LSD or mushrooms

I've never taken any psychedelics and was wondering if one is better than the other for a first time user. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

I would suggest mushrooms over acid. Especially for your first time. And make sure you do them in the right environment.

 

Your gunna get all sorts of opinions on that. Acids a little bit more of a clear headed trip, lasts longer, easier to reach a good dose, at the same time though it's easier to get in over your head. Shrooms have a little bit more of a natural trip though it can be a bit foggier, they don't last as long and a dose can be a little tougher to titrate. Either one is a good choice really! Just remember to be in a happy place in a happy mood and you'll have the time of your life!

 

^ What Delta said.

 

^ What GB said

 

They are different. I used mushrooms first.. But they were instense as hell.. Just take a small dose of either.. Neither one is better. Good luck and have fun.

 

I agree, take a small dose. Know the terrain you are getting into then build the dosages.

 

More important than which one to do first is to make sure you have good set (frame of mind, intentions), setting (where, when, with who, responsibilities, next day), and dose (tricky with both lsd and mushrooms but hopefully your source knows their strength).

 

For a first timer id say mushrooms, about 2-3 grams will be an awesome trip for you, For me LSD is a more intense psychedelic but in a very good way so if your down for a long and somehwat intense trip drop some acid!

 

shrooms can be just as intense as LSD. when will people learn this?!?!!!?!?!?!?!???!?!????!???!!?!??!?!??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

 

Haar de har...

When they have a deep shroom experience.

Lucy for a first psychedelic experience, but that's just my opinion.

 

Shrooms was my first. I didn't have the interwebz back then so all I had to go on was my step bro sayin 'Eat these! They make see crazy stuff and feel weird!' lmao

He had handed me a quart sized ziplock PACKED full of fresh shrooms and I ate them ALL. Afterwards he asked for the bag back and when I handed him an empty bag his eyes got huge and he said 'OMG YOU ATE THEM ALL?!' so I was like 'Uhh... yeah? I thought I was suppose to. You didn't tell me how many! AM I GONNA BE OK?' LOL I was 13 at the time. He told me I would be fine with a little unsureness in his voice but I was fine. I tripped fucking balls and for a long time. It was fun as hell, actually. Twas the only time I hallucinated something that I truely believed was actually real. It was a talking christmas tree in the middle of the living room, it was July at the time. lol after that night I tripped nearly every weekend until the guy with the cows next door moved away.

I didn't trip after that for nearly 7 years. My re-introduction to psychedelics was shrooms and that experience was unforgettable. I felt like I had 'come home'. My inner child blossomed out of me and I spent the night laying on the floor with my dog, giggling my ass off, painting, watching cartoons, ect. There was a lot of personal thoughts and feelings that manifested itself surrounding the death of my father and memories of tripping as a kid and him knowing and sharing trip stories with me. It was bittersweet.

Shortly after that I did LSD for my first time. The two are really uncompareable and I think either would be a fine choice for a beginner. I am partial to mushrooms and would personally suggest them b/c it was my first and was fun and silly yet gloriously terrifying. That is something hard to really explain. I guess it's like if you were blind then all of a sudden you could see and you were being shown everything all at once and you have no idea what anything is or what it means and it's a little overwhelming but absolutely beautiful and amazing. You are forced to take it all in and as long as you don't fight it you are okay.

 

IME shrooms can produce a much wilder almost uncontrollable trip. My most intense mushroom trip was on an eighth of some extremely potent shrooms and I would say that i felt less in control of my trip then than i did on 15 good hits of acid. Shrooms vary so widely in potency. 2 or 3 grams can be a much larger dose than you would think.

 

^^exactly. and on a decent dose of shrooms, i feel almost intoxicated. it's hard to control my balance, and things are a bit more "sloppy."

on LSD (except for the initial peak of a my largest doses, where i find it difficult to walk, speak, etc for a little while) i feel more connected to my surroundings. i can walk around without thinking about it, i just feel super connected. i can walk up a creek barefoot, and not hurt my feet because they just "know where to go"

ann shulgin explains this in PiHKAL, but she's talking about her first mescaline trip.

i would recommend LSD as a first, but i wouldn't recommend AGAINST shrooms

i took shrooms first, and it was great. i've initiated a few people into the word of psychedelics with LSD, and it's been pretty great results all around. i don't just hand the shit out to anyone of course

 

Yeah gotta vouch for the shroomy legs, I got stuck on a fence for ages once cos I couldn't balance or manage to get my foot around properly.. friends all pissing themselves haha, probably one of my favourite trips though - incredible day :sunny:

Honestly though, there's a lot of differences and similarities between the 2 but they're still both psychedelics and will take you by surprise(in a good way). Just don't push the dosages on your first time on either unless you're wanting to and it'll all be good. Munch the first you come across, just do it responsibly.

 

Yeah during that 1 eighth shroom trip, to put it plainly, I felt FUCKED UP. I was stumbling all over the place and spewing insanity. Definitely muchmore fucked up than I've ever been off of acid.

 

My LSD (or what I think was LSD) experiences were never intense, at all. I ate up to two tabs. They were recreational in nature. My only mushroom trip (3.5g) was intense and very humbling. I was seeking a peak into cosmic consciousness, and I got it. So as Mr. Writer said, set/setting are extremely important.

I recommend you experiment with low dose mushrooms first, because you know what you're getting, while with tabs you don't really know what or how much you are ingesting.

 

It's hard to really know what kind of dose you're taking with mushrooms as well. Shrooms can vary wildly in potency between different species as well as between different batches.

 

SWIM has had both powerful life altering experiences and mild recreational experiences on both Shrooms and Acid. Always dependent on quality and quantity. Make sure someone you trust has tested whatever you choose to use. and if not, go slow and try to err on the side of caution. Unless someone experienced knows otherwise or is available as a sitter, try considering only one (or even 1/2) a normal hit of LSD (usually around 100-200 micrograms per hit, someone correct me if I'm off base here). With mushrooms be very careful as well for sometimes 3-4 grams do nothing and a 1/2 gram of different shrooms would be other worldly.

For the record SWIM started with LSD and after an hour took a second hit (under direction from a buddy who was experienced) and it was a great time and a heavy experience all at once.

 

I tried acid first, with no ill effects.

Hoping to try my first shroom trip sometime this summer.