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LSD - last time - 4 hits, alone, ego loss

gothfaery3

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4 Hit of Acid- ALONE-ego loss

This was not my first experience with acid...but it will be my last
I decided that, even though I was to be alone all evening, I would take a few hits of acid that i had aquired earlier in the week. I started off taking two hits.
An hour came and went, and I felt nothing. I was chatting online and I could tell that my heart beat was quickening, but I didnt see or feel anything different. So I ate another two.
It hit me about 10 minutes later like a ton of bricks. The desk moved and grew almost arms, which reached for me until I got up and went into the living room. For another two hours or so I had an ordinary trip _weird visualizations (smoke mostly) listened to some music, wrote some, etc.
About three hours in I started feeling paniced. I was listening to some tool (dont knwo which song) and it came to a part where the music hit one note and sort of plateued (sp?) and the whole room started spinning into a black hole, almost like it was going down the drain. I felt like my heart was going to explode out of my chest. I couldnt tell fi I was dead- I felt like I was having a panic attack, but even though I knew i was on a drug, my mind was telling me that this was some sort of perminant thing. Thoughts of killing myself floated through my mind, as a means to end the panic and paranoya.
There were faces everywhere, looking at me, asking for my name but I couldnt give it to them. I thought about calling an ambulance, but managed to (thankfully) talk myself out of it. I couldn't remember my name, and when I thought of friends and family the only thing I could relate to them was some sort of dream, like I had imagined the whole thing. I was outside my body, matrix style, watching it all and taking it in.

I guess that this could be considered ego loss? It wasnt a pleasant experience and I evewntually took a handful of valuim in an effort to go to sleep.
The entire trip lasted a little under 7 hours.
Anyone had similiar experiences? I'd love to try acid again (I think it has a lot to offer me, and looking back on the experience I gained a lot from it) but I dont know how to without being terrified...any hints?
 
It sounds like you just took too many hits of high quality blotter. You said you were having a normal/fine trip on 2 hits - should have stayed there even if you didn't feel anything for a while. But I know that's how it goes sometimes... just remember for next time :)
Also, with a couple close friends will definitely lessen the chances of such negative thoughts going through your mind.
 
Acid can be quite scary in my experience. I took 4 hits of blotter once to find the world had turned into morphing nothingness. I vomited on myself and then rolled around on the ground until I was saved by my friend. He turned on phish-farmhouse to track one and put earphones on my head. The line

"Welcome this is a farmhouse, we have cluster flies alas." seemed to make a HUGE amount of sense. Anyhow my point is that friends get you out of trouble. That is what good friends do atleast. Pick someone who you know is a GOOD friend and try 2 person trip. For acid I always have headphones, an art pad and writing tools. I also like to buy some nice chocolate for my trips.

I would discourage 3 person trips because communication can get real fucked up and friction can occur.

Having some valium around isn't always a bad idea. If things get real messed up you can pop 1 and relax. My experience tells me that if you take benzos you will learn little. It seems that when I take benzos i learn that taking pills for stress is a good idea. This is not helpful.

peace
 
its not wise to take acid without someone or people present unless you are an experienced user... without people there, you have no point of reference, you feel as if you are the only person on the planet .. alone.. desolate.. having people there really helps because you can express how you feel and what you are thinking.. its very important to talk to people while on acid because sometimes i feel that if there is nobody there, my mind tends to over-analyze things which turn into a bad trip.. acid is to be respected for what it is, a very very very real window into another reality.. that cant be done with other drugs... know how you use it properly and you will trip well...

see ya
 
Damn, sucks you had a rough time. But do you think you learnt something from this trip?

You could of had ego loss on 4 good hits. I've had pretty near, or a section of a 4 hit acid trip ego loss... it can be pretty intense.. however I want to delve further into ego death in the future.
 
ego-loss for me was (and is) amazing...
finding out the nature of the universe and your seeming insignificance in it can be absolutely liberating. However if you arent prepared for it I can see how it can go wrong, and rather than liberation from the ego, it would seem like loss of self.

While experiencing ego loss one has to realise that the "ego" is not the "self"..... it is not your "self" that is meaningless.... it is your distorted perceptions of the world.
 
the average trip can last anywhere from 6-12 hours....
7 is near the short end but not unlikely

the lsd is out of your system a couple of hours after you take it.... the rest of the "trip" is just your mind dealing with that..... so you can shorten or lengthen the results of a trip yourself.... its all in your mind...
 
weird, i took one tab at around 2 on sunday morning (extremely powerful, not sure how many micrograms, but yeh, it put me in a loop) .... when I got home on sunday night (7) ... the computer was stilll warping a little ... is this common ... i mean, that would have to be something like 15 hrs .. off ONE TAB .. wtf ??? am I just sensitive to LSD?
 
I have had my share of trips and I can actually bring on the "warping/sliding" visual effects when sober.... it takes some concentration and usually only works on repetative surfaces like walls or fabric but it is very possible. Taking lsd has changed the way i "see" the world (both mentally and physically) forever. This isnt a bad thing if you work with it and learn to use it.

The visuals are not an effect of the drug, so much as they are your mind learning new "tricks" because of what the drug has done in the first place.

I wouldn't say you are sensitive to lsd... more like your brain learns fast...and can "hold on" to the effects for longer.

peace
 
In refference to the time thing...like i said, I took some valium and basically made myself pass out because I was getting so scared. I definatly was still seeing things the next morning, but it was more like an aftershock (lights were brighter and blurry, things were still kind of "throbbing")
 
punktuality said:
I have had my share of trips and I can actually bring on the "warping/sliding" visual effects when sober.... it takes some concentration and usually only works on repetative surfaces like walls or fabric but it is very possible.
I do it alot, although I'm not completely sober. I usually have some sort of drug in my system which either helps me think clearer or maybe it just makes it easier for me to fall into those sorts of things.
 
This synergy that you can control is called raport. It takes a while do build but that depends on how you happen to do lsd-25. I experienced this after being on lsd-25 for 9 days.
 
punktuality said:
the lsd is out of your system a couple of hours after you take it.... the rest of the "trip" is just your mind dealing with that
That was Hofmann's original hypothesis but recent measurements of LSD levels in the brain using more accurate technology have revealed that the LSD is in fact present during the entire trip (12+ hours), just in very, very small amounts. But it don't take much. (I don't have the reference handy, sorry, bad me.)

acid_ChIcKeN said:
This synergy that you can control is called raport. It takes a while do build but that depends on how you happen to do lsd-25. I experienced this after being on lsd-25 for 9 days.
God damn, nine days. How much did you take??
8o
 
I did 6 one day took a day off 6 again then 7 day off 7 then day off then 10.no lie and it can be very dangerous I strongly advise not following my lead. I was young and niave at the time. I was left very paronoid and antisocial for the next 2 years of my life. I did this in a period of 20 days so please respect your mind b/c that drugs can destroy there very powerful. At 10 hits you slip into a semi conciess dream like state and feel a powerful void of suicidel emotion.
 
haha i was listening to schism by tool while tripping man and after the awesome buildup when it hits the "between supposed brothers" part the whole room started going in a vortex type thing..exactly like u discribed it was fucking freaky.. tool is great to trip on
 
endlesseulogy said:
haha i was listening to schism by tool while tripping man and after the awesome buildup when it hits the "between supposed brothers" part the whole room started going in a vortex type thing..exactly like u discribed it was fucking freaky.. tool is great to trip on

I'm listening to Schism right now! The first time I heard this song was 3 years ago when I was stoned, and it was the first and only time I had a detailed OEV on weed (I saw a chessboard in front of me, which was transparent and eerily beautiful.
 
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