Can Acid make you go crazy For The Rest Of You Life?

to experience life for those 12 hours, in an unfiltered way, making reality seem actually so much deeper and more intuned. actualy makes you feel like your dreaming when you compare it to being sober. because on lsd you were awake for the first time. intuned so much.

on lsd i have felt like i have woken up out of a dream. but i gueess when it all wears off you slip back into that dream, cause you dont have any lsd in you.

 

Define "going crazy"? Perhaps a bit changed, but after all my trips I feel relatively the same.. just better, fresher, lighter, deeper, more connected and social. It's like a healing drug for me. I don't really "think my reality" on acid, nor much so while sober, so I guess it's about how much you let fear, past, and future run your life. You're either going to be afraid of going crazy from it or acknowledge it as a possibility that happens very rarely, either way, what difference does it make once you get there?

Don't get me wrong though, I've seen some pretty fried kids my age, if you consider that type crazy. Just totally out of it, and "duhhh" while sober. Some people just don't understand what kind of drug they are getting into, I'm talking completely ignorant to anything other than the knowledge that you "trip" and "see things".. and they dose consistently every day, not really understanding the damage they're doing to their personality and mind.. Tis what it is though.

 

I've had plenty of bad trips an' plenty of good ones man. There's been times I've felt like goin' over the edge but in the end I've always come back. But I don't do unnatural drugs persay, man. If I wanna trip I'm gonna go find me some shrooms or somethin' like that. Lucy is fun but its just not for me, man.

 

quite true. the realm of psychedelia is a programming ground for oneself, in which one can fasten together any strands of reality they want to comprise their personality and mental makeup. if that person sees the experience as a hollow escape from reality to tune out of consciousness and trance out at visuals they are unwittingly programming their native realities to exist in a lowered state of consciousness, and smoking herb later on will in some measure restore that numbing of mind and senses. this is further enmeshed and conditioned by overuse of the psychedelic. we need to "practice" our newly shaped attitudes in regular living, to make sure those certain neurons stay together, then the most positive things you want to retain become habit, and you find yourself enjoying an elevated character and are of more use to yourself and others. but if a person treats his visions as drug-induced delusions he won't be compelled to integrate it into his life and the drug availeth him nothing despite him using it repeatedly.

 

I dig it that lucy isn't for you; it isn't for a lot of people. But I wouldn't say the experience isn't any less natural than shrooms or peyote. What comes forth is of nature because it comes from inside us and that's what matters, even if the act is manmade. LSD might be a manmade substance but it was formed in a manmade world, and our mental software is manmande. In such a context it makes sense to improvise to release what is indigenous inside us.

I've made this comparison before, but it's kinda like in the movie E.T. where the alien needs to communicate with his natural homeworld and fashions a crude machine with the alphabet toy, the fork, yarn, phonograph or something, etc...a very artificial method for communicating to his native world but it did the job and his people came for him. In the same way the latent authenticity within us can be released from innerspace by means of the artificial act of tripping on acid.

 

I like this

 

everyone's just trying to peice together their own little reality inside their head. and somtimes things go wrong.

everything that anyone says about the mind or lsd experience is merely speculation, philosphy, or that persons interpretation of reality.

no one can hold your hand in your brain and help you peice together reality when you grow up. no one is inside your brain directing you. only people outside your brain, in the physical world, with our bodies and language.
so ultimatly everyone is on their own up there. untill ofcourse we have the technology to connect our brains together and explore each other in a dreamlike fantasy. that will be better than sex. a bit like the movie demolitiong man, no more physcial sex, just plug yourself in and explore each others brains. just imagine how close you could get.

 

and the answer is............YES

 

I took acid from the age of 14 to 20. I prob had about 30 tabs over those years. I am now 28 and relatively happy. the acid I took has definately helped me to think ouside the box. I feel more enriched for it however more lonely because not many people share my views or quirkyness which I believe is a result of my use of LSD. Obviously my personality plays a part however on one of the last trips i took i just kept repeating the sentence 'there has to be something more' and to this day i still think like this. It was like the acid tapped into my primitive being the part of me which seeks to be fulfilled. its strange it has motivated me but also left me with great depression. anyway i think the smarter u are the less you need your mind open anyway. Youll go fuckin crazy. So dumb people go for it.:cheers2:

 

dude same for me...alot of people just think i'm weird =/

 

Ha, same. But its all good because I love who I am and I wouldn't want to change the way I think for anything. Although I do wish I had more people around me that could understand/relate to my insights.

 

Cheeseburgers and television have ruined more lives than LSD ever could.

