After psycedelics years down the road.

[jamaica0535]

So i have recently come to the conclusion that a good number of older people in my life have experimented with psychedelics and things like MDMA.

Im sure its just one part of what made them who they are today, but most of these people are great individuals and seem happy with where they are today.

Even though i still use them, i hold to the fact that LSD probably saved my life. My first trip killed years of depression in the course of 1 night. It shook me to the core but left me with a far better understanding of what it means to be truly happy. That was years ago and i don't think it will change.

Do you feel that psychedelics have had a more positive than negative impact on you? Especially those who can speak in a retrospective of these things being in the decent past.

 

[skinwalker]

Definitely has changed my whole perspective on life for the good. Got me thinking out of the box which took a whole lot off my back and has made me the happier and healthier person i am today.
Im still am an avid psychonaut with my use picking up more recently after taking about a ten year break. Now the experiences have so much more meaning then when I first started experimenting. Probably because when your younger your intentions are more geared for the feeling of the effects of the psychedelics and not for the actual experience, which is a big mistake people make. I know for me it just lead to a lot of confusion and now, with setting intentions for each trip, all my experiences are complete enlightenment.

 

[london2010]

I am not too sure abt MDMA but Acid(LSD) certainly can have long term effects. I can say this not only from experience but this has also been widely acknowledged by many scientific studies.

 

[adrian89987]

Yes, most definitely. Back in the middle of high school or so I was, as I'm sure is typical, completely unsure where to go with further education. I also was completely unmotivated to do work and just got stoned all the time instead (detrimental to my grade). On top of That I was feeling somewhat complacent and verging on depressing daily thoughts.. In my junior year though I had an extremely strong DOx trip (thought it was L when I took it) that completely altered my view of life. I decided to dedicate my life to science and have sense then worked pretty hard (and happen to be pretty damn good at it) and am about to graduate from university with a 3.8gpa and am about to publish some of my research. Not only that but I am a much happier and more optimistic person overall.

Psychedelics helped me to realize the direction I wanted to take my life MUCH earlier than I probably would have figured out otherwise. It also helped me to awaken my passion for science I had as a little kid resulting in me giving a shit in school.

 

[Ismene]

Psychedelics are a godsend for me. Always have been. Like Lennon said "LSD was the self-knowledge that showed the way".

 

[abstrakt]

A particularly strong, earth-shattering LSD trip I had when I was 18 years old changed my life completely. I was a dark, jaded, albeit intelligent kid at the time. I was into very dark/negative music, and I really had no idea who I was. My love-light wasn't on, and I really had done very little individualization (in the Jungian sense).

The LSD trip ripped all of my negative and untrue preconceived notions about life and the world right out from under me. It forced me to face myself and life what what I and it really were. It taught me to be aware, always mindful. It taught me to love constantly, and to be sure I expressed this love to those people who really matter.

This particular trip, which was only the 2nd or 3rd of what has now become hundreds, demolished the false structures I had built, and left room for me to become who I believe I was truly meant to be. It took the blinders off, and I was able to truly see and reflect. I feel like before this time I was acting mostly on instinct, or on learned behavior from society, rather than truly reflecting and being my individual, self-aware self.

This LSD trip was the beginning of my individualization. And I remain in awe of all of it, life, love, beauty, LSD, and I have been a disciple of psychedelics ever since . As I said, it took the blinders off... and I feel that they've been off ever since.

P.S. The random guy at the festival who sold me the 10 strip, 2 hits off of which caused this earth-shattering experience for me, said "Be careful, these are strong," before walking away. I was young and didn't really take it to heart, so I started off with 2. I believe it was just my time... It was terrifying during the trip, and it took me 2 whole years to return to LSD afterward, but I now look back on it as one of the best things that ever happened to me.

It did teach me the, "Always start with one hit when you get new blotter," rule, though. It taught me that well.

 

[jamaica0535]

P.S. The random guy at the festival who sold me the 10 strip, 2 hits off of which caused this earth-shattering experience for me, said "Be careful, these are strong," before walking away. I was young and didn't really take it to heart, so I started off with 2. I believe it was just my time... It was terrifying during the trip, and it took me 2 whole years to return to LSD afterward, but I now look back on it as one of the best things that ever happened to me.

It did teach me the, "Always start with one hit when you get new blotter," rule, though. It taught me that well.

Ive been given L that was just on a complete other plane of dose.

2 of them rocked my shit harder than anything i had ever had, and i have eaten upwards of 10 average doses, 20 weak ones..... Whatever they were mic'd at, i would give a "normal" recreational user like half of one.... 2 was a fantastic time, it was on the edge of being too much for the setting, but if your going to trip i think you should go balls to the wall with it.

I was warned before i ate them. But i had no idea that it would be that strong.

 

[frusty noggets]

im only 18 and have taken lsd 3 times. it completely changed my life but only for the better. before i never questioned why we are here. i never understood that there is some kind of energy that is greater than myself. now i cant even watch television because i realize how retarded it is and i feel like i understand the world better now, even though i still know nothing about it. when a problem arises i take a step out of my body and confront it in the big scheme of things.

i have this attitude that nothing matters, because once we die we just join the rest of everything. i dont have this attitude in a bad way, but more of if someone does something wrong to me (like cuts me off or some stupid shit taht people get mad about) i realize that IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER!

i hope i explained my ideas well

 

[hobhead]

many trips in the '60's and i wouldn't know how it would have changed me.
it was simply de rigueur for a large number of my generation .
much woo woo has been made about it but as it was all subjective it amounts to little .

 

[Ismene]

Isn't everything subjective tho hobhead?

And obviously anyone taking it because it was de rigeuar is going to be a complete bullroot anyway.

