The Effects of Hallucinogenic Drugs on The Brain

yo ive done a lot of drugs. but once i tripped on acid, i have no temptation to do anything else, besides smoke diggidy dank and Canadian Mist $17.99 a HALF GALLON. yeah its cheap as fuck. well, i never had a bad trip on acid, there can be dark times but its all about the vibes the people you are with are putting out. and driving is the most insane, since you know you can die, you start to trip harder, Me and my friend experienced the same trip of a high powered electro magnet shredding my car and we were both sitting in a black plain moving forward and when i hit the breaks the car rematerilized, lots of other shit was in my head like i just ran into a tree and a cop is yelling at me, but i stayed on the road. PRAISE LSD, ive driven in lego land and had the road split apart and magma pour out onto the highway when we were taking a road trip to kantuckey, and it was raining deer. yeah its crazy shit but you need to eat like 5 of them jellies and smoke DMT in crystal form. WTF. ACTUAL REAL TRIP. OUTER BODY EXPERIENCE.

i have tripped my fair share dramamine by far was the least enjoyable 4 me among other things, but everyone bottom line is too much of anything is bad. I mean if you r gonna do this shit then do it sparingly, any of you who knows about the whole drug cause and effect scheme know that the more often you do it the less you get and the more money you will spend and then over time it will take over your life. I mean half of the enjoyment is being able to know it is comeing after a month of stressful work paying bills arguing with friends family the normal ups/downs of life. Make a trip more like planning for a vacation instead of wanting it several times a week just to get through life thats no way to live, I mean you still gotta have goals for your future and actually follow through with them college,jobs,family etc. dont let drugs get in the way of that. As far as younger kids are concerned they are kids so all the adults on here telling them no may as well save your fingers from typing because I know these adolescents know right from wrong they will have to live with the choices they make. I know very few adults who actually listened to their parents but I DO NOT encourage drug use to anyone under 21. go to school get that part of your life out of the way first because trust me there is plenty to come after high school TRUST me lol. live life love life and do what brings you joy because in the end that is all that matters.

so ive done just weed but what is the serious problem with it?
how does it really hurt me?

Hi there I wonder if anybody would kindly e mail me about why they do drugs.
I am a wanna be writer and I am trying to write this book, in it the main character is going to be taking drugs as a form of escapism.
I have created a new e mail address especially for my research for my writing to post specifically on sites such as this so people can give me information.

I want to know what people experience while "tripping" or "on a high" I don't take drugs and I am not willing to for the sake of research. But I know a lot of people do take drugs. And reading all your comments on this page shows me that a lot of people that post here do as well.

I want to know what it's like to give drugs up as well, even cigarettes and alcohol. It all helps.

Any stories will be really appreciated and if I use any/all of the information provided and I am able to get a book deal. Credits will be given without question. (If you just want to be referred to by any other name other than your given one that is fine.)

I am being serious here guys.
This is important to me as I what the story to be realistic. Of sorts.
I'll be straight with you. I am writing a horror story the main Character is a vampire.
But I need to make it believable, that is where you lot come in.

All contributions welcome.

I worked in the medical lab field for 25 yrs, from 1981 to 2007 and have entered drug results and answered doctor's, nurse's, and patient's questions on drugs: the amount of time they stay in the body etc. I dealt for years with National Medical Services, NIDA, Medtox, and private substance of abuse testing labs. LSD is removed from your body very quickly, and you would have to die or get busted actively tripping for a tester or pathologist to find it in your body. The cell turnover in a human body is incredibly rapid, and I cannot remember the correct numbers, but I find it hard to believe that a person my age,late forties, who took acid as a kid and teenager, and I did many, many, many times, could be getting high or receiving flashbacks from residual cell activity. And if you are, what the hell, just enjoy it. All other drugs take at least one to three days to clear from your urine,the most common drugs of abuse testing specimen type. Bearing in mind the size of dose, length of time ingesting the drug, and the weight and metabolic percularities of the individual being tested all will affect how long this stuff hangs around, but if you live through the ingesting, your body will rapidly metabolize any drug you take into a desmethylxxxxxxx or another 15 letter name of the breakdown product ... Marijuana on the other hand will eventually attach itself to your adipose tissue (fat) and a good stoner may test positive for quite some time.

I have done acid like three or four times in my life, and meth for 15 years or so. I have been clean off it all now for 8 years, except weed. I like my weed! The only thing that I have noticed was I no longer have dreams. Has anyone else experienced this?

