What changed when u first took acid?

i love acid. i just finished school last year and started goin to uni this year, i atteneded every lecture and tute, then i took acid for the first time about 2 months ago, and for some reason i just stopped goin to uni, i havent told my mum, and i just drive around with my friends all day pretending i go. i just decided to stop going, not really sure why, i just didnt want to do it. it was not what i wanted to do. but now im not sure how well of a decision that was, certainly is changing my life significantly. i only went to uni once after taking acid, but i remained in the car park, watchin the smoke from my ciggerte flow around my car.
but expecially cause now, i have no idea what i want to do. well not really. my mum thinks im dreamin when i say id like to be a farmer, cause i live in the city, but itd be nice, just out, growing vegetables, lots of scenery, nice and quiet..
bah, but certainly im sure acid has been the pivot of life changing decisions.
i feel if i tripped a few more times, i might find what job i should do.

What happend after your first trip? Any major life changing decisions? how did it turn out?

 

I can relate, and my advice is go. I know after your first trip you want to do nothing but trip and you may always think about it and may always think about what happened while you were tripping and may always imagine what would happen if you were tripping right now. But university, as redundant as it is - is important. Though, if after your trip you have decided that what you are doing is not what you want to do - and may have been forced upon you. By all means, change your course. But try not to throw in the towel for uni. You also gotta remember, as lame as it sounds, its just all a part of growing up and maturing - you start to understand things from different perspectives. Also, tread carefully when looking for answers on acid - you may find it only brings up more questions.

As for me, ye i did have quiet a few changes - more to do with my personality though, aspects i once thought were extremely vital and then found were just plain redundant. I found allot more peace within myself and it gave me allot to think about since i tripped. Its all in the comprehension maaannnnnn.

 

After taking LSD, I glanced up at the impending floating death machines in the sky advancing over the coast, and with machine gun in hand and God in mind, I charged at the confrontation of strangeness with full force and accpetance of my position in the revolution against the rising machine Jihad.

 

not a damd thing.

ok well my first hit was probable an effing placibo.
my second i saw the pretty colors and stuff when i was taking a shower, which is what i was doing right after dropping it, but that's all.

both of those were turn ons, and finding out what it would cost to buy any, i couldn't see how it would be worth anything so i never got arround to doing it again.

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yeah i would say that the only thing that really changed, was that now i feel more enlightened, and definately more happy overall, but other than that i feel exactly the same as before.

One other thing is that when i was on my trip, i could touch things, and then its like my whole mind goes inside the object, and so now that i have felt that i can kinda still feel it when i touch things, its freaking awesome a whole new perspective.

But other than that, i still have the same personality, only i feel more outgoing in a way.

 

My whole prespective on life had changed really. My whole view on people has changed dramatically. I used to go to work on acid and The only feelings i got was that of being trapped in a dead end job barely scrapping by to make ends meet. I always wished i could do something more, but for the life of me I couldnt get ahold of myself to be able to do great things. I tried to get back into College, but the motivation wasnt there. Acid had made me become real unmotivated to do anything but look upon life. Acid is my favorite drug in the world. But ask yourself Peter, what are you going to do when it runs out? I know its hard to justify, i got addicted to acid and I treated it wrongly. Dont drop out of Uni. just to have time to drop acid. Thats totally what you shouldnt do.

 

i know what you mean. but its just this i realised "this is not whant i want to do", kind of perspective. and ill admit im worried, and thinkin wtf have i done. but i cant do it now, im moving on to somthing else. it was a realisation, and its somthing i cant go back on now.

 

my first couple of acid trips i didnt really think about life at all but then one time i did acid and made me change my mind about some friends and i just not liked 2 of my friends anymore, it was wierd... because i dont know why i didnt like them anymore.. it was just the acid

 

that was like my one of my friends i tripped with, he said he just didnt want to be friends with this one guy anymore, even though they were friends for years. but he said he realised he didnt like the way he treated him. he was also pretty affected by the acid, he's doin some sort of course that's costing him $8000 outright about the brain. he had a bad trip. it hasnt affected the otehr 2 guys we tripped with as much as him and me.

 

After my first trip the only thing i realized was how much I loved acid....and from that point on i was going to make it my goal to trip as much as humanly possible....i was too busy having the best time of my life to learn anything.

Up to this point ive probably gone on over 50+ trips...i stopped counting when i was 16
but a brief overview of the things ive learned over the course of my LSD use would be...

