[__blockcipher__]

I accidentally dosed myself in the middle of the night once after turning LSD crystal into ethanol:water:lsd solution and being careless at some point in the process.

Those damn mucous membranes, they really get ya. Must have touched my lips absentmindedly.

Before I realized, I was in bed trying to sleep. Restless, tossing and turning. Eventually started feeling that unmistakable body high around 1am. Anyone who’s done LSD before knows the sensation I’m talking about, you can’t miss it.

Cue a couple hours of having no idea how much I had dosed. I was trying to keep a loose subjective accounting of the time. In my head I’m simulating the different possibilities: either I dosed the equivalent of 1 hit a couple hours ago, 2hits an hour ago, or 4+ hits 30 minutes ago. It wasn’t until I passed peak that those different forked realities collapsed like the wave function and it became clear to me that I’d dosed something like 250 ug.

I didn’t sleep that night, as you can imagine. But the run I went on when the sun finally came up at 6am was incredible.

[hombre_fatal]

While waiting for the peak to pass on uncomfortably high doses, I sometimes entertain myself by closing my eyes and realizing I have no sense of how much time is passing until I open them. And if I hadn't the prior experience of closing my eyes while sober (and simply the ability to rationalize about how long things take), I wouldn't actually know if seconds or hours or eons were passing with the eyes shut.

One thing that makes me skeptical of most people talking about LSD on forums is that for you to really lose your shit on LSD (excusing mental illness), you have to take enough to lose your ability to do that sort of thinking and rationalizing. You aren't having a laugh with your friends on a monster dose while listening to Spiritualized. You're more like a newborn animal clutching on to a world you were just born into, the dose regressing you back into a sequence of instincts away from high level human thought.

[codyb]

Hmm, that sounds like your experience. I know a few cosmonauts and everyone’s different.

Some people just laugh at everything.

[throw_this_one]

Would you recommend a full dose 125-175ish by yourself for the first time?

[__blockcipher__]

If it's truly pure LSD, 100ug is plenty. Many hits sold as 100ug really aren't.

That being said, you are more likely to be fine than not on 125ug-175ug, but responses are really variable. I've discovered that I'm very steady on psychedelics and so I can handle physical discomfort (jitteriness etc) and not have a bad time, but there's a certain archetype of individual that has trouble handling the raw barrage of stimulus that tripping represents.

So, you would probably be okay but I would recommend no more than 100ug taken in a natural setting (rather than being stuck inside your house).

Cheers.

[nefitty]

You’ll reduce your risk of freaking out if you have a trip sitter or if you work your way up to that point over time.

[__blockcipher__]

This, although some caveats:

(1) Be careful who you choose as a trip sitter. Some people are really bad at it and just end up being super annoying because they're staring at you like you're a zoo animal and keep asking you if you "see colors". Which is a long way of saying, make sure your trip sitter has actually taken psychedelics before, the utility of bringing a sober person along just because they're sober if they don't have psychedelic experience is quite low. (There are some individuals that have never done drugs yet still "get it" so I'm not talking about them to be clear)

(2) Working up doses over time is very good advice, most bad experiences are a result of taking too much in the wrong environment, and/or neglecting the basics. I've found 90% of trip discomfort is solved with water, a blanket, or changing up your physical environment.

But it is worth mentioning that accidentally taking a heavier dose because you think it's a normal dose - can sometimes work out, in the sense that once you've taken, say, 2.5g of shrooms you can't imagine taking 3.5g. I've noticed this particularly with DMT, if you don't get absolutely blasted it's easy to get anchored and be afraid to really commit to a breakthrough experience (as much as I hate the duality / binarity of the whole "breakthrough" concept there's definitely some truth to it)

So: taking a heavy dose as nooby is a terrible idea and thus I never recommend it. But sometimes the terrible idea works out in your favor :)

[AnthonBerg]

Data from a study indicates that starting with 30-40 micrograms is good for most people: https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-lsd/#3-use-a-safe-dosage-an...

It's extrapolated from psilocybin dosage but it seems about right.