You all stuipd if you even tried drugs/drink GO Get Help I SAW THIS I AM TRYING TO DO HOMEWORK! DONT EVEN DO IT ONCE TRUST me LIVING CLEAN IS BETTER THAN BEING DIRTY. Even iF WAS ONCE!!!

when i was in 9th grade(14 yrs. old) i did lsd 3 times(only tripped hard once), shrooms(mabey 5 times), smoked weed A LOT, and did E like 3 or 4 times. Now im 16 in 11th grade and im starting to hallucinate a little bit( like being on shrooms). im not hearing things, just seeing things(like things moving in my peripheral vision, sometimes things i stare at begin to morph, ect). But the weird thing is, i felt normal ever since up until now and im really freaked out. i hope im not going schizophrenic :(. please help

hey wut do u kno about salvia??i heard it was pretty good? also i have a peyote plant and i was wondering how much would it b worth, its about 2 inches tall and 4 inches wide..how much could i get for it, and should i try it?...

Hey DarkTussan, thanks for that man!! i was in hysterics reading that!!
anyway dude.... do me a favour and read this book: Ramtha- the white book. And then maybe you'll see that you're not crazy. Acid doesnt lie. I've never done it but sure as hell going to soon! God is very much within you. Start reading some New Age teachings.
Peace

you chew on marijuana stems and nothing will happen, it is all a myth about how you can chew on them and start trippin, all they do is taste good. LSD stays in your spinal cord your whole life and if you crack your back just right you could possible have a severe flashback, trust me because it happened to me.

As far as hallucinogens go, acid is like a concentrated mushroom trip. My first time, I did 5 hits; not all at once, but spread throughout the night. I perceived what appeared to be a cell shaded world, meaning that certain objects, like leaves on a tree, appeared to be flattened and 2 dimensional; but also that the colors themselves were brighter, and changed in a weird way. My friend's face changed slightly, he looked like a goblin (that was how I described it) and when I looked in the mirror I did as well. I was first sure that it was real when I started having an uncontrollable urge to laugh, things were funny. My friend, who had given it to me, accidentally spilled some on his hand while transferring it form vial to vial, and I watched him lick it off. He freaked out, and it was almost enough for a bad trip, we had to restrain him, but we ended up leaving. My friend was driving; yes, driving, his first time ever tripping acid, and we made it home okay. My other friend complained about being attacked by alligators and saying he took too much, but I remember it as a really good trip.

Since my first time, I have tripped maybe 20 times at most; very spread out. But the craziest trip I ever had was completely and totally insane. At one point, the world appeared to be moving in fast forward, I would have conversations with people and would know what they were going to say before they finished saying it. I believed I was a god, and could tell the future as well as control my environment by controlling time. I thought I had died at one point, I remember being scared, but the world was moving too quickly for me to form enough of a thought. I watched clouds in the sky swirl and form different objects, objects that I could to some degree control. I could tell that one of my good friends was stuck in the same 'loop' of fast speed that I was. He kept saying, "I just want it to stop, I just want it to stop I can't handle it." He kept talking about not wanting to see the future; and since we kept talking about telling the future I think he meant that he could see what I did. While I was viewing the world sped up, I remember viewing the world as a giant time line that I was gliding over, seeing history written at every second and people living out their destinies. I had a feeling that everybody was eternal and when we died, we would be born again to live another life; that this was what life was all about, the joy of forgetting your past lives and remembering only your present life. I did not remember any 'past lives' or craziness like that, I just had a strong sense that God was with me; watching me, and affecting my life. Small coincidences became undeniable proof of a higher being, a conscious being. I took my friend's car and drove as fast as I could down the street, it was pure insanity. I believed I could tell the future and I drove insanely; I was insane. The car ran out of gas just as the song I was listening played "I'm tired of playing your game" or something like that; more proof in my insane mind that God was playing with me. I told God (yes I was praying/having one sided conversations with a higher consciousness) that I just wanted a place to sleep that wasn't my friend's house; everybody there was insane and I couldn't handle it. About 4 minutes later a police officer stopped me while I was walking down the street (with no shoes, no shirt, no ID, no phone, and numerous calls that the vehicle I had been driving was driving erratically) and told me I had warrants and was being arrested. I got in the back of the car and they took me to jail, where I proceeded to flip out saying that I was tired of this life and wanted to get on to the next one; that I would kill myself by stopping my heart with my mind. They had me talk to a counselor and I was put in a padded vest and allowed to sleep. The next day when I awoke, I drank orange juice and had what I considered to be an amazing breakfast. I was sober, but the world seemed like a magical place, and everything had slowed down again. I asked very politely when I was to be released and they asked me if I still wanted to kill myself. I said, "Absolutely not, I love life!" And they asked me about the night before; I told them I had been on acid. I was released immediately (apparently I had had no warrants and was given no tickets). They gave me shoes and a shirt and sent me on my way; I got a ride home and was back at the house before my friends had stopped tripping. That was the most insane trip of my life. XD