1) The awsome power of the human mind...I learned of the wonderful things we are capable of, and if we all cleared out the cobwebs out of our minds (not necissarly with drugs) and put out minds together we could use the power of love/compasion/and intelligence to we could live constructively as a single breathing expanded consciousness. ; and a utopia of peace and prosperity could be created in which the needs of all were looked over regardless of race, religion, or sexuality. On the flip side i realized that the same reasons were are capable of this were the same reasons why it could never happen. Its too easy to use your intelligence to your own benefit then for the betterment of the Earth and mankind.

2) The true beauty of nature became apparent to me. I suddenly found myself able to be perfectly content sitting outside with nothing but the gorgeous and starlight canopy above me, or the warmth of the sunshine enveloping me

3) I realized not to judge people on how they look or act...because we are all living and breathing; and just because people are different doesnt make me any better then them. Besides....weirdness = individuality

4) One thing that i constantly think of sometimes on a daily basis that i contribute solely to LSD use is the fact that we can actually look up in the sky at night and realize that our time on Earth is limited...and is fleeting and slipping away from our grasp second by second...yet with this knowledge...we continue living an existence based around death and war instead of trying to make this one time opportunity worth while for all humanity.

THe most important revelation LSD brought to my asttention occured recently when i was comming off a 2 month binge in where i would trip everyweekend at least, but for 3-4 weeks i was dosing three times a week. I had endless amounts of acid which was free, i wont get into why on a public forum, so my highly addictive personallity and my passion for LSD caused me to indulge to the max. I realized that my life was going to absolute shit. I was doing OC's every other day, mass quantities of coke, a fair amount of GHB, and i was developing a sweet tooth for heroin...I was like a vacuum sucking up all the drugs in sight and mixing them with LSD or just using them individually at the same rate. Up untill the end of the binge (about 4 weeks ago), i was perfectly content with living this way. But i started comming to the realization that all these drugs had made me stupid....i had burned myself out from a roaring blaze to the ember on a matchstick at the age of 19. My guitar playing had been reduced to crap...i was only playing every 3 days or so when i used to put in 6 hours worth of practice time a night. I realized that i wanted to be an intelligent and knowledgable person. I wanted an extended vocabulary and i wanted to appear like something other then a drug addict to those who glimsped upon me to the first time. MDMA and cocaine had made me completely retarded. I realized that i was abusing LSD, and that i didnt need to trip nearly as much as i was...I had already learned so much from the drug and that it was time to slow down. My constant tripping and drug use led me to fail my second semester in college entirely; out of 17 possible credits I recieved 3....passed one class. I stopped going to all but one mid semester. Also my HPPD had reached a scale i never thought possible when i thought it couldnt get any worse. As i result of this massive revelation, i havent tripped in 4 weeks and ive been completely sober for about a week from cocaine in any of its forms, but i stopped buying it a while ago. Ive finally reached the point to just say no even when its offered free of charge. I'm allergic to pot and most alcohol so i still do use OC on the weekends after work sometimes to chill out, but im fine with that...its not a neurotoxin like cocaine and MDMA and i keep it under control. Ive read 3 400 page books in 4 weeks and i read everynight. Im confident and hopeful that i can keep up at this pace. Im also confident in making the statement that LSD saved my life. Evem though it was probably the cause of me failing this year, without it, i would have continued this path since i had been living this lifestyle for about 2 years now. Im going back to school next year to study and be an english or history teacher. Im going to try to only trip once a month at most, but the goal is once every 2 months...i doubt ill be able to hold that pace but yah know whatever....LSD is mankinds greated godsend so i wont be too disapointed if i do break in that regard

Sorry for the long post....but it was heartfelt, and i needed that many words to express myself...

Peace

 

I didn't really get anything life changing, probably the biggest change is that I finally know what lsd does now.. I had already dome magic mushrooms 13 times at the time; so what I needed to learn I learned from the fungus, I got to know myself, found out my philosophy etc. on shrooms already, and lsd is less of a mindfuck anyway. If it tought me anything; its to worry even less.

 

i can soooooo relate to this post. for me though it was magic mushrooms that triggered it. i had left a lucrative career in my mid-twenties to study literature & fine arts in a very hoity university (thinking myself bohemian for even going that far) then i started doing shrooms & a little bit at a time i started to realize what a waste of time & money school was...i was paying $10, 000 a year to hear other people's opinions about things--and to often receive misinformation.

like you, i was registered and didn't attend...i focused my time on spiritual transcendence...i got a full time job as an artist making minimum wage & happily lived in the country in blinding poverty doing what i loved. i was so happy i forgot that i was broke.

over the years i kind of evolved professionally, and as i ascend so does my life situation and now it isn't the struggle it was before. that's when lsd was introduced to me...and now i feel the growth by leaps & bounds.

trust the guidance of your inner guru. if you are pulled to a farm and away from school then so be it! a decade has since passed since i left school and i have no regrets. trust in the path that is being shown to you.

