Regular weed user here.
If I’d have to describe my average weed experience in a few words, it would be fun, warm, soft, calm, soft fuzzy blanket
If I’d have to describe my few psychedelic experiences similarly (mushrooms only), it would be cold, hard, sharp, alone and from one horror trip (I was given way too much and after hours of nothing, smoked a little weed which I regretted 10 seconds later) chaos, mayhem, extreme loneliness from being the only person alive in the universe
Wife has similar experiences and after our last fucked up trip vowed to never again try it.
Are these experiences typical? I see so many positive experiences but I hated the cold and lonely feeling I had with it every time. How could I have a pleasant trip with shrooms, or say, lsd even?
Set and setting. Y’all are probably stressed by something around you. Smoking weed when you take the shrooms mellows the onset and makes it much less jarring to kick in. Take a tiny amount first, like a half a gram of shrooms. I recommend being in nature when you do it, I have found for most tech exposure and fear of “being caught” are the biggest spook factors when it comes to a bad trip. Have a bag of personal things that comfort you and a designated “alone” place so you have a place to meditate and collect yourself if you need it. Often shrooms and LSD encourage self reflection, if you dont reflect on yourself and try to force having a good time it can turn bad too. Follow where your mind takes you, do what you’re gravitating towards instead of preset plans and you’ll have a better time too. Also, until you are able to take shrooms comfortably without worrying about a “bad trip,” I recommend not doing LSD. I’d describe shrooms as an hour to kick in an hour to the peak, then a gentle ride down (like a steep hill with a gentle slope down the other side), but LSD is 15min to kick, 4 hours of increasing intensity and 4 hours decreasing intensity (like a steep mountain up and a steep mountain down).