[drugs] what does LSD feel like?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsh2j7W6Bo

I’ve only ever smoked weed and I really wonder what an LSD high feels like since I really love this song. Is it as flowery powery as the song sounds?

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foreverknew@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For me it was a transformative experience that changed the trajectory of my life. Its effects are beyond comparison and even after experiencing it, it’s pretty much impossible to put into words.

If you’re able to accept the dissolution of your ego, it can be the most freeing and reconciling mental state of your life.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Holy crap, way to sell it in! 🤣🩷
  
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  - IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    generally that comes after the novelty of first time or 2 wears off, starting out your too excited for deep introspection…
    
    not to damper your enthusiasm, but this can just as easily swing the other negatively, if your in a bad mood/have some deepseated insecurities/trauma you havent processed etc. setting/mood is everything, don’t “fight” the trip. doing so lead to years-long depression in my case
    
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  - CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    This message brought to you by Big LSD.
    
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nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It really is a matter of “set and setting” (to quote Leary), plus chemical variability due to black markets.

Sometimes a trip can be intensely visual and have you giggling at an unnamed wonderful shared secret.

Sometimes a trip can just be a sense of existential doom and a vivid imagination, the worst kind of disjointed lost nightmare you half-remember from childhood.

It’s not binary ofc. You have 6-8 hours of intense experience, which is a lot of time to drift from one mental space to another.

The #1 thing I can suggest is to plan a well-stocked bicycle picnic lunch in a low-traffic park. Bring water. Bring a first-aid kit. Bring a friend or two. Bring a frisbee. Bring lots of different kinds of music to listen to. Plan to spend a lot of time walking or sitting quietly, enjoying nature.

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- nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh, and it’s qualitatively different from weed.
  
  As an analogy: no matter how much alcohol you drink, you never feel high like you ate a single gummy.
  
  Imagine eating a whole bag of edibles while strung out on coffee and not enough sleep. It’s… not really like that
  
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  - nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh yeah and one more thing especially given the actual song in the OP – do not take acid to “forget your troubles”.
    
    IT WORKS THE OPPOSITE OF THAT
    
    Have your shit together as much as possible before you dose.
    
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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Sometimes a trip can be intensely visual and have you giggling at an unnamed wonderful shared secret.
  
  Sometimes a trip can just be a sense of existential doom and a vivid imagination, the worst kind of disjointed lost nightmare you half-remember from childhood.
  
  You should leave this here if its your own experience 😁
  
  The #1 thing I can suggest is to plan a well-stocked bicycle picnic lunch in a low-traffic park. Bring water. Bring a first-aid kit. Bring a friend or two. Bring a frisbee. Bring lots of different kinds of music to listen to. Plan to spend a lot of time walking or sitting quietly, enjoying nature.
  
  This is just adorable regardless of LSD of not 🤣🩷
  
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  - nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m glad erowid has survived all these years. My best stories may or may not been saved there for posterity, and therefore cannot be referenced here 😋
    
    The bicycle thing is something I have done several times on several continents (fun fact: LSD is the easiest drug to bring on international flights)
    
    One time in college, myself and a group of friends all biked to a big field and simultaneously took LSD, shrooms, and edibles. I finally really grokked freshman physics when the force vectors on the frisbee were glowing neon.
    
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remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’d highly recommend having supervision when you first try it. Someone you trust and ideally is sober and has experience with it. That way you won’t do anything too stupid and they can even help you with exploring some aspects of it. We had a great guy supervising our first trip, it was a lot of fun, though he fucked with us a bit by abruptly changing the music a couple of times. But if you’re compatible and it’s done right, it is sooo much fun!

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- greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I read super vision and got confused
  
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  - remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Are you bragging about how good your eyes are? Because I have 20/20 vision and just a mild red-green colour blindness that isn’t a big deal.
    
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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks! It sounds CRAZY what an effect it must have on you is a change of music hits that hard xD
  
  I’m looking forward to this!
  
