Thoughts on microdosing

LSD, Shrooms, and DMT have two speeds – “did it work?” or full-on-hyperspace-plaid

If you take a full dose of either LSD or shrooms, you’ll launch off into Cool World, in which you feel like you’re in the real world, but there’s an animated overlay.

If you take a full dose of DMT, you end up fully incapacitated as you enter a full-on dream state. To give you a perspective of it, Brad Pitt above would also be a cartoon instead of remaining human.

The reason people microdose on these drugs is because they’re not technically party drugs (though LSD and shrooms are safer to take in public, as you’ll at least be able to move, even if you don’t realize where you are and will likely end up making out with a street lamp or cactus).

If you take a small amount of these drugs, the most you’ll see are tracers and waves, which is similar to seeing the heat rising off a hot street. People do this because as fun as a psychedelic trip is, you’ll very quickly lose perspectives of time, space, and this shared reality we live in if you did it every day.

The high from cannabis is a little different, but people do still technically microdose themselves. If a psychedelic high is like a light switch (either on or off), a marijuana high is like installing a dimmer switch (or you radio’s volume knob) where you can pick whatever level you’re comfortable with.

Instead of hitting either a 1 or a 10, you can sit at 2, 3, 3.1, 3.01, etc. Just find a comfort zone.

In addition, medicinal users tend to focus even further beyond simply controlling how much they take by also focusing on which specific terpenoids and terpenes they ingest. This is why you’ll see topicals, edibles, and vape pens labeled with CBD, CBN, THC, etc.

Seasoned potheads will also often use Ayurvedic methods to balance their high with meditation, yoga, exercise, and smelling different flowers and herbs. The stereotypical pothead dropping $20 on gas station food while on the munchies does exist (I do it every so often myself), but when you smoke daily, you learn to supplement the plant you’re smoking with healthy lifestyle choices.

That’s not to say space cadets aren’t doing the same thing. I’ve known a couple people who did lengthy marathon sessions on shrooms, DMT, LSD, MDA, meth, coke, alcohol, and everything else. We’re all chasing that high, but some people understand you’ll burn out if you don’t also accept the lows that come with it and learn to ride the waves in balance.