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My friends and I were discussing this topic recently, and since I'm coming down off psychedelics at the moment, it's relevant to me I guess.
We were talking about the comedowns of acid and mushrooms (those being the two kinds of psychedelia that we're most familiar with), and we were talking about the differences between the two. With mushrooms it's like "oh nooo the magic is gone!" wistful melancholy. But with LSD it's like a stern headmistress telling you what a piece of crap you are and how you need to make better choices in your life. Honestly it feels like you're getting mentally berated sometimes.
In fact the often dreaded stimulant comedowns never have really been a problem for me...I usually just take a nap and I'm golden. In fact I've gotten some really amazing sleep that way. Same with alcohol, kind of, although that's a more fucked up feeling, being hung-over...although it's still a matter of "just" feeling physically like shit, to which I usually respond with just smoking a bit of weed and getting some sleep. But with psychedelics you can't sleep & the feeling like shit is totally different...it really punishes you in a unique and troubling way. Does anyone else feel similarly? For most people I know who've taken and then stopped LSD, this has been a big reason for their cessation, actually, although I recognize that it can also have beneficial effects, such as when people use it to help them overcome alcoholism or drug addiction.
The best I've come up with as a remedy is just to take a minor tranquilizer and try to chill.
We were talking about the comedowns of acid and mushrooms (those being the two kinds of psychedelia that we're most familiar with), and we were talking about the differences between the two. With mushrooms it's like "oh nooo the magic is gone!" wistful melancholy. But with LSD it's like a stern headmistress telling you what a piece of crap you are and how you need to make better choices in your life. Honestly it feels like you're getting mentally berated sometimes.
In fact the often dreaded stimulant comedowns never have really been a problem for me...I usually just take a nap and I'm golden. In fact I've gotten some really amazing sleep that way. Same with alcohol, kind of, although that's a more fucked up feeling, being hung-over...although it's still a matter of "just" feeling physically like shit, to which I usually respond with just smoking a bit of weed and getting some sleep. But with psychedelics you can't sleep & the feeling like shit is totally different...it really punishes you in a unique and troubling way. Does anyone else feel similarly? For most people I know who've taken and then stopped LSD, this has been a big reason for their cessation, actually, although I recognize that it can also have beneficial effects, such as when people use it to help them overcome alcoholism or drug addiction.
The best I've come up with as a remedy is just to take a minor tranquilizer and try to chill.