Preparing for first trip

Advice? I've read shit on Erowid and talked to people who've done it and I'm pretty confident its gonna be awesome, but I was just wondering if any hipforums users had any advice?

 

Think for your Self. Question Authority. Try to see through your eye.

 

Well that is definitely good advice, but I meant more in regards to my first trip. Unless theres some deeper meaning im not picking up on.

 

read my signature if thatll do any good... lol

 

The physical aspects of the experience will be very new but tolerable and pleasureful. This you won't have a problem with it is a great and fun part about the trip. But acid trips also subject you towards a deeper awareness of awareness, this is NOT the result of acid but is available all the time to anyone, acid just aides towards this awareness. But to really break through and experience this deeper awareness then Think for your Self, Question Authority, and Try to see through your Eye(1).

 

Thank you both


And also, I know eating has some affect on the trip, but what? Is it better to have eaten soon before tripping or not?

 

I'd avoid fatty food for a couple days before the trip; the day of the trip eat small amounts of quick-burning carbs (fruit). I'd keep fruit and lean protein and anything that will digest quick. The body shifts its priorities during the trip so it won't want to digest something difficult like fat.

 

I would actually recommend eating well that day, as priorities shift on an acid trip and sometimes you won't eat or sleep and ignore things like temperature for hours and hours.

 

try crackin a raw egg and eating that if you feel out of nourishment. and eat fruit. that should keep you going healthy.

for your first time, dont plan to do anything. just go to a place where you have heaps of things on hand, and where you wont have to worry about other people's perceptions of you (eg parents, random groups of sober ppl). have music available, comfortable places to chill out, dress functionally and comfortable.

after your first trip you will perhaps have a better idea of what to perpare next time

 

yea dont plan on driving anywhere ... even though you could... its still not safe and trips people out? lol tripped me out... but it was awesome on the way to vegas.. cuz the clouds looked awesome and i saw a lake in the dessert that turned into an ocean.. or coulda been the sun...= ) and maybe dont too many but atleast 1

 

Thanks for all the responses, I'm pretty excited and I feel decently well prepared, so hopefully it will go well.

 

The funny part is that even the most prepared person on earth will tell you that they weren't prepared for the experience

Embrace the universe, that's all that's asked of you grasshopper

 

I really don't understand why people think you need to eat a bunch of food before a trip. Eating food is what we normally do to have energy and fill our body with sustenance. There is a very good reason why people don't get hungry when they are on a good dose of LSD and that is because you don't need to eat. LSD opens you up in a way that is hard to understand until it happens but when you're tripping you have more than enough energy without having to eat. Eating a lot of food before or during a trip will actually affect your trip in a negative way. When you eat food your body needs to send blood down to your stomach and other organs while you digest and distribute. If you fast or eat very lightly there will be more blood and oxygen available for your brain during your trip and trust me you will have more than enough energy if you take enough LSD. Psychedelic drugs are a trip away from our normal sober reality and although a good, steady and healthy intake of food is required for normal life the fact that you don't get hungry on a trip should be a good enough indication that it is okay to go without food for a day. A full stomach will ground you and make it difficult for you to let go and trip out. Your body will not need this energy anyways. Fasting is actually used as a way to achieve spiritual awareness without the use of psychedelic drugs so it makes sense that fasting would help with your psychedelic trip.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that if you don't feel like eating while you're tripping, don't eat! You're not gonna die of hunger and you're not gonna lose so much weight that everyone's gonna think you're unhealthy. If you do feel like eating I would strongly advise that you keep it light. Make sure you keep yourself well hydrated with lots of water and maybe some juice. I like to make sure that I have fresh fruit and raw veggies in case I get hungry later on in my trip. I usually trip first thing in the morning when I wake up, don't eat anything before my trip and I usually don't get hungry until the last few hours of the trip or after I've come down completely. If I trip later on in the day or in the evening I like to make sure that I haven't eaten for at least four hours before I dose. A few times I've eaten a large meal during a trip and every time I've done this my trip comes to a screeching halt as I start to feel tired and sometimes even a little sick.

Just be with good friends, in a place you will not be disturbed and just go with it. Do what feels good in the moment, experiment with and experience your own trip.

 

Sounds like you've already done your homework. Just have some good music on hand, some good books, preferably access a a safe and nice indoor as well as outdoor environment, and unless you want to do it alone, a trusted friend or two.

Just ready any of the other 10000000000 threads on this exact same topic.

 

Absolutely false, and not based on evidence but merely the assumption that "if I don't feel hungry, my body doesn't need to eat". Simply incorrect, sorry 3xi. You can stay up for 3 days just doing rails of cocaine, not feeling any hunger, so that must mean your body is actually not hungry, right?

You should take the opposite viewpoint. I am taking a powerful mind-altering substance that triggers an immense amount of mental energy. I should certainly eat like a king so that my body has the proper fuel it needs to be healthy.

I'm not saying gorge on food, but fasting? Well, fine, if it makes you trip harder, as long as you understand that to your body, there is no difference between you not eating for a day while sober, and you not eating for a day while on LSD or any other chemical which inhibits appetite (ketamine, dxm, cocaine, meth, lsd, opiates, etc, etc, etc)

to recap in case you don't understand:

It's fine to fast for a day, but the rationalization for fasting is not "because I dont feel hungry". If you are tripping for 12 hours straight and haven't eaten anything, and are not hungry, guess what. It's probably smart to just go ahead and make yourself a sandwich or eat some fruit or something. Lack of hunger =/= lack of need for food.

Keep your body fueled, especially while you are profoundly stressing it with something as cataclysmic as LSD

 

"Energy" can't all be thrown into the same bag. You need to eat whether you feel "energized" or not, much like writer was saying.

I would just eat small amounts of non fatty foods maybe 4 hours before you trip or something, unless fasting makes your trip better, in which case the loss of food won't make enough difference not to do it.

 

Actually, fasting or going without food for one or even a few days is very good for your mind, body and spiritual health!

 

Yea but you'd be hungry foo^

 

Fasting = good

Psychedelic experience = good

Fasting + Psychedelic experience = ???

That's my point

 

in a perfect world u can do all kinda preps but if I get some acid I'm only thinking about taking it not the food stuff. But in hindsight it would be good to drink alot of water and always eat healthy.