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  - remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It is crazy how much of an effect the change in music can do to your mood. And how much of that is true when you’re not on drugs? Think about that. Preferably when you’re on LSD!
    
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x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Best to try it out with some friends and maybe a sitter if there’s no tripper with experience.

Also don’t listen to that guy suggesting research chemicals. It’s extremely stupid advice to consider it over LSD. You need to be sure that what you take has been researched already if you are not an experienced drug user. The only research chemical I can suggest if you want a shorter trip than LSD is 2cb, but that’s because it’s not considered a research chemical anymore.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I did try a few synthetic variants of THC blablabla - if that’s what “research chemicals” are - but they sucked.
  
  If and when I try LSD, I’ll definitely have a trustworthy person with me. Thanks!
  
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  - x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah those synthetic THC variants are research chemicals and very new to the market. I think they are awful and a bad high imo. I’ve never enjoyed them.
    
    There’s definitely some fun RCs though, 1P-LSD for example is supposed to be a clean trip close to real LSD. But on the other hand you also have 25I-NBOMe which is “an LSD alternative” but is extremely dangerous. I think it has an LD50 (lethal dose for 50% of the people) of only 3 times a decent dose. Which is why we had the saying “if it’s bitter it’s a spitter”, which means NBOMe instead of LSD.
    
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Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I just want to add that it’s not the same experience for everybody. The way your unique brain reacts could be very different from others. Be safe!

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- Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yup! I have aphantasia (inability to mentally visualize things), so I had hoped that LSD would give me some really fun, trippy visuals that I was otherwise unable to come up with in my own head. Unfortunately, I didn't get that, BUT instead what I experienced was seeing the colors of everything around me start to breathe. I don't know how else to describe it than that; the objects themselves weren't breathing, but the colors the objects were made of, were. It was like the colors would glow vibrantly and hold that glow for a moment, and then "exhale" with the colors fading out and around until the object was a dull, muted color. Then it would slowly brighten back up until it glowed again. Everything I looked at had its own unique rate of "breathing", nothing was in sync.
  
  Nobody else in my group had anything like that. They all talked about seeing geometric patterns, shape-shifting, heightened empathy, etc. My experience was way more mild compared to everybody else.
  
  Also, while I didn't have an intense visual experience, I did have a hard time focusing my eyes on anything, and everything was very blurry for a few hours. That made me feel very nauseous, so also be prepared for the possibility of throwing up, OP.
  
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  - Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s how mine went too, we have similar brains I guess
    
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  - akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh nooooo I hate feeling nauseous! xD But I guess some experiences have that kind of a price… Thanks for sharing! And thanks for being the first person I ever talk to that lives with aphantasia! I had only every heard of it in the TV series Space Force.
    
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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks! I’m a safety first person! :D
  
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crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think it’s pretty safe to say that this song in no way at all represents how it feels to experience an acid trip. Maybe brief moments of a trip would feel like this, but psychedelics can and often will take you on much more of a rollercoaster ride.

If you’re genuinely curious to learn more about what it’s like, let me share with you one of the great old websites available to delve into these matters:

www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD.shtml

Lots of good trip reports on here to give you a better idea. Have fun, be safe, and if you do decide to try it find a friend to sit with you who has done it before. Cheers sugar!

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What the FUCK. 🤣
  
  First of all: early 2000’s World Wide Web 🩷🩷🩷
  
  Second of all: I can’t BELIEVE the feds let this one stay up 😂
  
  Thanks for sharing! 🥰
  
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agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nope, but also, it can be if that’s the mood you’re in.

For me it feels more like that part of the roller coaster when you just start to drop and you’re in that free fall state, but for about 12 hours or so. It’s a blast, lots of neat swirly effects on the eyes, Lord of positive emotions. Just set aside the next day to recoup a little.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sweet! Thanks for sharing! :D
  
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unknown@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Lsd is like a toy that induces some mild mental plasticity, and playing with it lets you try on different brain shapes.

