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i have a friend that tells me i should never drop acid.

I know it's my own body and i ultimately have the choice of what i do, but i cant help think that he's right. he says my mind is too far out there already, and that i would have a bad trip. he also said that he doesnt think he could handle a tripped out Malori (that's me!). I am a very emotional person, and 4 years ago i was diagnosed with manic depression, and i'm afraid i'd do something stupid while tripping

another friend put it like this:
it's a 12 hour trip, you're bound to have a bad part. but hopefully it will pass. why pass up a chance to possibly talk to god and ride on a unicorn across the moon? (hahaha. i seriously laughed at this when he told me)

 

my x boyfriend used to tell me that i was barely on this earth already and that if i took acid i'd never come back.


when i was 30 i met my now husband and he gave me lsd...it was the nicest thing anybody has ever done for me. i will be grateful to my hubby FOREVER for turning me on to the emotional healing and freedom i have experienced on lsd.

i'm not sure of your age though...like i said, i was 30 before i tried it.

 

if your mind is already too far out there
thats just all the more reason LSD will be very awesome for you
its typically people who are dead set on really having there mind 'here'
that have issues

 

mara she is 19? you think that's too young......damn i fucked up then lmao.

no but seriously malori only you know yourself. if you think you will be ok then go for it. the only advice we can really give you follows.

A) make sure you are in a comfortable setting with people you know.
B) make sure you have no time constraints or deadlines that you have to be somewhere.
C) DONT BE SCARED OF THE DRUG! realize that your state of mind is EVERYTHING when you do LSD. if you are positive, you will have a positive trip. negative and bad trip. it may even help you to have a few mild drinks before you dose. that's what i did my first time.
D) just realize that it's just a drug, there is no way it can harm you, and you will eventually come down. you will be fine.

I say go for it. If that one dude is gonna be bothering you about it, definatly dont trip around him lol. damn and dont do it at a party for the first time that suxxxxxxx......

at any rate if you do it, i think everyone here wants a trip report!

 

My friends are the same way. The bottom line is you just need to do what you feel is right for you. If you think you can handle it, you can. It's all about mindset and setting. If you go in worrying about who says what and the possibility that you might have a bad trip, you might cause yourself to have a bad trip. If you go into it feeling good about yourself and your surroundings, and expect a good trip, that's what you'll get.

But honestly, the only way you'll ever really know exactly how it will affect you is to take it =]

And by the way, WOW you're gorgeous.

 

good question......what is a good age to trip? i mean....we all know every person is different etc etc...but on average...what do you all say? what's a 'good' age to go exploring through lsd? did leary or dass or mckenna etc ever suggest an age?

 

lol your probably gonna slap me in the face mara but i've never even heard of any of those dudes you mentioned.

i would draw the line for most ppl at like....17 maybe?
but a vital thing i think to remember for young trippers is to not trip TOO MUCH.
young minds are pretty soft. mine included it seems like lol. i try to limit my contact with drugs. especially now that Im in school!

 

haha! i knew someone was gonna say this.

 

yea i have friends liek that to but i do it anyway .
i have read so much about it and i know and understand alot more then they do .

and also i wouldnt worry about having a bad trip . i have dosed about 20-30 times and i have never had a bad trip .

so i say go for it and dont worry about what other people think

hope i helped

 

My votes for you doing it. Some of my friends think I'm a bit out there, but it's all about being happy with you, and being content with yourself.

 

red pill or blue pill
Rabbit hole all the way
but that manic depressive diagnostic could be a kink in the chain of awesome visuals
just be in a good place when you decide to take the trip and hopefully you will be able to stay there throughout the experience

 

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If you decide you want to:

Drop the acid in a safe, comfortable place and make sure another person drops with you. People who aren't high are going to be very difficult to relate to.

Keep in mind that if the trip takes a turn for the negative, your friends may appear to be enemies, out to get you. This isn't what is really going on, they won't really do anything to you, but know ahead of time that you can't always count on having some friends around to pull you out of a negative slump. You can't really count on anything while on acid, especially your first trip.

Be safe, and do it with people who you know really love you. Don't have strangers around.

 

the first friend i mentioned early said something about how i should have my life pretty much set before i try lsd. Something about how it'll change me slash i'll never think the same way or be the same way as before, and he doesnt know if it would be for the best. as said before, i'm pretty far out there BUT i have ambitions and i'm trying really hard as of currently to become financially stable own my own, move out and all that nice 'oh this is really life slapping me in the face' mess.

actually, he doesnt bother me about it. just cares a lot. The first time i ever rolled, was with him. He's a great guy in general, that's why i'm second guessing trying acid.

i could quite possibly write out reports on my experiences with other things, though i havent experimented too terribly much. My next big adventure will be with Shrooms.

hah, thank you. but i dont really think i am.

