Psychedelic therapy Netherlands

Trip Levels

The intensity of a psychedelic trip is often referred to in trip levels. These trip levels can be divided into five different intensities. A micro dose is often just not or just a trip level 1 and a heavy dose with which ego death occurs is a trip level 5.

Trip level 1

During triplevel 1, the negative feelings of a serotonin depression disappear. Because the communication of the cerebral hemispheres changes, music will sound deeper, colors become brighter and the environment more tangible. Your senses are open. During this stage, people are more open and socially engaged and you begin to become open and honest with others and yourself.

 

Trip level 2

Brighter experience of colors, visuals such as moving and "breathing" of objects, walls, etc. With closed eyes, 2-dimensional patterns can be observed. Due to changes in short-term memory, the user experiences continuous distracting thought patterns, alternating with extreme focus. The natural filter in the brain is bypassed, which, among other things, increases creativity. Cross connections can already be discovered during this phase. Interconnections about, for example, why certain things happen and how you can deal with them.

 

Trip level 3

Very clear visuals, everything seems bent or distorted. Patterns can be seen on walls, objects, faces, etc. Mild hallucinations, such as the effect of flowing rivers in wood grains or other structures. Some confusion of the senses, for example seeing sound as color etc. Time distorts so that everything seems to take place in the "now". From this level it is already possible to connect to the subconscious brain, while this is still very easy to control. There may be fears in the subconscious that cause stress without being consciously aware of it. This level is useful to fight those fears from the subconscious. Fears often come from the past and/or the future. These fears are not real for now and acceptance is possible during this triplevel.

 

Trip level 4

Strong hallucinations, such as objects morphing into other objects. Perception of the ego fades, for example objects can start talking to you or you feel contradictory things at the same time. Some loss of reality, time becomes an incomprehensible concept. Possible experience of out-of-body experience. Mixing stimuli from different senses. Because of the loss of ego and thereby the loss of self-protection, people are hard but honest about themselves during this phase. Problems can be addressed and given a place. The connection with the subconscious is very high at this triplevel, so that a lot can be learned about who someone is, while it seems that it concerns someone else because of the ego loss.

 

Trip level 5

Total loss of visual connection with reality, senses no longer work in the "normal" way. A total loss of ego. Users feel themselves merging with space, other objects or the universe. The loss of reality becomes so bad that it is difficult to explain or put into words. This level differs from the others in that the actual universe in which things exist ceases to exist. During this phase, no control is possible at all. The connection with the subconscious is now maximum. There's nothing to hide. It is, as it were, a dream that you cannot influence yourself. This phase can give you insights in an initially incomprehensible way. Level 5 trippers often call the trip experiences mystical, the most beautiful experience of their life or frightening. Especially control freaks find it scary, but even of bad trips you can learn. It is therefore not wise to immediately start doing triplevel 5 without experience.

 

End trip

No matter how deep your trip has gone, you always come back slowly through the lower triplevels. A level 5 trip always passes levels 4, 3, 2 and 1, after which you gently land back in reality. You will keep all knowledge, ideas, insights. Other things that seemed incomprehensible at first can suddenly land, even weeks after the trip session. Most people who take such a trip will permanently retain a more open character and feel more connected to the environment and the people they live with. There will also be an improvement on a physical level. The increased stimulation of the 5HT2a receptor ensures neurogenesis. This means that the brain and nerve cells can repair and even create new ones, making for a better connected brain (mind-expanding).

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