@vishrutbansal2535
"Edit Mode" is the cleanest, most succinct explanation of a psychedelic trip ever
@CACNTRYAYC
Just as a warning for people reading the comments, I've noticed that there are bots going around posting the same similar thing about how psychedelics saved their life and then other bots will reply to that and mentioning where you can get some. Just be aware that some of these comments are not genuine. How do I know? I've seen multiple people write almost the exact same thing as if copy pasted.
@rbsalmon7895
I kept reading other people's experience on psychedelics, like how it "saved" their life and stuff like that, but when I first tried it I didn't really get it. I just had a great time and that's it. But in one of my other trips, I experienced something I like to call the sage mode, where i'm just on my bed thinking through a lot of things. It doesn't seem special at first, we all do that from time to time after all. But when you're tripping it kinda feels like all your set precognitions about things has been removed so it's like you're seeing your life in a different person's perspective. That's when it clicked for me. Sometimes, psychedelics does give you the answers you're looking for, but it's still up to you to work towards it.
@Shane7492
Psilocybin completely changed my life, but I don't recommend it to people, because I understand how intense the experience is and it's of utmost importance to do your research and use this medicine correctly (proper set and setting, proper integration, etc.).
@LuuzbelitoPirogovsky
Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back. Totally got rid of depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction
@RonenDalton-pk7bj
I’ll never forget my first time mushrooms a couple months ago and it was such a beautiful experience. It’s a game changer for severe depression and anxiety……Peace! Truly one of the most remarkable phenomenons on the planet
@yash12345
Dr. K casually dropping the most fire samples for psychedelic music
@adamgreenhill110
I always found tripping helped me notice the thought 'circuits' built into my head. I could see them running, pause it, and understand what it's 'doing' and why. I could start to unpick the flaws in my thought process, and emotional responses. It felt like surgically editing my brain
@chrisshurtz5541
Paramedic here. Psychedelics saved my life when I was on the brink of completing suicide from PTSD. It opened a door that i didnt even know existed. It gave me the awareness & courage to step through this door. I am eternally grateful to the team of Psychologists who were on the other side of that door; who provided safe-space and compassion for me; who taught me how to recognize my Shame and replace it with Self-Compassion. I never thought it was possible to escape the overwhelming darkness that consumed mind. To anyone struggling with PTSD - you are worth it. You are loved. You can get through this.
@notyan7032
I'd say it makes you extremely aware of your thinking/life patterns. It makes you become a raw observer of yourself. Then you must decide what to do with that information
@nickchamp2195
My takeaway from psychedelics is either they give you an ego death, help you work through some trauma, scar you for life or make you reeeaaaallly annoying.
@pyroman2918
It is absolutely important to acknowledge the risks of psychedelics outside of medical, therapeutic setting, but I also think it is important to mention that those risks can be reduced by taking the right precautions. If you are going to take psychedelics on your own, and I am not telling you whether you should or should not do it, that's up to you, but if you are, it's important to reduce those risks as much as possible. The most important is to have a tripsitter with you, someone you trust. That person should be sober, and take care of you the whole time. This can partially serve the role of the therapist in the clinical setting, while of course it can't fully replace them and give you as much benefit and risk mitigation. The tripsitter can take care of you physically, make sure that you don't hurt yourself, and help you with the difficult psychological experiences as well. They can calm you down, tell you that you are fine, that you are not dying, that the current state, which can be very difficult, will pass. Other than the tripsitter, the other aspects of set and setting are very important as well. The place where you trip should be safe, ideally calm. Something like a concert or a party are not a good place to take psychedelics, at least not the first few times. Your mental state going into it is also very important, it's not good to take psychedelics when you are going through difficult things in your life, when you are very stressed, anxious, worried. Those states can get amplified during the trip, it's quite common, so if you are going into the trip with anxiety, know that it can get ten times worse during the trip, which could in the worst case be traumatizing, as Dr K said. If you are buying psychedelics on the black market, it is important to test them using test kits, so that you know you have what you think you have, and not something else. As far as dosage goes, the stuff bought on the black market can have dosages that are inconsistent, so it's always safer to try a lower dose first when you buy a new batch. In case of mushrooms, the concentration of psilocybin can vary a lot, even between two mushrooms picked in the same location, so it's safer to grind them into a powder to mix them evenly, and then take one gram first, to get a feeling what the concentration is, and base the dosage for the actual trip on this observation. Lastly, while it is sometimes recommended to have "trip killers" to end the trip in case of difficult experience, I would advise against using those unless it's absolutely necessary. The use of trip killers can actually increase the risk of trauma, because it ends the trip abruptly, which makes it much harder to integrate and make sense of the experience. It has been shown in studies that this is actually quite dangerous. For example, during my second trip, I though I was dying over and over again, it was absolutely awful and terrifying. If I took trip killers and ended the experience there, I would have been left with this awful memory, which could have haunted me for a long time. But as I started to come down, and I realized that I am not about to die, I had this cathartic experience, which actually helped me deal with my fear of death, which I had for four years prior to that, as a result of having a tumor at the age of 16. As a result, my fear of death in my general life decreased, which improved my life going forward. I have taken psychedelics outside of the medical setting many times, and some of those experiences were among the most valuable and interesting I've ever had. I am grateful for these experiences, I believe it helped me grow as a person and made my life more interesting. It is absolutely not without risks, and sometimes those experiences can be very painful and difficult. I am glad I always had a trip sitter during my first ten or so trips, without that I could have perhaps been traumatized by these experiences, instead of them being beneficial. Now, with large amount of experience, I feel like I can take lower doses alone, but I would absolutely not recommend that without extensive prior experience, and for higher doses you should absolutely always have a tripsitter, no matter how much experience you have. The risks are real, as are the benefits. If you are mentally ill, and want to use psychedelics for treatment, absolutely please use them in a therapeutic setting if that is available in your country. Do a lot of research before you take them, from reputable sources, not from podcast bros ( I dont count Dr. K among them), so that you can make an informed decision
@lastplusfirst
Hey.. uhhh. that ending was a trip XD. did y'all mean to edit it like that?
