How to control breathing?

[Brown Cow]

Hello Nexus!
This is my first post after lurking for a few months. SWIM is very inexperienced with psychedelics, he has tried mushrooms once, but never really got there because he split them with his friend. SWIM just "dipped his feet" into this wonderful alkaloid for the first time after following Noman's tek. What he saw absolutely amazed him, but felt there was way more to be explored. SWIM has a few questions for the fellow travelers out there. First, how does SWIM let go when entering the other realm? He got to the point where he no longer existed. He was fluttering on the border in then out in then out, but if SWIM slipped to deep he could no longer control his breathing. How does he control that when he is no longer "there"? One last thing does anyone else experience a huge smile on their face while comming down?

 

[Tequiza]

Unless you are talking about some breathing exercise you won't stop breathing. Even when you can't feel your breath any more, you are in fact still doing it. This takes getting used to but you are very good to go on that.

Oh and 'SWIM' isn't going to save you from the authorities if you live in a police state that frowns on these types of things. They know what you mean. Just sayin

yeah, that huge grin at the end is pretty common for me (and lots of others I imagine). I love that warm afterglow when I come down from. Sometimes after especially challenging sessions that afterglow was the make-or-break.

And welcome!