Right, okay...
Firstly I'd like to thank you all for your responses, really positive stuff - put my mind at ease yesterday before taking it. Was going to update before the trip but it slipped my mind.
Now, the trip... Where to begin? As stated, I took it with a couple of close friends; a guy I lived with for a couple of years and the girl I'm living with now, who I've been friends with for about 5 years. The guy I used to live with had tried LSD a handful of times before but never tripped, we DEFINITELY tripped, hard... The tabs I got were rated at 100ug but reading reports of what 100ug is like, I would put any amount of money on them being much higher. There was definitely a phase of 'vivid colours', 'nothing too intense, just giggles' and 'a good beginner dose' - but after that threshold was passed the experience moved into a realm of questioning the very nature of consciousness, not having a grip on time (not just the passing of time, but the raw concept of it seemed to melt into oblivion) or even knowing what kind of 'entity' I was, or who it was who was experiencing these sensations...
I'll try to recount as best I can where my trip went - I'm sure for those of you experienced in psychedelics this will be nothing new but if you're interested in hearing the experience of a total newbie then read on
I should also point out that I am 100% sure (and so are my friends) that this was genuine, pure LSD - bought from a trusted online vendor and tested by with reagents (I definitely feel like I had the full, unadulterated acid experience as far as I can tell).
8:30pm
Tabs under the tongue with a bottle of beer - let them sit for 10 mins before swallowing.
9:00
Begin to feel slightly floaty, we very quickly decided to leave the room that we'd set up for tripping just to walk around the flat a little bit. Enjoyed stretching and had a general exited feeling of coming up, still very mild at this point. Nothing visual yet.
9:30
This is the stage at which I would say it felt how I was expecting a beginner dose to feel. We had a bunch of stuff that we planned to watch (had the idea to put on 'Samsara' to our own music on the television) but literally couldn't get past the desktop wallpaper (had my laptop hooked up to the telly). Seeing faces in everything, very giggly - can't stop talking, colours really beginning to pop.
10:00
Visuals growing more intense, looking at pictures of flowers literally going through the seasons in front of me (blooming, dying, blooming etc). My friend who also hasn't tried it before was feeling very nauseous at this point, rolling around on the floor enjoying crazy visuals but not feeling too great (she seems to be prone to rough come-ups, throws up on the MDMA come up etc).
10:30
This where it starts to get intense... I have no way to describe this part of the trip other than kind of like an orgasm. We are all peaking hard at this point, rolling around on the sofa with music playing just relishing wave after wave of pure trippy euphoria. It's hard to explain the feeling of human contact at this point, in all honesty the 3 of us had a bit of a weird moment where any inhibitions went out the window. Nothing actually happened really, we just rolled around fully clothed touching each others shoulders and feet etc but somebody just touching my arm felt like sex - was incredible but very overwhelming, couldn't really leave the sofa. Started to lose my sense of orientation and felt like we were just melting into each other. Music really washing over in waves, everything just felt incredible. This continued until around midnight.
12:00 - Trip.
Reality has long since abandoned me at this point. Blissful euphoria replaced by complete and utter confusion. Literally, don't really know what existence is at this point - no idea which room I'm in or what a room is. Questions repeating in my head: What is time? What is existence? Where does my body end and the surroundings begin? Have some kind of survival-like urge to make sure I drink water, which seems like I'm drinking liquid diamonds or something. Crazy, crazy visuals at this point. Not worth describing in too much detail really as they felt like pure acid visuals - fractals literally everywhere, never-ending tracers, walls melting, some kind of vapour like when people test things in a wind tunnel flowing over everything, saturation in complete overdrive. At the point I was at a different point to my friends - after the peak we embarked on separate trips, the other two sailed off together and I was left behind a little bit. The experience at this point wasn't pleasant but wasn't unpleasant either, felt like sleep was the only way out but no way that was gonna happen, brain lit up like the sun. The other two were talking in another room and it sounded like they were far, far away. It was like somebody picked a 'psychedelic trip' audio preset and overlayed it onto my brain. All vocals echo and a sense of a drone-type sound going up and down in pitch.
3:00am
Still tripping, general sense of unease in my body at this point. Again, nothing I couldn't handle but was very different to the sheer bliss of around midnight in the living room. Wandering around watching the others draw with coloured pens but unable to use my brain. Male friend with acid experience perfectly happy to just talk nonsense at me while chain-smoking cigarettes and pacing a lot, I'm just lying on the floor.
3:30
Coming down a bit now, the others landed back in reality about an hour ago and I'm a bit late to the party. Sober mindset seems to be returning in waves and feel like I'm rejoining my physical body. Visuals still incredibly beautiful at this point but too emotionally drained to enjoy them. At first it was like 'OH GOD, THE COLOURS' and now it's a bit like 'Oh, the colours. Kind of wish they'd leave me now'. Even if I never took acid again, I'll remember the visuals for the rest of my life. Still feeling physically uneasy and restless, but nothing overwhelming at all.
4:30
Back in a sober headspace but visuals still in full force. Feels weird to be able to think relatively coherently with this visual filter over my eyes. Trying to discuss the experience with the others but words fail us and we can't really get out sentences, especially with each others' faces still warping around.
5:00
Try to sleep. Smoke some good weed (blue dream, usually an pleasant and potent smoke) but it doesn't even touch the sides. Decide the best thing to do is put the radio on quietly, turn off the lights and try to rest. Silence was still punctuated buy a drone type sound, small higher frequencies sound electric so put the radio on for background noise. Manage to rest my eyes a bit, appreciating the lasting closed-eye visuals but end up just lying in a mild cold sweat as my brain is still lit up.
10:00
Couple of lucid dreams, think I may have slept for about an hour at most. Visuals have finally gone and feel surprisingly normal, despite being mentally and physically exhausted. In no different place emotionally than before the trip although very aware of the adventure I just had. Now that the uneasy feeling has left I feel like day-to-day life is manageable again. 4 hours ago I was thinking I wouldn't really want to trip again, but after feeling normal once more I felt a slight sense of sadness that the journey had ended.
Closing thoughts... We definitely had a big hit of acid, much more than any of us could have ever, ever prepared for. What I thought would be a fun evening in turned out to be a true exploration of time and space. We all agree that we would have been far more apprehensive about dropping if we had known the experience would be that intense. I don't regret that it was a high dose - I feel like we definitely jumped in at the deep end a bit, albeit accidentally but I wouldn't change anything. Because the flat is a small space and had limited stimuli, I think we all went inwards in our trips after seeing what each room had to offer - more into our own brains than the surroundings. I'd love to try that kind of dose again but out in nature so there's more to explore and I can stay out of my own head a bit, and maybe with a trip sitter. I have no way of telling how much was in those tabs, maybe we got a particularly strong bit of unevenly laid blotter or something but judging by other reports of 100ug it was definitely more. Feel glad that I shared the experience with two close friends, we all played an important role in each other's trips. The only part we shared was the euphoric, sensual peak of the experience - after that everyone's heads went in completely different directions.
If I had to rate the experience I'd give it a 9/10, fucking mental. Will be leaving a couple months before contemplating another trip just because it's so exhausting. Long post I know (and I apologise for the changes in tense, still a bit frazzled) but there's my LSD experience (having never tried any form of psychedelic, just a few top quality pills and a fair bit of weed). This was mainly for my own reflection.
The main quote I'll remember from the evening came from my friend, who found the experience so intense all he could take away from it was "Don't ask any fucking questions". Haha.
Take it easy!
- Puffin