And hey, lots not forget that college campuses hold the highest suicide rates. You could very easily say that College has ruined more lives than LSD too. All the parents telling there kids 'go to college' has ruined more people than Timothy Leary ever did.

What about marriage... cars... whatever...

Honestly I bet you the hippies living out in a commune in harmony with nature and like a loving family are living the safest life most failsafe life one could possibly live.

 

I was never the same since i tried the real HOFMAN PAPERS... but "not being the same" after a trip doesnt necessarily mean your going crazy , you just change in some ways. personally i like the way i am now. But is is also true its not for everyone, the man himself said it ALBERT HOFMAN(the guy who created it) - "It is just a tool to turn us into what we're supposed to be.... in the "RIGHT" hands".

-I recommend reading HOFMAN's "MY PROBLEM CHILD", if you ever wanna know the truth.

 

If you are predisposed to having mental illness, DON'T do LSD. Check your family history for any mental issues. I had a good friend that ended up a paranoid shitzo, and he didn't do a lot of LSD, and it wasn't like right after he did it.

It just sort of happened to him in his mid 20s. He cut off all ties with his friends, saying we never were his friends. He got progressively worse and he's been in and out of hospitals. Thought the government was watching him, people were out to get him. He moved away, and I heard he was doing ok on meds but didn't like being on them.

Now no one is sure that it was the LSD that triggered it, but who knows? His father had mental problems manifest late in his life, so I can't help but think LSD pushed him over earlier than he should have.

 

maybe the government was watching him...
and I've personally cut off friendship with like 95% of my old friends after delving more into psychedelics simply because they made me realize what real friendship was, and the majority of my old friends weren't that. Those two things are no reason to hospitalize.

 

That's pretty much how I feel and what I did. I did shrooms when I was around 15, fried a lot more frequently around 16-17 then first did acid when I was 17. However there was a time where over the period of about 3 months I dropped or ate mushies really often and it didn't so much change my perception of reality, rather it made me realize that reality is very circumstantial and most of it is perspective. Now I don't contribute everything in regards to who I am today to my trips, however a great deal of who I am does indeed come from them and the use of herb.

 

No the government wasn't watching him. No one was out to get him. Thanks for implying we weren't real friends to him. Wow, you know so much more about what happened to him than any of us, you're AMAZING

We're not the ones that put him in the hospital. Did you not read where I wrote his father had mental illness later in life? That my friend was a paranoid shitzo?

He was freaking everyone out with his conspiracy theories and erratic behavior. Maybe you should get some help if you identify so strongly with this. Ya, you're not the crazy one, everyone else is. You're just going sane in an insane world.

 

i know this was sarcasm but I think this is right on. :lurk5:

 

u can go crazy even without acid..

 

I'd say, everyone is already schizophrenic, just some notice and like to take advantage of the situation fully.

Theres nothing wrong with 'schizophrenia', its only the 'paranoid schizophrenia' that poses a problem. 'Paranoid' is the problem, not schizophrenia. And it is not LSD that causes 'paranoia', it's your environment, your situation and the people around you that cause it.

I have past friends that talk of me to others as though I "lost it" from psychedellics. And from my point of view, it's utter nonsense. My old "friends" are just afraid to face the fact that "THEM" is nothing more than a careful balance of easily changeable chemicals and synaptic tissue. My existence presented evidence of how fallable and fragile their situation was, which causes a great amount of uneasiness to them. Because if they had to accept the fact that A) you can change that much and B) be completely fine, even better off afterwards, then that would present the ultimate conclusion that C) There -sober- ego would have to recognize parts of itself as necessary to die and "lose it". Which no -sober- ego is going to do that, so the automatic response is to distance me.

It's as though I changed the angle of viewpoint that aimed my development into the future. Some of my friends recognized this and think I'm perfectly fine, they see the new angle I'm heading down. Some of my old friends chose to continue to look at me from the old angle of development I was traversing, which from that old angle, my NEW angle was never in line with there point of view. They chose to only see me as I was recorded to them in their brain from memories, they did not choose to see me as me, as I am currently. To me, that is not a friend, a friend does not notice extreme alteration in you then project THEIR past memories onto you, using how much you align with such memories as the signifying factor of 'defect'.

Also, I haven't really run into a conspiracy theory that doesn't have a high plausibility of being true. I could easily understand how someone can get wrapped up into them. Once you realize the extreme weirdness of just existing, pretty much anything becomes plausible. But I don't get paranoid about them simply because I believe the winds of chaos will always overcome any conspiracy that manages to get a grip.

And I've often thought alot about the whole thing "government watching you". I don't believe there is anything wrong with the intuition, the sense, that the government is watching you, because they are. Just as long as you don't blow it out of proportion or stretch it to places that become absurd.