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LSD - first time - dont believe the hype ?

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I was originally going to write a trip report but upon close reflection i wanna put it here cause of my head.

Just so you have all the facts i decided to go really over the deep end this new years. New years was spent on a house boat under a big inner city fireworks display drinking conyak, smoking weed and having lines of mdma and 2cb. A completely magical and beautifully overwhelming experience. I have had the time of my life discovering 2cb lately. I have only done it a handfull of times and each time i am absolutely blown away with the insight, visuals and emotion i feel for a few hours. I like how it makes me think. So naturally i couldnt wait to try LSD for the first time

I had my first 2 blotters stashed away for new years day. I placed one blotter under my tongue and I went out to this expansive view of this perfect golfcourse overlooking our harbour. It was a bright sunny day directly under our international airports VOR ILS landing navigational signal. I sucked back a cold nastro azzuro beer and waited to come up as airbusses sailed carelesly over my aura . I had my i pod shuffling and for a couple of moments i got everthing i wanted. PEACE. HARMONY. I could feel the acid. My ego felt like it was rocking on a boat and every couple of minutes a new emotion and state of mind would come tearing in. I got to see some scarily vibrant visuals and mind movies on 2cb but i was disappointed with the lsd. I didnt get any massive visuals or revelations of conciousness. Just waves of neurosis i guess. Bubbles of delerium. Echoes of insanity. They just went on and on all night - "Meh - im a crazy person, crazy heh ?"

I wasnt silly enough to taken the second blotter on my first time although now i wish i did. I got up the nevt day, took the second and went for a bike ride and packed away a j. The day felt very much the same with just brighter colours when i closed my eyes. Things felt much more alive and intense, but still no visuals and the waves of neurosis greatly subtracted anything positive i could get from the experience

so here i am a few days on. I feel a mess. I put a big dent in my car, and enjoying my few last moneyless days of holiday before i have to go back to work. Still feeling a bit down and theres absolutely no one home upstairs. I feel like i have contracted a BRAIN SLUG. An experience i thought i would treasure or have nightmares about seemed fairly tame

these were reported to be rather strong blotters verified by friends so would have mdma or 2cb the last 2 weekends in a row counter the acids strength or is one blotter not a sufficient dose

might try 2 next weekend but i am getting the feeling this stuff really steals your soul. gotta be carefull

oh and thank you Mr.Hofmann :)
 
i felt this way too the first time i tried cid .
then i upped the dose and discovered the true magic of the wonderful drug.
around where i live acid is pretty rampant and everyone will say "yea man this is some pretty strong cid" , i think that this is not the case and that your probably not getting too many micrograms per dose. im not telling you to go and take ten hits or anything but gradually try to move up and make sure you give it a fair chance. im sure you wont be dissapointed. If you didn't get any visuals it mustn't have been very strong blotter. Well, have fun and be safe.
 
My guess is that the mdma and 2c-b use the night before caused a significant cross tolerance, and the resultant serotonin depletion didn't do much to keep your mindset positive. The beer you drank beforehand probably wasn't all that great of an idea either. And your hit may actually have been weak - not all the hits on a sheet of blotter have the same dosage on them. There's a lot of variables to consider with acid, just because your first experience wasn't all that great doesn't mean it won't be great in the future. Cheers, and, kudos on spelling 'Hofmann' correctly :)
 
I would have to agree with the others, your serotonin levels were low and you probably didn't have all that much lsd in your system. Blotters tend to vary in dosage, even from the same sheet. My first experiance was similar, as I took 2 hits and it didn't get me to where I wanted to be. Although a great experiance walking through the redwoods, my real first good trip on LSD was with 5 hits of blotter. I'd recomend 4-5 to get a real feel of it, and try to stay sober off the psychedelics for atleast 3-4 weeks before use. It will make the experiance that much greater.

Now after about 8 experiances with LSD I perfer to take no less then 1000 mics each time. My 1300 mic experiance was my best so far. I love LSD =D
 
time traveler said:
I was originally going to write a trip report but upon close reflection i wanna put it here cause of my head.
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But really, this thread would just be closed here in PD, as it is a [insert drum roll here....] TRIP REPORT!!!

So in honor of that fact, I am moving it to TR now.
 
