		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 112 ug
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 1:30
		 112 ug
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   74 kg

I've always been fascinated by psychedelic substances for their power to change human perceptions acting on simple receptors, but for all my life I've never experienced a full trip – it doesn't mean that I haven't tried anything, but that the drugs I took before never worked. After 3 years, I finally gave them a try: I bought 5x 225ug LSD blotters and slowly the moment to try has come.

Set: Although I've never experienced a psychedelic trip I was very confident: I passed years and years researching and I was (and am, also today) curious about psychedelics. I was extatic and so peaceful! Nothing in my mind could have led to a bad trip.

Setting: I realized after that I took acid in the best setting possible for me: my summer apartment in the Italian Riviera Ligure and the city itself with four old-time friends. We all took LSD that day so we sitted each other; everyone described that day as the best of their life.

Shortly before 1PM we cut the tabs in halves and put one under our tongue at 1 o'clock. After 20 minutes the little paper stripe completely dissolved and I felt pretty light-headed, but I think that was placebo.

After 40 minutes we all were kinda high: we were laughing our ass off for everything and were kinda giggling. One of my friends said “man this is not different from a big weed high”. No visuals.

We decided to go outside walk in the little city: I felt my musculi masticatorii very contracted and everything was like an HDR photo.

First I experienced a “yellow wave”: every yellow detail (chairs, houses, swimwears, an old Vespa and so on) hit me so the world was yellowish and the other colours were blurred. Then I had a “purple wave” and a “blue wave” too. We came home and we had no psychedelic effects since then, so one hour and 30 minutes after taking the first half, we decided to redose.

30 minutes later we all were peaking from the first half we took – and yes, there were psychedelic effects!

I was laying on my bed listenig to Pink Floyd (I REALLY understood their music later in the trip) and Neil Young and I noticed that the spheric chandelier was wavying and distorting. Shortly after I began to see a smooth pattern moving on the white ceiling; the I moved my eye to a blue towel I laid on a chair and I noticed a bas-relief-like effect on it, of the same maya-like pattern. I felt incredibly excited! I waited for that moment for 21 years and I was finally tripping!

Damn, I've been so lucky! My house is full of different patterns on the floor, walls and furniture, and there are a lot of paintings and photos too, so at that time of the trip everything was moving and transforming. At 4:20PM, in the middle of our psychedelic madness, we thought of rolling a joint but we decided to keep the trip just lysergic. I wrote down that sentence: “it's not how do you expect that, but it's exactly as expected”. Then we sat down struck by Van Gogh's Houses At Auvers: I saw the windows lighten up from the inside and we together realized that the secret of life and the answers to all the questions MUST be inside of that house. We passed 20 minutes talking about that and also that there's no difference between a man and a fish, because everything is made of matter.

After exploring the house some more, we all decided to walk out but we felt like a mental force that doesn't let us go: the thought of going out itself was preventing us to get out. After fighting that force, we finally got out.

For all the time we stayed home, we had the feeling that there was someone else, and we realized that we were not five but seven, but we couldn't find the missing two people!

We took a tunnel to the city center instead of walking the promenade: some of the ceiling's old bricks are dirty of white painting squirts, and on acid those squirts became a huge maya-like pattern. The lights, which painted the walls of orange and teal, gave that tunnel a sense of dark sacrality which fascinated me. The tunnel then become opened on one side, and on a pillar I found written that sentence, that struck me: “man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains”; now I know it's by Jean Jacques Rousseau, and on acid I understood perfectly what the philosopher was meaning.

We got out that tunnel and started walking on the city center's seafront next to the beach huts. While young and middle-aged people were normal, old people had their faces morphed and melting. As soon as we arrived to the central square we decided to eat something (5:45PM circa) so we went near a little bar. Outside of it there were a old man sat down smoking a cigarette: he had white mustaches and livid face, which reminded me a walrus. I got in and took an ice cream; the old waitress had livid face too. I paid, trying to not laugh and went out. That ice cream was delightful.

Three of my mates wanted to eat some focaccia so we moved like 100 meters to the baker's shop. Me and the 5th guy sat outside of it waiting for them, and we laughed our ass off when a red car with a bald old man crossed our way.

Then we decided to come back home, and this time we walked the promenade.

One of my friends was kinda aggressive, so we tryed to contain him. That gave me an unpleasant feel and I became a little paranoid. Farther our walk I had the feeling that everyone was staring at me (us) and judging, so that paranoiac sense grew until arrived home like one hour after.

We sat on a bench on the promenade and started talking. One of my friend took off his mobile and started reading his ex-gf texts; he started crying because (he said) he learned why she left him. We saw a lot of people passing by, and again we felt that everyone was staring at us.

Along this time I've always seen the same pattern on the floor – either made of asphalt, or concrete, or paving stones.

Then we moved a little more along, and we sat on the marble banister: the little erosions made by decades of drops of marine water on the marble were moving and merging in an intricate pattern.

While there a girl made an astonished face at us: she recognized one of my friends as a schoolmate of her. They started talking away while we were sat on the banister chatting; suddenly she turned around at us with an amazed face: he told her that we were on acid. We all became paranoid (also because her face was greenish), but she told us that we acted completely normal and she couldn't recognize that we were doped. That reassured us and the paranoiac sense of oppression of being stared by everyone stopped at all.

After talking to her we moved to another bench on the promenade, but far from the majority of people. We sat there and started looking at the gravel beach, the sea and the sky: the footsteps on the rocky sand started moving like fishes out of water, and the clouds made awesome patterns. The landscape was truly amazing: trees and palms seemed more detailed than usually and seemed to me to have a subtle deep-dream effect on.

One of my friends needed to piss, so I walked him home; I sat on the wc and the tiles on the floor started composing a wide range of rotating patterns while I was pissing: I stayed sat, looking at the floor, for 10 minutes.

Then we walked out again to rejoin our friends, and as we met them they wanted to came home, so we came back again.

We arrived home at 7PM, and we started to feel hungry, so, after 30 minutes of chilling, “fighting the force” and searching the two immaginary guys, me and another one went out to gather some food at the local shop. As soon as we got out, my friend said: “why don't we take some pizzas?”, and that sounded to me like the best idea ever! We walked to the nearest pizzeria, ordered five take-away pizzas and waited half an hour inside of the pizzeria. The floor made of black granite with white stripes and the radio broadcasting an unknown '70s psychedelic song gave me a full psychedelic experience while waiting for the pizzas; my friend said that I had on my arms lines reminding the Nazca lines.

After paying for the pizzas and some ice tea we came home; oddly I wasn't hungry anymore, so I ate just half of my pizza, but it tasted incredibly good with some peach ice tea.

At 9:10PM we decided to get out again, so after walking around, we headed to the beach.

We went down the stairs and walked on the sand in order to find some deckchairs to sit on; some men were fishing so we felt a little paranoid and moved away. After 50 meters we found some deckchairs under a portico and we sat there. The sky was dark and the clouds hid the full blue moon that was in that day; the wind blowed away the clouds and exposed a magic moon which flooded us with its light.

Thoughts were running faster and faster in my mind, and as my friends told their skeletons in the closet, I realized that – although I am sometimes cynical – I have a great respect for people around me.

One hour and forty minutes after, we decided to come back home.

I felt very tired and sleepy, and I was surprised about that: one friend of mine, very experienced with psychedelics, told me that LSD gives an amphetamine-like effect and causes sleep deprivation.

I laid down on the bed while my friends were outside on the balcony and started texting with my gf and thinking about my dead granpa; the wave of emotions took me by surprise and I started crying bot of joy and sadness. I've been thinking and thinking until 1AM, then – my friend laid down too – we shut off the light and tried to sleep. One of them told us that when he closed his eyes, he's seen a lot of shiny eyes moving very fast against him and panicked. I also was a little frightened of the dark and I saw something unpleasant with my eyes closed, but I fell asleep shortly after.

I remember that I dreamt that night, but I can't remember what. I slept very very well and the morning after I was happy and full of energy.

Through the whole trip we never lost our cognitive integrity and we could act normally in the presence of strangers.

I realized why LSD has been used by so many talented people over the years and why so many art has been made under the influence of LSD.

I can truly say that it has been one of the best days in my entire life and I am able now to understand the potency of that fantastic substance which takes the name of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.

Exp Year: 2015	ExpID: 109579

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: 21

Published: Oct 26, 2017	Views: 1,100

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LSD (2) : Glowing Experiences (4), First Times (2), Small Group (2-9) (17)


		 DOSE:

		 2 hits

		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		 2 carts.
		 inhaled
		 Nitrous Oxide
		 (gas)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   62 kg

To set a background, I have previously experienced LSD, but never before this much, I have also inhaled a fair deal of nitrous. but never before both. I'm only going to detail the joint experience where I was peaking on my acid trip, and inhaled the nitrous.

The Tv was on, everything was wavy, I could see the bass vibrating off the walls. I inhaled the first bulb, and quickly screwed on the second before it got too strong, I breathed out again and inhaled. Immediately after putting the dispenser down I collapsed into the couch.....

The next thing that iIremember

Baboom - wow I am alive

Baboom - Is that my heart beating

Baboom - Wow thats my heart beating

baboom - Breath outwards - wow time is going slow i just breathed

babo..m..  I'll have to breath outwards soon

I'm in a loop, the same moment is going over and over..

breath inwards.

I turn my head to the left, I realise I can control my body. But how, had i lost control of my body? Yes briefly I had.  I turn my head the other way, this is the only control I have.  Control and perception increases, I start to realise I am human, I want to please myself, in the short term, and the long term. I am awakened, it is as if I was born again with all the knowledge I already have.

