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Tried LSD for the first time surprised I didn't like it. Why?

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slowintrepid

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So I tried LSD for the first time last night and while some parts were quite cool overall I feel the negatives I experienced were frustrating and make me question wether I'd like to try it again. I didn't have a bad trip at all, I mainly just felt that my ability to speak was greatly impaired which really frustrated me throughout the night. To clarify:

I am a 25 year old male who weighs about 225 lbs. I took two drops of liquid. I went to a crazy outdoor rave, the party was amazing as it was in the woods with great music, all my friends and a crazy bonfire/drum circle ect ect. I figured it would be the perfect place to try it.

The effects took around 45-60 mins to kick in and I felt the effects for a little over 12 hours, I did feel slight nausea at a few points. The first part of the trip was pretty fun, nice visuals music sounded great. I also had this strange urge to take my clothes off (which I did not do) but I did take my shoes off and dance around, is this normal to experience this? lol

Anyways the part that I didn't like and found REALLY frustrating; was that my ability to speak coherently was dramatically impaired. I would say that about 30% of the things coming out of my mouth were complete non-sense, and not in the "existential/trippy" sense more so just not being able to explain things and largely being unable to carry a conversation with the people I conversed with. I found this EXTREMELY frustrating as I am a very social person and there were many people who I hadnt seen in a while and wanted to talk to them but was simply unable to. I often felt that I was "being weird" even though everyone else was high on something as well (mostly X I think) I know for a fact that my weirdness/babbling wasn't just in my head as I had one of two friends make comments about it nicely.

I have been using X for about 7-8 years now, I've done Ketamine a bunch of times, I've tried Mushrooms once although a low dose and tried 2C-I a few months back,so I'm not totally totally new to psychedelics, one thing I also noted is that the trip felt VERY similar to what I remember my 2C-I trip was like, is this normal?

Anyways I was very excited to try LSD but was just disappointed that it wasn't as amazing an experience as I had hoped. Anyone care to input on my experience, did I do something wrong? Was 2 drops too high of a dose for the first time?
 
I find LSD is not a hugely social drug. The LSD trip is something best done in small groups, or if you are brave, alone. Once you're used to the particular brand of mindfuckery that acid brings with it, it becomes easier to keep a conversation; you essentially have to re-learn the art of holding a train of thought. It comes with experience.

There's a reason it has a reputation for being the Mac Daddy of psychedelics.
 
Sounds completely normal that you couldnt speak properly. I usually get this on 2 or more hits(over 200 ugs all up)

At high doses like yours, I find LSD hardly social at all. Mushrooms are better for this.
 
slowintrepid said:
Interesting, so 2 drops would be considered a high dose? Should I take 1 next time?
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yes, or .75 drop if you can, haha. then work your way up from that. me, i find a low (near 50 µg) dose of lsd just awesome for social events, partying, drinking etc. you are lucid and everything has this.. sparkle to it. high doses need, as people are saying, some getting to know the material.

also i suspect that the LSD experience is rather removed from your normal experience of drugtaking. MDMA in a social/rave setting is a whole different thing than a good tripping on the aciiiiids! your set and setting (a lot of people, all on different drugs) may not have been conductive to what you were looking for.

keep trying, LSD is awesome ;)
 
I think tripping around other people is something you have to get used to, also I can't speak for LSD since I haven't tried it, but some psys just don't work well when you're around others. For example, on 4-AcO-DMT (Psilacetin) I am always worried about encountering someone who might realise I'm tripping, so I try and avoid people altogether - I also don't think I'd like to trip with friends on it. 2C-E on the other hand I found much more social, I enjoyed it on my own but at some points in my trips I get a desire to talk to people, even if it's just over MSN. I don't find it hard to cover up the fact that I'm tripping, and I very much enjoyed tripping with a friend of mine.

As for the dose, it depends a lot on what you're looking for in the experience. A lot of people find 1 drop/1 tab or less to be very underwhelming and quite lacking - while others prefer lower doses for the fact that it is easier to communicate.

