I was down in Florida last week. I have a friend down there who is into LSD, so I ended up trying it. I've heard of how an acid trip can go bad, but it didn't worry me too much. I took one hit and started walking around downtown sarasota. We were walking for about 2 hours and I still didn't feel anything. We went back to his car to smoke a blunt. That's what started the trip. When I got out of the car, I immediately noticed the intensity of all the colors around me. It seemed as if all the yellows in my field of vision highlighted. This only lasted for a few minutes... I then started noticing patterns everywhere. It seemed everything was part of a pattern. It was weird, I wasn't really visualizing anything, but just noticing patterns in everything I looked at. Another thing that seemed to stand out was logos. Logos on top of buildings started to really stand out. But that only lasted for a bit. It was really fun when we went to the convienient(sp?) store. The colors were all so bright and brilliant. I could of spend so much time just looking around in that store. But again, I never really visualized... nothing ever got distorted, and I didn't see anythying that wasn't there. We caught that sunset over the water and it was beautiful, there was so much going on in the sky.. It was like an oil painting. After it got dark, the lsd started to wear down and we headed back to the condo. We pulled up to a stoplight and I noticed a brightly lit neon sign on top of a store. All of a sudden it sorta gelled together and started melting. Then I blinked and it was back to normal. When we got back to the condo, I was zoning out looking at the oriental rugs and wierd pictures and then I fell asleep. I know my experiences were just scratching the surface of what this substance is capable of. I was expecting it to be more visual, and more distortion. It was still a cool experience. Next time i'll probably take 2 or 3... if I can ever find it in massachusetts. any thoughts?
Sound like you got as much visual as you could hope for. Most of it is just a head trip. Try 2 next time. But don't expect better visuals.
oh you're absolutely right that you're just scratching the surface of what LSD is capable of. Next time maybe take 2, except you might wanna stay in and just chill, listen to some good music, etc. - the environment (and some weed when you're coming up) is key to getting the full effect - I know people who have taken acid like a dozen times before they actually tripped out all the way because they eventually figured out what their perfect environment was
yeah don't even think about visuals. I don't even usually call them that, I call them object lessons. it just seems to me that when someone does it for the visuals, it ends up being a confusing and uneasy experience. I don't know for sure but I think visuals are the universe's last resort in getting something across to a person who hasn't opened up their energy channels, but is paying attention to things around them, the way any average person would. it seems like a person is going to learn and see heavy things no matter what on lsd, might as well be the pure energy of love rather than a quixotic struggle to get one's mind around what they are otherwise beholding.
I have to disagree with you on that. Visuals are a great part of the trip, and i dont think a good trip has to be one in which you learn a great deal about anything especially considering the fact that half the time when you "learn" something on acid, it has no relevance to living outside of an acid trip. Of course you will learn something or realize something that will make a great difference to your life every once in a while. Plus there is a whole other side to LSD which isnt about learning, revelations or spiritual growth but about pure and whole hearted enjoyment of everything. Visuals just happen to be very a great part of that. I would say %90 of my trips are purely for fun, i would prefer to have extremely visual trips for those. The other %10 i would still be extremely happy if they were very visual even if visuals are not the object of my attention.
idk, for me the acid world is no different than real life, with all the same cause/effect, ebb/flow. I feel like I'm taken out of my world and witness it from the outside. I see the trip as following all the paradigms of normal living, only quickened and in raw abundance from the sensory boost. Anything I can say I learned from a trip has vast relevance to my life. I don't mean to diss visuals, although I think I came across that way when I posted before. I was just saying that if within the subconscious there is something of significance to the person that they aren't at one with, that thing is often sublimated through visual means. I think visuals are great; but my original point was more to the effect that if a person goes into the experience for the visuals, he often gets more than he bargained for. I think visuals are even better and more interactive when they aren't focused upon. Although I hold lsd as sacred, I also enjoy the frivolous parts of it and I think they're more enjoyable the more reverence one has for the substance.
Oh yeah it's quite the opposite for me, I have so much sheer data to work with that I'm awestruck, dazed, and confused for at least a week, and as of right now like 3 months now since my last 5-dose trip. It was like I relearned 23 years worth of education and habits, it's a ferocious torrent of information about the real world. For me at least.
