"acid" evokes decades of hippie-derived psychedelia and associated baggage. the beatles! rugs that smell bad! paisley everywhere. bad posters. guys with long hair and platitudes! admittedly, a bunch of very nice music that i enjoy quite a lot. kaleidoscopes and sunshine haha. observed visual patterns repeated piecemeal in art, with no deeper understanding of their neurological origins in the serotonergic signalling of the V1-V6 layers of the primary visual cortex. ditch weed. 1967 in the Haight. giggling and rolling down a hill. dancing at the commune, don't ask who does the dishes! hey man, keep that fag shit to yourself! woodstock! woodstock '99! fucking in beat up Chevy vans. wastes of V8s that have never been used to haul anything except the mattress and shag carpet. nazi cars. new beetles. r. crumbian self-loathing. merchandise with nazi cars! merchandise purchased in the Haight in 2024! complete lack of political awareness, from then 'til now! nostalgia ground up and fed to the profit motive! they were THERE and they see NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS! it makes me SICK!
yank the base compound from its cultural context and it is something completely different.
you ever hear of lysergic acid diethylamide? they call it "magnifier."
some Swiss guy discovered it a hundred years ago. he took a special molecule from a grain fungus that caused a "general panic" during the French revolution, and he brought it under human control with a functional group. this shit's so potent you dose it in micrograms. this shit is filtered, refined go. it slams your throttles through the wire and pins your brain and body to War Emergency Power. it makes you off-scale high. if marijuana gets you going in a controlled fashion useful for grid generation, this shit drives you immediately prompt critical. it gives you unstoppable physical endurance and forward momentum, and gives you a direct power tap sunk into the primordial wellspring of creative energy that really good posts come from. this shit will push your mental constructions to their design limits and show you their weak points so you can reinforce them. this shit can make your mind stronger, permanently. this shit will light you on fire (good). if you raise your face to the sky and ask this shit to give you a Necessary Ordeal it will deliver.
how does it work? other drugs poke at the inputs the brain's control circuitry use to make you feel a way. they are simple in effect when you understand what signals they are emulating or stimulating or blocking, and how those control networks interpret the inputs you are giving them. this shit runs a violin bow over the control networks themselves. it reaches inside the core workings and turns them all on. it connects everything to everything else so it can all self-excite. it vibrates your strings and makes 'em sing.
lingering sense-memory-feelings (you internalize whole qualia at once): vibrant green ferns, deep red manzanita, and fungi of all colors pushing upwards from the soil; the world, as diffracted through spectroscopic gratings; holes punched inwards through reality to reveal a neat little fragment of the underpinnings; slime molds forming fruiting bodies, desperate to find and spread in the wetness; douglas firs and redwoods swaying in withstood wind; rain-slick fur; ruined geocaches and uprooted conifers; streams overtopping banks; reservoirs overtopping dams; downed high tension lines shrieking humming 60hz-plus-harmonics arcing vicious and deadly, raw power pumped into the world without restraint; xyrb cyrb xyrbaculaeum cyrbrackuline biogeohydroaerological phenomena observed and analyzed with the meaningless syllables set aside for later inspiration; fog streaming through the trees in the ethereally lit ridgetop forest as the moon shines down, clearly visible through the top of the storm; things with teeth and claws stalking through the woods; you are the only thing insane enough to be out here right now, you are the only living thing out here looking up into the storm, and you are LOVING IT; animals mating in the rain, out of view of human eyes; surviving conditions hostile enough to destroy your entire suite of wearable technology if it's not flagship quality or if you aren't careful; hydrogeology revealed in furrows carved through stone as water cascades downwards; watersheds and trophic levels, forest-as-unitary-system predator harvesting mesopredator harvesting herbivore harvesting understory cooperating with canopy to harvest sunlight and water, concentrating energy all the way up, links in the web resonating with every litter born and every creature devoured, entire structure singing in the wind. this is the shit you take if you think it might be really hot to be struck by lightning and survive.
