karce @wizanons.dev (He/Him) Level 10 wizard studying the mystic arts. Major areas of research involve the transcendent properties of consequential impulses observed throughout the myco cosmos.
Thanks for the question. So Lemmy does support downvotes but I've decided to disable them on this instance. The reason is just that I don't like seeing downvotes and I don't really see the point in them. I think rule-breaking content should be reported and outside of that what people usually do is use downvotes to signal that they disagree with someone. I saw a good discussion on this elsewhere on Lemmy not that long ago but for now I'd rather keep them disabled unless there is a really good reason.
Discussion on expectations from magic mushrooms
Hey everyone. Hope everyone is having a good day and feeling positive about yourself!
I wanted to open a discussion about expectations that I (and many others maybe as well) set about results or experiences we're "supposed" to have from mushrooms and other psychedelics. I tend to trip a few times a year as a sort of therapy. I find that it helps me balance out my mood and improve my confidence significantly for a few months after a trip.
One of the things I still tend to struggle with when going in to a new trip is trying to temper my expectations for it. I don't want to put too much pressure on myself that this is going to work (or that it has to work) to help me stay in good health. I think this is why I try to downplay the effects for myself when I can so there is less pressure for the trip itself. Since I feel like additional stress and pressure will negatively affect the trip.
Does anyone else experience anything similar to this? How do you deal with it?
On another note, I find when I'm coming into a trip one of the first thoughts I always have is "Is this what its supposed to feel like"? Then I go down the rabbit hole of "What is 'supposed to' mean, anyway? Who is the one behind this 'supposed to'?" It is very strange but also predictable for me now. Like my mind always happens to go there first. Anyway, thought I would share. Happy Friday!
Hey OP, a lot of people are suggesting psilocybin or other psychedelics. If you're interested you can ask questions about that in the [email protected] community. I moderate it but there are psychonauts there that know about this stuff who are friendly and helpful.
100% agree with this. Ever since getting into shrooms the world has become so much more alive and I feel far better about life in general. I run a community for magic and mysticism if anyone is interested called [email protected] which focuses on this type of discussion. Anyone is welcome to join the discussion or ask questions.
I agree. Sometimes I like the shorter, more intense, trips. 6 or so hours on mushrooms feels like a long time. Even after that time it takes a while to really come back down to a more normal level. It's all about head space though, I can appreciate long trips too.
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I've had great experiences with it so far. Runs great.
Got wizanons emails working :D
You may have noticed that emails haven't really been working on this instance properly if you've tried to reset password, for instance.
Just wanted to let folks know that they should be working properly now and to use it if they need it, for notifications or password reset or whatever else.
I ended up signing up for email hosting for a little while, which is still a free trial but should provide this functionality for us for a few months with zero cost.
I'm now going to start requiring email verification for new applications. I also get emailed when new people sign up too so I can be on it quickly and approve real people. Should be a good time overall.
Hope everyone is doing well! Just got off vacation myself but looking forward to watch our little community grow. Also happy 4th of July!
New research uncovers the potential of three specific psychedelic drugs – MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine – in treating mental health conditions ranging from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Oh I'm not worried at all. We'll grow slowly but I'm just excited to experience it along the way too. I should have required applications before this happened but I wanted to make it easy for new folks to get in.
A good thing about this instance is that we're federated with everyone and so we can freely access anybody's instance. Large instances like beehaw have deferated now with other people so their users are unable to view or interact with content on those instances.
I'll try to keep us open with everyone, which was one of my concerns with the bots. They could misbehave on other instances and make us look bad.
Anyway, small instances are fun too for those reasons. I continue to mention our communities every once in a while on other platforms so we can gradually grow as well.
Banning bot accounts over the last day
I turned on registration applications today since we had someone out there making tons of bot accounts on this instance.
Also since I don't have a ton of control over what these accounts are doing I'm just going to be banning and then deleting them between Jun 18 at 6pm EST to Jun 19 at 9pm EST.
New accounts that go through the registration should be good to go. Anyone who had an account before then should be good too. Let me know if you got caught up in it or are having issues. If you need to, make a new account.
Thanks everyone, I feel confident this is the best way to handle it so we don't have an artificially inflated number of 'users'
Yeah, I don't like the taste either. It's definitely hard to get down but once it is it's blast off. The lemon juice pre-disgests it and makes it faster too. I'm not totally sure I'd recommend that method but it was an interesting experience.
Typically it is just unnecessary. And believe it or not VPNs will slow you down too.
Ah yeah, I'm not sure there is another way. Not one I've seen unfortunately. I'm planning on actually developing for Lemmy soon, since I have Rust experience, but haven't yet done too much deep dive into the code.
There is a way I could probably change your username in the database, but who knows what issues that could potentially cause.
The key is set and setting. What that means is being in a good place mentally to experience the trip (mindset) as well as being in the proper setting that is very comfortable, clean, and safe. Also having a sitter is a good idea as long as you're comfortable with them.
Be somewhere where you will feel safe and make sure you don't have anything that needs doing that day. No plans for something you need to rush too, etc. For a beginner the other comments are pretty good advice, start with a low dose and enjoy it. That means less than 2.5g (dried).
