For macrodosing, set and setting are important aspects to having a good time. This means you want to be in a place you find comforting, inviting, safe, and around people who you trust.

For me, this usually requires some planning, whether it be waiting for an upcoming camping trip (I love being outside/watching the night sky while tripping), or cleaning my apartment and putting on some soft lighting or chill music, or a familiar or neutral movie. I’ve found if I’m at home and I have a sink full of dishes, laundry scattered, that those small details can mess with my experience.

Be around company that won’t mess with your high, You want to be selective about who you trip with or around and avoid those who would intentionally or unintentionally mess with your experience.
You’ll want to go into it feeling open to however the mushrooms make you feel. I find embracing even any negative aspects (bad nausea, feeling emotionally raw, tears) can help. Accepting the fact that you may feel very different for awhile, being ok with that. Knowing that in a few hours, this experience will fade and you won’t be this high forever, lol. Sometimes I dose by myself, in this case I usually tell someone close to me that I’ll be consuming them. I’ve never had to reach out to anyone for “help” or to certify that I’ll return to normalcy while I’m dosing, but there are resources available for those that feel the need for a trip sitter or are having a hard time processing their experience. -If you encounter emotions that are overwhelming, I try my best to accept them, and in doing so, find comfort from accepting things I cannot control. If you’re looking to use a macrodose for healing, it can help to set an intention or think about the trauma/event/pain, and what you’d like to learn or move on from. During your macrodose, it’s likely your brain will shift from it’s “default” mode, this offers us the ability to think about things in our lives differently.

I find the only times I view it as “a bad trip” had more to do with me not knowing how to manage or control the way I’m feeling. By letting go of expectations about what the experience will bring, I like to let the mushrooms navigate as much as possible.

This also ties in with expectations of “seeing things”. Visual distortions are much more likely and commonplace than hallucinating. Things like trailing lights, walls that “breathe”, neon geometric shapes when I close my eyes are what I’d describe as far as “visuals” go.