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FatalPatronus
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LSD vs. Shrooms
#23867998 - 11/26/16 07:07 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hello,
I was just wondering if anyone could tell me the noticeable differences between LSD and Shrooms? I have tripped a total of 10 times on Lucy and I've had nothing but great experiences. I'm looking to delve into shrooms and I'm hoping that it's just as good of an experience for me.
I took 1g of Shrooms before, but I can't say I actually tripped, I just felt extremely high and I was very giggly. On Monday, I plan on taking an 8th around 6p and going to Central Park. I was just wondering if anyone could explain to me what I shouldn't be looking forward to and what I should be? The 1g of shrooms seemed to reset a lot of my tolerances and I was able to fall asleep a lot better.
I've done a couple heroic doses on lucy, close to 700ug, so I think I'm a little bit experienced. I'm just trying to figure out what to expect.
P.S. that picture was from my last trip, my goal was to see the sunrise in central park, and I dropped at 2a. Literally perfection and it even snowed that am. I was in pure heaven. Just wanted to share that photo cause I am quite proud of it and I'm thinking of documenting my trips from now on with the use of a camera.

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use the search function!!!
we have discussed this many a time my friend!
-------------------- Something there is mysteriously formed, Existing before Heaven and Earth, Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging, All-pervading, unfailing, I do not know its name; I call it tao. If forced to give it a name, I call it Great (ta). Being great, it flows out; Flowing out means far-reaching; Being far-reaching, it is said to return. It's just a shot away..
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I'm not afraid to comment on your post without telling you too use the search function. I always hate when people do that.
I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong. But I like mushrooms a lot more. I think 3.5 will be perfect for you. Take some headphones so you can listen to music if you want. I love house music when I'm tripping. Mark Farina is great.
I think the body high is much more enjoyable on mushrooms, and I don't get the same audio distortions that come with acid.
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FatalPatronus
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DrEarnhardt said: I'm not afraid to comment on your post without telling you too use the search function. I always hate when people do that.
I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong. But I like mushrooms a lot more. I think 3.5 will be perfect for you. Take some headphones so you can listen to music if you want. I love house music when I'm tripping. Mark Farina is great.
I think the body high is much more enjoyable on mushrooms, and I don't get the same audio distortions that come with acid.
Thank you! I feel awkward on LSD, but I work through my awkwardness. When I drop with a group of friends, it tends to mess with me because I stay quiet, but I don't mean to.
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I love LSD,
Shrooms scare me.
LSD scares me too.
But shrooms are weirder.
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Yeah, staying in your head makes it worse lol. There's a certain popping, calling feeling I get on lsd that doesn't happen on mushrooms. Kind of hard to explain but you'll see the difference.
Check back with us after you trip. I want to see your assessment.
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I feel like lucy is more electric, thats the best way I can describe it
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I just came up with an interesting analogy the other day.
LSD is like seeing the world differently but Shrooms is like seeing a different world, if that makes any sense at all.
Expect more time distortion and probably better visuals.
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: LSDollar]
#23868962 - 11/26/16 01:01 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong.
I feel the same, acid is just stimulating as fuck, its like you feel it throughout your body, plus it lasts like 2-4 hours longer than shrooms. Shrooms and mescalin personally feel much better physcially than acid, which gives me sore muscles on the comedown and a crash of sorts. The come up on both give mad giggles tho. The afterglow of shrooms feels great.
If you like acid you'll love shrooms.
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to OP , that picture of the Sun... THATS YOU ON THAT DAY , ISNT IT?!!! HAHA.
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Hey OP I would recommend watching this video if I were you, it's of McKenna explaining the differences between pretty much all the main psychedelics except mescaline. All the classic tryptamines. I have yet to do DMT or ayahuasca but he explained the mushroom experience SO well in this video, I have never seen someone explain the archetypes of psilocybin as good as he did in this video and what he said about LSD was pretty accurate too except I tend to experience more emotional abreactions on mushrooms.
I saw this vid for the first a few years ago but I wasn't really too crazy about it or fond of it but I recently rediscovered it and now I think it's one of the greatest explanations/summarizations.
Oh and P.S. Mushrooms are usually MUCH more emotional and confusing than LSD so there's that. There's also some strange primordial zaniness about it, it's very galactarian as well.
