I have read thru this whole thread and I found it quite incredible. I never considered doing high doses of LSD, and for a long time only stuck to the 100-150 mics range. Recently, I got a 200 mics blot from the deep rabbit hole market, and the source is reliable. I did it with a friend who had also only stuck to that range. Both of us have tripped on LSD many times, probably 15+, but never higher than 150. I didnt think people were taking such high doses as 500 mics and above.
Anyway, I want the opinions of all those of you who have gone beyond 200 mics. On 200 mics, my first time doing that dose ever, going into the peak of it, I was feeling this strong sensation of forgetting who i was, and I even asked my friend 'is this ego death?', because I had never before quite fully experienced ego death in any of my trips before. Very close once or twice, where i forgot who i was or where i was or what was going on, and not being able to make sense of all the movement that was happening on this random piece of land before me (it was a rave and people were dancing :-/) but i was calm through out, and if i tried really hard, i could remember who i was or where i was, then it faded again. I was just sitting there puzzled the whole night.
So back to the trip, soon after i articulated this question, i entered the peak and this experience was very unsettling and extremely intense for me. I felt my sense of self, reality, sense of meaning in the world all slipping away, and i resisted and held onto it, believing that if i let my mind completely forget who i was and all my 27 years of existence, that i could never go back to my normal life ever again. It was confusing, scary, panic inducing, and the world looked absolutely absurd. I was hallucinating like crazy but could barely pay attention to the visuals because I was totally lost in my head, and at some points truly believed that i had gone insane, never to come back to sanity again. There were few other moments that was so ineffable and so surreal (what the actual experience was or felt like, i cant recall anymore, but just my thoughts and reactions to it) that i felt like even if i got back to normal, i could never unsee what i had seen or unexperience what i had experienced, and therefore could never function in my ordinary sober daily life again. There were a few moments where I experienced eternity, but an eternity of absurdity, of me believing my whole life had been a figment of my imagination, that my family, friends, girlfriend, everything was made up, and that i had been standing there in the middle of the forest in a clearing (where we had chose to trip) since the beginning of time and will be standing right there forever, imagining up stories of a life that was not real. I was desperately trying to prove the objective reality of the world around me in my head, making to myself logical arguments that proved the existence of an objective reality outside of me. Like, that fact that i was wearing clothes, must mean there is an objective life outside of my head where clothes mean something and serve a purpose and are necessary, and my life had therefore not been imaginary but real etc. During the peak of my trip, it did not help me at all to think that I was just experiencing 200 mics of acid. Everytime I told myself that, I thought 'no way this is 200 mics. this intensity is at least like 800 mics or maybe even a 1000 mics, and i didnt do that much. Now i've done it. This is why people say dont do drugs. I pushed it too far. Now i flipped a switch and i've lost my sanity. Nothing will ever make sense to me anymore.'
It was a harrowing experience to say the least. Coming down from the peak later, I had tears of gratitude that i had, in fact, not gone crazy and was, in fact, coming back down to my ordinary reality again. At the time, I told myself out loud that i would never ever do LSD ever again, that someone had to be insane to pay money to go thru that horrifying experience. Of course after completely coming down i marveled at the experience and knew i wouldn't stop doing LSD lol. But this has put a little fear into me now, and I am reluctant to take anything more than 150 mics. I realize I was at the door of ego death and resisted, and that's probably what turned my trip bad.
But I want to know from all you experienced trippers if my trip sounds familiar to you. Is this how intense 200 mics usually is? Did i just maybe freak out because it was my first time doing a high does like that? Will the next time be easier or better? Or will it be as intense and I just have to figure out a way to let go and stay calm to enjoy the experience? What is 300 or 400 mics compared to this? Is it true that doing doses even higher than 250 mics will push me completely past the paranoia and fear and all the resisting ego death phase and just take me to another place? Should I start slow and build up to 200 mics next time, or will I be able to handle it better if i jump into 200 mics again, now that I know what it feels like? Oh god, so many questions. And so strange, reading about all the people talking about the most amazing trips on 500+ mics, something i cant even fathom right now. Can i get any tips for next time? I hope someone here can relate to what i said and understand me. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions.