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Flashbacks.

XTeeSee

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What percentage of LSD users actually start having flashbacks? I talked to my friend last night on Facebook, and he says "Man, I keep getting flashbacks whenever 'this happens' or something"
"Yeah man, you can't ever be a piolet or drive public transportation if you do LSD, they'll find out but testing you.
Me 'WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF'

So I like trip out snip* and now am considering never doing it again.

Am I just being to paranoid?

How often do flashbacks happen?
I havn't had a bad trip....yet...
How long do they last if they do?

Basically, how is this preventable?
 
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I've never known anyone that has flashbacks but guess somebody somewhere probably has. I'd always thought it was another acid myth but if people have them I guess they're not. LSD can only be tested for within a few hours of ingestion so no future employers could possibly test for it - even the US military doesn't bother cos unless you're tested whilst still tripping you're unlikely to show a positive.

I wouldn't (and don't) worry about flashbacks but really know nothing about them. They're rare if they do exist, I'd be fairly sure of that. Like the Cap'n above said, flashbacks can happen without ever having used psyches under certain conditions which may account for many of the instances people report experiencing them.
 
its more kind of related to post traumatic stress, anything that affects you in an intense way can cause them.... it doesn't even have to be drugs....

I get mild tracers in certain locations at night time, 1 campground in north georgia does it pretty reliably....

what does this have to do with my drug use? pretty much nothing, i have only smoked a bit of pot in that campground....

if i go a while without sleep i get tracers....

really its just when i put stress on my body or when i am in a few select locations that it happens....

its never like a full blown one second im sober and the next im tripping face with no drugs at all.... just things having tracers at night....

but don't worry about getting tested for LSD... its rarely tested for, and your unable to test for it past like a day of use.... Even if they could do a spinal tap to test for it, that is incredibly painful and no one is going to take the risk of any possible complications, your sticking a needle into the nerves that control the lower half of your body...

so basically short of certain test that are pretty much under the scenario of "we need this or you could die" they will never preform a spinal tap.... menengitus is one of those causes.... God i freaked out when the doctors told me that i might have to get one but it was determined that i didn't have it so no needle into my spine...

im not even sure if you could do a long term test for it with a spinal tap or if thats just a myth, but in reality its never going to happen....
 
Flashbacks, at least in the way the general population throws the term about is a myth and total bullshit.

I'm not saying that flashbacks don't exist, but if they do, they are few and far between.

Bring up the topic of flashbacks or psychedelic use to your average group of drug users and they'll instantly start talking about their friend who gets flashbacks all the time... or they'll start discussing their own flashbacks like they are commonplace and occur with any frequency at all.


I don't know anyone that has personally had a genuine flashback.
I know people that claim they have had them but these are also the same people that will tell you that some ecstacy tablets are based on cocaine and heroin.
 
It should be mentioned that HPPD is very real even if flashbacks are rare, exaggerated, and often just lies.

I have strong lingering visual distortions like many psych users have experienced. I wouldn't call it HPPD though as it doesn't get in the way of function, but I do have strong static, sensitivity to brightness, perma trails, and tendency to see illusioned patterns. It's nothing like tripping though, just visual blips and things looking rather unusual at times. (There is zero mind trip.)
 
i have experienced one flashback so i know they are not exaggerated or bullshit.
they are basically just deep recall of a psychological state during a psychedelic experience. for me an identical sunset was a trigger. the experience i had was quite beautiful and absolutely did not get in the way of work. but it was short lived and after it had happened i even questioned the experience happening at all. the experience i had was by no means an impairment.
 
^LSD is metabolised within about 5 hours I believe.

iirc that was only shown by a study from the 60s (still present on the erowid page). i've seen a newer paper (sorry, i'm too lazy to search for it right now) where the amount of lsd present coincides with the effects and duration as you would expect. they attributed the discrepancy to the earlier study to analytic equipment nowadays being much better than it was back then, where detecting such minuscle amounts was quite difficult.
 
i get them everyday but they're usually not unpleasant, unless they're triggered by some shitty psychiatric drug

i like to think of the ones that occur naturally as just a result of lowered filtering of things that are already there.. i think it has something to do with sensory input as well as consciousness.. like whatever state of awareness you're in at that moment, you may experience something unordinary..and that's what tripping is.. it's like dreaming while being awake

as long as there are no strong negative emotions connected to the distortions and they aren't so intense as to interfere with everyday functioning, i'd say that's pretty common with people who eat a lot sid in their time to have some of those changes of perception

my guy says he sees halos and auras around certain people, just like when on sid, but he has fried countless times... me, i've only done it a couple hundred times but i take good doses too so i guess it's all relative

peace
 
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