I was on ecstasy in a dream one time, and it felt completely real. I have tried to smoke pot in dreams, but something always keeps it from happening. However, getting off drugs (for the most part) was what finally got me all the way into lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is the be all end all of what all psychedelic drugs are meant to do, and those were my thing. To me, being stoned is just a minor glimpse into what lucid dreaming is. That is why I got so into it for so long. Lucid dreaming has gotten me to where I only do it once in a while. I used to buy ounces and stay stoned during the majority of my free time. I have done cocaine, crack, and drugs in the heroin family, but I don't recommend them. I agree with the person who said moderation is okay, but the problem is that not everybody is capable of moderation. I have known many people who were addicted to heroin related drugs, and none of them set out wanting to do them every day. What happens is that usage increases at an unnoticable level, and the person is full blown addicted a while before they realize it. Their lives are never the same after that. The same goes for cocaine and crack. Three of my friends died of opiate overdoses in one summer, and several of my friends are so addicted now that they can't function. They never meant for that to happen, but it did. I have two friends who will probably spend the majority of the rest of their lives in rehab facilities. They prefer this over being homeless and begging for money to buy drugs, which they have done. They also burned practically every bridge in their lives by stealing to buy their drugs. They pushed away a lot of people who cared about them by doing that. They said that the cravings they experience are like the craving you have when you stay underwater for a long time and want to come up for air. It gets that serious. Your brain gets to the point where going without the drug makes your brain react as though it is dying. A person in that state will do absolutely anything to get the drug. Opiates and cocaine based drugs are not even worth experimenting with, in my opinion. I still think such decisions are up to adult individuals who contemplate them and that they should be legal.
LSD is another drug I really question. I did it twice. After the first time, I went through what was hands down the worst depression of my life due to serotonin loss (along with untreated hypoglycemia gone worse), and I had to get on Prozac (synthetic serotonin) for a while. After the second time (hypoglycemia controlled), I was very loopy for two weeks. Organic psychedelics, like psilosybin mushrooms (If you do these, MAKE SURE you are doing the right kind because look alikes can make you very sick and even kill you.), don't have that effect on me. However, although I had some really fun moments on mushrooms, every time I have really gotten anywhere on them, I went through a period where I was in absolute terror. I am not sure what the permanent effects of doing them too often are. Marijuana started putting me through absolute terror sometimes starting at age 22. A lot of people report that.
There are altered states of consciousness that are phenomenal and don't require drugs. There are lucid dreaming, sensory deprivation, and transcendental meditation, three of my favorites. If you want to feel really good, eat healthily and get a lot of good, reasonable aerobic exercise. I might sound like an old fogie, but I feel like I've done enough and seen enough to arrive at that conclusion. That doesn't mean I will be completely sober for the rest of my life, but I don't put drugs on the same pedestal I used to put them on. I have gotten into other things, some of which are much better. That's my view.
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