The Brain Reset.

Exp Year: 2005	ExpID: 44340

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Nov 1, 2017	Views: 1,552

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LSD (2), Nitrous Oxide (40) : Unknown Context (20), Combinations (3), General (1)


		 DOSE:

		 2 hits
		 oral
		 LSD

		 2 hits
		 smoked
		 Cannabis

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   150 lb

[Erowid Note:
Some authors report suspicions that their cannabis has been 'laced' (adulterated), in some cases, presumably with PCP. While this is possible, readers should be aware that idiosyncratic response to the effects of cannabis (usually higher doses) can lead some users to presume their cannabis has been 'laced'. There is no way to know if the cannabis in the report below was adulterated or not. Reports of plant material and cannabis laced with powerful synthetic cannabinoids and other psychoactive substances became more common starting in 2007.]

I had met a beautiful boy at a music festival show. We hit it off via body language and knew we could possibly hang out, considering we both felt mysterious and appeared alone in a very massive crowd. An experienced LSD user, I am, this was his first time trying it. After the show, we walked along, finally speaking to each other and agreed to stick around as buddies the remainder of that night. I would tripsit while looking for wares with him, possibly finding us more.

After a good hour of hanging out and walking around, we finally found my dosage with a confused man on the field. I bought two, having been conned several times prior, and ate those. After walking around indecisively some more, waiting for things to kick in, he saw a show he looked interested in to which we made our way over to. Standing at the back, watching glowsticks and beachballs etc fly around, I heard him say 'wow, I wish we were closer!' I said 'why can't we be?' and we began to make our way through the packed crowd and dust.

After 20 minutes of being near the stage and dancing, I saw two men with camelbacks on who we made small talk with between song pauses. Eventually, the dust got the better of us and I inquired some water from the man's pack next to me. He cheerfully gave both of us a sip and went back to dancing wildly. As soon as I swallowed the water and watched my friend swallow his, I realized how metallic it tasted. I thought for a second that maybe it was the dust sludge making its way down my throat, but then it hit me- the water was heavily laced with something. In this case, it was more acid, which we were already on and I was not afraid of. After a while longer, keeping calm and getting into the music with my new friend, the men in front of us handed us a bowl between songs. I gladly obliged, as weed would calm me down, I thought. We each took two rips off the bowl and went back to talking with the other guys and each other.

The music began and I started dancing. After about five minutes, I took a pause and looked around. The air looked very cloudy and I realized that the dust was beginning to get the better of me. Then, after looking upwards at the rafters above the stage, I took notice that everything was beginning to shift back and forth with a silhouette of 9 after it. Everything seemed intense and I tugged at my friend, signalling to leave. The next half hour was spent in a disassociative daze, partially scared out of my wits and searching for water and partially trying to consistently calm my nerves and figure out what other substance I was on that was causing this. After a while, I noticed that my new friend was even more disassociated than I was and brought this to his attention. I asked him if he still knew that he was on acid and he managed to finally reply 'this feels different than earlier.' This confirmed it and we realized that even with a larger dose of LSD, this was not normal. I eventually managed to find drinks and figure out that the bowl passed to us earlier wasn't full of weed after all, but rather- PCP. One of the substances I always promised myself never to try.

For a good two hours, we tried our hardest to find our way out of the festival and back to our tents in what I could only consider to be 'movie trippy'. Voices distorted to slow-motion pitches and everything trailed pinks and purples. After a second or two of sitting under a tree, trying to figure out how not to go towards the direction of the brightest object in sights, a ferris wheel, but rather in the opposite direction of it, a very strung out man came right up to me. After a second or two of trying to figure out what he was asking me, I noticed that he was making a heaving motion, getting ready to puke right on me. His face looked monsterly and I completely realized that he was going to hurl and motioned him away from me, shocked at the fact that this substance impaired my ability so much that I would've let myself be puked on. This flared the trip for me and I went into 'bad trip mode'. I grabbed my friend by the hand and told him 'we need to GET OUT OF HERE.' he obliged, still out of it.

After explaining to a few security guards that I distinctly needed help finding my way out of there, one figured out how fucked up we were and explained very detailed on how to go out, making mention to -not- go towards the ferris wheel. I thanked him profusely and he let me do a straightshot through VIP rather than the half-hour+ it would've taken to go around it, to get back to my campsite. When we finally arrived, my friends I came to the festival with greeted us and we all conferred that it wouldn't have been as bad if I had the courtesy of at least knowing what I was on. Thankfully, I've read enough to know what effects were taking place and how to avoid something horrible from happening.

The rest of the night was more of an apology to my newfound friend than anything else. I persuaded him to not steer away from lsd in the future, assuring him that it was the pcp which made me into an unusually bad time, not the other kindly substance which we had both remembered to treat us so well in the beginning. He took my heed and departed and to this day, I realize that if ever given the chance to try pcp again, I wouldn't object considering I know its effects firsthand and find them only disagreeable when immersed in a completely unfamiliar experience, setting, and company.

Exp Year: 2007	ExpID: 66662

Gender: Female

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Nov 8, 2017	Views: 2,653

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LSD (2) : Bad Trips (6), What Was in That? (26), Festival / Lg. Crowd (24)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 6 hits
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 1:30
		 1 bowl
		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

		   T+ 2:30
		 2 glasses
		 oral
		 Alcohol - Hard
		 (liquid)

		   T+ 3:30
		   repeated
		 oral
		 Alcohol - Hard
		 (liquid)

		   T+ 5:30
		 3 bowls
		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   170 lb

During the Winter of 2005 I came across some good quality LSD.  I had only tripped on the substance twice before, but I am very experienced with other hallucinogens.  LSD is tough to come by in Northern Virginia where I live, at least with the few connections I have.  So I purchased 8 hits and took 2 the weekend before to test it out.  I tripped a little bit and got a lot of morphing and coloration changes, but no visuals, leaving me a little disappointed.  The LSD was relatively cheap so I had planned to go into school to take a test and then go home sick right after and chomp down all six of my remaining tabs.

I woke up excited next morning, eager to begin my trip.  It had just begun to sprinkle snowflakes on this beautiful Virginian morning.  I arrived to take my test at 8:00 AM sharp.  I brought the LSD with me and had decided that I wanted to be tripping when I got back home, so 15 minutes into my 45 minute examination, I ate my tabs.

T 0:00 - At precisely 8:15 AM, I ate all six tabs, then hurried to finish my test.

[Erowid Note:
Driving while intoxicated, tripping, or extremely sleep deprived is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!]

T 0:30 - By the time I finished my test I was coming up strong.  I handed in my test, and scurried out of school.  It was strange leaving, the patterns on the floor began morphing.  I decided to walk into the bathroom to check myself and take a piss before hitting the road.  My pupils were very dilated and I had the appearance of someone high on drugs.  It was still snowing when I got out to my car, so I hopped in, popped some good tunes in my CD player, I think it was United States of America, good stuff, and proceeded to make the 30 minute drive home.

T 0:45-1:30 - The snow has lightly dusted the grounds on the highway that I travel on and the wind is blowing the snow around, giving the road the appearance as though the ground was moving.  Also, I would like to clear one thing up.  The trees are covered with snow, which reminded me of Narnia.  I felt blissful and tranquil, eager to get home and rip out my bong.

T 1:30-2:30 - I arrive at my house and greet my dog, a shaggy, black-haired dog who is always around me.  He has smoked with me on a lot of occasions and I believe he enjoys the habit.  Whenever I arrive home from school, I always take him outside and rip a bowl before my mom gets home.  He sits right beside me and looks up at me, eager to get a shotgun.  It is now snowing very hard, and I look outside to see that my car is completely covered, so I decide to take my bong out and box it up.  My dog is terrified of the snow, so he wouldn't come along.  I enter my car and put in some Grateful Dead to back my trip.  I proceed to smoke at least an eighth of pot, and by the time I exit my vehicle I am tripping exceedingly well.  I decide that it's such a nice day, so I should go for a walk.  I grab my iPod and go walk around my neighborhood, which is a truly gorgeous piece of land, with tall trees, nice houses, and woods surrounding it.  I walk around for about thirty minutes but decide to go back inside cause I was cold.

T 2:30-3:30 - There is a hill beside my house that is pretty steep that has since been developed on, but ever winter my brother and I make a ramp at the top of it and jumps at the bottom.  The ramp is solely used to collect speed.  I grab my snowboard and go out and mess around for a little while, though I am physically inept at this point and can't land a thing.  I walk back inside and make a few cocktails and watch a movie, the Doors.

T 3:30-5:30 - I'm still tripping delighfully hard.  My own trip experience completely correlated with the movie, which I only realized until after the movie.  I'll admit it, I am an alcoholic, so I found many parallels between me and Oliver Stone's inaccurate portrayal of Jim Morrison.  I was tripping almost at my peak when the band goes out into the desert to do acid.  As I am making more and more drinks and getting a little drunk, Morrison breaks away from his band and starts doing cocaine and drinking to excess, just as I am now doing.  By the end of the movie I'm still tripping, but not nearly as hard as before.

T 5:30-7:00 - I go to smoke a few more bowls to try and get back up.  It works surprisingly well.  I decide to make a fire cause it was getting chilly in my humble abode.  As I look into the fire, I see tremendous colors, brilliant and vibrant colors, colors that I didn't know existed.  The flame turns solid gold and I am absolutely enthralled by the whole experience.  I watch a little while longer then retreat to my room to play guitar.

T 7:00-12:00 - My trip comes to a close in these hours.  All in all it was a great experience, that lead to the creation of my new motto when it comes to hallucinogens: trip hard or don't trip at all.

