set and setting
Psychedelic experience factors
Set and setting is the context for a psychedelic drug experience.
Set refers to mindset—the user's expectations, mood, and mental state going in.
Setting is the physical and social environment where the experience takes place.
The concept, originating with Timothy Leary in the 1960s, holds that these factors profoundly shape whether a trip is positive or negative: A safe set and setting can prevent a bad trip.
- mindsetEstablished mental attitude
- environmentExternal conditions affecting life
- contextCircumstances shaping meaning
- atmosphereGaseous layer around planets
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
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