Posted by Jost on October 26, 2006, at 12:10:43
In reply to Re: LSD never tried it , have you? » dbc, posted by laima on October 26, 2006, at 10:25:18
I used it a few times a little after college.
Once, it was more of a pure street drug type purchase (I think)-- a friend had gotten it from someone. Might have had a lot of methedrine or other speed in it-- who knows-- I had much more intense and dislocating spacial and other visual distortions-- not altogether pleasant-- and everything swam in and out of consciousness in a rather disconnected, although smooth and incredibly immediate way. I had no real hallucinations, although for a while my image in the mirror seemed to be wavy and very out of kilter.
It did feel as if my perceptions were enhanced, but my sense of space was extreme, but almost only that right in front of my face--everything else kind of eerily withdrew-- I would experience things that seemed to come out at me from the room-- right at my eyes or face- and they were so illuminated or long-drawn-out (especially sounds) that it was hard to locate them, they were so in-close, or drawing away or at a stained almost off-stage distance.
I also got very depressed at the end-- possibly coming down from the speed.
The other times probably it was better, or purer, drug. Those were extremely intense, very beautiful, memorable and meaningful experiences. Everything was drenched in some sort of sublime and almost romantic luminosity-- I can't explain-- and as if there was music in it--
I did have a brief episode of paranoia on the third one-- which is why, among other reasons, I absolutely wouldn't do it again. It was the middle of the night-- and I was convinced that something terrible was about to happen-- and would really have run out into the street-- without any sense of the "reality" of the thing-I was so focussed on my own ideas and inner quality of the truth of my emotions-- and a few immediate things, like being unable to get the door open--- which overwhelmed everything else.
At one point, to give an example, I was with someone I knew (a boyfriend at the time), and I became convinced that he needed water. I'm not sure why-- but we were standing together and I was looking at him, and I thought that he desperately needed it. I tried to hand him a glass of water-- which he didn't want. I kept insisting, that he have it-- and he said no. So, in the conviction that it was of utmost importance for him to get some water-- that he was parched or otherwise would be in danger from the absence of it-- I threw the water into his face. Literally.
He was shocked to say that least. I guess I managed to explain, despite the fact that he was also on LSD.
So things can get very strange, and yet very beautiful. I would definitely only take it if I could utterly depend on the sanity and good sense of the people I was with-- but I never feel that I can-- and wouldn't take it any way, as I can't depend on that in myself either--= another condition.
Jost
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