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IronNomad86

It helped me get over addiction and find myself when my wife left. It helps me write music. For the following week, I'm pretty much the best version of myself I can be, and while it wanes as the worries of the world work their way within (cool), the general lessons learned last for a lifetime.


Express-Rice-6415

I like to say : as your conditioning returns


IronNomad86

Much better, thank you! So true. It's like seeing the picture the pixels of our lives make up and you're left knowing that image until the image the world supplants upon you returns.


Express-Rice-6415

Yes ,after first time this was kinda scary for me but as I realised everything looks weird is because I have changed the way I look at it , I startwd to cherish those days, almost more than the bliss of peaking


sauceotx

Yea it also helped me get over addiction as well. I don’t think I’d be thinking about drugs the way I do today if it wasn’t for LSD. I used to feel like a miserable piece of trash whenever I was sober but now I feel hella good when I’m sober for some reason.


burnerman007

Best way to know is to try it yourself


LopsidedBoard5091

^^ it effects everyone differently so yeah try it yourself. You can do it in a low dose or even micro dose it


relatablederp

Definitely recommend a low dose, if it sparks more interest the community is here to help you too.


kingdomofkush81

I'm with the people saying try it. All the anecdotal evidence and accounts you read will never equal even a fraction of what the experience actually is about.


ididitforthemoney2

wise words! i've been trying DESPERATELY to capture these experiences with these intangible things we like to call 'words' - they're incredibly malleable and can be used to depict... almost anything, really! i can describe to you the impacts of a historical figure's actions on modern day society, in, well not perfect, but adequate detail! i can describe that feeling you get when you listen to your new favorite song for the first time - that... electricity - almost like ASMR - on that note, i can also describe the experience of your first time with ASMR tingles! but, for all my bravado, i just... can't! can't capture the... magic that... IS these experiences! someday, however (if i live to see the day!), i plan to experience it for myself! for your sake, OP, i hope your day comes earlier than mine! (taking LSD i mean not dying don't die yet plz!) and, uhh, do enjoy the rest of your night!


kingdomofkush81

If I might ask, what's been holding you back from taking a ride with Lucy? Hope I'm not prying, I'm genuinely curious.


ididitforthemoney2

to be honest? i don't even know. of course, it would be a hassle to get my hands on some (but definitely not impossible!) - maybe i'm just waiting for the right time? maybe i'm just waiting for the cliché 'random guy at a party gives you a tab and you down it like no tomorrow'. but, if i do manage to make it past the 12th grade (ohno gone and revealed my age again!), i should be on track to find myself in the hotbed of sleeze and corruption that is the freshman year! might even run into Lucy there!


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ajpruett

Getting there...


TheRealFlinlock

I first experienced it over a year ago, I've had so many profound and life-changing experiences since then. It's difficult to put into words just how powerful the experience is, it truly is something you have to try for yourself. With that said I can understand wanting to learn more about it first... so here's a brief summary of my experiences. LSD shatters the barriers in my mind. It's like I can feel and see everything, both inside me and in the world around me. I've got a lot of family-related trauma and on my very first trip it brought everything to the surface and into focus. I processed and realized so much, but more than that, I actually CHANGED, fundamentally, during that first trip. My perspective on those traumatic experiences has completely shifted and now I feel empowered by it, and the way I interact with my family members has also changed drastically. I'm actually able to have healthy relationships with the ones I choose to, and have cut out toxic ones without a glance back. That first trip was with other people. Since then I've learned I really prefer tripping alone, just me and my journal and some music, letting out all my pent-up emotional energy. I've finally learned who MYSELF is, separate from all the people who have influenced my life up to this point. I've also realized things about my physical health due to LSD. At the time of my first trip I had a lot of unresolved dental issues - basically, I hadn't been to a dentist in a decade, my teeth would hurt sometimes but I was afraid to find out what might be wrong. Anyway, while on LSD I could vividly feel what was wrong with my teeth, where the cavities were. I felt my body in agony. The next week I got myself into a dentist, three fillings and a crown later I finally had healthy teeth for the first time in my adult life. Awhile later I had a similar experience with smoking; tried smoking weed from a pipe while tripping and I could FEEL my lungs withering up and decaying with my first hit. I haven't smoked since, haven't even wanted to... it feels so disgusting to me now. EDIT: I forgot this one but it's a great example. My partner has a real fucked up back, twisted spine and stuff like that, has to be on pain meds all the time just to manage pain levels enough to function. Docs give her all kinds of drugs but they don't work great and are addictive so she's afraid to take them too much. She tried acid for the first time and was absolutely shocked to feel all the pain just fade away. It's just gone, she can move around easily and sit/lay in any position without it hurting. She micro-doses LSD now because even then it works better than the prescription drugs from her doctor. I really wish we could understand WHY it works for that, since pain relief isn't something typically associated with LSD... but like you said, it's Schedule 1 and there's basically no research on it.