Exp Year: 2005	ExpID: 45974

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Jan 7, 2018	Views: 867

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LSD (2) : Various (28), General (1)


		 DOSE:

		 3 hits

		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   125 lb

It was a Monday evening after school when my buddies G and N told me that they just got word from our dealer that he's got

A great deal on some Storm-trooper acid tabs. My buddies and I were all experienced trippers (so I thought). I tripped around 8 times, N around 10 and G about 7. This time I wanted to take 3 I've only taken 2 at most in the past which I thought was the

Perfect dose, but N said I should at least just experience 3 one time, so I did. My buddies and I drove up to meet our guy to get the tabs, I got my 3, N his 2 and G his 2. I wanted to wait and trip with my other buddies D and A on the weekend coming up but it was a Thursday morning when I ended up staying home 'sick' I thought it would be the perfect time.

On that Thursday morning I made a dumb decision, I popped the 3 in with a positive but also slightly nervous feeling. I sat on my computer reading through some articles about news and listening to music, 25 minutes in I felt it, I realized then what I was

In for. It was 6:35 a.m when I took the tabs. Once I really started feeling it I decided to relax in bed and watch the new X-MenDays of Future Past, and boy was that something...the color's were unbelievable, the feelings were amazing this in my head.

Was the coolest experience I've ever had. After the movie was done I got up and just starred out my window looking at the sky, the trees, my pool, the cars passing behind my house. I was astonished by everything I was seeing, and a weird thought

popped into my head. I thought about some of the people I knew and how they had to grind for what they have. I know people who have barely anything with crazy screwed up lives...no parents, no money, barely a roof over their head, but me? Well I had everything my parents were still together, I had money, I had a roof over my head, I was spoiled. All those thoughts just clicked in my head and I started bawling my eyes out harder than I ever had before because I treated my parents like sh*t even though they did everything for me and I realized how lucky I was.

All those thoughts just clicked in my head and I started bawling my eyes out harder than I ever had before because I treated my parents like sh*t even though they did everything for me and I realized how lucky I was.

 This was the life changing part in my trip because after this, I treated my parents with so much more respect and rarely ever talked back to them...they had no idea that LSD was the change to that.

Now on to where my trip went from excellent to terrible in the matter of seconds...it was 7 hours into my trip, I was texting my buddy D and telling him about it, he then replies with 'Bro, how are you still tripping that hard? You should've reached your peak by now?' After reading that text I thought for some reason my brain was fried for the rest of my life, I thought I would be tripping forever...And even though in the middle of the trip I knew that it was just the Acid I couldn't control it...I was freaking out. I lost my mind, I would go from my bed, to my computer chair, to walking back and fourth repeating my name...address...middle name just to keep myself from thinking I'm crazy...At that point I just wanted to talk to someone, I NEEDED someone. My brother, and dad were home BUT I knew if I were to say a word to them they would think I'm crazy, and to me at the time I thought I would just stay in my perpetual loop and end up in a mental institution. It was finally 2:45 p.m when D got home I made him get on skype to talk and help me. D would ask me questions and I couldn't even respond or barely comprehend what he said...I kept trying to explain what was happening but I couldn't even remember anything...my train of thought was obliterated. Eventually I realized I was stuck in my first acid loop that I remembered reading about. D looked it up and just told me that I had to relax. After a little over an hour my mind was once again stable. After that experience I've never touched drugs again.

Exp Year: 2014	ExpID: 109688

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: 16

Published: Jan 14, 2018	Views: 1,733

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LSD (2) : General (1), Bad Trips (6), Therapeutic Intent or Outcome (49), Alone (16)


		 DOSE:

		 1 hit
		 oral
		 LSD

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   140 lb

One Hit of Acid Can Do Alot of Damage

I am 34 years old and took LSD the last time when I was 18 years old.  I smoked marijuana at the time and had taken mushrooms just twice and acid a hand full of times. The last time was different, in the middle of dosing I looked up into the corner of the room and all I could see was static everywhere. I completely freaked out, but wasn’t so high I couldn’t get a grip on what was going on so I thought I’ll just ignore it and go to sleep and it will be gone by tomorrow.

The next morning I woke up and the static was still there. All I could do was cry. I knew I had to tell my parents at some point if this did not go away. I  waited for a couple more days and the static was still there so I told my parents. My Dad completely freaked out because he said he had just seen on some television show some people who never came down off of acid and the after effects they had. I became very anxious, had panic attacks, became very agoraphobic because I did not want to go anywhere and have anyone see me in that condition. I was a pot smoker beforehand and it always calmed me down so I decided to smoke marijuana thinking it would relax me and make the symptoms go away, but I was wrong. They got worse, I started seeing the walls crawling, things would move and I knew they were not really moving, my heart would pound so hard I thought I was going to pass out.

In the next few months my Dad took to me to every eye doctor in town and of course no one found anything. I had panic attacks for a year and half straight some would last ten hours a day. I suffered and still do suffer from anxiety since then. I see tracers off of things that move, I get that depersonalization feeling from time to time, strobe lights make me crazy and I see halos some of the time around lights. In solid white rooms and dark rooms all I can see is static.

I drank for years to make these symptoms go away

I drank for years to make these symptoms go away

, I would pass out and in the morning I just thought the static was worse because I was hung over, the alcohol also helped my anxiety at the time. I quit drinking 3 years ago and my anxiety level went out the roof. I started to have panic attacks again after 12 years, the static which is the HPPD I suffer from was so intense. I had never researched what was wrong with me. I never told anyone because I thought they would think I was crazy and there were days I thought I would end up in an institution because I had a bad trip. I went to a doctor for my anxiety after I quit drinking and she prescribed me Lexapro, I took it for four days and all I could see were halos around everything.  No matter where I went it looked like there was a strobe light in every room, including outdoors so I stopped taking the Lexapro because I knew the symptoms were caused  from the LSD I had taken 13 years before. I finally researched it on the internet and found out I suffered from HPPD from one hit of acid. I now can’t take any drug that affects the serotonin in my brain.

I take 1.5 mgs of Klonopin  everyday just to help my anxiety and it helps with the HPPD. I have actually been diagnosed by a professional with this. I went from being very social, a lot of friends, to very anti-social and scared of everything. Social situations terrify me now and I am not the same.  I was a recreational drug user, never touched white drugs in my life and I am cursed with this condition. It wasn't worth it.

Exp Year: 1993-2009	ExpID: 80381

Gender: Female

Age at time of experience: 18

Published: Jan 15, 2018	Views: 1,244

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LSD (2) : Unknown Context (20), HPPD / Lasting Visuals (40), Health Problems (27)


		 DOSE:

		   repeated
		 oral
		 Alcohol - Hard
		 (liquid)

		 .5 hits
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   130 lb

I think the story I wrote at the time, inbetween puking up (my last ever) McDonalds says it best. Please don't think I'm an asshole - you know what an ego acid gives you!

================

Friday night - I was feeling pretty fucking pleased with myself. Smug as a bastard, totaly made up. It had been one amazing week where I'd managed to impress just about everyone I'd met, acheived things I never thought could be possible and was generally feeling extremely excited and optomistic about the future - for what a future it was going to be!

Anyway, dizzy with power - and indeed the large amount of vodka I'd drunk, I hought to myself 'How can I top this? What's next - surely a woman of my talent &amp; charisma can't just turn in at 12pm onto a bed of smugness'

It was then to my delight I remembered my boyfriend had gone to a music festival that weekend and had left a cupboard full of drugs - in that cupboard was alot of acid (a drug I hadn't taken since I was 16 and had very little recollection of its effects)

YES - how fitting I thought as I took just half a tab, that I should end this week being up all night on acid having some sort of amazing inner journey.

Well. I was certainly up all night. THROWING UP. ALL NIGHT. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Retching into the bath like a great big mistake - I noticed how clear &amp; pure my sick was. The thought then occured to me that I was puking up my own sense of self satisfaction. That really, I had become TOO smug - and my body was reacting in this unholy fashion.

I immediately realized the poetry of this situation &amp; what a great story it would be. A great monologue I could tell at some party that had yet to be organized.

I threw up again and again and again. My self importance now becoming discoloured.

I sit here now, very weak with terrible pains all over my body - shaking through hunger and tiredness. I can't even keep down a sip of water and I am so terribly thirsty.

(end story written while high)

======

Although this sounds like a BAD experience, the next day was wonderful! I didn't sleep that night and I still had a huge ego all the next day. I found life very easy &amp; beautiful that day. I laughed so much at one of those home movie shows I had to go and lie down!

Although I may not repeat this combination for health reasons, I did have an amazingly long and perfect comedown, right up till bedtime!

Exp Year: 2004	ExpID: 36289

Gender: Female

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Jan 18, 2018	Views: 1,026

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Alcohol - Hard (198), LSD (2) : Combinations (3), Alone (16)


		 DOSE:

		 1 hit
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   180 lb

Before my first trip I had experimented with many drugs. I felt like I had explored the vastness of my mind to the extreme. While having many a high time, I had given up on drugs having the ability to take me to new realities. Shortly before my trip my life was in chaos. I was gaining weight, jobless, self indulgent, and utterly wasteful. My mindset was that of a curious 15 year old, yet I was 21. So this being my reality, a close friend procured some blotter.

