Can one really find themselves at a burning man type of festival?

Can any experienced bros on Sup Forums help me out with a question I have. Everyone that goes to music or "gathering" festivals always has these profound sounding realizations or self actualization experiences that they talk about. Love and Peace type of rantings... talk about close knit family groups of people that they spend time with. Am I missing something in life? Should I go to one of these festivals? Do they all do psychedelics or are some of these people dressing weird and dancing/camping out with strangers completely sober? Why are they all claiming to have their minds so opened? Can someone please help me understand this?

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It's all a thinly veiled excuse to do drugs while still maintaining an air of superiority.

sounds like they just did a bunch of acid, in which case that kinda talk is the normal

They find what they want to find, like every other stupid liberal fuck.

>"Free expression"
>"Peace and unity"
>"Open mind"

but don't deviate from being a stupid liberal fuck like the rest of the in-group, you're not welcome maaaan

No but it's a good place to find std's.

Whores, Drugs & Bad music.


>Degenerate.

>>"Free expression"
>>"Peace and unity"
>>"Open mind"
sounds like Sup Forums

>Why are they all claiming to have their minds so opened?

You mean their assholes so opened, they're all faggots.

If you need to find yourself, you have a serious lack of spatial awareness, user.

It's a party. It's the biggest most degenerate party on earth besides that eyes wide shut stuff the rich folks do but it's still a huge fucking party. If you're the kinda person that finds yourself at this kind of party then you're a degenerate. There are real ways to find yourself that involve things like hard work and discipline.

Fucking this. It's the drugs doing the talking.

It's the drugs that give them that feel

This, festivals are degenerate as fuck

wierd party degenerate here:

i regularly go to "festivals" and shit like burning man and regional burns and honestly, "everyone" to you are just your boring ass fucking normie facebook tools who do little more than clubbing or whatever on the norm, so the shit wierdos and artists create like burning man blows their fucking mind.

She probably fucked some strangers, did drugs and took selfies and wants validation for it on facebook, all dumb whores do this shit.

wtf ? just enjoy the music.

The irony of this whole thing is that Sup Forums is the embodiment of the "Equality" movement.

Okay so OP here... I understand what you guys are saying. So my question is about the "love and peace" thing... does that last a lifetime or is this just some side effects of doing the drugs? Sorry for being so ignorant.

Pretty sure it's just a drug festival. The epiphany these people get is because they get peace from thinking too much or too little.

They temporary live in an unsustainable period of wealth where nobody works, nobody is sick, nobody is hungry, there is no need elderly to care for ect. So of course all that peace and love stuff makes since while they are in that environment. But it is not possible in the v real world

Thanks for the response, can you expand on the validity or authenticity of the "love and peace" or "self actualization" these people are experiencing? Have you ever had some kind of awakening from going to a festival?

The only epiphany I got was fuck everyone, don't trust them, these drugs are too much, and I got to do my own thing to be happy

People doing mdma or coke bond over the drug use and while on the drugs. If you can't find peace and happiness straight then getting fucked up and partying isn't
Going to help. Try self reflection and spend some time alone really thinking about yourself and what your doing. If you can get what you think, feel and do in sync you'll be amazed at how happy and at peace you'll be

>Can someone please help me understand this?

Go to a couple of them. Find out.

Nobody can help you while you're wanking away behind your keyboard. Only you can determine this for yourself ... by getting out of the basement and going into the world and interacting with other human beings.

These gatherings are for you to go and do your own thing, whatever it is, and interact with other people doing their own thing. By definition, you are supposed to get outside of your comfort zone and figure out how to grow & survive there.

Drugs are strictly optional. Anyone telling you that you have to do them doesn't know what they're talking about and you should seek more reliable advice. If you want to do them, find people you can trust and enjoy the ride.

This isn't a destination. It's a journey.

One advice: if you're looking for a white pride sort of event, stay away. Assholes are pretty strictly discouraged from attending.

ITT shut in losers with lack of empathetic intelligence overlooking a mass consciousness events that drugs and music AID in achieving

>ywn experience 90s Burning Man, a desert paradise full of libertarian SubGenius geek types armed to the teeth and tripping balls

"Is that thing loaded?"
"Of course it's loaded. If it's not loaded, it's basically a stick"

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normie

>Can one really find themselves at a burning man type of festival?
Drugs can induce all kinds of things.
Delusions is a very common one.