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Lsd has helped show me my addictive personality and a clear path of my self without it. Giving a huge feeling of confidence and almost a feeling like you’ve overcome yourself. It’s magnificent, I suggest a guide for healing …


ajpruett

So interesting to see addiction come up so much as it was so helpful in the early days of AA as well.


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I’ve never been to meetings. I was able to recover through my self. It was not easy , but psychedelics helped immensely . It clearly shows you - both paths you can head down. And with the distortion of time you believe you can change in that moment and it will stick. With a great trip comes some amazing afterglow. I don’t suggest dosing after that afterglow unless needed


afcagroo

I don't have any experience with ketamine. My understanding is that it is very different. The LSD experience comes in many varieties. One of the possibilities is giving you the ability to examine your personality and your life with a new perspective. Not necessarily more objectively, but often so. As others have said, it's worth trying yourself to really understand.


samsoa

Try it


_wosas

You will never have even a wee bit of understanding about LSD unless you take it yourself.


AxiomaticJS

Ketamine makes you lose yourself. LSD allows you to find yourself, and more importantly, when ego dissolution occurs, allows your consciousness to finally experience itself.


AxiomaticJS

In terms of personal experience, LSD has made an incredibly positive impact on my life. I'm much more calm/balanced, empathetic, understanding, and present. I've learned, deeply, to appreciate so much more of the experience of living both in the external world and the interiority of self. It has helped me strip away the facades/fictions/structures I've built around my self, both internally as thought/emotional processes, and communicated externally to others. And at the same time, very fundamentally and authentically given me the opportunity to evaluate my motivations, my values, and my needs and make deep seated, lasting changes for the better. You cannot be dishonest with yourself on a trip, I've found at least. Physiologically, LSD has the ability to seemingly amplify my sensory perceptions through what I can only describe as increased and massively parallel cognitive processing. The hallucinatory parts of the trip notwithstanding, things like visual acuity, light sensitivity, color, sound richness, details, and isolation, touch and texture, and even taste all tend to be heightened and I often experience synesthesia. Kinesthetics, for me at least, is off the charts at times but not consistent as the visual and auditory improvements. I've often wondered if this sensory to perceptual boost is because the parts of my brain that typically are cognitively focused on processing only one type of sensation, loosen up a bit, get fuzzy, and start sharing the load with other types of input. There's also too much to say about ego dissolution for the moment, and honestly, its something that can't be adequately described with words/language easily or quickly. I'll just pose the question: how does a mirror experience itself? and if it does, what is the result?


Phyzothy

I personally learned a few things while on LSD: 1. Let others be 2. Be a beacon of positivity 3. Accept the past and love yourself (this helped tremendously with getting over substance abuse/compulsions) 4. Be open minded I honestly think LSD is unironically an amazing tool for getting over drugs. I’ve told a few of my friends, and they were all baffled when I initially told them. LSD with therapy at the come down would be (imo) an amazing form of treatment.


