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Has anyone bought any of the 'legal highs' or 'herbal highs' you can get off sites like http://www.everyonedoesit.com?

Are they any good?
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I heard that is just a rumor and it doesn't happen nearly as much as your school books tell you.  Like, it will happen if you do hits of acid or something like every single day but now what these people are doing (once in awhile).  I could be wrong though.

Flashbacks are a psychological phenomenon and not limited to just LSD. Some people are more prone to them than others. Likelihood would increase as the intensity of the experience increases.
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Lawl, your friend is an idiot and you took guiafenesin.
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Ok, so last saturday (not yesterday, but the saturday before) I did magic mushrooms in chocolate form, I had 2 bars of 5, cuban or mexican don't know exactly anymore (I'm not even sure if mexican exists) but it wasn't hawaiian. My trip wasn't that heavy, it was cool, but I wish I had more.
This tuesday I was planning on tripping with some other friends of mine, and I wondered (since I read that after you've used mushrooms, you usually need to wait a month before getting the full effect) what if I had mushrooms on that day again, which would mean there's 10 days in between give or take (counting like the few hours on saturday evening and tuesday morning as well).

I prefer to space out my trips between two and three weeks if not longer. There's always the chance of HPPD from overuse, but mainly I just hold a certain respect for any psychoactive I'm putting in my body. I'm not sure if you mean to say you are doing them twice on Tuesday or what. But generally unless you are doing them a lot and frequently, you won't notice too much of a dip in effect.

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Ive heard (not remember where, possibly wikipedia? Or was it in a radio show...), that during REM sleep, the DMT levels in your brain peak, and that it would be the actual cause of dreams.
So I would guess that a DMT trip looks a lot like a very vivid dream that mixes with your current surroundings in a big melting pot of sensations? And like with dreams, you would completely lose track of time, so a few minutes could feel like hours, or inversely, hours could feel like seconds? A bit like night terrors then? (a malfunction of your sleep in which you start dreaming before actually sleeping, or, more common, wake up and still see your dream mixed with reality for a few seconds)

 I've been lucid dreaming for a months now, and this actually started after I stopped using antidepressants and has only gotten stronger over time. There are a few exercises you can do to become better at lucid dreaming as well. As for why dreams occur, the field is called oneirology and there are dozens upon dozens of theories of why we have dreams. Simply put, we just don't know much yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneirology
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Don't know if this question's been asked already but

I really want to try salvia. There's a smokeshop near my house that seems like it would have it, but I have no idea how to ask for it without appearing like a moron.

How do I ask for it without appearing like a wannabe druggie moron?

"May I have some salvia extract?"

"What strength?"

"What would you suggest?"

...etc
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I think I heard Leary talking about something similar in a video somewhere. Maybe I'll try to dig it up. He was talking about how perhaps man was similar to other animals at first, but after ingesting psylocybin mushrooms his consciousness expanded and changed. Of course, Leary was pretty radical (and that's putting it lightly), but he did have a lot of intelligent things to say, sometimes.
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well I dont know if delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol actually exists in the brain but very similar chemicals surely do. there are tons of different kinds of cannabinoids.

I read about it in a book about botany recently it was pretty interesting. I cant really make a good case because I read through it pretty quickly, but I'm sure if I took time to digest it more fully and look for other sources I'd be able to make a better point.

but regardless.. this stuff is still new enough and not fully understood well enough for it to be taught in psychology and physiology classes yet. I mean... we didnt detect its existance until fucking 2000 at the earliest. Its in a whole realm of things in the brain that we are only on the cusp of understanding.

It's not surprising seeing as we know so little about the brain. I mean, there are a ton of receptors we don't even have an explanation of their function yet! I forget where I read this, but there's study going in Africa and South America (or some other jungle places!) where they are looking for compounds that fit these receptor sites as it may lead to some interesting arguments in evolution and human-plant interaction.
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as does THC... theres a whole cannabinoid network in the brain that was recently (2000-2001 I think) discovered. It mostly works with memory, specifically the part involved with forgetting. I mean.. do you really want to remember all those faces and names that you saw/heard at work today? The cannabinoid network is responsible for getting rid of superfluous memories.. so its pretty important. Keeps the brain running nice and ship shape. However smoking pot overloads it with cannabinoids and well.. you start to forget important stuff too... :-\

Hmm... I'd need to seem some more evidence for this. Cannaboid receptors exist in the brain, obviously, yes, but as for actual THC. I'd need to see more!
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DMT actually exists naturally in the human brain as well!
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Haha, oh man that's pretty fantastic actually.

Anyone else can answer any questions of my post (last post on the previous page?)

EDIT: Ok we've decided to all take the shrooms 30 minutes apart from eachother, so first the other guy, then me, then the experienced friend. So that atleast one of us can comfort a little after a while. Is this ok?

Whatever way you would feel most comfortable. I, however, would want to take them at the same time so that we peak around the same time and find comfort in the fact that everyone else is experiencing something similar and everything isn't going horribly wrong.