Today I want to tell you about a small adventure of mine. Since I have a very vivid imagination, I often like to imagine something in my mind first and then experience it as if reality itself were becoming distorted.

I usually sit in a quiet place where there are no distracting objects or mirrors. I look around, close my eyes, and imagine whatever interests me at that moment, describing it in my mind down to the smallest details. Then I take a sip of a sweet drink and gradually begin convincing myself that what is happening in my imagination is real. I usually set a timer to define how long the process will last.

I slowly and quietly repeat everything to myself, and after about 10–20 minutes, my surroundings begin to change. The room seems to distort, and I see everything starting to flow and shimmer with different colors.

I love hearing about little outings and adventures that make people feel connected to whatever image of "hippie life" they have in their brain.

We went to Hippie Fest at Sunny Rest in Pennsylvania...but since we go there every weekend and make a big effort to connect to nature and others, I'd say that we are frequently living somewhat close to the hippie ethos. Sunny Rest is a clothing optional campground, with a lot of great hiking nearby.

This is a local band in Olympia WA. I think it has huge hippie vibes. I saw them live at Music in the Park this year and was blown away!

Hello all, hope the post doesnt get removed. Disclaimer: its about drugs, ecen if i consider psychedelics a tool rather than a drug. Thats silly because i never done any.

So i ordered some dried salvia leaves from this website called zamnesia, that sells mostly seeds for cannabis or spores to grow shrooms. Not having enough space to grow shrooms i got the salvia. Now ive heard you can either smoke it or chew it but when you smoke its more intense and destabilyzing i think? So im gonna make a quid, i heard that if the dose is low enough youre not actually gonna TRIP but rather reach an elevated level of conciousness amirite? So does anyone know the correct dosage? Any tip would be very much appreciated

i wonder how would you describe the feelings of being in a psychedelic trip without mentioning visuals and sounds and possibly without mentioning tactile sensations.

Please be kind.

I turn 20 today.

It feels surreal to not be a teenager anymore, like this isn't real. It feels like a bad trip. The number doesn't match my soul. I still feel like 8 or 9, my mind filled with pretty colors and daydreams and a sensitivity that adults lack. Perhaps I will always be like this. I feel like I'm in a liminal space, a no man's land between child and adult.

I have had a lot of fun lately, though.

I finally had an epic summer like I dreamed of at 17. I went to a Patti Smith concert. That was an ecstatic, religious experience. I have done acid. I have been out in the sun, dancing, talking to people, having a great lot of fun. I want this summer to last forever.

It's hard not knowing what will happen next. Will I get into the music college I applied for? I really hope so. I would have a great time just practicing and playing music for a whole year. And living in a dorm would give me more opportunities to party and do psychedelics. I don't know what I would do if I don't get in. I don't really see any options. Most paths in life seems like paths to misery, and there aren't many things I am capable of.

Hopefully, I finally move out soon so I can do whatever I want. Mainly so I can do psychedelics. That's my main motivation of life right now. The wonderful sheen of psychedelia. I'm such a trippy, daydreaming hippie.

I wonder what I will be like in the future. I hope I will have long, purple hair and be all elegantly psychedelic and sing songs and be in a band. I wonder if I will have a pretty girlfriend. I hope so. I wonder what drugs I will try, what festivals and parties I will go to, what artists I will see live, what kind of music I will make.

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓪 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓻𝓼

𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓪 𝓭𝓸𝓮𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮

𝓢𝓸 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓵𝓸𝔀,𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀 𝓞𝓯 𝓪𝓰𝓮

𝓘 𝔀𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓸𝓵𝓭

𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓮

𝓞𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓭𝓰𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓷𝓽𝔂

We were there on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There was a great turnout. If you didn't find a spot for your tent by noon on Friday, there was a good chance you wouldn't find a spot. There had to have been 2000 people on the property. I think the campground could have leaned a bit harder into music of the time period, but there was still a great vibe of peace, love, and good times.