Psychonaughts wiki also has a good page on this: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms#Dosage_and_preparation
It was a heroic dose of cubes. I think that time it may have been dissolved in a lemon/tea mix as well.
Glad to hear it! I just felt an opportunity to share knowledge of what I was working with recently since qBittorrent added support for it. If you're interested in staying connected you can subscribe to one of the communities on my lemmy instance, wizanons.dev. [email protected] and [email protected] Keep in mind we're very small still but I like keeping up with people and being friendly : )
Yeh I had tried torrenting on Tor a LONG time ago but people made it clear to not do that on Tor for one reason or another. But on i2p, the devs made a torrent client directly into the software. It was one of their features and something they want people to use.
That is correct. For geoblocked content only available in certain regions, a VPN is still useful. However, much of that content can be obtained through other methods. You could download it and use Plex/Jellyfin to stream it to Roku or Firestick.
Honestly that is fine. Just consider this to be one of the times you hear about I2P. I also don't typically start paying much attention to something unless I've heard it like 3 or more times.
So it looks like setup on ubuntu should be pretty straightforward. Follow these steps to install the java client as a package: https://geti2p.net/en/download/debian
Then under their Post-install work on the bottom of that page follow this:
as a service that automatically runs when your system boots, even before logging in. The service can be enabled with "dpkg-reconfigure i2p" as root or using sudo. This is the recommended means of operation.
That will cause i2p to automatically run at startup. You can use the other methods there if you don't want that behavior. Lastly, you'll need to configure a browser to use i2p. https://geti2p.net/en/about/browser-config
Firefox is a good one to use for it but you can use librewolf or another one.
And I think that's it as far as setup for ubuntu. Let me know if you have more questions : )
The state will follow Oregon and Colorado if the bill becomes law. But its medicalized model is different, and has serious limitations.
Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period
Behavioural electrophysiological and transcriptomic studies in mice show that psychedelic drugs reopen the social reward learning critical period and suggest that this involves reorganization of the extracellular matrix.
>Psychedelics are a broad class of drugs defined by their ability to induce an altered state of consciousness. These drugs have been used for millennia in both spiritual and medicinal contexts, and a number of recent clinical successes have spurred a renewed interest in developing psychedelic therapies. Nevertheless, a unifying mechanism that can account for these shared phenomenological and therapeutic properties remains unknown. Here we demonstrate in mice that the ability to reopen the social reward learning critical period is a shared property across psychedelic drugs. Notably, the time course of critical period reopening is proportional to the duration of acute subjective effects reported in humans. Furthermore, the ability to reinstate social reward learning in adulthood is paralleled by metaplastic restoration of oxytocin-mediated long-term depression in the nucleus accumbens. Finally, identification of differentially expressed genes in the ‘open state’ versus the ‘closed state’ provides evidence that reorganization of the extracellular matrix is a common downstream mechanism underlying psychedelic drug-mediated critical period reopening. Together these results have important implications for the implementation of psychedelics in clinical practice, as well as the design of novel compounds for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disease.
I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/86663
> Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!
This article is hilarious and I strangely like it.
Reddit is Killing Community
This is a theory that’s previously been stated in log/39-normie-hypothesis.gmi, but I think it’s worth expanding on as it’s become very relevant with the recent Reddit shit-show actualizing just how bad that website has gotten along with social media in general. I think the model demonstrate how the...
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/526831
> Great writing on the current Reddit saga. The author put down in words a lot of things in my mind I couldn't find the right words.
Thought this article was interesting so I'm cross-posting it here as well!
Mobile browsimg app recommendations?
cross-posted from: https://wizanons.dev/post/996
> Hey :) I'm writing this comment using "Jebora for lemmy" is there other apps for mobile browsing? which one would you recommend? (Android)
Need help? Comment here for support
If anyone needs help with the website, or with lemmy in general! Ask me here! I can provide support and help out our fellow apprentices.
Website is brand new. Lemmy is fairly new and I've been learning a lot over the last couple weeks after the Reddit purge.
The Psychonaut Wiki
This is an awesome resource for everybody to know about and read for staying safe with an type of substance. Linking it here since it is so useful.
Have you experienced Ego Death? Tell us about it!
It was one of the wildest experiences I've ever gone through in my life. I didn't just lose myself, but I became other people. I completely believed I was someone else with their memories, etc. Thinking back on it, It was incredible and a little scary at the same time.
What experiences have you had?
Welcome to WizAnons! The Magic Instance!
We’re magic themed and friendly! LGBTQIA+ friendly and we have a magical community for aspiring wizards, mages, warlocks, and witches. Discussion on mysticism and psychedelics welcome! Always looking for more friendly apprentices and fellow arcane researchers.
I'm tailoring it towards magic users/psychonauts to start with since I highly value this discussion and think it needs protection. The only rule is be nice! I want to celebrate how awesome these chemicals can be and garner a playful community.
Feel free to introduce yourself here as well!
Magic mushrooms go mainstream in Colorado
We're seeing psychedelics become more and more popular amongst psychologists and other professionals for treatment of depression and anxiety specifically under supervision in many states.