A long day and a strange trip: My LSD experience

[theyoyoman]

Hey guys! I wanted to share with you my LSD experience. I hope you enjoy reading. Thanks!

My only previous experience with LSD was a weird micro-dosing session I had 2 weeks prior. It was a very fun day but I was eager to have the full experience. So I had the whole day planned. I got the day off work and booked a hotel room (I live with my parents and was terrified of tripping around them). It was going to be a magical day, or so I thought…

So at about 2:45 p.m. I dropped a tab (125ug) and checked into the hotel, and for whatever fucking reason still unknown to me the effects did not kick in at all. It wasn’t working. At least not enough that I could notice. Only effect I know for sure was slight visual patterns in the lettering of words about 6 hours in. But that was only 6 hours in and even my micro-dosing session 2 weeks prior had way more than this. I sat there questioning if I had done something wrong. I had an empty stomach when I dropped but I had some pizza soon after because I was very hungry; had I eaten too soon? About 1-2 hours later I decided to leave my room and walk around outside, smoking a few cigs, hoping to speed up digestion, hoping a change in scenery would kick start the effects. I remember seeing some guy peeking out his door, then walking out and just standing there not doing shit looking fucked up. “Did people only come to this hotel to do drugs?” I thought. Lmao

I went back in my room and just spent the whole time obsessing over why it wasn’t working and started to get very, very frustrated and stressed out. Hour after hour it drove me crazy. I spent the whole time on tripsit talking to people trying to figure out why. What happened? Did the tab degrade somehow? Did I fuck up storing it properly? Did I still have tolerance from 2 weeks prior? Was it still going to kick in eventually? Should I redose? I had no idea. And I was also so pissed because I wasted a whole day, spent money on a fucking hotel and nothing happened, and I had no idea when I was going to be able to try again. It’s not like I can just get days off work and book a fucking hotel room every damn week. Finally after about 9-10 hours of staring into my computer, feeling like shit I realized that there would be no way that I was going to be able to relax in that tiny, shitty room so I said, “Fuck it” and just decided to get the fuck out of there and go home.

It was about 11:00 p.m. and I decided to just try to forget everything and relax and fall asleep so I had a piece of a weed brownie. I started talking to someone else on tripsit, and finally there was someone who was very, very experienced with LSD and he gave me a lot of relief. He was the only one who seemed to know his shit unlike anyone else who just had speculations. He explained to be the proper redosing/tolerance rules and concluded that I could redose if I really wanted to and that it would actually work unless it was another bunk tab. I didn’t even care about my lack of sleep or my not so positive set or setting, or the fact that I had just had a weed brownie. I redosed.

At about 1:30 am I dropped the tab. I was already getting pretty stoned from the weed brownie at that point, and I remember distinctly soon after my face would just crash and melt into a pillow. That was probably the moment it started taking effect. And holy shit, it was crazy. I was so incapacitated, my thoughts were a web of confusion. I was seeing crazy light rays in my peripheral vision. I thought I was going insane or having a seizure. I think it might have been the weed that contributed to that; the lack of clarity of thought. It was a strange, pretty uncomfortable trip even though I was just laying on my bed the whole time. I also couldn't wrap my brain around the fact that I didn't have to sleep even though it was late as fuck and I was sleep deprived. I don't know, just didn't know how to think clearly and function properly. The whole time I was trying to chat to another friend on tripsit and trying to figure out what the fuck was wrong with me. I'm pretty sure at one moment I thought I was dying because my brain was complete mush and I felt so incapacitated lol. But he assured me that everything was okay and that what I was feeling was not uncommon at all. He even agreed to Skype with me a bit because I just needed to physically talk to someone. Talking helped a lot. But I still felt like an incapacitated infant; I remember asking him for permission to leave my room and go to the bathroom. I eventually started to feel better, was able to get up and walk around the house, and decided to take a nice warm shower. That was by far the best part of the trip. It felt so fucking good. Seeing pretty patterns on the wall was great too.

