The last two times I've taken acid a very uncomfortable chill has come over me. The only way I can explain it is that it feels like my spine (or soul?) is cold. I say that because it doesn't matter how warm my body is, the cold never goes away. During my most recent trip, I tried to explore my mind and determine where the cold feeling was coming from. As I lay on the floor concentrating, I had the feeling that I needed to acknowledge or accept something, and whenever I would get close to connecting the dots (although I never succeeded) I would get a climactic feeling as if I were about to explode. It felt like the possibility was there to have this great mental orgasm, as I've come to call it, but only if I figured out what was missing or what I'm in denial about. I can't wait to trip again and try once more to figure it out, if thats even possible, but in the meantime thought I would see if anyone else has ever had a similar experience?? And if so did you ever figure out what you needed to?
No - dispite hundreds of trips - sounds like some serious introspection. I would love to know where it takes you
I promise you that it showed you the answer, you just didn't understand it. Give it time. I bet you'll just have an "unrelated" revelation one day.
+1, the answer was probably there but you didn't realize it or understand what it was trying to tell you. Sometimes being one with nature while you embark on a trip will open up doors you never imagined. Away from the normal retrospec of your life, like at home.
You know, life is funny, and acid is the funniest of all. I get cold on virtually all psychedelics, especially tryptamines and PEAs and LSD. I know the cold you're talking about; there ain't enough layers of clothing to make it go away. You just want to put on everything you have, go under the covers, and light a fire, while cuddling. It feels very very penetrating. But you know what causes that? It's your brain, trying to increase your body temperature. See, all these psychedelics cause an increase in body temperature, so why do many people feel subjectively cold on them? It is the exact same reason you feel cold while burning up with a fever sometimes. Your body actually makes you feel cold so that YOU, the organism, take steps to generate heat. Your body can only generate so much heat, and when you take something like LSD, and your body gets the instructions "Crank up the heat!" (among many other instructions ), part of the way it solves this is by making you feel cold, cold, cold in your bones, soul, as deep as you can perceive temperature, so that you will also through thought and action help your flesh-mobile out. So perhaps the answer is even more maddeningly in front of your eyes than you could ever imagine; you're getting physiologically cold from a chemically induced body-state, and because you think there is some great hidden meaning about all this, it causes a state of profound anticipation, obviously fueled by being on acid. But nothing comes from this anticipation, no "answer" comes at you. Perhaps because there was never a question asked, and you are just cold, and you should just be cold.
Actually I always figured it was because LSD and other related compounds are vaso-constricters and therefore diminish the blood flow to your extremities. That is why Hoffman was ever even messing around with the ergot alkaloids in the first place. One thing I've never seen mentioned in here is the handful of other drugs Albert created from the ergot alkaloids that have literally saved thousands upon thousands of lives. He gave the world a whole hell of a lot more than LSD. Truly a unique and gifted man. I raise my glass to him for all the work he did besides LSD.:cheers2:
Sounds to me like you're on the verge of letting go, but something is holding you back. Assuming the cold you're referring to goes beyond physically chilly. The only answer I've really found in LSD is that you must clean out your mind, and let go of everything associated with yourself in order to see the way things really are. And yes, Hofmann was/is a truly wonderful being.
