote Also, I really like the look of this video. Its just nice and pleasant to look at!
It would be nice if we rescheduled or entirely legalized them with a legal framework for free therapeutic use with a trained psychologist sitter. Especially for people with terminal illnesses, they should be legalized. Perhaps, if you agree, they could even have access to free sessions to potentially remove their fear of death.
I mean this seems kind of obvious. We brought back FREAKIN ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY (now called Electroconvulsive therapy) because doctors understood that under certain conditions and by trained professionals ECT can have therapeutic effects. There is little reason why psychedelics can't be the same.
I have 3 very distinct visuals I remember when I took mushrooms(these all happened at different instances, not all during the same trip) 1 - I went to go break up some weed, and one of the buds looked like it grew legs(like bug legs, not human legs) and skittered across the table top. 2 - I was lying in my bed looking at a doorway and the green carpet in the other room started to grow into my room like grass, and grew up around the door way like a moss covered entrance. 3 - I was standing out back on a friends patio, smoking a cigarette(I don't smoke any more, it's bad for you), and watching the moon move through the trees was a surreal, Tim Burton-esque look to the tree tops. Think Nightmare Before Christmas, black trees backlit by white moonlight. It was... well trippy. Literally.
I've wanted to take lsd for years, and more than ever the last few months. Unfortunately I'm such a dweeb I have no idea how to go about buying, making or testing it, so will probably just continue to think about it wistfully until I die
genuinely? I enjoy the couch more than the sewer. this is a far more enjoyable vibe. I also enjoy the background music. suggested something to that effect a while back
"Any time I tell a story about me taking a drug that's illegal, that's just a short story I'm writing out loud about a hypothetical version of myself that has broken the law." That was a really long way of saying "SWIM"
Meditation is another liberatory practice that has been commodified along the same lines as microdosing. "Converting calories into JavaScript" is why i switched careers from tech to art.
@@inigo137 it's an extremely dense critique of programmers wasting the most productive years of their lives as exploited commodities of advertising companies, not creating anything meaningful, and the ennui that results. many programmers joined the field to solve important computer problems, and are left with the constant capitalist churn of one tech ad company after another. as an artist, i don't make much money, but at least i have a sense of permanence to my work and i create for myself.
Here's the thing about transcendent experiences, whether augmented through these substances or not: Their value can only be measured in how much they illuminate the place you already are. A mountaintop experience, as wonderful and ecstatic as that can be, will not necessarily be something that changes a person's life forever - much less change it for the better. For instance, the one time I've done shrooms (so far), it was so intense that there wasn't really a lasting effect from the experience. It was wonderful to spend NYE getting my consciousness blasted apart and then reassembled in a way that I felt like I was a wide eyed six year old again, but eventually I came down and my perception of life was essentially the same. Or think of how people can have experiences that end up totally undoing their trust in reality and only produce anxiety. And finally, those who ironically use the experience of ego death to deem themselves "enlightened" and boost their ego, objectifying the experience itself without contextualizing it. (i.e. Timothy Leary and Joe Rogan). You can see some of the same mentality in a lot of Western practitioners of Eastern meditative practices. Transcendent consciousness is ultimately no more or less valid than sobriety. One illuminates the other - sobriety grounds transcendence in the context of your everyday life, and transcendence helps to illuminate sobriety past the mundane, keeping us open to the magic hidden in every moment. I had a wonderful experience on weed back in January where my perception of time slowed to the point that I perceived the universe of possibility in every moment. Compared to my shrooms trip, that kind of illumination stayed with me. So what the world needs is not merely to remember that these substances can be great teachers, but that teachers alone are not enough. We need to reconnect with the present moment, ourselves, our fellow human and all our non-human kin (from which we have exiled ourselves since the Western mind deemed them to be without intelligence or spirit), and this whole wonderful universe. Psychedelics are A tool, not THE tool to achieve that. Transcendence can be cheap. True enlightenment never is. It's a process, not an event.
you describing psychedelics: what if there was a pill that could allow you to feel more deeply, unlock truths within yourself, cure depression... me dropping acid: *hehe world go wibble wobble*
Hahaha, that's kind of common I hear. The cops bring the hippies in and they're covered in mushroom spores, and they end up spreading them. The cops think they're helping stop mushrooms from existing but they're actually helping them reproduce!
Congratulations to Oregon for legalizing mushrooms in a clinical setting! They also managed to decriminalize possession of "small amounts" of all the most popular drugs. Although some politician apparently set the limits pretty sensibly for everything else and then said oh yeah 40 hits of acid? you're fine here's your ticket. 40 hits, you know something you totally go through in a weekend. Yup.
😂 Couldn't have said it better myself! It all makes sense now! I've always appreciated Matt's breadth of thought, knowledge, & perspective on such a variety of topics, & now I know! As a person who also uses drugs, & who also believes psychedelics have massive potential to be beneficial, a belief we both seem to have drawn from our own lived experiences, which is awesome. Love your work, Matt. 💛 (I too prefer LSD, BTW.) Tripping or not, I'm already transfixed by pigeons, but aside from that, your description was spot-on... the potential for transformative, revolutionary thought & connection is definitely present, if people experience substance use & the transformative understanding it often brings. I refer to it as cleaning the dust off my third eye, & feel far more sane, level-headed, & energetic after tripping. I can't believe you didn't talk about the sensory aspects of experimenting with psychedelics, & the fact that, in a safe, sane, trusting, & consensual setting, they can be employed in a sexual context to connect on a whole new plain of existence... highly recommended, if people are engaging in their own psychonautical adventures... 😉resting psychedelic-related video too I've just watched this after I'd watched about 6 hours of Dr Gabor Maté videos, most of which were about addiction, & how it's inherently linked with things like trauma, adverse childhood experiences, attachment issues, relationships, etc. - good, but heavy, stuff... this was the perfect segue back into the realm of recreational UA-cam viewing... thanks!
Here in Brasil we have ayahuaska that is made from a mix of roots and herbs (that only the shamans of the indigenous cultures really know how to do) and it makes your brain release DMD naturaly. There is a episode of mindfield where Michael takes it. My fictional friend tryed it and its like if your soul gets out of your body and reunites with the universe.
In all honesty? The perspective exists that our evolution happened symbiotically with various other species. The cactus "peyote" shows itself unique among such symbiotes for being left to grow in nature, undisturbed by human intervention, and in just its original habitat. But the mushroom, psilocybin? Has evolved to such a point where a *very* small subset of the fungus can live within its indigenous habitat of Southern Mexico. Amanita Muscara was the favored fungus of Europe. Yes, the "Mario Mushroom". However, due to a measure of actual toxicity and very real potential for Kidney/Brain damage? This artifact of Norse Viking spirituality has been forgotten. (Well... That and a Euro-Christian sentiment that viewed indigenous folk medicine as "witchcraft" even on their own continent.) Absynthe? Is extremely overhyped in its modern form. But! Take that Amanita, a couple different forms of wormwood (which is associated with "witchcraft" for the LSA inside, a chemical precursor to LSD with similar, if reportedly more muted effects), herbs for flavor, and then ferment and distill that mix? BAM, absynthe. Too bad today's stuff has taken indecent liberties with the flavor herbs/spices, or we'd have something. Using the fermentation to both extract and make the volatile organic compounds we *want* more available, while simulaneously and mysteriously breaking down the volatile organic compounds we might rightly describe as "poison" was a stroke of pre-literacy human genious. If you *really* want that kind of exploration into each substance's indigenous context? The show "Hamilton's Pharmacopea" is for you. In addition to showing this guy Hamilton do... Stuff. And... things. It started as a youtube show, but got picked up by vice for production and distribution. Yar matey, there's a good following. Never point your computer into the glory hole of internet autonomous freedom without a "fed condom" called a VPN!
