Have you done acid?

[Korpsy Knievel]

What's acid like for you korps?

With a sufficient dose my ego boundaries fall and so the distinction between myself and the world is decreased. Thoughts bloom, juxtapose, and disperse in rapid succession, with unconscious elements surfacing through the increased permeability of the mind's internal barriers. Hallucinations of various species* arise as the mind presents its contents to itself. Sounds echo and mutate as they do so, and in quiet moments the chittering of voices fills the air. Heightened significance and synaesthesia abound, with ideas flowing into one another, spilling over, and triggering more cascades. A sense of universality, psychic sensitivity, and interconnection combine to produce a cosmic panopticon wherein vast stretches of space-time have a sensual immediacy, and normal causality seems a flimsy sham. I feel excitation, wonder, terror, amazement, gratitude, glee, and awe, for the hidden truth is revealed and knowable in whole, the impossible fades like a passing dream, and I am attuned to the transcendent and eternal Now. Drugs!

* Common hallucinations encountered:

1. Shifting kaleidoscopic patterns combining geometrical forms and iconic symbology, often chromatically colored.
2. Vignettes of irrationally combined elements, similar to hypnagogia.
3. X-ray vision that allows sight into the physical and mental makeup of others.
4. Images of personal totemic value, some welcome, others horrifying.
5. Solid-appearing creatures and objects that retain their positions, forms, and seeming realness while examined from various angles.

[Korpsy Knievel]

My first time out was 4 hits and I spent the day walking around town with a few friends, poking around constructions sites, pestering tourists, and more or less getting into my usual antics. The only real difference being that I was bugged on LSD.

Since you've admitted some anxiety issues, dolphin, I'd recommend a maiden voyage of no more than 2 tabs. Take them with someone you're comfortable with and who has personal psychedelic experience. Allie was right: It's best to approach the session with an open mind and without too many expectations, so try not to overthink it. If things take a turn for the heavy, flip on the lights, watch a cartoon, drink some juice, or whatever else seems cozy, and share a laugh at yourself with your buddy. Easy peasy.

[Creepy-bg]

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[lemontrees]

Aw my gay LII friend promised to trip with me in the park after the weather gets warm. I'm so happy.

[Korpsy Knievel]

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[noid]

Ive take acid 1 time, medium dose, at a party near Gent in belgium. It was a long time I wanted to try, even if this desire wasn't in line with my mental state (Ive depersonnalization disorder). Hopefully this have not aggraved anything.

This was a wonderfull experience (I get the classical visual effect, the impression that all was living, "mental" experience, connection with music and "life", ect), I realized why the drug have done this huge impact on "popular" culture.
Im generally not the more relaxed person, and I was fearing somewhat the bad trip due to this, but from the first effect kick to the end, simply 0 anxiety (at least far less than usual). If you have perceptual problem (DPD, derealization, sight problem comin from the neuronal part processing sight (positive afterimage, snowy vision)), I strongly suggest to not do it or in low doses.

[noid]

because of my personal level of self-awareness and self-doubting mentality, a few months after I did acid, I developed a sort of post-traumatic stress disorder where I was overly-afraid that everything was a lie

[Satan]

because of my personal level of self-awareness and self-doubting mentality, a few months after I did acid, I developed a sort of post-traumatic stress disorder where I was overly-afraid that everything was a lie, I was developing schizo, had brain cancer, etc. It was really just a delayed shock of what I had experienced. What I did experience, wasn't that crazy (fun, but pretty mundane), but my mind played on the stereotypes of what acid could have done to me (like driving me insane, re-orienting my consiousness, etc.).

I'm a bit drunk btw, so w/e.

The point is that people who already are self-aware need to consider the drug carefully, whereas dumb-fucks should do it when they can. Self-aware people will only re-orient what they already know, which can be good/bad, but dumb-fucks will experience true imagination for the first time.

Stereotypical for me to say this, but it really is set and setting. Research erowid.com for some good ideas.

well people who are on the verge of going crazy shouldn't do anything too dangerous. Be it performing in public, doing drugs, moving to a different country. But fuck it - we need to weed out the weak one way or another.

[Raver]

[jessica129]

hahaha

I actually had someone say this to me about myself because apparently I seem like i'm high 24/7. I guess the claim was that the reason I didn't enjoy weed that much was because it somehow sobered me up to reality. lol.

I really, really want to try acid but I get pretty paranoid and anxious whenever I try something new and I think with acid, it'd be the worst of the worst. I guess I don't have the sort of mind control to relax and enjoy the experience. One of these days though, one of these days.

[Gilly]

The key is not so much controlling your mind proficiently as it is knowing when you need to control and when to let go.

[Absurd]

I didn't .

[uniden]

Saw that dolphin was receptive to people telling her experiences of not taking acid. Thought that was pretty cool, and, hey, that's something I can write about! So let's see... hmm...

