As a few others have posted, I can see the same visual swirlies (we called them orbital-doilies for some reason) that I did when on mushrooms. Clouds will shift, so will some wallpaper designs. Sort of like taking your hands, putting them together to pray, splay your fingers, turn your hands 90 degrees and then seperate them a few inches. Background and foreground images sort of shift.
I think that it is just the drugs presenting your mind with a way of looking at things, and I am simply remembering what it was. I don’t think the drug itself is still present in my body after 7 years, I just remember vividly some of the effects.
These are called mind-altering drugs for a reason. They do have some long-term altering effects. LSD therapy has been tested in psychiatry for this reason.
I happen to run a couple harm reduction websites about the psychedelic drug dextromethorphan (DXM). Flashbacks are known to occur with all psychedelics. Some don’t even need to do psychedelic drugs to get them. Read up about post-traumatic stress disorder. Ordinarily, flashbacks aren’t particularly a problem.
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I don’t think it was older then 6 months, which I believe is the cutoff time. I have done a lot of acid, over 120 times (not hits, times) with my record being 12 at 1 time (which made for a very very fun/odd time). I have had a flashback, it as when I was driving and the started to “breath” and mulitply. As well I have also experienced the breathing of walls, and can do it at will just by looking at them long enough, as described by another poster. Also I have suffered some long term effects, lights (particularly street lights) now have a rainbow around them, and I see tracers on a lot of things. Admittedly these effects are starting to go away as I get older, which I’m not sure is a good or bad thing, rainbow lights are rather pretty.
I would also advise never ever doing LSD. I have done my fair share of drugs and firmly believe that LSD is by far the worst of them. If you must do it, do it once only. If you like hallucinating that much do mushrooms, they taste like hell but I don’t think they have any permanent effects.
I’m with ** rfgdxm**. I think that humans, in general, can have flashbacks to extremely bad experiences, which can be violence, near-death incidents, sexual assults, or horrifyingly bad acid trips. It’s just that this phenomenon is labeled “drug reaction” (evil and abnormal) for bad acid trips and “Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder” (undesirable but normal) for the rest.
For what it’s worth, I’ve only dropped a half-dozen times, but I took extremely large doses each time and never suffered any bad effects.
** rfgdxm**, if you’re still reading this thread - I found some extremely helpful harm reduction sites on dextromethoraphan a while ago, which helped my boyfriend have a lot of (fairly safe) fun. Could these have been yours?
I saw a TV documentary on drugs (I think specifically marijuana) in the late 70s, and in it one of the (possibly former) druggies mentioned having had marijuana flashbacks.
That program was a big hit the next day at (high, heh) school. Even we thought it was a load of horse hockey.