I can definitely empathise with the feeling of remorse abusing LSD, or simply- overusing basically.
i did have a fantastic trip from midnight Saturday, the initial comeup on 1000 ug was insane. Real traces and trails. And strangely it was easier to slide into the trip than it is when I take 50 to 300 ug doses and usually do not like the first several hours of intensity.
The 1000 ug bolted me past that. Plugging 400 ug at 6 am Sunday hit me right back up to the moon.
My heavy trips often take different phases. Like. 3 segments. After 12 hours tripping there’s a middle section where fatigue, just getting my witts together takes over fo a while.
It takes some work but I usually turn it back around again and can access the best part of the trip, like a second wave, the other side of the mid-abyss.
it took a hot shower Sunday afternoon after a friend visited (don’t tell Boris Johnson though, shit’s illegal lol) and I orally reposed the final 200 ug before my shower.
I came up very much on that. It kept me right up in the stratosphere all day and night. Thought loops, everything, but was in a pretty good mood.
Lots of cannabis vaporised and 2 big edible doses, usual kava, successfully ate a proper meal finally.
It is when I first awake after an initial deep post trip sleep, from 3 am to 11 am today, that I really struggle with lately.
I woke this morning feeling well and truly, utterly crazy. Head spinning with thoughts still scarily buzzing on acid, no way to just calm and quieten my mind, no mind over matter option available. Just time to pass, patience and feeble self assurance.
I’ve been there so many times recently. 103 tabs in about 30 days.
They- the 60’s hippies, used to say “acid burns”.
Because it really is playing with fire in a sense. I have gotten a little burnt but am hopeful time will continue to be the great healer it is. I can’t handle that crazy feeling in my head in the immediate waking aftermath anymore.
I think of Syd Barrett and it scares me. Nowhere to turn, nobody to bail me out or lend assurance. Just having to take the hit.
This is where the benzos come in. My trips are as intense and deep as ever, the benzos are not noticeably nullifying anything, just enabling me to not go mental and get calm back. LSD overuse and benzo addiction actually go hand in hand IMO. It becomes a necessary evil.
The initial intense craziness did ease off, I slept until 3 pm but feared getting up to face reality, physical conditions and pain when so nuts still, and the post LSD fatigue has always been a killer for me even in my fit and prime youth, more than any other drug even insane MDMA overuse.
So....on with the show now I guess. I’m going to give myself 7 days now, trusting this time next week I can feel together again.
I felt equally scrambled numerous times last 30 days after silly high doses trips, and I did get it pretty much all back together again.
Hppd has not been troubling me. Sure I’m still tripping now, as I should expect, and if I vaporize or eat weed today I will be uncomfortably sky high again. But that will settle off too over coming days.
What stays with me is my mind frame, consciousness and hyper awareness of everything going on around me.