Can anyone describe the effects of LSD? I have never taken it and probably

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never will.
Thanks

[WCGreen]

1. It depends....

Sometimes the world looks kind of Cartoonish.....

Sometimes everythin just seems funny...

And sometimes you go stark raving mad cause the mutha fucking' snakes got on the plane...

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. ROFLMAO

You know I :loveya:, WC!

[WCGreen]

3. Kiss Kiss Kiss.....

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. Mmmm-Mmmm!

This is what your kisses look like on acid!

[WCGreen]

15. Awesome....

You where there, then....

Whoaaaaa

[Whoa_Nelly]

16. ..........

Be



Here



Now

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Ah, Whoa,

I should have KNOWN you'd be on this thread. You hippie, you. :hippie:

[Whoa_Nelly]

53. Hey, Blue! All I can say is...

Trippy, man!!! Look at the colors!!

[begin_within]

61. Or more like this?

[BlueStorm]

68. Ooohhh that is making my headache worse!!! n/t

[Withywindle]

30. Ha!

That's what they sound like, I thought. :D

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5. figures.

[ForrestGump]

4. It often makes men want to cut their hair, wear white shirts and black

suits, put on bicycle clips, and ride around handing out literature while marrying multiple wives.

Oh...sorry. read it wrong: that's LDS. The effects of LSD I can only provide anecdotal evidence for.

It can be scary, at times, I know that -- both LDS and LSD, I mean.

[WCGreen]

10. Both can and often do produce hallucinations

[ForrestGump]

14. I know that. What do you think I am? Some kind of

morani? :P

[Haole Girl]

6. Where shall I begin....

with the man at work, who could be the poster child for "Your brain on drugs" commercials?

Or, with an ex-friend who had miscarriage, after miscarriage-- and then later had a child with birth defects?

Then, there was my Aunt, who ended up institutionalized in a mental hospital after taking it once...just once...at a party.

Needless to say, I am not a fan of it. :(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I have never taken it.........

But I ran with a crowd in college, back when it was legal to study it.......

And many of them had taken it, under controlled circumstances.......

There were vivid hallucinations....walls would vibrate.........time and space both were distorted.......

I really wanted to try it, but I was not of age, and my parents wouldn't sign..........

Many folks felt that they had resolution of personal or marital problems......

Hope this helps.....

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

71. Vibrating walls? Distroded time and space? I believe someone spiked my

drink.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Erowid.org is your friend.

You'll find 100s of LSD experience reports here.

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

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9. Thanks for providing a LEGITIMATE ANSWER

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. No problem.

I'm a drug geek and Erowid is an incredible resource for pretty much any substance. They're pretty unbiased as well. They'll provide the good and the bad.

[begin_within]

12. I had never heard of Erowid before, thank you for the tip.

[Ariana Celeste]

66. The *best* drug related website I have come across

I've spent a lot of time on Erowid. :)

[spacelady]

17. Depends on mind-set and setting. Look at other's experience all you

want...it will not be a trip until You take it.

[IChing]

29. yes, although the observer becomes a

part of that reality.

[Broken_Hero]

46. agreed....nt

[Blue_In_AK]

18. I'm a veteran

of over 300 times -- every one different. A lot depends on the quality, your surroundings and your mind set at the time. I've had everything from dazzling cosmic experiences to some really scary shit. I think if I were going to recommend psychedelics to anyone, I would say start with 'shrooms first. You're less likely to be surprised.

[RetroLounge]

21. Mmmmmm Shrooms rock!

Acid scared me, so I stuck with shrooms...

RL

[Earth_First]

22. It's been years since...

however this would be the only way I'd ever experiement again. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't think mentally I'd be able to handle it any longer.

Bummer.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I haven't done any since the '80s

My LSD time was mostly between 1967 and 1973. I wouldn't be afraid to do any now, but ... why? I think my mind's been expanded about as far as it needs to go.

