Hm to be honest, LSD does feel different, and tends to have a 'metallic' taste to it if that makes sense? But you're right, that might just be imagination and whether I could actually (as in, correctly tell whether something is one or the other) tell the difference I couldn't say.
Honestly! My experience would make me agree with you in an instant. But
I also believe this is a suggestive illusion that can be bafflingly strong.
Psychological research has shown more than once that difference in expe-
rience and evaluation is based quite strongly on preconceived ideation,
for instance most people have a convincing preference for either Pepsi or
Coca Cola, as do I. But research has shown that when people don't know
which is which and they are tricked in certain ways invoking a placebo-like
mentality thing get very confused for the guinneapigs! Even when I read
about a well set-up research like that I can't deeply convince myself of this
truth, and my senses recoil from the idea that I could ever accept Pepsi!!!!!!
People mislead themselves daily and there can hardly be any exceptions.
Anyone reading this, feel free to reject what I am suggesting to you but
you are probably misleading yourself once again.
We are quite the arrogant animals and there seems to be little hope for
escape.
I haven't had any quality lsd in over 10years and the most I have sampled was around 1200ug and I pasted out after 30min. I had some excellent dreams but a very large dose is too much for the brain to take. The same thing happened to an California cop that took a medicine bottle off a Deadhead's neck and tasted a fingertip of it. This had to be close to .05 grams. It put him in a coma for several weeks. You can google this for the full story as it aired on 48hours in 91 or 92. Believe me I took lsd since the 80's and we had tons of it. My longest on lsd was 6-7hrs to peak and down at 11-12 unless I did a booster of at least 400ug but the visuals diminished rapidly after peak.
There are more than one story about people connected to the Brotherhood of
Eternal Love that are high up the acid chain, apparently thumbprinting is a way of
initiation and I don't think going into an unconscious state is a standard reaction
although I'm sure it is a relatively big possibility. I read about this from people with
firsthand experience, there is some info on Shroomery for instance if you are inte-
rested. The highest I ever went was 850 and I felt nowhere near passing out. In
fact it felt relatively manageable because it was so strongly centered. Total chaos
or passing out is really not a neccessary reaction if you should think that, there are
other factors to take into account. I have also done 600 micrograms once but with
a little alprazolam in the beginning. Alprazolam can give you retrograde amnesia
as can (almost) all benzodiazepines and I think this was a big contribution to the
fact that I had a temporary acid-induced psychosis. I don't remember anything but
I acted like the biggest crazyperson I could think of (is what I heard after the fact).
Many things can happen, this has become apparent to me.
I think there's supposed to be something like receptor saturation at some point around 1000-1500 micrograms from when on higher doses don't result in more desirable effects - does anyone have more info on that?
Well, when I took that 850 micrograms I was under this point you are mentioning
(I have heard often before of a saturation point). Personally I guess that there is
a truth to it but at the same time it is not the total end-station. There is a type of
liberation that seems to happen relative to dose up to a certain point, beyond that
point it doesn't seem to matter and at 850 I already felt that this point was reached,
it was like automatic supermeditation. But while this may be the case, I'm sure what
I read from Brotherhood-people is true, which is that a massive dose of like 10000
micrograms still brings you many times closer to a molten mind than 1000 micrograms,
even though you are still just as much in that mode of supermeditation. Apparently
it is just not that simple that an experience is strong or not strong, multiple processes
are sliding on a scale which is why my interpretation/explation right now is so equivocal.
Finally I have to mention that tolerance was a little bit of a factor when I took that 850
but not that 600 which disqualifies me from speaking out of uncomplicated firsthand
experience, plus I don't mean to brag here. Still, from the many scraps I have read
about high-dose experience this is what I distill and it's somewhat more than just
guessing about what I don't actually know myself. Take it for what you like.
