Seeking advice

[lou_reed]

Hi everyone I just joined this forum and i'd like to say i love the way everyone here helps each other out by directly sharing their experiences.
I happen to be a college student and ive been interesed or rather fascinated by LSD for over two years now. i love reading peoples experiences and contemplating what my own will be like some day. The potential of this substance seems endless. Yet for some reason i still find my self scared of it and i guess as stupid as it sounds im just looking for a confirmation from someone to alleviate my fears. A few days ago i went over to a nearby town to meet a few friends of mine and they had some acid (they were already tripping and they left some for me). I got there and ate half a hit and after 3 hours i ate the other half. I find it very strange that it did not affect me at all because i could feel the drug in me and by god my pupils were dilated like crazy. I had no visuals except for at one point i thought i was dreaming and pictured a snake in my mind and got scared and ran to the other room ( yes im shit scared of snakes lol) . Anyway that was the high point of my so called trip if you wanna call it that. Im guessing the acid couldnt be bad cos it did affect my friends i mean they didnt trip balls but atleast had some visuals etc. I really look forward to trying this wonderful substance again but the only thing that scares me is the link between lsd and psychosis because even though i know there is no evidence its still at the back of my mind. Does anyone have more information on the subject? Also seeing as im going to go ahead and do acid again anyway is there any advice some of you experienced trippers can give me on having a good trip throughout? By the way in relation to the psychosis thing i happen to be a fairly stable individual with no history of mental illness cos ive heard that lsd only makes people who already have a predisposition to mental problems , go insane( like syd barrett for example). So yea i'd consider myself a pretty normal guy (other than the fact that i hate the state of this world and would love to someday start a revolution like abbie hoffman back in the 60s).

Thanks guys i really appreciate it.

[bigblondeafro87]

Good first post!


Yeah, the problem with a lot of people is that they dose too light on their first trip, I did that as well, but I guess it's better than taking more than you can handle haha. Just try two or three hits all at once next time and don't be afraid of it. Go in with the mind set that you will have the greatest, most informative 8-12 hours of your life and the day after you will feel incredibly refreshed and reflective. The only thing to be scared of is what your fear can do if you let it remain in you. Fear is the cause of 'bad trips', although truely there isn't a bad trip unless you are just in a terrible place for tripping. The typical bad trip is extreme agony/ panic/ fear of death and these turn out to be some of the most informative trips out there, so do not fear them.

PS I'm not so sure Syd Barrett was insane. Maybe by society's standards, but society is not who's judgement you should be following, follow your own. I don't believe that man was meant for this world, and he is probably fairing much better on whatever plane of reality he is on now. There are many like him and there always will be.