I'm considering doing LSD next week. Anything I should be cautious about? Any major reasons to avoid it?
I'm considering doing LSD next week. Anything I should be cautious about? Any major reasons to avoid it?
William Smith
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Luke Butler
Dude there are a thousand posts on the internet about dropping acid and what to do not do.
Do: plan things out, take a reasonable dose if youre not experienced, have someone around to monitor activity and handle any outside influencers, accept the possibility viewpoint on parts of life may change
Dont: be around sketchy people, have serious preexisting mental conditions, do it in a place and time where you're rushed and havent planned, do it in a place with no one and where there are physical dangers(a cliff, looking at you nick caves teenage son)
Jordan Lewis
>Any major reasons to avoid it?
Data on singular or short term use isn't definitive but the long term affects of LSD are pretty terrible. LSD can result in a phenomenon called hyptoxicity. Essentially, there are neural pathways in your brain that were designed for a specific amount of stimulus. Chemical compounds like hallucinogens can overexcite these pathways and result in what is essentially brain damage. Chances are doing it once isn't going to result in permanent damage but it is possible. Some of the long term effects are mood disturbances, profound clinical depression, short term and long term memory dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, disassociation, visual disturbances and in some cases it can trigger psychotic episodes. Although it is fairly rare, visual disturbances are known to happen as well. Some people report only after a few uses seeing "tracers" or other kinds of visual disturbances, mild to severe dissociation and a decrease in cognitive function. The risk only increases the more LSD you do. After 75-100 uses the side effects are essentially guaranteed, especially the depression. My point is that, while chances are doing LSD won't permanently damage you, the best way to completely mitigate the risk is to not do it. Personally, 12 hours of seeing funny colors and giggling with my friends isn't worth the risk regardless of how minuscule it may be.
Eli Smith
Here’s my 2 cents. What lsd has done was truly beautiful. I see the world as completely different. I love the world and my fellow human. I’m able to speak a message that people truly vibe with. Nothing in this reality matters. I have never been so happy in my life. I’m at 50+ trips
Matthew Bell
I have never had any of these side effects. But when I smoke pot I do see visuals but I love them. I do have crazy vivid dreams. I’m constantly thinking. I able to put smart anyone because acid has thought me how people’s mind works and how to strike. I feel a lot of energy in my forehead. The pros outstays the cons. It’s better to live in happiness then live a life full of fear and not understanding your true self
Camden Gray
I'm just giving the facts. Whatever experiences you have are your own. You're at risk for an incredible amount of nasty side effects down the road but whatever makes you happy, dude. I just think people should be informed.
Easton Johnson
>I able to put smart anyone because acid has thought me how people’s mind works and how to strike. I feel a lot of energy in my forehead.
You do understand that, on some level, you sound completely detached from reality, right?
Josiah Clark
Ethan Wood
What is reality? Reality is the way you view life depending on your experiences in life. My reality is that I’m living in a dream within a dream
Isaac Bell
Ok. Whatever you say, bro. I can definitely see that chronic drug use has done wonders for your cognitive function.
Angel Brooks
Based.
Isaac Gomez
Again, I'm just providing the observable facts. As I said in the original post, the chances of having long lasting negative side effects from a singular dose of LSD is fairly low. I said several times that, chances are, he'll be fine. As I've already said I just think people should be informed, and the facts are that LSD becomes more and more dangerous the more times you do it. I'd compare it to sky diving. The chances of a malfunction happening after one or even a handful of jumps is relatively low but the chances still exists and only grows more likely the more jumps you make. Exposing your body to a substance that can potentially cause permanent brain damage is not a decision that people should make based on druggie fantasy and nonsensical jargon about being "spiritual" and connected with the energy of the universe or some shit. Its a decision that should be made based on fact.
Jaxson Peterson
Thank you
Bentley Thomas
And what is facts? Things that make you feel better in this world. I believe I’m a ball of energy. I have remembered 3 of my past deaths. I am the Buddha. Why would you want to seek temporary happiness because of “facts”
Mason Hall
I believe it’s a decision of how you wish to view the world
Nicholas Watson
Let’s say everyone did. They all have super brain cancer. But everyone is truly happy and doing whatever they absolutely love knowing this world is meaningless besides what they chose to make it. But then there you. You’re the only human without super brain cancer. Your life is completely sad and miserable. But you manage to avoid everything else that could be just as dangerous to your heath. Who’s really living? Because it’s not you
Luis Cook
What you or I want to believe is irrelevant to the facts. Long term LSD use has an observable, quantifiable set of side effects. You can choose to ignore them and view the world a different way if you wish but the reality of the situation is what it is whether you want to incorporate those facts into your decision or not.
Xavier White
Nothing you just said means anything. The decline in cognitive function I mentioned earlier is on full display in your post, user. All you've managed to produce is 10 sentences of existential rambling.