You start feeling/tasting the effects in your jaw about ten minutes or so after eating a tab, it’s a but like that feeling you get after rollercoasters but in your salivary glands, idk it’s hard to describe.

At this point I like to be alone, settled in a cool, dimly lit room, preferably lying on my back and on a tile floor (carpet is disgusting when you’re tripping) and I let my mind wander and start playing.

Day to day I’m incredibly visual, it comes naturally and isn’t particularly entertaining any more, I can easily create a looping klein bottle out of an apple and imagine things in 3d spaces. We’re long past rotating cows in this bad boi.

What I’m not able to do ’normally’ though, is build music in my mind. The complex layering and holding all those moving parts in my mind at once is just not possible for me. Unless I’m on acid. Then I’m composing symphonies and exploring all the genres of maths and pattern building I can comprehend.

Acid for is a very sensory high, you will be aware of things you didn’t know you had the ability to feel. It can be very overwhelming if you focus on it and let it be.

I hate being in public or around people on acid (tbh I really dislike such things sober too) and if I’m not careful and get overwhelmed, I can get very lost in all the nerve endings of my face. Having a face full of nerve endings is a very distractingly sensory experience.

Getting out of this groove is easy though, just distract yourself with something interesting once you become aware of being stuck, and avoid social spaces at all costs.

TLDR: lsd is best done alone, lying on my kitchen floor in the dark, so I can play in my imagination. Ymmv.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks for sharing such a detailed experience! While I won’t try it alone for the first time, I definitely want to see how I react on it when alone. down the road. I’m quite musical, having attended music school and played lots of instruments durign the years, so I wonder what LSD would do with that. xD
  
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  - unknown@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    With a musically trained brain you’re probably going to have a lot of fun with lsd. I wish you luck and many fun trips!
    
    (I just reread my original comment and my English is so bad, lmao. I was super tired when I typed that up, apologies!)
    
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YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ive done it a few times. You ingest it and it can take about an hour or so to kick in as it takes time for your body to absorb it and begin working. From there the effects come in waves in that you will feel its effects strongly but they subside only for them to come back strong again, and so on. This wave cycle lasts hours, typically ~8 but this window can vary of course.

During the trip I typically feel giddy, everything is fun or funny, but this relies heavily on positive stimuli.

Visually Ive never full-on hallucinated in that Ive never had an experience on LSD that was entirely different from reality. For me it has always been an augmentation of reality, like seeing patterns and/or colors on top of reality.

I also seem to get kind of congested, like I have allergies. Maybe Im slightly allergic to LSD or something though.

Its been a great time overall but the length of the effects prevents me from seeking it out again. I just dont want to be locked in to being out of it for that long.

Now, as for what popular media represents LSD as, nothing like that. I have had very strong hallucinations, like I felt as though I was in other places or seeing things that could not be possible, on Salvia concentrations. And Ive done DMT once that pretty intense as well, but LSD was more mild for me.

Consider that concentration of doses likely has a lot to do with my experiences vs others though.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  augmentation of reality
  
  Maybe LSD can give me comfort in this enshittified AI world…
  
  Thanks for sharing! Do you have any examples on “positive stimuli”? Could it be doing stuff that I otherwise like doing? Listening to music? Watching a movie? Programming LOL…. xD
  
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  - YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Positive stimuli can be anything you like doing, seeing, hearing, etc. I also recommend ensuring that anything you are watching/doing avoids negative topics, situations, or scenarios. I wouldnt watch a drama, or read sad stories. I want upbeat or happy things to help me keep my trip positive.
    
    Because your mind is being chemically altered it can be difficult to control your train of thought once it starts. So by planning or curating a set of positive stimuli you can help keep those influences on a path you prefer. Id usually start by looking at funny memes, trippy videos, high bpm positive music, fun games that dont go into heavy topics (think casual or arcade type games), and Ive also had fun playing with legos.
    