[Roon]

56. I could do it again

If I was at a dead show.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Yes, that acid can be pretty scary...

I learned to always keep one thought firmly in the back of my mind -"it's only the drug, it's only the drug." That got me through some otherwise pretty mind-bending experiences. The 'shrooms are definitely more controllable and smooth.

[Withywindle]

31. That is totally the mantra!

Just like in a scary movie.

I'm with you on the "why" thing--I think I got to a point where I was frankly just bored with it. "Yeah, yeah, dancing carpet patterns, spiritual revelations--can I just go to sleep now?"

That was long enough ago that I'd love to do it once more to see what new things I bring to it now. But probably shrooms, acid's too harsh and has too much speed.

[Broken_Hero]

47. with shrooms the

laugher/permagrin for me, was less intense, it was like, I could control myself, if I had to for a certain amount of time...on acid, there was NO way I could control my self, at all really, when it came to the laughing, and talking like a moron, who thought everything I said was Dave Chappelle quality comedy...:)

[Earth_First]

20. We experimented with it for a short period of time...

The most noticeable effect was the movement of stationary objects which seemed to vibrate with movement, and objects that were in motion were IN motion, often leaving trails of themselves behind them as they moved along. Imagine seeing said object moving one still frame at a moment while moving at its normal rate of speed, be it a car, trees swaying in the breeze, etc. The worst part of the experience, which ultimately decidedly had me end my experimentation with LSD was the 'chemical' delusion akin to taking a pharmaceutical leaves your head. It was an interesting period of time, with much admiration for the experience from both a psychological and sociological standpoint.

[IChing]

24. You are all under arrest for talking about drugs that make you think

When was the last time you would remember a drunken stupor and remember a "trip"?

[mark414]

26. if i could accurately, i would be the greatest writer known to man

both the best and worst experiences of my life have occurred while under the influence of LSD

i have seen murals come to life, neon sidewalks with strange languages written on them in flashing and pulsating colors, whole buildings rearrange themselves and whole buildings crash to the ground - only to build themselves back up. i've watched grass and flowers and other plants grow before my very eyes, sometimes it feels like months have passed when it's only been ten minutes...

i have traveled to different worlds and universes and i've spoken with angels, with demons, with ghosts, and have seen beings rise up out of the ground - i've seen faces morph into a hundred different ones and have watched my body being eaten by bugs (that was some terrifying shit)

a friend of mine tripped and went to church and he saw the crucifixion

sex on LSD is...oh god...that's all i can say about that

if it's a trip you desire but LSD scares you...eat some shrooms - i've never had nor ever met anyone who's had a really bad trip on shrooms

[Blue_In_AK]

43. Excellent description...

[KatyMan]

49. at the risk of being asked to elaborate

which I won't :D, yeah sex on acid is...different...:smoke:

[struggle4progress]

27. The inventor has a website

http://www.hofmann.org/

Ya might check out the links on the "Voices" page ... :hippie:

[Withywindle]

28. I found that it depends so much

on who you're with and where you are. If I were going to do it again after years without, I'd choose these things carefully.

I can tell you this, though: the first few times you do it, it's ALL about your senses. All five basic ones and a few more besides. You will hear a touch, smell a taste, and see sounds. Basic lighting fixtures will become occult and magical. God help you if you have self-esteem issues, because any weakness will rise into your consciousness and replicate itself in loops. You'll have to face that sooner or later, and that is BAD. (I've walked a lot of friends through "Hell.") Once you come out on the other end of it, though, you'll appreciate the beauty of the world in a whole new way.

No regrets. Totally worth it. But it's not something to be done lightly, like a drink or a bong hit. (With the stuff I was taking in the 80s, it was a 10-hour commitment at the very least!)

edited to fix a typo.

[IChing]

32. Has anyone read Huxley's The Island?

It was part of the growth to adulthood.