Jaxon Hall
Wosh! the point flew over head
Michael Sanders
Love is a risk, gambling is a risk, trust is a risk.life has a 0% chance you’ll see tomorrow. Are you really living if all you do is hide behind a wall of safety?
Nicholas Thomas
You made no point. "You're not really livin, man" is not a point. Its just druggie burnout rambling. I come from a town full of deep fried astronauts just like you.
You're not reading what I'm saying. I'm not saying that people shouldd't do anything that has a risk. What I'm saying is that people should be informed of what the risks are before making decisions. I don't know how many different ways I can repeat myself in order for you to understand. Again, you're not really saying anything. You sound like the front of a greeting card. What the risk of love or trust is is irrelevant to the observable, quantifiable risk of hallucinogenic drug use. The fact that other activities also have risk is not justification for risky behavior. Some people think the possible brain damage and side effects are worth the risk and some people don't. Its up to everyone to make that decision on their own based on facts, not druggie burnout rambling about love and the universe.
Elijah Bell
Can you post sources? As far as I know psycadelics are implicated in bringing to light to latent mental health issues and that's it. I have tripped over 50 times on varying substances and I'm not affected by anything like that. Obviously an anecdote is not evidence, but I googled "hypotoxic LSD" and couldn't find anything.
Asher Fisher
So I dropped once and for certain had the depression beforehand. That was one week ago today, do you think I'll be fine with time?
Jaxon Adams
It will permanently alter your brain.
Ethan Moore
Are you fine now or do are you bothered by something?
Camden Hernandez
Nothing in the human brain was 'designed' for anything. I think it is funny that the first time I have heard the word 'hyptoxicity' is on Jow Forums and not in a research paper. LSD is tryptamine and bonds to certain serotonin receptors. This indeed causes neural pathways to activate but what you are describing (and calling brain damage) is literally cognitive plasticity in action. To assume the formation of new neural pathways and changes to your current ones (normal activity for life, love, fear, success, failure can result in the same thing) does not mean LSD causes brain damage. Post source or gtfo.
Mason Peterson
Freaked out over whether or not I'll be fine. It was only 100 and I tested it to be sure it was LSD. But my nerves and depression are pretty bad. Manageable but bad.
Carson Rodriguez
Don’t worry man he understand exactly what he’s talking about. He lives in a city city full of people that are “woke” I mean druggy burn outs and they’re completely fucked in the head so everyone who does acid is fucked in the head
Benjamin Allen
I wouldn't do it until you're on an antidepressant. I have done it before and I was around shady dealers once and they almost gave me a bad trip because they were snakes and snarky and it took my best friend to snap me out of it. It was terrible. Do acid only with people that are like brothers to you.
Austin Miller
just do it once
did some shit like that a lot and definitely have mental health problems cause of it. ill answer questions about specifics if anyone wants
Jaxon Rivera
How many times and what problems?
Nicholas Scott
did lsd 100 micrograms once, 2cb many times and different doses, and some other research chemicals i forget the chemical makeup of. had a really bad trip the last time i took a research chemical about a year ago. i’ve had pretty bad clinical depression since. however have made tremendous strides in coping with my fears and anxieties through therapy and do feel more better than i have.
Daniel Lee
That's not a lot. I have done much more with minimal problems, maybe depression, but nothing that I didn't really already have; like it uncovered it. I'll never take the shit again. I'm old enough that I took 2CE when it was legal, it was better than acid IMO.
Dylan Smith
i had no problems before the bad trip. was really into it before that
Isaac Walker
Thank you for being able to articulate this statement so clearly. OP, whatever you do in the subsequent future, please be aware of what you will be putting in your system and possibly your life. Don't do it. This drug can and will ruin you, especially if you met all the bottom criteria for . Enough stories tell about this.
I fucked myself up after consuming, and began to feel dissociated. But even if you're sound initially, both settings-wise and mentally, it will introduce new fears to your life. I don't care about "being sheep" or what colorful aliases "enlighteneds" would call me. I'd rather swallow a trillion bluepills again than have to deal with this shit. That's what I'm doing.
I won't recommend it OP, for fears that even you as a functional human being would suffer and fuck yourself. Don't risk it. Be a human and if you want some wonderful insights understand you can get it from life and not from a drug.
Juan Russell
ah the post-modern nihilist self containment box philosophy. I see acid has done wonders for you. Your subjective perception of your life may help you conceptualize and cope for your shit life, but objective events occur and your birth was dictated in the hands of others. enjoy your dream
Isaiah Ward
Can confirm. Dropped acid maybe 15 times in college. For a while I had a strangeness in my visual acuity, like something was in the way of my sight. 20 years later, I now have one semi-blown pupil, that gets bigger when I get over stimulated. When I close my eyes in bed at night, I see the most vivid kaleidoscopic anime halucinations.
Its not worth it. Who knows what I might have been had I not done this shit.