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Is a LSD trip a visual-only experience?

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Sup ppl, I have a question for you:
Is LSD a life changing experience? Can you have any real perceptual shifts, intense emotional insights or conciousness expansion after taking it?
Or is it just fractals and visual effects?
 
Far from it. I've only ever had mild visuals from LSD so far. The real trip is in the headspace it puts you in. It can indeed be life-changing, but it will have different effects on everyone, and no one can really predict what those will be, or how intense they'll be, though it will partly depend on your intent (recreational versus self-developmental approach). It might change nothing, or you might transform your whole life overnight. More likely somewhere in between. The extent may also depend on the dose.
 
As I'm planning on taking it just once, I'd like to get the maximum profit from it. My intent would be, as u say, a self-develompent approach. I mean, my intention is to have not a recreational trip but a more serious and insightful one.
So you're saying that what I want would only be achieved with higher doses?
Could the previous mindset also affect this?
 
If you're only planning on taking it once, I'd be very careful about ramping up the dose to get the full experience. The more you take, the greater your chance of a bad trip, and those are in no way remotely desirable. At any rate, it's really hard to prescibe it like, "If you take a half tab you're not likely to change anything; if you take three tabs you will definitely become a different person." You might get an incredible revelation from the clear-minded state of the half tab, and that would be enough. But if what you're after requires some seriously far out, warped thinking, then maybe you would need a higher dose. It's hard to say, it varies greatly from person to person.

The reason I say a recreational mindset isn't likely to get you as far is because, if you go to a party with acid expecting to have fun, that's probably all you'll get. It's very good at making you feel euphoric, confident and carefree. But someone would be less likely to have some amazing insight if all they're asking is "GIVE ME A GOOD TIME MAN!" It could still happen, of course. Many variables. :)

Since it sounds like you're intending to only have one trip in your life, or at least at this point in your life, can I suggest considering psychedelic cacti instead? You'll have a better chance of taking a high dose without being overwhelmed, and the experience is likely to last longer, up to eighteen hours.
 
The clarity of it will amaze you, my friend (at least it did to me on my first experience)!! I can assure you that if the dose is appropriate, you will experience all of the above!! I wish you the very best! For me it is always mental over visual but YMMV. Have a great time :)
 
As a self developement tool i would think Mushrooms, Peyote, or even DMT.
For me LSD was mainly just visuals, and long lasting.
It got to the point where my headspace was normal, but i was still hallucinating and had lingering effects that where undesired, and i would just get bored.
Acid to me wouldn't be a life changing experience, especially at the doses i was taking (ive never done more than 3 blotter at once)

Ive also heard that experiencing other psychedelics, before experiencing LSD, Can collaborate with the effects from your acid trip (like getting a MDMA rush, while only on acid)
 
deroxor said:
For me LSD was mainly just visuals, and long lasting.
It got to the point where my headspace was normal, but i was still hallucinating and had lingering effects that where undesired, and i would just get bored.
Acid to me wouldn't be a life changing experience, especially at the doses i was taking (ive never done more than 3 blotter at once)
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LSD is one of the deepest psychedelics i've taken (moreso than mushrooms, but i havn't taken mescaline or DMT yet). I only get mild visuals on it unless I smoke weed.

Save the duration, your description sounds like how i'd characterize 2C-I...
 
Yeah it varies from trip to trip. Honestly OP if you're really seeking spiritual enlightment with LSD don't just take it once. Take half a tab once, if you like it up your dose half a tab each time or as much as you want until you get your desired dose. It's a very amazing drug that can really bring your headspace to amazing heights, but I feel it's best done once you become familiar with the effects and in a way learn to control the acid trip, or at least how you're reacting to the trip and what you're seeking in the trip and how you're seeking it.
Experience is is a good thing when it comes to using this drug as a therapeutic tool, at least in my experience.
 
LSD is powerfully therapeutic for me.

I can't imagine where I'd be without it.

The visuals on LSD aren't even 1/10th the trip.
 
Visuals are just the tip of the iceberg with LSD and many other psychedelics (although, this is a little bit less true of some of the 2C-x substances). The crazy thing about LSD is how it makes you think and how it changes your perception of the world around you. However, it's not really a "magic tonic" that consistently brings about enlightenment. It's life changing if you're in the right state of mind for a life changing experience.

I would even go as far as saying that spiritual enlightenment only comes when you're not actively seeking it out.
 
levictus said:
I would even go as far as saying that spiritual enlightenment only comes when you're not actively seeking it out.
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That's probably true. But, you have to be at least generally curious and interested in philosophy and spirituality. Folks with shallow and materialistic interests don't tend to have too many sudden flashes of spiritual enlightenment.
 
atara said:
Judging a psychedelic by the visuals is like judging food by how it looks...
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Only good when you have synaesthesia? ;)

I don't think any psychedelic is purely about the visuals, in fact I don't think the visuals would be anywhere near as beautiful they are with most psychedelics if they didn't have the wonderful accompanying head space.

If you're only tripping once I'd take a medium sized dose, not a light one, but not an overly strong one either, you'll have a very memorable experience - you may find that you want to pursue it more and trip again some day, it may be enough and show you what you want - or you may even simply find it's not going to help with the particular consciousness expansion you're looking for. It differs from person to person :)
 
I agree with ^^^

If you're plan is to only take it once then take a good dose. The smaller the dose the harder it is to let go and flow with the experience. The bigger the dose the less choice you have of fighting off the experience :) I'm not saying you should go drop a ten strip, but take a good psychedelic dose otherwise you may never get to know her true colors :) happy trails <3
 
Thanks you guys for your answers! Now im definitely am going to try it, with a decent dose and without expecting too much either, but really open to the experience.
I just thought that if everything I was going to experience were visuals it wasn't worthy, but if they are just the icing on the cake then yes..
;)
I often want to have the control over everything I do, but I'm going to try just going with the flow with this time.. hope it works haha
 
Tolerance varies considerably from person to person. What might be a medium dose to one person might barely cause anything to another. Also the amount of LSD present per tab varies greatly. I wouldn't put all of your luck into hoping you get what you want on the first try.

I can understand and respect why you would want to set a limit on yourself though.
I might suggest a limit of 2 trips instead of 1. Perhaps both within a week or two of each other. (no sooner than that though, otherwise you build up tolerance). That way, you can start with a low dose (half a tab?) to get somewhat familiar with it, and then use that experience to figure out how much you should take for the real trip.
 
Nope it's not just visual. I remember being on a high dose of LSD while in a library with my mom as a teenager-thankfully she drove the car and didn't have me practice driving with my driver's permit that day-and I was walking thorough the stacks of books and I was totally lost and I'd been in that library millions of times ever since I was a kid.
 
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