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FatalPatronus
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AuroraBorealis88 said: Hey OP I would recommend watching this video if I were you, it's of McKenna explaining the differences between pretty much all the main psychedelics except mescaline. All the classic tryptamines. I have yet to do DMT or ayahuasca but he explained the mushroom experience SO well in this video, I have never seen someone explain the archetypes of psilocybin as good as he did in this video and what he said about LSD was pretty accurate too except I tend to experience more emotional abreactions on mushrooms.
I saw this vid for the first a few years ago but I wasn't really too crazy about it or fond of it but I recently rediscovered it and now I think it's one of the greatest explanations/summarizations.
Oh and P.S. Mushrooms are usually MUCH more emotional and confusing than LSD so there's that. There's also some strange primordial zaniness about it, it's very galactarian as well.
I thank you for this..
Also, thanks to the many replies. <3
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LSD is much more intense than Psilocybin at equal doses.
LSD is like using power tools on your brain.
Psilocybin is like carving your brain like a bar of soap.
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: czech]
#23869233 - 11/26/16 02:42 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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it boils down to this for me..
take LSD when you want to have fun and take mushrooms when you want to go into the unknown
-------------------- Something there is mysteriously formed, Existing before Heaven and Earth, Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging, All-pervading, unfailing, I do not know its name; I call it tao. If forced to give it a name, I call it Great (ta). Being great, it flows out; Flowing out means far-reaching; Being far-reaching, it is said to return. It's just a shot away..
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LSD
For me in general, LSD lets you go about your day and experience reality in a truly altered and recreational way but still function.
LSD is a sheer FUN psychedelic and very immersive with it's razor sharp colorful visuals, tons of laughter when you trip with good friends and music sounds amazing.
Shrooms
Shrooms are a lesson in life. The main thing they teach is what it is to be a human.
To me they are not really recreational and much more medicinal. I only really enjoy shrooming alone. I find them much more immobilizing and incapacitating.
I find Shrooms much more mental and you're locked in your thoughts. The thoughts cycle around fairly quickly to the point you barely get comfy with a state of mind then bam it changes. The thoughts go around with accompanied emotions in a happy>sad>nostalgic type of cycle. No matter how uncomfortable some of this is, I find the thoughts/emotions are accompanied with a real softness which makes it less traumatic and more insightful.
I only find LSD to be incredibly weirdly thought fucking and confusing during the initial come up. Providing you don't latch on to this and are able to escape it perhaps by listening to some banging music or talking to friends you'll be fine.
Shroom Visuals:
The visuals are not razor sharp and have a tendency to make you see much weirder shit whereas LSD tends to alter what you look at. On Shrooms I've felt and seen death in the form of skulls/bones as an example. Literally just flying around my head.
Shroom Audio:
Music never sounds good to me on shrooms. Audio of any kind becomes distorted and may suddenly sound close or far away.
Saying all this, my most terrifying trip was on acid when I took a massive dose on my first go and my sister turned into Satan and I felt like my mind and sanity was dissolving / imploding. It was terrifying.
Shrooms have given me the most intense of the trips. A very profound moment in one of my shroom trips was feeling every conceivable emotion at once and then tears pouring from my eyes. Tears of joy, sadness and everything else. IT was real intense.
-------------------- My Psychedelic experiences: LSD - 30+ times (2 hits min / max 3 hits) every time. Shrooms - 4 times (2.5 - 3.5g) DMT - 5 times (Powerful breakthrough only once) Life can be one hell of a bitter pill to swallow so I chose acid instead -YeOlde
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DrEarnhardt said: I'm not afraid to comment on your post without telling you too use the search function. I always hate when people do that.
I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong. But I like mushrooms a lot more. I think 3.5 will be perfect for you. Take some headphones so you can listen to music if you want. I love house music when I'm tripping. Mark Farina is great.
I think the body high is much more enjoyable on mushrooms, and I don't get the same audio distortions that come with acid.
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for me LSD is recreational and Mushrooms are serious, "spiritual", "special" of whatever you wanna call it.
i have had realizations about reality, life, death, the meaning of human existence, ad well as had more tangible effects like the lifting of severe depression after a massive dose on mushrooms.
i've gone to concerts, raves, gone snowboarding, watched movies, listened to music and done silly shit like going to vegas on LSD.
