I never had any visual hallucinations. But yes to the metaphorical representation, as if rendering an idea as an icon or a visual sculpture, of complex ideas.
Our minds do that anyway, just to a significantly lesser extent. We may summarize an entire volatile argument about capitalism, its relationship to organized religion, scarcity, masculinity, environmental politics, and the debate about free will and represent it in our head as a single “thing” long enough to consider how it also relates to net neutrality or something.
On LSD, you make connections between complex ideas like that much more rapidly and then very rapidly build on them. Very intricate concepts become nouns long enough to move them around on the mental chessboard or dance-floor of your mind to see how they interact with yet other intricate concepts, you see (or at least visualize; as I said, I don’t literally “see” this stuff) a phenomenon constituted of the relationship betwene them and BANG! the entire just-observed phenomenon becomes a new noun and a moment later you’re perceiving a connection between animal rights activists and the disparagement for hip hop among fans of French poetry due to the way that the rising shoreline caused by global warming is going to offset the falloff in grand opera attendance among red wine drinkers.
(Yeah, sometimes it continues to make compelling sense later, assuming you can reconstruct enough of the tower of detailed interconnections to hold on to the notions; and sometimes it just doesn’t)
Lately? This was an old saw already 30 years ago, and I called bullshit on it then because I read up on the stuff. I don’t know a whole lot about strychnine but LSD is such a tremendously potent drug that cutting it with an adulterant seems like complete bullshit.
How significant a dose of strychnine can you possible get on a little 1 square cm piece of paper that tastes only of paper?
I only spoke from experience. I took what I thought was acid and it’s not. I learned later that the LSD had become illegal and the some of the materials used to make LSD were removed from the market.
“Be advised, the brown strychnine has been cut with acid, so be careful” – John Belushi – Lemmings …
I’m convinced that the “strychnine in acid” is an urban myth … but that doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as dirty acid … did the cook clean out the athlete’s foot fungus from the bathtub they used to mix up the new batch? … I doubt it …
I don’t have the cites but a study of all “Ecstasy” seized in NYC from 2009-2104 showed 87% contained no MDMA at all. There was another study in the UK that showed 0% of “X” seized there over a one year period contained MDMA.
Another non-cite but LSD was reported, in one study, to be 5x as effective a AA in treating alcoholism.
The problem with Schedule I drugs is thats its very difficult to conduct serious research legally.
Yeah, I’ve only ever taken it in the conventional pill form. I’ve heard the reaction can be much more potent and unpredictable if you drink liquid MDMA as well.
Obviously all bets are off if it’s cut with anything else as well. I’m lucky in that I can get stuff from a very reliable source. I have a few PHD chemists for friends.
