Whew! I was starting to think I was the only one! I'm pretty much a geezer, and while the shine never dulls and no matter how familiar, the experience never loses its novelty, nonetheless there really is no urge. I've sat on an extraction for six months, a year, slowly giving it away without doing more than a taste. I have no 'need' or compulsion and I'm frankly in awe of the power of psychedelics. I take the damn things so seriously that I hardly take them at all.
Simply having the time to do them isn't necessarily the determining factor, although I'm not exactly on a demanding schedule, and if that were the case the leisure time may be a heavier factor indeed.
I have a much larger issue with the physical place to do them safely, and having the time collide with the space to do them is pretty rare, but I still don't think that if they did without plan I would have to use it.
That said, substance is a factor. Eating a couple grams of cubes and taking in a nice sunset is one thing, removing my face is another.
I've been sitting on two breakthrough doses of 5meoDMT for awhile now waiting for that to happen, and if it all came together I probably would jump on it. Having a proper sitter is crucial to that stuff so if it all fell together spontaneously, I'd take it as a cosmic nudge,nudge and yeah I'd do it.
And it does seem that performing an alchemical experiment- (and I'm not using that word to sound trippy, but to the fact that I extract with astrological elections, under meditation and visualization)- or simply becoming intimate with the plant itself has an effect on my inner being, making tripping less than necessary. That or it just scares the living hell out of me. Both,most likely.
Since I reacquainted myself to psyches in 2012 after a 20+ year hiatus, I've probably had ten or adozen DMT trips, 6 5meo trips, 3 mushroom experiences and several micro dose regimens,which sounds like a lot actually for a 50 year old dude. Lately though, I've been getting into it. Despite not finding ONE SINGLE SPECIMEN. last season, with a little help from my friends I've had the pleasure over the last six weeks or so to have had access to some really nice mushrooms and spent a couple weeks micro dosing and just had a nice ~1.5g trip hiking in the woods with a good buddy, all of which catalyzed some desperately needed relief of pent up pain. But yeah man, I totally grok where you're coming from.
Sine experientia nihil sufficienter sciri potest -Roger Bacon
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