Dobbythehouseelf
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Today, I will be writing up a trip report for the time I took lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on Friday night. Before reading, I would like to point out that LSD is possibly the most potent psychedelic drug in the world, with threshold doses starting at 30ug (30 millionth of a gram). I am not entirely sure of the dose that I took, but I believe that it was around the 250-350ug mark.
In order to protect the identities of the people involved, I will be referring to these people as either SWIM (someone who I know) or PWIK (People who I know).
On Friday night, I and two PWIK went into the city centre to pick up some acid from a friend. We got the LSD and went back to my house to get some food before we took the acid. I was feeling very confident that every precaution that I had taken would ensure that we all had a pleasant trip and would have a nice experience.
At about 7PM, we all arrived at SWIMs flat, went inside, and prepared to take the acid. I would like to point out that SWIM who owned the flat did not take part in taking the acid. They provided us with a comfortable, secure environment in which to take the acid. At 7:20PM, I took half a blotter tab of acid, and the other two PWIK who were involved both took a full tab each. I would like to point out that LSD affects the 5-HT1A and 5-HT2B receptors in the brain, which are responsible for serotonin uptake and release in the brain. I am currently taking SSRI anti-depressants, which also react with these same receptors. I had previously read the same day that taking LSD with SSRIs could cause serotonin syndrome, which is a condition where too much serotonin is released in the brain, and can cause a lot of adverse side-effects, which can be fatal.
At about 7:45PM, we started to smoke some marijuana that we had bought the same day. This helped keep us all on a chilled out level that we could stay on. At 8PM, the two PWIK who took the acid started tripping, and said they really liked it. However, I had not started my trip. So I took the other half of my tab. Im fairly certain that I would have been alright if I had waited and only taken half a tab. The two PWIK who took the acid were really enjoying their trip, and I was a little pissed off I wasnt on their level.
At 8:45PM, the owner of the flat put a video from youtube up on the TV, which was from a producer called 1200 micrograms. The song was called LSD, and was a very, very trippy song with lots of intense, trippy visual pictures on screen. By this point, my trip had kicked in (two and a half hours later after ingesting), and the visuals on screen and around the room were incredibly intense. The pictures on screen were floating and pulsating around the screen, and coming off the screen towards me, and pulsating up the walls. The patterns of colours on the walls were moving in a circular fashion, and I felt as if the ceiling was coming down to crush me. Throughout the entire trip, I was aware that this alternate reality that I was in was just a projection of my brain and the LSD that I had taken, and that I would come down off the trip eventually.
At about 9:15PM, I felt very dizzy and very sick, so I went into SWIMs bedroom, and lay down on the bed. Next to the bed on the wall there was a painting that SWIM had started. It contained many intense colours, which very bright and vibrant. It looked absolutely amazing, and I was overcome with a feeling of discomfort as the painting came off the wall, and swirling around my head on the ceiling. I did like this, but I couldnt shake off the feeling of dizziness and sickliness. I am quite confident that the reason I felt dizzy and sick was not because of the LSD, but because I was experiencing a very mild type of serotonin syndrome.
I got up off the bed about five minutes later; after two PWIK came in to make sure I was ok. I went into the living room and sat down on the sofa next to my friend who was also tripping on acid. SWIM put on another 1200 microgram song on called Africa. For the background of the video, there was a HD close-up of a black/grey cats face. Instantly when I looked at the cat, it was pulsating across the TV screen, bobbing up and down to the beat. It was quite beautiful in a freaky way.
