What factor of the trip is frightening?

I'm doing LSD for the first time Friday. I'm a bit nervous, all I've done so far is shrooms. Does LSD tend to be overwhelming for your first time or can it be very relaxing?

 

If you have done shrooms, depending on your dosage, it should be similar visual wise..
I guess to answer your question, what makes its frightening or overwhelming, is when it gets to intense for the users pleasure and they get scared.

Just relax, and breath.

 

The come up.
It's going to overwhelm you.

 

^^^This was true for me.

 

Facing all your fears and anxietys, all your demons, all the negative in you , that can be scary. But you are usually forced to accept it, and in this acceptance of yourself, good and bad, a transformation happens inside you, and there is a great sense of freedom that comes from it.

 

Can you guys explain what exactly happens / goes through your mind during the come up.

 

Mad strong anxiety, a sense of loss of control.
That doesn't mean that you will lose control of yourself and do something stupid, you'll just have this feeling of "oh shit, I've opened a door, it's scary, and it's too late to turn back".
You feel kind of helpless really.

 

yea i usually feel disoriented while coming up and then i settle into it

 

definitely the come up. If you're taking a proper dose you aren't going to be prepared for what it does

just breathe and know you are safe and you wanted this

smoke pot if you want and listen to music and relax during the come up. When it peaks it's much less overwhelming and more like all of reality is now on acid

 

the come up personally excites me. easily my 2nd favorite part. *shrugs*
why would I be scared of effects of a drug I desperately wanted?


you guys are putting expectations and ideas in his head. his trip, the come up, the entire thing can go any and which way.

 

^op asked the question???

But yes Any part of the trip CAN be scary. I'm with kokujin I've always loved the comeup.

The things that can be scary:

-Are a feeling of no turning back
-Not going to feel normal again due to time distortion
-sometimes the visuals are just not very pleasant
-racing mind
-'one of those hellishly introspective phases' on the comedown

I've only had 1 trip that I haven't enjoyed on acid though.

 

This shit is the pits.
Depressing.
LSD is great and all but it really makes you realize how much you take your sobriety/normal consciousness for granted.

 

i feel like what your setting is at the moment of taking the drug is going to dictate where the trip is going to go. but everyones differnet

 

Thanks guys. The come up on shrooms is usually just awkward for me. I always feel like I don't know know what to do with myself. It's not scary though. I guess Ill find out when I do it. You guys got me thinkin I'm goanna have a bad trip now.

 

if you enjoy shrooms you will most likely enjoy LSD.

 

to the OP. i did shrooms before acid, ive had a 2 bad trips on shrooms but ive taking them at least 10 times. but i always felt a sort of confusion and also depression when coming down from shrooms. i was always afraid to do acid, because i herd it melted your brain and that you go insane if you do it. well i finally did it 2 years ago and i can saftley say that i have never had a bad trip on acid. i have had times where i witnessed my death, thought that gay Asian ninjas were on there way to my friends house to take him out. But i wouldnt consider them BAD trips. im more intrigued and inspired to go deeper down the rabbit hole. Dont ever think that your not gunna make it out alive, because if you are safe about it. you'll take each trip as a notch in your mystical journey through life

 

You make me wanna up my dose. That description sounds so reliving. I hope it's truth.

 

Another thing about me is I enjoy my thoughts racing or getting lost in my thoughts. If this is what's considered scary it may be some what of an enjoyment to me.

 

Definitely a wave of anxiety on the come up. But throughout the whole trip, it's much like dividing into two people and sitting quietly across from the other you, staring at each other, absolutely apprehensive, and trying to not have one go bezonkers at the other.

 

i like to think that if im going to trip, im going to trip hard. when i first started with cid i ate 1-2 hits now i take at least 3 at a time.