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LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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It's a tired cliche to share one's fundamentally incommunicable drug experiences in the comments when the topic comes up, is it not? Let's have a go at it. The author paints an image of conflict between himself on lsd, and himself off lsd. Himself the perceiver, and himself the analyzer. I don't think these are integral to the experience. He mentions perceptions like '...the notion of “teetering” was meaningless too—…

"Have you ever tried to relax? It is a paradox!"

No, it's not. Anger management is possible. (Often other emotions as well).

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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There is a lot going on in this article and I won't comment on all of it. I'll just address people who are perhaps curious about psychedelics. May I highly suggest that those wishing to experiment with psychedelics do it only in a place where you feel absolutely safe. That is, no risk of police, parents (if that is an issue), or neighbours to bother you. Additionally and I do think this is very important: in nature .…

I agree with just about everything you said, except the "in nature" part. Don't get me wrong, tripping in nature is awesome, maybe the best place to trip. But it isn't necessary and might not even be the best for your first time (depending on what you are doing). They real key is to not have too many stimuli out of your control, particularly having lots and lots of strangers around. Especially if you have to interact…

Yes, nature can actually be quite scary if you're not used to being in it. I think a pleasant, safe, comfortable urban setting can be just as good.

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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I'm a bit unusual here. I have never taken any drugs. I don't drink alcohol. I am also not judgmental. There is the concept of the waking dream. That we are always in a dream which keeps being guided by our senses. Where the mind corrects the dream based on what we feel, see, and hear. Psychedelics seem to break this process. When people say they have "Profound" experiences, do they mean they finally understand this?…

I believe that you can definitely wonder into the same territory through meditation. Some people even get there through athletics by pushing themselves really intestly. The experiences that people describe as "bad trip" can be found in the literature around buddhism, or even in the christian tradition if you examine "the dark night of the soul". There are also parallels to the more positive experiences.

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

#84
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Bumping into objects, living in my head all day, failure to follow up on appointments, messy room, always lost things, moved around constantly, and more.

How did it affect these things? I have a hard time imagining how it could all of a sudden fix ADHD symptoms like that.

Never underestimate the placebo effect.

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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I know I'm not alone thinking that psychedelics might just be the solution (or key to finding solutions) to a lot of humanity's issues, including climate change, fundamentalism, war..

And it's easy to understand why - because most of humanity's issues are consequences of the spiritual health of every individual living on the planet. If the group, as a whole, is spiritually and morally lost or deceived, things like wars, dictatorships or disregard for nature can and do take place.

If psychedelics can heal individuals, then we can eventually heal the whole of society, which is the proverbial moving on to the next level of global consciousness.

Without any kind of real data, instinctively I feel like the world is going through an explosion of psychedelic use, partly due to music festivals, partly due to dark markets and partly due to the good press and incredible amounts of information available online.

Another interesting aspect is that the users who experienced a powerful personal transformation often feel the need to spread the word and rightfully come to treat them as sacraments.

So I think more and more people will use them, which will hopefully lead us to a peaceful, healthy future.

AI, VR, Robots, Space exploration and Psychedelics .. Interesting times indeed.

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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Best advice I was ever given is that if the trip is going badly you should move your body to a different setting. It provides a nice reset should you have placed your mind somewhere that "you" do not feel comfortable with. I can't say I think that people should be recommending psychedelics because the experience is so extreme and so personal, it can be life altering. As with anything this "far out", the outcome could…

Caveat emptor, for [1] the journal does not look legit.

Interesting, but also what about this?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry...

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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and for those who seek the most purist trip and healing that blows away lsd or any other kind of artificially lab created chemical.. try ayahuasca. its the ulimate nuetropic and journey you can take. 2 nights ago i had My First #Ayahuasca Experience. The Quick Post Mortem - 10yrs of therapy.. in 1 night. - 2x more energy. - full chacras alignment - 3x more focus - 3x less stress - a more positive attitude - 100x more…

>full chacras alignment

You know that that is mumbo jumbo BS, right?

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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Then you should get those people in touch with the appropriate researchers. They are anomalies.

Well one of them killed himself after hallucinating people coming through the walls to get him so it would be tricky in that case. Here are some famous acid casualties http://www.wow247.co.uk/2015/07/17/bad-trip-brian-wilson-aci... I don't think there's much in the way of peer reviewed papers because no ones going to deliberately dose one group on LSD for a long term study and most recreational users take other drugs…

I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I've personally seen several people suffer various ailments (cutting social ties; entering depression) after experimenting with psychedelics. They can be fun and they may be a useful therapy, but it's foolish to think they are risk-free.

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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I'd add I know several people with long term mental impairment from overuse, mostly from long term use of LSD. So while it's interesting to try, be cautious.

I know a woman who was a junior at Dartmouth. She came home for Christmas. She went to a concert with friends. She allegedly took LSD. She woke up the next day, and didn't recognize her parents. She didn't recognize her boyfriend whom came running over. She finished her degree 25 years later, and she still has trouble functioning in society. She never got back to that high functioning individual. She's still very sma…

>This is a true story

Not very reliable, as this is also what old wives tales and urban legends claim too ("I know this guy/gal that...").

In this case for example, you might really know that woman, and she might have been a junior at Dartmouth that had those issues, but unless you were there with her that day, there's no way to know whether she did take LSD that night (or something else, or even nothing), or whether she didn't have any issues before, etc. It could just be some rumor people tell about here, or what she wanted other people to know about it (e.g. not to admit a mental illness but instead cover it with "had bad acid").

Let's rather stick to the medical literature that describes several cases of LSD use, how it affected or brought up psychosis, etc (and after what frequence of use, and with what mental issues the patient had before, etc).

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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I know a woman who was a junior at Dartmouth. She came home for Christmas. She went to a concert with friends. She allegedly took LSD. She woke up the next day, and didn't recognize her parents. She didn't recognize her boyfriend whom came running over. She finished her degree 25 years later, and she still has trouble functioning in society. She never got back to that high functioning individual. She's still very sma…

One of the biggest issues with illicit drugs is that you never know what you're getting. There's no quality control. Even your usual dealer may not know what they have. There are people that I know who won't eat beef unless they see the farm and cow beforehand, but yet they'll gladly ingest whatever chemical is given to them. (That said, I've personally never heard of anyone who'd been severely damaged by drugs... we…

Even if you can source drugs legally, people need to recognise that psychedelics can trigger underlying conditions. They're not risk free.
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