My last solid dose was over three years ago. In early June I took 40 micrograms which made for a very pleasant day indeed.

I dosed 160 micrograms LSD - doses that have actually been tested for content and amount. I ate two 80 microgram squares. It was on a very empty stomach (other than liquids) and started to come on in under 30 minutes. It rapdily built from there.

In no time at all I'm noticing that everything is radically enhanced and I'm starting to experience open eye hallucinations . No full on visions but more like looking up at a section of the textured cream colored ceiling and noticing the spackles start to gain a LOT more depth and color - it was looking like some sort of . . . . chintzy item I'd see at a garage sale or thrift store - like a fake gold serving plate with some sort of pattern worked into it. Oh boy, I knew I had dosed myself good at this point.

I decided to try to consume a bit more cannabis, but that quickly petered out. Interacting with chat and my husband at this point, everything seemed hilarious for reasons I could not say - I was tuning in nicely to the cosmic joke. My tortise shell cat, Nephthys, had jumped up into my lap and instead of arranging herself over one leg as she normally does, she curled up tight, pressing against my belly very hard and purring very loud. Soon she left for reasons only known to her.

I was close to an hour from dosing and Isis jumps up to settle between my husband and I on the couch. Isis is my brown and white kitty. She lays down on her side and looks super flat for some reason. I lean over to take a closer look and am delighted to see that some of her brown fur now looks orange and large amounts on the surface look irridescent green and irridescent blue. I knew it wasn't real but it was nonetheless delightful. Seems when I trip hard, my cats show me something about their "secret" natures.

I had been chatting for awhile too and experiencing a lot of body issues, which happens to me with big doses at times. I was hot, I was cold, hot, cold, etc. I was nauseaus, I was stable. I had jaw tension. I was in my body, I was dripping/melting a bit. I decided I'd go lay down for awhile.

I lay down and watched fantastic patterns behind closed eyes - dynamically moving. buldging geometric shapes that were supposed to be 2D were spinning around, mandala style. But a theme rapidly seemed to emerge in my mind. All of these beautiful mandalas were doing one of two things . . . . spiralling in from a circle into a descending point or emerging outwhere from a descending point into the spiralling pattern. Totally made me think of birth and death. We come through a circular space into a breakthrough world in birth and many report tunnels, spirals, etc. when close to death or when ego dead.

I opened my eyes for awhile and the curtain that hangs in our hall looked radically different - it was full of new colors like orange, yellow and green and it's texture seemed less like fabric and more like some sort of plastic or rubber type of material. It instantly reminded me of childhood camping trips with my maternal grandmother (a fantastic fisherwoman) in her small RV. The intensity of the memories that came back was quite something - very detailed memories. Those were some good times.

I sat near my kitty and tried to pull the long term illness out of her. Tripping hard is about the very only time I believe in magic, so I figured it was worth a try, .

For awhile, with eyes open, there were just so many patterns as well as spears and curls of rainbow and color/light everywhere it nearly obstructed my visual field. It was very enjoyable and I don't recall a theme emerging.

After a bit more time on the bed, I realized I was suddenly VERY nauseaus again. I was up and running to the bathroom as my gorge worked its' way into my throat. The bathroom was filled with spears and curls of colorful light everywhere. I purged into the toilet and it was many colors, as was everything around it. I felt instantly better and absolutely invigorated.

As I cleaned my mouth out my husband asked if I was okay - I told him it was a rainbow purge and all was well. I took some time to look in the mirror - I was flushed red, sweating, had very messed up hair and a huge grin on my face as well as absolutely blown pupils with iris' of changing colors. I looked like a madwoman. . Shower soon for sure.

Went back to hang out and had some great quality time with my husband and cats. My husband had his big brown cat Havanna in his lap and the Hot Links (catnip sausage) toy in hand and Havanna went and had one of his best days ever. He got soooo high and he was in heaven being in his papa's lap AND getting the sausage.

Went back to chat and was astonshed at how it looked. What was normally a dark background, was oddly soothing. What were normally pastel colors were very bright. What were singular colors were now positively instilled with rainbows. I had never seen the chat like that. It was positively hypnotic.

Afterawhile it was shower time. What can I say - psychedelic showers are so awesome. I kept seeing feathers on the wall and kept thinking about the relationship between feathers and wind as I was showering in water.

When I dried off I was still too hot to dress, so I sat on the bed on my knees/heels. Afterawhile I felt like leaning forward in a bit of a stretch. I saw my breasts hanging down looking a bit pendulous. One was between my legs and the other to the right of my right thigh. For some reason I suddenly thought of penguins with their young . I tucked my left breast between my legs and my right between right thigh and right arm, continuing to lean over completely, then brought my hands in - completely surrounding them in warmth.

