Guilt is knowing you F'd up.

Shame is knowing that other people believe, or at least they perceive, that you F'd up (you can personally believe you didn't).

Remorse is wanting to make whatever you F'd up, right again.

Regret is when you can't make what you F'd up, right - no matter how much you want to.

That’s exactly why I always preferred LSD to mushrooms. I get in these loops that cause anxiety and I’m not able to just settle. With LSD the intense moments ebb and flow, shrooms for me are just 100mph the whole time and I don’t find them enjoyable.

Except for microdosing. I really enjoyed that when I did some experimenting with it.

Yeah that's pretty much what I remember from mine. That and if I got up and stood i would start dying

Memory reset and thought loops are what led me to stop for now. Mine were never horrific, just the same 30 seconds on repeat. It was more annoying than anything.

Trying to figure out why my vision is weird

Slowing down visuals

Asking myself or my wife a question I was confused on

Realizing I am tripping

Finally coming back mentally to enjoy the trip

-memory reset-

Trying to figure out why my vision is weird ...

There is a gap, yes. Guilt is about the action itself, remorse is about the victim of the action. Guilt is I shouldn't have done punched a person in the face because punching people in the face is wrong, remorse is I shouldn't have punched you in the face, because it hurt you and I'm sorry for hurting you.

It's entirely possible that you can feel guilt about an action but not remorse, or vice versa.

• Maybe I don't like a person and while I know punching people is wrong, I don't feel bad about them getting punched. That's guilt, but not remorse.
• Maybe I do like a person and while I don't care that punching people is wrong, I feel bad that I hurt that particular person. That's remorse without guilt.
• Maybe I punched somebody and feel bad about both the action and how it affected somebody. That's both guilt and remorse.
• Maybe I punched somebody and don't care that it's wrong or that I hurt them. That's psychopathic neither guilt nor remorse.

Remorse and guilt seem like the exact same thing, or am I missing the presence of a gap between feeling bad about doing something, and being sorry you did it?

A bad trip can be caused by anxiety, dose, the setting, your company, or nausea.

Personally, I can't enjoy mushrooms due to the intense nausea I get from them. I've tried every method of ingestion and it makes no difference, every trip is horrible.

With my wired headphones, I press the siri button and say “read my text” when the text vibration goes off. With my cheap Bluetooth ones, it either just reads it if I have that enabled, or I say “hey siri, read my text” if it doesn’t. It’ll let me reply to texts or create them from scratch too.

I think Beats just enables some of the assistive tech by default.

It’s also fully programmable using Shortcuts: you can create shortcuts that check what headphones are connected and do different things when a text is received, including auto respond based on your location or the sender.

Bad trips aren't a singular thing, and they don't have a singular cause.

First you have to define what a "bad trip" is. Some people describe any unpleasant experience during a trip as a bad trip. Others reserve the term "bad trip" for a much more profound, severe reaction that isn't merely unpleasant, it's horrific.

The psychedelic experience lends itself to extremes at times. An intrusive thought that would normally be discarded can be obsessed over. Confusion can lead to thought or action "loops". Interactions with other drugs (such as THC) or external events can cause anxiety/paranoia.

In most cases, there's the possibility of a feedback effect. Something is unpleasant, creating a heightened reaction, which makes things seem even more unpleasant, creating an even stronger reaction, etc. This kind of feedback can be difficult to break out of, particularly if you let it get past a certain point.

With high doses of psychedelics, the user's perception of reality can become whatever they think it is. That can be great, but it also means that if you think that horrible stuff is happening, horrible stuff effectively is happening. In extreme cases, the person having the bad trip is immune to logic or external stimuli...they are in a world of their own making. You can't reason them out of it, and they can't either. All of their senses are telling them stuff that isn't true.

Anyone who says that "there is no such thing as a bad trip" or "there's always something good that comes out of a bad trip" or "you just need to relax and go with the flow" has never experienced an extreme Bad Trip.

Reason doesn't always work on people who have lost the ability to reason correctly. Or who are reasoning correctly, but are responding to invalid input.

no I can set my beats wireless pro to automatically read text messages when I have them on and connected- is that possible with other cheaper headphones?

Actual good advice.

Your brain. It's wild, and it doesn't function the same as other people's brains. It doesn't always even function the same in exactly the same circumstances. Now add a substance that makes it fire off even more randomly with hallucinations and watch it try to cope. Brains are so complicated that we haven't even figured out how they work normally without any drugs altering their function. Figure that one out, and maybe one day we'll figure out the bad trip.

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Er, every pair of wired and wireless headphones with controls and a mic that I’ve used in the last decade have been able to do that? For that matter, “hey siri” can trigger most of those features without any headphones at all.

On an iPhone you go to Settings->Accessibility to manage most of the settings and Settings->Siri & Search for the rest.

Thanks for writing this, it is really helpful!

Guilt - I did something wrong and feel bad about doing it.

Shame - I did something wrong and I feel bad about myself.

Remorse - I did something wrong and I'm sorry for doing it.

Regret - Something happened - maybe caused by me, but maybe not - and I wish I had done something differently.

These things can overlap, but that's the general gist of it.

There's no simple answer because "bad trip" refers to a category, not a specific phenomenon. Some bad trips are a result of circular thought patterns. You'll hear people say things like "I got stuck in a loop". Other bad trips are a result of fighting against intrusive thoughts. Usually, they're memories of or residuals from unresolved trauma that the person refuses to confront and integrate. Still other bad trips are caused by fear and anxiety. Maybe the person's not in a safe, comfortable environment and they enter a sort of "fight or flight" mode in which they begin to hallucinate manifestations of their fears. This is why people advocate the principle of Set & Setting as a tool for avoiding bad trips.

Generally speaking, a bad trip is an experience primarily characterized by unpleasant emotions. Interestingly, even though there's not a single cause, there is a single solution: Let go of fear and accept the experience. It's mental, it's temporary, and it's part of you but it's not you. You are not your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. They are an object of your consciousness, they are a reflection of your mind, and they are trying to show you something about yourself. Sit, breathe, listen, observe, and let it flow over and past you.

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Alcohol is a depressant, meaning it slows down brain activity. It increases the production of neurotransmitters that slow down signals in between neurons (like GABA) and decreases the production of neurotransmitters that speed them up (like glutamate), meaning the person just can't process information as fast. That slows down their reaction time.

It’s only a miniature horse. My feet are touching the ground.

There is no comparison between the two. Apples and dog farts. The refillable versions are refilled with actual whipped cream, that the business whips themselves. I’m surprised that the propellant is nitrous oxide. Isn’t that what they use as booster fuel in race cars? Seems volatile but what do I know?…oh…I know what I know….store-bought, canned whipped cream is vastly inferior to the original. That’s just scientific fact😜

The "crap in a can" is cream. The propellant is nitrous oxide, which is inert and tastes slightly sweet.

Additionally a lot of restaurants/cafes will just use a refillable version of the "crap in a can", which uses individual nitrous oxide chargers that you can swap out.

Get off your high horse.

Who the hell wrote this, ChatGPT?

At least try to answer the question.

It's also worth mentioning that on newer versions of Windows, "shut down" does not reset your memory. You actually want to "restart". Because of Window's fast boot, it creates a snapshot and reloads it into memory when shutting down. Where as restarting refreshes it.