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tbh i always thought shrooms were like the key to another dimension, mentally, but lsd is like a virtual reality, like its not real . . . idk, shrooms will always be best anyway
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DrEarnhardt said: I'm not afraid to comment on your post without telling you too use the search function. I always hate when people do that.
I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong. But I like mushrooms a lot more. I think 3.5 will be perfect for you. Take some headphones so you can listen to music if you want. I love house music when I'm tripping. Mark Farina is great.
I think the body high is much more enjoyable on mushrooms, and I don't get the same audio distortions that come with acid.
"Great, he didn''t tell me the cave was underwater."
Ha! You're the first guy who knows.
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DrEarnhardt said:
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DrEarnhardt said: I'm not afraid to comment on your post without telling you too use the search function. I always hate when people do that.
I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong. But I like mushrooms a lot more. I think 3.5 will be perfect for you. Take some headphones so you can listen to music if you want. I love house music when I'm tripping. Mark Farina is great.
I think the body high is much more enjoyable on mushrooms, and I don't get the same audio distortions that come with acid.
"Great, he didn''t tell me the cave was underwater."
Have! You're the first guy who knows.
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: czech]
#23869724 - 11/26/16 05:18 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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czech said: LSD is like using power tools on your brain.
Na it's like a squeegee 
Also there's no point in saying LSD is more intense at "equal doses". There's really no point in saying that at all when psilocybin tends to be the more intense mind altering drug at the end of the day anyways. Just because LSD is active in micrograms doesn't mean much.
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Shrooms have given me the most intense of the trips. A very profound moment in one of my shroom trips was feeling every conceivable emotion at once and then tears pouring from my eyes. Tears of joy, sadness and everything else. IT was real intense.
I had a similar experience crying on shrooms with my gf a few weeks before I was going to have to move and we would break up as a result it was deep weep full of the most innately human emotion i've ever experienced
I also cry on DXM tho, and don't find it particularly profound
I find mescalin is the perfect in thing in between shrooms and acid Shrooms are such a powerful tool, sad its been almost 2 years since i've taken them
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Shrooms have given me the most intense of the trips. A very profound moment in one of my shroom trips was feeling every conceivable emotion at once and then tears pouring from my eyes. Tears of joy, sadness and everything else. IT was real intense.
I had a similar experience crying on shrooms with my gf a few weeks before I was going to have to move and we would break up as a result it was deep weep full of the most innately human emotion i've ever experienced
I also cry on DXM tho, and don't find it particularly profound
I find mescalin is the perfect in thing in between shrooms and acid Shrooms are such a powerful tool, sad its been almost 2 years since i've taken them
I found the part of my post you quoted to be deeply therapeutic the coming months after. Shrooms are a natural anti-depressant.
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Bill_Oreilly said: use the search function!!!
we have discussed this many a time my friend!
If they done so, we may not have had the pleasure of reading of the delights of their personal experience and seeing the pictures.
Be careful not to shun a 'friends' joy.
Edited by Duncan Rowhl (11/28/16 01:36 PM)
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DrEarnhardt said: I'm not afraid to comment on your post without telling you too use the search function. I always hate when people do that.
I've always felt awkward on lsd. The trip obviously lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but mushrooms to me feel much more cleaner. I like lsd, don't get me wrong. But I like mushrooms a lot more. I think 3.5 will be perfect for you. Take some headphones so you can listen to music if you want. I love house music when I'm tripping. Mark Farina is great.
I think the body high is much more enjoyable on mushrooms, and I don't get the same audio distortions that come with acid.
Acid is fantastic I've tried it about 8 times myself with 3 hits being the minimum to 4 or 5 the max. I have taken mushrooms 4 or 5 times and only tripped one time of off 3.5 gs but the trip was light, .. weak generics maybe . That day was the best day of my life hands down I felt like a kid again looking up into the cosmos.... mushrooms are better
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Tryptamines are more shamanic, everything else is for shits and giggles
-------------------- My Psychedelic experiences: LSD - 30+ times (2 hits min / max 3 hits) every time. Shrooms - 4 times (2.5 - 3.5g) DMT - 5 times (Powerful breakthrough only once) Life can be one hell of a bitter pill to swallow so I chose acid instead -YeOlde
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: YeOlde]
#23874763 - 11/28/16 10:17 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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LSD: Unlocking the capabilities of the conscious mind(Good for recreation) DMT: Unlocking the spirit world(Good for self, soul, ego dissolving)
Both are very different, LSD is fast paced, intensity, stimulating. Hyper realistic.