Did you feel like due to the inability to communicate you'd rather be alone? I got that with 4-AcO-DMT so maybe for you LSD is less of a social drug, maybe candy-flipping (MDMA + LSD combo) would help? I can't say since I haven't done either, but I imagine an entactogen should help.
 
The fact that you said it last 12 hours, and that it reminded you so much of a 2c-I trip makes me wonder if perhaps you weren't given DOI, which has been passed off recently as LSD. We really wouldn't be able to tell either way, but just as food for thought, and to give you something to look up on your own, perhaps you weren't really given LSD?

The inability to speak coherently is common to many psychedelics though. You might experience it one time on LSD and not the next. It is somehwat dependent upon the set and setting as we all know. It helps if other people are in the same boat as yourself, taking the same substance and all. I have had trouble mixing in crowds before where most everyone was on mdma and I was on some psychedelic. It's not that abnormal of an effect.
 
Raw Evil said:
Once you're used to the particular brand of mindfuckery that acid brings with it, it becomes easier to keep a conversation; you essentially have to re-learn the art of holding a train of thought. It comes with experience.
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Yeah this is pretty much it.

I was also introduced to LSD in a similar environment as the OP, out in the woods at a party with alot of psytrance been played.. it took me the better part of 6months of tripping in this environment before i was able to look past the visuals and confusion and focus on what i wished to say to people.

At first, it's very easy to be taken in by astonishment of whats happening around and within you, thus making it very difficult to do something simple such as talking to someone.
 
i dont find tripping to be very social in general.
Psychedelic are a very personal experience.

I do enjoy taking LSD at concerts and raves and such but its not for the social aspect of it. I love the enhancement of music and all my other senses, the stimulation (both mental an physical), and ofcourse the pretty visuals.
Alcohol is a far better social enhancer than psychedelics.
 
CatfishRivers said:
The fact that you said it last 12 hours, and that it reminded you so much of a 2c-I trip makes me wonder if perhaps you weren't given DOI, which has been passed off recently as LSD. We really wouldn't be able to tell either way, but just as food for thought, and to give you something to look up on your own, perhaps you weren't really given LSD?

The inability to speak coherently is common to many psychedelics though. You might experience it one time on LSD and not the next. It is somehwat dependent upon the set and setting as we all know. It helps if other people are in the same boat as yourself, taking the same substance and all. I have had trouble mixing in crowds before where most everyone was on mdma and I was on some psychedelic. It's not that abnormal of an effect.
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nah lsd does last 12 hours and the visuals are pretty neon like 2ci
 
LSD at <100 mics is actually the most social psychedelic I've ever done. The most consistent trademark of the trip for me is the urge to go "wander around and meet weird people."

Higher doses (2 hits of good liquid certainly qualifies) can turn you into a geeked out nutter. This can be really fun, but if you're wanting to be a regular human being, forget about it.
 
Yeah yer right, the stimulation does last a lot longer. The actual trip for me on DOI is about 12 hours, but the remaining sense of stimulation did last longer (just reread my notes). That probably rules that out.
 
I was very lucky. Was 16, thirty yrs ago ffs... me & a couple of mates, just the right type of mates, had just got into hash & floyd & Zep & all that. I was fascinated with the whole hippie thing. And one warm saturday evening in may when spring hits even a grotty city like Manchester with its fresh green magic, our 'dealer' lol turned up with these blotters. I'd heard of acid of course, but nothing could have prepared me/us for this. It changed my life, no exaggeration. More than losing my virginity.

It changed me in a positive way because when you're 16 your mind is still flexible, open. I doubt my parents/teachers would have called it positive, but it was.Because It was the right time/place/people, and it sorted my head out. I realised probably the most important lesson (lol) of my life at that time.

I realised that it didn't really matter what *most* people thought of/about me. but what I thought of me. And three 16yr olds with no friction between us...and loads of other shit lol.

I sometimes wonder what I'd be like if that hadn't happened. I wouldn't take it now, but I'd never undo that experience, its part of me. So lucky....
 
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