The Journey Through My Mind
LSD & Cannabis
Citation: Greg. "The Journey Through My Mind: An Experience with LSD & Cannabis (exp99151)". Erowid.org. Feb 7, 2025. erowid.org/exp/99151
| DOSE: T+ 0:00 |
200 ug | sublingual | LSD | (blotter / tab) |
| T+ 1:30 | 1 bowl | smoked | Cannabis | (flowers) |
| T+ 2:00 | 1 glass | oral | Coffee | |
| T+ 0:00 | smoked | Tobacco - Cigarettes | ||
| T+ 3:00 | 2 bowls | smoked | Cannabis | (flowers) |
| BODY WEIGHT: | 190 lb |
I tried my very best to document the exact time I had certain feelings and things happened because I felt inclined to remember as much of the experience as possible. Therefore, this report is quite lengthy.
I had just received my package on Tuesday. I planned on tripping throughout an entire day, getting up in the early hours (5am) to dose one of the two hits I had purchased. I had trouble sleeping and I ended up only getting about 5 hours of sleep because of how excited I was. When I awoke at 5:30 I was more energetic and positive than ever, despite my lack of sleep. I grabbed some coffee, took some vitamin supplements and awaited for 6:00am because I figured it would be better to dose on the hour.
6:00am - Tasteless. Not even the slightest amount of any sort of bitterness or any other tastes. This was my first time ever trying the drug, but after extensive reading I knew this was a good thing. This put a smile on my face, I proceeded to take pictures of the tab on my tongue and anxiously awaited for the drug to kick in.
6:30-7:00 - I was started to get really anxious as I heard my Dad downstairs doing his morning routine getting ready to leave for work. I wasn't feeling anything yet, but I was listening intently during this time waiting to hear the front door open and close. I had no idea when he left because I usually slept in until 9:00, but I knew it was around 7:00-8:00.
7:05 - *WHAM* My whole house shook, I had been listening intently for this and I laughed to myself because it was so obvious what it was, my father had left. I knew that he was gone, but I slowly crept down the stairs to look outside just to make sure his car was gone, it was. Shortly after this at around 7:10 I decided to go for a walk, which looking back now was odd because I never planned on leaving the house at all, but I felt sober and decided it was a good idea.
7:20 - I make the first video of many on my phone documenting how I feel and my thoughts. I was feeling very giddy and positive, but I was starting to doubt if it would work. I thought it would kick in after an hour and at this point I was worrying I ate something that ruined the LSD. Regardless I laughed numerous amounts of times at things that were rather pretty dull, but still felt incredibly sober and unaffected, so after a short walk I headed home.
7:30 - I was back at home still feeling pretty normal except for the occasional laugh, and despite previous advice given to me to wait for the acid to kick in before smoking cannabis, I did it anyway. I went up to my room, loaded a bowl and smoked roughly .30g. I was sitting on my couch, blowing it out the window and I became extremely relaxed and euphoric. I smiled stupidly as I stared out the window I was blowing smoke out of. I simultaneously feared that somebody would see me, while not caring and taking in the outside world, it was really starting to become eerily beautiful.
8:00 - After I had smoked a bowl I decided that it would be a great idea to try some blueberries and have some coffee, two of my favorite foods. I proceeded to go downstairs at 7:45 and let two of our three dogs outside, because one of them was very old and didn't like the other dogs too much, so I let her stay in. I went into the kitchen and had to think for a little bit about why I was in there. Once the thought finally hit me again, I got a glass, filled it with ice and got some coffee. I then had to recall what else I came downstairs for. I didn't think much of it, but I was having a very hard time holding onto thoughts and remembering what I was doing after literally seconds. I finally remembered the blueberries and brought them to the sink.
