Ive read "The Electric KoolAid Acid Test" and was wondering if any people have took LSD and what is it like???

Question

when the doors of perception are cleansed,
man will see everything as it is,
infinite

Answer 1

I've took LSD on several occasion over the last ten or so years and had good times and bad alot of it to do with your sate of mind and how you can control your thoughts or reason with your self.I can understand how people think they can fly etc but you just have remind yourself you can't. i haven't had full hallucination just distortion's like morphing.its interesting to let your brain have free run for a bit I'm quite sure its capable of alot more than we use it for.but my best trip experience's have been with hallucinogenic mushrooms. which i find are more intense for shorter period (5 hours) as a rule and stop. were LSD can tend to drag on and not reach a peak more a stroll.and i can understand what the shamen etc have wrote about.

Answer 2

During the late 70's I used LSD frequently. Unlike some, I never had a bad experience with it. It also never did any apparent harm and I have never had a flashback.

BEFORE GOING ON: I DO NOT RECCOMEND OR ENCOURAGE ANYBODY TO USE THIS SUBSTANCE. IT IS BOTH ILLEGAL AND DANGEROUS! NOT ONLY ARE HALLUCINAGENIC COMPOUDS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PHYCHOTIC EPISODES THAT COULD BE PERMENENT, THERE IS NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT IS IN THE SO-CALLED LSD YOU BUY ON THE STREETS.

It was fun. You approach it with the philosophy of neither accept nor deny anything that happens and you anticipate having a good time. Your mental state is extremely important.

The thing I most liked about my own experiments was the mentally cleaned out feeling I had afterwards. It was like somebody had gone through and brushed all the cowebs from the corners of my mind. Other than that, my sides always hurt from laughing for six hours straight.

Answer 3

There is no ONE answer. Everyone experiences EVERYTHING subjectively. LSD can and often does heighten some levels of awareness and so does driving at high speed or jumping out of aeroplanes and the latter is considered a healthy recreational sport. The horror stories arise NOT because the drug produces it but because the 'taker' is more often than not under the illusion in his/ her everyday life that they are NOT frightened and that they believe themselves in total control of their emotional and psychic center. What a big surprise then when they discover they're NOT and some of those old childhood fears and ancient primal dreams come-a-bubbling to the surface.

How well do you know your SELF ?

If in doubt-avoid but if you do take it, do it with a small group of close friends in a SAFE environment. Better still with an experienced tripper who is completely straight

Answer 4

I did it a few times a month the year I was 17 or 18.

Fun: Watching a movie is fun while on acid. I sat on the couch and watched Ninja Scroll and thought it was the best thing I had ever seen. The entire time I thought the plot was about squirrels and it never occured to me that there weren't any in the movie until the next day.

NOT fun: I was at a party and we were all on acid. Someone pulled out a huge hunting knife and we were holding it. We had no idea if we had already stabbed ourselves or not. We didn't know if we were bleeding. We thought that maybe someone was dead. We almost called the police on ourselves. (nothing had happened)

Answer 5

It is like being insane, where you have limited control of your perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. I went from feeling elated to having a sense of impending doom, as if I were going to die and come face to face with God. It was really horrifying. I also heard voices and laughter, even though I was by myself. Or, I would see someone else's face on another person. For example, I saw my brother's face on a total stranger. I could go on and on about the freaky things. All things considered, my experience with LSD was mostly negative, and a bit too intense. I don't recommend it. If you have tried marijuana, and you get a little paranoid while high on pot, then there is a very good possibility that you will freak out on LSD. Don't try it.

Answer 6

It's crazy stuff. It's super heightened senses paired with a racing imagination. Your vision especially can become very different, everything looks dirty and splotchy. If you take it for a while you begin to just think slowly, like a burn-out. In high school everyone used to do it, that's been nearly 15 years ago for me, and I'm certain that if I did it now I'd take days to recover, if ever. I've hallucinated, seen/heard things that weren't there. You can listen to music and hear your mom talking to you, You can stare at yourself in a mirror and not be able to tell what's real and what's a reflection. People have lost their minds, gone screaming down the street, convinced themselves to jump off a roof, experienced paralyzing paranoia. There are some people who just never bounce back from it, one trip does them permanent damage mentally. I was lucky and came out ok but I could kick my 16 year old self in the @ss for all the stupid stuff I did.

Answer 7

'the doors of perception' is from another book, and where The Doors got their name, as I'm sure you already know.
I've read the EKAT and taken LSD. Honestly, I recommend neither.

Re-read the quote on the doors of perception... it only makes sense if you are on drugs. Otherwise, it's just hippe-double speak. It means nothing. Just because it sounds deep, doesn't mean that it is. The same could be said about dropping acid.

However...to answer your question 'what is it like'?

Your pupils dialate (letting in tons more light than necessary), so you do 'hallucinate' and see trails and faders that aren't really there. Something that is normally simple becomes extraordinary.

I know that when I've taken lsd, I can remember pretty much everything from the 'trip', but it's almost like I wasn't me while on the drug. When you try to speak, the words don't come out right. I think when that happened to me while tripping, it was just the strychnine (yeah, rat poison. there's less and less of it with better quality lsd. think about that before you dose).

Here are some quality things I've said while on LSD:

"Did you see that penguin?" (there was no penguin)
"Did that (traffic) light just turn blue?" (no, it didn't. it was green)
"Did you see what I just thought?" (lay off the drugs, son)

Some amazing stuff I've seen under the effects of LSD:

fireworks.

fireworks hurled out of the car in front of me and splattering against the windshield of the car I was a passenger in.

water from a shower under a blacklight (looks like it's going BACK IN the showerhead, not flowing out).

a penguin (see above)

the sun coming up

And lastly, one experience I had on LSD with a girl at a Dead show in Ohio. We dose, then hang out in the lot before the show. As showtime nears, we walk towards and into the coliseum. Once inside, Danielle (name changed to protect the innocent), steps on something. She freaks out a little and is like "get it off, get it off!". So I help her with whatever's on her shoe. Turns out, it's this little plastic square (exactly the size of a starburst candy) stuck to the bottom of her shoe. I take it off and show it to her. It's got all these swirly colors on it and she's like "oh... wow....." and keeps it as a momento of her first trip, first dead show....
And I turned down sex with her later on that evening. I didn't want to "take advantage" of her.....which as it turns out, I wouldn't have. She wanted me before and I didn't know it. We even slept in the same bed that night.
I'd probably be married to her today if we would have had sex / started dating...... So yeah..... don't take LSD.

Answer 8

Tom Wolfe is a good writer. Drugs alter but do not clarify perception. They distort it. Man will never see things as they are. Read my book, The Electric Drill and the First Aid Acid Test".

Answer 9

Car slowly sinking into the earth - the doors won't open so I can get out - I'm going to suffocate.

The lite up door bells at all the houses are on fire! Everyone is going to burn.

Look at that giant rat eating the huge peice of cheese! (It was people sitting outside of a tent at a weekend long rock concert)

Don't stop passing that aluminum foil ball around. If you do the house is going to blow up.

Sound like fun? NEVER - it was always a bad experience!

Answer 10

I took Acid in the late 60's and it was extremely nasty. It initiated a 17 year battle with mental health problems which I would not wish on anyone. Should you wish to hear a poet's view of the stuff, listen to "My Back Pages" by Bob Dylan. This is how terrifying the stuff really is. Avoid.