I took the hit with an open mind. within an hour my friend and I felt as if we were reading each others minds. Barely having to conjure up words to express emotions. The sensation was all mental with an intense body buss. Soon however, I was in the grips of my own inner demons. My fears and thoughts were out on display for me. I realized how pathetic and immature I had been. Careless and selfish, disgusting. I changed forever that night. I realized I was a man, I had a healthy body and spirit within begging me to allow it to thrive and glow. Begging me to become a man. since this experience my life in general has improved a great deal. I exist in a new, enlightened reality. The trip is over, but just like a trip to the Grand Canyon, it's greatness will always be a memory within me. If I loose faith, I remind my self how strong I am. I believe this experience has probably been shared by many people, We are united through this...we understand.

Exp Year: 2006	ExpID: 54801

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Jan 18, 2018	Views: 1,009

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LSD (2) : Small Group (2-9) (17), Glowing Experiences (4), General (1)


		 DOSE:

		 3 hits

		 LSD
		 (liquid)

		 100 mg
		 insufflated
		 Ketamine
		 (powder / crystals)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   11 st

While at a recent forest party I took 3 drops of liquid acid, waited about 30 mins and then snorted about .1g of K (possibly a bit more).   I find that this time delay means that I come up on both drugs at roughly the same time.   The sun was just beginning to rise so my trip began with the changing of light which accompanies the predawn and daybreak.

My vision became incredibly acute and clear while my sense of balance became fairly erratic although I never felt like I would fall over.   My sense of perspective changed and judging  distances accurately was difficult but only with objects a reasonable distance away.   People walking the trees seemed to walk behind one tree but emerge from behind another.

I've been reading quite a lot about quantum theory and waveforms recently, - in particular Lyall Watson's 'Supernature' - which has remained fairly firmly in my mind recently.   This explains (or tries to) the relationship between objects and entities as a function of their wavefunctions.

I then got to thinking that if we all exist as a wavefunction then why can we not extend the wave/particle duality of light to other waveforms.   This naturally led to the thought that maybe I was both a waveform and a particle but, due to quantum uncertainty, I was unable to decide which.

This realization led to a great feeling of elation and a feeling of discovery which I enjoyed immensely although it faded as the ketamine wore off leaving me to enjoy the rest of my acid trip in a fairly normal frame of mind.

Exp Year: 2006	ExpID: 55528

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Jan 20, 2018	Views: 911

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LSD (2), Ketamine (31) : Combinations (3), Unknown Context (20)


		 DOSE:

		 1 hit
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		 2 hits
		 sublingual
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   160 lb

The first time I tripped was with 3 of my close friends and we all took one hit. This particular blotter acid was a (spider-man) and, obviously had a little picture of the face of spider-man on it. This was a wonderful experience and I felt a sense of closeness to my friends, and it was during the day, cause we had skipped school, and the sky was so big, BLUE, and beautiful. We walked through the woods for a hour just looking at plants and picking flowers and buds off different plants and bushes; I felt a real respect for the beauty and naturalness of nature. Then we came up on a railroad track, and it just so happened that a train came by at that time, and it was loud as hell. And I could feel the ground shaking.  But this isn't the bad experience.

The second time I tripped I really messed up. It was a week later from the previous first trip of my life, and I had gotten 3 of these (spider-mans), and from what I had heard from experienced trippers was that these spider-mans were good, and I agreed considering my first trip. I bought 3, one for me, my best friend who I hadn't tripped with and his brother. We had planned to do it on a saturday night. Unfortunately, my parents had planned to go to a nascar race early the nest morning and I had to be there real early at like 5am,so I could watch my little sister. SO I was at home alone, cause my parents were in bed sleeping, and my friend corey and his brother had decided to go to a club since we weren't tripping. I stayed up late that night watching t.v. Cause I was bored and at 12 started to watch 'Space Cowboys', and I was bored and wanted to have some fun and took one spider-man, after and hour into the movie I felt as if it wasn't really effecting me, and being a unexperienced user of acid; not knowing the power of it; and still questing for that true trip, like in the movies and stuff where u have alot of visuals. So wanting more effect I took the other 2. So now I have 3 spider-mans in me and I'm watching 'space Cowboys', I first started to notice that Clint Eastwood's face looked real weird and sort of twisted, and in the movie they're working on this satellite in outer space that is supposedly this Russian communication satellite. But in the movie its a conspiracy, and the satellite is actually this nuclear warhead satellite still up in space from the cold war. Now when this things goes into attack mode, I felt like I was in a dam I-max theatre, and this thing was giant, and I was like ok I'm tripping now, so I turn it off and go to my computer and start to play a computer game called Counter-Strike, but I find myself just staring off into the screen and like breaking down every pixel on the monitor, so return to the television but only to flip through the channels, and note this was only my second time tripping and the first time I didn't have any real visuals, but this time I was in for some.

I turn on the T.v. And start to watch ESPN and they have a male aerobics contest. Except I cant hear the announcers no matter how hard I concentrate, I never knew acid could effect the hearing. The contestants are jumping around on stage, moving real fast, but he scary part was all their heads were shaping into demons, and they were growling, so I flip to ESPN2, this one is sportscenter, and as they were showing the highlights all the games were in total slow motion to me, no matter how hard I tried it wouldn't stop moving in slow motion, and then I flip to HBO where they were playing 'Lake Placid', the one with the giant killer crocdile, and the peoples' faces kept shifting, and there skin would peel back off their face into another shape, and I saw some scary scenes that I can't really remember, but now at this point I have this deep dark fear, and not being able to handle it  I decide to try to fight it and just goto bed, so I go upstairs and lie in my bed, I remember just lieing there playing with my hands, and looking at feet which seemed to be a mile away at the end of the bed, I felt a fear that I wouldn't come out of it cause I had taken too much and remember thinking that over and over that I was going to go into a permanent trip, and when my parents got up to get ready for the race I was still tripping lieing in my bed tense and frozen like a stiff dead person trying to pretend I was asleep as my mom came in to my room to say by, but she skipped across the room; and I couldn't even understand the words she said, and as she left I thought about how much I loved her and how mad she would be if she knew of the stupid shit that I do, and my little sister came in and layed with me after my parents left and this was like 7 in the morn, and she noticed that I was wide awake, and she asked me what was wrong and I just began to cry and told her she would never understand, then I got up at took a shower, when I got out I felt so cold and body felt like crap so I layed in bed again, and just went into a daze and I don't know if I fell asleep or not but at like 11am I came to my senses, and got up and was delighted to notice that I wasn't tripping anymore, and my eyes weren't dialated and I could actually think. I swore that I would never trip again, but I have many times since then, but nothing ever close to that night.

Exp Year: 2001	ExpID: 10726

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Jan 20, 2018	Views: 1,056

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LSD (2) : General (1), Difficult Experiences (5), Bad Trips (6), Alone (16)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 2 hits
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 3:00
		 100 mg
		 oral
		 MDA

		   T+ 3:00
		 100 mg
		 oral
		 MDA
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   170 lb

To clear up some obvious questions regarding experience and to establish a semblance of ethos, I have had many experiences with psychedelics and MDXX. Enjoying both thoroughly, I decided relatively spontaneously with two friends of mine to buy tickets to Gramatik (a dope hiphop/soul/electronic producer) and partake in some drugs. To a certain extent, none of knew which we were going to want to try and whether or not we even wanted to put our brains through that strain (considering that we didn’t know the artist allll that well and had no idea of what he would be live). We made the best decisions of our lives (in hindsight) and all agreed that we would candyflip. I had no real experience with the combination but was in no way nervous about the combo due to reading testimonials and hearing friend’s anecdotes.

My friend, lets call him Lez, came over with 6 hits of Lucy. Two were consumed by Lez, my buddy “Caso” and me. I asked my buddy lez whether he wanted to go to a nearby heated yoga studio for their free Friday class. He replied that he had never done yoga before but was not opposed to the experience. I insisted it would be difficult but that I couldn’t imagine a better way to start an acid trip: to struggle both physically and mentally through the come up and then to break through into a sense of relative calm (I usually get clearheaded but my body just feels on edge during most LSD trips). We consumed the hits around 6:30 and arrived for the 7 o’clock class basically baseline. We left our other friend Caso back at my apt because he did not have the clothes nor does his personality really mesh with the athletic/hippy/zen nature of yoga so he just stayed and listened to pretty lights in my living room. Once I was seated and mediating before the class commenced, I noticed a slight buzz through my body and began to feel the usual uneasiness in my stomach. The class was extremely strenuous, yet, the acid allowed me to focus my mind, even though it was physically demanding, to overcome what the brain perceives as “pain.” The yoga instructor obviously didn’t know that we were tripping, but his encouraging words throughout the class gave me the peculiar thought that he was guiding our trip. I just remember him saying something so incredibly profound that I will butcher as I paraphrase but something like “Life is not about the destination, really the journey is the destination.” While it might sound trite, it resonated with my sentiments about Acid trips because really, I was looking forward to the end destination of the night (the concert) but yet the concert itself was the journey. We both left, drenched in sweat, and feeling amazing.

Lez and I arrived back at my apartment around 8:10 and found Caso greating us with a huge smile and we all realized we were going to have a great trip. After an extremely gratifying and cleansing shower, we watched some “Goodneighbor Stuff” youtube videos and laughed our ass off. We were considering whether or not we even wanted to take this sass because we were feeling so good already, and quite honestly, on LSD I sometimes cringe at the thought of putting those chemicals in my body and ergo my brain. Plus, Lez was starting to get kinda loopy and out of it, claiming that it was some of the strongest acid he had done in a while. Caso and I talked him down and repeated earnestly that it was all fine and that he should be ready, because we were about to fuck shit up that night (in a courteous way of course). They parachuted two points of some really good sass mda and I took one of these firefly tabs mda based around 9:30 pm. Caso and I also decided that since we had come this far, we might as well eat the last two points of sass we had, so we split up even lines and snorted. I was nervous to do so on acid because of the many instances of molly burning my nose so badly I would tear up, yet, this was different. As I railed the line with a crisp dollar bill, all my sinuses were cleared and the smell of lavender filled my senses and nostrils. It didn’t burn one bit. On the contrary, it was therapeutic. After this line, both Caso and I looked at each other and in unison stated that that was a harbinger that tonight was going to be a MAGICAL night.