I remember a time back in my first elementary school when I didn't take acid. They organized this really neat thing where the kids would rotate through the different classrooms to do a bunch of different art projects. Never seen anything like that since. In one classroom, I took some india ink to make this surreal painting of flowing lines, curves, the works. I liked it so much but I was told I'd have to come back at the end of school to take it as the ink had to have time to dry. Onwards I went to the blur of other activities.

...

I couldn't find it. Never really noticed this before. That school had some sort of crazy radial symmetry thing going on where everything mostly looks the same from the outside. I tried, I did, to really /look/ for it. To try to see the numbers above the doors. It's hard. Having at this point only really living in my head, how color, light, touch, taste only brushing against my mind, wandering into classrooms trying to find some recognition, mumbling something about a painting, the experience was so befuddling. It was the first time I've ever pressed so hard to really perceive my externalities. Eventually it was too much, and I just wondered back home.

Most experiences like that develop into memories that stick with me. Kind of mental things stringed by some negative feelings. They're the kind of things that seem to really hook onto my psyche and affect me the most. I could say it is dismaying how the just plain "good" experiences, with all their good emotions and whatnot fade off. Did they ever matter?

And maybe, maybe it would be nice to take a hit of acid. Perhaps it's not bad that it'll make some permanent change to how some neurons in my mind connect. Maybe it would be cool for me to have some experience really felt by me. A mental conception that isn't dogged by negativity. Maybe having an experience like that will open new things that my mind can see.

[EyeSeeCold]

You see 11 people who tried acid.

I see 11 people who are holding out.

[Lotus]

[EyeSeeCold]

Make a painting(video?) while on LSD and post it here.

[Lotus]

no thanks. might eat some of that mollY tonight tho

[jessica129]

no thanks. might eat some of that mollY tonight tho

Do you use it just as a regular drug? I ask because to me it's just a sex drug or a sleeping pill...I'm wondering if it's enjoyable to just sit there high on Molly alone..

[consentingadult]

Do you use it just as a regular drug? I ask because to me it's just a sex drug or a sleeping pill...I'm wondering if it's enjoyable to just sit there high on Molly alone..

Now that's what I'd call a dangerous substance: Ecstasy. A cousin of mine used it once at a discotheque where I happened to be as well. She grabbed me and started licking my ear. She also hit on my GF. With less scruples, we'd probably could have had an awesome threesome.

[Lotus]

@ jess, i was planning on going out when i wrote that. i don't think i'd take it sitting at home bY mYself. i have taken it with a group of people just chilling at a house, and that's fun. You have reallY good conversations and feel reallY excited together etc. but sometimes there's a weird pressure on everYone when we realize we're rolling waYYYY harder than our environment or something... like the music just can't be loud enough or the people just aren't stimulating enough and that can feel weird. like feeling so much excitement and looking around and not being able to express it or something and i end up chain smoking

[Gilly]

but sometimes there's a weird pressure on everYone when we realize we're rolling waYYYY harder than our environment or something... like the music just can't be loud enough or the people just aren't stimulating enough and that can feel weird. like feeling so much excitement and looking around and not being able to express it or something and i end up chain smoking

Weird, I feel that when I'm not on molly...

[olduser]

Do you use it just as a regular drug? I ask because to me it's just a sex drug or a sleeping pill...I'm wondering if it's enjoyable to just sit there high on Molly alone..

i`ve rolled on molly alone. it was weird.

[strrrng]

Weird, I feel that when I'm not on molly...

lol same. coke enhances it the most.

[Lotus]

lol true but i think it's waY more pressure when You're on mollY. for one, everyone's just ingested this expensive drug so if we're not having a good time it's like everyone just wasted 10-20$ just to have our serotonin depleted. i remember taking it once and going to a friend's house where they were all just sitting around watching a documentary on burning man. mY friend, who was also rolling, couldn't take it and kept trying to leave. when You're sober You don't have these expectations

[strrrng]

the expectation that people are mentally awake produces the same feeling

[Gilly]

the expectation that people are mentally awake produces the same feeling

HAHAHAHA

Oh god.

I'm laughing and yet slowly bending down into depression

Fucking assholes

ha ha

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[Lotus]

You guys are so pretentious it HURTS

[strrrng]

lol please, you just posted drug picz for a dating site.

[Lotus]

u like mY kiss bags and acid tabs

[Creepy-bg]

it's no longer a dating site, so why aren't you posting pics of drugs now?

[strrrng]

they'll do

[jessica129]

i`ve rolled on molly alone. it was weird.

haha i think if i did that it'd just reverse itself and i'd get horribly depressed

[ArchonAlarion]

One example of a lesson that acid can teach you. But that's just me.

Yes, that's basically how I came away from it. My actual experience was nightmarish, however. I don't want to go into too many details, but I saw people who had been easy company a few hours before turn into psychopaths within a moment. It was "informative", but not a positive experience. It was fucking terrifying. I remember trying to wrestle the car keys away from my friend, people started getting violent, I had no idea where the situation would go.

archon, don't be so fucking full of Yourself.

it has waY more to do with anxietY levels and understanding and acceptance — those factors contribute more to the direction of a trip, not Your intelligence. seriouslY You have to have a strong mind. it's not for idiots.

