"I don't trip as hard as my friends."

I'm sure you've all heard this before. Am I 'doing it wrong?' I have a couple theories as to possibly why:

• "my brain is too smart for it, and just makes sense of the trip too fast"
  (could be a legit hypothesis, could just be 'me' picking an ego-inflating reason).
  
  
• My mind just seems to usually have too much activity going on that it's harder for me to STFD and get lost in the trip.
  

Last time I tripped, same shit happened, we smoked some weed hours later and it finally slowed me down enough to have a "So THIS is what you've been experiencing the whole time??" moment to my friend.

Anyone have any takes or experiences and such on this of their own?
I would not argue against me being dumb like anyone else, but perhaps there is some reality to at least my apathetic and quick evaluation of what's happening during a trip that it prevents me from getting sucked up by it.


*And "up the dose" is already an expected answer. More wanna discuss the chemistry of the brain, stubbornness and resistance to trips, and stuff like that if there's content to share.

 

Lmao man. Increase dose. It's actually the newbs that need more, experienced users that need less. Your ego isn't letting go so you're going to need a dose that does the work for you. Nobody is fabricating the idea of a trip you are simply not taking enough. Best of luck. I've ran into plenty of street blotters where even 4-5 hits didn't do shit and unfortunately they were the same blotters I was showing to friends. So of course they had thought the same thing you do.

The only time I've heard of somebody not being able to trip was this article regarding a monk who was given 1000 ug and did not react. If you can take 1000 ug (10-20 clean hits) and not re-act, then feel free to say you are immune. Otherwise, don't go by failed experiences with street chemicals. No way to tell for sure.

 

haha yeah you aren't "too smart" lol that doesn't even make sense. Everybody reacts to drugs different if you wanna take more than do it, you know how much it takes to affect you know right?

 

If he's going to claim that he can not trip when he has no idea what is actually on the blotter, nor the measured amount, it's only safe to presume that he needs more of whatever he is getting or a completely different source of LSD. I don't expect you to understand the initial statement if you never worked with ego loss.

People can hang on the line with a 100ug-150ug dose. 500ug will shatter your ego no matter what you make of your mentality. 1000ug even less questions asked. Some people resist the trips mentally and so need an amount of LSD that does the work for them. It is very clear by what I said that everybody reacts differently, it is quite apparent that he needs more than his friends for a noticeable effect.

 

I think it's because you are too clever, obviously.

I mean taking LSD in the first place is a pretty smart thing to do in the first place is it not?

Nah, just up your dose. You will be mincing your words soon I am sure!!

 

This is a joke thread right?

 

No the OP appears to be quite flattered by his inability to trip, he even has a nice bulletin list. He's simply too smart for tripping.

 

hahaaha

 

i side with slylikeafox. increase dosage.

 

Seeing as how LSD increases brain activity, and you aren't tripping as hard as your friends on equal doses, wouldn't that make more stupid in comparison, rather than more intelligent?
Maybe you need a dose just to get to the level of their sober lives =/

 

if your mind is full of chatter it can resist the flow of the psych. i am experiencing this recently, finding it harder to get "there" mentally, because im just much more aware, alert, and "there" anyways. "smart" has nothing to do with it. attention does.

to trip well, make your mind like an empty auditorium for the performance of the molecule, give it center stage, dont be trying to do your taxes in your head on a trip and then complain that you didn't trip hard you know? you have to let go, lots of people have a hard time with this and experience diminished effects from psychs. when you let go you will be swept away to places you couldn't imagine. then you understand the depth of these molecules.

 

agreed 100 percent

i usually trip way harder than my friends mostly because i KNOW what the drug is capable of doing and my friends take it like its just a recreational drug and usually come out of the trip with no life changing epiphanies and when i bring something up about the trip that i experienced they laugh it off like im making it up. and what sucks about it the most is when i trip with them, they always want to be doing something constantly and think its weird when i want to just sit down and close my eyes and close my thoughts.

its pretty frustrating trying to explain to people how far the rabbit hole goes when they dont even know there is one

 

Not me I trip hard usually when I trip =). I'm very receptive to that kinda stuff. That's why I dont do drugs that much.

 

I believe the monk you are talking about is Maharaj-ji an Hindu Guru who worked with Richard Alpert (a.k.a. Ram Das, he was a colleague of Timmothy Leary). Alpert gave him like 10 hits of good acid (back in the 60's). the Maharaj-ji said it had no effect
here's an article if your interested in reading more, i find it really interesting: http://www.miqel.com/entheogens/neem-karoli-baba-lsd-alpert.html

but back to the OP's Topic, I think you are simply not letting go. I think there's a different thread in this forum called "You Must Die on LSD". the guy says that to truely experience the trip you must let go of everything. from what you said the dose might not be the problem although an increase might help, you just need to let go of your inhibitions.

 

I don't know why you guys got the strong impression that I thought I was "too smart" for it. It was put in quotes, I wrote it's probably an ego-inflating reason, etc. I also wrote again towards the bottom I'm probably just like everyone else, and went into more detail about what I think is actually going on.


Either way, as Writer and a couple others wrote, the problem IS too mind mind chatter, too much going on in the brain, that I would have troubles emptying my brain and sorry if this offends you but a 'dumb' person actually can trip harder, as the process of emptying the brain and being taken for a ride on lucy comes easier with less going on in the brain and resistance (a smart person can trip hard as shit too, have lots of epiphanies, etc. so please don't bitch @ me because I didn't talk about both sides).

That is why things like Marijuana often help me, as I can better focus on one thing or train of thought and go deeper.

Minds work differently. I am guessing mine tries to go from the outside in, tries to understand all the details and the whole picture, and most of the times it doesn't work out and I'm left with a lot of half done ideas, but I'm betting there's also reward for it if seen to the end. I will try upping the dose. I do think placebo is also a big factor and the fact my mind believes "I get it what it does. I know what to expect. *shrugs* Meh." Also plays into a factor.

 

regardless, your a genius

 

same. also with marihuana.

 

i outsmarted myself the one time i was on it so id beleive that theory. lol

 

I dont know why everyone is bashing the OP. I have the same problem somewhat on decent doses. I just feel really good and get some cool visuals from 8ths of shrooms and ~3 hits of acid. Its only when i go for more than those amounts that I actually start to trip pretty hard.

During the majority of my trips i come to the conclusion that I can just handle drugs too well.

 

lol increase dose