We started rolling pretty hard around 10:30 , but not the flooding, loving feeling. Really the synergy of the two substances made me forget that I was rolling and more made me just realize how warm and content I was. It was extremely nurturing and comforting.

the synergy of the two substances made me forget that I was rolling and more made me just realize how warm and content I was. It was extremely nurturing and comforting.

 That feeling and the presence of my boys was enough to make me feel confident that we could do anything we wanted that night, even talk to cops if we had to. We walked to the concert giddy and cracking jokes, eager to hear some dope beats. We got to cut the long as line that stretched around the corner because two of our fraternity brothers were there waiting near the front. I handed them two of my firefly tabs for free because I was in such a blissful mood. In line I started to notice and comprehend how people have distinctive energy. The people you know well and like radiate the most, the ones you don’t know but seem like genuinely decent people provide a nice atmosphere and trip circumstance. However, there was this one weasel kid offering molly and coke to people in the line and he had terrible energy. Made me made and uncomfortable because he would repeatedly ask people who already told him to get lost and one could safely assume he had some bunk shit and was trying to take advantage. But I digress. Anyhow, we walk upstairs and seriously the stage, the lights, the artists selling their artwork in the back made me so confused because I thought to myself “What have I just walked into? Is this heaven?” Literally I was so astounded by the vibes and visuals I was getting that I thought I had stumbled upon some paradise, some place that God designed just for me and my candyflip. I was taken aback but quickly got immersed into the music and started dancing a lot. I am not generally a goofy roller, I kind of get serious but have a blast and just am really kind and sensitive to other people. Yet, the LSD MDA combo made me straight up goofy, best way to put it. Tongue hanging out, messing with friendly strangers beside me. I was in HEAVEN.

After the concert, we walked back to my apt and talked till sunrise. Conversations ranged from the deep talks about trying to tell one of the trippers that he needed to cut out opiates and the occasional use of heroin to the jovial banter that guys are known for. We talked in depth about God and how he works in our lives but how we have the unfortunate free will the push him away. We delved into how suicide is quite possibly the work aspect of life and also how much of a baller God must be (our rational was that everything funny in the world and cool and beautiful was because of God).

All in all, an amazing experience.

Exp Year: 2010	ExpID: 94453

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: 22

Published: Jan 29, 2018	Views: 2,296

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MDA (34), LSD (2) : General (1), Combinations (3), Glowing Experiences (4), Rave / Dance Event (18)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 1 hit
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 0:30
		 1 hit
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   52 kg

Of all the times I tried LSD,  this was truly one of the most beautiful trips.. Where psychedelics were beyond..way beyond...n u all know what I mean when psychedelics take over your mind...

It was 31st night 2005 on a beautiful beach in goa at a trance party , 11:25pm,  when I did my first drop of LSD n nothin happend for about 30 mins so I said might as well do another trip... This time it was a blotter a red heart... 15 mins into it and I was on another plane, cos both trips hit me and came on at the same time....both intensely potent I'd realised...

Wow n wow ...dats all that I could say ... My vision was that like I was looking through a fish bowl, all blurred,  into million dimensions, fairies n pygmies dancing among people, stars shooting millions of them...then came the mad hatter to dance...n it well indeed a mad dance...colours flashing across...the earth and sky were one...I didn't know where I stood...space n time seemed infinte...

I've written a poetry on this beautiful trip...dat I'd like to share...

			Beautiful Madness

Take a little,

My mind to run and race

To the heightened sounds of music,

To a beautiful face

Blue and green all mixed up,

Spirals of light

Liquefied is the world,

My sense my sight.

The stars have come to say hello,

Come to say goodbye

No time no space, leaves have gone up,

No earth no sky

My mind is slipping, slipping away,

U don’t fall

It’s slipping and then u hear it,

Have u heard the call?

Drown myself in its beautiful madness,

A long road ahead

Different colored faces, voices keep calling,

Too much has been said

Only to find myself in the puzzled ball of energy that binds us

Where dances of the unseen

And visions of the unknown,

Have all flown to dust....

Well n like all other trips it came to an end after a long 15 hrs too beautiful is the drug LSD...these colourful memories r the beautiful things I have stored in my head...a sense of completenes...a sense of infinte lives in this energy ball we all live in.....

Fiona

Exp Year: 2006	ExpID: 51907

Gender: Female

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 3, 2018	Views: 884

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LSD (2) : General (1), Poetry (43), Unknown Context (20)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 1 hit
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 1:00
		 1 hit
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 0:00

		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   140 lb

I had a pretty traumatic experience with acid about 3 weeks prior to writing this. I had tried LSD once before that but it must have been weak or bunk because I didnt feel much. Anyways, the setting was my friends house, just me and him. I took 1 tab at first, and then another an hour later.

The effects of the first tab were just setting in: I was feeling detached from reality and giggly. At about an hour and a half after taking the first tab, I started getting this feeling of intense anxiety. The feeling got worse so I went to sit under his deck and calm down. I thought looking at the trees and nature would help me out. The anxiety became more and more intense as I sat in the chair and I felt completely helpless. I became paralyzed by a feeling of fear. It wasn't about anything in specific but I felt very afraid and anxious.

I became paralyzed by a feeling of fear. It wasn't about anything in specific but I felt very afraid and anxious.

 I had some very intense visual distortions as I looked at the trees. At about 3 or 4 hours after taking the first tab, I started getting hallucinations. I saw a monkey dancing in a tree and a cartoonish type of coyote smoking a cigarette next to me. They were only in my periphery though and would disappear when I tried looking at them. I was paralyzed in this one chair by the feelings for about 5 hours. I couldn't bring my self to get up. I wasn't scared by the hallucinations though. If anything, they distracted me from the overwhelming emotions.

I wasn't scared by the hallucinations though. If anything, they distracted me from the overwhelming emotions.

 When the trip died down at about 5 1/2 hours, I was left with the anxiety. I didn't think much of it at the time, I thought it would wear off.

[Erowid Note:
Driving while intoxicated, tripping, or extremely sleep deprived is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!]

I then went inside to take some bong hits and then drove home. When I got home, I couldnt sleep at all that night. I was so anxious and begining to feel extremely depressed and thought I was loosing my mind. For the next few days I experienced intense anxiety constantly. Prior to this experience, I had never experienced anything close to this level of anxiety. I experienced a vivid flashback several weeks later where I felt like I was tripping again. The intense part lasted only a few minutes but I had a detached kind of feeling for aboout an hour.

Exp Year: 2007	ExpID: 66686

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 3, 2018	Views: 1,004

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LSD (2) : General (1), Bad Trips (6), Hangover / Days After (46), Post Trip Problems (8), Small Group (2-9) (17)


		 DOSE:

		 1 tablet
		 oral
		 MDMA
		 (pill / tablet)

		 1 cig.
		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

		 1 tablet
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   132 lb

It started out a fun night, then the sh*t hit the fan...

My best friend and I were going to go to a party one friday night. Right before we left we popped our tabs (I had blue dolphin) and rolled a joint. About the time we got to the party my roll got kicked off. I was feeling great. I danced around and started to feel hot. I didnt want to dehydrate so I quickly sat down and started sipping on water. My head started killing me. I went to the bathroom and vommited. I told my friend that I had to go lay down, so I went to the back room and collapsed on the bed. when I woke up about 3 hours later, I was in a cartoon. I didnt know what to think. I thought that I had always been in the cartoon and just didnt notice. everything look like it was drawn. I studied my new surroundings until the thought hit me...do I even existed? Am I someone's creation? I couldnt remember anything of my past life and I wasnt worried about the furture. I lost all perception of everything. I began to walk around and found myself in a room of wet paint being smudged together. I was scared that I would become mixed in with the wet smudge so I quickly left the room. As I entered the living room, demented creatures quickly turned and looked at me all at once. They had swords, axes, maces, spears, and all arrays of medeval weapontry. I was completely frightened. I went to the room were I came from and locked the door. As I turned around I fell into nothingness and came to the conclusion that my creature erased me from existence. I went deep into thought. I could still hear my friends talking to me so I figured that I was on another page then they were. Finally, after life changing thoughts and ecceptance of an eternal nothingness, I went to sleep. I woke up to my friend shaking me. He told me that I asked a dude for some acid and took it and started tripping out. It all come together. My world began to come back together.

It's been 3 months since my experience and I still havent fully recovered. I've been having frequent flashbacks that send me back to my horrible doom. Acid has scarred me for life.

Exp Year: 2005	ExpID: 45115

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 3, 2018	Views: 1,410

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MDMA (3), LSD (2) : Combinations (3), Bad Trips (6), Large Party (54)


		 DOSE:

		 4 hits
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		 5 joints/cigs
		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   160 lb

It all started on a may night. I had wanted to trip hard on acid but was not at all ready for what would come. I ingested four blotter tabs of LSD and smoked approximately 5 joints. I was prepared for the intense hallucinations, this is why I had wanted to try LSD again. The first time I had 2.5 hits, it seemed like nothing. I had a nice body high and hallucinated for a little, I liked it so much I couldnt wait to try it again. I did and at first it was great. Then crazy thoughts entered my head. Around 4 hours after I had consumed the LSD I thought the apocalypse had come not only that I thought I was at the beach, I thought I won tickets to a concert, I thought a friend of mine was related to the grateful dead. I also thought Bill Gates controlled my head through an electronic chip in the acid. I also at one point thought I could go to the playboy mansion through a portal in the mirror and find and fight this kid through the tv.