I looked down at the old dog and started talking to her a little bit, giving her small talk and laughing as I did so here and there. I decided it was time to wash the blueberries so I turned on the sink, opened the plastic container, and BAM! As the water ran through the container onto my hands beneath it, it felt extremely weird. I knew that this was the acid and I started absolutely dying, repeatedly saying 'Holy shit! Holy shit!' over and over. The water felt like slime and rainbows shot across my vision rapidly. I screamed to my phone that the acid had kicked in and it was 8:00, I was overjoyed. I set the blueberries down and just stared at my dog for a bit, I wondered if I should give her some blueberries, but ultimately decided against it. I brought my blueberries and coffee upstairs and knew that I just had to go on a walk. I grabbed some smokes and went on my second walk of the day.
8:25 - I started a voice recording on my phone and I didn't realize it then, but listening back I was having an incredibly hard time talking. I would say 2 or 3 words and then just stop and continue on another thought, then jump back to what I was originally saying, I was impossible to follow. I remark several times that my mind is 'going a thousand miles a minute, and I have vivid imagery coming and leaving my head rapidly'. I also go on to say that acid wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, and now that I've experienced it, it's much easier to grasp and understand. I also remark how incredibly similar I felt to being high on weed, but with much more enhanced effects.
I try to keep my voice recording on and pretend like I'm talking on the phone to somebody, but I was terrified/paranoid that somebody would hear me saying weird things as I walked past some houses on the way to a nearby park. In a later recording I state that 'walking through the neighborhood made me feel like I was an outsider, coming to a new tribe that nobody had ever made contact with, and I was their only experience with the outside world.' I wasn't uncomfortable, but I found it incredibly hard to muster any courage to say anything to the phone, I walked silently to the park.
I got to the park and went to the grass field where there was a big dip in the landscape and felt amazing. I had an overcoming feeling of 'oneness' with the universe, feeling connected with everything around me by one way or another. I felt an extremely intense urge to rip off all my clothes and run in the field
I had an overcoming feeling of 'oneness' with the universe, feeling connected with everything around me by one way or another. I felt an extremely intense urge to rip off all my clothes and run in the field
I walked back to my house after I realized that there was no possible way I could stay any longer and remain comfortable with my surroundings. I took a scenic route home and truly felt amazing. Seeing nature and constructions of humans was amazing. My mind was like a dial and it spun back and forth between thinking how people lived thousands of years ago with only nature to depend on, without supermarkets and present day inventions, while it would flip back over to the future and think about all the different technological advancements that were on the horizon of possibility. It was astounding how fast my mind was working.
9:00 - I document how I felt on the walk and proceed to smoke another two bowls. I remark that I feel 'groovy' in the sense that everything is moving in waves and that it all gels together. I talk about how beautiful it is outside, how great I feel, and what an amazing drug acid is. I listened to some music and really had an introspective experience. I was ready for some baggage to come up, but it was absolutely insane how much thought I put into everything. I would think in my head in a question/ answer format and then I realized I was doing this and started wondering if I thought this way all the time. I wondered if it was normal, or if it was some sort of social disorder where I talk to myself to satiate social needs. Looking back on it now, I was just pondering questions and trying to answer them, but my mind was delving incredibly fast into each and every thought I had, resulting in some bad ones sometimes, but it was easy to forget about it and go back to enjoying my trip.
I texted my friend for a little bit about how I was feeling and really just enjoyed my music along with the OEV's I was getting. Walls were morphing and looked like water with rippling waves cascading down gently around me, while my windows shined varying colors of green and red onto them. I was enjoying some music that I absolutely loved and was in a very happy and uplifting mind state. My mind was like a rapid fire machine gun, constantly spitting out thought after thought, and once I captured a thought it would explode into millions of others. I described it as surfing through a music library through genres, looking at, hip-hop, jazz, RnB, Techno, and then all of a sudden I get to rock and decide I want to think about it and it explodes into metal, 70's rock, 80's rock, progressive, alternative, etc. Every possible way I could think about an idea or a conflict happened within a matter of seconds and before I knew it I was already thinking about the next thing or delving even deeper into ideas. It truly was like a roller coaster in my head.
