It was about 23 years ago for me.

Setting: Early evening at my mom's house. Mom's at work. Pot smoking buddies are with me, some other people I wasn't too familiar were there, smoking pot, drinking beer, loud music playing. Gonna try our first hit of acid. Did i mention this was at my mom's house? And that she was due to come home from work about 6 hours later.

Dropped a hit of Diamonds. Don't remember much, but I freaked out. Too many people in the house, music was too loud, kept thinking my mom was gonna walk in on this. And the whole time I'm seeing houseplants transform endlessly, and I can't make it stop.

First time and last bad trip I ever had.

First time i dropped LSD. I remember grandpa owsley shouting to me, when i was carrying a fresh load from our basement-lab:"be carefull not to drop that LSD". But it was too late......

My first time was great. It was after I'd tried shrooms once and sworn off psychedelics in general. I was drunk, and my friends floated the idea of getting some acid, which didn't bug me because I was aware of the overall safety of the drug. I ended up first feeling it after a game of the Pokemon TCG (using old decks from when I was like 11 - I'm 20 now) with my buddy and staring at the ceiling.

It was absurdly fun. The whole way through I felt like I was myself, very little mind fuck but a gentle mind distortion, leading to some profound conversations regarding how we perceive time. One of the coolest visualizations came with me lying down, beside the refrigerator. It felt like the fridge was looming over me. Worried it would crush me, I decided it couldn't if I became friends with it. So I named him Doug (after the cartoon, due to a weird positioning of fridge magnets making it look something like that) and he smiled at me. That's when I knew it was going to be a good night

The first time i ever did acid was when i lived in italy. It was called "Super Hoofmens 2000", i guess the 2000 was for the year it was sold in. I only had experience with pot before this and wasn't too sure what i was in for. My girlfriend at the time had done it on a number of occasions in the states and knew i would love it. She was right. I won't get into details, but to say the trip changed my life would be an understatement. I would not be the person i am today if i had not taken that hallucinogenic substance. My perspective on life changed for the better. Thank you LSD!

DK

The first time i dropped LSD, i was not prepared for it...but is was great
it was at a drum and bass party, when i still lived in Belgium. the party was cool and i was dancing like hell. All of a sudden my friend asks me: do you want LSD? for sure i said, not realy thinking about it... (already had a few drinks)
A common friend had a small bottle, and he gave us each one drop on the tongue.
We were pretty impatient, so after 10minutes we went back and wanted more...so he gave another 2 drops.
after a half hour still nothing, we go back..our friend looks a bit concerned, but we talk him over and he gives us another 3 drops.
Guess what..one hell of a ride!
I was rafting on the currents of my own mind and got stuck in several mad loops that night.
At one time i was sitting in my friends car and i flashed out of my body and saw myself..this freaked me out so i hit the windows of the car to reassure myself that i was still sitting there..it was starting to get too much to handle, and then i left the car..
it was sooo beautiful, nature, i felt the deepest connection to everything, when i reached out to some plants they would bend over to me with love, i could see inside the plants, into the deepest molecular structures, like a science fiction scene...i cried. my friend asked: what are you seeing? i answered: words would only do damage
after that i experience something i would describe like an enlightment moment, i understood everything, and was ready to die in this moment...
The trip surely changed me...before i did not care for spirituality, know i'm aware that the world is just sooo gigantic and just a wonder
peace

the first time i took lsd was one hit then half a hit about an hour later with my best friend in the summer between 11th and 12th grade; we didn't trip that hard but we had a deep day of convesations. we rode bikes and oddly enough we both experienced numbness in our penis's. has anyone ever experience a numbness of the penis on lsd?

Numbness??

Kind of the complete opposite IMO o.0

hmmmm maybe it wasn't lsd. you never know. damn war on drugs

If you are unsure of whether or not what you have is really LSD, test it via marquis reagent.

that was more than 5 years ago. that particular L is long gone

First time I did Lucy it was with some friends late at night about 11:30, I went over there to smoke, but when I showed up they were all about to eat some acid. I'd done DMT before with them, and we never actually discussed LSD so they had no knowledge of my trip history which was none They offered me some for free so I said "sure" and got comfortable to chill with them for the next few hours. It crept in with gentle distortion and colors, patterns. I was loving the mind fuck! It was uh-maze-ing. The vibes were fantastic with them <3 I never got scared, panicked or was uncomfortable. It was just like being a kid in a magical world with my friends <3 Absolutely wonderful.

But I had to work at 9:00am as a waitress, and still had to go home and get ready some time between this. Which still worked out great. I was still tripping a little at work but I held it together pretty well, and was super friendly. One cook said something about my eyes and "she must be on something" but other than that it was all good. <3

Loved it.

My first experience was 2 drops liquid. It turned out to be a life changer for the better. It was a tough night, but I'm glad I went through it. You can read about it here.

I was 19 years old, had done so much research on the stuff, LSD being my first psychedellic experience, bar staring at the stars when baked out of my mind.
Nothing I'd read could have prepared me for the explosion of happiness and beauty I experienced that night, my close friend and my girlfriend all sitting on the bonnets of our cars, hugging trees, whatever, on a hill overlooking our city, it was incredible.

