I smoked weed and salvia and did cocaine before I took acid but none of that (possibly salvia if I had a much more intense experience) prepared me WHATSOEVER for acid. I wouldn't advice against taking acid as your first drug if you prepare for it. I would advise having a tripsitter however, this is something that I swear by. I might not be typing this if I didn't have one for my first time no matter how ready for it I thought I was gonna be.
well your not going to die, physically if you worry about psychological issues with yourself, perhaps you should try something else first I guess you could think about it like this. In your current state of being would you be comfortable sitting in a pitch black room for a year straight? Are you that content with yourself and your mental state to be able to sit perfectly still, in pitch black room, just you, by yourself for a year?
The only thing about acid trips is everything is real even though it's fake. What you see might be fake to everyone else, but is real to the person who took acid, or what ever drug *in large enough doses*, and take enough, things get pretty crazy and will change you, like it or not. Think drugs are harmless cause they won't kill you or make you unstable forever, think agian. Acid can cause a person with a house and good job to leave everything behind to live with nature, or wonder the earth. Just an extream example of what strong acid doses can do to a persons life style, not saying that doing eather is a bad thing, just something the same person may not have done before acid. Not being anti-drug, just merrly stating, if you like who you are now, don't play with psychedelics too much, might change you if you aren't careful. With that in mind, no I won't suggest acid or salvia as a first drug ever, or as a party drug really because of the risks in the drugs. Now if the person in question knows what acid can do and is willing to except what ever happens then that's different. J.C
If you're not open to changing yourself than you're not ready for psychedelics. *edit: in fact, they would probably seem to be quite terrifying to you if you weren't open to changing yourself.
with personal experience, i can tell you that the only thing that can prepare you for acid is knowing about it's effects, and read as many trip reports on erowid as possible. also talk to someone who is experienced with it before you take it. set and setting are key, and remember, shrooms WILL NOT prepare you. if you are scared and need a less intense experience, then simply take a smaller hit of acid. shrooms are a different experience overall, even if they share many similarities.
i've never taken shrooms before, but i would presume that it would give someone something to 'go by'; when you've never taken a psychedelic before you can't really comprehend much of what goes on on them, if someone has eaten shrooms before they drop acid i think they would still be a lot more prepared then someone who hasn't. But I might just be wrong about the nature of mushies.
I tried alchohol, weed, shrooms, dyphenhydramine (benadryl), DXM, LSA, cocaine, adderal, ritalin (not sure what the chemical name is of these last two) and Datura (Don't do Datura...unless of course you want to end up running into your girlfriend's mom's room naked and covered in mud) before I ever tried LSD, and I can honestly say I'm pretty glad I did. It was good to have some kind of "conditioning" before trying LSD. I needed to "strengthen" my mind, my ideas of who I was and who I wanted to be. Perhaps you already know. In that case, I say go for it, or at least try smoking weed a few time first, just to feel what a different (while wholy different from acid) mind state feels like.
I mean, my first reaction was something like; "sweet mother of jesus god NO NO NO." But it comes with some affidavits .. . It's all very personal, of course, everyone accepts and learns things differently. However, my main concern is this: when I first starting smoking pot, it wasn't even fun until several times in, because I couldn't enjoy it for the fact that I had NO idea what the hell was going on and absolutely no grasp or familiarity for what I was feeling. And that's just old fashioned mary jane for christ's sake. It honestly took me years before I became comfortable enough to lose the paranoia, stop worrying about someone noticing I was stoned, or "acting stoned" and explore self consciousness without BEING so self-conscious from an intelligent perspective. Of course, as I just checked, you are 27 years old and ought to have a much better grip on yourself and your perspective in general than I did as an idiotic 15 year old. Of course LSD, and mushrooms, other hallucinogens, are simply SO MUCH weirder than any thing else, that it also took me awhile and several confusing trips to get a hold of myself and learn how to use my mind with the poison. I say respect what you are getting into, and know when you are not ready for it. The risk is basically you might not learn as much as you would if you worked up to it, you might get kind of freaked out and think the world is going to end, but, it won't (or it actually already has anyway, this is a computer simulation.. oh wait) Or maybe its your destiny. Love and kisses, ~ Noodles
Acid would be too intense for someone who has no drug experience. Weed is the best drug for introducing someone to drugs. It's not too intense, not too much sensory distortion, doesn't last along time, and is really hard to have a bad experience with. None of those things can be said for LSD. LSD would be a good first psychedelic, but a psychedelic would not be a good first drug. Just what I think. What do I know?
Ive been thinking about it a little, and I think DXM is a pretty non-intense hallucinogenic that lasts a short time and won't rape your mind into a billion pieces. It's not very enjoyable to most people, but it does sort of show you how fucking crazy the human mind is and how a hallucinogenic drug can sort of twist up your senses and do some shit to you. Does anyone else think DXM could be a good stepping stone for LSD?
not so much anymore. in the past native americans were known to do that though. they're the most spiritually advanced culture there is imo.
