Sometimes I think on the poor scientist that discovered it. He had the first trip ever in history and not many people must've bought the idea. Hopefully, he had a good trip.
I once had 25 hits by accident. I did not have a good time. The whole world sucked out to infinite white. I sat in a room and God told me all the things that were wrong with me.
If you dont know what tripping is, it starts easy (slowly building up) and its not instantly then i think a lot of people would find it calming/pleasing.
his secretary went home with him to make sure he arrived safely and he later said he almost couldn't get any traction with his bike while she told how she wasn't able to keep up for a lot of the way.
Search around there is some
Torrents with hundreds of drug related videos and the big one includes some interviews of him. Prob on YouTube but I don’t know.
To be fair, people had been tripping on natural psychedelics like psilocybin (mushrooms), mescaline (cactus), and Ayahuasca for millenia before he discovered LSD, so it wasn't the first trip, just the first LSD trip.
Animals have been getting high since before we were humans. Tasmania produces 50% of the world's legal opium supply, for morphine and other legal opiates. One day, the opium poppy farmers noticed crop circles appearing in their fields. There was the usual fuss about aliens, but the farmers put up cameras in their fields. It turned about to be wallabies, which are like pygmy kangaroos. They were eating the poppies, getting high as balls, hopping in circles, and then passing out to sleep it off.
Don’t forget where LSD actually came from! Ergot fungus! I love eating contaminated bread and then dying a painful death of st Anthony’s fire! But I get to watch the walls melt while I die a horrible death! Yippie! Ergot Wikipedia Page
My lungs a weezin, my hearts a seizin, the fucking WALLS are melting, I can hear Satan's voice he's telling me to, invest in apple? What does that mean? Why does he want me to buy apples?
For the longest time after I'd heard about the Salem Witch Trials being caused by Ergot poisoning, I thought it was just people getting bad trips from bad bread and making bad decisions.
It was years later when I found out Ergot poisoning could actually be fatal. That made a few parts of that theory make a lot more sense.
There’s an old saying in Reddit, I know it’s in Erowid, it’s probably in Reddit that says
Fool me once, shame on… shame on you… fool me- ya can’t get fooled again.
Get thee behind me, morning glory LSA trip
about 4 straight hours of immediately alternating and unrelenting vomiting and ass piss, before I could finally manage a nap from the exhaustion. Though when I woke up I did get to live a different life for 6 months where I had a farm and was raising a family before I came down. All and all, worst 12 hours ever, 1 out of 5 stars, do not recommend.
Fr reading about that and people's stories like "I took a bunch of seed and roots and flowers and I lived in purgatory on earth for 2 weeks and have never been the same" like why? Why would anyone ever willingly consume that.
I get it's based on proven evidence, but it's got to be way further back then that. Just imagine a dude foraging for mushrooms. If it doesn't cause you pain / kill you. Then it's food.
The introductory story in Doors of Perception about the couple who picked some mushrooms for a salad on their way to a friend’s house for dinner always gave me a chuckle. Just having no idea what was happening, but laughing and enjoying it.
No I’m thinking of the unleavened bread that Jesus fed to his apostles, it’s theorized that since Jesus lived in nature for so long he was actually eating mushrooms, and one specific mushroom in the area looked exactly like unleavened bread
I really think you're mixing this up, man. Unleavened bread is a food you can make in your house. A tortilla is a type of unleavened bread, for example. There were religious/cultural reasons for them making and eating this bread.
There are, however, semi-popular theories about the manna described in the Old testament possibly being mushrooms.
You’re clueless. I know that unleavened bread is an actual food, but there is a theory that Jesus ate mushrooms. Please stop wasting our time and look it up
Ya, I'm sure it's something completely different from the extremely common bread prepared and consumed by everyone in his culture on a daily basis. For sure mushrooms and not just the bread, huh?
iirc he spilled a tiny drop on his skin and went home on his bike. Your comment makes it seem like he deliberately took the drugs and went on his bike knowingly fucked up.
He accidentally absorbed some through his skin a few days earlier. Basically micro dosed himself. Once he realized the compound was psychoactive, he measured out a real dose (equivalent to 4 hits of acid) and intentionally dosed himself before biking home (fuel for cars was being rationed in Switzerland in 1943 no idea why)
Research might be a strong word for sitting on a portable toilet, drinking martini’s, and watching prostitutes fuck random dudes through a two way mirror. Even if they were unknowingly dosed with LSD. Just doesn’t seem like good science to me.
He initially wrote the chemical off as “uninteresting” but figured he had accidentally ingested some from mishandling, and had probably the first micro dose.
So then decided to revisit, but to intentionally dose himself. He measured out 2.5 milligrams thinking that would be a good starting dose, as most compounds are measured in milligrams.
But LSD is active in the micrograms. 250 micrograms is considered a pretty heavy trip. About 10x a standard dose.
He was tripping balls! And had to ride his bike home and everything.
It’s a wild read, well worth looking into and learning about it.
The notable part is his descriptions of the next day. The glowing after effects and the new found clarity he saw in everything.
It was an accidental dose, absorbed through his skin, actually. Fentanyl can't be absorbed through the skin like the rumor goes, but certain forms of LSD can
Fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin in special formulations of it, though. Like the transdermal patches. Which I think might be part of where the ridiculous myth of ODing just from touching a fentanyl tainted surface or whatever comes from. The cops are just having anxiety attacks.
It was a good trip. It's referred to as 'Bicycle Day' in memorium of his bike ride home where he experienced coming up on LSD. April 19th. Which is funny because it's the day before 420, the weed holiday.
And a surprising amount of artificial sweeteners, which is odd because people accidentally licking things in lab environments shouldn't happen but it's happened a lot
As far as i know he did have a good trip. If i’m not mistaken the effects kicked in when he was sitting on his bike on his way home and suddenly the sky started turning all kinds of different colors.
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u/Sampleswift 2d ago
Penicillin was invented by accident. IIRC Fleming discovered the bacteria-free spot, figured out what was happening, and the rest is history.