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content_educator_94@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There are different ‘levels’ of tripping (depending on dose)

I’ve taken probably more acid than is considered normal by most people but not nearly as much as hardcore acid taking “career” hippies who are involved intimately in the distribution network lol

I have at times taken it multiple times a week in both small and larger doses, I’ve gone periods where I basically wanted to live inside a trip, and I’ve had periods where I abstained for months if not years

I took it for the first time at 19, I’m 32 now. Just some background.

Anyway:

Acid (to me) feels like suddenly almost anything I am perceiving, of thinking about becomes notably more significant, complex, and interesting

I feel fascinated by things that are quite ordinary and extraordinary things feel truly divine!

I often am not very hungry, small sweets (fruit preferably) and some tea or a soda hit the spot tho.

I like to socialize with people that I am comfortable with, generally prefer to be in familiar territory (at home). Some people like to meet new people and go exploring more though.

Music sounds really fucking cool. Honestly in some ways acid feels like a stimulant version of weird with legitimate geometric visuals and color enhancement that is JUICY not just the mild color enhancement from marijuana.

Acid also has a nice long high which I personally like, anywhere from 9-12 hours usually for me at least. Some people don’t like how long it lasts and I can feel them on that.

Acid kind of makes it hard to feel completely 100% SURE about stuff sometimes. I seem to always be open to considering slightly different perspectives on what is correct. This can be cool for creative problem solving and at times frustrating when trying to just file something away as solved or certain when tripping lol

Acid sometimes makes me feel euphoric and other times makes my body feel like a wet, alien meat mech I am somehow both intimately amused by and also somewhat grossed out by when thinking too hard about it.

Sometimes I feel slightly telepathic but I am pretty sure it’s just an improved ability to read body language

People’s faces sometimes look weird as fuck, and occasionally I will think my paper towels have a very nice new pattern only to discover (duh) that I was just seeing visuals

Acid is one of my favorite drugs and I think that more people should do it at home with their friends and family, kinda like having some beers or weed.

I honestly think acid is a poor choice for concerts and loud crazy hectic public situations

Much more comfortable at home for me man.

(Then again on very small amounts I am comfortable like going to work, but that’s a micro dose and isn’t nearly as intoxicating, there are also no distortions in perception at that dose)

The body load feels sort of like a general, all over my body, pleasant but odd electric pulsing sensation, like I can feel my nerves firing

I love acid.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hey NEVER apologize for writing something this heartfelt! xD <3 It was an awesome read! Thanks for sharing!
  
  Sheet, you go to work with acid in your system?! How does it affect interactions with coworkers (if you have any) and how does it affect your performance at work?
  
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  - content_educator_94@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I have gone to work still slightly tripping from the previous night and also on smaller doses intentionally
    
    I’ve done kitchen jobs, junk removal and landscaping work while under the influence
    
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keiko@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
my lsd advice: if there are things which deserve your tears, don't hold them back, feel your feelings to their greatest depths, try to understand yourself and your place in this world, try to understand the world and its place in you, and as always, be kind to yourself 🩷

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  holy crap that sounds TRANSCENDET. <3 Thanks for the advice 😊❤️
  
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IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It is nothing like that.

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shellington@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I once went to an art gallery on a trip. Was super intense bht awesome all the pivtures were moving like in Harry Pottee hard to explain.

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- GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  loohcs leik u mght ave sum drain bammage cir.
  
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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Cool! So then some things MOVE that otherwise don’t? That sounds like great hallucination!
  
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  - shellington@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes, I would say you don’t see things that don’t exist at all but things that do may move or morph in interesting ways.
    