The experience has definitely had numerous long term positive effects on my life and the way I interact with it.
To this date we all still drop, my friend and I are experimenting this weekend with a mildly heavy dose and a heavy metal playlist, should be fun indeed

STRONGLY condone the use of LSD, though I wonder what life would be like without it, surely blander, surely I wouldn't be as kind and thoughtful and healthy these days? Who knows, I do know however, that if I could go back, I'd do it all again

I was 26, alone at home, summer day. 3 blotters (~200mcg, guesstimate).

I'd read about the psychedelic experience for a little over half a decade and was very interested in exploring that area.

Some months ago I'd had low dose sclerotia (mushies) experiences, but nothing like what happened that summer day.


I wrote down the time of the beginning of the experiment and put the blotters under my tongue. Waited for 15 minutes or so and swallowed them. No going back now. Laid down listening to music, a playlist that I'd been preparing for the past few days.

The first thing I remember was some sort of "energy" (I dislike the word in this context but got nothing better) going on in my body. I stretched my arms & legs, felt very pleasurable. At this point I still had my eyes closed.

Opened them for a while, and I could see the outside world beginning to be transformed.. the living room and it's contents were beginning to wiggle, and things were breathing as I did.

Closed my eyes once again.

I have little memory of what happened in the next 10 minutes or so, with eyes closed -- Music hadn't been altered yet (I'll never forget the first time I heard music "like that" on acid, and it wasn't then. It would be another couple of hours until that moment) and visually there was nothing going on.

I do remember being engaged in thinking, possibly some worries because at some point, while (some egyptian) music was playing, I became convinced Anubis was coming to take me away (lol, yes, I know ).. at that point I took the headphones off, moved around a bit and was repeating variations of "this cannot be, it is not possible" to myself.. went to the kitchen to grab a few more bottles of water, much of which I spent on getting my face wet to try to sober up. While it didn't work, the sensation was fantastic

The Anubis drama was quickly forgotten but it was enough to set the mood. The outside world was getting more and more changed, I was beginning to forget simple things (like I had the laptop nearby and all the water around me back in the living room, and I vaguely knew that somehow this wasn't a good combo).

Suddenly, subjective time began crawling to a halt. Sounds began lasting for eternities, and visually, things were stopping mid-motion. I became convinced that I'd be stuck in this eternity forever, that this was it, I'd never see anyone I loved ever again, because I'd be here.

Feeling my sanity fading away, and looking at the mess I'd made in the mean time (moving things, walking all over the living room, splashing water at myself etc), I had a very positive thought.. since I'm gonna be spending eternity here, might as well make it nice for myself!

Instantly I got up and started rearranging things and prettyfing the place (which I'd done before the trip as well, but then made a mess of it:lol.. went to the office (nearby room) to grab a piece of pinetree that I'd brought from NL once on a shroom trip and held that in my hand for a long time, like it was a piece that allowed me to remember who "I" was so, oh so long ago.

In retrospect, that thought "might as well make it nice for myself" changed the trip completely.

The next hour or couple of hours are hard to describe.. I wasn't scared anymore, just present, marvelling at the sounds & sights (there was strong wind outside and a window was open, so periodically there'd be a small bang and the curtains would move).. internally I remember something that's very hard to put in words, like when you shift gears in a manual gearbox but it doesn't go in properly, the noise it makes, you know? I felt something like that, but internally in thoughts.. like they weren't clicking in properly.

At the top of this period of the trip I had no idea of who or what I was, or even that I had taken something.. It all slowly began coming back when I vaguely remembered LSD from looking at what I'd managed to scribble at T+0 and from before being overwhelmed. I thought.. LSD... Timothy Leary.. oh yes LSD, I took something.. when? how long ago (subjectively it seemed like a LOT more time had elapsed)..

For awhile I sat there contemplating the Egyptian box where the remaining unused blotters were kept - I'd arranged it so that a Buddha statue had this box on it's hands. Fantastic stuff, the drawings on the box were dancing and vibrating, the Buddha statue transformed into eyes and alternating back to normal. I wondered for a long time, how can such a minute quantity of this molecule shift perception this much. But it wasn't over yet.


I remember feeling like I had aaaaalllll the time in the world.. a bit later I put the headphones back in again and music was totally transformed. It had texture, notes lasted forever, and the emotional meaning of it was so clear! It was a perfect moment: I became entranced by the song playing and closed my eyes and for a few timeless moments forgot about everything else, becoming the music.



I felt so many things and understood so many things about "my" initial years, and how these things made me perceive the world in certain ways.. and for the first time, I wasn't critical of myself or avoiding seeing this stuff, I felt accepting and cried at my own earlier situation.. but it wasn't pity, it was understanding and empathy. I openly cried for the first time in many years.. for as long as I remember my first pre-conscious reaction to feeling like crying is surpressing it, but not this time.. and it felt amazing

When I opened my eyes again, the most amazing colors were all around me. Beautiful reds, greens and yellows.. everything was breathing. It was stunning, definitely one of the best moments of my life.. I had no idea such thing was possible. The level of visual detail present in whatever I chose to focus attention on was unbelievable. You really have to see it to believe it!

