Good 'cid comes to those who wait...

Just to start off I'd like to point out that SWIM has been a lurker of these forums, and others of the sort, for a while now.

SWIM has been looking for acid for a very long time. For years poor SWIM crawled in back alleys, looking for the ever elusive blotter. It seems that yesterday acid seemed to find SWIM. He never expected that it would turn up when he wasn't looking for it. Needless to say, SWIM went for it. In the past, SWIM had always been a fan of taking his hallucinogens alone, in his basement, and in the dead of night. SWIM's friends never seem to understand, but it's clear that he likes to have his personal time with such potent substances. With all his past drug experiences under his belt, SWIM enjoyed several potent blotters, and oh was it extraordinary!

SWIM never knew what it was like, psilocybin doesn't compare. You just don't know, SWIM didn't know, until he woke up in a parking lot filled with colorful and cheery people, and stood there thinking, "What the...!" And then realized that he was in his basement-alone.

Just thought I'd share "SWIM's" experience and give a shout out to all the lonesome trippers out there, melting in a pool of their own dreams, in the dead of night.

I'd also like to edit in that the sunrise this morning was something SWIM won't soon forget.

 

Excellente! Sounds like SWIM had an exllent experience to say the least!

 

I'm glad you had such a great experience...if you've been lurking you probably know what I'm going to say next. Please, with the acid will find you nonsense. I know its exciting when you find some, but don't turn into a new age idiot as a result.
Here's my summary of this issue ending with a seemingly rhetorical question, but seriously I'd like someone to challenge it:
It seems obvious to me that this “lsd will find you” theory is a sort of folklore which people will laugh at sometime in the future if lsd becomes more widespread and available. Just like people probably said this sort of thing about DMT when mimosa hostilis rootbark (etc) wasn’t available for sale on the internet and people couldn’t perform their own extractions. The easier something is to obtain, the less pseudo-mystical nonsense surrounds the process of obtaining it. Has history not shown this to be true?

Again, I am glad you had a great experience and I hope you have many more.

 

wrong...GOOD ACID comes to those who wait.that the way it was thats the way it is and thats the way it will be for millions of years. just because more people are taking it and it is in more of a supply these days doesnt mean that its always around. if you know the right people it is though.

 

an explanation would help rather than just seemingly saying something like: "this is the way it is and this is the way it will always be, I know, trust me."
In your opinion, is lsd more magical than DMT, mescaline, magic mushrooms, salvia, etc (substances that don't seem to work on a "come to those who wait" basis)? Don't you think people probably said this sort of thing ("good mushrooms come to those who wait") about magic mushrooms in the late 60s of san-francisco when lsd was much more abundant and accessible? Some exceptionally confident hippies probably even said "this is the way it will be for millions of years".

 

I can't speak of what's going to happen millions of years from now, but there is definetely some truth today in the words "acid will find you." With so many imitation acids available, statistically you're likely to run into some iffy chemicals before you find a legit LSD dealer. It's not the 60's anymore so I can't walk down to the West Bank and start asking people if they have a few hits. If you're casually looking for LSD you're most likely going to run into a legit dealer indirectly, by meeting new people who may turn out to have connections. This would be, in a sense, "acid finding you."

I think we'll be looking a decently long period of time before good acid can be picked up anywhere. Law enforcement combined with the difficulties associated with the manufacturing of LSD really puts a strain on what acid is available to which population. I mean you have to admit, we're not just cooking up some meth in our basements here.

 

you cant compare all these together, well you can, but they all have different trips. dmt sends you through the universe at lightspeed and above, mescaline is lucid, dream like trip, mushrooms are a feel good and groovy thang salvia is well salvia. lsd is a expirience on a peice of paper. to some acid doesnt come around that often though you have to remember that shit.

 

My first time LSD it also found me, and after that I knew very well where to look. But it found me when I didn't expect it.. pretty great.

 

ayzcrava, you seem to have a lot going for you, 17 years old, living in Amsterdam (if you're being serious), responsible and informed about psychedelics. But watch out for the "LSD will find you" gospel, it doesn't make any sense and just serves to fill the void where true spirituality should reside. It is pseudo-spiritual nonsense, and it will most likely be laughed at in the future (if we take a historical perspective). I would caution not to build spiritual foundations on such shakey ground.

 

wrong thread... there was a thread dedicated to this debate not too long ago, why dont you go find it and post in there... plus i dont see what your so upset about. it is a saying among many and is actually very spiritual in nature. this saying doesnt just go for acid it goes for anything in life. just because you dont understand how others understand it does not mean you have to go around all upset about it. its not like there is anything wrong with thinking that "lsd will find you" - and of course we are not saying this literally - you must interpret it as a metaphor. personally i think you are too closed minded to see our point. i see your point and understand your inabilities to understand ours.

anyways... wrong thread. your taking his wonderful trip report and turning it into a debate - when there is no need to --- go to the thread that is dedicated to this topic and comment in it, brining it back to the top of the discussion board... sound like a good idea?

 

yea, I think it would be a good idea, thanks.
But your insistence that I "just don't understand", is unfounded. I understand what is being said, people would like to attach a mystical aspect to obtaining lsd. Saying "lsd will find you" however is idiotic and obnoxious. Feel free to bring up the old thread if you wish, in my opinion it should be stickied.

Sorry to the OP if this is straying too far off topic, but it is the title of the thread.

 

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a realist. However, I don't find it idiotic or obnoxious to seriously or playfully play-up a mystical sense associated with the attainment of LSD. The drug can be such a powerful spiritual tool that it just seems right to some people to attach such feelings of mysticism. Now, I could go on, trying to justify why people say that acid will find you but, I think an issue like this transcends a petty argument. It's all about tolerance. Don't tell me what emotions to associate with LSD and I won't tell you that you should wear different clothes or pursue more worthwhile hobbies. The world could use a little more love and tolerance and if you can't understand that then maybe you need to take more LSD.

 

haha, you've got me all wrong my friend.

You say "don't tell me what emotions to associate with LSD"....did I do this? This certainly was not my intent if I did.
peace

 

If someone sold it to you the acid didnt find you. They found you and happened to have acid. Its really not hard at all to find good doses all the time you defintaly dont even need connections.

 

agreed and agreed... on both comments. especially the second comment.

 

it's just a chemical ona piece of paper. If you really think acid has the "ability" to find you... you've been definitly doing too much.

 

it is a metaphor - it is not like we think that acid has legs or something.

 

hahahah....wait....it doesnt?

 

still just thinking that there's any truth in "acid will find you" metaphor or not means your taking acid too seriously. It is nothing more then a chemical.