I’ve taken LSD at least 15 times and reality was definitely altered by it. But I would like to make one point and that is yes, psychosis has some things in common with an acid trip. But here’s the main difference. LSD is fun, but there’s nothing fun about psychosis. I had several bad trips, in fact a bad trip triggered my schizophrenia when I was 19. But on the GOOD trips I had, it was solid fun for 8 hours, lot’s of laughing,and just sometimes stopping and just saying (or thinking) wow this is a trip(weird) and then going on. Of course another thing about acid is like I said. It lasts only 8 hours but then you come down.In contrast I was psychotic for 2 1/2 years with no breaks. I have to say something here. I would NEVER encourage someone with schizophrenia to drop acid. Never under any circumstances. In AA, they told me never to glorify drugs. So here’s disclaimer. LSD was fun when I was sane and 16 or 17 years old. I personally don’t think acid is for adults no matter what Timothy Leary said or did. You know why I think this? Because adults have too much baggage. When you reach adulthood, your mind becomes to ‘rigid’ and ‘fixed’ on real life. I would tell ANYONE to stay away from it.But at 16-19 my brain was more mailable and open. Once I hit 20 and 21 I had societies rules coming at me. When you’re an adult you shouldn’t really be taking breaks from reality like acid makes you do. It’s sort of the same with pot. Being an adult, with bills, relationships, responsibility, and mental illness thrown in the mix is not combination to be fooling with. There’s legal fun if you look for it. No offense jukebox. You can apparently handle smoking pot. That’s you and your choice.I PERSONALLY cannot handle it. Who’s right? We’re all adults here and we make choices. Who am I to judge you with what you do in the privacy of your own home or your private life? I’m not. It doesn’t sound like your hurting anyone with your pot smoking just as I am not hurting anyone with my sobriety!! LOL.
i do laugh when i see people paying for all kinds of drugs…
they have to buy…what we get for free…yippee.
finally i am top of the class in something…!?!
take care
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The experience I had with it was NOT fun - far from it. But having psychosis is worse than any acid trip, because it kind of never goes away. My brain was not meant to be altered by these chemicals - I am talking about illicit drugs and certain meds. I am sensitive to chemicals period.
I personally dont see the fun in altering ones senses - I steer away from booze as well.
If I really wanted to get high, all I would have to do is stress myself out or probably stop taking my meds - I am trying to move closer to reality not move away from it by indulging in drug use
Hey, I’m with you. I’m not endorsing illicit drugs. I have 24 years clean and counting. I endorse sobriety.
hey,
Lsd is curious in it’s effects but your right it isn’t like psychosis but I’d suggest a similar process with different brain chemicals.
Yeah. It’s great if your up and it’s something that you can control to a certain extent…read ’ The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test ’ by Tom Wolfe if your interested. A fun thing for normal adults but even Kesey in the end found it was all just chemicals!
Saying that. I learned some aspects of handling a drug addled brain which undoubtedly helped me when psychotic but street drugs are a no brainer for the afflicted! Just a world of hurt and pot, for example, Is basically poison for most of us…but I still know schizophrenics who smoke…it’s a complex thing one feels!
REad the book. Tripping is interesting in the right environment and yeah it’s unique and can be awe inspiring but it’s all just brain chemistry. Running laps and getting fit is another more positive thing to pump you full of brain chemicals and a whole lot more sound for schizophrenics.
I do not recommend any street drugs for any schizphrenics!
A friend in the struggle,
rogueone.
the glorification of drugs is a hard one to fight. I am clean… sober and not in anyway advocating drugs…
But I do admit… and I hate it when I do this… I find myself waxing rhapsodic about my times with XTC. I hate that I miss it.
It really does hurt my heart sometimes when I stupidly start spouting off about some of my E trips and my kid sis says… “I remember that… you made that day so fun.” That stings deep.
@77nick77 thank you for this post. I’m trying to keep my glorification in check and let at least one sibling know that there are better things in the world that are more universal and feel even better then 8 hours of chemically induced brain scramble.
Given her genetics… Once the head circus comes to town… it might not leave.
Back in high school I did shrooms and acid probably over 100 times. some said I must have caused my schizophrenia but a trusted pdoc I had said you could trip a 1000 times and still not get schizophrenia so I feel good that he said that…it makes sense because the “dead heads” that tripped all those years following the Grateful Dead never got schizophrenia. I would never trip again since I’ve been diagnosed…too scary.
Wait ! How do you know i didn’t commandeer one and am at the controls???
You’re right about the tripping as an adult, I’ve never done it, haven’t tripped like that since I was 18. I experimented with my share of LSD in my teens. And same, it was recklessly free and fun back then to do. But nowadays I can only imagine the thought "What if something happened, like something you really had to deal with the outside world for serious and you were tripping. I couldn’t do it again at this age in most of all circumstances.
But back twelve years ago it was just something I did now and then with friends and maybe my girlfriend. I had not yet experienced anything like psychosis, so sane, and more of a free spirit back then too. I never had a bad trip on LSD, I found that though a substantial commitment of time it was, and quite a head trip, it opened my eyes in ways that only people who experienced it once upon a time relate to and reflect on…or have a good laugh about.
But yeah it’s not something I would encourage anyone to go out and do these days. It’s not something you just play with and go back to who you were before you took it. And again all I can think about at the thought is “what if something happened?”.
I took recreational drugs when I was 19/20.overdosed at a rave on lsd and amphet .thought I was going to die.when I came down from the trip I was ■■■■■■ up in my head.got diagnosed with personality disorder with ptsd.tha thas morphed into schizophrenia. I would never tell anyone to do drugs and that is multiplied by a 1000 if they have mental health issues.yes you can have an amazing time on them but you just need one bad one and your whole life can crash and you never get back.better to have a beer! instead…
I took it also as a teen and last time was age 23. I never had the extreme visuals some people have. I did however have insights and telepathy. My friend and I would know what each other was thinking a lot of times, or we would both think of something and say it, and then that thing or person would appear right after saying it.
psychedelics have been used by shamans to unlock portals to the astral planes. they open doors in the consciousness to perceive.
I do not use these things now, I have no use for them, plus sober astral journeys are always more pure and there is less chance for false impressions like you might get on LSD.
The first time I took acid was the day my parents got a letter from my high school telling them I had been cutting classes almost every day and that I was missing whole days almost once a week and they had been sending my parents letters for three months about it. I had been intercepting those letters in the mail and tearing them up. But I had let this one letter slip through. So I was at my friends house peaking on acid when my parents called.They had never called me at my friends house before. In a grim voice my mother told me to get home.NOW. So I went home and my dad and mom sat me on a couch and confronted me about missing so much school. I was just trying to maintain my composure and not freak out on the acid. This was a serious situation. They grilled me for fifteen minutes, I don’t know how I did it but they didn’t figure out I was tripping on drugs right in front of them. Finally they let me go to my room. Whew. What an ordeal. I’ll never forget that.
whoops, sorry…!?!
take care
I’ve kind of experienced that. I thought me and my friend were on the same 'wavelength" and we knew what each other was thinking the whole time. It would have been interesting to ask him afterward what HIS experience was and if he actually was thinking about our trip the same way I was .Maybe he had a totally different experience on it when we took it together!