10:00 - Hands down the absolute worst part of the trip. I was enjoying my time, eating blueberries and sipping on water/ coffee and I looked down at my phone to check the time and both my mother and father had texted me. I have never felt so much fear in my life. I calmed down a few seconds later, but seeing my dad's name and my mom's I thought that something extremely terrible had happened. I read my dad's text which said that my mom would be coming over soon to drop off some of my brothers things. I started to feel very anxious and scared that I wouldn't be able to hold any sort of conversation with her and she would immediately know something was up because my eyes were blood red from the weed I had smoked.
I quickly read my mom's text soon after and it said that she just left his stuff on the porch. I was worried somebody might have come and taken it (despite the fact that she literally texted me about a minute ago) so I rushed downstairs. I checked outside through three separate windows and realized that my mother and father were not there. I quickly unlocked the door, saw his stuff, took it inside, and locked the door as fast as humanly possible. I took it over to his desk and laid it down, then proceeded to my room where I had to calm myself down. About 10-20 minutes after I was back to feeling great again, but I easily saw a glimpse of how bad an acid trip can turn in a few seconds.
10:30 - From this point on the trip was admittedly a tad bit less enjoyable because I always had this overhanging feeling that at any moment another bad thing could happen, but I generally was always in a good mood. After this point my trip starts to kind of blur in my head, and I didn't really remember to record much after this point. I sat alone in my room, just doing various things, I tried watching some 'trippy' youtube videos, but ultimately found them all to be retarded and cheesy.
I then looked up Stephen Hawking's TED talk and proceeded to watch this. I enjoyed it very much, even though I had a difficult time understanding parts of it because I would zone out and think of other things, I enjoyed hearing about what he had to say. Thinking about dimensions and reality on acid was fantastic, and I was still having some pretty good visuals. The ad at the end of the TED talks video seemed to repeat itself twice, which I considered a time loop, but since I had read about this phenomena I just shrugged it off.
At some point I decided to go for my third and final walk and this one was by far the best and most relaxing. I walked around without any recording this time and it was much more enjoyable. I remember at precisely 11:00 I walked past some elderly people as I checked my phone and decided to say hi because I could literally feel that they were scared of me. I was wearing clothing that some would consider 'gangster' or 'hip-hop' and I felt the need to show them that not all people that dress like me are bad. I said 'Hi' and it startled them, but they quickly replied hi back and I felt much better. I later started laughing hilariously at this because of how dramatic they reacted, but ultimately happy that I said hi. I walked a very far distance for a long time and I sat down at various benches and took in the various OEV's and thoughts that ran through my head. I loved it and I wanted to just sit and bask in the beauty of the day, but felt that I couldn't and had to return home.
Soon after I was coming around to my house, I walked through the same scenic route I had taken every time back home and saw an 18 year old kid dressed in some 'Gangsta' clothes like me, with a rottweiler. At first I was somewhat scared and thought that I should ignore him, but as I got closer I felt the same uneasy presence I had felt with the elderly couple and decided to say hi to him as well. He replied back, and I realized that he was smoking marijuana and I could tell that he was put at ease by me simply saying hi. I felt great after this and once again took in the winding and beautiful path on the way back to my house and really enjoyed the world around me.
12:00 - I started a video and immediately said how I was pretty sure I was starting to come down. I still remember how remarkable it was that it felt like it was literally melting away, little by little. I wasn't seeing any OEV's or wavy walls anymore. At this point I played my drums, drew a little, and just relaxed, walking around my house at my leisure. I was starting to feel pretty groggy headed, but still capable of clear thought and cognitive function.
1:00 - I drew a little more, but soon felt uninterested. I decided to make myself some food because even though I didn't feel hungry I could tell that I should have something to hold me over. I made some eggs and waffles and sat down to enjoy them. I was watching adventure time, but for the life of me could not understand what they were saying. I was trying to follow the plot and understand the words they were saying, but it was seriously like another language. I kept it on as it was pleasing on the eyes to watch. At this point my sister randomly came home and started yelling. I don't know why, but this didn't bother me at all. I knew that she wouldn't come talk to me and that she would leave the house soon, but the fear I felt when my parents texted me was nowhere to be found. I don't know why I wasn't scared and even at that moment I recalled it being odd that I wasn't afraid at all, but I didn't think on it long and finished my meal soon after.