There's a lot more to the story and I can be very scatterbrained while trying to write it all out but let me just say this. I have a lot of friends who have done a lot of drugs, and it's lots of fun and blah blah blah but you have to ask yourself what your goals in life are. If you are 15-20 and you're wondering about trying acid and doing drugs, you need to ask yourself how you're going to take care of yourself when you get older. You're going to need money and that is what making it in this world is all about. If you don't believe me ask your dealer how much he paid for his drugs. The point is, don't let the distraction of drug abuse make you lose this game. I'm 20 years old at writing this and I feel like I lost so much time. I wouldn't go back and change anything, but I'm also working my ass off trying to make up for lost time. I would take an established life now over the joys of drug abuse any day, as much as I made my life about drugs in the past. Yes I'm preaching and it doesn't matter to anyone and maybe nobody will read this but this is for my peace of mind more than anyone else. Beat the game of life and experiment with fucking up your brain afterward. ^.- I still hallucinate sometimes before falling asleep or when waking up, and I have noticed dark circles under my eyes that do not go away no matter how much sleep I get. I did a lot of DXM (over 400 trips I'm sure) and I blame that drug more than acid. But I've had temporary psychosis and it is not fun. I believed that I was God's chosen one and yadda yadda. Nobody could tell me otherwise I was completely sure about something that made no sense. That is what being psychotic is all about. Anyways, be good, be safe, and think about what you wanna have in the next 30 years before you start fucking up your life now. It's not gonna matter how cool your acid trip was while you spend every week working in some shitty restaurant making minimum wage >.>.

Ok i'm 17, going to try speed for the first time, anything i need to watch out for? besides getting ripped off?

im 19 years old and i just recently tried acid for the first time this past sunday august 31 2008, however i have been experimenting with olther hard core drugs since i was 15 years old. It started when i got into high school. It wasnt my friends who really got me to give into the peer pressure but my family. I figured that they where supposed to be the people in my life that care about me the most and if they were doing it and telling me to do it then it couldnt be that bad so at 15 years old i took my first ecstacy pill with my cousin for her birthday...then i tried coke for the first time with my aunt. Then i began meeting kids in high school as a freshmen who shared the same intrest as me and i continued to use more drugs more frequently. I couldnt tell you for how long ive been telling my friends and family that i was going to change my life style get my self on the right path and head in a new direction but i could never really find the strenght to let go and seperate from the life ive lived for so long and i just continued getting fucked up all the time. My acid experience lasted from sunday when i took it at 10 untill i finally fell asleep tuesday morning at 9!! And now its thursday and im still not quite back to my "normal self" and although part of me regrets what i did i also wouldnt take it back for the world because it opened my eyes to the "real" world and how amazing it is.

Basically, every person who has a bad trip either does it at a young age, doesn't research the effects, or is in the wrong place with the wrong people.

Be smart, aware, and don't listen to bullshit urban legends. I've had fellow college students tell me that LSD causes your brain to bleed into your spinal column, which makes you trip. How does that even make sense? The fat cell storage is a bunch of bullshit as well. LSD is unlike anything else in the world, and of course if you're going through a bad experience with it, it will seem so profound that you may be haunted by the effects for a quite long time (don't eat strong acid until you know what you're doing!)

with LSD, the reason people continue to experience flashbacks of the drug is because LSD is siuch a strong drug, and very pure, it stores in body fat, instead of blood stream. by storing in the body fat it enables the drug to have to ability 're activate' whenever the body fat particles move around. so when the body fat particles shift, change or move there is a possibility of a secondary trip, or similar side affects of the drug. this is why some people experience life 'stuck in an acid trip' as the amount of acid consumed is enough to create constant and often 'secondary trips' even one tab of acid can cause this reaction, it is just more common with copious amounts of acid.

You are total idiots to be gambling with your brains. My son just came back from college and has schizoeffective symptoms from his experimentation with LSD and Mushrooms.He is constantly sufferin; we are trying to stailize him with anti-psychotic medicines. Seroquel and abilify did not work. It looks like rispideral
might be helping. He is in a 4-day a week dual diagnosos program and is facing the loss of what he once one.

I am scared to death. Any input?

When I was 14 I went to these guys house with my step sister and smoked weed, a couple of second after that I felt weird, like I wasn't in my body and then as I was on my way to sleep I saw my self in front of me and jumped up, and told by sister, me and my stepsister were staying with, as I talked to them the feeling went away. I got up the next day and went to school; I started thinking about that day and the feeling came back, I left school and had to tell my parents, I thought I was going to lose it. My stepfather told me what he went through when he was younger and how he dealt with it and told me that I just have to forget about it and it will go away. I am 24 now and the feeling has came back between this time period and went away once I get my mind off it, but now its back and the thing about this is that I don't even be thinking about that and the feeling comes, why is it still affecting me and am I going to lose it?