There is no evidence that orange juice will enhance a trip. Vitamin C is useful for reducing Vitamin C's depletion in the adrenal gland, but that's about it (as far as tripping goes). Some people report no difference, others say it enhances their trip, but it is more than likely that it's a placebo effect. Hallucinogens are very psychological. If someone takes something/drinks something expecting to have a stronger trip, it's possible that they will, regardless of what it is. Such is the placebo effect. Expectations can affect a trip greatly.
haha, you've got that right! and ive just realized how many typos there are in my original post.. im usually THAT bad of a speller... haha. oh well.
i can vouch for the negative side of vitamin C. it WILL abort your trip, not fully, but it will diminish the effects. i have experienced this once with mushrooms and once with acid. these are the only two trips in my life where i came down unexpectedly early. the only thing different about this two trips was that i had been taking lots of vitamin C. then i went to amsterdam and the shroom growers all say that sugar and/or vitamins will help you come down. (sugar may help a bad trip by releasing happy chemicals in your brain, but vitamins just straight-up kill your trip).
I don't know if it will increase your trip but if your rollin on extacy than it does, always did for me and my friends.
I have heard of this also, I think it may have started because another high vitamin c containing fruit actually may potentiate the effects however i have never tried it. There are many medications that actually suggest you do not eat grapefruit while taking the medications because there is a molecule in it that potentiates the medications actions... who knows though. This fruit was also the fruit of choice for Duke and Dr. Gonzo in fear and loathing, Gonzo then says "Vitamin C... Need all we can get."
thats interesting, because one time, my friend and i were trippin, and i drank some oj, cuz i was thirsty. I ended up comin down way before him. He tripped like 2 hours longer than i did, and a ate a little more than he did. weird.
when i used to eat mushrooms we would alway cut them up really fine, throw them in a glass of OJ and munch them down that way. never affected my trip.
today i ate some mushrooms and washed them down with a bottle of oj, while my friends just drank water, took a lot longer for them to kick in for me, compared to my friends. My tolerence is very low too. I dont know, maybe it's true, maybe it isnt.
I read a journal article once that said if you took a HIGH dosage of vitamin C at the same time as you took the LSD, it could abort your trip. But they were talking ungodly dosages of vitamin c.
well i ate a couple vitamin C pills prior to an acid trip. maybe 1000mg of vitamin--not a whole lot, but it's something. and that trip was cut short at about 9-10 hours, afterwhich i was still tripping mentally for the next 8 hours but all my visuals had been muted. this was the same stuff that i had eaten earlier and peaked for 12 hours and didn't come down until the 18th hour. another time was on shrooms. i was tripping on about 4g of dried cubes and half way into the trip i started sucking on vitamin C tablets. i ate about 5 of them and i noticed right away that things were starting to become dull. i kept eating more vitamin C believing that it would enhance the trip and i just kept coming further down. my partner was tripping fully and had not eaten any vitamin C. looking back on these two trips years later i realize that the only mediator variable in these episodes was the vitamin C. the vitamin dose was not ungodly, but it was above the daily value for sure. regardless, the fact is that these are the only two trips of my life that have "aborted" in this manner. after learning that vitamin C does NOT improve trips, i realized that this must have been the factor in these two trips i had taken years earlier.... peace.
i'm glad you asked. as a budding psychologist, i answer: these were special cases because, at the time, i THOUGHT that vitamin C would enhance the trip's effects; thus, placebo is completely ruled out because what happened was the OPPOSITE of what i was expecting. i had heard the vitamin C rumor and decided to dose vitamin C during these two trips (once acid, once shrooms. the trips were half a year apart). after being baffled for years by the fact that just these two trips--of the many trips in my life--were the ONLY trips that ended abruptly, i was told by a shroom grower in Holland that vitamins kill your trip. vitamin c is the only "extra" in this investigation--i suspect it 100%.
ok i really dont know on this one. I have taken C with shrooms and not tripped that hard, and i once was not really trippin great and i drank this emergen-C shit and i started getting visuals and what not. sometimes i think it helps and sometimes i think it brings you down. I think ill just be sticking with no Vit C because i usally trip good without it anyways
well, many Dutch growers suggest that if you want to come down sooner that you eat sugar and vitamins. maybe there is some truth to that.
