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QuestionTheUnivers
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Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please.
#26826734 - 07/16/20 10:49 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm 35, and at a point in my life where I need some kind of.... breakthrough or revelation or put myself on the path of a "spiritual journey" of sorts and get some answers. "What should I do with my life?" kind of thing. I understand enlightenment or a change in consciousness isn't like flipping a switch, and that it takes time and work.
I'm a fairly regular cannabis user, not super heavy though. I live in the Pacific Northwest and used to run a dispensary and made a lot of connections. Surprisingly, it was easier to secure LSD for me than it was to secure psilocybin, so I was able to get it from a source that I trust. I was able to get some 100 microgram doses and some 200 microgram doses. As I understand it, 200 is a pretty heavy dose and not good for starting out.
I've just been kind of doing research and whatnot about the compound and trip experiences and ways to get the most constructive experience possible, and wanted to hear from psychonauts who've... i guess, "been around the block."
Is LSD a pretty good psychedelic for my first steps into the water? I've been reading that acid in particular is a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy; that the experience you want to get or the thing you're trying to achieve tends to manifest. Is this true?
Do I really NEED a sitter? I'm kind of a private person with drugs, just meaning I like to be alone when I smoke or when I'm in a different consciousness... it's a introspective experience for me, I don't really treat it like a recreational one. Can I have a good LSD experience solo?
Does LSD ever... I guess "give" the gifts of breakthrough revelations? Is is all really esoteric? Do things get really introspective or is it kind of mostly visual?
I'm sorry for all the questions, but I just want to find out everything I can before jumping in. I really appreciate any help anyone can give. Thank you very much?
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: QuestionTheUnivers]
#26826752 - 07/16/20 10:58 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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You will be awestruck!
Yes LSD is a great first choice. Stay low with the 100mic. You won’t get any revelations from that, I wouldn’t have thought. But get some psychedelic music ready. You will get synaesthesia where you see music and stuff. And you’ll get the headspace.
I would highly recommend you get a trusted sitter too. Not a goofy mate, but someone you can really trust.
And be ready for a long night. Takes ages to get to sleep afterwards. So you can chat philosophy and cosmos with your sitter while you come down 
Best of luck DJ Ed
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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QuestionTheUnivers
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: DJ Ed]
#26827454 - 07/16/20 05:22 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the input!
Yeah, I've been reading that the peak is 8-10 hours or so?
Is it as introspective as mushrooms can be? I'm looking to get something somewhat specific out of it, though I know it's gonna kind of take me where it takes me. Can one find the peyote or mushroom-esque type of "journey" with LSD?
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: QuestionTheUnivers]
#26827490 - 07/16/20 05:42 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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2 (maybe three?) tabs LSD was my first psychedelic experience and I love it with all my heart. It is most certainly introspective, magical, and powerful in all the right ways. I hope you have a wonderful trip
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: QuestionTheUnivers]
#26827512 - 07/16/20 05:56 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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You peak around hour 3, and then plateau there until around hour 6, effects then slowly drop off until hour 12. Total experience can last as long as 16 hours or so, but the effects after hour 12 are minimal and mainly just a bunch of residual stimulation.
LSD can give you a direction in life, or it might not. It's been known to happen though. I would argue that it's less introspective than mushrooms, but it can still be introspective in its own ways. Whether or not you find what you're looking for is somewhat random. The effects can be highly unpredictable. But you may find what you're looking for.
Acid is affected by expectation, but I wouldn't say that it gives you what you want. More just that what you're expecting out of the trip influences the trip somehow. But again, the trip is also unpredictable, especially in a beginner like yourself. The trip is somewhat controllable as well, but you shouldn't count on experiencing any given thing, it's all somewhat random and unpredictable.
You don't need a sitter. Many of us always trip alone. You should probably start with 100ug for your first time, and then some weeks after that try 200ug.
Don't expect immediate answers or solutions to all your problems. It's not a magical solution to all problems. But, it has occasionally been known to give people direction in life, myself included.
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: nooneman]
#26829677 - 07/17/20 07:56 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks so much for the input!! I'm actually in the process of securing some mushrooms, and DMT... at least the connection for some. Not exactly sure how ill plan this out now. Might still try LSD first.
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: QuestionTheUnivers]
#26829828 - 07/17/20 09:47 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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The way you plan it out is you put them under your tongue and in your belly on a day you have some time and space to relax shrooms are definitely very introspective, beautiful, and powerful in their own way, they miiight be my favorite, I dose them the most often.....but then whenever I dose LSD I cry tears of joy and fall in love with the molecule all over again 
I'm grateful it was my first because it was such a long trip it gave me a really wonderful chance to exist in that new headspace that felt so foreign yet so familiar to me
OP do what feels right, regardless of the substance I hope you have a wonderful trip
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: Psicomb]
#26829837 - 07/17/20 09:55 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Some people can take LSD over and over again and everything is great. I am not one of those people. It makes me severely depersonalized, gives me thoughts are are violent and irrational, and close to a psychotic breakdown.
After every time I took LSD I felt dead inside. After taking psilocybin, I feel bathed in love. Proceed with caution and start small my friend, best of luck and stay safe.
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: Staples] 1
#26830268 - 07/18/20 06:57 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lsd is amazing
I use to take about 100 mic and ride my bike around on summer days
Some of the best times of my life
Most of your questions will be answered when you try it
I would stick with 1 tab of 100 mic likes others suggested
I would skip the sitter
I like it on a beautiful day and have tried many different types of music
You can have absolutely amazing experiences that completely alter your perspective, epiphanies, realizations, if its good, it can be a really powerful "spiritual" sort of experience
I hope you love it as much as so many of us do
Expect not to sleep until 12 hours after ingested, night trips are possible and enjoyable, i like doing them around 4 or 5 or a few hours before sun set followed by a fire outside
This is a great way to trip with friends
Have a great trip 
Ps. Mushrooms and lsd and dmt for that matter are very different, they all have their benefit and uses
Lsd is a bit easier and more forgiving imo and euphoric, happy, loving
Mushrooms can be too but imo they are more where spiritual "work" come in
Lsd is like a good friend you always have a great time with. Sure to be a blast.
Mushrooms are like an old wise teacher that will do whats best for you be that beat you with a stick like the kung fu teachetr who taught the blonde in kill bill
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: Enkidu]
#26830372 - 07/18/20 08:56 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think it's definitely nice to have someone you can trust around and be able to talk freely all the weird things that come to your mind while tripping.
Have a great experience!
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: Enkidu]
#26830381 - 07/18/20 09:01 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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It’s 30 years since I last took LSD, so I was suggesting the sitter in case the come up is anything like mushrooms. I really can’t remember back 30 years. I do remember the sunaesthesia though from LSD: once listening to Hawkwind Angels of Death; I could see the band on a cliff top rocky outcrop, and the music from their instruments was floating through the air to me as visual notes from a sheet of music. It was beautiful and I really would fancy experiencing that again. And the headspace I used to reach right at the peak was just like they describe in the spirit molecule regarding the “waiting room”.
So OP, everyone with more recent experience than me says skip the sitter; listen to them 
But there would be a huge benefit of having a sitter all the same: someone to chat with during the long comedown, but while you’re still full of the universe
DJ Ed
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Re: Trying to Prep for First Psychedelic Trip in Near Future. Help Please. [Re: DJ Ed]
#26831470 - 07/18/20 08:23 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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LSD Is pretty easy going especially at lower doses. Like with any phycodelic i recommend working your way up an getting a feel for it then once comfortable work your way up. 50 to 100 mics is a good starting point.
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