turn your attention outwards and you will find you are no longer at a remove from the world at large; turn your attention inwards and you can perform self-psychosurgery and figure out your gender. if you take it and go to the woods alone it turns you into an animal and you can explore the night as a beast. if you take it and go to bed with a lover it turns you into an animal and you can explore the night as a beast.
check it out, if you dare. and take it in the rain, if you think you're strong enough.
click: caveats
check for medication interactions first. safety is important and you shouldn't casually fuck around with drugs. if you're going to fuck around with drugs, do it rigorously. consult psychonautwiki. read the warnings. READ THE WARNINGS! if it's bitter, spit the tab out immediately; someone sold you NBOMe, and you should run them down like a prey animal. reagent test if you don't fully trust your source, and know how to do it correctly; the quasi-legal RC prodrugs react differently to the standard test reagents compared to plain LSD. DrugsData will perform GC/MS testing for $100 if you want absolute certainty. 1P-LSD/1CP-LSD/1V-LSD prodrugs are likely to be more readily and safely available than scheduled LSD. (you can even buy them on clearnet websites, and if you need me to link one you're not ready). they work the same, just take longer to come up to full power.generally, psychedelics won't work if you're on SSRIs. the serotonin agonists (lysergamides, tryptamines, etc) are likely to just straight up not work; the compounds that are more entactogenic and less traditionally psychedelic (MDMA, the 2Cs, other phenethylamines) have a small risk of serotonin syndrome in addition to not doing anything. however, if you are on MAOIs any serotonergic recreational drug may kill you. don't try it.
if you have a history of psychosis or other mental illnesses of the more difficult sorts, please do your research before deciding to try these things. you may want to err on the side of caution.
research it. learn. learn what you're going to do to yourself. learn how your brain works and how exactly it will react to something biologically novel. take joy in learning. learn how to learn: how to search pubmed, how to use sci-hub. learn how to discern a reliable journal from a predatory one. learn how to find interesting papers, and learn how to detect signs of poor ones. this is the correct way to do it, at least in my opinion. a top to bottom understanding of the biological structures underpinning your self will enrich your entire world, inside the pivotal experience and outside it. you are a high-dimensional metapattern running on a self-organized system, the descendent of at least 3.7 Gy of undirected optimization in any direction that survives and thrives. learn how your base systems work with your sober self, and when you are in the thick of it, you will be prepared for Unshackled Metacognition, and prepared for unforseen externalities: an unexpected event or requirement from outside can knock you off-kilter, and you need to be ready to right yourself.
8mg ondansetron 1-2 hours prior to stop nausea. if you take it in the afternoon you may not be able to sleep if you are a slow metabolizer. (guess when I wrote this post. hint: they haven't turned the power tap off yet.) i have no idea what this does if you're plural.
best when taken with plentiful external stimuli. set and setting critical; natural environments highly recommended. i have never taken magnifier indoors or with others or outside of the forest, and whenever i tell others that they look at me like i'm nuts. the one time i did it in the sunlight i experienced an Inflection Point i didn't know i was seeking and which helped me grow as a person and understand who i am, on a journey from the forest to the sea and back. i toked up at a crossroads after dusk, on the way back and the way down, and it made the stars above me shimmer anew. i got an understanding of my gender and a second fursona out of that.
you could also just drop acid without ascribing any special significance to it. maybe something will happen and maybe it'll be nice. you will probably have fun. many people have done this and it's worked out well for them, for the most part; this is not the most difficult drug one can take, or even the most challenging psychedelic (that's 5-MeO-DMT, aka toad venom). you don't have to take this as seriously as I do. i like my way more. it fastens me to the world more thoroughly and i think it's fun.
have a tripsitter if you're worried; let someone know where you're going if you're not. bring a flashlight. make sure your flashlight is charged. wear good boots. bring enough water. go when the moon will be bright. bring good music. go. go. go.
