Suburban Tea
Rising Star
Hi guys, I'm new here. Just figured I would share an experience.
The other day I tried ayahuasca for the first time at a friends house. After finishing the rather vile tasting liquid, I got the idea to play some Grateful Dead tunes (I'm quite a fan...). I popped some ear phones in and got my Pandora Radio account going on my phone while waiting for the trip to come on. The lights were all out by now. After what was probably about a half hour of sitting there the hallucinations began.
I could not see any visuals with my eyes open, but upon closing them I could see sort of like neon-tiedye geometric shapes. This was all I had for about half an hour. So over an hour into it now I found it very hard to lift my head, and opening my eyes I had trouble remembering the orientation of the dark room. Just as a side note, throughout the whole trip I found I could open my eyes and "end" the trip in a sense.
But anyways at one point the one of the many live recordings of the classic Dead song Dark Star came on the radio. During the tranquil Jerry-isms in beginning, him noodling around and keeping his phrasing kind of light and euphoric, I felt this sort of ineffable feeling shoot through my whole body, most noticeably I felt it weigh down my arms. I saw a Sting interview where he described an "intelligence" rushing through his body while on Aya, and this is the best I can do to describe it. After this ended, an image manifested with my eyes closed, of these leaves floating on like a neon, light light blue lake, with mist rising everywhere. This was the most memorable portion of the trip. I had no sense of time but dark star was still playing, and at some point Jerry did this really quiet walk up, into a loud, emotional, note (you'll hear him do it all the time). But when he hit that dynamic ending note the image of the leafs on the river, or lake, or whatever it was, faded, and all of a sudden this giant convoluted prism of bright white lines appeared, it stayed there and move around a bit and then faded and that was essentially the end of the tripping or all I remember.
I also noticed the next day that my weed high was...different. I can't really explain how, but it was way different than before the Ayahuasca experience, and has stayed that way.
This experience gave me a new sort of appreciation for the Dead and an idea of what all of their 60s era followers were raving about. Aya was my first hallucinogen, but I am eager to try more and continue to experiment with how sounds impact the experiences. Has anyone else experienced an audio-visual correlation of some sort? And any specifically with the Dead? I know traditionally a shaman usually hums or plays music, and have heard Terence McKenna talk about there being a connection.
Also, I hear people talk about "breaking through". Was this a break through? I never felt like there was a change in consciousness and like I said earlier I could "end" visions by opening my eyes.
I look forward to being a part of this community. Thank you.
The other day I tried ayahuasca for the first time at a friends house. After finishing the rather vile tasting liquid, I got the idea to play some Grateful Dead tunes (I'm quite a fan...). I popped some ear phones in and got my Pandora Radio account going on my phone while waiting for the trip to come on. The lights were all out by now. After what was probably about a half hour of sitting there the hallucinations began.
I could not see any visuals with my eyes open, but upon closing them I could see sort of like neon-tiedye geometric shapes. This was all I had for about half an hour. So over an hour into it now I found it very hard to lift my head, and opening my eyes I had trouble remembering the orientation of the dark room. Just as a side note, throughout the whole trip I found I could open my eyes and "end" the trip in a sense.
But anyways at one point the one of the many live recordings of the classic Dead song Dark Star came on the radio. During the tranquil Jerry-isms in beginning, him noodling around and keeping his phrasing kind of light and euphoric, I felt this sort of ineffable feeling shoot through my whole body, most noticeably I felt it weigh down my arms. I saw a Sting interview where he described an "intelligence" rushing through his body while on Aya, and this is the best I can do to describe it. After this ended, an image manifested with my eyes closed, of these leaves floating on like a neon, light light blue lake, with mist rising everywhere. This was the most memorable portion of the trip. I had no sense of time but dark star was still playing, and at some point Jerry did this really quiet walk up, into a loud, emotional, note (you'll hear him do it all the time). But when he hit that dynamic ending note the image of the leafs on the river, or lake, or whatever it was, faded, and all of a sudden this giant convoluted prism of bright white lines appeared, it stayed there and move around a bit and then faded and that was essentially the end of the tripping or all I remember.
I also noticed the next day that my weed high was...different. I can't really explain how, but it was way different than before the Ayahuasca experience, and has stayed that way.
This experience gave me a new sort of appreciation for the Dead and an idea of what all of their 60s era followers were raving about. Aya was my first hallucinogen, but I am eager to try more and continue to experiment with how sounds impact the experiences. Has anyone else experienced an audio-visual correlation of some sort? And any specifically with the Dead? I know traditionally a shaman usually hums or plays music, and have heard Terence McKenna talk about there being a connection.
Also, I hear people talk about "breaking through". Was this a break through? I never felt like there was a change in consciousness and like I said earlier I could "end" visions by opening my eyes.
I look forward to being a part of this community. Thank you.
Never got to see them play dark star live though...