LSD

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Anyone ever dabbled before? What were your experiences? I've taken in the past, experienced ego death which was incredibly profound, always felt clear after the come up. Been reading a lot about it recently and find it fascinating how effective it can be for MH issues (been watching how to change your mind on Netflix). Anyone want to share? (I hope this is allowed, sorry if not!)

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100% not 😂

Tried it once. It was a fun evening but I didn't feel it was a particularly profound experience or had a lasting effect on my psyche. I'm not sure what ego death is? I remember I didn't have a clue who I was or what was important in my life but it didn't really change my view of anything to experience the evening like that (maybe it would be different if I'd been at home or it was during the day? Idk).

The one thing I will say is that pre-LSD I thought pink floyd were wank. Whole new experience listening to them when you're high. Next time I try it I'm just going to sit on a comfortable chair and listen to music. Next time won't be for a very long time though, not until the DC are old enough to not need me and they're only babies at the moment.

I'm exactly the same. Have a 4 year old and haven't taken any kind of drugs since we'll before I was pregnant as it doesn't feel right. I do like to reminisce though!

what is ego death? I’ve seen people say they’ve experienced it but no one seems able to put it into words

It is probably up there in my top 2 profound experiences ever. Everything went completely silent even though I was in a loud environment, When I looked around all I saw was bright bright light. I couldn't move. Couldn't feel the floor underneath my. My hair which is mid back length and super curly just looked like a mess of weird shapes and colours. It was the only thing I could see apart from white light. It was like I was floating, I had no thoughts (literally, none). It was like being alone in the universe, floating, and nothingness. It's so hard to explain.

Sounds horrific. Some of my friends took trips when we were 14/15 but I was always too afraid and your post just clarifies that was the right decision for me 😨

It was pretty amazing actually, I was having a lovely time. Not for everyone though.

Spent most of the weekends in my 20s on acid. No profound experiences, but I'm the least spiritual person alive. Just enjoyed the enhanced visuals and sounds at raves and gigs. Loved the sensation change in touch and the freedom it gave my mind.

I have the same experience too although it starts to get a bit boring around the 12th hour and I just want to go to sleep so I prefer the shorter life span of mushrooms instead. Love the next day afterglow of lsd.

Lsd is great if you have some Xanax when you want to sleep.

The thought loops on high doses weren't so much fun though ☺️

Ah to be young again...

I've never messed with psychedelics. I'm too scared!

Me too. It was the thought of not enjoying it or being frightened and not being able to stop it that out me off.

It's the only profound experience I've ever had on acid, and I had taken a heroic dose which is probably why! I'm an atheist, about as atheist as they come. I don't link it to anything spiritual, it was just an incredible, mind bending experience.

The most profound thing I can say about it was that it was profoundly difficult to play caress 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

CARDS-FFS

Hahaha playing cards on acid 🤣

There were millions of them!!!

I know of someone who ended up in hospital. They had tried lsd and ended up really unwell. While there they decided that trying to fly was a good idea. Promptly opened a window jumped and died.

That is an incredibly rare experience for most LSD users, not many documented accounts of this happening as often as people say. Sounds like the scaremongering from the past. If used sensibly (preferably with someone sober to trip mind) it can be one of the safest recreational drugs.

Isn't it dangerous doing this in public? If all you could see was white light what if you walked in front of a car by accident?

Presumably there must have been other people in the room with them, otherwise nobody would know that they were trying to fly. Why didn't those people restrain them before they climbed out of the window?

FWIW I'm not aware of any documented cases of people thinking they could fly on psychedelics. It's more plausible that someone could be having a bad trip and trying to escape.

I had a profound experience.
Like you OP, it could be described as an "Ego Death"
It's really difficult to put into words but I felt like I was beyond thoughts but understood everything. I felt the same as everything and everyone. Like I said difficult to put into words.
I'd had wild hallucinations before but nothing compared to that.

I was a heavy drug user and I used hallucinogenics quite a lot in my late teens, usually after ecstasy but we would use acid or ketamine ‘raw’ as well. I don’t really recall much of those years and they were, generally, quite dark years given we were using a lot; but I do remember some of those nights on acid with good friends and everything feeling very lovely, watching sunsets and neon lights and cloud formations.
i think using drugs daily for 5 years pretty much destroyed my adult mental health and I cannot equate me now with that carefree, brave stupid young thing. I never had the profound experience you mention though op. I also knew of people who had died on drugs, and there was a guy who jumped from the rigging at the Que club in Birmingham which did make us all a little more cautious.

I took it a few times as a youngster. I can't say I found it particularly profound or enlightening though. It was fun but no deeper than that. I wouldn't do it again now as a fully formed adult.