How does LSD change you?

IMO, it seems like maybe you were less in love with yourself and more in love with how you felt you were perceived by others. I say this because, someone with confidence, a person who truly loves them self, wouldn't get so bent out of shape over their best friend maybe mocking them. Lsd made you worried that this perception you held about yourself was not shared by those around you, or even more importantly your best friend, and that really bothers you. Your confidence and sense of self can not depend on other people, it needs to come from within you. So quit telling jokes to impress people and make them laugh, tell jokes that make you laugh and fuck the haters.

 

LSD is a life changing experience. Theres nothing like sitting down outside and just watching the world melt around you into the vibrations of reality. For me, it was a humbling experience and reminded me that the world is hopeless as a whole, that the depth of this life will never be conceivable by man, and that watching things melt is more beautiful than anything Ive ever seen before. Its like swimming between your conscious and subconscious world.

Its something you have to want and be ready for though. Slip someone LSD and theyll have the worst time of their lives. It is one of the most amazing experiences youll ever have though

 

LSD made me grow fins

 

LSD doesn't change you. It just SHOWS you. It's up to you to make the changes.

 

I completely agree today. I've been battling with it going back and forth, somedays i feel good other days i don't. today I feel like it opened my mind to things that were wrong with me and ideas i had about the world i wasnt aware of. I'm ready to deal with it. I agree fuck the haters, I need to only worry about what I think about myself and I definitely have some interior work to do. The thing that I care about most is being able to mend the friendship that I feel has been falling apart as it is the person I have been closest to and friends with the longest and don't even feel like i can have a real conversation with now. I think he has been trying to fix it by overly agreeing with me and being overly enthusiastic about things which has made me bug out and think he was fucking with me based on my initial thoughts about the trip. I hope I am correct, but I think what I need to do is just reaffirm my friendship with him and our relationship will go back to normal. Thanks for the responses they were helpful. What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, and without pain there is no way to become stronger.

 

also i never did care about someone mocking me i would just go right back at them or so i thought, must have been somethin deeper i wasnt aware of until trippin. this drug is ridiculous im thinkin about doin it again and just sittin in the woods and meditatiing to try to truly find myself.

 

It's one of those things that you have to experience firsthand to find out what it does to you, it's like thinking about god, you can only fathom how great it is.

 

That is also what I would consider.

 

Knowledge

 

Yo, man, have you talked to your friends about this? You should tell them exactly how you feel. Opening up to your friends will make you a much happier person, trust me! Also, if it's only been 1.5 months, don't worry, you'll get back to your normal confidence level.

 

As for the original topic...

In my opinion it's your REACTION to acid that changes you, but you still shouldn't try it if you have mental instability. Taking acid is like peeling off the superficial layers of yourself and taking a gaze at who you really are--if you aren't comfortable and happy with yourself, I don't recommend tripping.

I took LSD 7 times over the summer and haven't taken it for awhile now. During that summer, I learned so much about myself, about what I want to do in life, etc. Newcomers to LSD need to go into the experience with the mindset that they are going to try to improve their lives by taking it. Taking LSD has made me realize so many things about my life that I needed to change--for instance I need to be more productive, eat healthy, etc. That being said, even after doing it so much in a short period of time, I still feel like myself, like I always have, it's just that I have much more insight about myself now.

 

Why not? You said it yourself.....it peels off the superficial layers and shows you yourself. That is the starting point of self-improvement, for many people, and LSD/psychedelics can be a VERY powerful medium for finding out what you need to do to become the best "you" you can be.

 

If youre not cool with who youve become youll end up hating yourself and it might become a bad trip. Youll pick at your imperfections as a human and want to better yourself, if youre not overcome by darkness; I say darkness cause thats what it would feel like. You would probably feel trapped for eight or ten hours rather than completely free or even not existent.

LSD is some serious stuff, I dont see how theres people that can do it all the time.

 

That's not a bad trip, it's a beneficial one.
If you approach psychedelics with a fun time party attitude, you will get your ass handed to you somewhere along the line.
If you approach psychedelics as a learning tool to gain a further understanding of yourself and your relationships, you will get your ass handed to you somewhere along the line.

