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r/LSD•
Deepari

Acid trip ends abruptly only half-way through?

Yesterday my friend and I took some acid, and it was her first time, so I was sort of her "trip guide". I took one tab and I gave her a tab that was cut roughly 3/4s the size of mine.

From my experience it was pretty strong; I dont know the amount in micrograms, but I was feeling funny after only half an hour, and hallucinating after an hour. After roughly three hours I was getting more "advanced" hallucinations, like "holograms" floating around the air that I could push around by waving my arms.

My friend started hallucinating after an hour, and her trip seemed to progress more rapidly than mine; although she never had the same level of hallucinations that I had. She mostly saw only basic hallucinations such as color vibrancy and visual distortions; but enjoyed herself alot.

Then after around 5 hours right around my peak she tells me she felt completely sober. All effects seemed to fade away within an hour. I continued tripping for around another 6 hours before I could fall asleep. Judging from what she was describing, I felt as if she had an intense but very short trip.

The next day, she told me even though she was completely sober after the short trip, she felt that she couldnt sleep (and had tons of energy to study/work) for the next 7 hours.

I'm still puzzled as to why her trip lasted only 5 hours, whereas I took only a slightly larger dose and had a full blown 12 hour trip. She's never had any medication, no family history of mental illness - nothing out of the usual.

The only physical difference I could think of is that shes heavier than me and she drinks ALOT of water. I've known a few dozen people that have tripped, and I've never seen anyone's trip suddenly cut short like that.

It also couldn't have been uneven doses in the blotter paper because I saw for myself the sheet where it was cut from; both our squares were near each other in the same corner.

She mentioned that before she's taken shrooms before, and a couple times they had no effect on her at all; if shes just naturally resistant to psychedelics then there's really nothing I could do. Has anyone had experiences like this?

TLDR; Friend and I take nearly identical doses; she has a trip that was intense but lasted only 5 hours. I have a full 12 hour trip. Any idea what happened?

Posted Feb 16, 2013, 11:03 PM UTC

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BondsWithXenon•

There's a lot more to a trip than hallucinations. She was probably still tripping, but she internalized the process somehow to stay more aware/present to reality, if that makes sense. I had a friend that used to do this. He'd get over the peak, then shrug his shoulders and look at me and be like "it's gone." And I'd look into his nickel-sized pupils and ask him where he thinks it went. I've done this before, too. The truth is that there is so much more to LSD than the surface sensory trip. It goes way deeper than that. You have to look at your cognition. You have to stop chasing trails, take a breath, and listen... listen to your body being alive. Does that make any sense? Or is it just acid-brained numbing jumbo?

Also, some people do just need more than a usual dose. I can attest, I am one of those people.

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Antipathic•

Oh hell yes, I can agree with this. For my first acid trip I took quite a small amount, and didn't have any super strong visuals or anything, but after closing my eyes and listening to some music for a while I noticed I was being drawn into a big kaleidoscopic landscape and my mind was detaching itself from my body. That's what I love about acid, you can sort of dictate what you want the trip to do next. And as you say, there's a lot more to a trip than hallucinations.

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girlieq3•

I have friends that take fairly high doses because they NEED the heavy visuals. For example, one says she feels like she's gone insane if she doesn't get big, overwhelming visuals, because she's not sure if she's still tripping. Another completely thinks she isn't tripping without the visuals (though everyone else can tell she is), and ends up having a lot of emotional issues because she thinks it doesn't affect her all all, when it really does.

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dr_zoidberg590•

uneven tabs?

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TboneToker•

that's what I was thinking as well

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Hyperactive_Filly•

If she drank any tap water with the tabs in her mouth, it's possible that a lot of the chemical was degraded/destroyed.

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DeepariOP•

Hmm, very possible; didn't know that! We live in a city so the tap water would have alot of chemicals added in that could dissolve lsd. Next time we trip I'll advise her to not drink tap with the blotter in her mouth

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MyaloMark•

She just may be one of those people who need a heroic dose. I've met a few like that, but they were all guys. I knew one dude who would go to an outdoor concert, beg or buy all manner pills off of people and take them all at once. He called it his "psych salad".

This would usually consist of eight or nine different things, from acid to speed to downers. He would down them all at once and believe it or not he always maintained or quietly went off to fall asleep. He never had to have his stomach pumped though and typically partied all night this way.

Like I said, I've known a few guys like this. So if your friend is like this, she needs to begin incrementally increasing her dosage until whatever she's taking works as advertised. It's all about different metabolisms, I guess.

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[deleted]•

It was her first time, so she didn't know what to expect. Likely, she had a preconceived notion of what tripping was like, which probably consisted of feeling high with lots of crazy visuals. When the visuals diminished (not that they were really there in the first place with that small of a dose), she thinks that the trip is over. She couldn't fall asleep because her mind was still racing from the trip, whether she recognized it or not. Also, body weight has almost nothing to do with psychedelic dosage. She probably wussed out with the shrooms and had an extremely mild head trip with no visuals, and again compared the experience to her pre-conceived notion of tripping with lots of crazy visuals and what not, and chalked it up to being nothing. Give her like 3 hits and I think that she will feel differently.

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DeepariOP•

I think I stressed visuals too much in my description. She wrote down her thought processes during the 5 hours, and after she claimed her trip ended, she looked back at it and said "Holy shit what was all this? I was so high!". After 5 hours - no visuals/altered thoughts, emotions, or anything - everything was completely normal. You're right, she probably just needs more than I do.

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spaceroach•

Well, for me, lately, my trips consist of a very psychedelic peak followed by nothing more than stimulation. It's like I get everything up front for three hours, then the rest of the trip is a boring, frustrated aimlessness. Something tells me, though, if I try to overcome this the molecule will kick my ass. Still, I wish I could trip for a few hours more per session. Maybe I'll have to have a look at some phenethylamines.

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girlieq3•

Really? After 6-8 hours of so is when my emotions REALLY start kicking in. AFTER the "trip" is over. That's when I listen to music and am completely overwhelmed by the feeling. I've broken down in tears after 10 hours because I wanted to draw something and couldn't translate my feelings into an image. I've had times when it's confusing to sort out my emotions and even overwhelming; but it's not bad. It's nice to experience those emotions in that way, so deeply. It's weird to say that it's nice to experience sadness or anger in that way. I know what you mean by boring (my last trip I was 3 hours in to a single tab and it was sort of like... what now?) but I go about my day and I always end up getting sidetracked and finding something to do, and those hours, AGES after the trip is over when I can just sit and think and experience those emotions are some of my favourite.

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