Eager to try acid, but nobody to trip with...should i wait?

[J.Wallace]

In my experience, LSD is a drug best suited for alone time. Yes, it's fun to trip with friends and is an excellent way at bonding and becoming close to friends, but to get the most out of it I feel it's best to trip alone and meditate.

However, since it's you're first time sometimes it's better to trip with an experienced user to help steer you through the trip. If you've tripped on Shrooms before and are experienced with 'tripping' then you should be perfectly fine by yourself. However, I'd wait for a time when nobody else is around just so you don't have to worry about anybody bothering you. Even the simple idea of somebody being in the other room can make you have a bad trip. LSD is all about waiting for the perfect situation, nothing less. It's not something to take on a whim, it requires careful planning to achieve the best results.

 

[Darksidesam]

Also i was wondering,

If i took a reasonable dose of lsd,
but i had a bad time,

And i had 1 valium 10mg on the side,
would i know to take it? or be too confused?

 

[jargs]

having a bad trip should not be an option. there should be no doubt in your mind as to weather this trip is gonna be great. but obviously its your first time so thats easier said than done buuuuuuuuuut.... yahh..

 

[J.Wallace]

Also i was wondering,

If i took a reasonable dose of lsd,
but i had a bad time,

And i had 1 valium 10mg on the side,
would i know to take it? or be too confused?

LSD won't make you so confused that you won't be able to comprehend what's going on, not at low doses anyway. You'll still be able to see said pill and comprehend it as such. If you do have a bad trip, I suggest riding it out. Bad trips can easily be turned into good trips, simply by realizing that going through a bad experience still yields results and teaches you about yourself.

 

[ToxicFerret]

I would warn against doing acid for the first time with parents or other people that disapprove around. The one and only time I have felt the Fear was when I was about 16 and shroming hard off of a quarter oz. I went ahead and came home with my friend who was also shrooming at curfew and just having my mom sleeping in the other room was too much. I ended up trying to go outside with my dogs, stepped in dog shit, and getting the Fear. Ended up having to leave and go to my friends house, but on the way we got pulled over by police.

And I will definitively say that i kept my head together and had no problem with the police. That wasn't intimidating to me the way a sober parent did heh!

Set and setting are key.

 

[acidclouds]

having a bad trip should not be an option. there should be no doubt in your mind as to weather this trip is gonna be great. but obviously its your first time so thats easier said than done buuuuuuuuuut.... yahh..

It is important to go into a trip with a positive mindset and not be too worried about having a bad trip. Having said that, however, it is equally important to have prepared your tripping environment and your mind for the possibility that things could turn bad and having a plan of what to do if they do (ie change music, change setting, alcohol, benzos etc).

 

[Ronimus]

Tripped alone many of times. Never had a bad trip. I have had bad trips in group settings though.

 

[MusicGuy]

When you trip you're the driver, if it starts to go bad all you need is a good change of music or to make yourself think something else. All bad trips are in your head, I've gotten the fear and stressed plenty of times but it was never bad, just apart of the trip. If you've got parents make sure they're asleep and they won't be up. On LSD you can pull off "sober", in fact most of the time you just look some what withdrawn. But... you stop giving a fuck about anything. So your shirt will likely be half off, your hair in a half afro/rat's nest, pants pulled up to your theighs, underware above your shirt, or just plain out naked or in your boxers. That's what you've really got to pay attention for, that and the fact that you're probably sweating like a pig and your pupils are the size of dinner plates.

Typically, I like to trip alone, with a loved one, or with a very close friend. Almost all of my first "trips" on various drugs have been alone. I've tripped plenty hard my first time and been fine, someone else there would likely just stress you out even more. I'd say to prepare a few movies, some paint, a couple playlists, have some fruit ready, slinkys, grid/graph paper, and have access to the outside near the peak of your trip. I love watching old disney movies while I'm tripping, and painting is a religious experience, the way the colours flow into each other is astonishing. When you're tripping you won't know what to listen to, so pick it out before hand, classical music is BEAUTIFUL while you're tripping. Most of the time I'll start with classical, go threw all the music I usually listen to like funk, blues, classic rock, then I'll listen to the dead for a while, and eventually go into jazz. Stuff like Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Theolonious Monk, a lot of free jazz, modal jazz, and jazz fusion. Jazz and painting were just meant to be together. Slinkys and grid paper also tend to be fantastic while you're tripping. For whatever reason sometime during your peak you're probably going to want to go outside. Nature and tripping also go hand in hand.

Anything you think you're going to want to do while tripping you have to plan out before hand. Like if you wanna go on a walk, make sure your shoes and coat are ready and in a place you'll easily remember or constantly see. Lay out what movies you want, keep a playlist of the music you wanna listen to/have the cd's or records out, you get the idea.

Have a good trip. You can have someone else there if you'd like but I'd advise against it unless you're going to trip with a loved one.