What scared me the most was that the apocalypse had come, that all good had left me and everyone was trying to strand me in this basement. I then grabbed a lamp and hit this kid with it. I was convinced they were trying to strand me since I thought I was the only one left suicidal thoughts and depression engulfed my brain. I remember thinking about killing myself. The night could have gone completely wrong I could have killed someone or been killed. I cant explain why my body reacted that way, if my brain wasnt prepared or I just react that way to acid. I personally think the first acid I took was weak and I was not prepared for the voices I would hear. Im never trying acid again, something terribly wrong could have gone. I now view life differently I dont know how I think it was because of the suicidal thoughts I had and the depression that occured during that night. I will forever stay away from acid because my body reacted in such a horrible way.  Acid was the worst experience of my life. I remember thinking I was melting and dieing and I wanted to live. I had crazy thoughts in my head and was probably capable of committing a horrible crime. I just thank God nothing bad happened.

Exp Year: 2005	ExpID: 43465

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 3, 2018	Views: 1,030

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LSD (2) : Unknown Context (20), Bad Trips (6)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 1 tablet
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 2:45
		 2 hits
		 smoked
		 Salvia divinorum
		 (extract - 5x)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   125 lb

Its been almost 4 or 5 months now, and now I think I'm really able to look back and see what all this has meant.

I had been kind of down for a time before, as if I were running out of options for myself, even though I'm really supposed to be at the prime of opportunity, being in college. Anyway, I'd just gotten a fresh batch of 5x salvia extract, and I had some lsd lying around, so why not go at it? So I dropped it.

After about two hour and a half to three hours of the usual coming-up and peak phases, I packed my pipe, and took a deep hit. About 20 seconds after, as I closed my eyes, I saw myself flying, zooming next to a wall in some ancient mayan courtyard, with all sorts of brightly-colored glyphics, and then I took a second hit and held it in until I felt myself shift '90 degrees' out of our current 3-dimensional world, and into another reality, another copy of myself, and I decided I should probably get in bed. I didnt want to be wandering around like this.

Thus followed 3 or 4 hours of the most intense entheogenic experience I have ever had. I would constantly [physically] roll around, which would then launch me into a [extradimensional] shift into a new version of myself. Always in the same room, but constantly shifting realities. All the time, there was the though that I would never make it back again. It was the closest I've been to feeling the direct presence and possibility of death, not in the negative, denying aspect, but in terms of release from this stuckified construct which we all take as reality.

But through tremendous effort, I was finally able to catch my last reality in, and I came back to 'normality', with the introspective part of the acid trip ahead of me to try to figure it out. And what I've come up with is that at every moment, every decision we make, every action that occurs sets up another parallel universe of possibility, that our reality is not static, that there is an infinite number of lives one can lead, and that all too often we get bogged down in the details and dont take time to appreciate the wonder of it all. That was certainly true in my case.

Anyway, I defintitely think this is not something to be taken lightly - its like nothing I've ever done before, but it is well worth the trouble.

Exp Year: 2002	ExpID: 23034

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 11, 2018	Views: 983

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LSD (2), Salvia divinorum (44) : General (1), Combinations (3), Unknown Context (20)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 2 bumps
		 insufflated
		 Ketamine
		 (powder / crystals)

		   T+ 1:45
		 2 hits

		 LSD

		   T+ 3:50
		 2 g
		 oral
		 Mushrooms
		 (tea)

		   T+ 5:00
		 3 bumps
		 insufflated
		 Ketamine
		 (powder / crystals)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   110 lb

The time was 7:00pm on a friday night, the location was my appartment. Me and a couple other friends had purchased 8 hits of purple blotter, 2 vials of ketamine and we had some left over shrooms, around 3 or 4 grams. Like all the previous drug experiences, we set up my appartment as best as we could. Dimming the lights, choosing appropriate music, getting everything organized, and to top it off, put David Bowie on the t.v screen. Once that was taken care of, the ritual was about to begin.

7:00: I suggested we get the night started with dropping the acid first. But, my friends insisted on ketamine, since they had never experienced it. I agreed, and set up 8 small bumps (2 bumps each). The K burned, like always, and it took around 4 minutes to kick in. When it did, it was a huge difference in my state of being. I was very disoriented, it was difficult to focus on one thing. Every time I turned my head it sent me into a dizzy twirl. At some points I felt completely weightless, at other, the exact opposite, like I was glued to the couch. It was a difficult thing to experience, sometimes I was so out of touch with my body that I wanted to vomit. Two out of four people vommited from that K, they got up quickly and it sent them right to the toilet.

8:45: The K had finally worn off (thank god). It made me paranoid, it felt like every bump I did totally fried my brain. Anyway, now with the K out of the picture, some Acid was next on the agenda (we didn't plan on doing one drug after another, it kind of just happened that way). So we each popped in 2 hits of acid. While we were waiting for the effects, we played some guitar, walked around outside for a bit, and prepared a big mug of shroom tea, incase anyone wanted a sip. Nothing too exciting happened during this time, I just became really anxious, as if something huge was about to happen. To my suprise...I was right.

10:00: The acid had kicked in full blast, exploding colours, morphing walls and Jimi Hendrix turning into shapes on the T.V. I was extremly content just sitting there with my friends. It was really relaxing, the opposite of most acid experiences people have told me about. I was in complete control of my body and voice, no screaming or anything like that, no frightening images, just a relaxing time.

10:50: the shroom tea was getting kind of cold so we decided to take some sips. Not the best tasting tea, but once it was down, it was all good. The giant mug was finished off by my friend, who insisted on eating the sludge at the bottom of the cup. We agreed he could have it, I wasn't about to force that slime down my throat. The mushrooms definatly had a big effect on the experience. The visual patterning of mushrooms was full blast, with the trailing of lights from the acid well behind. It was exactly what you would expect, I felt every effect of each drug. Quite possibly, the most enjoyable moment of my life.

12:00: Everyone was still feeling the effects. I was enjoying myself, nothing could go wrong...or so I thought. My friend decided to bust out some of the left over K to get us to a new point. I was against the idea, seeing as how I didn't want to ruin what was going on. But my friend had some twisted way of convincing me, that I dont recall. So I prepared us all a couple bumps, and WHAM. The Ket hit so hard, I didnt need to wait even a minute to feel it. It came on right away. I felt so out of touch with everything around me, I saw everything, I heard everything, but I couldnt understand any of it. It's a really hard feeling to explain in words. I was out of my body, thats for sure. It felt like I floated to the top of the celing.

3:00: After a long night, or what seemed to be a long night, it was time for some sleep. But, no sleep this time. I was awake until

8:00 the next morning, it was so hard to fall asleep. All in all, a good experience.  Im out.

Exp Year: 2005	ExpID: 41061

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 16, 2018	Views: 1,121

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LSD (2), Mushrooms (39), Ketamine (31) : General (1), Combinations (3), Small Group (2-9) (17)


		 DOSE:

		 2 hits

		 LSD

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   150 lb

lsd is a cure

I suffer from cluster headaches. It had started about 3 weeks prior to the trip. My friend had brought over some acid so I figures why not. Note that I didnt even know this was even possibly a cure for the headaches. Therefore there could be no placebo effect. Anyway, I started the trip and noticed the usual effects. I noticed that about 1/4 of the way along, my headaches which were quite severe that day, had completely gone away. I was astonished to feel better. Never would I think that this is a cure for anything, but it helped tremendously. The good thing is that since that day, I havent gotten any sort of cluster headaches since. Thanx cid!

Exp Year: 2008	ExpID: 70097

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 21, 2018	Views: 821

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LSD (2) : General (1), First Times (2), Therapeutic Intent or Outcome (49), Small Group (2-9) (17)


		 DOSE:

		 100 ug

		 LSD

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   9 st

I remember wanting to have sex on lsd to see what effects it would have on me and the visuals. So me and my bf has sex and everything seemed normal visually. However, sensually was a different story I could feel everything, every bump, graze and glide. The colour around started to get brighter and move faster and as my orgasm built up so did the visuals. The colours became more vivid and the shapes became more structured and fixed together. Like a perfect puzzle. The closer my orgasm came to be the more shapes would appear and colours that I didn’t even know existed tarted showing up around me. And I shit you not at the climax it was like a firework display going off around me. Each shape exploded into what looked like pixie dust, it was all so bright and overwhelming tbh. It took me a while to come back around. I sat there for ages just gazing at the ceiling understanding what had just happened.

Exp Year: 2017	ExpID: 111641

Gender: Female

Age at time of experience: 18

Published: Feb 21, 2018	Views: 935

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		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 2 hits
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 0:45
		 2 hits
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (edible / food)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   113 lb

LSD on a Plane

I went to go visit my brother in Phoenix, and he slings some shit from time to time. He had a full sheet of acid, and a shitload of liquid, and asked if I wanted to try any, knowing I had never done it before. I figured why not? I know when you do shit like that you're supposed to be with someone you completely trust (I completely trust my brother, obviously) and in an environment you're comfortable with (I love his place, so it wasn't an issue at all). Even though I'm a pretty small girl - I weigh less than 115 pounds, I tend to have a really, really high tolerance for drugs... so I started off with 2 tabs, and he took 3 and a sugar cube.