One of my favorite theories about psychedelics was that ancient Greeks (and later, Romans) had a psychedelic ceremony of their own. Greek texts contain multiple references to the "Eleusenian mysteries," a religious ceremony involving a beverage that some modern scholars believe contained psychedelic compounds. This may be conjecture, but I think it's pretty cool.
@@BrunoM19T11 my father tried that once in a monastery (and said “there is no me, only us, that’s why we need to be good to each other” on it) and came out of it fully lefty (he was centre-left before).
Nice pillow. Happy Cat Day, btw. I... don't really have personal drug experiences. Hell, I'm mildly terrified of the *legal* psychiatric drugs I apparently need to barely function as a vaguely independent conscious creature but occasionally think they're holding me back somehow so I don't take one dose and then fall apart. But I find it... entertaining if now obvious that the people I knew in high school who didn't shy away from drugs were also the ones who knew exactly what said drugs would do to them, how to be safe with them and avoided contaminated drugs like the plague. And that they were in all kinds of ways better-adjusted human beings.
Mushrooms absolutely changed my life. The second time I ever took them I accidentally took twice as much as I thought I was at a GWAR concert, everyone at the concert turned into different fantasy races, and my depression evaporated so completely by the next morning that other people were genuinely shocked by how happy and well adjusted I seemed compared to only the day before. That probably lasted three months before it started to taper off.
Similar experience with my first k-hole. Went through total ego death, and my severe depression didn't return for a whole three months. I wish people were more accepting of the idea of moderate use for this reason. It's far more efficient and enjoyable to trip every three months than take anti-depressants every day for the rest of my life (which blunt the good with the bad).
I remember on my first trip I was disappointed with how *not* magical it was, at first. I expected reality to dissapear, but instead it just changed it. And since then I've carried a dual understanding that the world is both mundane and mystical at all times. I don't think anyone should jump into psychedelics blindly, but I do believe everyone should try them once.
Drugs scare me because I 'm scared of losing control and being overwhelmed by emotions/experiences. Your description gave me mild anxiety. But I agree, they should probably be legalized. Edit: also, that's a beautiful cat but all cats are beautiful, as we well know
That's part of why TS encouraged research and being in the right place: mood, people, environment, having a sense of what to expect. These are your safeguards. The maps, guides, and constellations to help you if you do happen to get lost a bit.
@@imaginareality Ah, yeah, that would be a good indicator to probably not then. Good on you for understanding yourself. (Outside of drinking too much, which tends to be the opposite experience of what was described here, there was an experience I had with too much herbal supplement. That suuuucked, so I get the concern with something that would also tap more deeply into the imaginative aspects of perception.)
The pillow wasn't entertaining. It was entergaging, because it's garfield-shaped.
He has been using entergagement so much I think he deliberately avoided it this time
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it looks like a cat on LSD about to melt away into the Persistence of Memory
Engaging and entertaining!
definitely a psychedelic cat.
"when the only tool you have is a state, everything starts to look like a crime" so good
There are other things a state can do, like provide safe injection sites with on-site medical personnel to prevent overdosing. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the right wing exists, and they believe that criminalization is the ONLY way to influence behavior.
@@Fluffkitscripts The state isn't justified in it's existence, even if it is socialist in nature. It can certainly be -better- than a right-wing state, but it's not a good enough alternative to actually be a justified hierarchy.
@@Fluffkitscripts I mean we could just use communtiy-built coalitions for those exact same things without the threat of violence or jail time. People already do this, they just don't have the resources to do it on a larger scale because of the conditions we live in right now.
@@Fluffkitscripts the thing about the good things a state can do is: everyone can do them already, except when a state gets in the way.
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The first time I did acid, I had a disconnection of mind and body. It felt like an objective view. and during the peak of rolling I vivid remember thinking "Ive harmed this body, why did I do that?" over and over again and I found no answer
Anyways I haven't self-harmed since
Thats beautiful
Really beautiful
Not to make light of something that shouldn't be but it's definitely a step up from my "i don't bite my nails anymore"!
Fuck psychs could fix my life long self harm addiction????
@@cjboyo(content warning: suicide stuff) I'm not going to say they will, but I can personally speak to the power of psychedelic drugs in regards to helping with depression, even severe suicidal depression like I had. I still feel down sometimes, but I don't sit around every day yearning for death anymore. For that I can thank 3 tabs of LSD and an intensely personal and self reflective trip that realigned my perspective of life itself and what it means to exist, to me personally not in the universal sense. I used to think of my loved ones as chains, I was imprisoned in my own life by their love for me, and my refusal to hurt them. I felt like I had no purpose, no reason to exist other than suffer. That night I realized I don't exist to suffer, that something was broken inside but that it could be fixed. I thought about my father's suicide, how the grief broke me at 18. How'd I'd wasted years being a shell of who I used to be. I decided it was time to let go of my pain, he's gone, I'll always love him and miss him but I can't exist simply to mourn his death. I made what peace I could make with it that night. I knew I had to rebuild myself with love and patience, and once I had I could use what I'd learn to build others up, starting with my family but turning into anyone I can reach out to. My purpose in life is to uplift others in any way I am capable. I plan on volunteering at suicide hotlines and possibly following a career is crisis counseling so I can use my own experience to help others get through theirs, and hopefully save some people the pain I felt when I lost my father. LSD helped my see all of this, all the pieces were there but the drug helped me put them together and see the picture on top
Thought Slime is cancelled, Cat Pillow is the star now.
i would like. but... its at 69. i have the moral obligation... to abstain.
@@clovejubilee5227 not anymore :P
@@clovejubilee5227 abstinence, a thing that number hardly knows haha me me much funni
This makes me think of that thing I read where some guy was like "I used to be a libertarian until I took LSD and realised other people have feelings"
😂😂😂
It was MDMA/Ectasy not LSD.
ngl thats basically what happened to me, now Im a commie lol
I thought libertarians were all about legalizing and experimenting with drugs. Why doesn't this happen to all of them?
@@nessesaryschoolthing by drugs they probably mean just weed, or maybe cocaine.
"when the only tool you have is a state, everything starts to look like a crime." I am in awe at how priceless that is.
ThisIsMyRealName Yeah for real
Seriously gonna use that quote.
Real Stirner hours
@LueLou I'm thinking @AlphaChocolateTruffle means libertarian not in the way us americans use it.
@@Manus_Factum ok so, the TRUE libertarians (libertarian socialist for my fellow North Americans)?
Cool to gradually learn that basically everything I taught was good is bad and everything I was taught was bad is good
Don't take it too far. The Nazis were objectively horrible people.
Yeah, taking that too far is called second-option bias and that's how you get tankies and conspiracy theorists. But coming to realise that much of what you were taught was propaganda of a form meant to sell you a worldview from childhood-even if it wasn't literally always wrong and sometimes was even mostly correct in certain places-is an extremely important part of maturing intellectually.
@@ConvincingPeople unfortunately, this will never happen for most of the population
That really do be how it is
who did you teach it to?
watch this on psychedelics for the alt track of the pillow's commentary
Fuck, that's a good comment. Wasn't expecting it, and can't stop giggling, now. Good on ya, mate.
*"Take everything I'm saying with a grain of salt."*
Consume one youtube video and one grain of salt for psychedelic effects. Got it.
As long as it isn't a bath salt! 😆
Sorry for the necro comment. Just binging a ton of thoughtslime recently.
