I’ve only ever smoked weed and I really wonder what an LSD high feels like since I really love this song. Is it as flowery powery as the song sounds?
This is the most realistic movie scene I’ve seen https://youtu.be/axjyydYMhfg. But there’s a lot more of the feeling and the actual high that can’t be shown from a video.
i don’t drink, smoke, weed whatever but LSD I do want to try.
I saw an article once that said folks in old people homes should be able to take whatever they want, including LSD.
For me it was a transformative experience that changed the trajectory of my life. Its effects are beyond comparison and even after experiencing it, it’s pretty much impossible to put into words.
If you’re able to accept the dissolution of your ego, it can be the most freeing and reconciling mental state of your life.
Holy crap, way to sell it in! 🤣🩷
generally that comes after the novelty of first time or 2 wears off, starting out your too excited for deep introspection…
not to damper your enthusiasm, but this can just as easily swing the other negatively, if your in a bad mood/have some deepseated insecurities/trauma you havent processed etc. setting/mood is everything, don’t “fight” the trip. doing so lead to years-long depression in my case
at it’s most basic, it amplifies feeling/thoughts/emotions. whether those are good/bad/productive/destructive is up to you
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Any FOS
Salternatives?Grow your own shrooms?
Nope, but also, it can be if that’s the mood you’re in.
For me it feels more like that part of the roller coaster when you just start to drop and you’re in that free fall state, but for about 12 hours or so. It’s a blast, lots of neat swirly effects on the eyes, Lord of positive emotions. Just set aside the next day to recoup a little.
I just want to add that it’s not the same experience for everybody. The way your unique brain reacts could be very different from others. Be safe!
Yup! I have aphantasia (inability to mentally visualize things), so I had hoped that LSD would give me some really fun, trippy visuals that I was otherwise unable to come up with in my own head. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that, BUT instead what I experienced was seeing the colors of everything around me start to breathe. I don’t know how else to describe it than that; the objects themselves weren’t breathing, but the colors the objects were made of, were. It was like the colors would glow vibrantly and hold that glow for a moment, and then “exhale” with the colors fading out and around until the object was a dull, muted color. Then it would slowly brighten back up until it glowed again. Everything I looked at had its own unique rate of “breathing”, nothing was in sync.
Nobody else in my group had anything like that. They all talked about seeing geometric patterns, shape-shifting, heightened empathy, etc. My experience was way more mild compared to everybody else.
Also, while I didn’t have an intense visual experience, I did have a hard time focusing my eyes on anything, and everything was very blurry for a few hours. That made me feel very nauseous, so also be prepared for the possibility of throwing up, OP.
That’s how mine went too, we have similar brains I guess
Best to try it out with some friends and maybe a sitter if there’s no tripper with experience.
Also don’t listen to that guy suggesting research chemicals. It’s extremely stupid advice to consider it over LSD. You need to be sure that what you take has been researched already if you are not an experienced drug user. The only research chemical I can suggest if you want a shorter trip than LSD is 2cb, but that’s because it’s not considered a research chemical anymore.
It really is a matter of “set and setting” (to quote Leary), plus chemical variability due to black markets.
Sometimes a trip can be intensely visual and have you giggling at an unnamed wonderful shared secret.
Sometimes a trip can just be a sense of existential doom and a vivid imagination, the worst kind of disjointed lost nightmare you half-remember from childhood.
It’s not binary ofc. You have 6-8 hours of intense experience, which is a lot of time to drift from one mental space to another.
The #1 thing I can suggest is to plan a well-stocked bicycle picnic lunch in a low-traffic park. Bring water. Bring a first-aid kit. Bring a friend or two. Bring a frisbee. Bring lots of different kinds of music to listen to. Plan to spend a lot of time walking or sitting quietly, enjoying nature.
Oh, and it’s qualitatively different from weed.
As an analogy: no matter how much alcohol you drink, you never feel high like you ate a single gummy.
Imagine eating a whole bag of edibles while strung out on coffee and not enough sleep. It’s… not really like that
Oh yeah and one more thing especially given the actual song in the OP – do not take acid to “forget your troubles”.
IT WORKS THE OPPOSITE OF THAT
Have your shit together as much as possible before you dose.
