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I recently did LSD. It wasn't my first encounter with psychedelics but none have done what LSD did. I have a good bit of trauma that I'd attempted to work through throughout my life. The thing is, many of those things are settled. I cannot change them, I've course corrected my life away from my actions being influenced by these things, and on the exterior I think most people would find me well adapted. I was pretty miserable on the inside though; those traumas hue the depths of your soul in ways that intentional and advertent action cannot rectify, only mask.

LSD gave me the power to set those things to sea and give them the burial they needed. Not all of them are gone, but I'm in a much better place because of it.

There is nothing different that I need, just make it so I don't have to order it on the dark web.

Edit: Happy to answer questions about my experiences. Can also be reached on Libera if public questions are not what you want.




I think most of us are desperate to see ourselves from a different perspective (whether we realize it or not), but that's really hard to do when success in our day-to-day lives depends on us having a stable vision of ourselves and our place in the world. I think a lot of experiences, including a lot of drugs, can help either provide a temporary new perspective, or even shift our everyday view of ourselves and our lives more permanently. LSD seems to be one of the most effective.


mdma is generally even more powerful for healing trauma.

Or rather MDMA can accelerate healing by released "stored unprocessed memories"

LSD can help you by showing you a possibility of whats possible by dissolving the prision of identity and seeing the world from a non-local perspective.


I think they're very different and both unique.

MDMA with the right group of people a few times completely changed me for the better. Lot of anger and resentment out the window.

I've had positive experiences with LSD, psilocybin, DMT, and a dozen other things with alphabet -soup names but I also have PTSD and HPPD from them.

On MDMA the worst experience you can have is feeling sad, which is nigh impossible.

I'm still pro-psychedelics but it's important to recognize how powerful they are, and that a bent reality isn't always a pleasant place.


I’ll second this. LSD provides a huge paradigm shift in a way mdma absolutely doesn’t, but if you already know your trauma causes irrational emotions or ones you’d prefer to go away mdma is where to look.

Personally LSD was an eye opening experience, but mdma is the only trip I’ve taken that I can say lead to changes in my perception that I still have to this day.


My experience was a little different. I knew my traumas, I had really already reckoned with them - I just needed to let them go, but that hinged on some things that I was having trouble accepting at a deeper level. LSD let me do that. My MDMA experience was fun, but I think that's what MDMA did for me - it taught me what it was like to have fun again, maybe even to feel truly happy and content with the world again.

These things are less rigid as people put in text, I think. At a certain level of LSD it's very like MDMA, but past that level it's very different.

Between LSD and mushrooms, I'll quote one of my friends, "LSD puts you in the drivers seat; mushrooms make you a passenger."


How big of a dose?


It was about a single tab. Not enough to have any color blending or anything like that.




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