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Re: LSD: Not Even Once

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Post by pyrophane »

Trasmatta wrote: post #79

I’ve noticed a troubling trend among psychonauts: any reports of terrible experiences or long lasting negative effects of psychedelics are waved away in two different ways: 1 - blaming of the person who had the experience, for not having the proper “set and setting”, or not respecting the drug. 2 - claiming that there’s no such thing as a “bad trip”, and only a challenging one that takes time to integrate. There migh…

> Currently I feel that there’s nothing about life or myself that I can learn on drugs that I can’t learn in other (safer) ways.

Absolutely. I think the best way to look at the psychedelic experience is as something that shows you a different way of perceiving reality that you should then seek to translate into long term change via spiritual practice.

For those who gets the most out of it, I don't hear them talking about taking it continually, all the time. Usually it shows them something that leads them to other things.

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Post by kuratkull »

dusted wrote: post #164

I've had strongly pronounced visual snow since I was a little kid.. Remember asking my parents "what is the thing you see when you close your eyes?" They were confused, "black?" yeah, but.. I know the color back, like, a piece of black paper on the table in a well-lit room, I understand that it's this near ideal smooth surface that reflect very little light of no particular color.. But the thing when you've been in b…

The night fuzz is probably the brain generating noise. I use it to fall asleep quicker. But the white squiggles on white or against the blue sky are white blood cells at the back of your eye.

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Post by weare138 »

It's like anything, it's not for everyone and you should make informed decisions before try something like LSD or anything else for that matter. But you shouldn't be making those types of life decisions based on a comment from someone like Steve Jobs. LSD is one of the most potent psychoactive compounds known. It's not a toy. You have to be smart about these things. Again it's not for everyone. Don't find out the hard way.

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Post by lez »

Oh, how much I loved those times when google returned the best document on the Internet (still) called "LSD faq". https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_faq.shtml

It states its dangers: Purely psychological hazards, not harmful to body. May release latent psychosis or exacerbate depression, leading to irrational behavior. There is also a danger of foolish or incautious behavior, e.g, misjudging distances or thinking one can fly. Physical overdose is not a hazard, though one may easily ingest more than one may be able to handle psychologically.

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Post by siva7 »

tptacek wrote: post #77
siva7 wrote: post #13

Both those trip reports are very unusual for psylocibin and LSD. It looks to me that the author might have other health complications that caused the bad trips. As a general advice one should be very careful when taking psychedelics with other prescribed medications or having a history of mental illness.

What is anybody supposed to do with this response? Is there a test you can take to rule out long-term negative side effects from psychedelics? If not, aren't you just rolling the dice one way or the other? Mightn't we not just act as if there's a particular mental health complication called "susceptibility to long-term negative side effects of LSD"?

Based on my experience many people aren’t well informed about possible complications when taking LSD. There are certainly negative side effects possible but there is also decades of research on LSD. There is no test to rule out long-term negative side effects from psychedelics but there are safety precautions when starting with psychedelics which weren’t adhered to based on the trip reports from the original author.

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Post by mushr_br »

Throwaway as I am just a lurker but this is a topic that goes very deep.

My brother took magic mushrooms once as he read a lot of things about it that it would cure social anxiety or anxiety in general. This is a problem that lies in our family and I am affected myself so I can understand why he did it.

However, his experience was terrible and he had a bad trip that had the effect that he couldn't sleep for three days. Afterwards he took some medication (sleeping pills and beta blockers) and seemed quite ok for a few weeks but then terrible panic attacks and extreme anxiety happened. He is still recovering but I can see that he is suffering.

All the good reports are probably true and also partly survivorship bias. For my brother it was a terrible experience and I am not sure if he can fully recover from this. People should also report about potential negative effects.

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Post by verteu »

jerglingu wrote: post #22

Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were crushed by 100 lbs of it" on sites like Reddit. It wasn't until after getting high that I heard about marijuana amplifying stress tendencies in a minority of people. I've always been high strung, and maybe…

Sounds rough -- how'd you administer & what was the approximate dose?

Re: LSD: Not Even Once

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Post by nvarsj »

kstenerud wrote: post #131
jerglingu wrote: post #22

Had a similar experience, but with the much more tame marijuana. It was a 6-hour long panic attack for me. Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were crushed by 100 lbs of it" on sites like Reddit. It wasn't until after getting high that I heard about marijuana amplifying stress tendencies in a minority of people. I've always been high strung, and maybe…

I had a really bad experience with marijuana. I'd tried it a few times before, but it always had literally zero effect on me (as in I smoked as much as everyone else, they got baked and I felt nothing). And then one day I took a single hit in a shop in Vancouver and was almost instantly hit with brain zaps. It got so bad that I couldn't walk without throwing up, had trouble seeing, and this lasted for hours (from 10:…

It's colloquially called a "whitey". Likely you had a very high THC strain and it hit your body like a truck of bricks because you weren't accustomed to it.
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