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[Comparison Subthread] Acid vs. Mushrooms

I've always heard it's good to take shrooms before acid because it's less intense. how do the experiences differ?

i guess it largely depends on the dose and type of shroom... like 1 gram of dried hawaian shrooms is IMO stronger and more intense than your average blotter of acid.

I did acid before shrooms... but i've never had a bad trip on shrooms... acid is a different story..
 
totally agreed. You don't get pushed into the realm of LSD unless it's 2+ doses IMO, especially if its weaker LSD. This was my case, i took one hit of lsd + 2 rolls and some molly and I only got more vibrant colors(possibly from the MDMA) no real fractals or morphing of anything, nor the headspace lsd puts you in...

Obviously some weak LSD here? One tab I have been seeing all kinds of crazy open eye visuals. Other times off one tab it's almost been a waste of time.
 
try a little from column a and a little from column b.....jk
i tried acid first because of availability
it was awesome, never had a bad trip on it, just varying levels of intensity
ive had bad trips of shrooms though, depression seems to creep in easier on shrooms than the cid. if your depressed do not take hallucinogens btw but if ur gonna do it anyway go for lsd but stay away from weed and LSD, it takes the trip to another place....
 
I have done acid once and don't remember anything from it. just did the tab at glasto was already fucked on a bit of mdvp, pills and k and worst of all. I remember sitting there looking at the sparkly lights from the campsite thinking right lets go for a wonder its too dark round here sniffing another line of k and thats it i dont know anything till the next day. Cannot remember one little bit. dunno why? I was pretty disappointed
 
I have done acid once and don't remember anything from it. just did the tab at glasto was already fucked on a bit of mdvp, pills and k and worst of all. I remember sitting there looking at the sparkly lights from the campsite thinking right lets go for a wonder its too dark round here sniffing another line of k and thats it i dont know anything till the next day. Cannot remember one little bit. dunno why? I was pretty disappointed

You were just too high to remember.. I get bad memory loss on LSD/Mushrooms in higher doses, I just remember certain parts of the trip.
 
Read this: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=58623

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Also this is my opinion below about the difference between the way LSD and mushrooms work - from that you can draw your own conclusions which is good to try first:

I copied this from a Dutch forum I'm on and translated it through google translate
so I apologise for the weird use of language but I could only clean it up so much in a minute:

I think both mushrooms and LSD can be in a chaotic and confusing jumble of views but also mentally clear and calm. Which side of it you notice in some moment depends on your personality and thus you approach your consciousness as well as experience the events and atmosphere around you. So set & setting.

Mushrooms seem to have a more irrational approach and play more on your feelings, LSD seems more rational and responds to your thoughts. But thoughts and feelings inextricably interact together and this is why it is really inseparable from each other.

From mushrooms to get more into a trance and ecstasy is so inviting to meditate, I can work with LSD at a party and I can with my state of being and communicating with the influence of LSD out by means of a concrete about it. The ego can be as devastated, but this is a phase of intellectual insight so you can still negotiate. With mushrooms I can not, passing the station directly and I will have to surrender so that a deeper level of experience the true nature of things and the symbolism is revealed. Not to say that LSD can not, meditation is also fantastic at higher doses and faster you pass the first stage and its more similar to mushrooms.

The chaos and confusion is only when internal conflicts are, if you sit on 1 line with the experience and there are all preconditions for it to leave the you can see that this can solve causing intense clarity and peace for replaces.

How you deal with this again depends on whether you apparently feel the first man or a thinker, I feel. Terms seem confusing because there are 2 camps, one sensor can come into conflict and intense thoughts to achieve a harmony, but a thinker can have same by intense feelings.

But I would not predict how someone will react to this. To be honest I have a big hate it when a report in the form of 2nd person is told: 'You' will feel such and so. Speak for yourself I then think, because you know nothing about it. And I also know nothing about it.
 
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the intensity of the experience is all dependent on dose.

LSD was my first psychedelic, and it was one of the more intense experiences of my life and it was completely life changing.

Be in a comfortable an safe/familiar place.
Eat 2 hits of acid.
Put on some good chill music.
Try to forget you just ate 2 hits of acid and kill some time for the next hour or so....

