LSD vs Shrooms

So I finally got to try LSD, and the experience was amazing, something I'm definitely going to do again, but one of the turn offs is LSD is somewhat pricey.
So I was looking in maybe trying shrooms...

So experience wise, what's the difference between shrooms and LSD?
and price wise what is it? The cheapest I've ever seen LSD is 10 a hit, 3 hits that would be $30. I'd prefer to be able to do a lot cheaper...

And I don't like drugs for recreational use as much as I do from learning from the experience, can you learn about yourself on shrooms like you can on LSD?

 

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basically what Orison said, look into growing shrooms. Otherwise, honestly they are pretty comparable price-wise to trip...like you said, L (least around here) is about 10 a hit so a good trip is 20-30, I'd say 2-3 hits of good L is equal to an average 1/8 of mush, which goes for 15-25 if you buy, but grow your own for next to nothing...

Effect wise, I find them similar in the sense that you're tripping in your head and seeing visual distortions, though mushrooms tend to be more mental and short-lived, while acid is more energetic, uppity and a bit more "in control". Both are amazing in their own right, really hard to favor one or the other personally.

 

Growing, as Orison said might be less in the long run. Maybe to decide after you've had an experience. But still there's not much diff in price between the two if you get them from someone.

I'd put it this way, you just had your first lucy experience, was anything you read or heard an adequate description? Most likely the same here.
It's kind of like comparing apples and bananas. They're both fruit, different flavors.
IMO the answer about learning is yes, but a strong experience with mushies is harder to integrate and at the peak it can be like a powerful whirlwind of thoughts, feelings and emotions at light speed. Grabbing one thought is like trying to grab a plastic bag in a tornado. The productive time is during the walk down the hill after the crest.

 

Yes, you can learn from either drug. LSD lasts longer and will tend to give you more visuals. And it's easy on the stomach.

Mushrooms are great as well, though. They feel a bit more primal to me, but that might not make sense until you try them.. I've had more important learning experiences from mushroom trips than acid trips.

 

Yeah, I've heard a lot of truth. Before I tried lucy, I read and watched a lot about it.
And it was weird to see that the experience wasn't something you could take from a read... It was an experience that escapes the limits of words.
I guess that makes sense when it comes to shrooms too then.
But for some reason I'm a little more frightened to try shrooms, my experience was good with them, but my ex-gf has done shrooms twice and had a bad trip both times...

And I loved all the energy behind LSD, it really felt like you were in another world of thought.

I guess my real question is, I think we could agree that the culture behind LSD is a litte more intellectual than that to say, weed. Does shrooms have that type of thought behind it? or is it more like "Let's see how fucked up I can get"?

 

Shrooms are more similar to LSD, they have been used sacramentally for thousands of years, but really it's more about the intent of the user rather than the drugs.

I find shrooms more sedate, earthy and less mentally abrasive than LSD but they also have a heavier body load than LSD often accompanied with nausea. Like LSD, it's an experience that is beyond words.

 

Sounds really interesting!! I'll probably still will want to read up on it, but I think I may try it one day. Thanks for the responses!

 

Word.

Body load and nausea, ya. For me I wouldn't say less mentally abrasive (i like that term). In my limited experience they are more variable the LSD. Where with LSD I find the headspace much more consistent (considering set and setting) but with shrooms it's always felt like rolling dice.
I feel setting is more important with shrooms because of that.

You will find people that treat anything/everything as something to get fucked on. But you know better now. :2thumbsup:

 

don't you not have experience with them??

GB gave a good description of shrooms.

voyage, i think acid is still pretty damn unpredictable

i've always thought of LSD as cheaper. but i used to think that you only took one hit like when i first started tripping, i didn't know anyone that took more than one. i guess that made me think it was really crazy to do so, and probably influenced my timid behavior for you regulars that know what i mean...

L is generally 10 bucks a hit unless you bought more. i could get a strip for 60 bucks i think? shrooms were usually 40 bucks an eighth!

 

Her bad trips weren't due to the shrooms, it was because of set and setting, personality, etc. I have done both twice each and from my experience I much prefer shrooms. I dont like getting acid because you never know how strong it is or if its even acid. Both times I did acid I'd say they were weak hits and they cost $10 each. First time I took 2 and second time I took 1.5 and it was good fun, but nowhere near as powerful as my 2 shroom experiences, which I only ate 1/16th of an ounce each time. Shroom prices really depend on where you are, I live in the Pacific NW so they are pretty cheap. 1/8ths usually go for $20 here.

 

Shroom potency varies a shitload too. It's nature, nothings consistent
A while ago me and some friends had about 260 liberty caps between us(don't know the weight, we just ground them up and eyeballed how much we got each). Call it around 86 shrooms each, and although it was a brilliant trip I've had a much stronger one with around 60.