Agreed, BUT ALSO: Everyone, at all times, has shit they’ve got to get together, though. It can help with that if you’re ready
Sometimes a trip can be intensely visual and have you giggling at an unnamed wonderful shared secret.
Sometimes a trip can just be a sense of existential doom and a vivid imagination, the worst kind of disjointed lost nightmare you half-remember from childhood.
You should leave this here if its your own experience 😁
The #1 thing I can suggest is to plan a well-stocked bicycle picnic lunch in a low-traffic park. Bring water. Bring a first-aid kit. Bring a friend or two. Bring a frisbee. Bring lots of different kinds of music to listen to. Plan to spend a lot of time walking or sitting quietly, enjoying nature.
This is just adorable regardless of LSD of not 🤣🩷
I’m glad erowid has survived all these years. My best stories may or may not been saved there for posterity, and therefore cannot be referenced here 😋
The bicycle thing is something I have done several times on several continents (fun fact: LSD is the easiest drug to bring on international flights)
One time in college, myself and a group of friends all biked to a big field and simultaneously took LSD, shrooms, and edibles. I finally really grokked freshman physics when the force vectors on the frisbee were glowing neon.
I’d highly recommend having supervision when you first try it. Someone you trust and ideally is sober and has experience with it. That way you won’t do anything too stupid and they can even help you with exploring some aspects of it. We had a great guy supervising our first trip, though he fucked with us a bit by abruptly changing the music a couple of times. But if you’re compatible and it’s done right, it is sooo much fun!
I usually have sore face muscles after a trip … from laughing too much.
I read super vision and got confused, I don’t need another person for that
Are you bragging about how good your eyes are? Because I have 20/20 vision and just a mild red-green colour blindness that isn’t a big deal.
No I don’t have good eyes but next time on acid I’ll check out super vision
Lsd is like a toy that induces some mild mental plasticity, and playing with it lets you try on different brain shapes.
You start feeling/tasting the effects in your jaw about ten minutes or so after eating a tab, it’s a but like that feeling you get after rollercoasters but in your salivary glands, idk it’s hard to describe.
At this point I like to be alone, settled in a cool, dimly lit room, preferably lying on my back and on a tile floor (carpet is disgusting when you’re tripping) and I let my mind wander and start playing.
Day to day I’m incredibly visual, it comes naturally and isn’t particularly entertaining any more, I can easily create a looping klein bottle out of an apple and imagine things in 3d spaces. We’re long past rotating cows in this bad boi.
What I’m not able to do ‘normally’ though, is build music in my mind. The complex layering and holding all those moving parts in my mind at once is just not possible for me. Unless I’m on acid. Then I’m composing symphonies and exploring all the genres of maths and pattern building I can comprehend.
Acid for is a very sensory high, you will be aware of things you didn’t know you had the ability to feel. It can be very overwhelming if you focus on it and let it be.
I hate being in public or around people on acid (tbh I really dislike such things sober too) and if I’m not careful and get overwhelmed, I can get very lost in all the nerve endings of my face. Having a face full of nerve endings is a very distractingly sensory experience.
Getting out of this groove is easy though, just distract yourself with something interesting once you become aware of being stuck, and avoid social spaces at all costs.
TLDR: lsd is best done alone, lying on my kitchen floor in the dark, so I can play in my imagination. Ymmv.
I think it’s pretty safe to say that this song in no way at all represents how it feels to experience an acid trip. Maybe brief moments of a trip would feel like this, but psychedelics can and often will take you on much more of a rollercoaster ride.
If you’re genuinely curious to learn more about what it’s like, let me share with you one of the great old websites available to delve into these matters:
https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD.shtml
Lots of good trip reports on here to give you a better idea. Have fun, be safe, and if you do decide to try it find a friend to sit with you who has done it before. Cheers sugar!