I am really trying to go to Burning Man this year, but is it really worth it? Would appreciate anons who have been, I've only been to a few music festivals (most recently Euphoria Fest in Austin) and have really enjoyed them, at least until my roll came off that is. Would a degenerate like me really find happiness there?

the love and peace thing is these normies really only expanding upon their own inherent biases and ignorance. take it with a grain of salt. so yeah, its a side effect, especially if you are rolling on ecstasy at these festivals.

However, when you do insane amounts of drugs like, acid, 2cb/e/i, mda etc etc, it doesnt make you hippy. what it does, however is defrag your mind in a way, shake it up and allow you to see things in ways you typically take for granted or overlook. its more of a inward sort of experience, where your self awareness and sense of place in the world expands. Ego loss and all that.

so it does last a lifetime, but not in the way you assume it does (peace and love thing), you only learn what you care to, so if its your first experience, yeah, you are going to light up about everything and everything around you, but subsequent use often goes deeper and often heavier. You uncover shit about yourself for better or for worse.

idk

go get some trusted buds and try it out for yourself

Ya, they " found" themselves on shit loads of acid and ecstacy.

>about the "love and peace" thing

There is no such thing. People who go to festivals are the most elitest/exclusionary people out there. Good luck making friends with any of these people if you don't dress/act like them and are good looking.

I work as bi prostitute in Austria and make about 9 thousands € a month, so I don't really care about degeneracy. Team FPO and Navalny by the way! Burning man is awesome.

To be fair acid and ecstacy give you a pretty good head start on finding ones self

When you're as empty and degenerate as these people even farting seems like a transcending experience.
These people should be burned alive, have no shadow of doubt these retards are as empty as a human being can be.

I use to go to Bonnaroo every year, it was awesome.

not who you're talking to, and not specifically related to festivals per se, but i've had some profoundly introspective experiences on acid, in a variety of settings from by myself at home, to aimlessly wandering city streets, to dancing my legs off at a rave. it has this very distinctive way of turning your thoughts into overdrive, and it's very hard to control. that scares people sometimes, but it's vital to the experience. almost everyone has stuff they'd rather not think about, but any memory you've ever stored, including thoughts you've had about the past, present, future, alternate possibilities -- all of it is fair game. and at the same time you're churning out what feels like hundreds of novel thoughts per second, and you might seize on any one of these things to analyze until you feel you're done with it. so you will usually end up thinking very deeply at some point about your life, which most people really don't do on a regular basis.

that's the long and the short of it, really. you can have the same sort of realizations without chemical assistance, but it is uncommon for anyone to be able to focus their attention that honestly and critically on themself for that span of time, even if they wanted to. even if you did, you wouldn't have the sense of being so directly, fatefully confronted with these thoughts, the way you do on psychedelics.

i hope i answered your question, i tend to ramble when i talk about psychs

You should drink piss, bro. That shit really opens your mind.

>being this much of a normie
wew lad, how the hell did you end up her
however the fuck that happened, now GET OUT

i had my awakening in private, with friends, doing wierd shit. I started doing drugs socially at comic and fan conventions ahaha

but when i started doing music festivals and burns, i mostly just candy flipped (ecstasy + MDMA) for the seratonin fueled acid good times or get drunk or do ketamine. As a sort of enhancement of a bizarre experience im bound to have either way

but yeah, the AWAKENING THING is just a normies first experience on drugs, its mostly just adorable and whatever.

are you going alone or with friends? are you prepared? the environment is fucking hell, but amazing. bring winter coats as well as alot of sunscreen. lol

>past, present, future possibilities
>like, far out man
This is how the mind of a degenerate junkie works.
Drugs are the direct opposite of wisdom, discipline, austerity and solemnity -- it's not even dark or romantic.
No further explanation is needed. Please kill yourself.

Ecstacy dumps a fuckload of dopamine into your system. Suddenly everyone is your "tribe" and your best friend and confidant. Ecstasy is done at music events. Ergo...