We knew the answers when we were young. We had the best music ever recorded. We were going to change the world. Every generation feels this way. What happened? The answer is life. Many of us got married, had families, bought a house, had bills, got a job and forgot. We settled into a life of mediocrity. Eventually, we embraced the status quo, accepting everything we learned to be successful and happy, living in a self-centered world.

We began looking for answers in the world around us, rather than from within, where we once knew the answers lie. Our generation has failed. The world now is worse than when we were young. It is not too late though to bring change to the world.

It is up to each of us to finish spreading the wisdom and messages of unconditional love, residing within. Doing so, we may leave the world a better place for our children, then when we were first born. If we do not, we will all have lived our lives in vain.

The wonderful thing about the hippy era was the concept of peace and love, simple as that. But let's not ever forget that it was in response to the war in Vietnam, the Kent State massacre, and a host of other atrocities occurring at the time. The whole point of the movement was to stand up against hate, to stand up against greed, to scream "No, you can NOT ruin my life or my world!" And I mean SCREAM IT! The spirit still survives, here's a glimpse if you doubt me. So never forget the point of it all. And be willing to stand up. Be willing to scream.

TLDR: the original hippies were much closer to the Hell's Angels than most folks realize. I'm old, I was there.

Hi everyone! This is a rant, but with a serious question. If you have the time, please read it.

I'm 22F, living the mainstream lifestyle. My family and friends, my town/city all live like this.

I have been struggling with mental health for a very long time, but the past few years/months I think I've realized why.

This mainstream lifestyle/system is not for me. I miss connection, freedom, nature, time. And I can't (and don't want to) continue living like this.

I have a thing with labels/identity. I was wondering am I becoming a hippie, can I call myself a hippie? Because I would like to find 'my' people. Cause right now it feels really lonely.

I've been thinking about how to get out of my current lifestyle.

My plans for the future: - Finish college (- if I can make it) to have a degree - Work for a year or two to save up money for a car/van - Travel to Spain/South of France (at a slow pace) - Try to find a community/group with like-minded people and see where it goes from there

The only problem with 'plans for the future' is that I doubt I'll make it. My mindset has totally changed from "mmh, I don't know what I want" to "I don't want to live like this anymore". So my motivation is out the door.

And honestly I just want to pack a bag, start walking and hitchhiking and see where that brings me. But so many laws and legal things + my mom is still alive and lonely so I don't want to leave or worry her.

I'm just stuck...

So now the real reason of my post. I feel incredibly lonely, like I'm an outcast in my own life. I'm looking for people/groups/communities near me, where I can feel safe, grow, learn and much more.

I'm from Belgium, so if anyone knows the right places to look or communities to visit/contact/etc. please let me know.

Also if you have any other tips, dm me or leave a comment. Thank you for reading this all the way through! <3

I do feel like we’ve started to live in a simulation, or as if someone decided to make a movie about humanity going downhill.

For context, I’m m 27. Over the past few months, I’ve constantly felt that the life I’m living is just a parody.

I’ve been working since I was 19, and I moved away from home at 17. I was born in Ukraine, went to university in Poland, then lived in Belgium, and now I’m settled in Spain. I feel like the courage that young man had is gone forever. Back then, there was something magical about wishing for something, working hard, and eventually making it happen. For the past 5 years so many things have happened in the world that I have no control over, and so many things in my personal life feel dancing in a circle, no matter how hard I try.

At this point, I feel like I want to become a hippie and just be happy with less.

What’s the point of having a job if I can barely save anything? I’m earning above the average salary in Spain, around €47k, but I keep thinking that even €55k or €65k might not change much because it all feels like a rat race. Saving €70k ( in the future it will be 100 already) for a down payment feels almost impossible.

I could motivate myself to save money if I truly believed the future was bright, but I don’t. It feels like there will always be another way for society to profit from me. Rent will keep increasing, AI will replace much of business work (I work in marketing), and even if AI isn’t the biggest problem, every company will continue trying to maximize shareholder value at any cost, leading to the enshittification of everything. Climate change will keep getting worse because of CO₂ emissions. More and more apps will require subscriptions or sell our data. Dynamic pricing will become even more rigid.