He said it'd take a little bit to kick in, like 45 minutes at the absolute most, so we waited for a bit. He had taken a lot more than I had, so I think he started feeling it at around 20 minutes. When 45 minutes hit, I was starting to see things move - you know, walls breathing and shit. But nothing like what I had expected. I said fuck it again, and decided to take some more. He placed two more drops on a sugar cube and I popped it. No more than 15 minutes later I was fucked.

The walls were breathing, I could barely recognize my brother, when I went to the bathroom, I couldn't stop staring at the towels because their fibers were SO god damned mesmerizing. Looking into the mirror was SO bizarre - I knew I was looking at my face, but I couldn't recognize myself. And I wanted to touch literally anything that was soft - his cat, his dog, his couch, his pillows, his carpet... I tried touching his bird, but that pretty clearly didn't work out too well. It was intense, to say the least. I also started to get really emotional. My brother and I have been through some serious shit with our parents growing up (they're literal pieces of garbage), but he's been my protector our whole lives, so when I sat down next to him I just started to sob uncontrollably. I don't think I've ever felt love so pure in my life. I couldn't even express in words how much I appreciated everything he had done for me growing up, how he took beatings for me, how he'd taken the blame for things I had done because he wanted to protect me from all of the abuse our parents would have put me through. Literally all of these emotions just flooded through me as if a dam had broken

all of these emotions just flooded through me as if a dam had broken

, and there was no way for me to stop it. I cried for almost two hours, telling him over and over how sorry I was and how much I love him. It wasn't a bad cry though... I was crying because I had never before experienced love in that capacity. Not for my parents, that's for damn sure, not for any boyfriend I've ever had, not for my best friend, not for anyone. And in those hours it was SO important to me that he understand how much I love him. Emotions were running high to say the least.

It got to him too, even though he fries all the time. He broke down and started crying. He let me know that I was his little sister and he'd do anything and everything to protect me, no matter how old we get, because that's his job as a big brother and he can't function in life without knowing I'm safe and happy. He sort of alluded to the fact that since our parents aren't actually PARENTS, I'm his responsibility to take care of - and that's not something he takes lightly, or will ever give up.

We both cried for a while longer, and then out of nowhere, looked at each other, and fucking burst into laughter like no other. We were dying. I have no idea what the fuck we were laughing at, but it was the kind of laughter that makes you lose your breath, and leaves you just slapping your knees or the table while you gasp for air and tears stream down your face. We must have gone on like this for another hour straight - my ribs and cheeks were killing me for the next two days.

I had a flight the next morning (which he reaaaaally should have thought of, considering it was my first time, that idiot), and when I got to the airport I was feeling fine. We said our goodbyes, got sad of course, but I was still okay. It wasn't until I got onto the fucking airplane that all hell broke loose. I saw a guy who looked eerily like my brother (okay, yeah, it was probably the LSD) and I realized that I wouldn't be able to see him again for at least another 4 months. I sobbed the whole flight back to Georgia, and just as deeply as I had felt those emotions the night before, that's how deeply my heart broke. As if that wasn't bad enough, I started tweaking out about an hour into the flight and it lasted the whole way back home. Cold sweats, getting really fucking twitchy, unable to sleep, and when I went to the bathroom my pupils were MASSIVE so I'm sure if someone had paid close enough attention they would've been able to tell I was strung out.

I guess all in all, it was a really fun experience. Personally, I wouldn't do it again, but I see why others do. The visuals were pretty insane, but as far as the overwhelming emotions go, I think I'll pass. And who likes feeling tweaked out? Yeah, no thanks.

Exp Year: 2018	ExpID: 111615

Gender: Female

Age at time of experience: 24

Published: Feb 22, 2018	Views: 2,830

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		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 .5 tablets
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 1:15
		 .5 tablets
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 1:30
		 1 tablet
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   165 lb

yoga

Obviously there are a million things to be said right now but what I want to talk about it the effects of yoga after having tripped pretty hard for about an hour (which included a bus ride home) I came home.  My mom is a yoga teacher and my basement is half childs playroom half yoga studio.  I asked her if we could do some yoga, I blamed it on being stiff and tight but I soon learned that muscle and your body are all finite ideas.  Anyways we go down to the studio.  All of the lights are off except for the mood lighting.  There was chill music.  What really hit me about the yoga was feeling inside my own body.  All that bullshit yoga teachers always say stuff like 'pinch your shoulderblades back and feel your spine melting' I actually feel it and the ways that the yoga teacher describe things to me make perfect sense.  Things that dont make sense to me normally like 'lengthen your spine' make sense and I can feel it.

Exp Year: 2010	ExpID: 89126

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 25, 2018	Views: 829

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LSD (2) : General (1), Various (28)


		 DOSE:
 T+ 0:00
		 1 tablet
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		   T+ 1:00
		 1 bowl
		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

		   T+ 0:00
		 1 line
		 insufflated
		 Ketamine
		 (powder / crystals)

		   T+ 5:00

		 smoked
		 Cannabis
		 (plant material)

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   120 lb

This was my second encounter with acid, however the first time I did 2 hits of three year old acid that was deterirated and only gave me a mild shroomy trip. I was anxious to finally experience the full-blown LSD experience.

I came to my friend A's house at about 11 pm, where me, A, and A's roommate B all had our hits. The blotter was so small that I didn't even notice when I dropped it on the carpet, prior to eating it. My friend also had brought some K so I knew it was going to be a crazy night.

The onset lasted about an hour. It was much more sudden than the first time I had done acid. It started with en electric tingle that crept all the way from my toes to my head. Me and A and B smoked a few bowls at this time.

I was good friends with A for many years, but it was his room mate that I didn't trust. He was a very sneaky, lying person. The acid had made me see it much more clearly.

About an hour and a half into the trip, B had started getting 'the fear'. One minute he'd be saying how high he is, and the next cursing the guy who had sold it to us. This was extremely irritating to me. But it even got worse, when he started asking me about the guy I got it from and how well I knew him. B's paranoia was starting to rub off on me.

Soon enough we were all tripping hard. We set up some speakers with B's laptop and played some trance while staring at WinAmp visualizations. This was definetly the peak of the trip for me, with intense closed and open eye visuals.

At this time A and B had decided to do the K. They broke it up on a CD and each did about 3 lines. I didn't think it was a great idea... so i only did one line. The K had made me hallucinate a lot more and really intensified the trip. I'm glad I only did one line, because after 3 or 4 lines I saw A slapping himself on the head while saying 'Too much!

Aaaahh I did too much!'.

About half an hour later after laughing non stop for what felt like eons, I began to observe A's behavior. He was laughing continuously while rolling around on the floor. He soon became tangled in a web of wires from the speakers and laptop, unable to untangle himself. I just laughed and observed... very similar to seeing a fly get caught in a web.  B couldn't stop sneezing from the K... he looked really fucked up, and sometimes would just burst cursing the dealer again. For some unknown reason, A also had really bad gas from the acid, and he wouldn't stop farting. Every time he would do it, I would spark a lighter to try and burn out the gasses. After a while I gave up and threw the lighter at A, causing it to spark on his arm (this was a strange accident, but not a hallucination because A saw it too). We then had a good laugh, while B remained in his own world.

About 5 hours after ingestion I could feel the high wearing off. We smoked pot and watched some TV, unable to fall asleep for a while until finally passing out around 6. The next day we had gone tabboganing while I was still feeling very perma-friend from

the night before. B said this was not great acid, however I can't really judge it because I had not done acid since. I know you're supposed to trip for longer than 5 hours though, so it probably wasn't that good.

Exp Year: 2006	ExpID: 52312

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Feb 25, 2018	Views: 899

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LSD (2), Ketamine (31) : General (1), Small Group (2-9) (17)


		 DOSE:

		 oral
		 Pharms - Aripiprazole
		 (daily)

		 oral
		 Pharms - Lamotrigine
		 (daily)

		 oral
		 Lisdexamfetamine
		 (daily)

		 3 hits
		 oral
		 LSD

		 6 hits
		 oral
		 LSD

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   220 lb

I am a very experienced psychonaut and have explored every psychoactive I can get my hands on.  LSD is not a new drug to me.  I explored it several times while I was in college but I was excited to get my hands on some again for the first time in nearly 10 years.

Other things to know about me is that I am diagnosed with bi-polar and add and take Abilify, Lamictal and Vyvanse daily.

I figured the Abilify would dampen the effects of LSD, so of the first night I took 3 hits and settled in to watch a movie.  Over the course of 7 hours I took several bong hits and never felt like I was going to go past a threshold experience.  I was right, too.  I didn't trip at all; no visuals, no deep self-examination, nothing that I would expect to come along with the LSD.

I began to think the LSD may be bunk, so I waited about two weeks, didn't take the Abilify a couple of days before the planned trip and on the day of the trip I took 6 hits. This time my wife was with me and she took 4 hits.  She managed to trip like crazy.  She said she had a cleansing experience and I was jealous because I again felt little to nothing after the first two hours.

My psychedelic experience was greatly diminished.