Never had a bad trip but brought others though like you said
the ego has no existence in that realm for it will self-destruct
and that is where the problems happen.

[Withywindle]

35. I haven't read it, but maybe I should

I found that the ego WILL always make problems--but that's its function in a way. It's the demon that challenges you. The goal is to not so much destroy it as outwit it.

[IChing]

36. The island utopia was finally taken over by an

oil company

No shit, we read this in the 60"s
(at least I did)

[Withywindle]

38. Oh, I can believe it

Seems to me some of this crap was pretty evident to people who were paying attention....way back when.

(Can't speak for the 60s personally, I was born in '69, but if you just read a LITTLE bit of history, a little bit of literature, it's clear there were always people who could see our current nightmare coming.)

What blows my mind is the fact that this dependence on oil has really only risen up to dominate the world in the past 100 or so years. That's SUCH a tiny blip in existence. And yet people act as if it's always been this way and there are no other possibilities.

[mark414]

33. and i should add:

that you should read aldous huxley's 'the doors of perception'

In this book, Huxley explores the idea that the human mind filters reality, partly because handling the details of all of the impressions and images coming in would be unbearable, partly because it has been taught to do so. He believes that psychotropic drugs can partly remove this filter, or "open these doors of perception." After taking mescaline, Huxley wrote down his thoughts and feelings. He observed that everyday objects lose their functionality and suddenly exist "as such." Space and dimension become irrelevant, and perceptions seem to be enlarged and at times even overwhelming.

[IChing]

34. To have the thought that Space and dimension becomes irrelevant has become

a mind crime which is operational now.

YOU ARE ON NOTICE SIR!!!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. Didn't The Doors take their name from that book?

I thought I heard that once.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. Yes, they did.

Or at the very least, I think it's been mentioned in every Morrison biography I've read.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. Thought so.

I actually met Ray Manzarek a few years ago. He signed a CD and took a picture, though the camera flash pretty much erased him from the picture since he was wearing a white shirt.

:rofl:

[IChing]

42. I went to Jim Morrison's wake in Coronado after he died

with his brother.
(not a friend, but through a friend)

He and his sister(who I knew intimately) went to the same High School

His brother had his brother's album before anyone and
ask our group of friends if we would like to hear his brother's album

We said right, your brother has an album


His father was an Admiral.

[Withywindle]

41. Yup, good book!

And, judging from my own experience, he got it right - you tend to approach every object on brand-new terms. All the things in daily life that were taken for granted because they'd always been there now have to justify themselves: sometimes your mind makes up creative new roles for them, sometimes they seem superfluous and cancerous. The important thing is that EVERYTHING is up for re-evaluation, and that in itself is the overwhelming, terrifying, liberating aspect. (The specifics are uniquely your own.)

[PassingFair]

44. This is a CRACK-UP

British soldiers on LSD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rWnQphPdQ&mode=related&search=

[zanne]

52. I love the tree-climbing guy

Of course, the guy doubling over with laughter is priceless.

[Broken_Hero]

45. My main effects

were...

1. uncontrolled laughter, a fly would go by, and I would bust out laughing for a time, for no reason...

2. Permagrin, a permanent grin/smile on my mug the whole time, dont' ask me why, or how, it just was...

3. A total lack of depth perception, texture, and contour of objects, and angles...the best place, that I liked to be was in the bathroom, so many different stages of depth in a bathroom...sink, mirror, toilet seat, and when I look into the tub, it looks like the base of it was 10 ft further down than it should be. Anything with similiar shapes, like little patterns on a ceiling/wall, would go in and out of focus, and move(to me at least)....