I just got back from a trip to Big Bend, so I'm used to surviving for a few days in the desert heat. I want to go with friends if possible, but everyone I know is going to EDC this summer. Frat bros don't make the best trip partners anyway, but it's going to suck if I can't get someone to come along. Is going by myself really such a terrible idea?

Its just the ecstasy talking. I remember this shit from the rave scene and its a phase and fake. Now you do make some really great friends but there are also the scum and self-destructives and they are the vast majority.

No. These festivals are nothing but a place full of Antifa memebers, hipsters, faggots, and rich prep-hipsters. Also, they're essentially Satanic cults full of hedonism. Yes, a literal Satanic ritual. The same shit with Rainbow Road, and I don't mean the racetrack from Mario Kart.

You are missing something. You don't have to go to a festival, just spend a day out in the sun and do 2.5 grams of mushrooms or 2 hits of LSD and you'll understand.

>awakening
Yeah, I bet you realized how empty and vapid you fuckers are, in relation to people who toiled their life away trying to understand and explain human behavior like Jesus or Dostoyevsky did.

Kill yourself you subhuman junkie degenerate faggot, you're the literal scum of society and the only reason you're tolerated is because society is completely fucked up beyond all recognition.

I've done loads of drugs and never understood this "awakening" thing. Usually your mind just races and you think you have some deep thoughts and feelings, but in retrospect they're things which you normally have all the time.

>hippy like stoner fag in highschool
>meet u with group of fags like OP pic at seawall
>take mushrooms
>getting these compulsive thoughts in my head
>YOURE GAY YOURE GAY YOURE GAY
>thoughts wont go away
>ever since then questioning my sexuality
>decide to watch gay porn
>absolutely disgusting
>watch straight porn
>boner achieved
>start to fap to the straight porn because i have no self control
>compulsive anxiety thoughts still hitting me
>befriend gay guy
>decide to experiment with this guy
>get him to make out with me to test myself
>pure disgust
>feel like i tainted my soul
>"huh maybe i was trippin really hard and had one of those mushroom flashbacks"
>hit up the group slut one day
>pick her up at 1 in the morning to fuck
>boner in a matter of seconds
>bust the best nut of my life
>get home
>decide to smoke weed out of joy
>compulsive thoughts strike back
>YOURE GAY YOUR GAY YOURE GAY
>dont know what the fuck is goin on

these people are just on drugs. drugs my friend is a hit and miss

>Go there dressed in biohazard suit (should fit in)
>Hand out baggies of botulinum type H
>Watch as problem vanishes before your eyes

So this guy is right? youtube.com/watch?v=cMu5F2icsT8

>Do they all do psychedelics or are some of these people dressing weird and dancing/camping out with strangers completely sober

No, but most do because it's fun and allows you to connect with people on an adventure of sorts.

You can find all kinds of crowds and kindred spirits at large festivals though

>implying there's nothing profound in a fart
think about a fart. we take it for granted, but it's a token of the relationship we have with our gut bacteria and with our food and water. on a more abstract level, it's symbolic of the way we consume the world around us, transform it, and return the product back to the world. we are always intaking, processing, outputting. air, water, food, yes, but also information. knowledge. music, art, utility, change. we can even extrapolate this concept to the world as a whole. consider the world as an organism that feeds off of what we put into it, the same way your gut bacteria feed off of what you put into your stomach. i could go on and on, and i'm stone sober right now.
you call yourself redpilled? learn to think REALLY critically and then tell me how insignificant you think a fart is. nothing is insignificant. even if one fart is indistinguishable from another, the CONCEPT of farts is absolutely vital to our existence. anyone who deals heavily in memes should already be well acquainted with these sorts of thoughts

There's some sick fetishism with hyping up psychedelic drugs as profound spiritual experiences; people just can't admit that they're just fucking drugs, fun times for a few hours and that's about it.