What the FUCK. 🤣
First of all: early 2000’s World Wide Web 🩷🩷🩷
Second of all: I can’t BELIEVE the feds let this one stay up 😂
Thanks for sharing! 🥰
my lsd advice: if there are things which deserve your tears, don’t hold them back, feel your feelings to their greatest depths, try to understand yourself and your place in this world, try to understand the world and its place in you, and as always, be kind to yourself 🩷
Ive done it a few times. You ingest it and it can take about an hour or so to kick in as it takes time for your body to absorb it and begin working. From there the effects come in waves in that you will feel its effects strongly but they subside only for them to come back strong again, and so on. This wave cycle lasts hours, typically ~8 but this window can vary of course.
During the trip I typically feel giddy, everything is fun or funny, but this relies heavily on positive stimuli.
Visually Ive never full-on hallucinated in that Ive never had an experience on LSD that was entirely different from reality. For me it has always been an augmentation of reality, like seeing patterns and/or colors on top of reality.
I also seem to get kind of congested, like I have allergies. Maybe Im slightly allergic to LSD or something though.
Its been a great time overall but the length of the effects prevents me from seeking it out again. I just dont want to be locked in to being out of it for that long.
Now, as for what popular media represents LSD as, nothing like that. I have had very strong hallucinations, like I felt as though I was in other places or seeing things that could not be possible, on Salvia concentrations. And Ive done DMT once that pretty intense as well, but LSD was more mild for me.
Consider that concentration of doses likely has a lot to do with my experiences vs others though.
It is nothing like that.
Only done it a few times with friends. First time was at a bachelor party at a semi remote cabin. Our one friend had experience doing it and even did recommended doses for each person. I feel like my experience varied from what others have stated here. It was great though, time is lost and the 2 to 3 hours that it lasts really feels like 6 hours have passed. Depending on how much you do can change what you experience. For me it meant things felt wavy especially if you get yourself into a small room like a bathroom where its extremely noticeable. Conversations are mostly nonsense and the littlest things trigger uncontrollable laughing that lasts for minutes to the point your crying and expect your jaw to hurt. Honestly a lot of the effects reminded me a lot of shrooms, but the high is more intense and cleaner if that makes sense. I didnt have any crazy revelations or changes in life, but you definitely feel good for the next week like your recharged and some worries are lifted. If I ever get the opportunity to do it again i would.
uh…LSD lasts like 6-8hrs, not sure what you took but it definitely wasnt LSD. might have been some similar psycedelic but LSD is kinda famous for needing to plan your whole day around it
Very, very bad in my experience. You don’t hallucinate entire objects so much as textures, which can be very troubling and lead to a spiral if you’re not in a good environment. You’re better off using research chems IMO, which can give a much more manageable effect that doesn’t last 12 hours
Thanks for sharing! Sounds horrible… This is not at all, AT ALL, the image broadcasted by media 😅
Your mileage may vary. I’ve had extremely positive experiences with LSD and other psychedelics. It comes down to a lot of factors including the drug, your mindset and setting, and your individual biology.
How do you handle weed? Do you have a predisposition to schizophrenia or other mental illness? Are you a generally anxious person?
Personally I’d recommend a low dose of mushrooms first before trying other psychedelics, but at the end of the day they’re not for everyone and it’s a question you’ll have to answer for yourself.
I can only vouch for my own experience, which is that proper LSD is extremely powerful and shouldn’t be taken by beginners and that modern labs have made better lysergic drugs with milder effects, like 1cP-LSD, which is admittedly the only one I’ve tried personally.
No idea why I forgot about psilocybin as a substitute. This is definitely the better suggestion though.
100% prefer shrooms
Actually visual
Much less forced introspection
Less cognitive impairment
Shorter duration
Why didn’t Nancy sing about them shrooms instead 😢🍄
BTW I had a friend who literally used to eat fly agaric
Why didn’t Nancy sing about them shrooms instead
Well, that was covered by IMO a superior vocalist
Also … it was 1967. Acid and pot were well known counterculture icons the average radio listener/album-buyer in Sinatra’s market knew about; hence the lyrics. And the popular conception didn’t draw a lot of distinction between the different drugs. Hippies did that stuff to “get mellow”.
EDIT: I have done a lot of stupid shit to get high. But definitely drawing the line at oxygen deprivation and literal deadly myco-poison
Well, that was covered by IMO a superior vocalist
I’m in love (again). Next vinyl purchase.