At 9:30PM, I checked my phone, and read a text from a friend. The letters appeared on my hands, and I semi-freaked out. I then began to feel extremely sick and dizzy, and I ran out of SWIMs flat and went outside to sit on the steps. There was a flowerbed next to the steps which contained flowers with lovely red and yellow colours, which swirled around the flowers, and the flowerbed started bobbing up and down in the floor. Everybody in the flat came downstairs to make sure I was ok, and tried to coax me back inside. At first I refused, but then went back inside with SWIM and sat back down. However, 10 seconds later I could hear voices and a circus-like laughing track from the music, and I almost fell over due to my dizziness. I ran back outside, and some PWIK followed. I was freaking out; my entire reality was swirling and rocking back and forth like being on a swing. Unable to throw anything up, I began to dry heave. I asked SWIM for a glass of water, and to collect my possessions and bag. They went upstairs, and returned with my possessions and a glass of water. I rang a friend at 9:40PM and asked if they could pick me up and take me home.
At 9:45PM, SWIM came in their car to pick me up, me and one person who I was taking the acid with got in the car with me. The drive is only five minutes, but during this time, my head was spinning and I kept thinking I was going to throw up. I got home, opened the door, and ran upstairs. SWIM and my friend followed me. I lay on my bed and started shaking, and then threw up a tiny bit into the bin next to me. I stopped shaking after five minutes, and began to look around my room at my desk lamp and computer. There were colours rippling across the ceiling like that ripple effect you get when youre in the bath and you look up at the ceiling. The colours were extremely bright and danced across my walls. I looked at the two PWIK next to me, and their faces turned into a ripple-water effect like that scene in the matrix where agent smith turns innocent people into clones of him. I felt secure in my room, because it was a familiar environment, and had very soft lighting, and was quiet. I eventually stopped freaking out, and lay back and enjoyed my trip for the next five hours. I eventually came off my trip at about two AM. SWIM stayed with my throughout the night to make sure I was ok.
Personally, I think I will take LSD again, but in a couple of years (At least) when I am older, and more experienced and ready to have another LSD trip. If you are reading this and planning on taking LSD, all I can say is to make sure youre in a nice, chilled environment where you feel very safe, and make sure there arent too many people there. A trip should be done with a maximum of three people, and you should only take half the tab, wait until the trip kicks in (up to 2 hours) before taking the other half, in order to make sure you are comfortable with the intensity of the trip. If you have any questions, just drop me an inbox, or comment on this thread, and Ill be more than happy to answer it for you.
Stay safe,
-Dobbythehouseelf
In order to protect the identities of the people involved, I will be referring to these people as either SWIM (someone who I know) or PWIK (People who I know).
On Friday night, I and two PWIK went into the city centre to pick up some acid from a friend. We got the LSD and went back to my house to get some food before we took the acid. I was feeling very confident that every precaution that I had taken would ensure that we all had a pleasant trip and would have a nice experience.
At about 7PM, we all arrived at SWIMs flat, went inside, and prepared to take the acid. I would like to point out that SWIM who owned the flat did not take part in taking the acid. They provided us with a comfortable, secure environment in which to take the acid. At 7:20PM, I took half a blotter tab of acid, and the other two PWIK who were involved both took a full tab each. I would like to point out that LSD affects the 5-HT1A and 5-HT2B receptors in the brain, which are responsible for serotonin uptake and release in the brain. I am currently taking SSRI anti-depressants, which also react with these same receptors. I had previously read the same day that taking LSD with SSRIs could cause serotonin syndrome, which is a condition where too much serotonin is released in the brain, and can cause a lot of adverse side-effects, which can be fatal.
At about 7:45PM, we started to smoke some marijuana that we had bought the same day. This helped keep us all on a chilled out level that we could stay on. At 8PM, the two PWIK who took the acid started tripping, and said they really liked it. However, I had not started my trip. So I took the other half of my tab. Im fairly certain that I would have been alright if I had waited and only taken half a tab. The two PWIK who took the acid were really enjoying their trip, and I was a little pissed off I wasnt on their level.