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17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is the most realistic movie scene I’ve seen youtu.be/axjyydYMhfg. But there’s a lot more of the feeling and the actual high that can’t be shown from a video.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks! This scene made me REALLY intrigued though! xD I can’t wait to try someday! :D
  
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  - 17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yep. The part where the bus ceiling starts to move and warp is spot on exactly like visuals you’ll see. Maybe more or less but that’s essentially it.
    
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hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
i don’t drink, smoke, weed whatever but LSD I do want to try.

I saw an article once that said folks in old people homes should be able to take whatever they want, including LSD.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ahahaha what was the reasoning in the article? xD
  
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DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Good. Enlightening. Fun. Wholesome. I’d say it’s flashier and more cerebral than mushrooms. Which aren’t necessarily mellow, but the connection of mushrooms feels deeper and more instinctual whereas on acid, the connections you make are ones you’re more consciously effecting.

Worth it, but know your source! Get feedback from other people who have used the same supply. There’s a couple analogs that are a real bad time that unscrupulous fuckwads will sell as acid. Oh also it should be cheap. Like, $10 or less a hit. Less, really. Last time I had any, it was $25, I think, for a vial. Which is like 200-400 doses

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks for sharing! <3
  
  Holy crap THAT cheap??? Unfortunately, the war on drugs in my country is INSANE at the moment, so I won’t be doing anything crazy any time soon. xD
  
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tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The best way I can describe the cerebral part of it is:

You are free to think deeply about many things that you normally take for granted and see them as you would with a child-like curiosity. You second guess societal abstractions that used to feel like common sense. You see more plainly the motivations for things and connections between them. You start to feel much more viscerally present in reality rather than caught up in your psychological habits of thinking.

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You had me at “child-like curiosity”! I already often behave or act with the same or similar enthusiasm to that of a child, so no I REALLY wonder how I would act when high on acid. xD
  
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HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Only done it a few times with friends. First time was at a bachelor party at a semi remote cabin. Our one friend had experience doing it and even did recommended doses for each person. I feel like my experience varied from what others have stated here. It was great though, time is lost and the 2 to 3 hours that it lasts really feels like 6 hours have passed. Depending on how much you do can change what you experience. For me it meant things felt wavy especially if you get yourself into a small room like a bathroom where its extremely noticeable. Conversations are mostly nonsense and the littlest things trigger uncontrollable laughing that lasts for minutes to the point your crying and expect your jaw to hurt. Honestly a lot of the effects reminded me a lot of shrooms, but the high is more intense and cleaner if that makes sense. I didnt have any crazy revelations or changes in life, but you definitely feel good for the next week like your recharged and some worries are lifted. If I ever get the opportunity to do it again i would.

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- IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  uh…LSD lasts like 6-8hrs
  
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  - HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah i apologize, looking back on it some more your probably right. We got there around 2-3pm and did it almost immediately. I think the waves were done around 8-9pm do your right. I would say i could still feel it slightly for a few more hours after that but it was very minimal at that point and probably just intensified by alcohol and weed. Another plus for shrooms since they dont last as long.
    
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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  GOD I would give anything to feel this
  
  feel good for the next week like your recharged and some worries are lifted
  
  Thanks for sharing! :=)
  
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Very, very bad in my experience. You don’t hallucinate entire objects so much as textures, which can be very troubling and lead to a spiral if you’re not in a good environment. You’re better off using research chems IMO, which can give a much more manageable effect that doesn’t last 12 hours

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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks for sharing! Sounds horrible… This is not at all, AT ALL, the image broadcasted by media 😅
  
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  - cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Your mileage may vary. I’ve had extremely positive experiences with LSD and other psychedelics. It comes down to a lot of factors including the drug, your mindset and setting, and your individual biology.
    
    How do you handle weed? Do you have a predisposition to schizophrenia or other mental illness? Are you a generally anxious person?
    
    Personally I’d recommend a low dose of mushrooms first before trying other psychedelics, but at the end of the day they’re not for everyone and it’s a question you’ll have to answer for yourself.
    
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