DMT compounds are spiritual, mystical, connecting, revitalizing. Nurturing. The essence of Nature
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For me mushrooms are like an old and very trusted friend. LSD is like an aquaintance that I don't trust but can be fun to be around.
I have never been weirded out for days after taking mushrooms (I'm always left with a warm comfortable spiritual kind of feeling).
I have been weirded out for days after taking LSD. (It has left me feeling like something is missing from me)
I haven't done LSD many times because it seems hard to find where I live, and it was when I was in my younger days that I took it a few times. I have done mushrooms pretty much every year, and sometimes quite a few times in a year. The mushrooms never seem to have negative aspects and always feel natural, although they can take me well outside of my comfort zone. I trust mushrooms, but I don't trust LSD (I'd still do LSD most probably if I got the chance to get some blotters as long as it was LSD and not some random psychedelic).
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SinSemilla said: I have taken mushrooms 4 or 5 times and only tripped one time of off 3.5 gs but the trip was light, .. weak generics maybe . That day was the best day of my life hands down I felt like a kid again looking up into the cosmos.... mushrooms are better
So the trip was light but it was one of the best days of your life? How's that?
Literally feeling like a kid again doesn't sound light. Could it have been more powerful than you realize? I find with mushrooms people will go way out of their minds but they don't realize it because they've forgotten what normal waking consciousness (being sober) is like. Or they'll simply just forget what the trip was like when they come back down.
This might be why some claim LSD to be "more intense" than mushrooms.
Edited by AuroraBorealis88 (11/28/16 10:33 AM)
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: YeOlde]
#23874819 - 11/28/16 10:42 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Every time I read a post on this topic saying "mushrooms are spirutal/healing and LSD is for fun", I initially agree completely. However, I just can't help but remember all the epiphanies I've had, conclusions I've come to, thought processes that could not possibly be described within the limits of human language, and of course the tears of joy I have shed listening to music all under the influence of LSD.
Shrooms for me allow a disconnection from reality, it isn't just an altered version of it, rather it is an entirely different existence. You become very confused as nothing you perceive makes sense to you anymore, and it takes all you have just to remember your own name to stay grounded.You will see life from the outside in, without the fog of your ego clouding your vision. You may be pleased, angered, or even disgusted by what you find.
LSD is difficult for me to describe as far as my mentality. Physically, the blood running throughout your body suddenly becomes lava and your skin is incredibly sensitive. Your senses sometimes become interchangeable, meaning having experiences such as hearing colors, feeling or seeing sounds, tasting sights etc. My personal favorite is feeling music of course. On LSD, you see life from a brutally honest perspective, and if you try to lie to yourself/reject the teachings then you will run into problems. Additionally on LSD, I feel very connected with other people to the point that I can see things from their perspective to a degree I don't think most people can(I like to think anyway).
I hope I did an alright job explaining, I didn't really get into visuals but those are overrated :P
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: xThunder]
#23876651 - 11/28/16 09:59 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Lsd is like the epiphany bit of mushrooms without the crazy dark bit. It's like just behind your forehead it's trying to cave issues to their source. I always find my mind reducing everything down to its root problem and then building the layers back up and finding other layers that fit as solutions. I completely saw how it would have been useful in the govt experiments they gave scientists LSD in a think tank with problems they couldn't solve.
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the tears of joy I have shed listening to music all under the influence of LSD.
I want to cry on LSD - crying on psychs feels freeing, i need to cry more sober i feel it makes me more introspective in an intellectual sense but dosen't really get at my emotions the same way that mushrooms/mescalin does
could be that i've never taken acid in the company of super close friends tho, and I have with mushrooms/mescalin
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the tears of joy I have shed listening to music all under the influence of LSD.