Ready to get dressed, I had some more great times with my family and Nexus chat. Wound up eating some soup later and putting my husband to bed about 10 hours into my trip. I was much closer to baseline but still very stimulated. I could relax my vision and scenes would rapidly change - a bookshelf becoming a weird old model of a haunted mansion - then focus again and have consensual reality right back.

Finally by 2 - 2:30 a.m. I was feeling pretty beat and tired, and felt I could sleep. It took a little while once I lay down, but I did fall asleep and woke up feeling tired but like I had done a spring cleaning in my head.

I had forgotten how the color enhancement could be so wild on LSD. It is so wonderful compared to my normal (poor) vision. I know how much I love my husband and cats but while tripping on acid I felt even closer to them. I loved the way my imagination, which I like to think of as good, was completely unbounded. And I really liked the way the chat looked. Bravo to The Traveler, bravo.

I recently took a 100µg dose of LSD after a very long break; almost ten years. I can absolutely relate to your descriptions of the ceiling; I love to lay down and watch the ceiling flow like liquid and change hues at random. My cats were also an integral part of the experience, I also find while tripping that they exude some kind of mysterious, secret nature

Great trip report, thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing Pandora, just the day before i'd been reading through the LSD subforum and read your report from an experience of over 20 years ago!

Sounds like you a great experience... "I really liked the way the chat looked. Bravo to The Traveler, bravo." yeah when you're tripping the chat and Nexus themes/colors really make sense!

Yeah, we were talking about that in chat, about how having time off, especially with LSD, can be so incredibly profound in terms of visual content, insight, etc. Im really happy you had such a powerful experience though. When LSD pushes the right buttons after all that time off - it's a magical night indeed.




That's a really interesting insight regarding the circular visual aspect and the insight/s of coming to from death to birth in that fashion and vice versa. As we all know - nature adheres to this spiral more or less. And alot of my most intense DMT experiences there was an incredible whirlwind, like a scintillating center throwing off infinite realms; also in most of my DMT experiences in general they always start out with many turning/spiraling circles, circles cutting into circles, that seem to take on the quality of water, flowing. This is typically right before im sucked into Hyperspace.




Yeah, anytime i've tripped and happened to come into chat for a few minutes, it's always so incredibly beautiful and captivating.

This was a really good report, so many funny parts throughout; especially the tortoise shell cat, the Hotlinks, the madwoman in the mirror, and the penguins hahah.

Thanks again for writing this; always really well written reports which i've always enjoyed reading from you. I love the bits of humor that were spread throughout this report; a nice manifestation of the cosmic joke that these psychedelics seem to often plunge us into. Im glad you had a nice re-introduction of this multi year hiatus.

LSD is such a wonderful tool. I too recently returned to it ( or the other way around, actually) after a twenty five year hiatus and I'm very glad i did. That one trip, while not especially profound and actually full of physical distress, was able to help me sublimate my then current paradigm of 'have-not' into one of 'universal abundance' pretty much instantly. Yes, a good application of a powerful b°°°s°°° solvent does the trick, dislodging and dissolving those stubborn egoistic chains easily. It's beautiful, I've felt a lasting positive personality change since.

Tripping as a boy is so much different than tripping as a man for me. Then, it was a toy, now, it's a tool.

Pandora --

Great experience. It resonates with me, for I had my first lsd trip in close to 20 years (!) just last year.

It sounds like you had a grand experience (as did I). I've never experienced nausea on acid, but you are no stranger to purges and have a very healthy relationship with them. I am curious how you would compare the experience of the purge from acid and ayahuasca.

Thank you for the lovely report.

Thanks for reading folks.

Nitegazer - For me the acid purge is unpredictable, it can happen on any LSD trip at any time. But, usually it happens for me before the peak. It is quick - one quick aggressive purge and I'm done. It is colorful but not 3D insane. It is therapeutic but not like the therapy of aya/pharma.

With aya and aya analogues I tend to purge within 45 mins of consuming (every time I put DMT or DMT plant in - if it's just vine aya I don't need to purge). I find these purges to be much more symbolic and much more therapeutic than the ones I have on LSD. The length and intensity is directly related to both stomach and mind contents for me.

Here's my fave example: Once on pharma I had a very extended purge. I watched as black gouts of yucky poisonous stuff just poured out of my mouth into my bucket. It was like the ink you see coming out of defensive squids, but thicker and there was so much of it. Once it was out, it changed color into a kind of bluiesh green shineyness, then formed into a pseudopod and reared up and out of the bucket at me. . Eventually it settled down.

When I examined the contents of the bucket after getting close to baseline I laughed and laughed to see it contained a very small amount of clear mucous/bile. It's like that black stuff I saw and the playful pseudopod it evolved into was symbolic of my mental issues and what I need to do with them.

LSD purges are more just a need to empty my stomach for me. Whereas aya/pharma purges empty my stomach but more importantly depoisons my mind.

Hope that was vaguely clear.