The Hallucinogenics Thread

[bryanthebold]

wow. you know, now that you mention it i have always wanted to take lsd and play the didgeridoo...what are you - aboriginie?

Well shit man, the didgeridoo can do amazing things I tell you! Trust me

[Tippster]

Fly agaric is a bit more nauseainducing than "normal" shrooms, and the trip, although way more visual, is kinda not as fun. Less "smiley," more "manic." It could have been my mindset of course, but the difference seemed akin to doing some strychnine heavy parking lot blotter vs. some nice clean fresh Windowpane.

Tripping on a mortgage - too funny. Gotta remember that next time the opportunity arises.

[Superstar Punani]

The best one I had was puffing a joint and eating brownies laced with some unknown substance of high potency.

The whole coffeeshop felt like it was turned upside down. When I stumbled back to the my hostel down the street I looked "down" to the sky and thought I was gonna fall. Then I flew like Superman through the streets, bouncing off walls and shit.

I crawl on the upside down steps to my room while the walls breathe in and out, lie on the bed and dig my fingers into the bedsheet so I don't fall up into the ceiling and get spiked by the dancing laughing spinning chandelier. Then the room spins faster and faster as if I were on some astronaut zero-g training lab. I pass out. My buds came and got me and drag myass to the Heineken brewery tour and ended the day in the red light district.


ahh...my first 6 hours in Amsterdam!




E's....I don't know about them. Those are my once a year special treats since I've seen long term effects of what happens to friends who've gotten fucked up regularly, usually when they've lived in London.

I usually dabble with it when I'm hanging with my buds in Sydney who are into the DJ/clubbing scene. My most vivid memories is being in clubs full of the hottest hot chicks, then feeling as invincible as Superman, going up to any hot chick there and hooking up...as if I were James Bond, Pepe Le Pew, Johnny Bravo and the Fonz all at once. Damn those were some good pre-marriage times!

It's scary to think that the buzz I get from a session of pulling into 10 foot barrels or skiing bottomless blower all day can be almost replicated by a tiny pill. That being said, I am scared of how much this thing could fuck your serotonin levels...and brain....if you were to partake regularly. So it sits on the once a year, special occasion list.


...then there's the white lady....ooooohhhhhhhhh..... but that's another story.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Used to do acid several times a year, only done shrooms a few times. I wouldn't say that LSD has truly influenced me in any profound way or that I came away from it's use with any deep insights or anything like that. Most of the time being on acid involved running around, laughing our asses off, just generally having a good 'ol time totally letting loose from the bonds of everyday life. Usually wake up from nights like that with sore cheeks and stomach muscles. Other times I've taken it up high in the mountains with just a couple of close friends and seen the clouds and the sky "breathe", seen paisely green and purple patterns between the stars, and heard the evening calls of the birds more clearly than ever before, and I've taken it in the city then gone and wandered around in the streets. I can honestly say the latter experience wasn't much fun, you end up getting focused on litter and all the stupid, depressing shit all the dumb people surrounding you do. Much better to be out in nature and able to revel in the splendor of creation, or just drink a bunch of beer (you can drink endless beer on acid), crank loud music, cut up with your friends, and build a giant bonfire without disturbing anyone.

Shrooms are a similar experience, though less intense. Never made me sick, though I did gag a little trying to choke them down dry once.

Acid is now incredibly hard to find because the DEA has started monitoring the sales of the two chemicals it can be easily synthesized from. A couple years ago I got a hankering to trip again so started researching online what it would take to make my own since no one I know has been able to find any. Beyond having some knowledge of chemistry and laboratory procedures, you have to be able to buy one of two different chemical compounds unless you want to try growing ergot fungus and extracting it from that. Guvmint regs now require all sales of those two chemicals be tracked and only people with legitimate reasons for buying it (part of some research lab or something?) can really get ahold of it now, whereas in the past it used to be available to anyone through chemical supply houses.

Oh well, guess I'll just have to go pick a bunch of shrooms.

[benDover]

have to say that LSD+MDNA was kinda wierd, but it coulda been the setting for me. Now LSD+Mushies=some intense shit! If it's visuals you want ,then there's the recipe!

