polytrip wrote:trancepants wrote:Whenever LSD is consumed, SWIM notices the effects immediately. Pretty much, as soon as it touches his tongue he knows that he ate something that's gonna make him feel a little funny. Visuals start at about the 45 min to 60 min mark. The idea of LSD as a prodrug really excites me and I wish that more research was being done to verify this.
Does anyone have any thoughts on as to why the trip itself is 'wavy'? With upswings and downswings?
Yeah, i also notice the effects immediately. But those are the physical effects. The psychedelic effects always take an hour to kick in.
I think that almost every psychedelic has this wavy character you describe (besdides vaped DMT maybe). LSD has it much more than other drugs though.
Why this is is indeed an intruiging question. As far as i know, you hardly see ever see this effect in other than psychedelic substances. You clearly don't have it with alcohol.
The case of LSD also makes it clear that this effect can't have anything to do with the speed at wich it's entering the bloodstream.
It could ofcourse have something to do with the metabolism of LSD into the substance that realy affects the brain, if LSD is indeed a prodrug.
But it's probably much more complex than that.
SWIM has also experienced the wavyness with peaks and valleys on mushrooms, but only once or twice.
Also, if we did discover that LSD was a prodrug, would we be able to isolate the chemicals that do cross the blood brain barrier and are active on the brain?
I can create anything with my mind. Including fiction, which this is.