Yea. with a trip load like that, you're most likely experiencing low dosing + tolerance issues (possibly including cross-tolerance to 2c-b). I guarantee that if one tab doesn't do much for you on day X, one tab of the same acid on X+1 is going to do strictly less for you.

Try taking two at once; that might break you through into the "real" LSD experience. I might also wait more than a single week, if I were you. Even though chemical tolerance won't be there next weekend, you want the experience to be "special," which will happen the more patient you are. (Say, maybe next month.)
 
Sounds like low dose + tolerance issues.

I remember my first LSD trip. Did it at a music festival, and all of my friends were 'no, dont do LSD man, its too crazy', so I heeded their advice and did 1 hit in two halves spread out over about 3 hours.

While it was still an enjoyable trip - it was very, very, very mild and had me wondering 'what...thats it?'

Week or two later, I did 2 hits at the same time at an amusement park of the same blotter - and my lord, what a VERY different expierence that was. I had lots of fun, but at times it also bordered on being too intense.
 
I've always had a similar reaction to acid, even when I haven't been doing any other drugs. My last trip was particularly weird. It felt good at first, but then I just became neurotic, compulsive and very agitated. A soulless, stupid animal. I can't tell if that was 'caused by the acid' or 'revealed by the acid', as it were.

On another hand, I've had very good experiences with psilocybin mushrooms at higher doses, and uncomfortable experiences with lower doses (of the same batch). I suspect that higher doses of LSD might likewise be more pleasant, interesting and beneficial, but my lower dose experience leaves me doubtful and hesitant to try.

Furthermore, set and setting are always emphasized in literature, and for a very good reason. It can even be difficult to estimate their importance while sober, but every experience teaches you more about that. If you're prepared, you can perhaps face the unpleasanties without falling victim to them, if they were to emerge.
 
In my experience, most psychedelics are rather annoying in threshold doses. There are a few that I enjoy low doses of, but for the most part it just provides a weird physical buzz with little to no mental effect. But once you cross a certain threshold in strength, everything changes.
 
I find when taking acid you will enhance your experience greatly if you are sober, clear headed, well fed, and healthy before beginning. Also do it with a group of friends you are comfortable with.
 
hey just letting you all know i stayed at home yesterday and tried 3 blotters at once

i never thought it would be so much fun to have your head pinned against the far bottom corner of your room in a neurotic fit for a good hour !


i didnt find any massive spiritual or concious insights during lsd. But now a good 24hours afterwards my psche feels much more relaxed and peacefull than a few days ago

i think alot of the insight from lsd comes afterward when you fully realise how amazing it is to be able to concieve and hold a steady line of thought or emotion

because of this it has also made less inclined to spark up a j. Now it is a bit harder to dull my conciousness with dopamine because of my new found respect for my head

thank you lsd
 
time traveler said:
i think alot of the insight from lsd comes afterward when you fully realise how amazing it is to be able to concieve and hold a steady line of thought or emotion
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I agree with this... not entirely, but in a way. I've always thought of the days and weeks following a strong acid trip were always the real point in taking the acid all along... ;)
 
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hmmmmm thats what stops me from takeing more the next week and the week after. try giveing your head a rest reset your tollerance and then try it again.
 
time traveler said:
because of this it has also made less inclined to spark up a j. Now it is a bit harder to dull my conciousness with dopamine because of my new found respect for my head
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Psychedelics (not LSD specifically but all of them) have also had this effect on me. A few years back I was a straight up pothead, stoned day in and day out at all times. Smoking 10, 12 times a day, easily. After I started seriously tripping, I stopped desiring weed. I mean, I still smoke it when I'm hanging out with friends, or when hanging out with my girlfriend (who is still pretty much a fiend for it... she is almost always the one who suggests it), or when the feeling to do so strikes me. I mean, I still smoke it at some point almost every single day. But I rarely smoke more than once or maybe twice a day now, and I feel much better for the reduction from smoking constantly. Back in the day, I used to constantly crave it whenever I wasn't smoking it... I'd rush home anytime I was done somewhere and smoke first thing. Now, I don;t even think about it once while I'm busy, nor do I feel compulsed to smoke when I get home.
 
what most people dont realize, including you, is that a good trip is contingent about eating good healthy food for days prior, having a good amount of seritonin (which means you dont want to eat drugs the day prior), and good amount of sleep, as well as a stable emotional balance. acid is the most enlightening drug out there, dont get discouraged, your brain slug is because of other things
 
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