4. Can't drink water worth a damn...

Those are about how lsd effected me, but everyone is different. I also enjoyed incense, in the dark...very, interesting...:)

[KatyMan]

48. I loved it back in the day

and under the proper circumstances would take it again. It's hard to describe but to me everything seemed truly real for the first time...It was like your brain was rebooted and everything was new again, and you could appreciate everything more. I would point out that the experience depends on the person and their frame of mind, and maybe I just took it under positive circumstances.
Music is incredible. Listen to the Beatles on Vitamin A (as we called it :) ) and you experience a profound experience. Queen too. And Uriah Heep. I wrote some pretty awesome lyrics and music under the influence too. But that's just me, I wouldn't necessarily encourage someone I don't know to take it.
I did also read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in one night whilst on LSD. Awesome. I also tended to be by myself when I did it. I would also say that alcohol seemed to have no affect whatsoever on me or my friends at the time. Of course, on acid you're seriously f*cked up anyway, so maybe the beer atoms just said "Whoa, we're outta here..." :)
A fun experience was taking acid with a friend of mine and going to see Wayne's World at the theater when it came out. Fuckin great nachos....I swear I was standing still in the lobby, waiting to go in, and everyone in there looked at me, and I knew they all knew I was on acid. Of course that was utterly false, but I did experience some paranoia...

To sum, I found it a great focusing experience, and wish I still could do it every six months or so. All in all, for me, and acid is a very personal experience, I loved it, and thanks for the post, it brought back nice memories.

[RebelOne]

50. I only took it once many, many years ago.

All I remember is that it had me visiting a cemetary in the middle of the night.

[Jamastiene]

51. For some, it is a fun experience, but for me,

it was bad. It made my Joan Jett posters turn into chain wielding women who place ocotopii on said victim of a laced joint. I went through it for 8 hours and know what terror really is. I was :scared: that day.

[msedano]

54. it's not the acid

that made for bad trips, it was the crud the acid was placed on. isla vista in '66 the acid was dropped on tabs of speed. big fat tabs of speedy crap that raced thru the bloodstream and put nerves on edge, then the acid came on with a sudden warmth that invariably jangled up against that speedy background. went to a timothy leary "lecture" on acid once, then ate a mcdonald's double cheeseburger that was the most delicious food i'd eaten. only once did the acid come without contaminants and that was incredibly relaxing. then there was the night before a final exam this woman i'd known in high school out of the blue asked if i wanted to drop a tab with her...

peyote is a better trip if you can stomach the taste.

it can be dangerous as noted. a classmate died in mexico during xmas break after dropping acid. something fried the brains of several "hippie" types--homeless runaways basically-- and made the girls prey for other "hippie" scum. that was disgusting. probably was not just acid that killed those kids' spirits.

if it grows in the earth it's ok by me, 'cept for the time this rural farmer handed me a full-grown opium poppy while i was manicuring some of the local weed. but that's for another day.

mvs

[Roon]

55. When I was a kid, I was tripping in my bedroom

I had a textured ceiling and I was seeing all kinds of pretty shapes and designs. So what do I do? I take my camera and start taking pictures of the ceiling. LOL

[Ariana Celeste]

65. I tried that too!

My SO and I were trippin pretty hard on Christmas Eve a couple of years ago- and I had these really cool Christmas-y candle holders- the lights were off except for some Christmas lights so it was really dim and the candles were shining through this colored glass and it looked so awesome! We had to take pictures. And of course the pictures sucked. :P

[Roon]

67. LOL!!

It seems like such a great idea at the time.

[Cruzan]

57. I haven't dropped acid in almost 20 years

and I can still induce flowing patterns just by relaxing and looking at a carpet or floor tile.

[graywarrior]

58. Dropped acid in the 60's.

It AMPLIFIED everything, even rain drops hitting the ground. Never had a flashback, tho had one bad trip...I dropped acid when I was breaking up with my musician boyfriend. I ended up walking all over the city of Lynn tripping my brains out and crying. No one even noticed...that's Lynn for ya.

Lately my life is like an acid trip. Lotsa weird shit goin' down.

