what is it like to do LSD? what type of emotions are common?

Question

i'm writing a paper on it, i dont need lectures on how bad it is because i know, i just want some experienced oppinions. an info on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

As a graduate student during the 1970's, I was on the staff of a Crisis Intervention Center only one block away from a local Midwestern university. It was on one end of the bar and entertainment street called "The Strip".

Especially during very late weekend shift, I was able to see and interact with people (mostly college students) who were experiencing LSD. Emotion ran the entire range possible, but had a high association with the set, setting and human companionship. Safe surrounding lead to positive emotions. Strange surroundings usually pointed to negative feelings.

Often the LSD users were having a very good time, especially with the sensory changes that develop during the trip. The most notable of these is prolonged after-images (traces) and a shifting of which sense was activated (seeing colors for music, feeling sound, smelling and tasting in atypical ways).

On occasion, a individual would have problems coping with the overload of input. Often they would shut down similar to an autistic child. Illusions or hallucinations might be common. Most of these were simplistic, such as seeing an arm turn red or feeling something crawl under the skin.

On one occasion, the person brought in had developed a true psychotic break with reality. This was the worst experience that I ever dealt with personally. Professional help was required. I later learned the the individual had a history of mental and emotional problems.

Answer 2

Feelings shift throughout the experience. You may experience feelings of being overwhelmed, of awe, and of giddiness. A lot of the time, you may feel like a sponge, kind of just soaking up the feelings, experiences, and ideas that come to you. Stimuli, such as late night cartoons - which will be altered by visual and audial hallucinations, of course - may summon up feelings that do not entirely match the feelings that they'd normally evoke. There may be frightening times rarely, but they will pass so long as you make the decision to not dwell on them. It helps to have a friend around.

Generally, it's a placid experience, almost like being stoned. Being stoned on marijuana, it's easy to just turn off your brain and stare at something pretty on the tv or in the park, but LSD experiences are different. Things could be consumingly interesting - engrossing, you could say - and it's easy to get lost in deep tangents of thought. A skewed perspective on the world allows for free association between ideas that one might not neccesarily put together under other circumstances.

If you chose to try something like this, the most important thing is that you be ready to deal with what could initially be a stressful experience. With a good mindset, good planning (making sure that you're in a safe, comfortable environment), and a sense of what to expect from the experience, it will certainly be more interesting than frightening. Use common sense - like Bill Hicks says, if you think can fly, try taking off from the ground first. Not that you'll go crazy or anything! Just saying. Also, it's not something to be done too frequently, one does have to allow themself time to recover and reflect.

Answer 3

Well I used to do it when I went to raves, and everything that happens depends on the environment. One of the times I was still being effected when I went home, and my house has a bad environment due to arguments and all that, so it turned to a bad trip, now whenever I had a good trip, the environment was calming, dark, and I had friends around. Emotions are always different, there is no way to tell someone that they'll have good or bad emotions. I generally had good emotions except for that one time.

Answer 4

I took a substance abuse and addictions class in college. Our text was called 'Buzzed' and the title was blurred like the text on that shirt with 'one tequila, two...floor.' It was informative and I found that it corroborated my experiences. If you haven't read it and you have the time to find it, I highly recommend it.
A person can experience all sorts of emotions and some of the variables are the amount taken, the specific chemical makeup of what was taken, the individual's biological responses, the person's own attitude and personality (and mood when taking it). The emotions are more intense than those a person typically experience, and they range from complete euphoria (everything in the world is perfect and wonderful, with a strong sense of calm and contentedness) to fear and anger and hatred. There is also the possibility of hallucinations of every sort though auditory and visual are most common. A user may laugh uncontrollably at an otherwise mild stimuli, or try to crawl into an empty pack that used to hold 20 cigarrettes.

Answer 5

I did mushrooms twice, the first time it was fantastic, felt great, saw cool things. The second time...... I have never felt worse, I experienced extreme paranoia and the only hallucinations were hearing people fighting and the cops coming and seeing blue flashing lights. I wanted to die. My friends took even more than me, and it took them a few months to recover, particularly one guy who had a bad trip and had nightmares and brief flashbacks for months after taking 150 mushrooms. The negatives far outweigh the positives and I'll never take them again. I'm pretty sure acid is like a stronger version of these, so watch out. Its gambling with your sanity, seriously.

Answer 6

I took LSD in 1974 (the only time that i did).

I got a rather fuzzy feeling about me and I felt that i could see the souls of the people about me.

Two aspects bothered me. When I saw my friend's soul, it was a black blob. (the other people had colored lights, in varying intensities).

I went into the bathroom to see mine reflecrted in the mirror, but nothing ever came up for me

Answer 7

It will very a great deal from person to person. And by the quality and how much the person takes. It effects some people in a positive way, other's in a negative way. Some have jumped out a window thinking they could fly. Other's thought they could see sounds. Is it "bad" ? That's only an opinon...I would'nt touch it myself.

Answer 8

I've never done it, but I was with someone who was on it and he tried to jump off the hill we were standing on. He HONESTLY thought he could fly. I had to talk him out of jumping. It was a LONG time ago, but I remember making up some wierd story to convince him that if he jumped, I would be left alone and scared, and that made him not jump.
I'm just glad he didn't decide to take me with him.

Answer 9

Emotions: awe, elation, joy, fascination, love, feeling disconnected from the surroundings and yet also feeling one with the world around you. It depends on what's inside you.
This is purely subjective.

Answer 10

You get this warm happy go lucky feeling. You experience hallucinations. Then you come down from the drug, and you become extremely restless and depressed