I think you might have misunderstood me. I’m not calling you shallow. But the way you described what the “fake LSD” trip felt like seems best captured by the adjective “shallow” as opposed to “deep” which is how you described what you expect real LSD to be like.
You seem to have taken offence? I haven’t questioned your experience and have just been chatting in the thread trying to help work out what you might have been taking if it wasn’t LSD. No personal judgement of you at all.
Well thank you for placating me. It's frustrating when you complain about fake LSD and people immediately shut you down, telling you it's all in your head and question the very concept, as if they are my dealers.
I'm an artist so I'm very keen on visual changes. Here is how I would describe real LSD VS some of the fake ones (consensus amongst people who have also taken them). maybe someone will recognize what some of these burdens. These are all experiences taking at home with the exact same set and setting.
Real LSD: coming up is somewhat cringy and legs get shaky and weak, after come up most of the discomfort goes away. Colors look juicy and saturated, sharp lines will shimmer with iridescents, color where there should be none, open eye visuals are smooth, patterns and shapes repeat, It draws out depth making images look extra 3D. Adds realistic movements on still images. Everything just seems interesting and friendly. Music sounds INCREDIBLE and closed eye visuals are colorful and would change with the music.
Fake 1: the worst hallucinogen we have ever taken. Colors muted, no closed eye visuals despite "tripping balls", we have open eye visuals but they are hard to focus on, just things shifting around. Music sounds horrible, even songs we liked sounds unfamiliar and distant. It made us depressed and that feeling lingered for weeks afterwards.
Fake 2: came in little green pyramid gels and very strong. Come up starts fast and super cringy but never goes away. Colors are desaturated by fifty percent and made everything (including white) look brown. The open eye movement is just blury. Also made us feel unusually sick which also never happens when we are on real LSD. Trying to convey simple shit became a chore, music doesn't sound like anything good or bad.
Fake 3: Come up starts early. Strong visuals but closer to when you stand up too fast, feeling light headed and about to pass out, making the hallucinations hard to look at. Colors, music didn't change.
Fake 4: It put me in an extremely good mood. Patterns will smooth together rather than become more complex, Dense parts of patterns become just dark spots in vision. Makes turquoise and green colors pop but not other colors. It has some very purple iridescent across white only. We see green in places that are not green. Pulls out 3D shapes but also gives it a oily shiny fake look. Everything looks foreign and creepy (to an interesting and almost fun degree) exact opposite of real LSD. Music also unaffected.
Fake 5: Came in blue pyramid gels with gold flakes. This one is the only one that has closed eye visuals that change with music, but they're dim and desaturated. I see a lot of patterns with open eyes but they make everything look flat. The onset takes almost two and half hours, during which the vision gets very bright and it's cumbersome to look at anything. Once the onset is over some colors look jucier than normal. Some songs sounds more enhanced than others. It's not entirely unpleasant to take but the trip seems to be worse with higher doses.
let alone to sell, year after year, and in all possible forms.