[Burma Jones]

59. It won't do anything that wasn't there in the first place

It amplifies everything, the good and the bad. If you have a strong ego, which is not to say you're an egotist but rather have confidence in yourself, then you do allright.

I had about 50 "excursions" - all of them quite pleasant

There were times when all I could say to describe it was that everything had an edge - like broken glass, but in a positive way....

There was a time, during Halloween, when I threw a sheet over my head, did not cut out eye holes, and walked all over the Knox College Campus, going from party to party just trusting the force. Wound up alive at least.......

I performed the role of Prospero (a really big Shakesperian role) in "The Tempest" during a dress rehearsal at the tail end of a trip - I wasn't the only one in the cast doing so. I didn't drop a line, but the Director told us that the performance was "way too fast"

You could also drink a case of beer and not feel any effect - until the next day....which brings us to the "Cosmic Hangover"

The Cosmic Hangover is to be treasured.......it doesn't hurt and you aren't nauseous...I took a 10 hour shower during one cosmic hangover. Usually the day after was a time for reflection and Budweiser.......

I find that the main effect some 25 years later is overuse of ellipses..........................................

Oh, and I think I had a flasback at Chuck E. Cheese once, but that's another story...................

[mainegreen]

60. its proof that reality is merely perception.

Time/color/space. all of it a mental construct.

[buddhamama]

62. yes

n/t

[Ariana Celeste]

64. That's for sure

:hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

63. It's pretty much impossible to describe man

I love it though, it really opens me up to the right wavelength. ;)

Like others have said it really depends on a lot of circumstances. You never want to take a psychedelic drug when you are in a bad state of mind, you'll set yourself up for an uncomfortable and sometimes bad trip.

One of the most common things is that lights tend to look starry and may have auras- everything gets brighter and more vibrant. Time loses meaning- for some it may be faster, for some it may be slower, for others there is no time, only 'now'. When I was on acid it felt like everything around me was full of life. You are just on an entirely different level.

I agree with the above poster who said that one should try shrooms before trying acid. I was much more at ease my first time on shrooms then my first time on acid. With shrooms you still get giggly, everything still looks really cool, but, it is less intense (unless you gobble up a LOT) and much easier to control yourself and 'maintain'. :)

[sendero]

69. The thing is..

... the experience varies WIDELY depending on dosage. Take just a little, you "feel good" colors stand out, music sounds incredible, etc, etc, etc.

Take a lot and faces melt, nothing you see is real, etc, etc, etc. I've never taken that much, but I've known a lot of folks who have, and their descriptions were believable and similar.

Since dosages are measured in micrograms, it can be dicey.

Disclaimer: I took my last dose of acid in 1977. I won't be doing it again, although I can't say I regret it - it does change the way you think a little bit - and I believe for the better.

[Okiojira]

70. I've done it 10 times in my life...

...the first time, I was a senior in high school and it was so completely unlike any other high I had experienced in my life that I couldn't deal and ended up threatening to kill one of my friends before breaking down in tears. After that, one of my friends took me home and I lay awake the rest of the night watching the wood paneling on my bedroom ceiling undulate, which was by far the best part of that trip. After a year and a half, another friend persuaded me to try it again and that time I really got off on it and enjoyed it. I had OK/good experiences ever since until my tenth time. My 10th was not bad at all - me and the drummer from my band stayed up all night watching movies, including a video of Cirque Du Soleil (which was awesome as hell, especially high!!!) and "The Abyss". But, by the end of it, I was exhausted beyond words and upon arriving home mid-morning after being awake all night (which is typical with acid, supposedly because of the strychnine, i.e. rat poison, used in its making), I decided, "Y'know, I don;t think I need to do this anymore." And I haven't since.


To summarize, LSD (at least the stuff i've done) can be a really fun experience, but it will leave you drained the next day. Definitely do not use unless you have absolutely nothing better to do the next day than lay around recuperating.

[NC_Nurse]

72. Is the NSA listening?

Don't think I want to comment....:D