Hey welcome. I’m really interested in LSD too. I’m curious about how you go dosing weekly. What kind of dose do you take and do you notice any tolerance effects taking it that frequently. Do you take any neuroplastic meds for depression as as well? Sorry to hit you with a barrage of questions straight of the bat. There is a strong psychedelic community here, you’ll finds lots of people to discuss LSD and other substances with.
I usually take a tab or two (depends if wanna really trip or just dose) and there's definitely a tolerance not just physical but mental. I've had t breaks of over a month and in the past sometimes longer, and when I trip again I get really high on acid but its never really the same kind of off the rails mind fuck it used to be.
I get new ideas of course but I've learned to be fairly open with my self so there usually isn't to much I don't expect. That is to say a big part of my personal philosophy is that 'belief' in anything is illogical, so instead I structure my foundation for reality on what I call reasonable assumptions (ie, logical ideas based on what I think I "know") and the only one of those reasonable assumptions Id consider really intrinsic is that I'm seeing part of what's real (I mean I could be locked in a mental asylum getting my nuts zapped by a car battery and completely hallucinating everything, but aside from fictitious circumstance its not really worthwhile to consider) I think this has helped me offset the certainty and fear factor that can come when something seems really meaningful in the moment (on acid or sober) because with the fear of not knowing also comes the hope that I'm probably wrong.
Its strange really cause you still get those paranoid thoughts trains sometimes but on an abstract level. For example I was in the city with some friends on a couple of tabs and tripping rather hard from an influx of weed, and I had a pain in my toe. I knew at some point id likely just stubbed it (I was wearing sandals) but in the past Id had anxieties tied to toe pain so I thought to my self "well this is probably gonna be a thing" and sure enough I went to the worst possible conclusion that it could be a blood clot and got the abstract *I'm gonna die* type of anxiety, at the same time I knew that I predicted this and logically that it was an unlikely scenario and that if I did die at least it was a fun night on a high note so no reason to ruin it so I directed conversation towards the architecture of the city and drove focus away from it. The whole night I still had that pain in my toe and the feeling of imminent death, but it was simply an abstract feeling that I noted tended to dwindle when I wasn't focused on it, in a way its thrilling and I've come to appreciate those kind of experiences in their own light, though they've happened less frequently over time.
I can also say if I get a weaker tab from the batch and I take it without weed I wont always have a full trip in the traditional sense, and kind of unfortunately even when I do I don't get anywhere near as many visuals as I used to. My highest dose Ive ever taken was somewhere between 700-900mcs as well as taking quite a few dabs a long the way, and while it was incredibly intense, with closed eye visual and thoughts so abstract they couldn't be translated to English (only other trip comparable was my first time ever when Id only had weed a few times and nothing else and I dropped 2 tabs) I still cant really say I ran into anything unexpected that I didn't expect.
Recently I've been scaling back to every week and a half sometimes 2 weeks, partially for tolerance but also just because I feel as if Ive needed it less as time goes on. As for other meds I don't take any specifically for depression though I have tried more traditional methods they weren't really my bag, but I do take Adderall daily for ADHD (and lots of caffeine) and it definitely helps with motivation at least in the short term. I actually have a document I started back in march where I write down anytime I take any drug with the dosage, just incase I get around to writing up a case study someday. Its also notable that on many trips I take it with my Adderall (not every week but probably about half) and I've found this to be a beautiful combination, with all the creative benefits and LSD trip can bring but with the ability to easily pick and choose which thoughts to focus on and an amazing in tuneness with my subconscious that feels like true self control.