Thats my advice anyways...
 
i guess it largely depends on the dose and type of shroom... like 1 gram of dried hawaian shrooms is IMO stronger and more intense than your average blotter of acid.

I did acid before shrooms... but i've never had a bad trip on shrooms... acid is a different story..

1.2g of dried Hawaiians was easily my strongest trip. Very intense! 8o
 
Indeed, a saying i saw or heard someone say, dont remember, is that LSD is like driving a car extremely fast and wrecklessly. On mushrooms you are a passenger in that car. My heroic mushroom doses are more intense than even my strongest LSD doses.
I think that's a really great analogy. LSD has always been a bit more clearheaded for me, even on high doses I feel like I'm a bit more "in control". Mushrooms on the other hand can get really really cloudy and confusing; they're a lot more of a mindfuck in my opinion.
 
the intensity of the experience is all dependent on dose.

LSD was my first psychedelic, and it was one of the more intense experiences of my life and it was completely life changing.

Be in a comfortable an safe/familiar place.
Eat 2 hits of acid.
Put on some good chill music.
Try to forget you just ate 2 hits of acid and kill some time for the next hour or so....

Thats my advice anyways...
Always the hard part :P.
 
Elroy44 puts it well, I'm inclined to close this thread though since it really shaves "what should I take?", this topic has been covered all over the net ad nauseam, there is no absolute answer to whether acid or mushrooms will turn out better for you to start your psychedelic journeys. The very best is to investigate what people say about acid and mushrooms seperately, then realize that this will not predict anything for you since everyone reacts differently - just do what feels more like you and it will by definition be the best choice.

Alternatively I just decided this will be added to the general comparison between these two titans. If you want a contest, read this back and through.
 
for what it's worth..

Oh, that wild & wooly brain chemistry. Both of these tools are priceless. How marvellous, the acid, that'll have you calmly burning down the house, but is so unpredictable. Acute paranoïa & a luv supreme. And how astonishing, the Shroom, with whom you speak (politely, & when asked), & do a deal, as in 'come to an agreement'. Sci-fi, roller coaster ride through the hyperspatial, tryptamine continuum. This is it : your alienation is at hand. Just how far dare we go ?
I think that it's easier to give one's self up to the mushroom trance, & although I wouldn't want to belittle lsd, I'd prefer to study the company & ethics of the magical psilocybin entity. Meditation is a good idea which can but help. :)
 
i prefer lsd , its a really clean beautiful trip

mushrooms can make me very emotional at times

this can be good or bad depending on the setting ~
 
for me, acid feels more.. techy? and shrooms more enjoyed in an environmental setting.. acid at a club and shrooms at mountains/park something like that. shrooms also for me made me 'see things' more while acid had distorted visuals.. i like them both though!
 
Well LSD tends to lead me closer to insanity and reality, chaos. like its almost frightening, if you dont have your head on right LSD will not only show you your bad side but make you fully aware of it.

now psilocybe to me is more nessasary, beautiful, liberating, fullfilling, colorful, more wavey than pointy

yes its getting a little abstract now

Well final conclusion, take LSD if your brave if you can handle confusion and if your personal demons are bearable. but this is the realest of real deals! mushrooms you dont quite feel as alone, with LSD... you are in a choatic state. its beautiful its fierce !

the extra "energy" i get from lsd usually just makes me writhe my limbs and flex and roll my eyes, i'm very unpresentable on lsd, but mushrooms... oh beautiful!

I love them both so very much! but I think you need a bit more resiliance to take LSD
 
can someone explain the difference between LSD trips and mushy trips?

hey guys, thinking of trying mushies soon but the only trip i've ever done is LSD.
can someone explain in what ways they are similar/different?
 
Well, everyone has a different subjective response, but basically, LSD lasts longer (8-12h or more, depeding on dose), and often the peak is at a later time than for mushrooms (they last 2-6 hours).

In my experience, mushrooms can be more visual, but that's probably dose dependent.

The way I see it, on LSD, I am an analytical machine running on infinity, whereas on mushrooms I am an alien or a dinosaur... it sounds silly, but that's how i felt.
 
Read some trip reports either here or on Erowid and you'll get the idea. It's difficult to explain directly.
 
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