Heaven, Hell, Aliens... I was jesus.

[The Winner!!]

I havn't tried this particular acid before Catfish, but with every other acid I've tried I've had a wonderful time, I think that these blotters were just extremely strong and I couldn't handle such an intense trip, but that doesn't make sense because I was tripping just as hard but happily while I was with my friends.

Please, I'd appreciate if people would stop saying I'm a weak individual, I'm saying nothing bad about lsd, just trying to remind people that set and setting are very important, as this one time I didn't take it seriously

 

[Venrak]

I don't think anyone is trying to make you out as weak, friend.

Thanks for the reminder man, of how much an influence set and setting have.

You will draw something from this experience, just keep on keepin' on.

Be well.

 

[ford442]

Cybion - i am very happy for you that you can be comfortable without meds and taking psychs.. i have had many good acid trips even with my condition - but, as of now i feel very bad when i try to stop my pills and as you know you cannot take LSD on anti-psychotics...

Tromps - drugs cannot give you schizophrenia - it is a condition passed on from parent to child - it starts at around age 18-24 and it will happen regardless of psychedelic use..

 

[Cybion]

yeah, it's not necessarily from parent to child but definitely genetic. LSD was used as a treatment for Schizophrenia before it was made illegal, which is kind of odd considering LSD can trigger dormant Schizophrenia.

Sorry to hear that ford, if you ever wanna talk to someone about it who's not interested in taking your money just pm me, catch?

 

[The Winner!!]

It was a blessing in disguise, I'm truly lucky that nobody ran into me or that I didn't smash my head to death, or that the police got me before I had a heart attack.

I won't be taking lsd untill I get some therapy, and even then I will be saving it for grand occasions, this is what happens when you lose sight of the respect the drug deserves from the people that use it.

I wish you all the best luck with everything in your lives.

 

[Liquid Sunshine]

I only take LSD in places that I can be truly free to wander and express myself; typically outdoor events like Oregon Country Fair. LSD requires that I 'let go' to truly learn and enjoy myself.

Actually, at OCF this year I took three hits of potent blotter, ended up stripping down to my underwear in the middle of the night (two hours after ingestion) and jumping into the lake, swimming around, then getting out and partying with as many people as possible, playing music (this, in particular, changed my life) and generally spending time walking and thinking and talking to as many different people as I could. Best time of my life ever. I guarantee if I had that little control in an urban setting where people I know could find me, or I could run into traffic etc. things would have gone horribly awry.

Set and Setting!

 

[ford442]

again - i don't think that it can trigger dormant schizophrenia - it is just the same time of life when people are young and taking LSD at the same time as they develop the problem.. i have asked my doctors before and they all tell me that it doesn't matter that i was taking acid and weed and speed - before my condition started i could take plenty drugs and things weren't too weird - then i went through a few years of strange shit until i discovered what was wrong..

 

[2112acid]

It is hard for me to imagine how LSD a substance that i have tampered with many times, taking small doses, and large doses does this to anyone. My trips are dry and boring compared to these incredible stories. There is just no way i can see this drug doing anything this radical to someone without a mental condition.

 

[Anon85]

again - i don't think that it can trigger dormant schizophrenia - it is just the same time of life when people are young and taking LSD at the same time as they develop the problem.. i have asked my doctors before and they all tell me that it doesn't matter that i was taking acid and weed and speed - before my condition started i could take plenty drugs and things weren't too weird - then i went through a few years of strange shit until i discovered what was wrong..

I don't think it does either, otherwise my schizophrenia would of really blown up the first time I tried psychedelics when I was younger (Prefer strong trips).

It tends to creep up in that late age group and progress from there, some people catch it early on, while others it takes a while or they flat out deny it...even on the meds.

It is hard for me to imagine how LSD a substance that i have tampered with many times, taking small doses, and large doses does this to anyone. My trips are dry and boring compared to these incredible stories. There is just no way i can see this drug doing anything this radical to someone without a mental condition.

Everyone's brain is different, if it wasn't we would all have identical dosage curves and exact trip stories. Toss in PTSD or something along those lines after an insane trip, some people can't handle it.

 

[Sticky A Key]

I'm sort of traumatized to be honest, no lingering insanity or anything, but all in all I'm fine.

I always thought I was too mentally strong to have a bad trip, I've been on the verge, but talked myself out of it. I definately didn't have ego death, I let my own bad feeling for myself manifest and turn into something ugly.

No doubt I've learnt that set and setting is very important, I thought I was experienced enough to be careless, but that's just plain ignorance, I really regret leaving my friends

Well I'm glad you're doing well for the most part and hopefully the shock from the whole thing eventually dies down. I'm not even familiar enough with psychs to have any idea what ego death or anything of that nature is even like. But I'll take your story to heart and if I ever experiment with them enough to go to higher doses like that, I'll always remember no matter how good and confident I am in prior experiences to follow the set and setting basics. And look at it this way, you now have a HELL of a story to tell.

 

[inotocracy]

again - i don't think that it can trigger dormant schizophrenia - it is just the same time of life when people are young and taking LSD at the same time as they develop the problem.. i have asked my doctors before and they all tell me that it doesn't matter that i was taking acid and weed and speed - before my condition started i could take plenty drugs and things weren't too weird - then i went through a few years of strange shit until i discovered what was wrong..

I'll have to disagree with you there. My father had schizophrenia and it was definitely triggered by LSD. Wasn't far off from the OP's experience-- thought he was Jesus, ran around naked and almost beat a stranger to death. While I don't think LSD will *give* you a mental condition, it can sure as hell bring it to the surface a lot quicker than it would without it.

To the OP: wasn't saying you were weak at all. LSD can cause a dormant condition to thrive, not your fault at all.

 

[CatfishRivers]

I asked above if the OP had ever tried the acid that was involved in this incident, and the answer was no. The reason I asked was that several of the past times I have been offered tabs, it ended up being something other than lsd. From my experience, it seemed to be some sort of phenethylamine drug on the tabs (maybe a DOx or bromo-dragonlfy?). Despite not being lsd, the tabs were very potent. One was more than enough to almost overpower me. Two would have been a real rough ride. With tabs like those floating around, I could see a person who is expecting one set of effects to be thrown off guard. It's pretty much impossible to tell if this were the case, but I'm sure we've all read a handful of reports of people thinking they were taking lsd and ending up flipping out and the tabs turning out to be suspect.

Also, the debate as to whether this can happen to a person as a result of the lsd or whether the person must have had a latent issue to begin with is pointless, at least how it has been expressed in this thread. We've got no real data to work with in this instance, and you're really just guessing (and at the OP's expense). Don't become so cocksure in yourself that you think something similar can't happen to you. It's a real chance we all take when working with psychedelics and similar drugs. I consider myself to be a rather grounded person, and have spent time as a behavioral health clinician/counselor (almost a decade), but I've most definitely heard voices, contacted entities, been assaulted by multi-tendrilled geometric beasts intent on sapping energy from my meridian points...all sorts of stuff that if I admitted it to the wrong person could end up painting me as a person with mental illness issues. Sitting here at my computer drinking coffee in the morning, all those things seem so far away and unreal, but in the moment, especially when you are immersed in the thick of the experience, I can't say I was always able to differentiate in what is considered real by most and what is not. It's a real chance we all take every time we trip, so let's not think we're above it happening to any one of us.