A 1950s Housewife Takes LSD for an Experiment

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5d4wWGK4Ig]YouTube - LSD Research[/ame]

The same doctor as seen in the video also did another guided LSD experiment with Bill Wilson, the person who came up with AA. Wilson believed that LSD would help recovering alcoholics with a "spiritual awakening" of some sort.

This video almost makes me want to try the stuff, but I know that I would puss out. My "normal" thoughts are good enough for me.

Don Lattin: Harvard Psychedelic Club: 1956 Footage Of Housewife's Acid Trip
 


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megatabbers said:
[rolls eyes] - Acid can be awesome or terrifying. I've had good trips and one that scared the fuck out of me. In either case, it's a drug. It will keep you entertained but it's not going to "change your life".
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To some people, it's just fun, to others it deeply affects them.

It changed my life a lot, by altering the way I perceive things. It also made my sense of self a lot more fluid. MDMA changed the way I handle my emotions a lot too.
 
Do elaborate on these positive changes kind sirs... as someone who's been induced into paranoia with lesser strength drugs, it's difficult to understand what you mean.
 
matt3 said:
Do elaborate on these positive changes kind sirs... as someone who's been induced into paranoia with lesser strength drugs, it's difficult to understand what you mean.
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LSD totally dissolves your sense of what "I" is, and it also fucks with your perception big time, so you can't be sure what you're seeing or hearing is really happening. You get some beautiful visual effects, but those aren't the main show.

Personally, I found being in an altered state to be useful as a way of gaining a different perspective, but then I'm very interested in probing what it means to be "me". Some of the benefits I can't put into words very easily, but I know they're there. The main thing is that it confirmed something I'd suspected for a while - that the nature of reality as we perceive it is not a fixed thing, but totally created by our minds, and really quite fluid. I'd read about this concept in philosophy, but actually experiencing it for yourself is a very different matter.


However it's certainly not for everyone. As I said earlier, it's a very long trip (12-18 hrs with a decent dose) , and if you have a bad time, you are stuck there for quite a while. The psychological effects could be pretty horrendous. If you're prone to paranoia and mental disturbance, it's best avoided.

Psylocybin mushrooms are much gentler.




When you say lesser strength drugs - what are you referring to?
 
To be honest, lsd and mushrooms have very similar effects and both completely destroy your ego or sense of I for a short period of time.

Now, if you fight this during your trip it can be a very scary experience, like worse than anything that you have experienced in your life.

Nonetheless, I think even bad trip is very useful experience and changes your life.

Then again, I've noticed that people who have never really asked themselves questions about meaning of life, "where did I come from?", "who am I?", do not really change much and are not that impressed with psydelics. However, if you have had those type of questions a lot, this is definitely for you!
 
A great video about LSD, by a person who has tried it probably over a 1000 of times in his lifetime:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hW6Dm_m5t4"]YouTube - Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) on LSD[/ame]
 
Swaying off topic, but was watching a few programs this week on both cocaine and ecstasy. Interestingly a study showed that from a large number of pills confiscated at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival that just 8% of all tablets studied contained MDMA. I can't remember the percentage, but it was a similar story with the purity of coke as well. Bleugh, unless E becomes legalised and controlled, I can't see myself using it again. Had a few earlier in the year and could tell they'd been mixed with all sorts of crap. Have never had any interest in taking LSD.
 
Incantation said:
Swaying off topic, but was watching a few programs this week on both cocaine and ecstasy. Interestingly a study showed that from a large number of pills confiscated at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival that just 8% of all tablets studied contained MDMA. I can't remember the percentage, but it was a similar story with the purity of coke as well. Bleugh, unless E becomes legalised and controlled, I can't see myself using it again. Had a few earlier in the year and could tell they'd been mixed with all sorts of crap. Have never had any interest in taking LSD.
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Find out the stamp of what's on offer
Go to pillreports.com
....sorted.

Avoid coke in the UK pretty much always - it's fucking pointless
 
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amateursurgeon said:
When you say lesser strength drugs - what are you referring to?
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Weed, possibly laced with something else. Like greyaisha said, it wasn't just the horrible experience that was the worst part, I had anxiety for a long time.

It wasn't just the substance to blame though, it was a bad environment for things to be going wrong and poor/unhelpful reactions from those around when things went south, which I now know, worsened the experience. (had never experienced drug induced paranoia prior to this, which is a horrible way to learn how important preparation and the people involved are... you don't think about these things for just rolling a fatty!!! lol)
 
Just a PSA here. A very tiny amount of acid while standing in line for a roller coaster at Cedar Point can be cool.. A normal/large amount of acid while standing in that same line can be a very very bad thing..
 
Just a PSA here. A very tiny amount of acid while at the bronx zoo can be cool...go to the same zoo on your fourth day straight of acid and you will think you are at an amusement park...and see the rollercoasters too...but you wont be able to ride them...but then you can ride around in the gondola smoking joints and toss the roaches to the monkeys in the monkey enclosure.
 
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