I did enough for a trip. I was really at a low point in my life and a friend came over and said "maybe this will help" and brought a 125ug tab. That first experience wasn't really about self reflection but more about getting myself to phase out of this reality and understand how that felt, and how I was more then just "me". It was a new experience for me so he also wanted to see how I would react and it was more about discovery. Like I ate some macaroons and when I bit into one a rainbow of 4 leaf clovers shout out of my mouth that I dropped what I was eating. Everything was just so intense and surreal.
Plus it was so incredible and overwhelming that it defies explanation. I felt myself transported and orbiting the black hole in the center of the galaxy while also jumping in time between a Miami Dade hotel, being inside a episode of Law and Order,, and sitting in some government building watching said Law and Order episode on a hanging TV screen, and at the same time being in "base reality". It took me a while to integrate that whole experience.
We did another trip together about 2 months later that was 250ug. That trip was just a rollercoaster of imagery and storytelling. I saw everything from ancient Egypt to stars being born and dying, to African queens and space ship armadas wiping each other out.
I learned I need to take care of myself during that trip and my friend saw all of humanity toiling the fields and felt he needed to grow a garden. Afterwards he changed his eating habits and started to work out.
He left me a tab which I tried about a month later and that was when I resolved pretty much everything in terms of the emotional baggage I was carrying while staring into this tapestry: [Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Ppt1nfs.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/n9DIRTN.jpg)
This thing acts as a fantastic guide. You can never had a bad trip when you stare into it and all those white dots and swirly circles and marks produce and incredible amount of visuals that basically draw all your answers to your questions in front of you in 3d and animate it all for you to see.
You can find these on the interwebs if you google "7 chakra tapestry". They sell for about $20-30 or less. Mine cost $20. If you want one, get only the one that is 60x40 as anything bigger is pixilated or blurry. Quality may vary as they come from China.
That solo trip was no music no distractions....just me staring into that tapestry and all my emotions swelling up until they resolved through me. I was able to see love as an everlasting web of energy that transcends time and space, and see that the love I gave and received, and the things I did weren't for nothing as they enhanced both my life and hears and that we each had our roles to play. Everything played out exactly as it was supposed to.
Through these visions and others I was able to finally say my goodbye to my ex, see some friendships for what they were, and resolve the crap that was keeping me sideways and unable to move forward.
These days I occasionally still trip but for the most part I just meditate.
I heard micro dosing works as well but I'm sure it will take longer as that mostly improves your mood but even as little as 30ug can have enough to contemplate change.
Still I believe it is the visuals and the time dilating that bring out the imagery that you need to see and allow you to see yourself as almost out of body, like you are a character in a video game that the real you is controlling from above.
Seeing yourself from another perspective while connected to the greater universe and feeling that connection is what I feel brings the change about, because you can see yourself as something more, and you can also see all the threads that connect your life and the universe together.
I found out that this stuff is a process. Each time you learn something new about yourself and the universe.
It really helps if you combine a visual medium like that tapestry or some sort of focal point and meditation. If you can focus on a point and control your breathing while in a time dilated state you go deeper into understanding.
