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Given that he didn't know what we know now about LSD (that it's not going to kill you or cause brain damage), his experience was probably a lot more terrifying than the usual bad trip. Not being able to remind yourself that you're safe and that the drug's effects will wear off would make it a lot more scary.
> I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors. Hah, hah, a sign of the times. That's the last thing I'd want to injest when in the throws of a deep, harrowing LSD trip, yuck. Really the only thing that "helps", I find, is a watch (if you're able to read the watch that is). Time can help ground you in the sense that you know roughly when the peak wil…
We always carried “totems”. Little trinkets that we’d hold while waiting for the effect while silently repeating to ourselves that this would remind us we’re just high. Be damned if you lost that thing though. Mine was a toy kitten holding a cheeseburger.
I love reading his trip report, it really pulls you in. But what irks me is the website. I opened it on my pixel c and started reading, after about one paragraph the whole screen went dark. I didn't understand why, checked my screen light level from the shortcut menu but moved on thinking the light sensor was wack and wanting to keep reading. Several paragraphs after the first image I see the damn pop up. This frenzy…
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A peculiar presentiment—the feeling that LSD-25 could possess properties other than those established in my first investigations—induced me, five years after the first synthesis, to produce it once again so that a sample could be given to the pharmacological department for further tests. This was quite unusual; experimental substances as a rule were definitely stricken from the research program if once found to be la…
> As in the first synthesis, this involved the production of only a few centigrams of the compound. At ~0.1mg per dose, this translates to "only" a few hundred doses.
At one point they had produced 10,000 doses in one synth, a grief-fueled synth. An anecdote to be sure, but a hell of an anecdote I won't ruin by paraphrasing any further.
This naturally leads into the story of ALD-52, also known as Orange Sunshine. The analogue people liked more than LSD-25 itself. Which is an entirely new interesting tale of injustice and prosecutor overreach, with an entirely new bunch of folks.
"...And Justice for All" indeed.
The comparison of lsd to overclocking a processor is a pretty good one. Someone I know describes the experience in a similar way: "In normal waking life, data comes into my brain in a singular stream. On lsd my brain feels like it has the ability to process more at once- more streams." Interesting things happen with all this input. Sensations get mixed around and felt in odd ways. For instance synesthesia... You make…
Psychedelics naturally amplify this, and the fact that he can feel emotion through touch, taste a sound or hear a color fascinates me to no end.
He never knew he was one until I showed him the Wikipedia page for synesthesia, he just thought he was fucked up in the head.
The things he must feel and experience I can only hope to have a taste of one day before I die.
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We always carried “totems”. Little trinkets that we’d hold while waiting for the effect while silently repeating to ourselves that this would remind us we’re just high. Be damned if you lost that thing though. Mine was a toy kitten holding a cheeseburger.
Something I've gotten into the habit of doing actually involves writing on my arm in sharpie. I notate what I took, how much, and at what time. I got the idea from a friend, who likes to experiment with some psychedelic RCs. The idea is, if for some reason he ends up in the ER, unable to communicate what he has taken to the doctor trying to help him, it's on his arm!
Disclaimer: I probably shouldn't be posting this, even under a throwaway, but I'm on the other side of the international date line, and I've had a few beers tonight. This post is in response to several comments on this thread. I've done quite a lot of LSD, and I feel that I have some anecdotal input that might be valuable to some. First, some background regarding my usage: I've been using hallucinogenic substances fo…
On hallucinogens, things you assume to be true about yourself, your identity, or life in general may suddenly be called into question, which could be more difficult the longer you've spent building upon those assumptions.
Disclaimer: I probably shouldn't be posting this, even under a throwaway, but I'm on the other side of the international date line, and I've had a few beers tonight. This post is in response to several comments on this thread. I've done quite a lot of LSD, and I feel that I have some anecdotal input that might be valuable to some. First, some background regarding my usage: I've been using hallucinogenic substances fo…
'LSD is the safest option' Safer than cubensis?
Furhteromore, mushrooms contain many more chemicals than just psilocybin/psilocin; they are often unsanitary(especially mushrooms that are found rather than grown). Assuming that you've got actual LSD, there's not much chance of it being contaminated with anything that will have any effect at the dosage level (consider: people typically dose mushrooms on the order of grams, while LSD is dosed on the order of a couple hundred micrograms).
I've never known anyone to eat several grams of LSD (this would be quite expensive),but even if they did, I suspect they'd just be largely catatonic for a day or so, and have minimal memory of the experience.
While it is, of course, possible to massively overdose on LSD, I think you'd be better off than if you overdosed mushrooms on the same scale.
While we're on the subject of dosage - I've found that people tend to have a harder time physically if they take too little LSD. Taking "just half a hit" is not recommended - On a proper dose, you'll have a bit of "body load" for a few minutes, but the psychedelic experience will take over and overshadow any physical discomfort. At the range of ~75 micrograms, I've seen people just feel twitchy and uncomfortable for hours.
Of course, YMMV.
Disclaimer: I probably shouldn't be posting this, even under a throwaway, but I'm on the other side of the international date line, and I've had a few beers tonight. This post is in response to several comments on this thread. I've done quite a lot of LSD, and I feel that I have some anecdotal input that might be valuable to some. First, some background regarding my usage: I've been using hallucinogenic substances fo…
Just keep in mind that you’re getting advice from someone who has already fried his/her brain on acid, and isn’t in any position to say whether that crap will affect you in any bad way, and they certainly don’t care, despite carefully framing their bad advice. This person is interested in “enlightening” as many people as possible, and his/her friends will disembowel you because there’s “twelve” of them. Quite simply, some people have a brain chemistry that doesn’t mix well at all with LSD.
You’re really irresponsible for posting this. Shame on you. How dare you post such a recommendation. Someone could listen to your advice here, think that because they’re stable that they’re safe, have a bad reaction and never quite be the same.
That garbage is pure evil poison for some, and one simply has no way of ensuring they won’t have a bad reaction, regardless of whether they are stable or not. One will never be the same after dosing, for better or worse. Johnny 95 IQ quarterback might not be profoundly impacted, but a typical nerd with an already creative mind will certainly have a life changing experience, and such changes are not always roses for all, despite your anecdotes.
I am cognizant of the fact that my viewpoint on this subject is not the norm in these parts, but someone needs to offer a responsible counterbalance. I recommend that most people do not try LSD at all.