not sure if you love books--but a great one about this is The Monk Who Sold His Ferarri by Robin Sharma

 

your post is really inspiring, im glad it worked out for you. your right if i follow my dreams and just do what i want to do, ill live a happy life, no matter how much or little money i earn. im not hung up about money like some people, i just want to be happy and be there for my "future kids n wife" or whatever, and just be a great person, and all that sort of shit. not working a job i wish i didnt, never seeing the kids, never spending time with the family.i dont know

 

EXACTLY! i have a co-worker who's dad just died. At the funeral his oldest son got up & told us a story. His dad was a high powered business man that did very well but never saw his kids. when they were very little he quit his career completely and took a gov't labour job just so he'd have a steady schedule to share with them. the result of that sacrifice was a VERY close bond to 2 wonderful young men who adored him. he spoke of how growing up he watched all his buddies suffer their parents divorce or trouble at home--but for him, his childhood memories include waking up most mornings to the sound of his parents laughing together.

you are getting to know & trust your inner guru. your path is about to become one of pure bliss.

 

Wow, some of these posts are really surprising in their intensity, but I must say I'm not surprised... if that makes sense (note, I'm not sober, so this might lack my usual eloquence)

Acid can definitely change your life very quickly. You see many people on here singing its praises and a few condemning it, but few realize that it can change your life beautifully... OR it can drive you absolutely insane. I will say that the best advice I can give is to take it slow... I wouldn't keep tripping over and over... just chill out for a bit, and try not to do anything drastic. I mean, it's good to progress in your views and to become a deeper person, but it is possible to go through the door too fast. I almost did that myself, and while I've survived, it wasn't a guaranteed thing. Find things you believe in, and hold onto them dearly. Don't be too quick to discard anything - a belief, a person - that you have held dear, because changes like that can profoundly shape the rest of your life, not always in a good way.

That said, props for looking deeply into your life. Continue to do so, through means other than just psychedelics. Become the most loving, most successful person you can be, however you see fit.

 

Yea for me, not much changed after initially taking LSD to be honest. After taking mushrooms at 14, the only thing that changed was that I was suddenly aware of the detail of life all around us, and I felt slightly more optimistic about my person and my situation, which was not too good at the time.
But generally, I have always been an open minded person, I was raised by a Christian mom, a Muslim stepdad, and Atheist dad, and atheist stepmom, and a lot of Hindu friends. Also some Buddhist neighbors had some influence on me. I had a lot of different friends growing up, most of them were black and into the urban scene, a lot of gay and lesbian friends, hippies, religous freaks, rich kids, poor kids, everyone really. LSD and mushrooms didnt change me much until a few years later and many many trips, when I decided to meditate on Krsna while intoxicated. What resulted was simply feelings of understanding, unexplainable esoteric connections with humanity and God. But, nothing that wouldnt have come to me through a few more years of meditation anyway, the drugs simply expediated the process.
I honestly no longer see psychedelics as anything too spiritual, because I get much closer to God when sober and it doesnt feel so forced upon myself. Dont get me wrong, I honestly and whole heartedly beleive that tripping can lead to definite authentic spiritual realizations and experiences, but I also believe that they are not nessecary and that occaisionaly they cause people to become very egotistical, and also borderline insane.
They can be a godsend, or they can take you through personal hell, and not everyone is able to handle the dark side of their own minds as well as others.
I say, take them or leave them for what they are, but I really so no point in taking them anymore other than to have a great bonding experience with close friends and family. You can really only go so far spiritualy with them. They are the key to the door, but they will not take you all the way. You must do that on your own, and not limit spiritual progression to when your in tune with the harmonic buzz of life by means of chemical intervention

 

Trees will never look the same again.

 

I seemed to like alot of natural things more and have more thoughts that are pretty insightual. All in one term: I started to think more freely. I have had nothing like you've had, hope you find the way :toetap:

 

Since I dropped L for the first time I have found a respect for nature <-Kind of corney but as a kid I didn't like nature that much. I have been far less impressed by what is considered populare and mainstream. Don't get me wrong, I would love to have the newest and best things all the time... but in reality material things have never made me feel the same way I feel at a festival.

 

In my past, I had an obsession with people watching while being under the influence of LSD. Not in a peeping tom kind of way you sick bastards =P! But seriously, I have a deep understanding of the nature of humanity and had heightened ability to read body language and sense the moods of any individual.

My favorite spots were benches infront of Wal-Mart stores all over town. I dont know why Wal-Marts in particular, but they seemed to be the only stores with benches infront . I would just sit there to rest and scetch in my notepad while i observed. They were in most cases happy spots because everyone was for the most part happy. I love that energy.