I only have experience with mushrooms. If you have a good guide you can make some breakthroughs that years of theory may or may not produce. It's a powerful tool. It can also be fun or relaxing for micro doses.

My brain didn't fry but sometimes it does kinda fuck with your stomach a bit.

I did an Ayahuasca retreat last year, it was completely worth it, it was just one night and it was wonderful.

I didnt have any visual anecdote,my hearing was a bit more mellow,all my other senses felt kinda nice, like when you smoke weed after not having smoked for a while.

The real great stuff was getting into this deep meditative state, where intellect and emotions get together, and i did some emotional work,fixing certain issues i had at the time,and now I still feel great having done so,has been very beneficial.

I can see it helping out a bunch if taken a few times throughout the year

Psychedelics are great (if used theraputically). Its worked out that I have taken some psychedelic about every 7 years (just the one time). It has been a bit of a through clean and reset for me. I have only ever tried mushrooms, LSD and Ayahuasca.

Approach these drugs wanting to learn about yourself. I am not saying you can't have fun with these drugs (had an awesomely funny 60's experience complete with sex outdoors with the hippy chick when I did LSD) but I think the fun is best as a side effect not the main attraction, or you are wasting your time and could be getting an unhelpful habit. The benefit is seeing the world a bit differently for a short time. Its like a factory re-set.

Tried Alpha theanine to calm nerves a couple of times. I think it works quite well for social situations and for sleeping when stressed but for rifle shooting competitions, where you want a very steady hand (which I what I started experimenting with it for), I discovered that a single shot of whiskey worked much better! Clay pigeon shooters however often find Alpha theanine is great.

Found that citicoline might help me focus on the annual business accounts. My kids have used if for school exams but didn't seem to think it was much help.

So nootropics nah not really unless if you count zyns haha.

As for psychedelics like I’ve done lsd twice and shrooms like 4 times.

Here’s my takeaways:

1. You gotta be the right kind of person for psychedelics. Personally I had a great time every time; but I’ve had friends that did not handle it so well. Those are for sure the types that prob have some like schizo in dna n shit and this exacerbates it.

2. I do shrooms once every couple years; it’s a nice lil mental check in with what you’re doing/where you’re going in life.

Just say no to drugs. You're welcome.