Oh yeah, in school they told us that acid made you see unicorns and dragons and I was first in line.
― beachville, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
My friend had an Alex Grey book that showed him as a teen in school looking super gleeful and stoked, giving a report on LSD. It made me <3 teenage Alex Grey because I did the same thing in 10th grade health class.
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Unlike Alex Grey I never actually did acid though.
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
the visual aspect of lsd seems to be highly overstated imo but maybe what we were getting in the late 90s was much weaker than it had been in the 60s
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
used to do it regularly, dont do it anymore. prob would if the situation was right tho.
i used to think the visual aspect was overstated until i spent an hour running around in a tennis court jumping over the center net and trying to explain where the door/gate was to my friends until one of them explained that i was actually on a rugby pitch and my brain had just seen the lines on the ground and whoomp constructed the tennis court we had been in a few hours before around me.
also, dont have sex on acid unless you are ready to explain to the person you are with why you are getting creeped out now that their hands have foot long fingers on them in a calming and loving way
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
looool
― lil kink (Matt P), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
one of the craziest visual experiences on acid i've had was when my friends and i had a group visual hallucination. we had just packed the b0ng when all of a sudden the w33d turned into this little leafy creature with such natural movements. the four of us were just standing around gaping at it and being like 'uhhh do you guys see this too?'
one might assume that someone had said something that described the w33d sprite which then influenced the group's visual perception but that was the crazy part! the only thing anyone could say at the time was 'ummm wtf? are you guys seing this??'
― ಠ﹏ಠ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
if only there were drugs that could make everything seem a foot long
― Streep? That's where I'm a-striking! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I had a friend that did so much acid it was unreal. Once time we were driving through the back roads of Vermont stone cold sober when he slammed on the breaks and looked really freaked out before asking if I'd seen the little blue dude that just ran across the street. He was kind of a walking anti-drug ad.
Also much of my dad's family blamed a distant cousin's mental health issues on a single experience he had with acid. That always sounded like BS but also scared the hell out of me.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
xp It's called 'going to Subway'
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Highlights of the five hits of liquid:wandering through apartment complex, see boulders in playground, think they're giant slugsdrinking OJ, thinking there were skulls crunching between my teeth as I drankostensibly bad trip stopped when I looked at a clock and it was running backward and realized I was just seeing shitscenes from Say Anything would play forward on TV then backward for a minute at a timelaying on my side, room fills with red thread like moving up each eye, after both eyes were filled everything in the room started melting togetherwhen I stood up, there was a web of red string everywhere, running horizontally and vertically, could feel it on my skinwhen I picked up my blue shirt, hundreds of blue butterflies fluttered out~12-16 hours in, I was fried and just wanted to stop seeing things so I drove to my apartmentpassenger door looked like it was a block awaytook three or four hydrocodone on arrival, passed out for almost a day
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Never saw shit like that again. Thank god. Stopped doing acid shortly after, confined myself to shrooms and E.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
wow sounds like you got the good stuff
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
hey diamonddave85 doesn't *everything* sort of writhe with furtive, life-like motion when you're coming up? so if you're all focused on that one thing and all coming up at the same time you'd expect that you'd all see it moving? i dunno.
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
used to do it pretty often, in my late teens - early 20s (going to raves, etc). not particularly proud of that, but it was never really a hedonistic thing for me, more of a learning/exploratory experience.
the last time I did it was just a one-timer, late last year, but I don't think I'd be interested anymore at this phase in life... there's a point, I think, where you get all acid has to offer - and the only lesson from it anymore is 'stop doing so much acid'
― Chris S, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
xp yea that's probably the case, but i think it's definitely interesting that we ALL anthropomorphized it rather than at least one of us being like 'nah its just flowing like the carpet does'
― ಠ﹏ಠ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
I always say that I'd never touch acid again, but I'm curious how I could handle a single dose now that I'm not young and stupid and always wanting to do more more more.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I took 2C-E once and had a great time despite my non-tripping friends' wanting to listen to terrible top 40 music. Never done acid, but I would if I had the opportunity.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
every time i did it i would ecstatically promise myself that from now on i was going to do this every day for the rest of my life because i loved it so much but then the next day i'd concede it wasn't a feasible plan.
― estela, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
there are things online about v low dosages being used as a daily antidepressant
― surm, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
i always liked what alan watts said about psychedelics - "when you get the message, hang up the phone"
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
i like that.
― estela, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
I have no interest in ever doing this and never had
― iatee, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dose iatee
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno ive had some decent experiences on LSD but it always kind of exhausts me and makes me sweaty and stinky. i think some cool things but it doesnt really enhance my sensory experience outside of the obvious visual stuff, like i never like to eat things when im tripping, or listen to music, i just end up staring and watching screen savers. i have a bunch of scraps of paper somewhere with acid observations i wrote down that are pretty funny
― max, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
but then again, the medium is the message, namsayin?
xps
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
i have a bunch of scraps of paper somewhere with acid observations i wrote down that are pretty funny
― max, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:15 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
poll
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
i gotta find them at my parents house. the only one i remember is "we are the earth breathing"
― max, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol v original
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
my last trip i cleaned the tub the best i had ever cleaned it. it was kind of miraculous.
― surm, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol. there was a lot of stuff about networks and light, too
― max, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
its all connected man... by light!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
i was always more in it for the extrapolated jokes than the metaphysics.
― estela, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
last time i did acid i ended up in a clearing with hundreds of fireflies, it was something being completely out of my head like that.
then the next morning i'm home, coming down badly, watching kids waiting for the schoolbus and i felt horrible. like ~lost innocence~, what have i become horrible. it was one of the saddest mornings of my life.
― brownie, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
~cicle of lyfe~
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/420304_10150796212933219_672913218_12448244_118033852_n.jpg
― max, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
we think we are facebook
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
being facebook is just as trippy as being starchild
hey iatee how come u dont like to party brah
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
DARE made me want to do acid more than anything. I was real obsessed w/reading books about it as a teenager. But nobody has it anymore tho! OTM
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
this is because the one chemist who can synthesize it in the US got busted I think
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've never done acid but I'm also the kind of guy who retreats into that little tiny zone of self-awareness when superdrunk and gets really anxious, I feel I would react badly to acid
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
idk psychedelics just never appealed to me
I also don't like roller coasters
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
p sure that turned out to be an urban legend the thing about the chemist
― max, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
no way I read it on the internet facebook
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
but facebook...is us
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
there was a slate article abt it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
my friends were on tour in austin a couple years ago and this guy gave them a vile of liquid acid and told them next time they came through hed give them a bucket and that he made it, i did some on that nye, p sweet hadnt taken acid sine i was a teen
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
first time i did it i felt for sure i was going insane and that i would remain forever in this state. started picturing my mom at the hospital sobbing while i drooled uncontrollably in a straight jacket. then my friends started juggling i was like whoa, juggling is cool.
― brownie, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
ha classic, once while we were tripping one of my friends was like 'there was this guy who was tripping and someone threw a football and it hit him in the head and he never stopped' then we all thought deeply abt how intense that would be, i recall for some reason i was imagining it taking place in harvard yard
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
so that explains the last 4 years of leadership this country has had
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
the football was the recession
do u see
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link