 

[Amberthefrog]

A particularly strong, earth-shattering LSD trip I had when I was 18 years old changed my life completely. I was a dark, jaded, albeit intelligent kid at the time. I was into very dark/negative music, and I really had no idea who I was. My love-light wasn't on, and I really had done very little individualization (in the Jungian sense).

The LSD trip ripped all of my negative and untrue preconceived notions about life and the world right out from under me. It forced me to face myself and life what what I and it really were. It taught me to be aware, always mindful. It taught me to love constantly, and to be sure I expressed this love to those people who really matter.

This particular trip, which was only the 2nd or 3rd of what has now become hundreds, demolished the false structures I had built, and left room for me to become who I believe I was truly meant to be. It took the blinders off, and I was able to truly see and reflect. I feel like before this time I was acting mostly on instinct, or on learned behavior from society, rather than truly reflecting and being my individual, self-aware self.

This. Word for word, except replace 18 with 17 and LSD with mushrooms

I think psychs at the extreme, can contribute hugely towards either making or braking people, depending on a long list of factors.

 

[ugly]

You should rent or stream Ram Dass: Fierce Grace. He was one of the first ones to tell us hippies what was up with LSD. Watch this movie if you really want to know about LSD. There's some other stuff in the movie that's not about LSD you might want to fast forward through. I have Netflix streaming so I have watched it about a hundred times.

You might also like Ram Dass book Be Here Now.

 

[Solipsis]

Yes! ^ the bitter and the sweet, darkness and light. I usually call it a gift and a curse, just like I think extraordinary high and extraordinary low intelligence in man is (although differently of course).

As a basis: a good number of trips are in the top of of my life experiences, like journeys to other countries but much much farther, only within... Dissolving out/in.

It has been life affirming and so so beautiful but has also been a theme in my tuning in and dropping out. If I can drop in again like I have planned at all and not fuck up important things in my life because I have lost a drive somewhere along the road I will be so thankful.
I will always have that part of myself that feels unlocked, but I could get much more unhappy than I am right now if I fail to realize/actualize myself like I know I can and want to.

If I succumb to fear now it would be a shame. Expressing yourself and finding your passion is great, but I feel I need to make a living doing what I love, more than ever. I will do my best and I hope it's enough.

I talked about this with my dad today: will dropping acid help the average Joe who goes to the office every day? Who'll say, that's impossible to answer. He might find out what he loves and just make that happen, or discover that he doesn't like at all what he is doing now (even though he kinda felt it) and fail to make it happen. Who knows what gets catalyzed? The cat is out of the bag, formless potential arises - now let's see if this person thinks so much that he can't get big things done, if he rises up to the occasion, if he naturally is all that he can be, or if he will become jaded thinking "ignorance is (was) bliss"... because we can reject that we aren't what society says we are, but if something inside us wants to 'be' then rejection only causes dissonance, imbalance and no peace.

I guess in the end we can learn to accept anything, I think I have accepted the cycle of everything, beginning and end, because I had to... many times over. which has taught me a thing or two about the prospect of some day "not being" (it's still virtually impossible to fathom), but it will cost me a fair price of happiness to let my dreams die and go back to work in an irrelevant office myself... before I die.

 

[ugly]

Damn Solipsis...

^That's stunning.

I don't know who you are in real life but if you aren't a writer or an author, you ought to be.

I haven't taken acid in 32 years. But I think about it often. It certainly changed my entire paradigm at the time. And it never shifted back afterward. LSD showed me life and death. I doubt I will drop again but it's always on my mind.

 

[TheAppleCore]

Man, I wouldn't go back to the way I saw the world before psychedelics for ANYTHING.


Psychedelics have opened me up to so many different subtle beauties of life. I almost feel sorry for the vast majority of the people on this earth -- forever barred from this deep fascinating pocket of the human experience, simply for fear of the unknown.

 

[kAir0s]

ugly, why not drop again?

 

[ugly]

ugly, why not drop again?

uh, no reason, jus not feelin it.

are you the alpha and the omega?

 

[Dark Horse]

ugly....you have caused me to log in after reading BL for about an hour at work.

I haven't done any LSD for 28 years.

I have though done mescaline twice (first times ever) in the last 2 years. This happened because I became curious about tripping again and was looking for LSD but couldn't find it in my far flung corner of the world.

I DO want an acid trip again. The mesc has been good, great actually, but these are two different things.

 

[ugly]

ugly....you have caused me to log in after reading BL for about an hour at work.

I haven't done any LSD for 28 years.

I have though done mescaline twice (first times ever) in the last 2 years. This happened because I became curious about tripping again and was looking for LSD but couldn't find it in my far flung corner of the world.

I DO want an acid trip again. The mesc has been good, great actually, but these are two different things.

damn darkhorse, you have been here two years. i don't think we've ever met... you've only said 100 things? damn...

let me know if you dose again, darkhorse. i couldn't right now if i wanted to. i'm having too much fun having withdrawals from benzos and ssris. i can barely stand anything. as is said by one of my favorite characters in my fave movie..

"I think....I'm getting the fear."

 

[Dark Horse]

Actually ugly, I tell a small lie.

I've also done DMT three times in the past year or so, also for the first time. The last time i did it there was a real LSD moment or two, but it all happens so quickly with DMT it's hard to pin much down.

I've been tapering off hash and weed now for about five years. Almost there. Getting stretches where I'm going months without smoking.

Will you have anything else to replace the ssris ? I'm always curious to hear people talk about the depression-resolving, or at last aiding, potential of LSD. I work hard to try to keep stress at bay but i think i tempt it anyway with my work. Depression has never been so bad or lasted so long that I wanted to use anything from the pharmacy but there are moments when i get a window into that world.

I'm still on the hunt for some tabs. One day it will happen again.