{"id":9200,"date":"2021-07-22T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapsofthemind.com\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2023-05-18T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:38:11","slug":"psychedelic-activity-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapsofthemind.com\/2021\/07\/22\/psychedelic-activity-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Session Menus: Having Options for Your Altered Explorations"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome to PSYJuly<\/a><\/em> day 22! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Yesterday I wrote about psychedelic sessions that are focused on one specific theme<\/a>. However, sometimes it’s nice to be more flexible and take an open-ended approach, without any fixed plans for the session.<\/span><\/p>\n That said, it can still be nice to have some options available to us, rather than going in completely empty-handed. That’s when a session menu can be helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n A session menu is a list of activities that are available to you during your session. At a glance, it gives you options for things you might like to do.<\/span><\/p>\n Remembering things can be hard when high. A menu is useful in that you don’t have to remember your options during the session. It holds them all in one place for you. The menu can act like a butler, who asks you ‘what would you like to do now? Do any of these options interest you?\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Depending on your tastes and the day, menus might look very different to different people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here is are some examples of items that might be on a menu:<\/span><\/p>\n Other items I have seen on friends menus have included: take photos, dance, have sex, watch documentary.<\/span><\/p>\n Really, you can include anything. I have a friend who likes to look at profound quotes during his trips. Another likes to draw a tarot card. In both these cases, they find that they are able to connect more deeply to the meaning and message .<\/span><\/p>\n Writing up a menu can take as little as two minutes before starting a session, and you then have it there for your reference throughout. Depending on the items on your menu, you might need a little extra time to ready any necessary materials before the session starts. Once settled into your session, you can take a glance at the menu and see if anything takes your fancy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I made some menu templates for you: You might also have menus for different purposes. Here is an example of a chill-out menu I made in the form of a deck of cards. I have it around in case I or others feel uncomfortable or agitated.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I use menus on various kinds of sessions: both solo and with friends, introspective and recreational. I find them to be very useful and a nice reminder to check in and think: ‘what would I like to do now? Where do I want to go next?\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On one session with a friend, after riding the stormy come-up and settling into an LSD and MDMA session, we gathered ourselves, then sat down and looked at our menu together. We had a list of fun activities for us to explore together before our eyes. <\/span>I looked at him and said;<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Is there anything here you’d like to do? We have the whole day ahead of us’.<\/span><\/p>\n Smiling, he took a moment, \u2018you know, this is actually quite a nice situation to be in.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Free time, with a friend, enjoying the wonders of life, and a beautiful psychedelic menu in front of us. All that was left to do was pick one and enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A psychedelic menu is a list of activities that are available to you during your session. At a glance, it gives you options for things you might like to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,314],"tags":[67,126,354,161],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychedelics","category-setting","tag-drugs","tag-mdma","tag-menu","tag-psychedelic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is a session menu?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Creating a Menu<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nMenu 1<\/a> – Menu 2<\/a>
\nPrint off or use as inspiration \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy Experience<\/span><\/h2>\n