could i handle LSD??

though, everyone reacts differently to drugs. usually the effect of a drug is similar enough between everyone to have 'reliable' effects. but these drugs also tend to have the same effect in the same person. We know that psychedelic trips can be different every time, for the same person. So mix in some biodiversity and you are likely to find markedly different effects between people.

All the psychedelics basically do the same thing - they attach to serotonin receptors. However, the serotonin receptors are slightly different all over the brain, so certain psychedelics attach more readily to certain parts of the brain, giving a different profile for each drug. Different people might have serotonin receptors which interact normally with serotonin (ie to say, they are sufficiently normal that they allow functioning thought), but whos slight character interacts in a particularly different way with specific psychedelic drugs.

 

it's interesting that you say that some interactions allow for functional thought. I had twice the amount of shrooms that someone else did who tripped face yet I retained my wits and normal dialogue. but that would not be the case with lucy. i can't talk even on two hits

 

Yes it's funny how this works. With acid I usually have difficulty speaking during the heaviest part of the comeup (and obviously during the peak), but for the most part I can speak just fine. With mushrooms Im pretty much in my own world for the entire trip.
I remember one trip, ate an 1/8 with 3 other people who ate the same amount, and were sitting outside on the porch a few minutes after ingestion, and they are carrying on talking and laughing and getting weird, and I blinked once, when I opened my eyes I was in an entirely different place, I was surrounded by a sea of people as far as I could see, and I was being held by the shoulders into a chair (2 people on either side) and this young girl dressed like some kind of old royalty came up to me and held a cup to my lips and told me to drink from it, and as I did I blinked again and was back on the porch. I couldnt speak right away and pretty much sat in awe for the next 2 hours being blown away. I mean I was laughing every few minutes and said a couple things here and there, but overall I was very dettached from the group and didnt enter the turned on group mind until later on that evening.

 

whoa.for some reason what you said about royalty reminded me of some things I've experienced, but then I see so damn much that it's likely to coincide with much of what others say...

 

Well, would you mind sharing anyway? Im intrigued Because she was a very powerful presence for me, it was so painful in certain emotional ways, like being pulled, but the vision held much more than I can as of yet compute. It was almost as if she was asking me to join this sea of people, or souls, but I dont really understand what I was looking at or why

 

haha. this is really hard to describe. I was meditating a few weeks after my first L trip and in my CEV's i kept seeing a single white point of energy that was an intersection of a few never-ending bands of "suchness", like an "x" and in the middle of the x was the point of energy or light. then the spatial bands would disappear from view and the point of light was trasplanted onto a series of different incarnations: people, flowers, cars, basic stuff. the everyday stuff had replaced the infinite bands of suchness.

after losing myself in the regular scenery, I forgot about the single point of energy or light. taking me by surprise, everything in the vision became liquefied and swirled together, seemingly flushed down an interdimensional drain. once everything compressed into the drain, the single white point of light flashed brilliantly, overcoming everything else I was seeing. the light slowly faded and I could make out the single point again. as its residual light beams faded I could see its new incarnation, which was in the jewel of a necklace of a queen or some lady dressed like she was royalty, but I only saw her from behind. that was the end of that.

then another time my wife and I took E and we wanted it to be mystical so we approached it as such. she was struck with a series of visions that she interpreted to be other incarnations of herself. among them were a feeling of being queen elizabeth, with a supporting figure behind her, which she saw as a version of myself. These are her words:

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=305947&page=2

here's the complete account of that mystical roll^