Whats the difference? Is your mind ever really yours to begin with?

I've completely lost my mind on extremely high doses of DOB, unsafe doses.

There is a difference between getting lost and losing your mind, imo. With the high doses of DOB it's almost as if entering a psychedelic black out state. My mind and body were running on auto pilot, and the drug took complete control of me.(not to be confused with immersion, but comparable to actual psychosis) My mind was literally broken, and the psychedelic experience ceases to even be psychedelic at these doses, more comparable to a deliriant. It's almost as if my consciousness was depressed, not expanded.

"getting lost within your mind" to me, reminds me of wonderful times where I've felt as if I've accessed realms of inner space previously unknown to me, and allowing myself to literally get lost in the labyrinths of the core of my mind and being. Getting lost in one's mind is an awesome experience, and even with doses of LSD at the 1mg range, I am still quite lucid and a part of me recognizes that I am looking inward. Not comparable to "losing my mind" at all really, almost as if I've found it through the process of getting lost in the maze, if that makes any sense.

One of the key landmarks of these really deep spaces, the ones where you've demolished your everyday persona and are simply a point of awareness: familiarity. It feels utterly familiar, like you are returning home. So in one sense you are losing something- your everyday persona- but in another sense you are remembering or returning to something- perhaps a more pure primal state.

I tend to agree with Guyomech that certainly with a deep experience on DMT there is a familiar aspect to it, but Ive not found this to be the case with say LSD.

The mind is in some ways mechanistic during the normal state, whereby its function allows an appreciation of 'what comes next'; the psychedelic mindstate abolishes this and whether or not one loses ones mind or gets lost in ones mind is how one responds to this state of total immediacy.The response can make both descriptors wholly possible, ie being pleasantly lost and wandering, or unpleasantly adrift and seeking to grasp onto something familiar.

Hmm I have never thought of it like that before .

Rather than loosing my mind I would say mind getting lost and loosing connection with my body? If that makes sense. That has totally blown my mind reading that statement.

-Technique