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(NSFW) What do drugs do to you mentally/physically in that period of time?

Asked by troubleinharlem (7999points) April 23rd, 2010

I was thinking about it the other day, when I was listening to some oldies music. I remembered my mom (a baby-boomer) saying that most of it was written while people were high on LSD, acid, marjuana, etc.

So… I was wondering. What does it do to you in that specific moment? What do you feel? What is it like? What happens to your mind?

I’d rather not actually try them to find out, so I’m asking here… and maybe to answer, if you want, you could make a new account and answer as a secret identity.

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CMaz's avatar

It frees your mind. Then burns it up.

troubleinharlem's avatar

@ChazMaz : Well… okay, but what do you mean by frees? Do you just zone out? Do you completely feel like you’re not even on this planet? What does it do, specifically, if you can remember?

jfos's avatar

There are different types of drugs that have different effects on your body/mind. Typically…

THC (Marijuana):
-Relaxation
-Slight potential paranoia
-Hunger
-Music sounds better, food tastes better
-Predisposed to laugh, funny things are even funnier
-Depending on the quantity and quality smoked, will last between a half hour to 2 hours

LSD (Acid):
-Visual bliss
-Eyes become weirdly acknowledging of lighting
-Patterns appear to move/blend with each other
-The mind is able to perceive complex ideas with ease
-You have to try it to really understand
-Depending on the quantity and quality ingested, will last between 5 to 8 hours

Psilocybin (Mushrooms)
-More mental input, less mental output
-Higher thinking, similar to Acid
-Visual enhancement
-Usually lack of hunger, due to digestion/food poisoning
-Depending on the quantity and quality ingested, will last between 5 to 8 hours

That being said, the influences can be different for each person. I don’t think any of these three are dangerous, per se, in a safe environment.

CMaz's avatar

Free like all the stress goes away. There is nothing you can’t do or think.

“Everything” becomes clearer. You understand everything and everyone is your friend.
“Life” is great!

Then you crash. That sucks. You forget all those great ideas and what about them were so amazing.

Life goes back to the same old same old.

DarkScribe's avatar

Never done any form of drugs – like many politicians claim, I did try pot but didn’t like it and didn’t continue. I prefer Whiskey, Vodka or some good wine. I have some long term close friends who have been smoking pot since the sixties – doesn’t seem to have affected them in any negative manner.

slick44's avatar

Make you feel great for awhile, then it just sucks again.

Berserker's avatar

LSD made me think up some weird shit, that I think were beyond the general effects of the drug itself. (IE, feeling awesome, seeing rainbows around light sources and laughing at everything.)
Some of the ideas I got, including making up an organ called the Sardius or thinking that Little Tim was haunting my town and all sortsa weird shit was indeed out of it and innovative, I suppose, but never did I feel any form of influence or motivation to go on from them, including the deeper ideas I had about things which can’t be translated into scenarios. I can see how some people would write songs and poems about their experiences, but despite my drug and booze littered teenage years, I was always able to keep a clear mind and draw a difference between the effects of whatever altered my mind and senses and what real life is. I said I was doing it for fun, and despite how retarded that was, it was true.

My dad used to tell me that was just because today’s acid and LSD is garbage compared to what he took in the sixties though haha.

I’ve also taken cocaine, which makes you feel like you can fist fight a locomotive, but other than getting your foo ass killed or hurt, it didn’t do much more than that. I never made it a habit, it costs so much, too. People ruin themselves this way.
Mushrooms are kinda like LSD, but slightly minor, and by that time I was depressed all the time so the trips were always horrible…but on the same side of the track, not horrible enough to kill myself, or write creepy poems based on my experiences.
I smoked plenty of weed too, which just amplifies everything by awesome plus ten million lol. (It does the same if you feel like shit, so watch out.) I gave that up when it just made me throw up everytime after a while, I still dunno why it does that.

It would take too long to elaborate on the experiences, so the point I’m trying to draw is that whatever the drugs did, I was able to like, view it as the altered state of mind it is, and not to take the experiences too seriously…within reason of course. You have to be careful while fucked on shit, and sometimes, especially with LSD it’s hard not to take what you experience seriously, as anyone who’s done it would prolly agree. Your perception changes, and besides making up internal organs and crap, I started ’‘understanding’’ how some things worked, what people were thinking by them just looking at me, and even contemplating the existence of a cardboard box…if you remember your reasoning upon the deeper things after the trip though, it’s all bs, at least, for me it was.
It might not be…
Which can be dangerous too, especially when this occurs to more realistic things; like tyring to lite a smoke, driving a car and so forth.

But basically, I saw it as dressing up my mind to go out lol; just for fun lol.

These days I drink like a pirate and for reasons other than just having fun, so I think I was pretty spot on about my approach to drugs.

That is, besides that I could have just not taken em, and hopefully they’re not subconsciously responsible for my boozehoundness lulz.

El_Cadejo's avatar

since when did hallucinogens cause a crash? Its lsd not fuckin coke.

The simplest explanation i have for LSD on the mind is this. Your mind, is a cluttered desk, just covered in papers and books and all the other random shit on it. Its a fucking mess. It makes work near impossible. Then you take LSD and its as if you just threw everything off the desk onto the floor. A clean slate. Suddenly everything is just so clear, pristine. Once complicated problems are simplistic in nature.

It tends to change the way you look at the world after taking hallucinogens too. I can say for myself at least, after my first LSD and mushroom experiences i started to see the fact that we really are all connected in this world and the fate of the masses depends on the few.
All life is valuable no matter how big or small. Everything is sacred. Everything has meaning.

To answer a question posed earlier as to feeling if your part of this world or not anymore. In all my drug experiences i was always able to tell i was under the influence of a drug and still felt part of this world. Except for under the influence of DMT and Salvia. Both made me forget taking a drug and forget the existence of earth as a whole.

jfos's avatar

@uberbatman Nice footnote. Salvia is outrageous.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@jfos indeed it is. I dont really enjoy it much. Too dark and the after effects are pretty shitty. Come out of it sweating your nuts off itchy as hell with no sense of balance or reality. DMT on the other hand is very much alike in its duration but much more intense and generally happy. And when it wears off it just feels like you are on 2 hits of LSD. Then that wears off and its nothing but a distant memory like a dream.

Silhouette's avatar

LSD turns the whole world into a psychedelic lava lamp and it’s a blast until you realize you’re not on the outside looking in, you’re on the inside looking out. Heeeeellllllllppppp! Let me out!!!

You can actually see grass grow when you’re trippin, or so I thought.

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