One of the best trips I ever had was on windowpane acid from the 70s that had been in some dude's stash for years in a safe deposit box while he was in jail.
Until that day all I had had was blotter that people kept telling everyone was WAY stronger than it was.
Those panes were like flat jolly ranchers, thick thick thick, and STRONG STRONG STRONG.
Since they were all 4-panes I assumed it was like the acid of today where you had to eat a couple to realy get anything to happen.
So, because it had been sitting in a box for years and years, and I didn't really realize what the deal was I ate an entire 4-strip.
Until that day I thought that a lot of what was said about psychedelics was bullshit, like scenes of going to the moon, fully immersive and real seeming panoramas...
the weird thing is I remember ALL OF IT, much better than many of my less intense trips. There was much less confusion, and no fear to speak of, just all of a sudden it was on me. After 40 minutes I thought it was so degraded it was bunk, then out of nowhere I dropped a pencil (I was in class at the time) and it seemed to take FOREVER to hit the ground.
I tried to speak, but it came out in slow motion 'oooooooh shiiiiiit!!!!'
all of a sudden there was writing on every surface. not just abstract designs, but writing in big bubble letters in english, german, and other languages, all that I could understand perfectly. I looked at the blackboard and saw what looked like someone had erased a message there, but I could still see it glowing in after image- it said 'the beatles' which is weird, since I didn't really listen to them at the time.
I realized at one point I could stop time and live in an instant forever, and I realized that there were hints of this in ancient stories and mythologies, that humans deserved this, it was a piece of us, this feeling, the way of being...
It was all so beautiful.
Such things I was shown.
I walked a meadow peopled by entities in the frozen time in my mind, and they told me, and this is where it gets REALLY CRAZY WEIRD
They told me that I had to meet a being named Mescalito, and that he would show me things.
Fast forward a few years and I ate a HUGE amount of san pedro cactus and Mescalito appeared to me, and I asked him for proof that this was real...
AND HE GAVE ME PRECISE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROGRAM MY VCR AT THE TIME.
AND IT WORKED
This was not something I could have figured out on my own, it was such an esoteric and bizarre way to do things, I had to hit menu like eight times and put in a code, it was NUTS, and it ACTUALLY WORKED.
Call me crazy if you will, but I swear Mescalito is real.
Anways, that windowpane trip was incredible, and a good known dose about a couple hundred mics of real LSD will do some amazing things.
There is a BIG REASON it took over the counterculture movement, it is literally the keys to the kingdom, and if I had tripped on bullshit watercolors prints after dropping sunshine and windowpanes in the 60s and 70s, I'd be calling modern acid bullshit too.
Amides are very stable due to resonance, and as a result most amides are not very easily cleaved - e.g. breaking ergopeptides to lysergic acid usually needs concentrated acid or base and heating for the reaction to proceed. This is for the better, otherwise the diethylamide on LSD would be much more metabolically labile.