At 8:45PM, the owner of the flat put a video from youtube up on the TV, which was from a producer called 1200 micrograms. The song was called LSD, and was a very, very trippy song with lots of intense, trippy visual pictures on screen. By this point, my trip had kicked in (two and a half hours later after ingesting), and the visuals on screen and around the room were incredibly intense. The pictures on screen were floating and pulsating around the screen, and coming off the screen towards me, and pulsating up the walls. The patterns of colours on the walls were moving in a circular fashion, and I felt as if the ceiling was coming down to crush me. Throughout the entire trip, I was aware that this alternate reality that I was in was just a projection of my brain and the LSD that I had taken, and that I would come down off the trip eventually.
At about 9:15PM, I felt very dizzy and very sick, so I went into SWIMs bedroom, and lay down on the bed. Next to the bed on the wall there was a painting that SWIM had started. It contained many intense colours, which very bright and vibrant. It looked absolutely amazing, and I was overcome with a feeling of discomfort as the painting came off the wall, and swirling around my head on the ceiling. I did like this, but I couldnt shake off the feeling of dizziness and sickliness. I am quite confident that the reason I felt dizzy and sick was not because of the LSD, but because I was experiencing a very mild type of serotonin syndrome.
I got up off the bed about five minutes later; after two PWIK came in to make sure I was ok. I went into the living room and sat down on the sofa next to my friend who was also tripping on acid. SWIM put on another 1200 microgram song on called Africa. For the background of the video, there was a HD close-up of a black/grey cats face. Instantly when I looked at the cat, it was pulsating across the TV screen, bobbing up and down to the beat. It was quite beautiful in a freaky way.
At 9:30PM, I checked my phone, and read a text from a friend. The letters appeared on my hands, and I semi-freaked out. I then began to feel extremely sick and dizzy, and I ran out of SWIMs flat and went outside to sit on the steps. There was a flowerbed next to the steps which contained flowers with lovely red and yellow colours, which swirled around the flowers, and the flowerbed started bobbing up and down in the floor. Everybody in the flat came downstairs to make sure I was ok, and tried to coax me back inside. At first I refused, but then went back inside with SWIM and sat back down. However, 10 seconds later I could hear voices and a circus-like laughing track from the music, and I almost fell over due to my dizziness. I ran back outside, and some PWIK followed. I was freaking out; my entire reality was swirling and rocking back and forth like being on a swing. Unable to throw anything up, I began to dry heave. I asked SWIM for a glass of water, and to collect my possessions and bag. They went upstairs, and returned with my possessions and a glass of water. I rang a friend at 9:40PM and asked if they could pick me up and take me home.
At 9:45PM, SWIM came in their car to pick me up, me and one person who I was taking the acid with got in the car with me. The drive is only five minutes, but during this time, my head was spinning and I kept thinking I was going to throw up. I got home, opened the door, and ran upstairs. SWIM and my friend followed me. I lay on my bed and started shaking, and then threw up a tiny bit into the bin next to me. I stopped shaking after five minutes, and began to look around my room at my desk lamp and computer. There were colours rippling across the ceiling like that ripple effect you get when youre in the bath and you look up at the ceiling. The colours were extremely bright and danced across my walls. I looked at the two PWIK next to me, and their faces turned into a ripple-water effect like that scene in the matrix where agent smith turns innocent people into clones of him. I felt secure in my room, because it was a familiar environment, and had very soft lighting, and was quiet. I eventually stopped freaking out, and lay back and enjoyed my trip for the next five hours. I eventually came off my trip at about two AM. SWIM stayed with my throughout the night to make sure I was ok.
Personally, I think I will take LSD again, but in a couple of years (At least) when I am older, and more experienced and ready to have another LSD trip. If you are reading this and planning on taking LSD, all I can say is to make sure youre in a nice, chilled environment where you feel very safe, and make sure there arent too many people there. A trip should be done with a maximum of three people, and you should only take half the tab, wait until the trip kicks in (up to 2 hours) before taking the other half, in order to make sure you are comfortable with the intensity of the trip. If you have any questions, just drop me an inbox, or comment on this thread, and Ill be more than happy to answer it for you.
Stay safe,
-Dobbythehouseelf
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