Tim Ferriss

I'm tripping my balls off sitting on, like, the kitchen floor with my parents.

Like, that's bad enough.

But when I was walking back to this other house where I was staying with my friends, I came out of my trip in pitch blackness, walking in the middle of the road, and almost got hit by an oncoming car.

Like, the headlights coming at me is what woke me up, and then I, like, jumped out of the way.

And I was like, okay.

We're done."

And I stopped.

And the only reason I got back into it, the interest always persisted.

And the other things, the lucid dreaming, the neuroscience, the interest, all of that continued.

But I was like, psychedelics, that's off piste.

And then in 2012, probably, 2012, my girlfriend at the time

went on retreat to Peru and did three nights of ayahuasca and came back and was just a different person.

And I was like, okay, that's interesting.

And she said, you really need to do this.

And I was like, I don't think so.

And she said, it's 20 years of therapy and two or three nights.

And I was like, damn, you know me too well.

It's a pretty good pitch.

And I was like, okay.

And keep in mind, this is before I unpacked all the trauma stuff, but she was aware of it.