Microdosing can literally be a lifesaver if you have chronic depression or PTSD. It's been widely documented and there's tons of companies working on this specifically as a new form of treatement.
> All effects are exclusive to 25 mg psilocybin; no effects occur with a 1 mg psilocybin placebo.
Around 2 grams is considered a "museum dose" or "social dose" (e.g. it's enough to change your perceptions but not so much that you are unable to operate).
So 25 mg is a fairly low dose while 1 mg is very low.
anyhow 1-25mg is a pretty small does if 5g is considered a hero dose per siblings.
I haven't tried tons of nootropics like this, but i have tried Kanna, Kratom, psilocybin, CBD, delta-9 THC, THC-P, hydrogenated THC, salvia, and i'm probably forgetting a lot. Belladonna, that's one i tried before, for example. just came to me.
I don't do "hard" drugs, though, never have, no desire to. I do like plants, though.
Used to work at a dreary sweatshop where breaks amounted to smoking outside while staring at eachother, they used biometrics and software to track your KPIs , you'd get diarrhea from workplace food and departments had various beefs with each other.
Switched jobs to an international car manufacturer where people would greet eachother, drop their guards and have fun working together.
I got this exact feeling! The sky was more blue, flowers were more colorful, birds more chirpy, halls brighter and people smiled. Lasted for five months.
The mushroom thing isn't so earth-moving. It's like you have a deck of trading cards, and you take a gummy, and now all your cards look almost like foil cards. Shimmery, just on the peripheral, and since I personally was trying to experience good things, i was able to pay more attention to the birds and stuff.
It's almost like a placebo that gives you permission to not worry and to just experience for a short while.
While your sweatshop sucked, without that experience you maybe wouldn't appreciate the car manufacturer job experience as much, and it mightn't not have made you think to post at all.
I dunno, i'm getting real soft in my mid-life.
If you are on them, you can still get positive results, but your baseline for microdose might be higher. Be careful if try… go slow, follow proper harm reduction measures.
I have a recent experience with MDMA, a substance that also interacts with those receptors. A friend and I both tried MDMA, not first realizing that one of us felt almost no effect because of an ongoing Lexapro prescription. We were well supervised in this endeavor, but I can imagine a more unrestricted experience in which you take way more than a recreational dose by accident.
By the way, you might need those SSRIs!