@@jasonetheridge2762 Surprised it took someone this long to make that joke. :P
If only it were that easy.
it took me an hour to make a pbj on acid cause i was so mesmerized by the spreads lmao
I once spent thirty minutes playing with a burrito :|
@@Afterthoughts I've done that completely sober more than once
Omfg I love that story
I spilled a 48°oz jug of water on the floor and the whole trip was me watching till it was evaporated completely.
ha I made a pb&j on my last trip too! wow. We were on the beach and there was sand everywhere and I was also very enamored by watching the peanut butter spread across the bread
Yes, I was entertained by the placement of the cat pillow, Master Slime.
I did too!
Slime is supporting the end of western civilisation.
At the risk of sounding like a filthy neoliberal, I have to wonder if Borger Slimerini would approve of such gendered nouns like "Master" or "Mistress", or maybe an as yet uncoined gender-neutral noun like "Masteress" maybe?
Though, while looking for possible unigender monikers, it occurred to me the fact that Matt is a dyed-in-the-wool anarchist would mean a rejection of such hierarchies outright... 😬
Disregard everything I just said unless the person being referenced actually voices concern.
On a tangential note, this comment (as well as the cat pillow) were very entergaging for me.
*Checks TS's pupils*
No disagreement here.
I thought it was a prop for the video. That cat is definetly at least on catnip.
LSD was the beginning of my radicalization. I sat and thought about how little sense the system here in the US made for like 4 hours. The other 2 hours I was blown away by a soda can that was "breathing"
And that's the "danger" in it according to the state.... Drugs being illegal has absolutely nothing to do with health
If Donald Trump experienced 'ego death' I think he'd vanish from reality.
All the ketamine stat!
He would probably try to kill himself, and rightly so.
@@garethmitchell7723 Ketamine is tight. Not an actual serotonergic psychedelic, but really awesome. Ket can be addictive though.
@@williamcozart9166 yeah swim had a 3 year long gram a day habit and a bit of a breakdown after coming off them they don't regret it though as learnt a lot and had to grow as a person due to it.
While this is a funny meme, as an elderscrolls fan, I don't like how this implies that trump has achieved chim. It just feels wrong as a hypothetical.
I became spinal cord disabled 17yrs ago, and connected to this, a year ago I was diagnosed with an extremely rare complex brain disorder. I have a ton of thoughts on this subject, as a result of my life and experiences, and why I think it is that our governments won't even consider legalizing psychedelics. But it basically comes down to the fact that the benefits of legalizing psychedelics would help people that society sees as "lesser" and we are ableist as FUCK. I'm a wheelchair user. I speak from long and storied experience here.
The thing that kills me, and I mean just absolutely rends my heart, is their use in end of life patients and the people who are dying RIGHT NOW without access. And yes, this is overtly personal to me - I'm sitting here with a 7yo daughter and facing deep vascular (experimental) brain surgery in the middle of a global pandemic just to stay with her a few extra years - what on fucking earth could I do with a medication that made me feel a deep sense of well-being and belonging to a greater whole that just myself?
The worst part of this is the math. "How much can I teach her about life and love and standing up for herself if I can maybe make it four more years? What if I make it ten? Can I teach her that she needs only know that she is strong and smart, and no one else needs to see those qualities in her for them to still be true?" These math problems I do every day, every night....the S.A.T.s had nothing on these. And as I am doing this, and watching myself fade away in front of this child's face, I am also fighting a government trying to take medications away from dying people based on a falsified "opioid epidemic" and keeping good, natural, highly effective compounds away from us out of......spite? Tradition? "Well, the Injuns used those, and we're the whyte mayun....."
The only good thing that came out of Joe Rogans show is that a bunch of people found Paul Stamets, who I have been a fan of for a crazy long time. He is a huge advocate for the legalization of psychedelics (specifically psilocybin and derivatives), and is an academic and mycologist based in the PNW. I HIGHLY recommend following his socials.
You are STRONG! And you speak with a "voice" I believe I recognize, and RESPECT. 💗💗💗💗🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️
As a mother, the fact that you put your daughter 1st the WAY you do, with the FOCUS and GOALS you have expressed, is just completely..... soul-fulfilling? Faith in humanity renewing? "Oh Gods, I wish I could know her and her daughter and mine could totally hang out!" inspiring?
Words are so hard sometimes!!🥵
There is a substance that is regulated in 2 states only. Kratom. Please, if you haven't already, look into it? I highly, HIGHLY recommend doing so. BEFORE it was illegal in my state, I came to know it pretty well. I was struggling as a mom, both with physical pain and emotionally. I truly do not know how I would have survived and progressed without it.
Briefly -
Red vein strains are best for pain, and can be great for sleep, also anxiety, but SLEEPY.
White vein can actually energize, with a little relief still of pain. It MAY help with anxiety etc, but try to be sure you have something to physically DO, or it may increase anxiety like caffeine can for some.
Green veins are often a good "middle" with not a lot of noticeable effects for mid-day, but overall relief of symptoms.
For daytime pain relief, some find a red/white or red/green mix works well. These can be personal ratios or something pre-mixed. Also sometimes, other mixes for other needs.
I found "K" LLLOOONNNGGGG before it was illegal ANYWHERE. The rhetoric that is out there now about it is, well, misleading and sad.
Please let me know if you have questions? I hope you have support!! You, and your DAUGHTER, truly DESERVE IT.💗💗💗🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️
Your post is heart-breaking, and I wish with every fiber of my being that people in situations like yours could have free and safe access to life-changing medicines like psilocybin. I have my own struggles, but I cannot imagine the hardships you face on a daily basis.
You might appreciate the talks of Dennis McKenna, brother of the late, great Terrence McKenna. He's the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute. It's a non-profit concerned with the potential of the therapeutic uses of psychedelics in society. I saw him give a talk about the "stoned ape theory" at a psychedelics conference at the University of Massachusetts a few years ago, and I really enjoyed it. An organization known as MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) organized the event, you might consider following their progress on various fronts or even attending one of their events when covid is over (it's really nice to be around like-minded people for a change).
I wish you the best, fellow human, and though we have never met nor will likely ever meet, know that I love you and will think about you from time to time now that I have read your post. Yes I am a shameless hippy.
@@choronos "...I am a shameless hippy."
As you SHOULD be! A "Hippy" without shame 🥰🥰🥰
Wow. I don't know what else to say but thank you and I'm so sorry.
The combination of "wheelchair user" and "storied experience" made me picture you sitting at the foot of some stairs, with no ramp or elevator. >.
It's almost as if we should have heavily trained and knowledgeable people who could discuss with you the pros and cons of any drug use before administering it in a safe environment and-- oh, doctors. They're called doctors. If only half the world utilised them to be actual care practitioners and not part of the capitalist system.
Doctors did a real bang up job when prescribing opiates. Right? If they get a financial incentive for prescribing something they will follow that incentive.
@@Baelor-Breakspear That is indeed my point, yeah.
“The chemical reaction that first produced life never stopped. It’s still going. That’s what you are. That’s what you’ve always been.”
makes me feel like such a square that I had that revelation in an intro to biology class, instead of by doing drugs like all the cool kids :P
the Muppets are really good tho right
Always has been
*read that with an astronaut accent*
As natural history enthusiast this line makes me really happy.
Hot take: caffeine has always been legal and never regulated because its consumption is thought to promote productivity.
I have two young children and I am always very clear that caffeine is a drug. I want them to understand that drugs come in many forms, and it is best to fully understand the drug and side effects before engaging with them. I also try to make sure to impress upon them that being fully developed physically is best before using any drugs.