I've been going to festivals and raves for over a decade and I'm going to give you the most cliche but true advice

You can only find happiness within yourself user, no place, event, or person can create that for you, if you aren't happy you need to change the way you live and how you perceive yourself

Drugs are only a temporary cheat code and let's be honest, the drugs make at least half the experience what it is

You should still go to Burning Man or Shambhala before they go full mainstream though, they're quickly being overrun by normies and faggots

I highly recommend everyone go to one of these festivals at least once. Take a handful of drugs and bliss out with people exactly like you who (at least temporarily) share the same peaceful values of cooperation, trust and understanding. It's an incredibly amazing feeling to be a human supported and cared for by other humans.
However, you can't live here. It's all temporary.
In the real world, wolves are ready to eat sheep like you. And they're ready to take complete advantage of you and your frail little friends.
Think of this little subculture as what heaven might be like. One day you'll get to go back, but you don't get to be a sheep forever. Go play in the pen but Remember you must fight and kill the wolves another day.

I'd imagine you could make a pretty penny stealing people's phones and cameras

Probably just intrusive thoughts. Everyone gets them.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought

i'm just saying it's a good way to shake things up if you're stuck in a rut. if that doesn't apply to you, then by all means feel free to take a haughty and dismissive attitude toward anyone with a different life experience than you

kek you tried shrooms and all you got was a voice in your head telling you to fag it up.

You're being programmed. Stop doing drugs and really examine the media you're consuming.

Don't bother engaging with the muh degeneracy retards, it's not worth it.

If you need to be surrounded by drug addled hippies shitting and pissing and not bathing in a desert to 'find yourself', you should considering just offing yourself.

lmfao, well, edc is alright, im pretty much done with that myself. i can only tolerate being stuck in a shuttle or in traffic to and from the vegas speedway for 6 hours every evening and morning before i tire of the whole affair.

but yeah, burning man is pretty rad, and while you can do it alone, i seriously suggest getting a very good friend or two and doing it together. get on your bike, point in one direction, and ride until you find something cool. my group of friends got wasted drunk, decided to ride our bikes out to the far side of the whole event perimetre (which takes half an hour, given burning man is essentially a week long city of 40,000 people, pic related) and near the trash fence, which is the defacto boundary of the event space far, far away from the city itself - came across a ramshackle punk rock radio station and bar (broadvasting to the whole of black rock city) with a rickity single track wooden roller coaster beside it. a bunch of punks were thrashing around and insulting people who were showing up live on radio, including us.

most of burning man is like, independent themed bars giving out free booze and just, "radical self reliance". Not necessarily hippy, but certainly like, romping around in secondlife irl or something. thats the only comparison i could make lol

nah, i just do it to have a blast every now and then, otherwise im working in tv with a pretty decent pay, so

lol

Bro. These festivals are still full of backstabbers. Double the backstabbing from the very same people you hung out with once they return home.

The people there will try to hide their STDs, the others will try to take your girl (red flags already before you even left) The people will try to cuck you, or cock block. The others will also try to take your supplies and give some bullshit hippie excuse like "Everything is free, man." Also, the place is very clique-like, with a hippie facade. If you're not some hippie-looking dick-ass who they find worthy enough, or I guess, not San Francisco-looking enough, they'll outcast you or use you.

Also, in these crowds, the white guys with dreadlocks are the worst types, and the epitome of the Devil. A liar, a con-artist, and a trickster. The only reason why you, or especially the girls like that guy is because he's loaded with drugs. Nothing is genuine around the dreadlock man.

well it wasnt really a voice it just me compulsively questioning my sexuality.

Hasta LaVista Antifaschista

I used to go to music festivals.

The whole "finding myself" is pretty much a meme. The only things they find themselves on is someone's dick. But all people that attend these events say that they had the greatest time while on these psychedelic drugs. Don't get me wrong, the people at these festivals are really nice people, you can make friends with anyone there.

However, I hate the Australian festival drug culture. It's all about "Yeah brah lets get fkn off chops cunt", it's annoying as fuck.

There's a difference. You can take drugs, party and be an absolute degenerate, or you can take these psychedelic drugs to actually explore, and see what reality really is.

Will I still attend festivals? Hell yeah. Not in Australia though, fuck our festivals. Even though I'm /fit/, I'm absolutely sick of the roid munchers at our festivals, they just go there to out alpha each other, and everything is overpriced and shit. So is the attitude of the crowd. EDC. Burning Man and a couple of others are on my list.

