I'm writing a thesis for my PhD.
Who here has taken a trip - either LSD or Magic Mushrooms?
Cheers.
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I'm writing a thesis for my PhD.
Who here has taken a trip - either LSD or Magic Mushrooms?
Cheers.
Screaming blue meanies were awesome.
Never heard of them. Can you give me a year and a country?
Oz, late 80's
Cheers.
"I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dream-like state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted steam of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors."
These are the words of Albert Hoffman. I read them many years ago in a Chemistry Journal and have been lucky to find them reproduced on the Internet and feel that your paper may benefit by the inclusion of this passage."
^Excellent - nice one.
Seriously?...Is it all about numbers?...Or do you want stories?...Witchcraft, spells, and astro-travel work, as well?...Past lives?...Quote:
Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier
Or is it only the two of the psychedelic drugs you are interested in?...
Thought the title was a bit general...(Who's he trying to kid?)...We've all been on a trip...
I'll put you down as a no then mate :)
Knock yerself out...
“Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter.”
George Carlin.
Watch some of his interviews or shows where he talks about acid that should provide all the research you need.
Yep. Had a load of liberty caps a few months back actually - was fucking excellent! :D
Me and a mate had a load after a few pints at the pub, went back to his and made a tea. Put some tunes on when we were coming up and my word, what an experience!
At one point I lay there with my eyes closed and was visualising immensely colourful mental landscapes - geometric patterns, colours, mountains, seas, all sorts of enjoyable images - all pulsing and vibrating in time to the music.
It was as if the music was orchestrating the closed eye visuals, rising and falling, swelling and ebbing along with the peaks in the music. Looked at my mate at one point and he was lost in his own world too...
Walked back to mine when I thought I'd come down. Well, I hadn't!
Was a full moon and it made everything look fucking nuts, truly otherworldly. Got back to mine and sat in the back garden, the moonlight was making the lichen on my patio glow, and I mean glow, with a mesmerising blue/green light.
Ended up just sitting there for about two hours staring at it, the moon and the stars! :rofl:
Can't really put the experience into words, you never can after tripping, but yeah, it was really nice.
Here's two tunes from the night that made me feel fucking amazing, and I can still remember the mental orgasm I had listening to them that night every time I hear them:
The xx - Shelter - YouTube
Massive Attack - Angel - YouTube
Nope, never taken any and never will, fucks your head up .
Just look at all the warped druggies on TD
Albert Hofmann: Godfather of LSD
Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008)[1][2] was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
One often asks oneself what roles planning and chance play in the realization of the most important events in our lives. [...] This [career] decision was not easy for me. I had already taken a Latin matricular exam, and therefore a career in the humanities stood out most prominently in the foreground. Moreover, an artistic career was tempting. In the end, however, it was a problem of theoretical knowledge which induced me to study chemistry, which was a great surprise to all who knew me. Mystical experiences in childhood, in which Nature was altered in magical ways, had provoked questions concerning the essence of the external, material world, and chemistry was the scientific field which might afford insights into this.[6]
Main article: Discovery of LSD
Hofmann became an employee of the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories (now a subsidiary of Novartis), located in Basel as a co-worker with professor Arthur Stoll, founder and director of the pharmaceutical department.[7] He began studying the medicinal plant squill and the fungus ergot as part of a program to purify and synthesize active constituents for use as pharmaceuticals. His main contribution was to elucidate the chemical structure of the common nucleus of the Scilla glycosides (an active principal of Mediterranean Squill).[7] While researching lysergic acid derivatives, Hofmann first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938.[8] The main intention of the synthesis was to obtain a respiratory and circulatory stimulant (an analeptic) with no effects on the uterus in analogy to nikethamide (which is also a diethylamide) by introducing this functional group to lysergic acid. It was set aside for five years, until April 16, 1943, when Hofmann decided to reexamine it. While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips[9] and fortuitously discovered its powerful effects. He described what he felt as being:
... affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated[-]like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.[10]
Three days later, on April 19, 1943, Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 micrograms of LSD. This day is now known as "Bicycle Day," because after starting to feel the effects of the drug he rode home on a bike, and that became the first intentional acid trip.[11]
Tried overdosing on the lot, never worked for Me, My mind never altered, conclusion, they do not alter any state of mind.
^Not an altar boy, then?...
Wasn't really my thing but I did two purple ohms as a kid (two different occasions) and the only thing I remember about it today is the awesome way the stars looked. They were all joined up and looked like those molecular structure things in science. Loved it.Quote:
Originally Posted by khmen
I would imagine stars feature heavily in a lot of people's trips given that they're pretty cool when straight.
What about the warped druggie who took acid and dreamed up the sequence of DNA? Google Francis Crick mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluke
Then, when your tiny mind has absorbed the fact that the father of genetic research used acid, have a look into all the other numerous achievements accomplished by people who have used various drugs...
Music, Art, Literature, Science, psychology, architecture - some of the most amazing works/ideas mankind has produced have come about as a direct result of drug usage.
"Every day, the narrow minds, they see what they wanna see..."
Yeah I'd say so mate, pretty much anything amazing in the natural world seems to become even more magical under the influence of psychedelics. Woods in the summer can seem enchanted, rolling gentle waves become hypnotic, the sky and clouds in the daytime become an infinite pool of unimaginable depth...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fozzy
Fark, this thread is making me want to have another trippy day away with the fairies! Think my mate has still got a few hundred shrooms, I'll have to arrange a day soon before summer ends I reckon! :D
I've tripped a handful of times in my life. The last time being in the 80's. Don't know what kind it was. Usually went like this: Friend, "Take this." Me, "OK."
Memorable moments were seeing myself in the sky, closing myself in a bathroom which turned completely tiled in with no door, and seeing two moons in the sky over Haleakala Crater.
Oh, and seeing horses so crowed onto a billboard they were falling off. Saw the billboard a few days later and there was only one horse.
:rofl: Oh dear...the tiles weren't black and white, were they ?Quote:
Originally Posted by misskit
I took acid a handful of times in the mid-70s. And gold-top mushies about the same.
On my first mushroom trip, I saw a vision of the Star Child from "2001 : A Space Odyssey" in amazing, almost perfect detail.
And after an all-night acid-fuelled party out on a farm, at about 4.30 am, I had a feeling that my friend and I should leave. Drove out of the farm and about 100 metres up the road, saw about 5 police cars headed for the farm. Some twit had been dancing on the road naked and been reported.
Lucky they didn't stop us...apparently they were real assholes to some of the people there, and I was a sensitive lad then.
The "Liberty Cap" mushrooms used to grow in abundance where I lived in England. Taking them was like a rite of passage when I was a kid.
Graduated to acid a bit later on. Good times in the late 80's.
I'm seeing a very interesting correlation here.
Trippers and non-trippers will view this video below very differently.
Seriously.
I,ve done loads of both and no words can describe the effects.
Some I know think LSD is the cream of all drugs and I might agree.
You can't write about it unless you've done it.