[kidwoo]

MDNA

Okay that's the second time and therefore not likely a typo

It's MDMA

3,4 Methyene-DioxyMethAmphetamine

Know what you're putting in your blood son!!

[4matic]

Okay that's the second time and therefore not likely a typo

It's MDMA

3,4 Methyene-DioxyMethAmphetamine

Know what you're putting in your blood son!!

Back in the day we called it MDA

[kidwoo]

Back in the day we called it MDA

That's something else.

methylene dioxyamphetamine.

Different drug, similar but not identical effects.........usually sold as "E" as well.

[benDover]

or sometimes none as molly

[Jer]

Heh. Erowid is quoted in this week's issue of Nature as part of a story on ketamine.

In the double-blind trial, doctors gave the patients intravenous ketamine or placebo saline drips, and then scored the responses. After taking ketamine, 12 of the patients improved by at least 50% on a depression rating scale. Patients felt better as little as two hours after treatment. And one-third of the patients still felt better a week later.

Psychiatrists have on occasion used ketamine to deliberately destabilize normal subjects: by giving it to stable people, psychiatrists can induce a schizophrenia-like state and study the brain chemistry that may underlie the disease.

"What ketamine does is briefly make people crazy," says Eric Nestler, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

[kidwoo]

Patients felt better as little as two hours after treatment. And one-third of the patients still felt better a week later.

Yeah I was fucking ecstatic when that shit would wear off too!!!

Interesting approach.

thanks for the link.....that really is kind of interesting

Alright....how bout the real gnarly stuff. Who's tried datura? I had some given to me and it sat in my freezer for two years before I threw it out, terrified to touch the stuff. This was because the guy that gave it to me destroyed his house, broke out all his windows, called the cops while high, ran naked from them through the woods once they arrived (jumped out a window) and was a bloody mess by the time I saw him two days later the first time he tried it.

The SECOND time yielded similar results, smashed tv, car crashed into a tree accross the street, and lost in the woods for a few days before he found his way home......again nekkid.

Everything I've done is cake compared to what that mess sounds like.

[Yeti]

Datura: collected some, stored it for a while, then chucked it for the same reasons. Super-long duration plus high level of detachment from reality = uh-uh.

[Shredgar]

Also, unless you have a degree in mycology I would STRONGLY reccommend against picking your own shrooms.

Only if you also think you need a degree in snow physics to ski the backcountry.

[Dantheman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_analogy

[Buster Highmen]

Heh. Erowid is quoted in this week's issue of Nature as part of a story on ketamine.

In the double-blind trial, doctors gave the patients intravenous ketamine or placebo saline drips, and then scored the responses. After taking ketamine, 12 of the patients improved by at least 50% on a depression rating scale. Patients felt better as little as two hours after treatment. And one-third of the patients still felt better a week later.

Psychiatrists have on occasion used ketamine to deliberately destabilize normal subjects: by giving it to stable people, psychiatrists can induce a schizophrenia-like state and study the brain chemistry that may underlie the disease.

"What ketamine does is briefly make people crazy," says Eric Nestler, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

Well, I guess thta explains me, huh?

[Art Shirk]

Datura is pretty crazy stuff. Had a buddy in college who actually loved the stuff (very uncommon as the effects usually cause severe delerium, confusion, physical body aches, etc.) Trips last a long time and the stuff is basically free. Not to mention, I don't think it is considered a controlled substance.

AKA, the Jimson Weed, as refered to in Fear and Loathing.

[kidwoo]

Datura is pretty crazy stuff. Had a buddy in college who actually loved the stuff

My buddy found it growing wild in texas when he lived in Austin. If it's the same stuff (angel's trumpet) that I see in botanical gardens all the time, I guess it's good the fear keeps it from rampant use.

[Art Shirk]

My buddy found it growing wild in texas when he lived in Austin. If it's the same stuff (angel's trumpet) that I see in botanical gardens all the time, I guess it's good the fear keeps it from rampant use.

No doubt that was the stuff. It grows pretty easily all over the US. You just need to know what to look for.

I have had my fun. It's time for me to do some real damage with booze and cigs.

[Shredgar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_analogy

Wrong link.

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_hunting