Nuke that is a very good summary.... but let me add a few things based on my experience:
Body Load:
- Real LSD can produce quite a bit of body tension, especially if the mind is not relaxed.
- Real LSD can produce a tight feeling in the stomach, often caused by gas build up.
- Real LSD can be quite stimulating or quite relaxing, depending on how the user is able to channel the lysergic energy.
- DOC (for me and many others) has an even lighter body component than actual LSD, including a more relaxed heart rate and less peripheral stimulation in general.
Visuals:
- DOC visuals can also be incredibly crisp, complex, and seemingly connected to your thought processes.
- DOC visuals often involve some kind of spiral, which can suck the user into a very deep mental state. Of course this doesn't always or even usually happen.
Basically with the visuals it is impossible to describe the subtle (but many) differences due to variation in trips and between users even on the same drug at the same dose.
IMO there is no way somebody who had never taken LSD or DOC could say for sure that they got one or the other....
*unless*
- The blotter was quite bitter, especially towards the back of the tongue.
- The visual aspect of the trip lasted in excess of 20 hours. (although DOC may be shorter than this too!)
- If the user notices that the "taste of the blotter" reappears throughout the trip and causes them to smell a strange acidic smell during the trip (I've heard quite a # of DOC users mention this)
Also:
I think generalizing "DOx" is too much of a generalization. I found DOI to have a much harsher body component than DOC (which is probably the cleanest feeling psychedelic I've taken on all three trials from 2mg to 6mg). It is speedier and causes more tension. Of course for the uninitiated user this description sounds like some real LSD, especially if the user is anxious!
DOI *will*, no doubt, give lingering visual effects and most likely inability to sleep until the 18-28 hour mark. 18 being about the minimum if you actually eat enough to acheive a good ++. DOI also will not really manifest for a good 1.5 or more hours. LSD will usually start to show it's face by the 1 hour mark, if not much earlier.
That does not mean if you have real LSD you will be tripping face by the 1 hour mark! You very well may not.
So, it seems that the best rule we have right now is the bitter taste of DOx blotters. Although I've heard (not sure if it's true) that some virtually tasteless DOC blotters have been making the rounds. Once again this is second hand heresay and I'm not even sure if this is possible to do.
So it seems many people, especially those with no real LSD experience, will not be able to tell if they have had LSD or not until the 20 hour mark, if they are still tripping or not.
Even then, both DOI and especially DOC could have completely worn off by then.
And of course, both DOI and especially DOC can give very remarkable and valuable experiences, so one should not assume just because it was a *good* trip it was real LSD. Or, because it was a bad, or anxious, or mentally draining, or tense, or "dirty" trip, that it was nescessarily something besides LSD!