DOSE: T+ 0:00	1 hit	sublingual	LSD	(blotter / tab)
T+ 8:00	Few hits	oral	Cannabis	(flowers)

BODY WEIGHT:

145 lb

Saturday April 5th 2014

I am 20 years old, 5’7”, 145lbs. I have never done any psychedelics, I am however a pretty frequent weed smoker (smoking for 6-7 years) and I can put away alcohol. My cousin (call him Lemonade) is an avid dropper and has used LSD and other psychedelics for around 8ish years and I have been with him on many occasions while he was tripping. I have a history with depression and about 5 and a half years ago I tried to kill myself, and Lemonade thought maybe Acid would be a bad move because I could go back to that bad place on it if I were to have a bad trip. But I was in a good place in my life, girlfriend was great, school was school but good, and I was with good friends so I decided I would be fine.

I went upstairs in Ice-Tea’s house to his room where we play videogames. We played a game of Dota 2 and in the middle of the game I just reached back, grabbed the foil and put the blotter tab under my tongue. Ice-Tea looked at me and said “I don't know if I can man” and I said "come on don’t make me go in alone", so he dropped one in too. Our mutual friend Kool-aid came in and dropped with us too, (he has done acid 4 times). The time was 2:30pm. It was like nothing happened right away, sort of metallic taste, I waited about 10-15ish minutes till the paper began to dissolve and swallowed it. Nothing really other than the metallic taste.

About 20 min after I swallowed the paper my body began to feel different. I wasn’t sure what it was yet, a head cold or the acid, then I realized it was definitely the drug. My hoodie I was wearing began to feel extra comfortable, and my muscles began to feel as though they were relaxing. My feet had a slightly warm tingling sensation in them and the carpet felt really good to rub my feet on. The game of Dota ended and I asked Ice-Tea if he was feeling anything, he said he wasn’t sure, and said he regretted taking it and thought it was a bad idea. I told him it was fine things will be ok but I'm gonna get off of the computer for a little and go downstairs.

There was about 5-ish kids downstairs, all close friends of mine including Toke and Kool-aid. Toke had tripped the night before and just wanted to be there for our first time. My friend I sold a bike to was freaking out and kept asking me where my keys were so he could find his keys (which were lost) and I remember feeling very antsy and anxious when he kept asking, so I found my keys and said “I’ll drive us to the shop to see if you left them there.” Kool-aid came with me. It was about 3:10. It was during the drive down the body euphoria got really noticeable and I began to get really giggly. We found his keys at the shop and a big sense of accomplishment came over me as though I had completed a very important mission. It was a cool feeling and definitely one I had never felt before.

When we were about to leave I started to notice how beautiful everything looked and I was laughing really hard with Kool-aid now because he had been holding an unopened koolaid jammer in his hand for like 30min now. We took the key back and decided that we wanted to go on a little drive because this was starting to get pretty interesting. We asked Ice-Tea but he said he felt sick to the stomach and didn’t want to go. The drive was awesome! We put on some chill EDM like adventure club and modestep and drove through the mountains. There were times were I would get so caught up in my thoughts and the surroundings that I would forget I was driving. It was scary at first but Kool-aid said my driving was perfect hahahaha.

When we got back and I shut my car off and stepped out that’s when I really noticed that I was on drugs. The ground looked as though it were stiff rubber and gave a slight ripple when I stepped on it and that I was beginning to notice a lot more detail. Vivid detail. When we got back to Ice-Tea’s room his pupils were huge, he said mine were too, and toke who was sitting on ice-tea’s bed, said we should definitely be starting to trip now. It was 3:30 - 3:40ish. I sat down and we talked about the drive and I noticed that dota was exploding with color! It was beautiful! Colors were intensified, the ground of the map looked like spilt motor oil on water, rippling and flowing. That’s when the walls of the room began to “breathe” I was in total amazement every pattern in the wood was flowing and pulsing and colors were so vivid, contrasts were much more profound and I kept “wowing” myself with what I was witnessing.

I hopped on and played a quick game of dota and I remember being so awestruck at how beautiful it was and I played a horrible game. The sounds were so surreal and the colors and patterns kept becoming more and more intense. After the game we all went downstairs. Walking down the stairs was amazing. It seemed to be curving back and forth down and waving up and down, the walls were bouncing in and out and the ceiling seemed to arc infinitely upward. I began to notice that I was seeing a lot more “stuff”. For example Ice-Tea has a mini husky named AK and she was shedding, well I noticed every single hair fiber in the room. I noticed every mark on the wall and every stain on the carpet. The word I would use to describe this feeling would be, loud. The visuals were become very loud and very noticeable. I wasn’t sure if I liked this or not cause it , at times became overwhelming , but still everything was absolutely beautiful. We talked about what we felt like, we were still laughing a lot and just shot the shit like we normally do only now everything seemed so much more profound.

It was sometime around 5:00pm when everyone but me Ice-tea and Toke were left. There was less talking and more thinking. My mind would wander and think about things in a way and about stuff that I normally wouldn’t. I began to realize how pathetic my life was and how little of a difference I actual made in other people’s lives, yet at the same time how profound life was. We talked some more then Toke left to go get some alcohol. Me and Ice-Tea were left tripping together alone. We watched a little of the great Gatsby, we were really into it but people kept walking in and out so we changed it to the ending of The Girl Next Door (great movie and the ending while tripping was genius). We then watched Abduction on HBO with Taylor Lautner. It was an absolutely amazing movie but the acting was terrible. Meanwhile the visuals were at their most intense point.