Shrooms are more of a mindfuck in my opinion, but it's not a bad thing - it's just different, it's sort of "hazy".
I haven't had too much experience with acid so I haven't found it to be as "self informing" as shrooms, I think I just got caught up with the pretty colours and patterns exploding from everywhere with 'cid.

 

LSD all the way.

Acid in low doses shrooms in high doses.

 

Acid and Mushrooms kind of equal out in price, 30 bucks for an eight of shrooms and 30 bucks for 3 hits of acid, and that will get you to about the same level trip depending on quality of the batch. Although Shrooms often will go deeper even at lower doses. Sometimes lsd doesn't get to the real deep stuff into the higher doses. Where as shrooms may take you to those places on just a gram or two.

I would say you are less likely to get bunked because you can look at the mushroom and tell if its psychoactive or not, unlike with lsd, where it could be blank blotter paper.

With Lsd you have a range of quality that it could be depending on how it was manufactured, how it was distributed, how long it took to distribute, etc etc. Where as shrooms also have a range of quality, but its based on it hows it was grown, and kept, rather then how it was manufactured.

As for the trip part, it has its similarities and it has it differences. At certain doses and at certain parts of the trips it is almost indistinguishable between each other. I have had times where I questioned which one I ingested.

Either way both magical. I know you lucy, most like mushrooms will be your best friend too. Mushrooms are very ancient, and fused with many years of information.


For the most part though each one is unique in its own way. Lsd seems to be very energetic, very positive most the time, very pure, and very wavy. Lsd likes to go up and down, back and forth. Mushrooms are often lethargic, can be very earthy or very alien, it is quite intense spiritually, and it waves a lot less then Lsd. With the lethargy you will be more like to sit there and sink into the deep parts of your mind and just melt into the universe. It is often a more direct route to ego loss.

 

My last acid trip I saw mushrooms in the sky formed by clouds while the environment changed color with the sky.. A bit odd I thought, as if they were somehow connected.. Although I still haven't had shrooms yet so I can't say.

Is it accurate to say that shrooms are more likely to go bad? Because I've heard of more bad mushroom trips than acid trips, but that could just be because mushrooms might be people's most common first psychedelic? I still plan to try them though

 

It varies between individuals. For me when mushrooms go bad, usually the whole rest of the trip is just sort of a bummer, but most my shroom trips have been practically nothing but ecstastic with maybe some nausea. I find the frantic nature of LSD to penetrate my psyche in such a way that bad material and thoughts manifest more often and even if they don't, it feels like it could be just around the corner or something but I can also sort of pull myself out of these mental ruts within the trip, also due largely to it's frantic nature.

 

Yeah? One guy from his experiences said that on psilocybin any fears/anxiety that his mind had to face was forced in front of him in the trip and he has to take care of it to overcome it, while with LSD it can be "repressed" or changed like in a dream state by accepting you need to relax.

That's just one guys experience, but based off my knowledge of lucid dreaming I would say that's possible, but I would think you'd be able to face it on shrooms too. So maybe he just faced LSD with more positivity. But since you could pull yourself out GB I think he just wasn't sure what to do on mushrooms at the time.


Is the nausea bad on shrooms? Like does it ruin the trip at all?

 

The nausea can be bad, they are the only psychedelic I've puked on. That being said the nausea has not ruined a single trip for me. The nausea along with some other qualities always kind of remind me I'm on mushrooms, I feel them truly running through me and it usually creates more of a body trip which you can probably understand slightly from your Morning Glory seeds trip. But that aspect also somehow makes the mushrooms feel somewhat separate from my psyche as where I feel LSD integrates more thoroughly. Like for example on LSD I recall on one trip examining to see if I had a loose tooth and I felt this sort of unreleting apprehension as to whether my tooth was really loose or I was just tripping. With mushrooms I rarely encounter stuff like that and if I do, usually something like a sip of water puts me at ease. Both of them can provoke deeper contemplation for life issues and both are incredibly powerful psychedelics so various responses are possible.

As far as your example goes, I mentioned LSD has more frantic nature and in your example it sounds like the nature of the LSD trip allowed the individual to drop that issue.

 

I've never had nausea on shrooms, but then again, I've never had nausea on cactus, LSA or ayahuasca except when I was in the act of consuming them. Haven't had trouble with 2ce come ups either.

A moderate amount of alcohol really helps with shroom come up anxiety. The only bad trip I had on shrooms was a wake n bake, where I drank my usual morning half pot of coffee and the caffiene jitters ruined my trip.

 

i still have yet to try lsd.
i mean i've "tried" it.. but it did like.. practically nothing.
patterns just got contrasty a little. but thats about it.

i was disappointed.