After that I just went back into my bed, talked some more on Skype and started listening to music. I was able to feel functional again finally. An entire day of confusion, wondering what the fuck is wrong with me, and staring at a laptop screen can make you insane lol, so I'm not surprised the trip turned out that way. But eventually I actually managed to relax later on and to enjoy listening to music on my bed and somehow even fell asleep lol, and when I woke up a few hours later I was totally sober somehow haha! Anyways... it was an interesting night.
Thank you for reading!

 

[theyoyoman]

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[Kaleida]

You got more than slight patterning from a microdosing session? I thought the point of microdosing was to take too little to trip?

As for what you got from that hit, I honestly wouldn't personally ever expect more than that from just one dose. That intensity seems pretty standard to me, particularly for someone who is using psychedelics with any amount of regularity. I can say with a good amount of certainty that the microdosing (especially if at the intensity described) would have caused it to be like that even two weeks later for me as well. It is true what people say, that psychedelic tolerance drops rapidly - but by about 90%. Two weeks will get you there, but not to 100%. That takes at least a month for me and most people I know, even after a single low dose trip. I would imagine that this is at least partly responsible for why this experience lacked some of the "wow" factor you were hoping for, as that 10% can make a pretty major difference to people who really pay attention.

Anyway, I'm glad you eventually made something of the experience, and thanks for sharing. This is not the right section though; there is a specific Trip Reports forum. And I wouldn't really expect to get much out of bumping.... Trip reports often don't attract a huge amount of comments. Mostly it's just about sharing your story and letting other people read it to apply to their own lives.

 

[Just A Guy]

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[theyoyoman]

You got more than slight patterning from a microdosing session? I thought the point of microdosing was to take too little to trip?

As for what you got from that hit, I honestly wouldn't personally ever expect more than that from just one dose. That intensity seems pretty standard to me, particularly for someone who is using psychedelics with any amount of regularity. I can say with a good amount of certainty that the microdosing (especially if at the intensity described) would have caused it to be like that even two weeks later for me as well. It is true what people say, that psychedelic tolerance drops rapidly - but by about 90%. Two weeks will get you there, but not to 100%. That takes at least a month for me and most people I know, even after a single low dose trip. I would imagine that this is at least partly responsible for why this experience lacked some of the "wow" factor you were hoping for, as that 10% can make a pretty major difference to people who really pay attention.

Anyway, I'm glad you eventually made something of the experience, and thanks for sharing. This is not the right section though; there is a specific Trip Reports forum. And I wouldn't really expect to get much out of bumping.... Trip reports often don't attract a huge amount of comments. Mostly it's just about sharing your story and letting other people read it to apply to their own lives.

I think the microdsoing was as intense because I redosed like twice. I took 30ug, another 30ug an hour later, and another 60ug 45 mins after that. I don't know why I did that, kinda felt like experiencing something a lil more than a microdose. Anyway thanks for your insight! Just wanted to know if someone was reading

 

[Kaleida]

No problem. Oh wow, so it was really more just like, a dose haha. Within the first couple of hours you can still redose to mostly full effect... so I'd say you really just got the feeling of a 100-120 mcg trip taken pretty much all at once, which it sounds like from the visuals. If you want it to be stronger than that, you're going to have to dose higher next time. That's probably why this trip didn't phase you much too, even though it was two weeks later, because the first time it was new and interesting, and this time it was just mostly the same thing again. You'd be amazed at how big of an effect even things like novelty can have on your trips, because trips enhance every feeling, meaning that something that feels new and novel will be amplified to feel mind-blowing and incomprehensible. But then it'll just be same old shit next time. Not that you still can't still enjoy the hell out of it and use that in an extremely helpful way, but the overall feeling does change with familiarity. Waiting longer than two weeks helps with bringing some of the novelty back into that as well!