Well it doesn’t have any real negative effects unless you take a lot of it.
true but also, i'm so thankful for it bc it rly helps with my ADHD lmao. if they regulated it like other, more intense stimulants, i honestly probably would not be alive bc it turns out having to constantly fight your brain to do the barest minimum on something literally anybody else can do without problem makes you feel REAL bad all the time haha
@@sirrivet9557 I actually found that it made me super anxious and exacerbated my ADHD. Quitting had the same effect as taking anti-anxiety drugs, which is more than enough for me to consider it a drug.
Obvs not everyone's experience but drugs work differently for different people.
@@sirrivet9557 I mean, that's the point of most drugs expect for the hardest
Psychedelics have never killed any of my friends, unlike heroin and alcohol
When I was a teen a friend of mine was shot in the head because of coke money.
A friend of mine left everything to live in the streets because she was addicted to crack
A couple of friend entered a car crash and the girl died, they were drunk
I was already an adult and appart from my drug friends but one of those got in a bike and crashed into a tree, splashing his brains on a church door. He was drunk and on coke.
The only thing lsd did bad for me or my friends was make one poor friend of mine leave their water running because she like the sound. And i puked one time because the pizza tasted shity
Also sex is shitty on psilocipbin
Alcohol in particular. Holy shit, how is that legal while psychedelics aren't
@@cedricappleby2006 I have a friend who just came back from the absolute brink of alcoholism. He stared right into the heart of the abyss and flinched. Nearly lost it all - and when hes trying to raise a daughter who's 3 now and planning to marry her mother. He had gotten to that horrible, horrible point where he'd been drinking so hard so much for so long that it had absolutely SAVAGED his liver, and the alcoholism had taken a firm, DEEP root within him. So continuing to drink was raping his already fucked liver more and more, and on several occasions caused him to suffer a stroke (or maybe it was merely a severe seizure). However at the same time, NOT drinking caused him to suffer MASSIVE and SEVERE alcohol withdrawal symptoms that absolutely raped the fuck out of his already fucked liver and on several occasions caused him to suffer a stroke (or maybe it was merely severe seizure).
So there was literally no option. Drinking was causing MASSIVE damage to his liver & body and causing him to suffer strokes/siezures, while NOT drinking was causing him to suffer MASSIVE withdrawal symptoms that caused equally MASSIVE damage to his liver & body and caused him to suffer equally strokes/siezures. No way out, both options had the same result, may as well take the one where you get to be drunk too right?
Fortunately he manned up and got the professional help he desperately needed and spent 2 months in intensive detox kicking the addition while medical professionals made sure that the withdrawals didn't literally kill him. Now he's all clean, staying far away from the bottle, reunited with his fiancé and daughter and taking back his life. And he managed to do it all without becoming one of those hilariously weak-willed, preachy douchebag Christian 10-step cunts. He doesn't go around preaching the virtues of rehab & sober living and never shutting the fuck up about it like these people who wind up making the fact that they're former addicts who went to rehab the friggin _cornerstone_ of their entire personalities.
No, he's just the same ol' pal of mine...only finally sobered up, incredibly healthy both physically & mentally, and ready to take control of his life back and I'm so gosh-diddly-dang darn-doodly-oodly proud of the old boy.
Many others are nowhere near as lucky....fuck alcohol.
@@dildonius why is it necessary to refer to the effects of alcohol on your friend's liver as "raping" it? there are plenty of equally impactful verbs that don't boast sexual assault as a definition
@@dildonius anyway, glad to hear your buddy is okay
most entergaging pillow, thank you
"Were you entertained by the cat pillow?"
Yes
Mushroom nerd detail:
The mushrooms in the thumbnail are not at all psychedelic. They are Boletes, most probably Boletus edulis (commonly known as Porcini or Cepes) or a related species.
additional mushroom nerd detail: mushrooms can be fused together at early stages, so you could actually make a porcini psilocybe. (you wouldn't be able to cook it, though, because the psilocybin will denature)
I bet you're fun at parties. Not in the mean, sarcastic way that most people on the internet say it, but genuinely, this was a thing I enjoyed learning, and I think it would be a legit joy to meet and be talked at by a self-proclaimed mushroom nerd at a party =]
H coralloides? That's an interesting pick. I'm a huge fan of amanitas. (Not just A. Muscaria and not to do. I'm more of a cubensis fan. I love my gold caps.) What do you like/find interesting about H. Coralloides?
It´s being so long since I saw this mushrooms irl... by that I mean whole week.
OMG, like, I knoooow, riiiight? I was totally thinking those looked weird there. I'm so new to mycomania and have much to learn, but so glad to read your comment. MYCONERDS, UNITE AND TAKE OVER! :)
The slime in "Thought Slime" was psilocybin all along
Sillycybin?
Maybe the real psilocybin was the friends we made along the way
brandon lever Now that’s some slime for thought!
Slime doses give that euphoric feeling
Like the way LIYY
"Where are we going, Mushrooms?"
*zoom in*
"You'll see."
👀 is this how one accesses the Eyeball Zone? 👀
…that makes so much sense.
The eyeball zone is a goddamn good name for a song
I definitely think they should be legal, but as someone with severe anxiety, prone to panic attacks and persistent intrusive thoughts, I am very afraid to try them myself.
completely valid. something to remember is that you don't have to trip. microdosing is a wonderful way to experience the effects without noticeable psychoactive experiences and you can always add more to your dose each time you take it until you're officially tripping. one main factor is that the come up can be a bit scary like reaching the top of a roller coaster, even if experienced.
Set and setting, and an experienced trip sitter could help you if you want to go down the road.
I feel you on the anxiety, but I really do want to try psychedelics. 😅
Small doses first
Kathryn Gates i rarely trip with other people anymore. i find i have way more fun when alone. i also have social anxiety and feel i can’t be my true weird self and do everything i want when i trip with others. i feel obligated to not allow my emotions to take over, even tho sometimes you need full emotional breakthrus.
@@AlexisTwoLastNames Good to hear! :) I'll have to put some "me" time on the calendar. xD
"It's at once frivolous and profound, and it vascilates between those two extremes so fast that you can barely tell the difference"
Me: Wait, is he talking about Acid or The Muppets?
loving the cat pillow. All Cats Are Beautiful
A C A B 🐱
Cats are reptiles in the guise of a mammal. They are the pets of the Reptilian people.
@@JanetStarChild cat is smol.
uwu
*most, hairless cats exist
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This video feels like he's going into the Eyeball Zone for 20 minutes.
It's all the eyeball zone, all the time.
@@grmpEqweer wait, it's all the eyeball zone?
The Jovian It always was
The eyeballs were dmt entities this whole time
Allegedly that's what taking psychedelics is like, but for something mor elike 4-8 hours
;]
"I'm not a doctor, I'm a guy who likes drugs."
Sometimes the more trustworthy option, honestly.
Only sometimes. Just because you can't always trust the PERSON who has experience, that doesn't mean that experience isn't better than the lack of.
ThisIsMyRealName 911 is also emergency medical services.
@ThisIsMyRealName What does that asterisk after the word sociopath denote? Usually that is done to add a note.
@ThisIsMyRealName This is one of the reasons I always have benzos whenever I'm in a place where I expect people are tripping.
@ThisIsMyRealName Isn't 911 _all_ emergency services? If my friend had a bad trip, I'd certainly call for an ambulance.
Before I tried it for the first time, my friends told me “LSD isn’t magic. It will just amplify whatever is already inside of you” and in my personal experience, they were right. It was amazing the first time. One of the best days of my life. I will never forget that day, nor what I felt, discovered and learned.
what did you learn, if you dont mind me asking?
the green and purple sewer speaks to my soul, but the cat pillow was something fresh to observe and ponder
When i was a kid i had a really hard time in school and got to a point where i was failing every subject because i found it all boring. At 15 i tired lsd for the first time. I noticed the empty vacuum that was my brain and found my self hungry to know everything ever. Looking at the world made me want to know how every little thing worked. Those effects didn't stop after the lsd ran out. My grades become bs and As subjects i hated became fascinating. I was able to sit still and focus. To this day leaning and critical thinking are supreme and i owe it all to not listening to the man
Dang, is that too young? But I'm glad it helped you unlock your brain, there's nothing more fun for me than having an infinite desire to know, though I haven't tried any psychedelics yet.
