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Before any scale, schedule, or substance, hold this idea: Take less. Notice more. It is the principle that frames everything ahead. A microdose is not a small trip — it is a deliberate choice to stay under the threshold of feeling, so that your attention, not the chemical, does the work.
A microdose is a sub-perceptual or near-threshold amount of a psychedelic: roughly a tenth to a twentieth of a recreational, or "trip," dose. The defining feature is intention. You are taking it precisely not to trip. If a full journey is the destination, a microdose deliberately never leaves the driveway.
"Sub-perceptual" sounds technical, but it is plain in practice. On a well-judged microdose day, you should be able to:
work and concentrate as usual
parent, cook, run errands
hold an ordinary conversation
…without anyone around you noticing anything unusual — and often without you being able to point to a single dramatic moment. That subtlety is the point, not a disappointment.
Here is the honest test. If you feel high, giggly, time-warped, visually altered, or unable to function, that was not a microdose. It was a minidose or larger. Feeling clearly intoxicated means the amount was too high to count, full stop.
If anyone can tell you took something, it wasn't a microdose.
It helps to picture a spectrum rather than a single dose:
Microdose — sub-perceptual. You function completely normally; effects, if any, are quiet and easy to miss. This is the only tier this lesson is about.
Minidose — light but clearly felt. Mood or perception shifts noticeably. Not dangerous for many people, but not for a routine work-or-driving day, because you will notice it.
Full dose — a genuine journey. Strong, immersive, and requiring planning, a free day, and often a trusted sitter present. A different practice entirely.
The gap between these tiers is enormous in experience even when the difference in milligrams looks small. That is exactly why precision and restraint matter later in the course.
Answer every question, then submit to see how you did. You can retake it as often as you like — your score is just for you.
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Most of life teaches that a stronger version of a good thing is better. Microdosing inverts that instinct. The entire practice is built on subtlety and attention — on noticing faint shifts in mood, focus, or patience — not on intensity. The moment you chase a bigger feeling, you have left microdosing and entered a different activity with different rules and risks.
So treat "I didn't feel much" not as a failure to fix by taking more, but as a sign you are in the right territory. The skill you are building is not how to feel a substance. It is how to observe yourself honestly while barely feeling anything at all.
Throughout this course we will only ever describe what people report and how the dose is defined. Nothing here promises an effect or a benefit. The work is yours; the dose just gets quietly out of the way.
Less in the body. More in the noticing.