What Is PsychonautWiki?
PsychonautWiki is an open, community-edited encyclopedia of psychonautics — the practice of exploring subjective experience and states of consciousness. It is aimed at people who want structured, reference-style information on psychoactive substances, the subjective effects they produce, and related practices such as meditation, breathing techniques, and sensory deprivation. The site is written in English (en-GB) and is also reachable through Tor and I2P mirrors for users who want network-level privacy.
What the site covers
The main page organises content into several broad areas:
- Psychoactive substances — drug articles, including entheogens, hallucinogens, and lists of non-hallucinogenic substances used in rituals, common legal psychoactive substances, and psychoactive club substances.
- Subjective effects — a large index of documented effects, split into categories such as visual, cognitive, and miscellaneous.
- Psychonautics practices — breathing techniques, fasting, meditation, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, and tulpa.
- Tools — meditation frequency, psychedelic art, the Shulgin Rating Scale, and "vibes" (good vibes, trippy vibes, bad vibes).
- Experience reports — first-person accounts of specific substances and doses.
- Oneironautics — dream-related topics including lucid dreaming, dream signs, reality checks, sleep paralysis, and Yoga Nidra.
Subjective effects: how the index is structured
Rather than describing a substance only by name or class, PsychonautWiki catalogues the effects a user may experience. Examples from the main page include:
| Category | Example entries |
|---|---|
| Visual | Perspective hallucination, double vision, geometry, drifting, tracers, colour tinting, visual acuity suppression |
| Cognitive | Motivation enhancement, focus intensification, conceptual thinking, novelty enhancement, depression reduction, delirium |
| Miscellaneous | Temperature regulation suppression, cough suppression, cognitive euphoria, catharsis, panic attack, visual haze |
This structure lets you look up a single effect and see how it is defined, independent of any one substance.
Experience reports
The site hosts individual trip reports, listed by substance and dose — for example "3 Grams of Mushrooms," "Caffeine (~125 mg) + Nicotine (4.5 mg)," "100mg 4-AcO-DMT (insufflated)," and "150mg DPT." These are personal accounts rather than clinical data, so treat them as anecdotal observations, not as dosing guidance.
Harm reduction content
PsychonautWiki includes responsible-use material alongside its substance articles. One example visible on the main page: naloxone is now recommended to be carried by anyone using street drugs or by people nearby. This harm-reduction framing runs through the drug-related sections.
Access and privacy
The site is available on the clearnet at psychonautwiki.org, and the main page lists two alternative addresses:
- Tor:
vvedndyt433kopnhv6vejxnut54y5752vpxshjaqmj7ftwiu6quiv2ad.onion - I2P:
psy.i2p
These mirrors are useful if you want to read the content without exposing your IP address to the clearnet site.
Who it is for
PsychonautWiki suits readers who want a reference framework for subjective experience — for example, someone trying to name or understand an effect they experienced, or someone researching a substance's reported effects before deciding anything. It is not a prescribing guide, and its experience reports are user-submitted. Use it as an encyclopedic starting point, and cross-check anything safety-related against qualified sources.