Does LSD make you smart?

smarter no, but it did make my penis grow 2 inches!!!

 

Haha sup Neo. good to see some1 familiar still around here.

 

yea brah some of us still kicking it.
but nice to see you back man :cheers2:

 

it makes you smarter only in the sense that visiting any foreign territory makes you smarter, it broadens your sense of whats possible, of what exists

You know, take a trip to south africa. While no, your not going to gain any 'intelligence' that is going to allow you to woo other people. It will make you little more mindful of a greater area that exists, a little more mindful of how different things could be. And in that, is the opportunity gain a better understanding of things, and potentially become smarter about certain things

But no, just frying constantly isn't going to just make you smarter. You can't fry your way to a 160 IQ...
Although you might be able to fry your way to a really awesome drawing you make, or a song you write

 

Yeah man, it's all just another experience, like the ones played out in our lives every day. The knowledge you gain is no more or less, but you're given a helpful tool and a new mindset on which to base your learning.

I've thought about a lot of this man. That's some deep stuff anyway. I dosed first with some of my friends who were out partying, but I took to it pretty quick and realized I would take much more from the chemical than they do. Since then I've been dosing occasionally for about two years, and I have to say I feel almost like a little kid again. I can just keep asking myself, "why?" and observe the things around me for what they are, instead of dealing with the corrupt, yet more established and social things out there. I've realized that there are many things I've learned and would love to share, but I couldn't possibly explain some of them.

When it comes down to it, this type of knowledge is the stuff that really matters, because it is the very fabric of our being. The problem is, it won't get a person anywhere, especially in this cultured world. As I become more enlightened in the psychedelic realm, I find myself losing touch with the real world, interaction with my peers in a modern world.

Thanks to all for the replies though, some fantastic input I'm seeing here.

:cheers2:

 

anyone notice their perception of time changed due to this? I feel like since I first had acid, time has gone by slower. Like the way time flows when you're a kid. A year to a 10-year-old is much longer than a year to a 30-year-old. Whatever it is about the kidlike perspective seems to make time slow down again. Maybe it's just having attitudes of wonder and amazement at the surrounding world that slows the perception of time.

 

oh yes, so true. i have done this

i def noticed..but for me it wasnt from my first time. it was from a trip in which i experienced eternity..
maybe its because one will appreciate time and life more, and make it more useful. get more done. but your grown, so you use your time wisely. Thats what i try to do. i wish i had this state of mind when i was attending high school. id be so ahead of myself.. financially,creatively and intellectually.
but i am still moving forward way happier than before

 

I agree that intelligence can be measured in many different ways, but for the purposes of my own thoughts, I will consider that intelligence is the ability to interact functionally with other people.

I was watching a films about an acid trip this evening with my friends. It began to make me think about whether my mind had changed as a result of taking mind expanding drugs...... It definately has. Before taking mushrooms and LSD, I was always able to give people the answer that was correct to them, for instance an exam question in school. However, if a question was to be placed before me at this moment in time, I begin to immediately become confused as I have to consider the possible directions of these questions. Nothing is simple to me anymore. For instance, if i were to be asked whether I liked the colour blue, I would first accept that I could not answer this question in the way that would satisfy me, simply because there are too many variables to think about. Is 'like' the correct term to use relative to how I feel about this particular frequency of visible light? Which type of blue does the questioner mean, or is he referring my general opinion of the many different types of blue? What is it about any specific type of blue that may be more attractive to me? I could go deeper into how my better memories involve certain colours of blue but I then give up on the question and say, 'Yes'.
I know I am not stupid as I am coming into my final year studying Dentistry at a respectable english university, but my inability to speak to people without disappearing into my own world of thought has definitely occurred as the result of a long sustained period of taking mushrooms and LSD. I would consider myself more mindful of what people say to me and able to think more laterally about problems that can be solved, but to the observer, I may appear to be socially inept as I can barely converse with people on a normal level these days.
I feel that expanding my mind with these drugs has made me more intelligent within my own mind, but in terms of being a functional member of society, answering questions in examinations and even something as natural as flirting with girls (which I never used to have problems with), it has been detrimental.
I spoke to the earth whilst tripping, I discovered that images seem to be processes rather than simple reflection and I fell in love with many of the beautiful things that I have experienced. Which type of intelligence would you like to have??????? Would you trade this 'wisdom' for the ability to take in another person's wisdom and which will be more valuable to you???
There are always sacrifices in life but I am not sure whether I have made the right choices, but there's no going back now!

 

I say it opened up a different level of thinking. A level that I don't even know if you can call it thinking, it opens up your intuitive understanding, it makes you think at a deeper level, by allowing you to directly experience these deeper levels. More than making you smarter, I say it unleashes the smarts you already have, the deeper intelligence you that already exists in you. Opens your mind, to view from a different perspective.

 

-More aware but not smarter. I find if I do a task like play the guitar I notice all these different chords and notes that I can add or subtract that I normally don't perceive when sober.

-I also would say its made me more spiritual.

-like someone else mentioned, I constantly find myself interpretting questions in different ways and that over analysis can be a bit burdensome at times.

 

mmhmm

 

i dont think it makes you smarter mentally, but it does show your brain things that your brain didnt think was there. This expands your consciousness and I also like to think LSD brings out things in the trip that the individual needs to face, this is a very profound learning experience and can teach an individual much about the universe around them, and the illusion society has us wrapped in

 

Humans are smart with or without it. Ive heard about people becoming crackheads afterwards and ive heard about people who became like geniusues in school and then some people it has absolutly no effect on them afterwards.i dont know what the fuck it did to me. LOL iam crazy as fuck.

 

Exactly what i think.

 

Long story short..

LSD gave me knowledge and understanding.

Knowledge = power, Understanding = knowing.

It greatly increased my mind in the balance of power and control.

 

OP: No. School makes you smart. LSD makes you enlightened.

 

School makes you educated, not smart. Intelligence can be used to comprehend education, however without intellect the knowledge would be useless. LSD opens your mind, it doesn't magically enlighten you. By using it you can gain insight and with it shape your mind.

 

does a shovel dig a hole? a hammer put a nail into wood? or a screwdriver take out a screw? the answer to these questions is yes and no. acid can be compared to a tool

I can try to be a carpenter right now and use all the carpentry tools known to man, but I wont be able to create fine furniture, but millions of people throughout history have used the same tools and created masterpieces.

a Timothy Leery, Aldous Huxley, or a bob dylan can drop acid and create masterpieces within themselves and for the world. You or I can take acid and change our lives. Or you can take acid and just be along for the ride and not get anything out of it.

 

that is the correct answer, at least in my opinion.
LSD is a neutral substance, just like everything else that does not posses life. How an individual uses that tool determines the outcome. It isn't some mystical substance handed down by the Gods and neither is any other psychedelic substance.

What it does do is allow our nervous system to process and interpret information, internal and external, in a new way. That in itself can be very educational and enlightening or a horrible descent into madness.

I really wouldn't include Leary in that group, during that period of his life he was pretty much an ego-centric, self-serving asshole who actually did more harm than good to the psychedelic movement/research.
Let's replace him with Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Alan Ginsburg and Alex Grey.

 

Here is a video about psychedelics and intelligence. Pretty interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56fcVI88xk"]YouTube- Psychedelic Horizons - An Interview with Prof. Em. Thomas Roberts