I want to cry on LSD - crying on psychs feels freeing, i need to cry more sober i feel it makes me more introspective in an intellectual sense but dosen't really get at my emotions the same way that mushrooms/mescalin does
could be that i've never taken acid in the company of super close friends tho, and I have with mushrooms/mescalin
I don't think I've ever really CRIED on LSD(maybe during the comedown). What I meant was the music filling me with so much emotion, most of it being completely and utter bliss just drove me to tears.
Shrooms however...I've had some pretty liberating sobs on shrooms. A few trips ago I was going through a pretty tough time in my life, my self esteem took a hit around the same time classes were starting again and I felt very lost/disappointed in myself. I dosed around 5 Gs in a tea, as it started to come on I hopped in my bed and wrapped myself in covers so I could freely explore my mind. This is my current favorite thing to do during the come up to keep myself calm.
Anyway, I had been laying down for about 10 minutes when it was starting to kick. My mind started randomly drifting to some of my most intense memories, both good and bad. I went through so many moments, and remembered exactly how I felt during each of them. I legitimately didn't even notice it at first, but at some point during this my eyes just started to tear...I was becoming so emotional. Just so many feelings, so much nostalgia, so much regret all at once.
All of a sudden I just started bawling into my pillow, that was the first time I had cried in months, maybe a year or so. I admitted to myself how terrified I was during the event I previously mentioned and how it impacted my self esteem. Then came the next thought that brought on another wave of tears, "I've come so far". Thinking back to my difficult childhood, experiences I had with people throughout my life, friends that have come and gone, family members that are no longer with me.
I came to one single conclusion from all of this, I whimpered aloud when it came to my mind. "I loved you all, thank you for all you have taught me. I promise that I will NEVER forget any of you."
After that I blew my nose and calmed down a bit...then I realized how fucked up I was and went outside to converse with the trees in my backyard 
After that day I made so many adjustments to my life and I have genuinely been in a better place ever since. I've been making more efforts to interact with people and not to see them from such a pessimistic point of view(they certainly don't make that easy). I've been trying harder in my classes and I feel like I can tackle the challenges of day to day life. That sob was so cathartic for me, it just isn't healthy to have all that built up negative emotion and I think the shrooms realized that.
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: xThunder]
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hey man i totally know what you mean, its like the mushrooms allow you to reflect and get past hard times and see them in a positive light, its so therapeutic man i miss shrooms, haven't done them in like 2 years, what a shame, but yeah they "hit the feels" much better to LSD which i have done recently, both have their place tho
thanks for sharing that story by the way!
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I generally agree with the sentiment that LSD is more forgiving, recreational, and manageable, as compared to shrooms which are more cerebral, spiritual, and confusing.
I find little recreational value in any shroom dose over 2.5g. Not to say that I can't have fun, but its a different kind of fun as compared to LSD where I can basically run around town all night
Having said that, at around 300ug L becomes much deeper and more spiritual in my experience
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I feel more grounded and different vibrational energy as opposed to higher vibrations and easier to be awake and up with the lucy. Trip report after eh?!
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Do both...combo! ....start low and work up...
it's really the best of both worlds!
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Having said that, at around 300ug L becomes much deeper and more spiritual in my experience
I agree, LSD is far more introspective and powerful mentally than what a lot of people think. It has shattered my perception of life many times. Its far more manageable than mushrooms but I wouldnt say its any less powerful. 300ug is a strong dose that can have potential to send someone off in their heads. I find the thought process on LSD to be far more frantic and almost like a running pattern simulator in your brain that constantly sees connections in everything. Where mushrooms are more you feel the connection and analyze yourself rather everything around you.
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SonicTitan said: I agree, LSD is far more introspective and powerful mentally than what a lot of people think. It has shattered my perception of life many times. Its far more manageable than mushrooms but I wouldnt say its any less powerful. 300ug is a strong dose that can have potential to send someone off in their heads. I find the thought process on LSD to be far more frantic and almost like a running pattern simulator in your brain that constantly sees connections in everything. Where mushrooms are more you feel the connection and analyze yourself rather everything around you.
