I'm really finding it hard to get the most out of acid

I've tripped 22 times, and I know just how awesome it can be, but lately I really feel like it's disappointed me. On the weekend, I had a Sistine Chapel tab, which was one of the most intense and amazing trips I've had...Except it only lasted 5 hours. It was freaking ridiculous. I had no weed to keep the trip alive, and everyone at the party either had none, or not enough to share/sell. The come down was excruciating and the next day was worse. I feel bad that I can't trip without weed, because most people seem to have no problem. I can't help but wonder if I'm approaching acid wrong. I think if I day tripped I wouldn't have such a problem with the day after, because I could just go to bed at night. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Don't take a Sistine chapel tab lol.

 

Yeah, I guess I didn't describe my real problem that well. I guess I feel like unless everything goes right, then I have a lame trip and I don't get much out of it.

 

Next time you trip try about 5 grams of shrooms.

 

You describe the effects as very strong but the trip length as 5 hours. That does NOT sound like LSD.

 

If you are disappointed with 5 hours of intense tripping, you are approaching it wrong. I'm not even sure you are taking LSD.

So, why do you trip? I've never tripped at a party as they aren't the best setting to trip at typically imo, so is this a regular thing when you dose?

 

I have had this happen a couple times to me. This is why I like to spread doses out a little.

If you come up real fast, peak real fast, then your probably gonna come down real fast too.

I remember taking 3 hits all at once, and I had the craziest trip ever, traveling in the fifth dimension behind closed eyes. 5 hours later though it was over, nothing but little trails and tracers, and just brighter colored everything. Even smoked some ganga and that didn't help bring it back. It just hit me all so fast, it was over in a blast.

This even happend with a half oz of shrooms, so its not cause its bunk, it's just the way it worked on you.

Maybe you just haven't been in the right mind state lately for downloading large contents of information. Just give it some time, do so productive self work. Do some yoga, clear your mind, get all your work done, then come back for another trip.

You might want to try some more next time. Maybe eat 1 tab, then wait for the first effects to start, and then eat the second tab. Or just do stuff the first part of the trip, like go for a walk, this will lessen the chance of it just spewing all over you at once. It can build up with you.

 

If you are serious about "getting something more out of it" then have more respect for the substance and stop treating it like a party drug. The majority of your posts regarding your "trips" have been done in a party or social setting.
Do it alone, in the dark, with eyes closed, with music as your only sensory input.
Then you will start to unlock the potential of psychedelics in regards to inner awareness and growth.
Simply put, you are taking it in situations that provide distractions from your inner universe. Remove the distractions if you really want to go deeper.

 

Terence McKenna style, regardless of substance always sends me to the deep realms:

Alone, high doses, in the dark.

 

FTW!

Alcohol and MDMA are the best party drugs in my opinion. Not combined though, and in moderation.

 

expectation -> disapointment.

flow with the universe and let it take you where it wants to.

 

that too. enviroment is so important.

i've done some pretty hardcore tripping at parties before. and well let me tell you, drunk people tend to think it's either real cool or real funny that you are tripping. luckily enough i've never had drunk people mess with me while i'm tripping, but i have been marauded by drunk people that thought it was really cool i was tripping. it gets to be a bit much, as their inebriation clouds their judgment and mostly all people are very inexperienced with psychedelics, so they tend to get off on all these wavelengths that are just totally perpendicular to the trip that you are actually on, and end up influencing your trip rather significantly. the same goes for rolling people. i've tripped at hard raves on several occasions, and well people can sense the energy or something, because well i've been maurauded at raves too. i'm beginning to think that lsd and mdma have a very funny connection.

moral of the story is:

the people you are around and the headspace they are in can have a very real impact on your trip, whether you notice it or not.. makes me think of this gomez song. "little consequences, we share, we share"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bDpzpDVu4"]YouTube - Gomez - How We Operate

 

My 15 hit trip was really only like 6 hours of tripping. it ended abruptly. so it can happen, but yeah definitely work on your set/setting, it's not at all conducive to the deep stuff.

 

Great post. I actually never tried tripping that way. I usually am excited to see the visuals, which doesn't really give me much time to sink into my own head very deeply. I like having some kind ofm activity, weather it's a walk, a covnersation, or watching a movie. (2c-e is great for movies... the imanignation to create your own content and actually think that's what the film is giving you...)

Also, I am sort of afraid of tripping alone. I'm going to break this eventually, but I'm afraid of getting sucked into a terrible sadness on my trip. And I like having someone there to distract me when I fall into something I can't cope with. I know that sounds cowardly.. but I don't see a problem with pacing myself in my psychedellic journy.

 

Thanks for your posts guys. This makes a lot of sense. I guess I've always liked sharing trips with people. The party I was at was an outdoor party, we call them "bush doofs" in Australia. They're essentially meant for tripping, and I've had some of my best trips at these sort of events. I guess the real difference was that it rained like a mother fucker and there wasn't a very good turn out. Also, this was organised by my friends and I, so we probably didn't have enough rep to draw a huge crowd. I've tripped alone once, but it was with a fairly low dose of mushrooms, and in my dorm. I need to try a really high dose sometime, but acid is very expensive from my sources at the moment unfortunately.

 

Mind if I ask what doof it was? and if you're heading to any others any time soon? rainbow? Strawberry fields?

 

No problem pacing yourself, but it is extremely rewarding when you must create the positive experience alone. My most profound, rewarding trip was 60mg of 2c-e alone. Quick summary: some gut rot and negative thought cycles of regret and guilt on the come-up, which lead me to an epiphany, which lead to the radiation of positive energy and bliss, and a forever-revitalized love of life. I think you are due.

 

Oh yeah absolutely, you can either "distract" yourself with someone else, or tackle it head on in your head, which is where its all happening. that's where you grow, when you don't have any safety lines.

 

The doof was called Spring Break. I'm going to Rainbow Serpent, but not Strawberry Fields.