An experience by fearless-turtle
⚠️ Not tested (reagen or lab)
Feeling that it would be difficult to communicate your own experience to others who have not had similar experiences.
Freedom from the limitations of your personal self and feeling a unity or bond with what was felt to be greater than your personal self.
Experience of pure being and pure awareness (beyond the world of sense impressions).
Experience of oneness in relation to an “inner world” within.
Experience of the fusion of your personal self into a larger whole.
Experience of unity with ultimate reality.
Feeling that you experienced eternity or infinity.
Experience of oneness or unity with objects and/or persons perceived in your surroundings.
Experience of the insight that “all is One.”
Awareness of the life or living presence in all things.
Gain of insightful knowledge experienced at an intuitive level.
Certainty of encounter with ultimate reality (in the sense of being able to “know” and “see” what is really real at some point during your experience.
You are convinced now, as you look back on your experience, that in it you encountered ultimate reality (i.e., that you “knew” and “saw” what was really real).
Sense of being at a spiritual height.
Sense of reverence.
Feeling that you experienced something profoundly sacred and holy.
Experience of amazement.
Feelings of tenderness and gentleness.
Feelings of peace and tranquility.
Experience of ecstasy.
Sense of awe or awesomeness.
Feelings of joy.
Loss of your usual sense of time.
Loss of your usual sense of space.
Loss of usual awareness of where you were.
Sense of being “outside of” time, beyond past and future.
Being in a realm with no space boundaries.
Experience of timelessness.
Sense that the experience cannot be described adequately in words.
Feeling that you could not do justice to your experience by describing it in words.
I felt that I was in a wonderful other world.
I felt connected to a higher power.
I experienced boundless pleasure.
I felt I was being transformed forever in a miraculous way.
Everything seemed to unify into a oneness.
I felt one with my surroundings.
Worries and anxieties of everyday life felt unimportant.
I felt extraordinary powers within myself.
I experienced a touch of eternity.
Conflicts and contradictions seemed to dissolve.
The world seemed to me beyond good and evil.
I experienced past, present, and future as a oneness.
Many things appeared to me as breathtakingly beautiful.
I had insights into connections that had previously puzzled me.
The boundaries between myself and my surroundings seemed to blur.
I felt totally free and released from all obligations.
I experienced a kind of awe.
I experienced profound inner peace.
I experienced an all-embracing love.
My experience had religious aspects to it.
I felt as if dark forces had overtaken me.
I felt tormented.
I felt incapable of making even the smallest decision.
I was afraid that the state I was in would last forever.
I was scared without knowing exactly why.
I experienced everything as frighteningly distorted.
I felt threatened.
I felt isolated from everything and everyone.
I was afraid of losing control over myself.
I had the feeling that something terrible was going to happen.
I saw things I knew were not real.
I saw regular patterns with closed eyes or in complete darkness.
I saw colors with closed eyes or in complete darkness.
Shapes seemed to be changed by sounds or noises.
Things in my environment had a new strange meaning.
I saw brightness or flashes of light with closed eyes or in complete darkness.
My sense of time and space was altered as if I was dreaming.
I saw whole scenes roll by with closed eyes or in complete darkness.
I experienced my surroundings as strange and weird.
I felt very profound.
Objects in my surroundings engaged me emotionally much more than usual.
Things came to my mind that I thought long forgotten.
I could see images from my memory or imagination with extreme clarity.
The colors of things seemed to be altered by sounds or noises.
I had very original thoughts.
My imagination was extremely vivid.
Things in my surroundings appeared smaller or larger.
Everything around me seemed to be animated with life.
I was able to remember certain events with exceeding clarity.
I heard single words without knowing where they came from.
I heard rings and tones without knowing where they came from.
A melody occurred to me that I had to constantly repeat.
Meaningless noises sounded like real words or phrases.
I heard my thoughts as if I had spoken them out loud.
Sounds seemed to influence what I saw.
A voice commented on everything I thought although no one was there.
I heard complete sentences without knowing where they came from.
I heard music without knowing where it came from.
I heard something faintly that I could not identify.
From an initially diffuse noise, which I could not identify as real, clear rings and tones evolved.
I heard voices that did not come from the surroundings as usual.
I heard something like a buzzing, swooshing, or humming without recognizing the cause.
I heard diffuse noises without knowing where they came from.
Sounds and noises were fainter than usual.
There were sounds in the room that I feel were unlikely to have been real.
I heard a ticking, knocking, ringing, or rattling without being able to recognize the cause.
My thoughts and actions were slowed down.
I felt sleepy.
I felt drunk.
I felt that I was on the verge of unconsciousness.
I perceived everything as blurry, as if through a kind of fog.
I felt as if I no longer had a body.
I felt drowsy.
My perception was blurred.
I had difficulties in distinguishing important from unimportant.
I felt as if I were paralyzed.
I felt numb.
I experienced unbearable emptiness.
I felt like I do shortly before falling asleep.
My body felt numb, lifeless, and/or alien.
I felt as if I was half-asleep.
I had the impression I was out of my body.
I felt as if I was floating.
I was not able to complete a thought; my thoughts repeatedly became disconnected.
I felt I was about to fall asleep.
I had the feeling that I no longer had my own will.
I stayed frozen in a very unnatural position for an extended period of time.
I felt exhausted.
Time passed slowly in a tormenting way.
Everything happened so fast that I could not follow it all.
Bodily sensations were very enjoyable.
I experienced boundless pleasure.
Many things seemed incredibly funny to me.
I experienced profound inner peace.
I experienced an all-embracing love.
I felt like a puppet or marionette.
I felt incapable of making even the smallest decision.
I had difficulties in distinguishing important from unimportant.
I felt as if I were paralyzed.
I felt isolated from everything and everyone.
I was not able to complete a thought; my thoughts repeatedly became disconnected.
I had the feeling that I no longer had my own will.
Some everyday things acquired special meaning.
Things in my environment had a new strange meaning.
My sense of time and space was altered as if I was dreaming.
I saw whole scenes roll by with closed eyes or in complete darkness.
I experienced my surroundings as strange and weird.
I felt very profound.
Objects in my surroundings engaged me emotionally much more than usual.
Things came to my mind that I thought long forgotten.
I could see images from my memory or imagination with extreme clarity.
The colors of things seemed to be altered by sounds or noises.
My imagination was extremely vivid.
Everything around me seemed to be animated with life.
I was able to remember certain events with exceeding clarity.
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Interesting that it peaked so quickly! I had a similar experience taking a higher dose of LSD. Perhaps there is a connection between higher doses and timing of the peak?
With psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms, the peak often comes faster with higher doses -- but there’s an interesting nuance:
- Magic mushrooms contain both psilocybin (a prodrug) and psilocin (the active form). Usually, the experience begins as the body converts psilocybin into psilocin, while some of the psilocin already present gets metabolized. But in larger doses, it's possible that some psilocin reaches the brain directly before being broken down, which can lead to a faster onset and earlier peak.
- With LSD, the peak comes faster with higher doses for a more straightforward reason: more molecules enter the brain more quickly and occupy more receptors, speeding up the intensity curve. In pharmacokinetic terms, a steeper concentration gradient between the bloodstream and the brain tissue accelerates absorption and onset.