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LSD - Reprogramming the brain?

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Is it possible to use the LSD to reprogram the brain?

Last Friday I tripped by myself, it was my 3rd trip. Before it was always with a friend or in a social setting. Those trips were good or ok, no visuals though. This time I took 4 homer tabs to make a strong trip. It was a "not so good" trip. Again no visuals, no revelations, energy flowing, no cosmic journey or any hallucinations. In this last trip, during the peak I could not recognise who I was? I was kind of lost who I was? What I am doing here? Am I in a dream? Last time also similar experience.

So, essentially two questions
- Any suggestions when tripping alone?
- How to use it to reprogram the brain? How it can be a life changing event?

Thanks
 
Nothing is guaranteed to be a life changing event for everyone. We're all individuals ("I'm not").
 
You may have a high tolerance try something like 2cp and see if that increases visuals. Or 2ce
 
You're probably looking for the wrong visuals. Don't expect seeing animals in the walls or pink fairies. The visuals from LSD are often tracers and (real) objects that move or seem to melt, enhanced colours and you're more likely to see some details on everything. It's hard to explain, but believe me, to most trippers the visuals are a side-product of the trip, and not the point of it. As you can read on many threads, such as:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/620516-Psychedelic-Visuals.
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/455162-Problems-with-getting-visuals-on-LSD?


Also plenty of threads about tripping alone, this is the biggest:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/302487-The-Big-amp-Dandy-Solo-Trip-Thread

I wouldn't use your expression "Reprogram the brain", it makes tripping seem synthetic and false. To me, almost every trip had a life changing effect, in a mostly good way. But the more I trip, the more it seems part of my natural self, and the more I change, the more I feel I'm becoming the one I always was (or should have been) since I was a child.
 
LSD is in itself deprogramming, reintegrating yourself back from that point is where the real chance lies for change. The main part of the experience is probably best suited to open yourself up for that change. Metaprogramming is no picnic though, be careful.

A tip for tripping alone is meditation, it should come relatively easy and natural - just look up some basics if you haven't already. It can really catapult you and increase all effects including transforming ones.
If you get weak effects it may be bad product or you may be a hardhead or tolerant. Slowly build up your dose or try other deep psychedelics like 2C-E and slowly build up your dose with that (don't assume you are tolerant for all things, it can get you into trouble), or get other blotters.
 
Timothy Leary has lots of theories about this and ones with some actual data to back his research about how psychedelic states can be used to 'reprogram' or 're-imprint' one's behavior. His study had to do with people in prison that were deemed unfit for society and using psychedelics to rehabilitate them into society and into a life without crime and it was actually really successful.
While a lot of people regard him as the guy who got the whole thing turned into a big legal mess I think he was more of just a scapegoat for something that was pretty bound to happen. however I may be biased because I read his autobiography, 'flashbacks' which is a really good book.
 
It can help switch my mindstate to a more positive outlook, at least for a while after the trip until the experience fades into distant memory. I find myself more smiley and social for a couple weeks after acid, and I have no desire to smoke pot when I normally fiend. In the end, it's up to you what you make of yourself. Taking a drug won't change you unless you want to change, but I do notice that LSD has a neurochemical afterglow in which I feel incredibly awesome and motivated for a little while after. This makes me think that it does good for me, which is untrue - I don't think it's healthy (lol). But in a way it is good.

I always end up back on the weed though and turning myself into a dumbass, frying my brain all day because I can't quit smoking that stuff.
 
SONN said:
using psychedelics to rehabilitate them into society and into a life without crime and it was actually really successful.
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According to the recent biog of him it wasn't - Tim faked the results so it would look successful.
 
It's the biography by Robert Greenfield and I think there's a maps article about it when they did a follow up study.
 
The experience can be very different for everyone. I have many friends who don't really hallucinate much at all other than general tracers and minor breathing and such, even on rather large doses.
I however have had single tabs that have rendered me unable to see during the peak because I was hallucinating so much.

That being said, 4 of any LSD tab, I would expect would produce some visuals.
 
LSd is a great tool for unconditioning the mind , Ive been able to break patterns that ive been carrying on automatic mode for a long time.
 
Read 'Prometheus Rising' by Robert Anton Wilson. It's based on the 8 circuits of consciousness model but it expands on it and discusses all kinds of interesting things including the mechanisms of brain-washing and the roles drugs or certain actions can play in it. After all, reprogramming your brain is basically the same as brainwashing yourself.
 
Thanks everybody for your response!

aj29 said:
LSd is a great tool for unconditioning the mind , Ive been able to break patterns that ive been carrying on automatic mode for a long time.
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How do you go about it during the trip? Would you please share some insight?
 
Solipsis said:
Read 'Prometheus Rising' by Robert Anton Wilson. It's based on the 8 circuits of consciousness model but it expands on it and discusses all kinds of interesting things including the mechanisms of brain-washing and the roles drugs or certain actions can play in it. After all, reprogramming your brain is basically the same as brainwashing yourself.
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Thanks mate, couldn't find kindle edition, will look for it in local bookstore.
 
PeacePipeChief said:
not knowing who u were and shit is called ego-death . also it doesnt 'reprogram' the brain , imo it gives us insight and perspective from many views , this giving us better thoughts towards the way we behave .
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hmm... read "the psychedelic experience" and "your brain is god" by T Leary, looks a bit diff than what's explained there, didn't see any light or some sort of unusual sense of peace. or may be I am too ignorant to recognize what is ego-death!
I guess I need more experience to handle this stuff, perhaps I will now experiment with small (1?) dose... (I have few more from the same batch)

How do you feel for next couple of days after 'ego-death' trip? Is your mind sharp than usual or more detached?
 
If you have to look hard for hallucinations or ask yourself if you're tripping, you're not tripping and you need to do more acid. That, or you're not even taking acid.

A full on LSD trip will be in your face, will deconstruct your reality, and will make you cease to exist for blocks of time. There's nothing subtle about it!
 
I think DOC has excellent potential for allowing one to re-program their thought patterns and brain. The chemical allows me to develop and see clear, cogent links between different aspects of my personality (a bit like an easy to visualise de-bugging program), and the aberrations which affect me on a daily basis. This one chemical has allowed me to develop models between stress/anxiety and depression, model the basic causes for my anxiety, especially centered around complex social settings, and also a number of possible ideas about how to work around this. Of course, I haven't really acted on it much, due to a sudden worsening in my depression (the social anxiety takes a bit of a step back there...) which is due to a few very substantitive stresses currently affecting me.

LSD, I find, to be far less complex than DOC and feels more like a social experience than DOC does (though have taken DOC in a number of social settings and have thoroughly enjoyed it). Your mileage may vary.
 
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