Dose: 6 "2010 Hofmann Blotters" Setting: Sitting solo in a cabin with some speakers and the freedom to do what I want to. So I'd gotten these blotters a few months ago, and I was very, very excited for the entire storage duration to finally be able to eat them. My previous LSD experiences have been 3 in quantity, with the dose being 1 tab each time. This time, I was determined to break on through to see what the "big deal" with LSD was. So I'd been considering when to take these doses for a while, and I chose this day (Friday the 13th ) to take them. I was pretty nervous thinking about eating the doses later in the day. Close to 7pm, I went for a run to clear my mental state a bit, and after dinner I also had a sauna session to clear my body. Anyways, fast forward, and it's 12:15 at night, pitch black outside, and I'm sitting alone in this cabin, with the 6 doses under my tonuge. They're bitter, but as I already knew that, it doesn't worry me. I sit down to some Neil Young to roll myself a doobie for later, thinking I may have needed it. After I finish rolling my joint, I lean back with my guitar and just play along to the music for a while - something I've taken to doing a lot on the come-ups of psychedelics as it takes my mind off the feeling of wondering when the drug is going to kick in. About half an hour after placing the tabs in my mouth I put the guitar away, and switch the music to an album by Matisyahu - "Shake Off the Dust.. Arise", and lie down on my bed to see what was going to come. As I sit there, I start to get a feeling of a larger presence of energy flowing through my brain, as well as my body. I knew there was something coming, but I wasn't quite sure what. I think about 10 minutes later I decided that I would attempt to hot knife some hash, just to really blast things off. As I reached for the bag with the hash, and I took out the hash, something just blasted off with my brain. I took out a ball of hash and started rolling it in my fingers, not quite sure what to do with it, all the meanwhile laughing as I was getting further and further. Now, as the LSD was really kicking in, music was starting to gain a whole new dimension. I sat back and turned off all the lights, and I was amazed by the OEV's that started to appear.. It was the most intricate persian carpet style patterning I have ever seen, that was slowly breathing right in my face. A smile was plastered all over my head, feeling like it stretched right around my entire skull. I stepped out in the total dark, and the sky was full of stars, which I watched for a bit, as they were quite nice. However, it was pretty cold so I just went back inside after a bit. I was dazed, watching the visuals and simply lying on that bed. The album was over after a while, and I tried to listen to some Easy Star All Stars, but it wasn't quite doing the trick, so I turned to Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood playing at the Madison Square Gardens, Disc 2. As it started playing out, music was still at an incredible new dimension, but I could not understand a word Eric Clapton was saying. He was wailing in some language that made no sense, at all. I could not comprehend the English language that other people spoke any longer, which led to a lot of amusement. Somewhere in the middle of this album I closed my eyes, and what appeared (other than insane morphing kaleidescopic visuals) was this massive 3D mandelbulb fractal. It was existing in a universe of nothing, morphing, changing, and I ended up riding right on the edge of it for a few hours. I walked outside somewhere at this point and grabbed a raspberry thinking it would cause some incredible effect when I added more input to my thought. However, the raspberry was half rotten and I ended up spitting it out as it was pretty bad. I came in and started listening to some Swedish reggae, and it was the most ridiculous thing - I was sure I had heard the exact same music earlier in the night. I suddenly got this feeling that all music was created by one entity, and that the one entity had been me at some point. Right towards the end of the trip, I was starting to wonder if the experience would ever end (not that it was a bad thing). I ended up turning off the music and walking outside. At this point, it was early morning and the sky was incredibly nice. It was yellow and pink and I felt just great. I ended up trying to sleep for a while, and I may have slumbered off, but my back was quite stiff and I ended up just getting up to eat a bit. This day I was headed out for a 5-day long excursion to the Swedish mountains, which I think was the best way to end the explosion of a trip I had. I've probably forgotten some things which I may add later, but damn, this trip left me feeling deeply humbled. I have a bit of a hard time remembering exactly what it was that happened during the trip, as most of it was just spent zoning out to music. I can see why LSD could be so "dangerous", though. It's so incredibly clean, but it can get so powerful.. with all the other RC's I've tried I feel that there's a roof to physical effects as compared to psychological, but I don't think that roof could be reached easily with LSD.
Beautiful man you captured so much of the LSD experience . . . the gentle, intricate visuals rolling away before you, the melting into things around you, the sublime euphoria that seems to sweat out of the pores of the universe, the liquification of concrete 'data' like language . . . Also an awesome example of proper set and setting, taking a run and a sauna to prepare yourself, respect man. Yeah lucy really does have no ceiling to it afaik, the more you take the more profound the dancing liquid reality becomes, with no added physical costs. Nothing is quite like the LSD headspace <3 overwhelming holiness
it seemed to me that he was saying that there isn't a roof to the physical effects with acid. i have noticed with larger doses i've had more of a stiff back and sore jaw after tripping. that's just my limited experience though. i agree that was a very nice report, that captured many aspects of the LSD trip.
And what a beautiful feeling it is I forgot to add this right at the end of the report, but I really felt like LSD was medicine. The experience was just so.. uplifting in a beautiful, natural, gentle way. I'm going to try to keep the high dose experiences somewhat far in between so as to not lose that feeling of awe. (Maybe it never gets lost with LSD, but I don't want to chance) Also, about the physical effects that you mentioned pork, I feel that they come when you gravitate back to your physical body - when I was peaking there was no thought about stiff back/jaw, and I think the back could be helped with some gentle surface to lie on and the jaw could be helped with some gum or something. My only worry was that I coughed up some grey phlegm in the morning, but it could just have been tinted by the blueberries I was munching on. But I have a question for you fellow psychonauts: What do you think of the high dose LSD experience in terms of how "candy like" it is? Personally, I felt it was a very profound teaching experience, but I also got the feeling that many people could take it as a completely candy like trip. Does it vary from time to time or do you generally get the same "type" of experience every time?
the depth of the trip is determined by the depth of the tripper the effects are highly regular and reproducible, yet all trips are different. no easy answer, its all things
i just had my second, much more powerful trip last night and i have a slight feeling of depression of things around me, and about the people that disappoint me in my life. is this normal? sometimes you get so high up, the crash can be long and drawn out
after my first powerful trip (7grams of shrooms) I had the same feelings. for a few days after, i questioned the reality of everything around me and of everyone.
It's mostly chemical, your brain just needs a few days to recover and get your emotional base back up to normal levels.
Sounds like a very nice trip I'm hoping to get some lucy in a few weeks. It will probably be autumn by the time I get the doses..oh how i love tripping in autumn haha.
I honestly cant beleive someone would feel this way about LSD. I think it is one of the most un-candy trips out there, and almost everytime I take it, it shakes the shit out of everything I thought I knew. I would eat that shit everyday if it wasnt so extremely mentally heavy. Clean, but completely content filled and life changing.
This sounds fucking great. With all the psychedelics I've done, I'm still yet to try lucy and now that fate has put LSD aside for me, I'm waiting for a really good time to do it. Don't loaf on them microdots