A little later when the colors started slowly fading away it made me a bit sad, to see them go, but I knew they wouldn't last and had resolved to enjoy them until they disappeared.

Then I went outside, to the beach. The sun felt so good on my skin. I'd not noticed tracers and "frame skipping" before, but these became apparent when a gang of seagulls flew nearby.

I sat there in the sand, happy, for a long time, just listening to the ocean..




That night I had dinner with a couple of friends and tried to explain to them the events of that afternoon, but it didn't come out very clear. I was still utterly amazed and incredulous, so I'd mostly begin speaking then stop mid-sentence, as I was searching for words to match what I'd experienced and finding none.. and then trying again.. until I realized it was no good, it is ineffable so I mostly just sat there smiling.


More than anything else, it was that experience that landed me here, because that's when I made a commitment to myself to explore these wonderful substances responsibly, in due time, and in depth (by then I was already aware of the existence of DMT). To this day it remains my top #1 psychedelic experience -- because it was the first hardcore psychedelic experience and because of how it changed my life (many new and good things sprang from that trip, more specifically from the thought mentioned a few paragraphs above; It didn't only change the trip, it made me realize a few things)

I've had epic trips since then, for sure, but nothing with the impact that first LSD trip had.
I know they'll come, in due time. When I'm ready.

From that day on I had no doubts - these are powerful tools that can help us grow. As I'd learn later, they won't do the work for you, but they can surely show the possibilities (as endlessly repeated here and elsewhere)


After this experience I felt like I had to share it with everyone I cared about! If only they could see what I'd seen! Some thought I was nuts, others distanced themselves, a few listened friendly but remained skeptical, and 2 decided to have the experience and had amazing experiences themselves.

Spreadin' the love..

I was around 14-15.
I bought 35 hits. I was told it wasn't "too" strong.
I took this to mean it was really weak.

A friend and I were at his house. We took a bunch of em. I didn't think they were doing anything, and neither did he, so we took a few more. etc etc.
I ended up taking around 15 of them and him 10.

His mother came home and figured we were drunk and let us slide.... she made a big meal we couldn't eat (hard to eat a burrito with greasy swirling paisleys swimming around in it).
Anyway, was an interesting day.... I don't think either of us were normal for 1.5 days.
I vaguely remember being trapped in a haunted house, and things of that nature.
welp, there are other details I'm sure, they come back to me when I'm tripping but I can't really remember them now, it's been 20 years ya know?
rw

I took my first hit in highschool, 10th grade.

I took my second halloween night a week or so later.

I enjoyed it tremendously but received no insight and not much changed other than I started to take an interest in psychedelics.

Since then (almost 20 years ago) I have done it a couple hundred times. I can't say it ever changed my life or gave me a meaningful insight, I did have a lot of delusions from it when I was on it, but they were clearly delusions when I came down.

I'd think stuff like the world was ending... only to come down and find it was not ending, my delusions were all ego based. I'd think I was this or that, meant for this or that etc. I'd take it and feel one with the universe while at the same time not being able to see past my own nose, so to speak.

I've got a lot of stories about acid trips though.
Some crazy times.

I sold it for awhile and used to sit in a local mall playing chess 2-3 times a week while tripping.

I still love it.

my first experience with it was senior year in high school. i took 2 tabs of unknown potency. it was extremely beautiful and i had a total oneness/ego-death moment with the people i was with and the universe itself, similar to my first mushroom experience.. pretty hilarious stuff was going on that night as well.. but it also ripped me apart and showed me things about myself and the world that i was oblivious to or didn't want to look at but had to deal with- mostly psychological things

A lot of insights and it was tough to face some of them but overall it was a very beneficial and key point in my life

dude, you've been here since 2009 and still don't know the rules regarding talk of sales???

Wow, this one brings me back. The first time I ever dropped LSD was in 2008. I was in Baltimore, MA at an Anime Convention called Otakon. One of my good friends that was going with me told me he was probably going to get a 10 strip of LSD and asked if I was interested in trying any. I was kind of nervous and reluctant about it at first, but I decided to take a hit at the convention. There were a group of about 5 of us all tripping at the convention and it ended up being a really wonderful and amazing time. Looking at people dressed up in costumes and just observing everything was really magical for us. Everything was very bizarre, amusing, and alien, but it was really quite an amazing experience. It really only became negative for a few moments when I became separated from my group when I had to find the restroom, but other than that I felt safe and had a good time. I don't believe I had any visuals during this experience, but I remember having some auditory hallucinations. I heard odd music and I thought people were talking to me from far away but all of my friends told me it was just me. We tripped for about 10 hours each and came down in our hotel room joking around about everything that we had just went through. Overall it was a great first experience and thinking about it really makes me miss many aspects of my old life.

I lost my psychedelic virginity to LSD. It was one hit of acid and I was speechless the whole trip. I remember thinking that words were meaningless symbols and were inadequate in describing the complexity, diversity, and details of the world around us. I had barely any visuals but a marked change in cognition. It was an amazing first trip and fueled my interest in psychedelics.