2:00 - I would consider this the point where I stopped really 'tripping'. I had a raging headache which I could only describe as my brain being 'overheated' and needing to cool down. I laid down in my bed, not even really tired, but unable to think about anything pleasurable to do I figured I should relax. I closed my eyes and had some minor CEV's, but soon fell asleep and woke up later at about 3:00 and proceeded to just lie there. My head was really foggy and hurt quite a bit, I was irritable and felt pretty bad to be honest. I personally would attribute this to my lack of sleep because I have read that coming off LSD it is hard to sleep and I passed right the fuck out, so I feel next time I will try to get more sleep. Other than that, I was just cranky the rest of the day, and my family members were constantly asking me if there was something wrong because I looked depressed. I felt groggy and uninspired to talk or do anything, but never depressed. I explained this to them as best I could and proceeded to stay quiet. I figure there's probably better ways to come off a trip, but this was really my only option.
[Epilogue] Later at night I had some coffee and it helped my headache a bit, but it mostly lasted from about 3:00pm to 12:00am. I talked with my friend that I texted before and I could tell that I was saying things differently and much better at holding a consistent conversation. I even suggested some things that he and I do with our lives that he remarked was a 'very good idea' and thought that I had a good outlook on life. He wouldn't believe me if I told him, but I personally think it's because of my experience with acid. I don't feel different personally, but I feel that after having deeply thought about my innermost struggles, I am more confident in myself and therefore more happy. I also believe that acid had an effect on my conversationalism, because I was saying things that I consciously realized I never said, and my friend who regularly used 1 or 2 sentence responses, was writing me back in paragraphs. I felt great about this (despite my headache).
I wrote all of this the day after so I believe this in addition to my recordings is the best possible way I could've remembered the trip. A lot of it is still fresh in my head and what I recorded helped me really nail down the time certain events happened. I felt that in some way it was nice that I had a way to share my revelations, but looking back on the recordings, they seem silly, and my best memories of the trip were unrecorded. I am glad I got to accurately document my first experience ever, but I fear that it may have interfered with my trip.
OEV - Walls were literally like water, the sunlight coming through the windows was green and red, when I looked at the sidewalk it looked like there was graffiti all over it, staring outside into my backyard everything was extremely vibrant and the furniture outside literally flashed rainbow colors and started flipping in spirals, things would appear that I ultimately considered not real (people, cars, etc.) Scenic route back to my house seemed to go on forever, even when I clearly saw the ending. Arrows pointing towards the frame of my glasses when I put them on.
CEV - Various objects flying at me, things morphing and shape shifting, my CEV's were ultimately weak because I kept my eyes open the entire trip.
Auditory Hallucinations - I frequently heard various things that sounded much more intense or closer than they really were. I would frequently hear somebody say something that I couldn't have possibly heard (i.e. alone in my room, I would hear random words spoken quickly despite the fact I was alone in silence). Various songs/ musical snippets sometimes played out for a few seconds. My hearing was enhanced like crazy, I could clearly see in my head where everything was that was making sound, which made the hallucinations more intense.
I decided after making this report that I wanted to proofread it the next day. I got easily distracted however and put it off for about a week or so. In that time I did another dose of LSD and didn't record shit. I literally spent the entire day at the park while it was raining and just had my own 'adventure'. I think that my tolerance was still a bit high after my first dose, but it was a spiritually magnificent experience that I truly can't describe. I don't know the definition of the word, but 'Zen' comes to mind. I was in another realm, I was never born on earth, I was a different human being. It was so enthralling and fantastic that even though it wasn't as 'action-packed' as my first trip, it was probably better.
| Exp Year: 2013 | ExpID: 99151 |
| Gender: Male | |
| Age at time of experience: 18 | |
| Published: Feb 7, 2025 | Views: Not Supported |
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