DOSE:
2 hits
oral
LSD
(edible / food)
1 cig.
smoked
Cannabis
1 cig.
smoked
Cannabis
BODY WEIGHT:
215 lb
Time and Patterns 1st Acid Trip
This was my first experience with LSD.
I had been considering using for a long time. My friend, H, is an experienced psychonaut and one of his preferred pastimes is prescribing, based on his friends� personality types, the ideal drug for each of his friends. For me, H recommended a cocktail of LSD and Ecstasy. I have no interest whatsoever in e but the acid recommendation really piqued my interest. My dad was a hippy back in the day and I know that psychedelics and acid were a large part of his experience.
I was fairly late coming into any kind of substance use. As a teenager I avoided caffeine although of course under special circumstances I have used high doses (study sessions etc). I did not consume any nicotine until age 19, when I began an occasional cigar and pipe habit that continues to the present day. I had my first drink several months AFTER my 21st birthday and did not try cannabis until I was almost 22.
In all of the above cases, I did not try the drugs randomly, haphazardly or without research. In the case of both my first cigar and my first drink, I made a special occasion and tried to have as positive a first experience as possible. I took the same approach with LSD. I told H I had decided to partake, and he arranged to acquire some from his dealer at college. In the interim, I took to reading everything I could about LSD and psychedelics in general. I read trip reports, I read the entirety of Albert Hoffman�s book, and I read lots of other essays and writings on the LSD experience. For better or for worse, I knew what to expect, and I was excited.
H had informed me that the best trips resulted from a natural setting, and I knew well that privacy was also a key ingredient, so I arranged to rent a cabin on a semi-remote lake. The weekend was chosen (Labor Day) and we drove out to the cabin. Timothy Leary recommends three days for any psychedelic experience, and we therefore rented the cabin for two nights/three days. We arrived around midday on Friday. (The cabin was amazing�other users had left lots of food and other neat stuff). We made the place comfortable, had dinner, and went to bed.
The next day we planned to drop in the morning. I made us a breakfast of pancakes with fresh-picked high-bush cranberries, cooked on a camp stove. It was yummy. Then it was time to drop. I was excited to say the least.
H did a wonderful job of guiding me through the experience calmly, and making it not-a-big-deal. The LSD was soaked onto SweetTart candies, so it was even yummy to dose! As soon as I swallowed the dose (2 candies), I thought �Oh shit�well, no turning back now!�. Right after dropping, we smoked a small joint (to take the nerves out and ensure a good mindset).
We sat around in the cabin, chatting about varied topics like the history of LSD, waiting for the acid to take effect. After about 30 or 45 minutes, H got up abruptly and started stretching, hanging from rafters in the cabin. When I asked what he was doing, he said, �Acid stretch.� H got up abruptly and started stretching, hanging from rafters in the cabin. When I asked what he was doing, he said, �Acid stretch.