r/LSD

I took it and 2 hours, a golden beetle suddenly appeared in my bathroom when i wanted to go number 2. He was a little hairy fella and I stretched my finger out and he was hesitant a bit before giving in and felt weird as he tightened around my skin but let him out then, it was like he was having a tongue and all

why does this happen? also a little fella just was here on my table?

for backstory, i was young and dumb a few years ago and dropped 2.5 tabs a random night with some mates and during the entire time i smoked a tremendous amount of weed, and hadn’t touched acid until a festival a few months ago and had an odd experience i’d like some advice with before my next festival in a week or two.

Night before i dropped, my 2 close friends had a tab each from the same sheet and were absolutely blasted having a very fufilling wonderful time, and i was NOT on any acid i know i’ve got a high tolerance so i thought i’d drop 2 on the night after, planning on having a ball. i drop 2 tabs, with no real intention to smoke as im planning on getting energised and enjoying myself.

i also had this thought before taking the tabs, a “what if i smoked so much weed when i dropped last that it’s the only way i react to it?” and i dropped 2 tabs at dawn, and waited about 3 hours and got little to nothing from it (i had a hard time telling, felt something for sure but it was minute and i struggle from HPPD so visuals are always there and didn’t change much) and i was a bit pissy that it wasn’t doing shit so i took 2 more tabs.

about another hour passes, still nothing and i go down to the river to smoke a joint with my partner, and as soon as i finished smoking my joint it all come down on me at once, and i had a very intense 18 hour trip which wasn’t too bad.

my only concern is i want to enjoy acid without marijuana, and i’ve never been able to get proper effects without it? i also had the thought that i may have percieved acid incorrectly as i have no basis of experience with out smoking weed.

any comments around anything would be awesome, could even find a time to take a little before my festival coming up and just not smoking weed at all to see how i go.

edit: was my second time doing acid ever, year in between taking tabs, worded this a bit poorly but was with friends who did it the night before me, and i didn’t take it

What feels different on LSD vs shrooms? Lsd makes people laugh a lot, whats it like on shrooms?

My favorite band of all time. George Clinton and the entire band was flying high on acid on live TV. Unfortunately the audio isn't great, but it's still special footage.

My first time taking LSD was about 1 year ago, been taking it sometimes in that period, but for my first time it was truly magical, my life started improving slowly after due to my changes how i see the world, and i noticed i feel closer with my cat, because i rememeber petting my cat and crying out of love, very theraputial

and i could visualize and feel how its possible that we live in a constant loop, due to the universe potentially collapsing and getting renewed, and this process has no end, so my thought was that, when i died in my past life, the universe collappsed 10000000000000000000000000000 Billion times, until i was born again due to the perfect timing of my dad nutting in .... enough said. Just a theory i could visualize and feel.

I used to see LSD using hippies as weird, but i understand now.

I’ll begin with saying, the only other psychedelic I’ve done has been mushrooms and that was around 2-2.5 years ago. I didn’t really know what to expect but I wasn’t nervous going into it. I took the tab at 8:40pm maybe an hour after a light dinner. I didn’t really know what I was expecting the tab to do in my mouth at the end of the day it’s just a paper. After 20 minutes I swallow it.

For the first hour the strongest thing I noticed was an immense relaxation, it was almost like an edible high - calm, heavy, and most certainly peaceful.

At the second hour things started becoming noticeably different, the visuals started coming up at this point. The best way I could describe it, the hue on everything got turned up a bit and objects had a breathing effect to them, almost everything had a somewhat cartoon outline to it. Nothing looked fake or imaginary but reality itself felt visually alive. One thing. I noticed in the moment was that I would get fixated on certain things just staring in awe, and I would get lost in the moment and feel like time slowed down.

One thing I noticed pretty quickly was that every single time I would pull my phone out and try to document what I was feeling it would almost immediately pull me out of the immersion. It was like trying to consciously analyze the experience weakened it a little bit. Eventually I just stopped trying to constantly write things down because I realized I was genuinely living in the moment. Time didn’t matter, nothing mattered, and I was thoroughly enjoying every second of it.

Nearing 3 hours:

If the come up was an edible high and the second hour were mild visuals, music was the absolute catalyst to the entire experience. I can honestly say music became something entirely different than I had experienced sober. It wasn’t just “better sounding” it felt multi layered, dimensional as if it had its own space. Every instrument felt separated into its own space. These different layers of sound seemed to rise and fall independently. Tiny details I almost never noticed felt impossible to ignore. Every transition, every background sound, every effect felt emotionally important. I already appreciated music, but this really cranked it up.

Around 3:30 to 4 hours in I knew it was fully kicked in. The relaxation intensified heavily and the fixation effect became even stronger. Time itself started feeling weird, almost stretched out and disconnected from normal pacing. I would get completely sucked into whatever I was focused on whether it was the movie, a random thought, or especially the music.

The visuals never became these insane movie type hallucinations people make psychedelics out to be, but honestly they didn’t even need to. Although I must add when listening to music and closing my eyes I could see that ripple effect with mild colors overall felt like I was having a concert on my own ears lol.

By around 2-3 AM I could feel the effects slowly starting to diminish. The visuals softened first while mentally I slowly started feeling more grounded again. What surprised me the most was how gradual the comedown was. There wasn’t some exact moment where it suddenly stopped, it slowly loosened its grip over time. At no point during the entire trip did I feel as if I was out of control of it. Which is what happened during my first mushrooms trip. Overall was an amazing experience and I can now understand the love behind LSD.