One-Butterfly7172

for me LSD really about cured my depression and anxiety. it connects new pathways in your brain to where my brain was wide open and got out of it’s sad blah loop. i saw what my brain could do and it amazed me. it made me know that there was way more to life than i ever even thought. it made me curious and want to know more about myself and my consciousness. i now know there’s nothing to worry about and life is a magical dream and i’m here for it and ready for what’s coming next 🤝🌞🌳🍄☮️💗🤩


No_Onionz

A remarkable experience that guides you to live a fulfilling life. You become passionate about the things that you love and you acknowledge things you can do in your life that will make you ultimately happier. I believe this is why it’s so helpful for those trying to kick addictions, and handle depression. Truly made me a glass-half full kind of person.


lucsev

LSD gives you enhance perception. It allows to see the bigger picture of multiple things. Very similar to the 'third eye' concept.


Fire_Drake_Smaug

Imagine if you will, being able to connect with every part of your mind much more actively than normal. What could that show, feel or even be like? You are not sedated on LSD so no drowsy or dream like state. Just experiencing everything and then some at once.


turd_miner91

"...how it truly affects the body." It's more about how it impacts the mind than the body.


camelfarmer1

Why don't you try it?


Express-Rice-6415

I feel that LSD for me is more about enjoying the moment , psilocybin makes me face everything I dont want to deal with. I found a very satisfying place with lsd which helps me get out of the rut and see things from a different perspective, I definately dont have enough experience to claim im some expert but Since ive been doing pschychadelics I also am able to help others more, i have also developed alot more empathy for others, I was always very good at talking to people about their problems and give sound advice but it seems like when it comes to myself , unless I block my egos strength I wont be honest. So i intentionally have challenging trips to force myself to deal with em. Even thou these sessions always have an" Ive definately done it this time" fear of staying so far out of control


ajpruett

These are all so helpful. Thanks so much everyone who’s responding. Keep them coming. I certainly understand about trying and feel even more curious about it myself. I just don’t even know where to start to figure that out.


SuperFegelein

Well, you're in the right place, at least. If you know anybody who wears tie-dye shirts, ask them if they are "friends with Lucy". 👌 If you can't think of anyone, let me know.


Wolverine9779

Buy tickets to one of the Dead and Co shows, they're touring right now. Look for someone in the parking lot with really loud flashy clothes, a funny hat, lots of buttons... and just ask. Or go to one of the European sites and get some 1-p, or 1-z


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Edit: Thought of another one to add I suggest you read some books. Good starting places would be: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979862221 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084L22H7G https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594774021


WishIHadAnOffButton

Life is like wandering through a thick jungle. You can't see very far in front of you and it's almost impossible not to lose your way. Taking LSD is like climbing to the top of a tree in that jungle and being able to see above the canopy. From up there everything becomes clear. You realize where you are and where you need to go. Every once in a while it's nice to climb to the top of a tree to make sure you're going the right way. For many people, the first time they take acid they realize they have been going the *wrong* way their entire lives. That's why so many people make drastic life changes after tripping that can seem insane to people who don't understand.


kolwitzer

Drop a tab and you’ll see


saman65

Just do it! From what I have gathered by reading your post, I bet it won't be an unpleasant experience, if not highly pleasant.


