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Low limit to LSD's effects?

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Does anyone find that beyond a certain point, LSD doesn't get that much stronger? I keep reading reports from people describing these deeply immersive, delirious, transcendental states of mind, or major visual effects or even out-of-body experiences, and I've never had any of that no matter how much I've taken. The only difference in effects I notice from 2 hits to 4 is my imagination becomes more vivid and the onset is much more intensely stimulating. These are good tabs, too - I have friends who've gone through total ego loss on just one of them.

On the other hand, I'm sometimes surprised at the intensity of lower dose trips (say, 1 or 1.5 hits). Overall though it just seems like taking more than that is a waste of good acid.

It's possible this is psychological tolerance. The first times I took LSD, I could freak myself out just by thinking about insanity - I would analyse the concept until it would feel as though I was beginning to experience it. More recently on 4 hits, I started crawling around on the floor pretending to be a cat, and my friend, also tripping, said, "Be careful - you might start believing you're a cat and be trapped like that forever." Thanks, friend. 8) But I just laughed about it - whereas I'm sure that if I'd been on that same dose two years ago, the idea would've seemed very real and disturbing.

I don't mean to brag. After all I'm VERY susceptible to loopy thoughts on equivalent doses of shrooms. But I wonder if for some reason my brain is just used to acid now, and I sort of can't take it any further. It just seems strange that I can completely keep it together on high doses of such a notorious drug, when I'm not even that experienced. I certainly don't do it often enough to get physical tolerance. So I wanted to see if other users have the same experience.
 
Your brain only has so many receptors. After a certain dose it can't get anymore intense - it just floats round your bloodstream till you urinate it out. I don't think the dose is that high either - maybe 800-1000mics tops. I know Leary said that he could give people enormous doses of LSD but if he told them it was 250mics they never noticed.

But that doesn't stop peoples imaginations - if certain people know they're taking a big dose then their imagination will have them dancing with an elephant wearing a pink tutu.
 
Around 1,500ug according to an old post from FnB, but that's only for 5HT2a. LSD has action at a whole load of receptors, surely that must taint the experience in some way? Maybe it's one of those things you ever notice when you do >1,500ug doses a lot, which no one in their right mind does. Such a dose is already unknown territory, kind of hard to notice subtleties I suppose.

EDIT: Well, here's the post I was referring to. It's part of the LSD Subthread on the subject
 
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Idk I can continue getting high on LSD until my entire field of vision is replaced with fractals and colors, essentially if I closed my eyes I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Before that point the visuals are incredibly immersive and even interactive.
For a out of body experience though I believe I'd have to add ketamine
 
It isn't saturation point in this case, the stuff I've taken is good but not that good.

As Ismene points out, a lot of it has to do with what you believe will happen. Though, I've believed I'm going to lose all sense of time and space, only to find things have been quite atmospheric but otherwise normal. Perhaps I need to double my dose.
 
Flickering said:
Does anyone find that beyond a certain point, LSD doesn't get that much stronger? I keep reading reports from people describing these deeply immersive, delirious, transcendental states of mind, or major visual effects or even out-of-body experiences, and I've never had any of that no matter how much I've taken. The only difference in effects I notice from 2 hits to 4 is my imagination becomes more vivid and the onset is much more intensely stimulating. These are good tabs, too - I have friends who've gone through total ego loss on just one of them.

On the other hand, I'm sometimes surprised at the intensity of lower dose trips (say, 1 or 1.5 hits). Overall though it just seems like taking more than that is a waste of good acid.

It's possible this is psychological tolerance. The first times I took LSD, I could freak myself out just by thinking about insanity - I would analyse the concept until it would feel as though I was beginning to experience it. More recently on 4 hits, I started crawling around on the floor pretending to be a cat, and my friend, also tripping, said, "Be careful - you might start believing you're a cat and be trapped like that forever." Thanks, friend. 8) But I just laughed about it - whereas I'm sure that if I'd been on that same dose two years ago, the idea would've seemed very real and disturbing.

I don't mean to brag. After all I'm VERY susceptible to loopy thoughts on equivalent doses of shrooms. But I wonder if for some reason my brain is just used to acid now, and I sort of can't take it any further. It just seems strange that I can completely keep it together on high doses of such a notorious drug, when I'm not even that experienced. I certainly don't do it often enough to get physical tolerance. So I wanted to see if other users have the same experience.
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eat a tenstrip of legit L and try to say that again

i agree that once tripping enough it becomes easier to navigate the places that acid can take you to, it becomes less startling and unwieldy as tripping was when you first started. but LSD can always kick your ass--remember that for sure.
 
Never had a truly bad experience on LSD, but there's a really sinister side hidden in it's effects and I've always felt that if a psychedelic was to spin out of control then LSD would be the worst one. Can't really much further describe why, but it's much different from the sinisterness of mushrooms and tryptamines.

Or at least, that's what I've felt
 
It's not about taking as much as you can of LSD. It's how you use it. I get yelled at a lot on here talking about how some people can work well with LSD, and others can't or seem to take a long time to figure it out.

You've got the whole, "my imagination becomes more vivid.." thing. Now, take that and run with it.
 
True, but that saturation point does seem very interesting (to me, the novice) from a pharmacology perspective, not to mention what it could do for you spiritually when your mind is activated like that. Not to say I recommend heroic doses, but you can see why people go for something like that
 
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