It probably was too young but i had a troubled childhood and started doing a lot of things too young.😅
I used a lot of psychedelics in my late teens-early 20s, it helped me no end. Didn't touch anything like that for a few years just because I didn't feel the need to and they weren't easily available anyway, and I definitely felt a lot of those effects fade over time. A few years later, I had an emergency surgery and ended up on strong painkillers for a few years. I had to do the whole taper and kick to get off them after a while, and I felt like my brain was just missing something, even months afterwards. Opiates change your brain man, and I didn't like it. Took some LSD hoping to 'reset' after all that time. One trip. Just one day on acid. And I felt like I understood myself and my mind and my life more than I had in years. My psychiatrist wanted me on benzos and anti anxiety meds and all kinds of things, but I didn't want to be on meds I had to take every day and face down withdrawals if I stopped (or 'discontinuation syndrome' as they're called when it's psych meds). Haven't had to take any of them for months now after that trip.
The placement of that pillow was a psychedelic masterpiece.
just sitting there, radiating love, with an ever so soft blue and pink aura (from the lighting but still)
it even looks alluringly fuzzy, as though its made of some sort of velvety material... yeah, the imaginary version of thought slime that has tried psychedelics knew what he was doin'...
"Remember kids: Only take what you can handle, and always know your dealer."
Thanks bob and David :)
My garden is my dealer
i declare this pizza to be awesome
@@yetthesunstillshines
you win.
"But there's people on the other end."
"They'll KNOW!"
"They'll know we want a pizza!"
fff, i have adhd, an unquenchable curiosity and am easily enthralled with small things. i have little micro episodes like what matt tried to explain this stuff to do while completely sober and now i am kind of concerned that there are people who might not actually ever feel this way
If you mean the part starting with “being amazed by its pigeonness”, hard same. When I was just 6 or 7 and finding some buddhist principles about enlightenment and interconnectedness I was like “well duh, is that it?” and all the grownups insisted I haven’t experienced the True experience because even they haven’t, but lately I wonder if I was just… that much closer to it than any of them already and didn’t need as far of a journey?
Me too! I have ADHD, I once spent a half hour (sober) staring at a patch of lichen, and I'm a big fan of The Muppets.
I honestly don't know what psychedelics would do to my weird brain.
Fun fact, Jim Henson of Muppets fame once took acid, and saw literally no result. Another Muppet performer (I think it was Frank Oz?) remarked that Jim's brain must be too weird and creative already for psychedelics to work on him.
"I put a cat pillow to entertain you"
Don't you mean... entergage? He even looks like Garfield.
E N T E R G A G E M E N T / W / G A R F P E E L S
at my current place in life im straightedge-not because i want to demonize drugs or alcohol without thought, but bc of trauma , and... man. it's frustrating to see people using experiences like mine as an example of 'drug bad' 'alcohol bad' despite not consulting me and others on what was really the cause of harm in the situation. this was a rad video.
also yes i did enjoy the cat pillow. w i d e boi
Psychedelics does wonders for those with treatment resistant depression. After 9 years of getting tossed around in the system, with no real help, a friend of mine tried psychedelics and I for the first time sinced we were kids heard him utter the words "I think I have hope now". I have personally looked at myself in the mirror, crying and smiling because for the first time in my life I truly felt in my heart that I was worthy of love. (hypothetically, of course)
Man I started to cry while reading this comment, been there too
Well, guess what? You’re worthy of love
No lie whatsoever, that pillow was so optimally placed that I was actually focusing on it the majority of this video the same way I might focus on an innocuous pillow while on psychedelics.
You are an artist, my good fellow, an artist.
I totally agree with this!
"Here's a pillow to keep you entertained."
Me the whole video: 😺👀
My brother killed himself nearly two years ago. I was very close to him and I considered him my other half. His loss destroyed me.
I tripped on acid and MDMA with a sister. After two long years of feeling dead, feeling alone and broken, feeling hopeless and terrified, I felt like I reconnected with my brother. I felt whole again. Even after the experience, I started to rebuild my hope for life. I felt like I could live again.
Hypothetically, of course
Few tips on mushrooms:
- DO NOT eat more than 2g of dried ones(2,5g if they are stored for over half a year) for the first time. I'm talking abaut Cubensis here. Azurescens in that dose would be way too strong in my opinion.
- Shred them into small pieces and soak in water or eat with instant ramen to almost completely eliminate nausea.
- Do not eat something tham can give you stomach pain on trip cause it will make you feel really terrible. Some fruits should be okay.
- Have a bottle of water on hand.
- Dark room and music is a nice setting. But tripping and walking between fields of barley and meadows full of flowers in the middle of a day is amazing if noone bothers you.
That's a small dose, when I was still tripping, I was doing a 7g
So here's a totally fictional account of me hypothetically taking ~8 dried grams of mushrooms at once (which is a thing I do not recommend):
I sat outside with a few friends of mine, talking about random BS for about 35+ min. They went in, I stayed out and had a smoke, watching a large moth on the wall.. a dog barked next door, but for the briefest of moments I thought it was the moth.. and so it began.
Went back in to watch friends play some trippy indie interactive sound game for a while.. they asked how I was feeling, and I began calmly and very candidly in a stream of consciousness, to relate it all very much like an Elcor ambassador from Mass Effect 2. (Clearly state emotion, intent, and frame of mind, then express thought.)
There was about a 15 minutes where I could tell the future, precisely like in Donnie Darko, where I could intuit the actions and motivations of others before they transpired.. and I was acutely aware that whatever presence, posture, and emotion you exude in your environment, directly affects the subconscious actions and mannerisms of others within that environment.. the tiniest expression at the right time, manipulates the foundation and basis for future events.
My friends then put on, "Little Shop of Horrors," which I Sincerely wish they hadn't. For some reason, about a third of the way through the movie, I got this sense that I'd somehow repressed a thought of accidentally killing someone.. which was absolutely never the case.. but I climbed wayyyy into the back of my mind to chase that thought, and wound up catatonic for about an hour. I lost all track of time and reality, and began to think of my whole life as a movie; for the first time I was from the perspective of the projector operator.. looking frame by frame through my history. I remember thinking it was very sweet of the 'actors who were my family' to keep up the charade, even though clearly they must have known 'none of it was real, even though I didn't know that.' Essentially, Truman Show-ing myself in my disassociated imagination.
Regaining the slightest bit of lucidity, and seeing that my consciousness was stuck in some void outside of time and space, and I'd been silently staring agape on the couch for an indeterminate amount of Way too long... I realized I was still holding a cup of water from earlier.. and in a triumphant act of human defiance against the cosmos, splashed myself in the face to 'wake back up.'
The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful by comparison. All in all, that was entirely too much to take all at once. I went overboard because in past (totally fictional) experiences with mushrooms, I hadn't taken enough to really notice anything.. and sorely over-corrected as a result. If that sounded entertaining to some of you out there, I learned that night just how close the human mind is from slipping for good. We are terrifyingly fragile creatures, and it is only by our brain's own gracious virtue of operational ignorance, that we do not generally know that.
@@post-leftluddite 2-2,5g gives extremely pleasurable experience full of visuals and you can actually do basic stuff while on it.