I'm actually going to the Electric Daisy Carnival in Vegas for the fourth year in a row in two weeks. It's a blast, though there's an absurd amount of left leaning ideology. Everyone is your best friend during those 3 nights, then you get to go back to hating each other. It's great, 10/10 highly recommend it.

> Been going to them year in year out since i was 14
> Worked at them week in week out for about 5 years.
It just people on drugs with music and some decorations outside m8.

yeah nah fucken stereo lads oi cunt

go to

have fun

nah yeah fucken lets chuck a sick muzz at stereo brah

understanding the complexity of simple things is important, but no more important than simplifying the complex.

will this be fun for a HKV at 26 person? I don't have any friends,what would happen if i go by myself.

It's just an excuse to get drunk, high and rub tiger balm on each other. It's a cesspool of degeneracy and there is absolutely no brotherhood involved. Nobody talks to anyone else after the festival is done.

Only good thing is you can get laid if you still haven't punched your v card. Other than nothing else. Join an adventure club or something else if it's brotherhood you are looking for

Discipline is the true path, deviant activities at depraved festivals do not lead you to enlightenment

>mostly just candy flipped
>(ecstasy+MDMA)

That's how I know you're full of shit

> It's a cesspool of degeneracy
I went to India last year and it was just a cesspool in general.

As long as you enjoy electronic dance music, you'll have the time of your life. There's actually a very large amount of people that go solo each year. I would 100% go alone if the option was all I had and wasn't already splitting a suite with others.

You wont find anything about yourself at something like this, you will only find more tests to see of how low you value yourself and your spirit

All this "support and cooperation" nonsense.

Are you building a fucking barn or something?

It's easy to cooperate when everyone is just on drugs vacation.

Agreed, anyone who says their trip to "burning man" was how they "found themselves" is lying to themself

American "Festivals" go to Wacken or Rock am Ring and have fun not that faggy peace shit you goys have

See you there user.

Ok we get it india doesnt poo in loo, people should own give them shit when what they say is retarded, but the good india posters dont deserve it

acid and mdma, i have dyslexia whoops ehuehuuehue

>there's an absurd amount of left leaning ideology. Everyone is your best friend during those 3 nights, then you get to go back to hating each other

That's what I assumed, considering heading mak j scream "fuck Donald trump" cause a faggot had a sign with the exact words with him.

Lastly, I'm completely peanut butter and jealous you'll be at EDC. I'll be watching the live stream if there, have a sign that says Sup Forums

short answer : no

I've been to plenty of these festivals, not to Burning Man of course but I've heard it turned into San Fransisco Yuppie/Tech ville anyway

No, you will not fucking "find yourself". At best, you'll get really drunk, fuck some free love whore and luck out by not getting an STD.

At worst you get robbed, pass out, have people steal your shit, get an STD, overdose on drugs or alcohol etc

Its all just an excuse to be on uppers and talk to a bunch of other people on uppers, weeeew so enlightening

Its sad people care so much about losing their V card that they would go to a degenerate event like burning man to find a loose woman with no standards just why

>Wacken

Shit isn't what it used to be. Now it's full of LARP, Wiccans, and kids.

Blame Amon Amarth for ruining everything.

>That's what I assumed, considering heading mak j scream "fuck Donald trump" cause a faggot had a sign with the exact words with him.

Hearing*

Forgot to mention he did that shit at ultra this year.

You're all a bunch of loser ass nerds that don't like fun because nobody likes you. Fuck these faggots OP if you love the music and have some friends to go with then go. You'll have a fun time and a cool experience.

They're just very high on drugs OP. take some shrooms with a few friends around a fire with some music going and you'll get the idea.

They mistaken frivolity and that initial politeness when you meet people, for something deeper.

Most of these idiots don't have a clue what loyalty, duty and honour means.

A fun festival where everyone is having a good time and where you can score good drugs will very easily give dumb cunts little epiphanies on life.

The mistake they make is thinking that their whole life should be like that. So naturally they won't shut the fuck up about it.

I've been to many big festivals, taken many drugs and had a wonderful time. But at the end of the day I came home and resumed reality.

>the revelations I have on my delusion drugs aren't delusions
>I know that they chemically change your perception, but the spiritual awakening I had was real