Exp Year: 2013	ExpID: 101294

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: 33

Published: Mar 9, 2018	Views: 1,194

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		 DOSE:

		 LSD

		 smoked
		 Cannabis

		 MDMA

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   215 lb

I was looking through the experience reports and came across something known as hppd. I had never heard of this before so I did a little research only to discover that this was a condition that I think I have been suffering from for almost a year now.

it was early on in my initial romance with psychedelics while attending a weekend music festival. At the point before going to this festival my only experiences were with pot which I smoked very heavily, mushrooms which I had maybe 3 good trips at this point, x which I had tried once but with a weak pill, and salvia. I went a little wild at this festival and think that I may have taken 5 x pills and close to 10 hits of acid as well as smoking over an ounce of bud. At sometime during this hazy weekend is when I developed the hppd. What led me to believe it was this weekend that caused it was that the first day in my normal life I noticed the visuals they were exactly the same as the visuals I has seen dancing through the sky that weekend. The vision was of millions of sky blue circles dancing and interweaving in the sky. I'll admit that I welcomed the chance for that visual to resurface because it was beautiful.

since then I have noticed visuals at various times throughout the day everyday. They are especially strong while smoking weed and also taking 5-htp. The visuals are always around if I look for them. Mostly it will be colored floaters in the air usually made of purples and greens. They usually look like a triangle made of three circles. When I close my eyes after seeing these they will still be there and are even bigger brighter and stronger when I open my eyes.

another thing that I have noticed is that it feels like I have the ability to see every little bit of air that is between me and any object that I look at. This is very hard to describe in written word but I had never noticed this before hallucinogens. The last sign of hppd that I have is that a lot of times especially in dark room when I'm tired the room will appear sort of staticy and full of more color than it should be, object seem to always be playing tricks on me in my peripheral vision and some very occasionally objects shift.

I haven't tried to get rid of this. I actually think it is ok to live with, it does get annoying because looking into the sky not only causes a ton of floaters but my eyes seem overly sensitive to light now. I still use hallucinogens very often and the condition seems to lessen but not very quickly.

I still use hallucinogens very often and the condition seems to lessen but not very quickly.

Exp Year: 2007	ExpID: 72892

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Mar 14, 2018	Views: 1,221

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LSD (2), MDMA (3) : Combinations (3), Retrospective / Summary (11), HPPD / Lasting Visuals (40), Not Applicable (38)


		 DOSE:

		   repeated

		 LSD

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   160 lb

This is not a trip report, I've read  trip reports and they've all been really interesting.  People take note of the details, or see the larger picture in a new light and they can write it out clearly so everyone else can (to an extent) understand what they did.  When I try to write about my trips, the experience is lost in translation.  Therefore, I will talk to you about my experience with HPPD.

'HPPD comes in two different forms. One hallucinogen user, while not currently intoxicated, may occasionally notice a spontaneous LSD-like flashback, which will go away after a short time. On the other hand, another user may experience constant, irreversible, LSD-like perceptual disturbances that persist 24 hours a day; they can continue for the rest of their life.' -from a website

I have eaten LSD in large quantities (at least 300 micrograms per trip) around 80 times, with lower dose trips (usually around 100 mics) counting up to about 10.  This was spread over a year period, with the majority being toward the end of the year.

Of the two forms of hppd, I most definately have the latter.  Early in the morning I wake up and can see patterns in the white paint in my room.  This occurs on mornings where I don't smoke, drink, or do any drugs the night before.  When I smoke pot, the feeling is similar to eating around 150 mics of dose.  This has continued for the last year of sobriety.  Most of my friends are suprised that I don't trip anymore, but there's no need.  I handled it all, I've had bad trips, but I never freaked out.  I could always handle myself while tripping, and I think that's part of what allows me to handle myself now.  While on an LSD trip, I could talk to whoever and usually do whatever needed to get done.  It's the same way now, only I don't have a current LSD catalyst.

My mind has seen where lsd can take a person.  I'm still sane (or at least mostly so) but my vision and experience of life will not be the same.  Of acid, it's a great drug in low frequency.  LSD can and did change my perspective.

Exp Year: 2005	ExpID: 45741

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Mar 14, 2018	Views: 1,146

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LSD (2) : Retrospective / Summary (11), HPPD / Lasting Visuals (40), Not Applicable (38)


		 DOSE:

		 2 hits
		 oral
		 LSD
		 (blotter / tab)

		 smoked
		 Tobacco - Cigarettes

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   180 lb

I used to live on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, and psychedelics are seldom available save shrooms.   I had tried shrooms before eating several ounces, but my results were lackluster. I did not know what to expect, and was taking them for the notoriety of having taken them more than the experience. When I first encountered LSD it was unlike anything I had ever run across. When you hear about something called acid you would expect it to melt your brain, but it does not, not in a literal sense anyway.  A friend of a friend had come back from the Bonnaroo music festival with window pane acid and was selling it for cheap so I bought some. I had tried acid before and was amazed at the superficial visuals and the sounds that seemed to come out of nowhere, but after awhile I began to consider myself a professional tripper.

I began to delve into what made it tick, and why if the drug was so strong in small amounts, why it made any difference at all if I took one more than everyone else (Which I did for bragging rights, “I pushed myself even further than everyone else, durdur!”).  Started to wonder where the time went, and what I was left to, where I went when  I was away.  In the height of this particular trip on the window panes I found myself in deep contemplation while I watched Robin Williams on Broadway. The things he said did not seem as funny as they did true. Why was everyone always blabbering on about Atomic weapons?  Because they were afraid of them, but why should they be afraid of them if no one will ever use them again? They should not. I found myself sorting through my fears, encountering repressed thoughts ( child abuse and the like), and looking at my friends as human beings instead of these fabricated dolls I had created in my head. I realized how accountable I had been for every action I had ever taken, and how much of my life was up to me. Before this moment I do not think I had really been conscious of my freewill. I don’t think I had ever thought or felt anything genuine. Then I realized something potentially life shattering , this was not the drug, but my mind playing tricks and running in circles. I began to consider what life would be like seeing it from this perspective all the time, and I asked myself if I wanted to go back to living in that stupor or continue to feel this way forever. The friends who I was watching the program with realized something was wrong with me so I suggested that we go outside for some fresh air, and so that we could smoke some cigarettes ( because we were so fucking cool).

Outside beneath a large I told them of my revelation…that the drug was not real. They were not surprised. One of them told me he had figured that out several months before, and another aid that he had speculated that to be the case, but that he was not quite ready to believe something like that yet. Then there was a third friend who asked me if I wanted more acid, then he asked me if I wanted to travel to bourbon street, and all kinds of other weird things like that. I told him no each time, but he persisted as if he had not heard anything I had said. It got to the point where I felt like reaching across and punching him, but then I had another idea. Me hitting him was exactly what he was trying to get me to do. I decided to forgive him for his absurdity rather than giving into some animalistic urge. Then he broke down and cried. He told us that his Mustang meant he was cool, and then he asked us if we thought he was cool too? We went along and told him that we did. He cried more and ran through a list of things that made him think he was cool. Finally I decided I would like to go for a walk and stretch my legs in this new world I had discovered. The friend who was not ready to accept stayed with the one who would not, and the two of us began walking down a long road toward some water at the end of my street.

I told him that I wanted to tell other people about the way I felt. Told him that I had been living in bullshit for so long, and now everything made sense. He began to tell me about Christianity, which I was familiar with, but I had long been agnostic. The trip had not changed my agnosticism. It just made me think that I had been tripping on life, and now I was tripping on death. I had made up my mind to stop tripping period by this point. That was until he began to tell me how Christ had died for my sins and all these bible stories. He said after his BIG TRIP ( the one like I was having) the Bible helped him keep his sanity. I thought that he had felt alone after his trip, and the Bible gave him something absurd he could cling onto, but my newfound innocence got the best of me. I began to believe him about God ,Jesus, and Christianity. For months afterward I claimed that what I had experienced was salvation. My soul had been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ! People noticed a drastic change in me.

I had been selling pounds of pot just days before, and now I was striving to be a good Christian. It was not me, and as things do that are not, my religion eventually faded, and I found myself in a greater darkness than I had ever encountered. I felt that my friend had unknowingly betrayed me. Religion had kept him from feeling alone with the universe, but throughout my life that was all I was ever looking for. That feeling made me feel whole, and now because of this implantation of Southern Baptist doctrine I was lost again….cut off from myself in every sense. Tabula Rasa, a blank slate. Now two years later I’ve managed to put myself back together not as much as I would like nowhere near as I ha that night, Substance abuse has re entered my life, though I do not find myself placing the faith in the substances as I did before. LSD on the whole has never brought me that close to something again.

Exp Year: 2007	ExpID: 77218

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Mar 19, 2018	Views: 839

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		 DOSE:

		 1 hit

		 LSD

           BODY WEIGHT:
	   75 kg

Three friends and I decided to go bush and take what had been described as very strong clean LSD-25.  Prior to taking it I did about an hour of awareness meditation.

The LSD took about half an hour to come on.  I sat watching the river for a while and became immersed before going out to the old growth forest to watch the trees.  I had never seen this before - they were pulsing and bulging in and out and I could see green auras around them.  I became aware of my primate side, the side that knows instinctively how to connect to the earth - the side that knows how to survive if everything fell apart tommorrow.  Funnily enough it made a lot more sense when I had all four limbs on the ground like an ape.  I definitely had a better connection with the earth when my hands which I know so well were literally connected to the earth.

About 2 hours into the trip I saw what I can only describe as dna sigils interweaving themselves along my arms and hands.  They flowed along perfectly with the contours of my normal physical body.  I also saw slightly different sigils on the face of my girl friend.  These visuals were constant for about 4 more hours.

The visual state and my mental state seemed to be in unison during this time and the feeling was as if I was connected to the earth not as an ape as before, but as a human, but a human who could move and live on the earth in a way that I have never done before.  My posture and presence actually felt different - like another being - but it was definitely me, just me in a way that was unified with the earth.  There was something childlike, but there was also adult and animal, and throughout it all I was aware of the choice to be what I want to be.

I have a fair amount of experience with LSD but have never experienced anything quite like this.

Exp Year: 2004	ExpID: 39747

Gender: Male

Age at time of experience: Not Given

Published: Apr 4, 2018	Views: 1,140

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