7g would make most people suicidal. Unless you are tripping every weekend and smaller doses basically do nothing to you.
@@nunyabidnis3815 that’s fascinating, back before I was medicated for psychosis I had very similar experiences about going over my life and thinking it was all fake. I was also convinced the floor was a hologram that I’d fall through if I tried to step on it. For years I’ve recognised that my brain gave me a really unpleasant time but I had never thought of it as “close to slipping away for good”… so that perspective is making me recontextualise some things. Maybe I’m stronger than I thought.
@@kaitlyn__L "Maybe I’m stronger than I thought." True.
I wonder how else I may have worded that with a different perspective in mind. That experience may have given me some insight into psychosis, in that, it's really not even a big change; it's just a little change in the mind in just the right places, with some very big results.
Like when I learned that schizophrenia is effectively just one or two microscopic differences in the brain that cause conflict with where dopamine goes, and how a few receptors develop. The end result of which being registering everything (sometimes massively) different.
I had to start taking anti-psychotics at one point in my life (probably still should, but US prescription costs made me stop.) As many people are, I was hesitant to take them, wondering what effect they could have on me in the big picture. Would they change my reasoning, personality, etc.? My brother had some helpful words: "If there is a drastic unwelcome change, you bring that up to your healthcare provider. If not, think of it like steering a ship across the ocean... If your steering is off by even 2 degrees, you could wind up in a completely different country when you arrive. If something can help to course correct those minor differences from becoming big set backs, it's worth seeing if they'll work."
As for the events in my post, I was struck with how few differences I could recognize _at the time_ between my standard base line thinking, and an induced disassociative, delerious, catatonia. I'd like to think I can empathize more closely with people experiencing, at least some forms, of psychosis. There may be some interference in the signal, but they're very much still just people, just a degree or two off from where I may find myself.
Thanks for the response, and I wish you all the love and support in your health care.
"And that's why I put this cat pillow here,to entertain you." lmao buddy, I've been staring at that this whole time.
I’m Native American, and one of the things for us is peyote. It’s a little cactus button that provides most of the exact same benefits as LSD, and it’s considered especially sacred in our culture. It’s also considered a schedule one drug and was only legalized for us to use in religious ceremonies (and only then) in fucking 1990. In a country that was supposedly founded on religious freedom, the people that were here first had not been allowed to fully practice their religion until thirty years ago. It really makes me upset to think about. (Also, it was only decriminalized one a couple of major cities last year. So there’s that.)
The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal, yet the men who wrote that OWNED SLAVES. My point is that “religious freedom” only applies to the people in power and their race/social/economic group. Oh you’re an ethnic minority that has no representation in government? well then your religion doesn’t count.
"Fuck the red skins"
-The US govt always
Fun fact: a native friend of mine in the military found out that they never really bothered to make the military’s policy clear so as long as you’re a member of the right native church, the way the instruction is written you can basically take it all the time unless you’re standing duty in 24 hours.
Here in Oregon we've actually managed to get legalized psilocybin for therapeutic use on the ballot for Nov. 2020! So excited to be able to vote for legal and safe access to mushrooms in my life time! I work with hospice patients and have read numerous studies on the benefits of psychedelics for those dealing with terminal illness and can't wait to see how many people we can help with this!
yup that was great! im in oregon too, its pretty cool
That is not enough
In my first neuroscience class in college (where I majored in it) one of the profs was an expert in psychedelics and he spent the first 10 minutes of his first lecture was about how safe LSD was and how it should be legalized and everyone should take it. I mean, it was the early 90s and not now, but still.
Bro, this professor was promoting it in the 90’s?! That professor was hella ahead of his time given the war on drugs was at its peak in the 80’s and 90’s.
@@staticaleel5068 I'm pretty sure he'd been giving that same spiel to students since at least the 70s. The dude was in the field when the invented it. :)
Taking shrooms is the most I’ve ever felt perfectly comfortable in my own body. It really started to make me understand my gender and significantly made me see the feminine parts of my body and makes body dysphoria. If you’re trans and are in an okay state mentally and want to go on a journey about gender, I would recommend 100%. Just make sure your okay and body dysphoria isn’t too bad before you take them.
Ego death... I remember the first time I experienced it on mushrooms, that inner monologue completely disappeared, I felt completely as one psychologically, as opposed to being "pulled" between the past, present, and future at every given moment, and all doubts, all lack of self esteem had completely evaporated... I know it sounds corny, and I'm not a new age, hippie type at all (identify as a Post-Left Anarcho-Primitivist), but I truly felt as one, a whole being, completely engaged in the moment and completely fulfilled with it, imething I've always had difficulty with, and because all doubts had disappeared within me, I felt completely capable of effortless love and empathy for all people and beings (speciesism is a far too ignored hierarchy), whether I knew them personally or not. That batch of mushrooms was intense...
A few years later I was reminiscing about that batch with a friend of mine who had taken them as well with some of his friend and I had remarked:
"Those mushrooms changed my life man", to which he replied, "Those mushrooms changed A LOT of people's lives" haha
It warms my heart to read your story of healing, fellow human
actually...for me it's a bit different.
Gender makes no sense for me when I'm on LSD.
After I tried LSD for the first time, a few months after my Outing, it really made me unsure again for a few days
make sure *you're* okay
Unless you don’t have dysphoria, then go full steam ahead with the rules for everybody
the pillow entergaged me
also i loved "when the only tool you have is a state, everything starts to look like a crime" i wanna use that regularly
"when your only tool is the state, everything starts to look like a crime"... damn
Hey Thought Slime! As a harm reduction and substance use researcher, I just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I really do think we need more people speaking out about the potential benefits of psychedelics as well as the general decriminalization of drugs generally. Your video on the topic was really well done and argued. However, I do have one thing I want to point out: generally we're trying to shy away from the term "abuse" when it comes to drug use, and instead opt for "[insert drug here] use dependence," or "misuse" (in the case of a prescription drug being used outside of the prescription). Personally, I think using those terms is less stigmatizing and should be adopted more broadly. Not trying to call you out here, just wanted to be informative.
Side note: try (in your fictional universe) sub-anesthetic doses of Ketamine, if you haven't (in your fictional universe) tried that already.
Viewer feedback: That cat pillow is hella entertaining.
Cat Pillow: I’ve been undercover pawlice this entire time, you’re under arrest.
All Cats Are Billows
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
-Bill Hicks
For a long time I thought that was the Tool guy, because it was on their song and I hadn't heard Bill Hicks yet.
@@williamcozart9166 There was a big picture of Bill Hicks captioned 'another dead hero' in the original cover art of the album when it was released on CD. It was part of a fancy lenticular jewel case that was made specially for the album, though, and it had different, cheaper artwork in some later versions.
Dude, you gotta play miniature golf!
@@chrisball3778 Hahaha yeeeeaahh. Fuckin' Tool.
@transylvanian Have to agree. Sure psychedelics make you more open minded and such but I have never thought that what I am experiencing is fact. I have seen mini UFO's landing on my coffee table while tripping but even while high, I knew it was the drugs effects. I think it can be good for your mind to safely trip once in awhile but once you start taking it's effects as fact, that's when you should consider laying off it for awhile.
I nearly cried when I saw you’re advocating for psychedelics. Thank you.
I was a really angry kid, and I think a big reason I became an anarchist instead of a nazi (or killing myself) is because of the healing that LSD helped open me up to.
I had a few bad trips because I was a reckless person. I didn’t have a bad trip whenever I took the preceding day to emotionally prepare, and when I was around folks I trusted.
Some of the trips that were very difficult or intense are where I made important breakthroughs.
I wasted a lot of time doing drugs as a young person, but I do NOT regret taking psychedelics; they were NOT a waste of time.
