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Do you look drunk on LSD?

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Guys when you trip, does LSD make you look like you are drunk while it lasts? I mean, do you say and think stupid things, and if someone talks to you will he notice you are on something?

If yes, what receptor or mechanism is responsible for that?
 
I don't believe so. I'm generally very aware of my surroundings on LSD. I might just appear aloof or mentally preoccupied to others.
 
Definitely not. Being drunk (alcohol) usually brings out the worst in a person. People may know you are 'on something' if you are tripping, but they will know it's not alcohol (a good thing).
 
What? Really? I don't mean exactly 'drunk', but altered? For instance your friends talk to you and you don't understand what they are saying? I mean you CAN understand if you try hard but you just can't focus on them?

You just look normal?
 
I don't get too many noticeable mental side effects to other people but i always look extremely physically retarded haha. i always somehow manage to fuck up my hair manically running my hands through it and my face gets all messy haha
 
I find myself quite excitable, especially in groups. As was said above, it's definitely easy to define from being actually drunk. I've never been at all physically impaired just overly happy :).
 
It depends on how high the dose is and how far along into the trip you are. I've come home on acid plenty of times and my parents have never said a thing or thought anything was out of the ordinary. Of course those were all relatively lower doses.

On higher doses, its pretty easy to tell when I'm on acid. I get a permanent grin on my face, laugh a lot, sometimes at nothing at all. I usually look like I'm thinking hard, staring off into the distance. If there is good music playing, you can bet I'll be up and dancing. Conversations probably sound wierd to people who arn't tripping because they are usually in depth, well thought out, and typically about abnormal subjects. Sometimes I get caught in long introspective periods where I won't utter a word or even make a movement for a long time.

Its def something noticable but nothing like being drunk. There is no difficulty in coordination. No blurting out or shouting and acting like a fool. There's no getting sick and throwing up or the spins.

Basically, acid makes me look intellectual and extremely happy while alcohol makes me look extremely dumb, obnoxious, and loud.
 
If you're on a decent dose then people will notice, yeah. It's easy to end up looking/acting like a suprised child in response to stimulus and definitely possible to act erratic. More like geeked-out-on-MDMA erratic then drunken slurring-vomiting-and-fighting erratic, though.

5-HT2A agonism is probably responsible.
 
DoorsofPerception said:
Conversations probably sound wierd to people who arn't tripping because they are usually in depth, well thought out, and typically about abnormal subjects. Sometimes I get caught in long introspective periods where I won't utter a word or even make a movement for a long time.
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Yep pretty much what I meant!

sekio said:
5-HT2A agonism is probably responsible.
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Isn't it the responsible for the visuals?
 
It's repsonible for the general cognitive disruption, and how most psychedelics extert their effects. Other serotonin receptors, namely 1A and 2C (3 and 7 too) also probably play a role, especially in ergolines like LSD.
 
Hmm interesting. I'm very interested on the subject, where can I learn about receptors and stuff?

When a molecule like LSD bounds to a receptor, how long it takes until it's released? Can it stay there forever? Can it damage the receptor or cause some kind of general unbalance?
 
you dont seem drunk but you will DEFINENTLY NOT appear normal around other people

if you're asking if someone will be able to tell you are tripping, the answer is yes
 
Most tripping people at least on higher level doses of a given drug seem to act a bit eccentric in both physical movements and in thought patterns/speech patterns, even to the point where speech is extremely difficult (spewing random words, not finding any words, etc.). With experience one can limit the expression of these eccentric patterns/movements, though I'd never chance it if the setting wasn't legit in the first place. Its best to be a in a situation where you don't need to worry about how your being perceived by others or basically where you can be the tripping you. Not point in limiting your experience because of non-ideal settings.
 
If your experienced with LSD, I find unless on an above average dose (at least 150ug) your physical appearance is normal, I can act entirely normal around some of my friends sometimes without them noticing. Although I would find this uncomfortable if I had to do it for a long period of time, just remember people don't expect you to be intoxicated, so you'd be surprised how easily you can get away with some things.
 
No but everyone I knew would always "drink to get sober" when having a bad acid trip so they looked drunk on LSD then
 
No, a drunk person looks like they're generally unaware of what's going on. It's like their brain is metaphorically short-circuted.

LSD is not like that at all. Usually when I'm not tripping and other people are I get the vibe that they're in on something that i'm not. Like this time I bought acid off this kid who was tripping, I thought that the acid was fake (before I took it) just because of how sketchy he was acting. Same with the time this kid came up to me at a festival and we were talkin for a few minuites. He said "Is that a joint?" and for some reason in my head I thought that he only was talking to me because he wanted to smoke my weed. Turns out he was just tripping.

They will be all child-like if they're not trying to hide the fact that they're tripping and the people they're hanging out with aren't assholes. If they try to hid they're trippign state of mind they will probably seem like they're in on something that you don't know about or something. This is all usually during the peak. Most of the time they're quiet and content/peaceful at the end of a trip (I know I am at least)
 
Cloudy said:
Most tripping people at least on higher level doses of a given drug seem to act a bit eccentric in both physical movements and in thought patterns/speech patterns, even to the point where speech is extremely difficult (spewing random words, not finding any words, etc.). With experience one can limit the expression of these eccentric patterns/movements, though I'd never chance it if the setting wasn't legit in the first place. Its best to be a in a situation where you don't need to worry about how your being perceived by others or basically where you can be the tripping you. Not point in limiting your experience because of non-ideal settings.
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Yeah dude last time I tripped it was hard for me to pick the right words to say and stuff and I kept spewing out the phrase "What's the world?" in a baby voice. I would also do extremely stupid things around strangers such as walking in a straight line, not looking at them at all then all of a sudden jumping to my left putting out my hand and saying "HI!" really obnoxiously and then walking back in a straight line as if I had never seen them in the first place or something. At one point I was laying on a rock rubbing the moss with my hand and saying in a really quiet baby-voice "that's the moss" lol

It was really strong stuff too because I only took one hit. Definatly a LOT stronger than all the other acid I've had before. All my friends tripped really hard off that one hit too but they have stronger ego's so they were acting relatively normal. I don't have much of an ego at all so it's really easy for the acid to take me over (Either that or I'm just really sensitive to it or something).
 
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