I had a similar experience with psylocibin shrooms but it has lasted since (about 15 months ago)
While I was "high" I just kept immersing myself in the moment, watching the clouds and the birds that flew by, listening to music, feeling the grass on my feet.. etc. Just enjoying everything around me, this lasted for about 5 hours and was very very powerful.
Then after the experience I had a moment of integration of the whole experience, this was my realization:
"We live 90% of our time (if not more) in the past or in the future... thinking about what we will do next day, next month or next year. We keep regretting stuff, wondering what would have happened if we did x instead of y, punishing ourselves because of things that already happened, etc. We live like this most of our days, more and more as we grow up. We create memories based on this, we create memories that are not based on the moment, because we weren't really there. Most of our memories are incomplete, we build our life experience based on memories and not actual experiences. As we grow up our reality becomes more and more distorted because of this... and it is like a snowball, if we do nothing about it it just keeps getting worse and worse"
"We take so many things for granted that we forget how lucky we really are, having a bed to sleep on, food on demand, a shower with hot water, arms, legs, a family, friends, ... the list is infinite, just being alive is so amazing! We should never ever take these things for granted! EVER!"
"Learning to be in the moment, to take it all in, being able to stop for 5 minutes just to feel everything is key and the lack of it is one of the main problems of our society. Being is the moment is blissful and an amazing experience, every moment is unique and so every moment that we are not living in the present is a forever lost opportunity. Being able to enjoy the simplest things greatly boosts a persons ability to be happy and joyful"
Anyways, a little bit off-topic but I wanted to share this life-changing experience with you guys!
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