The literal worst thing that's ever happened to me while tripping is being forced to process some unresolved trauma at a less than convenient time.
Meanwhile, I don't have enough space to write out all the awful things that have happened to me while being drunk, on a perfectly legal drug.
I did a grade 8 science class presentation about how LSD and psychedelics aren't as dangerous as they are framed as being. Seems like I was ahead of the game on this one, but really it just shows how easy it is to find out that psychedelics are being wrongfully prohibited, even for an EIGHTH GRADER
"when the only tool you have is the state, everything starts to look like a crime" love that quote
Also, I really like the look of this video. Its just nice and pleasant to look at!
It would be nice if we rescheduled or entirely legalized them with a legal framework for free therapeutic use with a trained psychologist sitter.
Especially for people with terminal illnesses, they should be legalized. Perhaps, if you agree, they could even have access to free sessions to potentially remove their fear of death.
I don't think I would trust a psychologist to be a sitter.
I mean this seems kind of obvious.
We brought back FREAKIN ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY (now called Electroconvulsive therapy) because doctors understood that under certain conditions and by trained professionals ECT can have therapeutic effects.
There is little reason why psychedelics can't be the same.
Yes, but not only this context
I have 3 very distinct visuals I remember when I took mushrooms(these all happened at different instances, not all during the same trip)
1 - I went to go break up some weed, and one of the buds looked like it grew legs(like bug legs, not human legs) and skittered across the table top.
2 - I was lying in my bed looking at a doorway and the green carpet in the other room started to grow into my room like grass, and grew up around the door way like a moss covered entrance.
3 - I was standing out back on a friends patio, smoking a cigarette(I don't smoke any more, it's bad for you), and watching the moon move through the trees was a surreal, Tim Burton-esque look to the tree tops. Think Nightmare Before Christmas, black trees backlit by white moonlight. It was... well trippy. Literally.
I ain't ever see anything like your first described visual on Psychedelics. Thank God. Though I sure as shit have on deliriants.
I've wanted to take lsd for years, and more than ever the last few months. Unfortunately I'm such a dweeb I have no idea how to go about buying, making or testing it, so will probably just continue to think about it wistfully until I die
If you're Canadian, there seem to be several reliable psychedelic dispensaries online. Discrete and discreet!
I've watched this while tripping to calm myself out of a bad trip and it worked
Going to the grocery store to buy "research chemicals" cola for my brain zone
o7
2cb and 4homet is like religous.... Sunrise and sunset with friends by campfire
Crying because the government doesn’t want me to be happy and it’s working
for real. i gotta be happy to spite those fuckers.
LSD is like the sunglasses in "They Live".
Real shit eyes wide open after that.
I came to chew bubblegum and build class solidarity and …
Great analogy.
@@db8658 thanks. How many trips have you taken?
The pillow was very entertaining, it was the fake triper you definitely have never been.
genuinely? I enjoy the couch more than the sewer. this is a far more enjoyable vibe.
I also enjoy the background music. suggested something to that effect a while back
"Any time I tell a story about me taking a drug that's illegal, that's just a short story I'm writing out loud about a hypothetical version of myself that has broken the law."
That was a really long way of saying "SWIM"
Swim?
@@clairegreen6998 Someone Who Isn't Me
I'm familiar with SWIM and I thought it was more amusing the way he said it.
I've heard of this swim person it seems like they've done everything.
@@kes6541 haha im not criticising i was just trying to make a funny
"Allowing it's engineers to convert more and more calories into JavaScript"
Awesome line! 17:48
Methamp is the tool with which I convert my stored lipids into mathematics.
@@merbst Save some mathematical discoveries for the rest of us, Erdős.
*methematical
But what if I _want_ to convert calories into javascript and feel a unique sense of pleasure and content from doing so?
@@sirius1696 if it brings you pleasure and not for the ruling class, then I'd call that praxis!
Meditation is another liberatory practice that has been commodified along the same lines as microdosing. "Converting calories into JavaScript" is why i switched careers from tech to art.
I don't get it, can you explain pls
@@inigo137 what specifically don't you understand?
@@leam1978 I don't understand what the expression means, I've never heard it before till this video
@@inigo137 it's an extremely dense critique of programmers wasting the most productive years of their lives as exploited commodities of advertising companies, not creating anything meaningful, and the ennui that results. many programmers joined the field to solve important computer problems, and are left with the constant capitalist churn of one tech ad company after another.
as an artist, i don't make much money, but at least i have a sense of permanence to my work and i create for myself.
@@leam1978 oh, ty, that was very insightful
Here's the thing about transcendent experiences, whether augmented through these substances or not: Their value can only be measured in how much they illuminate the place you already are.
A mountaintop experience, as wonderful and ecstatic as that can be, will not necessarily be something that changes a person's life forever - much less change it for the better. For instance, the one time I've done shrooms (so far), it was so intense that there wasn't really a lasting effect from the experience. It was wonderful to spend NYE getting my consciousness blasted apart and then reassembled in a way that I felt like I was a wide eyed six year old again, but eventually I came down and my perception of life was essentially the same. Or think of how people can have experiences that end up totally undoing their trust in reality and only produce anxiety. And finally, those who ironically use the experience of ego death to deem themselves "enlightened" and boost their ego, objectifying the experience itself without contextualizing it. (i.e. Timothy Leary and Joe Rogan). You can see some of the same mentality in a lot of Western practitioners of Eastern meditative practices.
Transcendent consciousness is ultimately no more or less valid than sobriety. One illuminates the other - sobriety grounds transcendence in the context of your everyday life, and transcendence helps to illuminate sobriety past the mundane, keeping us open to the magic hidden in every moment. I had a wonderful experience on weed back in January where my perception of time slowed to the point that I perceived the universe of possibility in every moment. Compared to my shrooms trip, that kind of illumination stayed with me. So what the world needs is not merely to remember that these substances can be great teachers, but that teachers alone are not enough. We need to reconnect with the present moment, ourselves, our fellow human and all our non-human kin (from which we have exiled ourselves since the Western mind deemed them to be without intelligence or spirit), and this whole wonderful universe. Psychedelics are A tool, not THE tool to achieve that.
Transcendence can be cheap. True enlightenment never is. It's a process, not an event.
100%!
Some really beautiful descriptions in this video. Thanks Slime
The cat pillow: it waters my crops, and gives me life
The cat pillow did entertain me. Thank you 🐱
I just took every drug ThoughtSlime mentioned with a grain of salt. Now my arms are stripey noodles and my mouth is imperceptibly salty.
this fictional matthew slime guy sounds lit asf
The pillow was deeply entertaining, and a little unsettling
I think the time is ripe for a "Thought Slime Psychedelic Guided Experience" series of tapes.
you describing psychedelics: what if there was a pill that could allow you to feel more deeply, unlock truths within yourself, cure depression...
me dropping acid: *hehe world go wibble wobble*
Anyway, psilocybin grows wild in front of my local police stations
Hahaha, that's kind of common I hear. The cops bring the hippies in and they're covered in mushroom spores, and they end up spreading them. The cops think they're helping stop mushrooms from existing but they're actually helping them reproduce!
The pillow would be particularly entertaining on Psychedelics...it's also a fictional version of me who knows that.
"The most oft repeated phrase in history is: 'Why can't anybody stop these white people?'"
-I said this while doing mushrooms and ketamine
Sports psychology says red white black and blue are the easiest colors to distinguish teams, so increase team coordination.
Why was the cat pillow talking the entire time?
He was talking about the space between us all, and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion.
The entertaining pillow looks like a friendly guide you’d meet during a trip ;)
It’s really weird for me to just realize this, cuz my dad has been telling me psychedelics are cool for years.
