nooneman said:

To me, they're almost polar opposites. Two distance ends of some kind of spectrum. Psilocybin is sedating, LSD is a stimulant. Psilocybin is very emotional, LSD is very analytic. Psilocybin is very internal and personally insightful, LSD is more creative, intellectual, and external. The visuals are about as different as they could be although there is some overlap. LSD is like a cartoon fantasy wonderland, psilocybin is more like kaleidoscopes and geometry. LSD's visuals are slower, psilocybin's visuals are faster and more frantic.

LSD is controllable, psilocybin controls you. I've seen things from my internal imagination appear visually on LSD and my imagination can control the content of my hallucinations, but not with psilocybin. LSD has these glowing ever changing neon colored lines or echoes or sometimes webs that turn into cartoon wonderlands that I've never seen with psilocybin, and after images, whereas psilocybin has much more melting and bending and waving. Psilocybin has a LOT more mindfuck, LSD is comparatively clearheaded.

It's maybe easier to have a bad trip on psilocybin (psilocybin tends to more anxiety provoking, fear inspiring, and emotionally difficult) but bad trips on psilocybin tend to be easier to manage and get through in a weird way. Plus bad trips on psilocybin often end up being very positive and enlightening in the end. LSD is maybe more friendly, but bad trips can be very dark and disturbing, and they don't tend to be enlightening or positive in the end. It's kindof like the difference between a bad trip emotionally vs. intellectually, kindof. Still, I find that I have FAR fewer difficult experiences with LSD than psilocybin, but with psilocybin even the difficult experiences can often be highly rewarding so it balances out maybe.

In my opinion, psilocybin is good for personal insight, solving inner personal problems, confronting your demons, all that internal stuff. Whereas I think LSD is better for creativity, artistic creation, intellectual problem solving, that kind of thing. Internal vs. external is kindof how it seems to me.

I really like the old saying that LSD is like being in the driver's seat, psilocybin is like being in the passenger's seat, and DMT is like being in the trunk.

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nooneman said:

To me, they're almost polar opposites. Two distance ends of some kind of spectrum. Psilocybin is sedating, LSD is a stimulant. Psilocybin is very emotional, LSD is very analytic. Psilocybin is very internal and personally insightful, LSD is more creative, intellectual, and external. The visuals are about as different as they could be although there is some overlap. LSD is like a cartoon fantasy wonderland, psilocybin is more like kaleidoscopes and geometry. LSD's visuals are slower, psilocybin's visuals are faster and more frantic.

LSD is controllable, psilocybin controls you. I've seen things from my internal imagination appear visually on LSD and my imagination can control the content of my hallucinations, but not with psilocybin. LSD has these glowing ever changing neon colored lines or echoes or sometimes webs that turn into cartoon wonderlands that I've never seen with psilocybin, and after images, whereas psilocybin has much more melting and bending and waving. Psilocybin has a LOT more mindfuck, LSD is comparatively clearheaded.

It's maybe easier to have a bad trip on psilocybin (psilocybin tends to more anxiety provoking, fear inspiring, and emotionally difficult) but bad trips on psilocybin tend to be easier to manage and get through in a weird way. Plus bad trips on psilocybin often end up being very positive and enlightening in the end. LSD is maybe more friendly, but bad trips can be very dark and disturbing, and they don't tend to be enlightening or positive in the end. It's kindof like the difference between a bad trip emotionally vs. intellectually, kindof. Still, I find that I have FAR fewer difficult experiences with LSD than psilocybin, but with psilocybin even the difficult experiences can often be highly rewarding so it balances out maybe.

In my opinion, psilocybin is good for personal insight, solving inner personal problems, confronting your demons, all that internal stuff.

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