Horrific first trip on LSD.

Sounds perfect to me

I can't help but feel slightly guilty when I do it though... Guess i just can't completely shake the rumours based on fear and ignorance.

 

Don't know why you would feel guilty.
What rumors would you be refering to?

A psychedelic experience at it's core is a very private thing, at least the really educational ones.
At least that has been my experience and opinion.

 

Yah man bad trips suck!

For me it seemed like it took a good month before I came completely back to reality from my second LSD trip, which was the only bad trip I had.

Often times i'll here my friends say something like

"I don't feel like I ever came down completely from my last acid trip"

which i'm finding out can be normal, I haven't dropped since late this summer and I still sometimes have flashbacks.

Acid can be dangerous as far as your mental health goes, once you enter the hell of lsd paranoia and thinking you are going to be insane it's hard to let go, once you drop theres no turning back and if you have a bad trip it's like a bad dream that doesn't go away for hours, but seems more like days. I remember I tripped in public, bad idea btw. And my friends wanted me to smoke a bowl with them, so I did. All of the sudden I was speechless, they didn't know what to do with me, I couldn't comprehend their conversation and all that I could notice was the kaleidoscopes in the gravel and rainbows in my perpheral vision. It was kind of humiliating in a way. Stay away from acid for awhile and give yourself time to meditate, it worker for me.

 

learn from the experience about how to deal with acid, and how to keep progressing in your existentialist crisis cuz you'll come out of it brighter and better.
i dont see the mind as the slave to the body. they definitely go hand in hand. I see it as the material world is the opposite of the mind and your body and nerves are the connection between. So you should nurture the connection, cuz with one existing by itself, there's no point at all to anything.
But still, both are surrounded by crap lol

 

The ignorant claims 99.99% of the population make.

And the fact that it is such a highly scheduled drug.

I know logically that it had to be done if they wanted it banned, those responsible for testing it were distributing it, thus remove the ability to test it by a really tough schedule.

But still, the stories, and the worrying about falling over the edge are always in the back of ones mind i guess.

 

Can't argue with that one. Half the questions in this forum attest to that.

It's only Schedule 1 because Nixon was an ignorant, paranoid, racist asshole who ignored all the research that had been going on for almost 3 decades.
The way drugs are scheduled has absolutely nothing to do with harm or danger to the user. If it was, alcohol and tobacco would be schedule 1.
It is unconstitutional to dictate what an individual can ingest.

Drugs are scheduled based on thier accepted medical efficacy,
Schedule1=no accepted medical use as determined by the FDA and AMA. Goes back to the pure food and drug act enacted by the FDA in early 1900's to get rid of the patent medicines that had morphine and cocaine to which a lot of people were addicted too at the time.

And yes, in some ways Timothy Leary was an idiot.

Only a few reasons why someone may "fall over the edge".
Pre-existing or latent mental illness.

Taking it when in a bad place, mentally, emotionally or physically. Proper set & setting are essential

Not knowing you have taken it; being dosed without your knowledge

Not doing your homework and understanding what to expect prior to taking it. Goes back to your first statement about ignorance

But still, Why would you feel guilty about taking it as a solo journey?

 

I too was tripping out on halloween and had if I had too put my trip into one word it would proably be: SUBLIME, but when I had purchased it early in the day I thought if i was in the right state of mind, and I put myself in a good mind set got with a good friend too share the experience with in a safe place that had no ristrictions. Any psychedlics are serious and you cant just drop like its a cup of coffee, unless your a smelly hippie.(no offenese to any smelly hippies.)

 

Just want to bump this thread. If any of you have been disillusioned or been called schizo.. etc.. depressed.. etc. It's just words. You can't define this situation with words. Words are man-made. Logic is a useful servant but a terrible master. We are just awareness. We are a consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Check out this website: http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/ZEN/zenphilosophy.htm

This helped me on a new path towards my "true nature".. There is no fear.. Your emotions don't define you. We define emotions.. now what happens when you realize that emotions can't be defined? You are at peace, emotions are irrelevant. There is a sort of "causeless happiness".. Check out Adyashanti on youtube to learn more. I don't mean to be preaching, but just on the off chance that somebody else had a "bad" trip and they realized that life is undefined.. maybe they would come across this thread and they will be fine. Much love guys.

Oh.. Also head here: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113062

The third post is me explaining a little guide for what to do if you're disillusioned by your "ego"

 

"Does the idea of "I" exist outside of ones thoughts?"

 

Lmao

 

Indeed, energies are hummm "special" on that day. I tripped this Halloween too and met my Nemesis! It was both scary and exhilarating.

Ravkes, glad to see you're doing better now.

 

Getting there man! Getting there.. haha