When you get to the point of being completely honest with yourself about yourself, these "bad" experiences can become some of the most beneficial and educational trips. I have gotten infinitely more personal growth material and insights from the excruciatingly difficult experiences with psychedelics than I have from the blissed-out, fun ones.

I certainly prefer the blissed-out trips, but the difficult ones are where the real growth can occur.

If you can't look deep into the mirror, avoid psychedelics.

 

Tripping in nature is the best, I highly recommend this course of action.

QFT

 

Agreed. The only person I have witnessed having a "bad" trip(pure hell for him, literally and figuratively) is very thankful for having experienced that trip. "Bad" trips can be very beneficial. I hope I can experience a "bad" trip one day, but that's probably why I never have. lol

 

Its me again, after long time like 4 month not taking lsd, after i had some long term problems i thought there is no way that it made me like that, its no way i had bad lsd, it doesnt kill brain cells what so ever, so i risked it again(for all of us, and in the name of science :rockon i knew i could go completely schizophrenic but i guess im not afraid to loose my mind =) despite that most of people who knew about my problem told me not to. And So after 2 hits i HAD wonderful trip, i thought i maybe going to go back the way i was all normal, but no i just stayed the same, not the same before i did it for the first time but the same as before those 2 hits. Ive done allot of research, LSD effects Pineal Gland witch is size of 1 rice, its also called third eye in some religions, it also effects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and seasonal functions, so basically how i understand it shakes/buzess that little rice thing that makes all those wonderful effects on your brain, i would also call it a soul, shakes your soul and who you are all together and then your subconscious mind has to do the work to come back :biggrinjester: - and some scientist say that lsd it self stays in your brain for like 20 minutes, the rest is your mind trying to comeback, but these chemical and Pineal gland is so small that its hard to research.. so i might had some problems that i wasnt aware about but now its like i learned my self, my brain completely. Funny thing i also thought about, maybe it doesnt kill braincells but lsd rewires your brain, makes different connections between neurons, Also ive read on net and think that its true "LSD makes you question politics and makes you feel that trees is not a building material" allot of people that i know would agree to that + i know some people who do it allot like 1once or twice a weak 10 hits or more and they are not normal , they are not crazy but they are changed i would say, they respond more slower, and it takes them time to think, and overall they are different but still im cool to hang out with them, its FUN, they are trippy ..
Also if you want to intensify the trip try PIRACITAM its nootropic i didnt do it yet but ive seen good reports on the web... and yes i haven't told any one but my grand grand mother had paranoid schizophrenia when she was old, so i think my DNA is a little damaged, and 1 more thing if i ever get cought i would never snitch i would rather do time in prison case when i come out i could trip again arty:. and if i gonna know that someone snitched i would do these to him :beatdeadhorse5:!!! PEACE an LOVE To EVERYONE +)))

 

I would be very cautious if I were you man, I mean having a family history of mental illness. If I were you I would cut my losses and stop tuning in.

 

Other than millions of unique ideas, I could say psychedelics have ultimately and truly just made me a much more sensitive person. Which I think is a very great thing, even if I feel uncomfortable at times when most would not.

 

It basically hasn't changed me. But hell, a walk in the park can change the course of a life - how can we tell what has and hasn't changed our lives? We are a constant force of change. The few low dose trips I've had have only reinforced every ideal that I put value in. But the reaction from my friends isn't ideal. One of my friends worries about my mental health because he heard a story of a friend of a friend who took acid and it "melted his brain into his spinal cord". I told him this was just a bullshit anecdote and I sent him the studies that show LSD isn't capable of causing any significant damage. Another friend of mine used to be a heroin addict and she is worried that I'll go too far with drug use and want to try something that will impact my life in a negative way. My reasons for doing drugs are very different from what most people perceive them to be. I'm not interested in getting high. I want to see my imagination manifested into reality. LSD, basically, is a tool I wish to use to explore my mind.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I am very interested in aesthetics. My pre-LSD artwork is probably just as trippy as my post-LSD artwork, but again.. we are constantly in a state of change. I might post some of my art sometime, once I fix my scanner.