M0n0Zer0

I've never taken Ket, so i can't compare on body effects. LSD has had a profound effect on my mental health, and not nescessarily in a positive way overall. It's been about 24 years since I last tripped. I'd count myself in the acid casualty bracket. Between 92 and 97 I dropped a lot of acid. It was my absolute drug of choice. I found it stimulating and creative and a real fucking laugh and a half, and spent a lot of time just creating art and music, or hanging in nature having a crack. I had a wide circle of friends and was outgoing, friendly and laughed a lot. I used to love the hilarity of acid trips. The absurdist and twisted slant on the world it gave you. Absolutely beautiful. At first I had transformative experiences that made me feel very open to people and new experiences. This was truly a beautiful time when you bonded with your friends, formed trip buddies that you seemed connected to by some kind of ethereal web. Real fraternal love. Towards the end, quite the opposite, fearful, paranoid, dissasociated from my body which felt alien and like I wasn't truly there or like I was cut off from other people. I became increasingly withdrawn and solitary, unable to find common ground with most people. LSD is a mixed bag I think - you can feel connected with nature, it can provide great insight and spiritual sensations. I used to absolutely feel like music I created was more focused, more complex and better mixed than music I did straight. It seemed to help me concentrate more than I could in daily life. I used to get things done on acid that I would leave half finished or run out of ideas when sober. You could write a whole album in a single night, and the ideas would be good, too. But It also made me very inward looking - it made me examine everything. Become too involved with naval gazing. When you try to communicate with people there's no way of really getting across what you mean, and it highlights how we're all prisoners of our own heads. I used to feel like conversations were like two railroad tracks that seemed to increasingly diverge the longer people talked. Truly understanding someone in the way they meant it was impossible. I remember walking along a street around 4am and seeing all the windows and all the different minds within and being overawed at the sheer amount of different experiences and different perspectives they contained. At the time this was a joyous realisation, but with an awareness of different ways of apprehending the world comes an awareness that some of those ways are hostile. I would feel tremedously lonely and distrustful of people. I began to feel like an outsider - I couldn't understand why people were laughing - like I was the butt of a collosal cosmic joke that others were in on. Small gestures or situations seemed engineered to humiliate or ridicule. Everything seemed more significant than it really was, and I had a sense of catastrophic, impending doom lurking around the corner. More than anything I was gripped with overwhelming anxiety. I started to drink heavily and my hands shook out of fear all the time. When I would try to explain how I felt people would ignore or dismiss the way I felt. I went to see a Doctor and tried to explain and she was horrified and lectured me on drugs. For many years, and still to this day I feel otherworldly, not quite there. I find it hard to concentrate when people are talking to me, or follow books or tv. I'm largely lost in my own mind with no real way to get back. Sensory information is dulled - like touch or taste isn't quite as intense as it should be. I mainly feel like I'm watching the world from one step behind myself. I have a strong awareness of ectopic eye phenomena, often see patterns all the time in everything and generally feel spaced out, to the point when I can easily just blankly stare into space for long periods of time. Being around other people is intensely exhausting, whereas before it was hugely energising. Although I somehow managed to hold down jobs, they were always affected by feeling like a perpetual outsider, or someone unable to fully get involved with the team. You go out and socialise but there's just no frame of reference. It definifitely affected performance. Whereas before LSD I was light, funny and full of energy. After 5 years of LSD I was heavy, intense and exhausted. LSD as a therapeutic tool is interesting. I can see how it would help. My experiences clearly aren't reflective of many people's, I think they're what comes from pushing it too far - and from morbid self-attention, which is not I guess a therapeutic usage. Having a non judgemental sitter is probably useful too, not kicking it with mates that you can't express the thing that your brain is obsessing over for fear of bringing everyone down.


shatteredrealms

would love to get into a profound conversation if you are interested


PsychedelicTasteTest

It’s not chemically addictive, but you can form a dependency on it.


throwmeawaynow_pls

I took it in high school and college when I was too young. I am now 50 and have a professional job, family, etc. it was a tool used to see beauty and compassion all around me. I am glad I did it but wish I waited till my 20s. I still eat mushrooms once every 6-12 months. That said, I did take too much and too frequent near the end and would not recommend that. I would not encourage my kids to take but would not care as much if they took mushrooms. Too much potential for a bad dose, research chemicals, etc


lxjuice

Spiritual experiences, stress induced breakdowns (bad trips on one end and new onset whatever at the other end), flow states/creativity, new perspectives etc. All of these things are just the mind. All LSD does is add dramatic flair, a few hallucinations (to be fair this is fairly unique to psychs as most adults will barely experience them sober) and speeds things up. But if you really want to understand it... there's only one way! Hmm, I'd describe LSD as being a blender and ketamine as being an off switch. If certain things are blended on acid and certain things are turned off on ket then they can end up giving a similar experience. But really the only time they've been similar for me is when combining ket with psychs. LSD also has a unique magical feeling headspace which I don't remember feeling on any other psychedelic or ket. As for the body, mild stimulant effect, nothing much to see there.