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National Geographic - Explorer Inside LSD

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Anyone seen this on our local channels recently. Very interesting documentary about LSD and insight into what suffers of HPPD experience daily.

Description: LSDs inventor Albert Hofmann called it "medicine for the soul." The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers. Outlawed in 1966, LSD became a street drug and developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring either moments of genius, or a descent into madness. Now science is taking a fresh look at LSD, including the first human trials in over 35 years. Using enhanced brain imaging, non-hallucinogenic versions of the drug and information from an underground network of test subjects who suffer from an agonizing condition for which there is no cure, researchers are finding that this "trippy" drug could become the pharmaceutical of the future. Can it enhance our brain power, expand our creativity and cure disease? To find out, Explorer puts LSD under the microscope.
 
Yes, I also brought it up in the LSD discussion thread and a link was provided to the doco

Have a surf through that thread if you have time as I currently do not

It didn't tell me anything I didn't know but it was a pleasant surprise to see such a doco on TV
 
Awesome would have to be my favourite substance I think. Despite the critics, my life has changed so significantly due to LSD. Going to have a look for this documentary :D
 
Tivo caught it for me because of my drug filter, I was pleasantly surprised how unbiased it was. Pretty much all true information and very informative, it was nice randomly catching this and it being so true while being on tv. Good job NG
 
I saw one called Inside:LSD a month or two ago, not sure if its the one you mean. The one I caught was on foxtel, may have been BBC Knowledge but I am not realyl sure. It was pretty informative and definately had a balanced view on LSD as a useful substance. Interviewed this guy who used to cook acid and was talking about how certain scientists used it to enhance creativity in their work etc. My mum is totalyl anti drug but caught about half of it and even she was really interested.
 
That's the one drug mentor. Really interesting footage of the scientists troubleshooting on the drug. So often do we forget the chemicals we take could have applications in these and other area's, particularly when most people focus on having "fun" when taking any mind altering substance.
 
Yeah well then this is a really interesting doco, I would reccomend anyone who has ever used psychedelics or been remotely interested in them watch it. it is a pretty balanced report and definately includes a lot of potential positives about LSD and not a whole lot of negatives without ever actually coming across as "pro LSD" imho.
 
drug_mentor said:
I saw one called Inside:LSD a month or two ago, not sure if its the one you mean. The one I caught was on foxtel, may have been BBC Knowledge but I am not realyl sure. It was pretty informative and definately had a balanced view on LSD as a useful substance. Interviewed this guy who used to cook acid and was talking about how certain scientists used it to enhance creativity in their work etc. My mum is totalyl anti drug but caught about half of it and even she was really interested.
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So it was called Inside LSD? Ive seen quite a number of LSD docus like the one with hoffman where he said "i zook a very ztrong doze of LSD" LOL and the one where a dealer chick was dropping liquid onto gummy teddy bears. Is this the one?

PS: Just found it on youtube. I have seen it before.
 
I love how they guy who first synthesized it discovered what it does, accidently dropped it on his skin and went on a trip, just try and imagine what it must of been like that first time going through that experience without expecting or knowing it!
How would you describe to someone what you just experienced?
 
^ You can't man, I'm not sure if you have done LSD or or any psychedelic for that matter, but if you have, I'm sure there are thing's that you have seen that you can't describe to another person.

I wish i could tell you what i saw/experienced on my first trip, but i wouldn't no where to begin ;)
 
GurnEr JoshE said:
^ You can't man, I'm not sure if you have done LSD or or any psychedelic for that matter, but if you have, I'm sure there are thing's that you have seen that you can't describe to another person.

I wish i could tell you what i saw/experienced on my first trip, but i wouldn't no where to begin ;)
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I completely agree, for a period of a few months I was the only person who had tripped out of my friends, and for the most part didn't understand where I was coming from when I tried to describe my trips.

The visuals is one thing, but the thinking processes as well is a different matter all together
 
haha I know exactly what you two are talking about.

When the topic of LSD comes up in a bunch of my mates it usually consists of those who have tried it saying something along the lines of "It's unexplainably awesome" and those who haven't asking them to explain it more.

Everyone in the world should have access to free acid IMHO :)
 
perthboy said:
I completely agree, for a period of a few months I was the only person who had tripped out of my friends, and for the most part didn't understand where I was coming from when I tried to describe my trips.

The visuals is one thing, but the thinking processes as well is a different matter all together
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that is the bit I struggle to explain as well. it is like thought stops becoming linear but rather that it takes tangents and access any thoughts that are closely linked by associated concepts (sorry for the psychological babble).

Also, in the documentary they talk about your sensory and conceptual filter being lowered so you can experience more of your environment and thoughts at once. i try and explain it to non-trippers like this; when you aren't tripping and you look at a field, all you see is a field. when you trip you are aware of every blade of grass.
 
psytaco: I get what your saying. The thought process is very different to normal analytical thinking. One thing (as an engineer myself) I don't understand is how any revelations gained during a psychedelic experience aimed at scientific or technical problem solving could be recorded coherently and actually be useful after the experience is over. So often I feel I have these technical epiphanies on psych's but afterward the content seems disconnected or irrelevant..

Usually the discoveries about personality, human behaviour etc are understandable afterward. Just never experienced a engineering or scientific breakthrough on the stuff. So i'm not sure how much the doco's reference to scientific content is just straight people blown away by their first few trips?
 
i think i saw this video, wasnt 2 bad but i thought they equated the psychedellic mindset and thoguht patterns with psychosis a bit 2 much as i thought that was disproven years ago?
 
@ aciweed

I didn't find this to be so. There was some mention of psychosis, but they mentioned quite clearly that LSD only triggered or perhaps worsened those who were already going to develop psychosis later in life, even without the use of LSD and other psychaedelics.

It's quite hard for any of us without psychosis to really comment on the similarities between LSD and psychosis though. The people studiying these sorts of things are much more credited to make comments about it than me, so I'll take their word for it :)
 
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