 

Bat,

You are definitely really hot. Great skin and beautiful eyes. I think you ought to hold off on acid, unless you are INTENSELY interested in what it may have in store for you.

I mean, keep in mind the old Jefferson Airplane lyrics:

"When the truth is found, to be lies...and all of the joy within you dies"

How happy are you with your life right now? Do you really want to potentially change it forever? Do you want to possibly alienate yourself from all of your friends? You may never see eye to eye with them again.

It's a big decision, and I don't want anyone to wander into a date with LSD unless they are absolutely sure they are willing to gamble with their present life.

Maybe you're like me and the call is just too strong to ignore, and maybe you're a space cadet anyway like you say (and like I've been for life), but give it some serious thought please!

It's a life changing experience, and more intense than ANYONE on this forum can prepare you for. Don't kid yourself, acid is not so benign that we can all just approach it like meditation. It's an incredibly powerful substance and you need to realize what's at stake before you make that choice.

I don't mean to scare you, but I don't want you to risk it all when you seem so beautiful and healthy as you are now.

 

hmmm

im probably gonna get flammed, but i dont think it changes you permanently.
like, if you do it and then do it again every week for the rest of your life then of course. but if it's like a one time thing, then no way.
my first time, i felt a little different for like oh say maybe 2 weeks. not in a bad way mind you, i was full of love and saw beauty in everything. and you know how everything looks like an HDTV when ur on Lucy sometimes? that lasted for a good while too.

but i didn't dose again for awhile and i was back to who i was before i even messed with it. that beast that we call the ego will always return to you. and i find that if i dose and then hold off on it for a couple months, and i can't even really remember why i thought it was so great in the first place. until i do it again.

but as for "whats at stake" i dont really look at it like that. you honestly have nothing to lose if you are comfortable with yourself.

i.e. if your happy, it can only make you more happy.

 

if you have ambitions and dreams i dont think it will deter you from them. if anything it will probably make you more deteremined. think of acid as kind of like a cleansing process. it clears away all the bullshit and distractions that your mind has been feed throughout the years. it really makes yourself focus on you, and when come down, you will have a better understanding of who you are, what you want, and what you really need to be happy.

after my first time tripping, i broke up with my gf of two years cuz i realized how much different she was from when i first met her and how much of a bitch she had become. it sounds like acid made me do it cuz i was fucked up in the head or something, but really it was just me thinking about it and realized that i was fooling myself into thinking i was happy. it also made me start college as weird as that sounds lol.

is he older and have you known him for awhile? acid is totally harmless in my opinion, but i can think of tons of people that i would never give it to, just because i've known them for so long. if you have any younger siblings, it would be kinda like giving your little brother/sister weed. it can't hurt them, but for some reason it is something i would never introduce them to.

 

Be warned; LSD will have some (semi)permanant effects. By that I mean that it can take years for them to go away. I took one hit of acid about six months ago and I'm still tripping a tiny bit.

Also, I think the potential for a bad trip is higher with acid than other drugs (shrooms for instance). If a mushroom trip goes bad you can usually talk yourself down until you feel alright again. LSD is not so forgiving - if the trip takes a turn for the worse there isn't really anything you can do except endure it.

I've taken shrooms quite a few times and in my experience the effects don't linger beyond a week. Like I said, the acid is still affecting me.

Oh and DEFINITELY don't mix weed with acid - at least if you're not experienced. My acid trip went bad about ten minutes after I smoked a joint - despite drinking probably over a gallon and a half of water, my mucous membranes were bone dry and it felt like there was a burning piece of coal in my forehead (inside the skull). This coincided with a complete breakdown in my ability to communicate, which made me feel like my friends were intensely critical of me - an introspective nightmare basically. This was easily my worst trip - and I've been sure I was dying on DXM before.

This is based on my own experiences of course, and I'm not you, but its also based on experiences of my friends and some experience reports on erowid. I'd recommend starting with a low dose - my first acid trip was on a pretty small dose and there wasn't a bad moment.

 

dying on DXM sucks so bad. god.

 

you remind me of me. i remember talking to two of my best friends who are also the biggest acidheads i know, and we were just talking about the universe & such and one found out i hadn't done acid and was totally blown away that i could be so weird without it. he said basically the same thing, "maybe you shouldn't try it, you're already so far out there you might not need to". honestly, yes, it changed me a lot, but i don't think it tore apart my perceptions of who i am... it just helped me be more of who i want to be, by showing me the ways i was holding myself back that i didn't even notice. it intensified me by a hundred times, but i'm still basically the same. what i always loved, i love more. and what i didn't love before, i love now... or am at least working on it.