DOSE: T+ 0:00	60 ug	oral	LSD	(liquid)
T+ 1:45	joints/cigs	smoked	Cannabis	(flowers)

BODY WEIGHT:

62 kg

A short summary of what happened before the experience. It was the beginning of summer holidays and me and my four friends have decided ordered some liquid LSD dissolved in distilled water, 200mcg for each person. I am not a particularly experienced psychonaut, neither are my friends. I took a low dose of shrooms twice, had LSD once (200mcg, which was one of the most important experiences in my life) and had a second-plateau DXM experience twice. I am diagnosed with moderate chronic depression, and not taking any meds for it.

We decided to go hiking to a quite popular hilly-foresty national park that is around 1 hour by train from our city. We all took around 140mcg, split into pairs and went our own way into the forest. The experience was good, nonetheless, as I was hyped for the experience, I made a really bad decision to take it when feeling a bit sick. I tend to have really bad colds and fevers a lot. I am always anxious about it and when the LSD effects started to drop, the physical sickness and fatigue came back, which made me really anxious about having a tonsillitis and high fever that will ruin most of my experience. We decided to go home earlier and not sleep in the forest because of my "tonsillitis" and I felt really sad that I had ruined the experience for myself and even others and decided to take the remaining 60mcg dose at the same place to "repair" the experience.

After a month or so, one of the friends who paired up with me for the previous experience came to visit me at my flat. As I was in one of my depressed moods typical for this year, we quite spontaneously decided to leave this shitty town and take the LSD leftovers with us. We left in the evening, slept outside close to our destination and in the morning we reached the same national park we have been to the last time, although a different side of it. We climbed one of the peaks in the park and decided to take the LSD on the top.

Right after drinking the rest of the LSD-containing distilled water (in a few seconds), we both agreed on feeling some kind of crazy placebo, that felt like a sudden muscle relaxation and calmness. It felt like the body was shocked with this insane substance returning back to the body. We continued hiking down to a place called „The Emerald Lake“, which was essentially a small, muddy lake in the middle of the forest that was full of cyanobacteria, meeting on our way a guy in dressed Mexican clothes and boots on a small horse, to whom he talked in Spanish. In relation to our other experience, we also met some pretty alien-looking people in this park, it's quite popular for hiking. We made up a theory that those people are just some „video-game NPCs“, who tend to spawn a lot in this particular place.

As we arrived to the lake (T+1:00 approx.), we decided to have some food we took with us. The effects started to kick in a bit at that point. The first feeling I had, in addition to the typical LSD muscle tensions, was a really strange feeling coming from the center of my body. It was almost a physical feeling of a calm, almost euphoric emptiness. I tried to describe this to my friend as a story of some soldier that arrived by train from a long war and saw his beautiful girlfriend on the platform. The feeling he had right before running out of the train straight into the arms of his long-missed love. I cried a bit about it. Nonetheless, combined with alleviated depression, energy and a good mood this was the only feeling I had from the LSD. My friend also didn’t feel much, except for some slight visual distortions on the water, so we decided to smoke a joint of a quite strong sativa weed that I took with me (T+1:45 approx). Surprisingly, that was not a good idea, at least for me. I felt like the really subtle, clearheaded LSD feeling was totally overpowered with the dirty, hazy and a bit confusing weed high, instead of being boosted. It felt a bit like drawing some thick black lines on top of a beautiful nature painting. I was a bit angry at for smoking the weed, as I found how different these substances really are (I always thought weed was kind of a light psychedelic).

I got a bit more calm after climbing back to the peak, where we sat at a really beautiful view of the valley. I felt really happy, present in the moment and wondered if that is what not being depressed feels like. I really didn’t want to go back home tomorrow, as originally planned. My home town was a synonym for my depressive and hopeless moods. In the good mood I had, I made up a crazy plan to not leave tomorrow, stay for the whole week and live in the park. We both had hammocks and sleeping bags so there was no problem in doing so. My friend agreed, which made me really happy.

We continued to walk to a village that was around 15 kms far from us. We walked a bit faster to reach it before it gets dark, because we wanted to have some draught beer at the local pub. On the way, we had really interesting conversations about history and philosophy. My brain felt sped up, like in the previous experience, only a lot less and in general I had similar ideas as the last time. We talked about the similarity of taking LSD in the forest, having the experience and going down to the village for a beer to wash it down. I was a bit sad confronting this comparison, which made our really wholesome trip a mere consumerist experience, but finally I rejected this idea as a stupid, nihilist and postmodern construct that is based on some provocative French philosophy that I used to like, but has no value on its own except for provoking with shocking comparisons. We also talked about a weird metal box behind a high fence in the middle of the forest (probably something related to electricity), that we met and that at that seemed to us like some weird CPU controlling the forest NPCs we met on our trips.

As we climbed down the hills, the sun already started going down slowly. We sat on a bench at the edge of the forest overlooking beautiful green fields bathing in the sun and our small, rural village approximately two kilometers in front of us. The LSD was already coming down (T+6:30), but again I felt the happiness, energy, contentment and absolute lack of depression I experienced at the peak, overlooking the beauty of the countryside.

As we walked to the village, we joined the same road that we were walking on after the last trip. There were pear trees around and the pears were much more ripe than the last time. I felt really happy that we managed to „repair“ the previous experience ruined by my anxiety and low immunity. We ended our trip in the local pub over a pint of cold beer.

Exp Year: 2020	ExpID: 114753
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 21
Published: May 11, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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