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- From: zfried@aol.com (ZFried)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs.culture
- Subject: Trip Survey Results!
- Date: 6 Mar 1995 09:58:48 -0500
- Message-ID: <3jf7v8$3rf@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
-
- Thank you everyone who contributed their thoughts and feelings into this
- survey.
- - Zach Fried
-
- 1. Have you ever strongly regretted a specific trip?
-
- 6 yes, 4 no
-
- 2. Have you had any regrets about having tripped a lot?
-
- 8 no's, 1 "don't think so," 1 yes
-
- 3. Do you regret having tripped at all?
-
- 8 no's, 1 "don't think so," 1 yes
- ------------------------------------------------
- The following are quotes from various responses to my survey:
-
- "Sometimes after I'd just begin tripping I'd get a 'paranoid' feeling
- about
- having had too much of a dose and begin regretting ever having taken it.
- This passes after 1/2 hour or so and once I 'catch up' to my mind, I feel
- better and just kinda settle in to the experience..."
-
- "After the drug wore off, I never regretted having taken it and look
- forward
- to the next time (although not often). All I can say is I'm careful with
- it."
-
- >1. Have you ever strongly regretted a specific trip?
- Perhaps one. There almost was most certainly something else other than
- pure
- LSD there, and the results were quite unexpected. But retrospectively, it
-
- was one of the most amazing trips I've had.
-
- >2. Have you had any regrets about having tripped a lot?
- No, although I don't like doing things illegal....stupid government.
-
- >1. Have you ever strongly regretted a specific trip?
- I dunno. None stand out in my mind specifically. I've
- tripped a few times and regretted it - not because of the drug - but
- because of the environment I was in...I guess my answer to 1. is "no".
-
- "I don't believe I've tripped enough to seriously damage
- myself. I'm talking about probbably a dozen mushroom trips and a 6-7
- acid trips over a two year period. Not a LOT, but enough in my mind to
- get a good understanding of what the drug(s) do to ME."
-
- "I'm very happy that I've tripped."
-
-
- 1. Have I ever regretted a specific trip?
- Yes, due to my own stupidity. I got VERY drunk, then took a hit
- someone offered me, then felt like I was trying to pass out but the
- LSD wouldn't let me. Spent most of the night wishing I would just
- die and get it over with.
-
- 2. Regrets about tripping a lot?
- Nope.
-
- 3. Regret tripping at all?
- Definity not.
-
- "My friend Bill has had a lot of trips, and his share of bad ones. He
- doesn't regret any of them, since they were all learning experiences.
- I've had some that were less than wondrous, and don't regret them either.
- I only wish I had done more when I was younger and it was easier to find
- the right time and circumstance."
-
- "Hey man, I must say that the floors and walls always still breathe for me
- when I stare at them for a while...things get wavy all of the time. It's
- not something that happens occasionally or often, but all of the time.
- And
- unless I'm tripping at the moment, that's all that happens, the waviness I
- mean. If I stare at the surface for about 10 seconds, it will begin to
- look
- like it is underwater...I have tripped a lot, and trust me...it
- gets worse every time...I think that a lot of dosers out there may have
- gotten bad hits and don't even know. Although I don't regret tripping
- because i feel it somehow expanded my mind and changed the way I view
- things, I could live without the floors and walls
- shifting/swirling/breathing
- the way they sometimes do. I plan to keep on tripping when I can, but
- when
- I get older I think I will limit it to once a year. Anyways, you also
- wanted
- to know if the waviness gets lesser with time and it tiled floors and the
- like are worse. Well, so far nothing has decreased in means of waviness."
-
- "Acid has significantly improved the way i perceive life. i find
- it to be an intensly personal drug, and a very spritual one. i have on a
- number of occasions visited locations that have been of personal or
- historical significance to me while on lsd. the significance of these
- geographical locations to me has been altered by the drug. often i gained
- insight into why the places were important in my own mind, and in the
- collective mind of the city i live in."
-
- "acid has helped me to realise the significance
- of history - personally, politically and spritually."
-
- "i have never regretted taking it, and i have no plans to stop taking it."
-
- "Each trip is what you make it. Don't let drugs bring you down, man. They
-
- are there to escape into another sort of reality - make your alternate
- dimension an enjoyable one."
-
- "Only once when we (inadvertantly) smoked a joint heavily laced with PCP
- just after dropping...double-plus nasty on acid."
-
- > 2. Have you had any regrets about having tripped a lot?
-
- No. Not an iota. No long-term ill effects at all. None. What was the
- question again? ;^) But seriously, no.
-
- > 3. Do you regret having tripped at all?
-
- "[Taking acid] should be part of the school curriculum, just before
- graduation, IMHO."
-
- "I only used psychedelics for about 1 year of my life. After I started
- using
- them (by the way, I used psychedelic mushrooms, not acid, but basically
- they are
- the same) I thought they were the absolute greatest thing on earth. I
- began to
- encourage everyone to use them. I thought I learned something each time I
- used
- them, and I thought that everyone in the world should use them at least
- once in
- their lifetime. Unfortunately what I didn't realize until later is that
- the
- drug was taking over my mind. My goal in life was to grow psychedelic
- mushrooms
- and distribute them to all the world. I even wrote that down in a will of
- sorts. During the day I could not stop thinking... not only about
- psychedelics,
- but my mind was just constantly working overtime. I couldn't stop talking
- to
- myself in my mind. Often I had trouble falling asleep because I simply
- could
- not stop thinking about things. I would also constantly think about when
- I was
- going to trip next - even though I rarely ever tripped more than once a
- week.
- My point is, I didn't suffer from any flashbacks or anything like that -
- the
- drug just completely took control of my life. It lasted for months and
- months
- after I stoped also....Of course I realize that there ARE indeed people
- who can
- trip reponsibly and not have problems with it. I was just the type of
- person
- who thought it was stupid to trip at parties. It meant much more to me...
- I think there are other people out there who have had experiences like
- mine,
- but most will either not admit it or do not consider it "bad."
-
- "Acid intensifies any emotion that you are feeling at the time, and I have
- had
- scary trips, but, I can't imagine how anyone could have a "bad trip"
- unless
- they really overdose."
-
- > 2. Have you had any regrets about having tripped a lot?
-
- "Yes, I once tripped for four days straight without ever comming down,
- that was a little too intense. The real reason that I had regrets
- though, is because I lost four days, time passes much more quickly on
- higher levels of reality."
-
- > 3. Do you regret having tripped at all?
-
- "No, I could never regret tripping. Tripping is somthing that stays with
- you and becomes a part of your reality. I've gotten to the point where I
- can trip without being on anything. You don't remember everything
- that you think about while you're tripping but what you do remember
- becomes valuable information which could not be gained any other way."
-
- "I don't at all regret the usage of LSD or mushrooms but have decided that
-
- LSD is no longer something I can learn from or use in a semi-heathy way
- of mind expansion."
-
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