I guess technically saying mushrooms are more "powerful" than LSD may not be necessarily true since they are both very very powerful and in different ways. LSD is powerful in ways that seem more long term I find. So maybe saying mushrooms are more powerful wouldn't be correct but I think it's definitely the more mind-altering drug. LSD definitely affects the mind very much, I'd actually say overall LSD tripping is more mental and 'thoughty' than shrooms but I still think it's less altering. It's not as intense of a displacement from ordinary consciousness as shrooms seem to be.
I think LSD is actually more introspective than mushrooms and I've definitely become more introspective myself since doing it but mushroom tripping is just even more unexplainable and absurd ime.
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I don't really see why most people see LSD as only recreational. I personally find both LSD and shrooms both really spiritual, they just give a different experience. Shrooms tend be much more intense though, at least for me.
LSD will show me the fabrics of existence, and the reality that's around us all the time but that we can just never see. Whereas shrooms will just completely push me into that other reality, making the hallucinations a lot different.
On LSD my hallucinations tend to just be distortions of what's actually in front of me in real life. Whereas with the shrooms I'm having full blown hallucinations were I'm seeing, hearing, and feeling things that are completely separate from anything in this reality if that makes any sense.
Another couple of differences is that on LSD I can usually keep a pretty controlled rational mind that always keeps me semi grounded. Whereas on shrooms I tend to get alot more mindfuck, will forget I'm on a drug, and then if I'm not careful I end up usually having myself convinced I've gone completely crazy and will be stuck like that forever.
I experience moments of eternity on both LSD and shrooms, but they tend to be much more profound and happen more often on shrooms.
Lastly LSD seems to enhance and distort my five senses a lot more, while shrooms just bring out my sixth. What I mean by that is that on LSD I can taste colors, see sounds, music sounds way better etc. while with shrooms I can feel people's spiritual auras, become alot more sensitive to energies around me, and have very intense deja vu accompanied with memories of what I believe to be past lives.
They're both amazing in their own way. One isn't really better than the other, it just sort of depends on what kindve experience you prefer.
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I don't think people are saying you can only use LSD recreationally I think they just mean if you're gonna use one for recreation it might as well be LSD at least most of the time.
Also I find it odd that all these people are claiming to get more powerful synesthesia from LSD than from mushrooms. I get pretty decent synesthesia from L but I tend to get VERY intense synesthesia from mushrooms even in low doses and it seems to cover a broader spectrum in terms of the 5/6 senses. For example on LSD I may hear colors or taste colors, see music ect. but on shrooms I can sometimes smell emotions or taste feelings. Very weird stuff.
LSD also seemed more about energies and "auras" to me than shrooms did. Shrooms seem more transdimensional to me and seems to deal less with this world and its energies. LSD feels like I'm just getting my third eye cracked open but shrooms feels like some primeval alien plant spirit opened my third eye and is guiding my soul to the end of this life or just the previous universe.
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SonicTitan said: I agree, LSD is far more introspective and powerful mentally than what a lot of people think. It has shattered my perception of life many times. Its far more manageable than mushrooms but I wouldnt say its any less powerful. 300ug is a strong dose that can have potential to send someone off in their heads. I find the thought process on LSD to be far more frantic and almost like a running pattern simulator in your brain that constantly sees connections in everything. Where mushrooms are more you feel the connection and analyze yourself rather everything around you.
I guess technically saying mushrooms are more "powerful" than LSD may not be necessarily true since they are both very very powerful and in different ways. LSD is powerful in ways that seem more long term I find. So maybe saying mushrooms are more powerful wouldn't be correct but I think it's definitely the more mind-altering drug. LSD definitely affects the mind very much, I'd actually say overall LSD tripping is more mental and 'thoughty' than shrooms but I still think it's less altering. It's not as intense of a displacement from ordinary consciousness as shrooms seem to be.
I think LSD is actually more introspective than mushrooms and I've definitely become more introspective myself since doing it but mushroom tripping is just even more unexplainable and absurd ime.
Mushrooms are for sure a more mind altering drug in my experiences. I find it a lot easier to have ego dissolution with mushrooms in medium doses where LSD for me I have almost always remained myself in my body tripping hard. Few times eating over 600 to 800 mics had me losing all idea of being alive in a body on earth. Tho an eighth of good mushrooms can have me doing the same. There is a lot of introspection on both drugs but LSD is far more fast paced where mushrooms have that odd alien like thought process where you analyze things but the sense you make of it is so inhuman sometimes that you wonder how you even think of these connections. Both are very strong and very different in their own ways.
