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Psychedelic Hangover versus Psychedelic Afterglow

PhyllipThylamine

PhyllipThylamine

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I've noticed something interesting in recent years.

For about 4 years I've been looking at the new RC Psychedelic compounds such as the 2 series, DOC & the 4 Substituted Tryptamines. Prior to this I have spent many years recreationally using mushrooms or LSD.

LSD seems to produce the worst hangovers! I always feel really washed out, irritable & exhausted after taking acid. Whether or not I have enjoyed the trip I always feel well rough the next day, even after a good, non-medicated sleep. Is this perhaps an indication that I haven't ever gotten good acid or is this typical of LSD?

The 2c series are next up! They also produce a hangover but it's immediate, it doesnt seem to linger after I've had sleep. But in the hours after coming down I get a headache & feel a bit nauseas. Judging by the experiences I've read here & on Erowid, this sounds pretty common.

Doc doesn't seemt to produce much hangover OR any afterglow. Quite surprising but for me, even after a long DOC trip I am able to return to bassline & even after an inadequate sleep I feel fine. As my DOC trips & Acid trips last a similar length of time, the hangover/afterglow is clearly not associated with duration of effects. This is not to suggest that DOC & Acid are the same, the trips are clearly different. I often think of DOC as one fucking long shroom trip!

The Substitued Tryptamines & mushrooms have a very different after-effect. These Psilocin-like compounds give me a wonderfully pleasant afterglow that appears the next morning. I'm not giggly, stupidly happy, it's more of a serenity, a comfortable, stressless positivity. Last time I had 4-ho-met I felt great for about a week! Odd that the shortest acting compound should produce such long-lasting, positive mood changes.

So, anyone clever enough to know what this is about, how is it that some Psychedelics produce a quite uncomfortable comedown/hangover & some produce no hangover & some produce a lovely, long afterglow? How about anyone with the exact opposite experience, for instance nasty hangovers off shrooms & lovely afterglows on acid?

<3 Blessings to all <3
 
Varies from person to person, I recall people who had acid and had lasting stimulation/couldn't sleep, myself I have great afterglow from 4-ho-met, happy and uplift, no problems with sleeping, but eg. jesusgreen couldn't sleep for hours after 4-ho-met.
 
2002Tii said:
It's either acid or it isn't, really no such thing as "good" acid or "bad" acid.
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Oh I disagree! I understand that LSD can be synthed in various ways & to greater or lesser purity, hence Needlepoint etc etc Can not these varying synthesis result in LSD of varying quality?

By the way, all my LSD was ingested long before NBOMe's appeared & at a time when, in the UK, DOx compounds were unheard of. So when I describe an LSD trip I most definitely had LSD!
 
I get baaad LSD hangovers. I think because i usually take too many blotters at once, i dunno.

Shrooms make me feel pretty dirty after as well. I remember walking around in peak hour shrooming and feeling sick so promptly walking to the public bathrooms and using some hammer. That fixed it and generally fixed any nausea from psychedelics.

But the two main DMT analogues give me amazing afterglow, i feel like I have just been on the most awesome holiday every time...
 
im with The Captain, i love the LSD afterglow. one of my favorite psychedelic headspaces is the way i feel after taking a few bumps of K on the tail end of an acid trip. in lieu of sleep, my mind simply goes blank while im still conscious, and it feels so serene. worst hangover, MDMA. i just feel retarded and irritable. the end of a mushroom trip leaves me feeling a little skittish and nauseas, but other than that i rather enjoy the psychedelic afterglow, especially with someone to cuddle up next too without the expectations of sex.
 
The afterglow me and a friend both experienced with LSD was simply amazing. We both split one very strong tab and took it at 10pm on July 4th, the trip lasted until 7am, and the afterglow lasted us about 2 days. Everything we did the next day wasjust amazing from fishing in the river we were at, swimming, or just sitting down talking to our friends enjoying some Coronas. Everything we did from the morning of July 5th - July 7th just felt so new and refreshing. We both had such a content feeling with how life was and experienced no negative hangover. Then again, I have also never experienced any of the "side effects" or "hangover" effects that most people on here report with 2C-I or 2C-E either.
 
LSD makes me feel fried the next day. 2Cs don't give me any afterglow or hangover. Most Tryptamines give me some sort of afterglow with DMT being the best. MDXXs make me feel horrible for days usually.
 
Mushrooms I honestly just feel pretty blank the next day. Not bad, but very blank and melancholy.

LSD though, the next day is like being reborn. I've never woken up feeling so good in my entire life, went to the fair with a girl I had really liked for a long time first thing that afternoon, and seeing so many people together with so much joy, I hardly knew what to do with myself I was so happy just to be alive, and I couldn't stop thinking "this is crazy, i'm never going to be the same, this is crazy". And to this day, I still feel like something within me was created. It was this feeling of complete peace, that any obstacle or issue in my life I could handle maturely and easily, just like everything is going to be alright no matter what happens I will always have good friends and family there for me.
 
A hangover isn't a sign of fake or 'bad' acid. I get them every time, exactly like you describe. Acid also makes it impossible for me to sleep.

Mushrooms on the other hand tend to have a GREAT afterglow, sometimes lasting up to two weeks. Acid also has an afterglow for me after the hangover wears off lasting up to a week. Though both of those could just be psychological reactions to having such a good and/or cathartic trip.
 
I think it totally depends on the person. I have had LSD or mushrooms or other psychedelics where I couldn't sleep and felt like crap the entire next day and a friend who took the same stuff slept fine and felt great the next day. And, less commonly, vice versa.
 
A serious case of YMMV. Very dependent on the individual as well as a variety of other factors (I.e. diet, hydration, nutrition, sleep deprivation, etc.)

Sometimes I get hangovers, sometimes afterglow, regardless of what drug I've taken. Fortunately for me it's usually afterglow :D

I will say that with 4-sub tryptamines hangovers seem to be more rare, & with 2c-x or LSD it can go either way. Mescaline analogs always give me hangovers though... weird
Usually my psychedelic hangovers justcnsist of what I call "mush brain" & sometimes mild headache that's easilyterminated with an OTC NSAID
 
Yeah, I'm beginning to see that this is truly a horses for courses thing, huh?

I remember one time I did some shrooms with a mate who didn't take psyches very often. I errrrrmmm I accidentally freaked the fucking shit outta him (I shan't go into detail) & he attempted the leave my flat & ride his bicycle home! He was seriously in a panic, entirely my fault. But I couldn't let him leave, if something happened to him out in the street, it would've been MY fault. So I had to physically restrain him from leaving & then took about half an hour to talk him down. Although we both enjoyed the rest of the trip, & we were both laughing hard about his freaker an hour later, I felt well bad about what had happened & far from an after-glow, I spent about a week feeling quite fed up about freaking him out.

That's the one occassion I can remember NOT having an after-glow from mushrooms!
 
Allylescaline comedowns are really hard for me. No sleep for 24h.

For MDMA, after a long party, some ket will help me get some sleep, and after I'm top shape for a week.
 
I would describe the day after acid as a hangover not a glow. Very typical of LSD and in it has nothing to do with quality. Mushrooms i cant even really tell the day after. Everyone is different though. When i was 16 i could not sleep on acid at all and the sleep i did get was not satisfying. At 39 i am sleeping at the end and sleeping well.
 
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