The image on the TV seemed like it was a water painting in motion, the light on the walls was pulsing in different colors of the spectrum, the room still had the breathing sensation. We went outside for a quick break and all I can say is WOW. This was the first time outside since I began tripping hard. The world is absolutely magnificent on LSD. So breathtakingly beautiful. I could notice every single branch of every single tree I could hear everything. It was a sunny day and the sun setting over the mountains, casting shadows in shades of deep burnt orange and auburn reds on the hills was spectacular. The neighbors were having a bonfire and picnic next door with some subtle reggae music playing. Everything seemed so peaceful and marvelous. Humanity seemed so insignificant to everything I was taking in. Ice-Tea and my self sat on the steps of the house overlooking the mountains in silence, we would break the silence only to look at each other and laugh as we realized how ridiculous this drug was.

I decided to call our friend who wasn’t here at the time and tried explaining to him what was happening. I couldn’t portray anything I was thinking for I was laughing entirely too hard. One of the neighbors came over to the side of the porch and was looking at us weird. We were laughing so hard we were crying. Next thing I know one of the neighbors who was chopping wood came over with an axe, and said “hey bro if you swing this at stuff you will feel better.” Well this totally caught me off guard and I began freaking out, I got really scared and did not know how to react. I knew in my mind that he was trying to be nice but I couldn’t control my conscious and Ice-Tea had to tell him we were alright we were on LSD and were tripping balls. A little freaked out he walked away with his big axe and I calmed down. We noticed that within the next 3min the 15 or so people that were outside all went inside. Haha. We couldn’t help but think that we freaked them out and we ruined their party. So we took one last look at the gorgeous earth and decided we should go back inside.

The visuals were stunning and beautiful. I didn’t actually hallucinate things that aren’t there, I just saw exactly what is there. This is hard to explain. When not tripping, a TV remote is just that, a remote that changes shit on the TV. On acid what I saw was all the time and effort that intricate circuitry and science that went into creating a small hand held device that we use to simply change the channel on a the fucking TV.

The visuals were cool but what was amazing was what I unlocked with my mind. My brain is on fucking hyper-drive while tripping, and can process thoughts and connects emotions to absolutely everything. I was either in total awe and inspired or I felt overwhelmed with sadness and lethargy. My mind would make connections and think about things that I never would have before. I am a rather close minded individual who is rather rational and a realist, Acid took that away and made me a total free thinker and opened up my mind to new formulations and opinions about things that I really let me see things for exactly what they were, no matter how pathetic or astonishing it was. This is the part of LSD that truly amazed me, the mind fucks and what it helped my mind think about. I was both amazed and terrified by this.

My over all trip was great. Nothing bad happened and I did not end up in the fetal position on the couch. That being said, I can see how easily people’s trips can launch them to a bad place really really quickly. Bad vibes. Certain things would happen and places in the house were giving off bad vibes. These bad vibes made my thoughts spiral out of control in a negative direction and I had very little control over it. For example a kid we both were acquaintances with and was a nice kid, walked into the room when it was just me and Ice-Tea. I was overcome with a feeling of anxiety, oppression, I got panicky, and just felt uneasy overall. Also the friend that we called has a toilet in his room and his room was downstairs so we frequented his room for relief; however, we both had to close the door because for some reason I was making us both feel uneasy every time we went in there. The same feeling of anxiety and oppression, etc. came over us both this time though.

And my thoughts went to a bad place very quickly, to the point where I was horrified. Both me and Ice-Tea had went to these horrible places. It is like when something happens and your mind starts thinking about bad shit, the LSD began to push me towards this hole, this large, deep, and very dark hole. In that hole is very very bad juju, the kind of shit nightmares are made of but 100 times worse.” We could feel this hole's presence the whole time we were tripping, it's always there. There were times where I would purposefully wander over to the hole and look down into it once I could control the trip, and it was not a nice place to be, even at the top looking in.

Sometime around 10:30pm that night the visuals were very minor if noticeable at all. My mind however was racing still. Toke said that if I smoked weed it intensified the visuals while tripping. But seeing as it was late in the trip, he said the visuals may come back. So as a realist and knowing I wanted to get the full experience I decided that I would smoke. I packed 2 one hitters and me and Toke, well, toked up haha. He was right the visuals came back in like 2 minutes and were just as intense but they only lasted for about 10ish minutes. Ice-Tea and myself went back up to his room around midnight and just watched adult swim and just relaxed and reminisced about the day. It was then that we realized we haven’t eaten since noon that day! We both had no urge or desire to eat (which is weird seeing as we usually inhale food). We both took a few bites of a southwest sub. The visuals were totally gone and it felt as if I was in a daze and my vision was hazy. We stayed there and talked till about 3:00am. Neither of us were tired but we decided to part ways and try to get some shut eye, I headed home and Ice-Tea went to bed. I was on and off sleeping from about 4am -8am and slept solidly until 12:30pm.

The day after felt bland, plain, boring. I was very fidgety, hard to entertain and everything just seemed pathetic. The world was definitely different than what is was from the day before I dropped acid. I spent the majority of that day pretty stoned because it seemed to take away the edginess I was feeling, the comedown felt like everything was fast paced and in constant vibration. The closed eye visuals are breathtaking.
[Erowid Note: Driving while intoxicated, tripping, or extremely sleep deprived is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!]

Exp Year: 2014	ExpID: 103087
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 20
Published: Feb 11, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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