About two years ago, I had the LSD trip to end all LSD trips. My "friend" at the time gave
me way too much for my first and only time ever doing it, and it was as reckless as anyone can imagine.
1,600 micrograms in
only two tabs. I was screaming at the top of my lungs all night long in
the worst fear I will ever possibly experience.
Thank god my girlfriend was present to help me stay in bed through the trip so I wouldn't hurt myself, but I digress. I have a personality disorder, and the LSD made it hit me all at once in the worst possible way. I'm getting emotional, going back on it to type all this out. It was a very dark experience. I was totally not here, not thinking anything rational at all, just to say the least. It was so bad, that say if anyone in the future tries to roofie me with it as a prank, I'd have to immediately call an ambulance. I
will never be as frightened by anything else for the rest of my life. It was like sitting in a cage with a hungry lion while wearing a raw steak necklace times a million. A purely unthinkable amount of fear. I can't emphasize enough how traumatizing it was.
Please tell me, how do I get past the existential crisis? How can I return my thoughts and perspective to a state of normalcy? How can I stop being worried about mortality and ensuring the significance of my life like a normal 23 year old? This third-eye crap is not fun like they said it'd be.
I've had one bad trip out of probably 200 in my life. It was totally my fault. I was getting tired of sharing my drugs with my boyfriend when I was the one paying for them. So out of frustration, I picked up his half sheet and just barely touched my flat tongue to it. I knew that the body absorbs LSD very quickly so I made sure to make it a very quick light touch, figuring I would get some but not the whole thing. Yeah, I ended up with a heavy, heavy overdose and I was screaming my head off. My BF was trying to help me but I didn't know how he could. I kept changing gears from telling him to keep talking to me, play music, stop talking, feed me, rub me, don't touch me, etc. all because I could feel myself falling into an abys and losing all contact with reality. And I did not want to take that trip! I knew that if it went bad, meaning if I started having PTSD flashbacks, I'd be a goner. They say fear is the worst emotion to feel while tripping, especially on acid.
When I look back on it now, I wonder if it would have been better to let the abys take me. Because I fought it the way I did, screaming and crying, terrified of letting myself go, I am really scared to take large amounts of acid like I used to. I once received 5 sheets of 340ug hits and it was all gone in well under a year. My boyfriend and I, because we used so much so often finished all 5 sheets ourselves. We would often take 10+ hits per night, two nights per week. We only used acid for sex. For me, it increases the intensity of my orgasms by a factor of ~1000.

Anyway, maybe, if I had gone into that abyss, the worst would have happened and I would have ended up with worse PTSD. But had I been well-prepared for a major trip, and had my emotions been in the right place, maybe I would have found nirvana.
Now I work to find that perfect mindset, hoping to one day feel safe enough to take 3000+ugs. I picture myself falling into that abys while smiling, and feeling ready to accept whatever happens. I visualize the perfect trip and think about how I would feel and try to make myself feel that way now. It's really a form of hypnosis. I think that visualizing the trip I wanted, and imagining myself feeling the emotions I wanted to feel, might help me to forget the bad memory and might prepare me for that abyss, whether purposeful or accidental.
Until then, I do more shrooms and mescaline, topped off with occasional MDMA and/or GHB. And before you go thinking that I'm young and stupid, I am a 53 year old woman. That's the other bad thing about acid, the recovery is a bear, and gets worse the older you get. It takes me a solid 2 days to recover from an acid trip, while there's no recovery period with shrooms. As for mescaline, I read that the trip itself lasts around 24 hours. I don't remember what the recovery period for it is, but I will know soon because I took some tonight.
PS This is my very first post on Bluelight.