Help me find out why I didn't trip hard?

[sheepie]

Okay I bought 5 tabs of acid from the same batch as a few of my friends did. They already did these so-called strong tabs. They said it was really intense (ie, they "found themselves" and also saw smiling faces on cars). I followed most of the precautions to eating them. I kept them wrapped in foil in a zippy for storage, and when I took them out, I made sure to only grab it by the edges (I didn't use tweezers even though they told me to - could that have been why?).

Somewhere along the lines it lost potency, because my trip was disappointing. It was fun, but I wasn't seeing walls breathe or patterns move. Not that I care about that stuff, but it just represents how high you are. I care more about my thoughts, and I didn't experience anything mind-blowing. My girlfriend tripped a lot harder than me even though we ingested it in the same way, but I think that's just because women might have less tolerance.

Maybe I have a high tolerance? I don't know, but I was disappointed. Shrooms are much better IMO. I want to give LSD more chances since my friends say its so great.

Shed some light?

 

[psilocybonaut]

Sounds like weak acid to me...

 

[Project Will]

It is impossible for anyone to accurately answer this question.

Perhaps you got some weak acid? Maybe you have a high tolerance? Any answer given will be pure speculation.

 

[Ismene]

I've never seen a smiling face on a car and I've taken enough acid to stop a rampaging hippopotamus. I think if you're expecting a car to smile at you then you'll always be disappointed.

 

[abracadabra girl]

Are you on any prescription drugs? I don't know what might affect acid, but something probably does. Other than that I guess everyone is different ...

 

[mecaib]

^Mirtazapine (a.k.a. Remeron) interferes with 5-HT2A agonist psychedelics such as acid. It really sucks when you have to eat an entire tenstrip just to trip decently

 

[SpinOutOfControl]

How many did you eat?

I doubt it lost its potency...

There are a lot of reasons why your trip may not have been as intense as you would have liked. The first one being your expectations. Also the potency can vary across the blotter. Your hits could have been weaker than other tabs from the same sheet. Or it could have been just weak blotter. Are you on any medications?

If you are not tripping as hard as you would have liked you can always smoke some pot if your into that and it will kick the visuals up a notch. When you relax and gaze that is when the visuals will start forming in fractal patterns taking over your vision that are closely knitted with your thoughts and what you are feeling at the same time.

Also seeing faces in cars or other objects is fairly common when i am tripping on acid. They usually look like joker faces or something that like pop out while staring at say a tree, woodgrain, or anything really.

Keep trying and you will get the experience you are looking for.

 

[Xtc <3]

Did you eat all 5 hits?

 

[Solipsis]

How many you took and if you are on medication are good questions, furthermore visuals are not necessarily a good way to check if the effects are intense, trips have multiple sides - the sensory effects, mental effects, spiritual effects (some would attribute them to the mental), emotional (more related to the heart than the head so to speak) and physical effects besides the sensory ones.
So visuals are only one thing and they are overestimated. Not that they aren't cool but it is harder to understand or relate to an intense trip without visuals. Still it is possible to see only visual augmentation but no distortion, at the same time you can feel like you are making somersaults and like you get in touch with yourself deeply etc etc.

I don't know how experienced your friends are but seeing smilies and finding yourself can happen at pretty low doses actually. Perhaps your expectations were tuned a little differently.

LSD is not the most stable stuff but touching it is not that big of a deal. Don't mind it, it doesn't cause significant degradation... its no problem that you did not use tweezers so just forget about that. Your friends seem to have taken the fact that LSD is relatively unstable too far.
If you touch the stuff and eat it right away the acidic oily stuff from your skin does not even have time to mess it up.

If you took like 2 hits or more and use no medication, then it becomes a little harder to try and answer why you did not trip harder.

Just try again and if you get the same results the stuff is probably not that great and you should look for better.

 

[MrFaust]

Well nobody can tell you how good your acid is, but its not losing its potency over a few weeks unless you left it sitting out in air and sunlight the whole time, touching it wont matter very much because most of the good stuff is on the inside, the stuff on the outside probably would have rubbed off on tin foil, I touch blotter with my hands plenty and I just make sure not to wipe my finger across it or touch it too much but I dont really think too hard about it, Ive dropped it on the floor plenty of times and it always still works...You could have a naturally high tolerence everybodys brain is different. Could be weak shit tho.

 

[Solipsis]

Yes^.
The amount that would rub off would be insignificant: imagine that you zoom in on the blotter to a microscopic or molecular level... then the surface area that has loose LSD molecules hanging out probably has a volume of texture that is very tiny compared to the inside. The LSD is stuck between all the cellulose pockets of the paper, it wont get out.

And just to be clear MAPS can tell you how good your acid is if I am correct? They allow testing don't they? But it is very expensive I have heard.
In my country it is free to have it tested and quantified.