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Yes and I think it's fairly accurate how some people describe LSD as more stable and continuous whereas mushrooms seem much more dynamic and many describe a mushroom experience as constantly being on the fence between a good and bad trip, though that may not be literally true I still see what they mean it's like on mushrooms your general mood (and thoughts) have a more wavering tendency, it seems to have a more oscillating effect on your mental faculties and perceptions.
I saw the Drugslab video on youtube (highly recommend that channel btw) where the guy ate mushrooms (because they try a new drug each week) and he seemed to be having this up and down effect or strange oscillating tendency where he seemed to be going back and forth or at least saw the potential for going back and forth between a happy or scary trip within matters of seconds.
Shrooms are more dramatic than LSD in that sense to the point of being almost theatrical about it. He talked about how Mushrooms put him in a very happy but extremely sensitive and vulnerable mood and was saying how he felt happy but that if he saw something scary in that moment it could just take him over and make everything darker like if he saw a scary face or something, his mood and emotions were just prone to change at any moment to literally any kind of extreme.
Though this effect of your mood dramatically changing based on simply seeing something like a scary face may be present on acid as well it's just not anywhere near to the extent of psilocybin I believe. On acid you might overanalyze things and get trapped in negative thought loops but on shrooms all your emotions just come out like a shadow, with shrooms it's more of like a fight or flight scenario and sudden scariness and even terror but on acid it's just like "Fuck I can't escape my own mind which is persecuting me".
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I agree with the notion that a shroom trip is more of a roller coaster ride than an LSD trip. In my experience, once I hit a certain point on the come up of LSD I sort of just stay there. "There" is a pretty wild and crazy place of course, but I still remain at that point throughout until its time to come down.
On shrooms there are more strikes and gutters, ups and downs. I'll be tripping major ballsack for maybe 15 mins and then it slows down a bit, then speeds up again. I'll be consumed with joy on second and sorrow the next. A lot of it changes with my setting while tripping, and it gets less predictable the higher the dose. I usually do around 5Gs, but at 7Gs and up its just a complete mindfuck the entire time...maybe its actually more predictable in that sense.
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I definitely agree with that. On LSD as soon as I hit the peak I usually feel I can relax and at that point know what to relatively expect for the rest of the trip even if I do change settings. Where with the shrooms the intensity and the vibe of the trip can easily completely change at any time, sometimes for seemingly no reason. It definitely seems to speed up and down randomly as you said, and I noticed a lot of the times when that happens It's like the whole trip resets and becomes something almost completely new.
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Re: LSD vs. Shrooms [Re: xThunder]
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xThunder said: I agree with the notion that a shroom trip is more of a roller coaster ride than an LSD trip. In my experience, once I hit a certain point on the come up of LSD I sort of just stay there. "There" is a pretty wild and crazy place of course, but I still remain at that point throughout until its time to come down.
On shrooms there are more strikes and gutters, ups and downs. I'll be tripping major ballsack for maybe 15 mins and then it slows down a bit, then speeds up again. I'll be consumed with joy on second and sorrow the next. A lot of it changes with my setting while tripping, and it gets less predictable the higher the dose. I usually do around 5Gs, but at 7Gs and up its just a complete mindfuck the entire time...maybe its actually more predictable in that sense.
mushrooms are always an up down, crazy intense ride (at higher doses for me). One moment I will feel like a god, the next moment I will feel suicidally depressed and then I will feel like a god again. It taught me to take life the same way, when things look really bleak you shouldn't give up because they might turn around in the most unexpected way. With LSD, I find that once it plateaus the effect is much more steady and that is part of what makes it more recreational. You can go to music festivals and stuff and still maintain control.
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YES Peyote I've had that exact same lesson from the mushies. They show you that sadness, fear, anger, excitement, amusement and happiness are all simply choices the individual chooses to attach themselves to in the moment because in reality nothing outside of yourself triggers your emotions only yourself. Mushrooms like to show you how just your thoughts alone can take you to states of extreme happiness and bliss or utter hopelessness and depression, it's all about your perspective in that moment.
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