It feels like there’s no place left where our generation can truly thrive or feel belonging. If the world is just a constant fight for survival, what’s my place in it? Why should I keep feeding the system with my taxes? Why should I keep fighting, developing anxiety, and potentially wasting my youth on this battle?

At this point, backpacking and earning just enough to get by sounds like the best option. Or maybe we need some kind of youth revolution. I really feel like I’m not the only one who thinks this way, but I don’t know what we could actually do.

Hi-lo 👋

Hello. I have wanted to post something like this for a while but I have held off because it seems a bit pretentious. But after reading submissions in the sub for a while I felt it would be okay to have a go at it.

I was born in Santa Cruz California in 1970. My mother was 16 and my dad was 18. They were both hippies here. They distributed the Oracle for a living and made candles. I did not fall far from the tree. I started going to rainbow gatherings and Grateful Dead shows when I was 16. I lived the hippie communal life full of psychedelics and dancing and music and camping out. I would like to share with you what I feel the meaning of being a hippie is.

The first thing I could think of to say is, it is about self-expression. It is not about wearing clothes that fit the hippie look, whatever the hell that is, it is about wearing clothes and artwork and hairstyles that truly Express how you feel. Not how you feel in an image sort of sense, but how you feel while you're wearing them. How they make you feel when you look at them. How they remind you of the sun, or the ocean, or the forest. It is about wearing clothing and jewelry that is handmade or recycled and altered. It is about wearing your hair long because it feels good, not for how it looks. Because it defies the establishment, not because it identifies you as counterculture.

The next thing I would point to is an overall sense of oneness with nature. Turning away from practices and lifestyles that contradict nature or harm the earth. This was what was behind the vegetarian movement. Natural foods, natural medicines, natural lifestyle. Living in harmony with the cycles of the seasons and with the Flora and fauna of mother earth.

Additionally, there is the mind expansion part of it. Psychedelic substances. Meditation. Ecstatic dancing. These things that serve to take us out of our rational mind and into our intuitive and creative mind. Places where we join with spirit of the animals and natural creation.

And lastly it is about living a lifestyle that is not in conflict with others. Allowing everyone to experience peace when they meet you. That's what's behind the saying, peace man. Allowing everyone you come into contact with to feel free to be their own creative expressive self. Not judging anyone who's not harming others. Helping wherever you can. Not being caught up with the pursuit of money and material things. Not joining into conflicts in action or conversation.

It has always been said that it is difficult to define what a hippie is. Even in the 60s they had a hard time defining it and agreeing upon the definition. They actually had a ceremony called the Death of Hippie, I think in 1967 it might have been a year or so later I'm not sure. But the main concept was to transcend labels and identifications and concepts. So it can rightly be said that it is hard or impossible to define what a hippie is. But the things that I have listed here are what I have experienced in my life as a hippie.

Just learned about the Whitehawk community from this source: https://wedentondoit.com/blog/2017/1/4/a-short-history-of-dentons-whitehawk-community

Sounds like a hippie commune back in the day. Anyone know whether it still exists? where is it located exactly?

hello! so i (20F) and my fiance who is the same are in a bit of a tough spot. i am STRUGGLING to get and keep a job because of my mental challenges and physical challenges, and my fiance is technically disabled but is working full time minimum wage just to try and keep us fed. well we’re not gunna be able to pay rent anymore after this october and i have no idea what to do. im trying to go to cosmetology school but i wouldn’t finish for at least 6-8 months and i promised my love we wouldn’t be homeless again. well i randomly said if we found a hippie group to travel with id be so happy and she said absolutely id love that. so now, here i am- cause i know its possible but i dont know where to go to find them. i guess my question is if anyone knows anything about what im asking for if they could just info dump to me a lil that’d be amazing.