I found your placement of the cat pillow very entertaining Mr Matthew Slime.
Congratulations to Oregon for legalizing mushrooms in a clinical setting! They also managed to decriminalize possession of "small amounts" of all the most popular drugs. Although some politician apparently set the limits pretty sensibly for everything else and then said oh yeah 40 hits of acid? you're fine here's your ticket. 40 hits, you know something you totally go through in a weekend. Yup.
The lightning of this video is so visually pleasing and nice
Agreed!! 😍
Just when I thought I couldn't like you more...
😂 Couldn't have said it better myself! It all makes sense now! I've always appreciated Matt's breadth of thought, knowledge, & perspective on such a variety of topics, & now I know! As a person who also uses drugs, & who also believes psychedelics have massive potential to be beneficial, a belief we both seem to have drawn from our own lived experiences, which is awesome. Love your work, Matt. 💛
(I too prefer LSD, BTW.)
Tripping or not, I'm already transfixed by pigeons, but aside from that, your description was spot-on... the potential for transformative, revolutionary thought & connection is definitely present, if people experience substance use & the transformative understanding it often brings. I refer to it as cleaning the dust off my third eye, & feel far more sane, level-headed, & energetic after tripping. I can't believe you didn't talk about the sensory aspects of experimenting with psychedelics, & the fact that, in a safe, sane, trusting, & consensual setting, they can be employed in a sexual context to connect on a whole new plain of existence... highly recommended, if people are engaging in their own psychonautical adventures... 😉resting psychedelic-related video too
I've just watched this after I'd watched about 6 hours of Dr Gabor Maté videos, most of which were about addiction, & how it's inherently linked with things like trauma, adverse childhood experiences, attachment issues, relationships, etc. - good, but heavy, stuff... this was the perfect segue back into the realm of recreational UA-cam viewing... thanks!
Uh oh... Do I smell a parasocial relationship?
I kinda would've liked to hear more about ancient cultures using psychedelics. Totally cool vid, otherwise!
Here in Brasil we have ayahuaska that is made from a mix of roots and herbs (that only the shamans of the indigenous cultures really know how to do) and it makes your brain release DMD naturaly. There is a episode of mindfield where Michael takes it. My fictional friend tryed it and its like if your soul gets out of your body and reunites with the universe.
In all honesty? The perspective exists that our evolution happened symbiotically with various other species.
The cactus "peyote" shows itself unique among such symbiotes for being left to grow in nature, undisturbed by human intervention, and in just its original habitat.
But the mushroom, psilocybin? Has evolved to such a point where a *very* small subset of the fungus can live within its indigenous habitat of Southern Mexico.
Amanita Muscara was the favored fungus of Europe. Yes, the "Mario Mushroom". However, due to a measure of actual toxicity and very real potential for Kidney/Brain damage? This artifact of Norse Viking spirituality has been forgotten. (Well... That and a Euro-Christian sentiment that viewed indigenous folk medicine as "witchcraft" even on their own continent.)
Absynthe? Is extremely overhyped in its modern form. But! Take that Amanita, a couple different forms of wormwood (which is associated with "witchcraft" for the LSA inside, a chemical precursor to LSD with similar, if reportedly more muted effects), herbs for flavor, and then ferment and distill that mix?
BAM, absynthe. Too bad today's stuff has taken indecent liberties with the flavor herbs/spices, or we'd have something.
Using the fermentation to both extract and make the volatile organic compounds we *want* more available, while simulaneously and mysteriously breaking down the volatile organic compounds we might rightly describe as "poison" was a stroke of pre-literacy human genious.
If you *really* want that kind of exploration into each substance's indigenous context? The show "Hamilton's Pharmacopea" is for you. In addition to showing this guy Hamilton do... Stuff. And... things.
It started as a youtube show, but got picked up by vice for production and distribution. Yar matey, there's a good following.
Never point your computer into the glory hole of internet autonomous freedom without a "fed condom" called a VPN!
One of my favorite theories about psychedelics was that ancient Greeks (and later, Romans) had a psychedelic ceremony of their own. Greek texts contain multiple references to the "Eleusenian mysteries," a religious ceremony involving a beverage that some modern scholars believe contained psychedelic compounds.
This may be conjecture, but I think it's pretty cool.
@ThisIsMyRealName oh, that is what they told my fictious friend when he took it. Maybe he was mistaken. Hahaha
@@BrunoM19T11 my father tried that once in a monastery (and said “there is no me, only us, that’s why we need to be good to each other” on it) and came out of it fully lefty (he was centre-left before).
Nice pillow. Happy Cat Day, btw.
I... don't really have personal drug experiences. Hell, I'm mildly terrified of the *legal* psychiatric drugs I apparently need to barely function as a vaguely independent conscious creature but occasionally think they're holding me back somehow so I don't take one dose and then fall apart.
But I find it... entertaining if now obvious that the people I knew in high school who didn't shy away from drugs were also the ones who knew exactly what said drugs would do to them, how to be safe with them and avoided contaminated drugs like the plague. And that they were in all kinds of ways better-adjusted human beings.
I didn't think I could adore you anymore. You are a wonderful human.
Mushrooms absolutely changed my life. The second time I ever took them I accidentally took twice as much as I thought I was at a GWAR concert, everyone at the concert turned into different fantasy races, and my depression evaporated so completely by the next morning that other people were genuinely shocked by how happy and well adjusted I seemed compared to only the day before. That probably lasted three months before it started to taper off.
Similar experience with my first k-hole. Went through total ego death, and my severe depression didn't return for a whole three months. I wish people were more accepting of the idea of moderate use for this reason. It's far more efficient and enjoyable to trip every three months than take anti-depressants every day for the rest of my life (which blunt the good with the bad).
"when the only tool you have is the State everything starts to look like a crime"
Damn, love that line
My favorite thing about the pillow was the part when it was shaped like a cat
Too true.
The video was beautiful, and made my heart smile. The pillow was unsettling.
I remember on my first trip I was disappointed with how *not* magical it was, at first. I expected reality to dissapear, but instead it just changed it. And since then I've carried a dual understanding that the world is both mundane and mystical at all times. I don't think anyone should jump into psychedelics blindly, but I do believe everyone should try them once.
The cat pillow is highly entertaining, thank you for it.
Punishing people because they might be hurting themselves is legally illogical.
Well, yes, but not morally. It's one way to prevent self destructive behaviour. However, there are better ways
It's like a weird kink thing for the state
And the state said unto him: "Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself." But lo he could not. For the state was hitting him with his own hands.
@@proskub5039 good point
Drugs scare me because I 'm scared of losing control and being overwhelmed by emotions/experiences. Your description gave me mild anxiety. But I agree, they should probably be legalized.
Edit: also, that's a beautiful cat but all cats are beautiful, as we well know
See, this is your problem. You're too scared to live life when really you should be scared of not living it
That's part of why TS encouraged research and being in the right place: mood, people, environment, having a sense of what to expect. These are your safeguards. The maps, guides, and constellations to help you if you do happen to get lost a bit.
@@jasonrhome710 I already get overwhelmed with Yoga and meditation, I really don't think that I could handle any substances 🤣
@@imaginareality Ah, yeah, that would be a good indicator to probably not then. Good on you for understanding yourself. (Outside of drinking too much, which tends to be the opposite experience of what was described here, there was an experience I had with too much herbal supplement. That suuuucked, so I get the concern with something that would also tap more deeply into the imaginative aspects of perception.)
acab (all cats are beautiful)
This video is criminally underwatched
Next week, Mathew Slime on the Joe Rogan Podcast talking about machine elves.