why do acid?

I see what you're saying, but to say that after you take acid you don't open certain doors in your mind that you can never really close, or to say that some people don't at some point in time can recall 'feelings of acid,' or 'acid vision,' or even in some rare cases acquire a more serious problem (it being a 'problem' really just depending on your values and how you look at it). Acid is definitely a very strong hallucinogen and it's not something that anyone should take lightly, and there can be lasting after-effects, even if it's just looking at the world or one's self in a newer and more meaningful way.

But to say that flashbacks are anti-acid propaganda isn't fair. People should know that they may get flashbacks from acid, and if that is something that they are afraid of or uncomfortable with, then they don't have to drop.

 

Opened eyes are not flashbacks pizzicat, they are awareness. A flashback has been described as being at work for example, and all of a sudden, you start tripping out as if you had taken a dose. That is not going to happen. Sure, you may have lingering effects of visual distortion and a changed perception, but that is in no way debilitating to a human being. Nothing to be scared of unless you are afraid of reality. *

 

I have experienced a flashback, as if I had dosed, once, the day after I dropped, after I smoked a lot of primo bud. Are you going to tell me that what I experienced didn't happen?

Also, it is up to the person whether or not lingering effects of visual distortion and a changed perception are in no way debilitating to them or not. I find what you say preposterous. Of course some people don't want lingering effects of visual distortion, especially if the acid was frightening to them. And when a person perceives things in a different way after they drop, it can definitely be troubling.

Just because you love acid doesn't mean everyone will, and it doesn't make acid a gift from the gods. The one main thing that I have learned on acid is that finding a happy medium between two extremes is always the way to go. Any drug can be just as bad as it can be good, and I try to appreciate and respect that.

 

Friend I think you need to stop making my words into what I have not said. My posts in this thread never once stated that acid was a gift from the god's, nor that acid can not be bad. I realize that certain people are predisposed to not enjoy the effects.
That being said, no, people do not just start tripping exactly like an acid trip out of nowhere, if they do, it is more likely related to something the mind produces on its own and it does not only happen to people who have tripped before.
And about your experience, seriously? You had a 'flashback' when, the next day after a trip, and only after smoking topnotch marijuana? My friend that is entirely different than being at work and randomly being fried. Im not calling you a liar, but I am also not equating this occurence of yours to a stereotypical flashback.
Calm down and be happy brother.
Namaste *

 

I'm not saying that you said acid was divine. I said that I don't think it is, and that really wasn't my point in the first place.

I do think that if some people have 'flashed back' before, then they are certainly free to tell people that and it shouldn't be branded as propaganda. Everyone's mind is unique and LSD, let alone the human mind, is still something we don't know everything about.

 

Very true, I cant debate that fact my friend.
Point taken, and I dont mean to judge people with my statement, but I have been taking LSD for the past almost 9 years, have gone on literally hundreds of trips with both L and magic mushrooms as well as a handfull of RC's, and sure I have some lingering perception alteration and visual distortion on occasion, but neither myself nor any of the massive amounts of fellow psychonauts I've encountered have had anything remotely close to what would be described as a flashback. Just because I've never experienced it doesnt make it not true for another person, but I am just going off of reason and logic as well as experience. But, my own is not everyones so I should probably keep my opinions as just that. Opinion.
Namaste soul brotha!

 

I hadnt tried acid since I was 18 then a few years back I met a kid living local to myself and said hey man you dont know where I can get hold of some tab's do you. He just looked at me and said "what cid?, yeah mate I know cid really well!" anyway cut a long story short the last time I tried it back in the day I only tried one tab, so I gave him a score, next thing I know I was sitting their all alone in the house with 5 tab's.

Man, I chomped my way into three and thought 'ah, save two for later!'

The last time I tried it I was only 18 and I only had enough money at the time to buy one. Talk about taking off, what an awsome experiance, it was raining out side and as the rain pelted the window it left rainbow tracers going all the way back up to the clouds.

My skin started moving and a whole heap of wierd stuff started happening, but all that was going through my mind was, yeah, this is the experiance I remember from my youth. Awsome, found out later it was 250micrograms each... I was like 'woah I took three!'

Best experiance ever!!!
Oh and good lord does that stuff make you feel charged up or what! Whole body was stiff as a plank until the visuals started, then I wanted to climb the walls..
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Why should you do acid????

It will change the way you see EVERYTHING in life......

It did for me and it can for you to..

 

I definitely think "flashbacks" actually do exist, just not the way the media/government portray them. I have had "flashbacks" where I see a pattern or something that reminds me of a time when I was tripping, and it moves/does something it shouldn't a little bit. There is nothing overwhelming about them, there is no mind trip, its just a little visual, all in my head. This is also coming from a person who has only done acid 5-6 times and shrooms 2 times.

 

Why shouldn't things move? We live in a reality that is "supposed" to be solid because we make it that way, what if reality is actually more fluid. I'd rather live in a fluid reality than a solid one. If you put human tissue under a microscope it is far from solid even though it appears solid to our senses. Think about what you experience in a dream. Is that reality any less real or different from this one? It is if you make it so..