What should I do to my house to prepare for LSD?

I was thinking of preparing my apartment for a trip. I was thinking of cleaning it, stocking it with booze, cigarettes, lighting some incense, any other ideas?

Any precautions or things that you do to your living space before taking psychedelics?

 

lose the booze and cigarettes and replace with fresh fruit.

 

I would not loose the booze and cigs, if you don't need them you don't need them but if you have it around at least you're sure you're not going to miss it. Hide the kitchen knifes

 

Well, that's definitely a good call. Also, was thinking incense.

 

Set up speakers for some music, get some pot instead of booze/cigs if you feel compelled to need another drug.

 

^^^ This ^^^

 

Yep, I agree with people who said you dont need booze and cigs. I like to make a nice comfortable area where you can just flop back and relax if you feel the need, with lots of cushions and pillows. Useful to make a nice playlist of music beforehand too, and to make sure you wont be disturbed by other people coming into the hous....

 

You need an old digital clock with the big red LED display... Not so you can tell the time but so you can freak out when the red LEDs start jumping all around the room....

 

Whenever I tried to smoke a cig on L,it felt ridiculous--like I was sticking a burning 2by4 in my face. Booze is one thing--L another. Doubt very much if you'll want booze when tripping. To each their own,of course.

 

I dont know about other people, but the idea of putting alcohol into my body while tripping would repulse me. Tripping generally puts me off drinking anything for at least a weak afterwards, which I guess is why a recent study showed LSD to be an effective treatment for alcoholics.

 

Just get someone to do it with you who has been there before and can talk you down if you get too freaked out and enjoy.

 

I would not worry about getting booze or cigs. Though I'm not a tobacco smoker or alcohol drinker, I can say pretty certainly that these are not needed during your trip and if you like either of the two using them while tripping might ruin them for you. That is why psychedelics were so effective against addiction during early lab tests.

Now heres what you do, get a big black light and some black light responsive posters (also, you can break a highlighter up into water and put that in bottles around the room for extra glow), get some light toys, make sure you can make at least one room completely dark. Get a strobe light, those are trippy at fast speeds without LSD. Incense is kind of annoying to me while tripping, it dirties the air you are breathing with fine smoke dust, which bothers my eyes and lungs sometimes when tripping. Get a lava lamp, they can actually light the room quite adequately with your dilated pupils while tripping all by themselves and they put out nice changing colour onto the walls and ceiling.

Prepare a creative area. Put down some newspaper and get your paints and canvas out if you paint, get some crayons or markers and paper if you don't.

Get some high quality speakers or good quality headphones. Music is really enhanced on acid when it is more true, FLAC music files are also recommended. Nothing worse to me while tripping than hearing some faint buzzing at certain notes due to bad music files or bad speakers/headphones. These are the headphones I use:


CLEAN your place a shittonne, make it smell nice and fresh but not with a chemical smell.

Stock your place with fresh fruits and the supplies for a good fruit smoothie:
-blender (magic Bullets are awesome, and much easier to use while tripping)
-Frozen assorted fruit
-cut up fresh fruit
-deliciously flavoured yogourt
-fruit juice/cocktail of your choice (I like a peach/mango juice for mine)

Once you take your first sip of that fruit smoothie at any point during your trip, you will believe your tastebuds died and went to heaven.

I'm just listing things as I think of them, but what I have listed would probably make for a decent time for myself anyway.

 

Lose the poisons (cigarettes and alcohol), they are disgusting period and you will be made painfully aware of their true nature while on LSD. Get fruits, get high quality music through high quality hardware (none of this listening to youtube through PC speakers BS), get candles, glowsticks are fun, art supplies (youre gonna wanna write stuff down or sketch) . . . basically all healthy, fun, beautiful, creative things are what you want on LSD.

Get a book of art, doesn't matter what kind though I recommend surrealist art like Dali . . . if you can't get a book, bookmark a good website of art to look at at some point. Go outside and experience the outer world as well at some point, hopefully you have some nature nearby.

Eat natural things. No fast food, no junk food.

And of course ganja.

 

If I were still a smoker I'd keep the cigarettes OF COURSE. Alcohol is a bad idea. Definitely clean your home beforehand.

I always have books around and for tripping, I get out books like Amazing Dope Tales, the Bible, Tao Te Ching, Some things by Jung, Be Here Now - those sorts of things. I have a lot of pieces of bark and wood, as well as stones laying around (most picked up along the trail backpacking). "Hangings rich, of many strange designs." Religious and ritual things, mostly Buddhist. Usually flowers or something from the garden. It's mostly based on good, old-fashioned LSD.

So part of what I'm saying is in tripping you may learn a lot about what sort of environment (physical setting) is best for you. If you drink you'll just get fucked up - and there's something better than that.

 

Making plans ahead of time for a righteous LSD experience. Ha. Good luck with that.
Seriously, make all the plans you like, then go ahead and have your experience.

 

Thanks guys! Some great ideas above. I think I won't lose the booze just in case I feel like a beer but I definitely won't get wasted. Thanks for the tips!

 

LOL. Fucken-A.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't make plans or put in place various things.

 

Ya, no I'm just funnin around. As you obviously can tell.
It is good to plan for a few contingencies. Some fruit, music, some of the things mentioned above like paper for drawing if you're artistic, etc. It's always good to have things on hand that might be wanted, I just always laugh at the idea of planning certain "episodes" of a lucy trip. Until I was more experienced with trips I would bring along a toy, or whatever, and then have 10 min (hours and hours) conversations trying to wrap my head around "why".
Like, plan ahead and bring money on a beach trip, just in case. Then stick my hand in my pocket at some point, pull out $40, and try to puzzle out exactly what the hell square paper with ink and a portrait of a dead president really means. Spend half a lifetime deconstructing the idea of giving someone a piece of paper in exchange for some random object.
Or peel an orange and try to figure out why an orange is just like the planet earth, except edible.

 

Haha fuckin' hippies. My first suggestion would be to make a list of questions for yourself. Second get the fuck out of your apartment. Don't fight it. Pay attention to the coincidences they will be rather obvious. Remember it is all real and you have been given gift to be able to perceive in such a manner. Respect it. venture with a good friend. You will be best friends for life after. relax. I smoke cigars and drink a nice beer. You probably won't want to. Infact I stopped drinking for months after just to think about stuff. You will constantly think about your first trip until your second. I was asked by my gf not to do it because she doesn't understand it. I've done 3 heavy doses...my first at a nudist colony and the other 2 back to back nights at burning man...I suggest finding a nature spot. to watch the stars and moonlight. or wake up early and dose an hour before sunrise. do something with the after glow...do say this is nice...be inspired and do something with it... change your life for the better...help others...learn the lessons and take stuff from that world and use it to improve the default consciousness...you can even make a lot of money doing it...ie steve jobs...most importantly you will get a glimpse at your spirit...remember what its like and strive for that every single day....sorry for the rant

 

oh yeah and don't forget to play your role to the fullest...and enjoy admiring the chaos and order of it all