I'm not under the impression I was being full of myself, although perhaps I was mistaken about my characterizations. I can see people with a strong mind enjoying it, and I can see non-reflective people with a strong mind enjoying it. Some people are non-anxious idiots, or hedonists, who have tried other drugs and come away fine from acid ("herp de derp w/e"). Maybe their minds were "strong." I think anxiety will greatly affect the experience.

if You fight it You will drown. a lot of people can't handle the things they feel and try too hard to attain a sense of realitY whilst tripping and just get anxious and trip harder in a bad spiral. You gotta just feel everYthing in a very raw and basic sense, not try so hard. idk its very hard to describe in writing fuck it i'll make a video give me a half hour

Yeah. That's what I tried doing and it worked for me. Further, I actively desired/imagined scenarios unfolding (when I had the chance, before the shitstorm flew in) and the trip went along with it, so I was in control in a global sense. I was having a great time before what ended up going down.

The problem was after the experience, when my imagination harped not on the trips I actually did have, but on the residue of the vague paranoid/grandiose flavor of the drug in general. Definitely my anxiety problems, but many people on this forum are anxious or seem anxious, so why not give them some caution?

[Lotus]

You're right about anxiety. people with anxiety often have bad trips. i personallY have a lot of anxietY but for some reason i can take acid and the revelations and feeling i have of contentness with the universe overpowers it personallY. i guess i'm luckY or being raised bY a father who's done a lot of acid in his daYs has given me the right state of mind for dealing with altered states. i get euphoric on acid, and a sadness when i realize i have to return to realitY later. i feel at home when i'm tripping, i never want to leave that world. its so beautiful

[Gilly]

Yes, that's basically how I came away from it. My actual experience was nightmarish, however. I don't want to go into too many details, but I saw people who had been easy company a few hours before turn into psychopaths within a moment. It was "informative", but not a positive experience. It was fucking terrifying. I remember trying to wrestle the car keys away from my friend, people started getting violent, I had no idea where the situation would go.

You just need to learn to handle your shit. I always think about going on killing sprees when I trip...but you find reasons not to, and once you have, and you internalize it, you begin to see how feeling the strength of your own faith is a way more powerful experience than anything "fun" you could feel or see or do in the trip. Acid is fun, but there are way more fun things than acid, for sure; doing acid for fun is stupid and a waste. Acid should not be considered a vacation from reality like most other drugs, but rather a renewal of commitment to it.

I'm not under the impression I was being full of myself, although perhaps I was mistaken about my characterizations. I can see people with a strong mind enjoying it, and I can see non-reflective people with a strong mind enjoying it. Some people are non-anxious idiots, or hedonists, who have tried other drugs and come away fine from acid ("herp de derp w/e"). Maybe their minds were "strong." I think anxiety will greatly affect the experience.

I'm pretty damn anxious. Anxious enough that I got section 7'd for thinking during a panic attack that I was going to kill my parents and myself. I've had debilitating anxiety since I was young; I commonly have spells where my chest tightens for no real reason and I feel as though I can't breath, even though I can breath perfectly. I actually had horrible social anxiety when I was younger, right up until around the time I started doing acid, now that I think of it.

I do think I experience acid differently than some because of this. But to me, knowing my own strength and learning to appreciate the fact that life and enjoyment comes and goes, and so does pain, and that neither is something you can have expectations about, is more important than lolligagging in the elmchanted forest and dancing with gnomes.

Yeah. That's what I tried doing and it worked for me. Further, I actively desired/imagined scenarios unfolding (when I had the chance, before the shitstorm flew in) and the trip went along with it, so I was in control in a global sense. I was having a great time before what ended up going down.

The problem was after the experience, when my imagination harped not on the trips I actually did have, but on the residue of the vague paranoid/grandiose flavor of the drug in general. Definitely my anxiety problems, but many people on this forum are anxious or seem anxious, so why not give them some caution?

Because facing fear is more important than avoiding it. In fact, it's the worst thing you can do. When you don't face your fears, they have more control over you. Acid forces you to face your fears, and to find the means to not make them matter.

[Gilly]

i feel at home when i'm tripping

This.

[Gilly]

You guys are so pretentious it HURTS

Lol the funniest part is the bloat of pretense on your part in judging our exchanges

[strrrng]

foreal... and we aren't even female


*insert coy quip about gay sex omg beta NF*


lol sickles

[rat1]

schizophrenia, the term originally meant something like split mind. I've never done acid, but it induces a similar mental state. Our whole society is experiencing this kind of split in consciousness right now, from the government to the individual. Watch what happens

[ArchonAlarion]

Everyone thinks their generation will be the "last." The experience you describe is the friction being caused by the internet. The world is still adapting to its presence.