Ultrafunkula wrote:
Try taking two the next time. It should work better.
Br, Doktor Traktor
increasing the dose won't 'scale' the trip normally if he has a tolerance because of his medication. he'd just have to take so much acid that it would be a waste. basically what's happening is his medication is either blocking/changing the receptivity of the transmitters involved in the brain, or they're causing his body to metabolize the lysergic acid far quicker than a person's system normally would (i.e. so the substance doesn't stay in the brain for as long, psychoactive). basically if you're on long-term anti-depressant medication macb, your brain has been jacked up like a bodybuilder on a 6-month cycle of protein shakes and anabolics. you can't just leave off it for a week and hope your brain will return to some organic tabula rasa. the whole point of that sort of 'medication' is to top up your fuel tank until it is over-brimming... and then some. this is because the (putative) physiological medicine behind it all is that depression or anxiety disorders are caused by a 'deficiency' or 'lack of receptivity' of certain neurotransmitters (nominally dopamine and seratonin). basically it's like putting a straitjacket on your brain's fun/reward pathways, so that no kinky shit goes on whilst it is trying to refind a 'balance' and 'normality'. tl;dr: you're gonna have to cut the meds for a much longer period as a pre-load (you should look into the chemical half-lives of the specific substances you have been prescribed)
shahter, it's nice that you think ordinary consciousness is best. i don't think anyone is going to disagree with you - anyone that isn't unhinged or a little insane, anyway. but doing drugs isn't this binary-dichotomy type thing, where it's a case of "life/reality sucks, drugs are best kekeke". some people like the different perspectives or angles or planes or experience or emotions or thought-processes or
whatever that drugs temporarily open up. they can be beneficial and add a lot of experience/wisdom about so-called 'normal' or 'real' life. my views on 'life', in the everyday-concrete sense of just 'living' and 'experience', and not the hippyish metaphysical-ontological pseudo-religious bullshit ("omg what even is reality duuude") has been enriched tenfold by experimenting with drugs. even if you discount the myriad extreme emotions and insights you have whilst on drugs, i now have a basic root-level sensitivity to chemicals and the consequences of what i put in my body. i know that eating too much sugar over a prolonged period will cause a radically bigger change in my mood/lived experience/'reality' than i ever realized before. drugs have taught me that 'what goes in has an effect', no matter how innocuous what i'm putting in may seem. i now eat healthier, drink healthier, sleep more, work-out etc. everything. i basically now lead a healthier lifestyle than most...
because of drugs, in a
positive way. they've taught me a lot. and i'm pretty sure i'm one of the few people here who, for a period, with a specific few substances, definitely strayed into 'abuse' territory, to 'escape' things. but that doesn't even explain 20% of the experiences or times i have had with drugs overall in my life. the bad and the good - it was all worth it, tbh. people who never try anything and never leave their comfort zone - squares like jay who talk about it being some sort of "pathology" or "weakness" - are pathetic creatures, imo. too shit-scared to ever leave the familiar confines of their life. that average every-man could learn a lot from a few tokes on a joint, or an acid trip or two. and i don't mean that in the supmind "if everyone took acid there would never be another war" type hippy rhetoric. but i just mean it, again, in the concrete: it shifts your sensibility a little, to be more open-minded, more self-aware, and more empathic.