@sebastianmartinez5508
Because of the risks and rewards of psychedelics my recommendation is: - First of all mind the dose. Higher doses means an "edit mode" that encompasses more. Moderate dose allow for plenty of use of edit mode but without making it too difficult to fix any mis edit - Mind the set and setting. Don't use psychedelics in an environment or context where either of those might contaminate the edit mode - Meditate and take it seriously. Meditation will tend to clean your intuition to know when and how to trip but also teaches your brain how to handle negative emotion and to not over identify with them which helps avoid a bad trip and allows you to navigate it better if it gets challenging. Breathing and grounding exercises are great tools before, during and after.
@mobius7927
Thank you for mentioning PSSD! I work within a charity dedicated to spreading awareness of this condition. Far too many people have had their lives stolen from them from such an awful condition caused by antidepressants, the total anhedonia and cognitive dysfunction being the worst of the symptoms. It's been completely up to us to fund research into this condition, which is disgusting. We deal with hurdles every day trying to just get the medical establishments and regulatory bodies to recognize that this even exists
@Squirrelwizard2
I appreciate Dr. K talking about this topic. I have a degree in biochemistry and was one class away from a biomedical science degree so I’m not an expert in anything. That being said, psychedelics saved my life and my educational background has helped me in understanding this passion. I have helped a handful of people in my life with psilocybin and I intend to help more hopefully in a professional setting. I used myself as a test subject and I would like to warn everybody reading to RESPECT THEM. One particular trip I had I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy while simultaneously I would do over again in a heartbeat if I had to. I could literally talk about them for hours about the science and subjective experience of psychedelics (hey Dr. K if you are reading this), but here are quick tips if you are going to take them (which I won’t say you should or you shouldn’t) 1. Dr. K brings it up in the video, set and setting. DO THEM IN A SAFE CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. Not at a concert, not at a party, not in a van with 3 friends and one random guy who sold you the shrooms you’ve never met before. In a place that is 100% safe with a friend or two that you could literally shit your pants in front of and it not be a big deal. Ask yourself “if I literally lost my mind for 4 hours where we are right now, would I feel safe that entire time” and if the answer is “probably” and not “yes” then you are not in a safe enough environment. 2. GO WITH THE FLOW. I like to say that mushrooms feel like a spiritual Sherpa. They will take you up to the highest peak if you follow where they take you. If you try to fight them, they will push you off a cliff. The analogy I’ve come up with that makes me sound like a guru; If you try to swim against the current of a river you will become exhausted and drown, but flowing down the river takes no effort. Going with the flow is easy until you see a waterfall, trust me, go over the waterfall, not matter how scary it looks. 3. Psychedelics will show you what to change, but you actually have to change it in your life if you want long term results. Trips are impossible to put into words, but I had one that is best described as I “saw the center of everything/ the universe”. As I was coming out of “everything” my brain could not comprehend how I got there. The only thing I remember is what was at the center, peace. Did my life magically become peaceful after that? Fuck no. That being said, I can take a piece of that trip when I focus on it, and no problem I’ve had in my life ever seems as bad. Car breaks down? Before that would have pushed me over the edge, now, I can see how that is just a small inconvenience, even if I can’t to work that day, which is how I pay my bills, which is how I…. It’s just a part of life, nothing more, nothing less. I still have to go out of my way to remember this to this day, and that is only one lesson I learned. You have to work what happens during a trip into your life. They wont do it for you. Thank you for taking the time to read this whoever you are. I wish you the best in life.
@PSSD_sufferer
22:06 I experienced antidepressant withdrawal syndrome and some of my symptoms were severe dizziness, fatigue, irritability and headaches. I stopped taking antidepressants (SSRIs, which are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) four years and six months ago. I have post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD). I can’t feel any emotions, am unable to experience sexual attraction, am tired all the time, can’t enjoy anything like normal, have memory problems, sexual dysfunction and a complete loss of libido.
@ViiruIsACat
I was in psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychoterapy for 4 years. After therapy ended I started to use psilocybin in therapeutic properties. I had a few very good trips and I did not know I had an ego death, now I know thank you! After those trips I started to microdose once a week - 2 months. I did my integration work in outer and inside world and it was truly amazing. I knew back then that psilocybin could help with treatment resistant depression and ptsd but anything else I did not really know. I used the tools I got from therapy and then I just had this instinct of knowing what to do and when. Now I haven't microdosed over a year now and the trips were 2 years ago. I am still healed and healing more. The work of integrating myself has really paid off 🎉 I have the diagnoses of c-ptsd, dissociative disorder, ocd and adhd. Life is now so much lighter and I have healthy coping mechanisms, I also had chronic depression but I do not have it anymore. I do not recommend this to anybody to do without professional help because we're all different and need different help etc. Big thank you for making this video! 💜
@Jamie_Wilson
I am a pharmacist who has PERSONALLY cured himself of anxiety, depression, autism and ADHD using psilocybin... I am now committed to learning HOW I managed to do this scientifically so I can appropriately guide others down this path also (as in professionally, as a psychedelic assisted therapist... once this stuff becomes legal / medicalised in the UK eventually). So this sort of content is invaluable to me because I have to often settle down my enthusiasm for psychedelics due to the immense benefits they have given ME. Thankyou Dr K
@HealthyGamerGG