r/LSD

• Albert Hofmann (Inventor): Described LSD as a tool for experiencing the "miracles of creation," while also recalling the intense, sometimes frightening, perceptual shifts of his initial experience.
• Steve Jobs : Labeled it one of the most important experiences of his life, stating it highlighted a deeper, unconventional reality and helped define his personal values.
• Bill Gates: The Microsoft founder admitted to using LSD in his "errant youth". He described one specific trip on a friend’s birthday as "cosmic," noting it made him realize his brain could process and delete memories like a computer.
• Ken Kesey  &  Timothy Leary : Both viewed LSD as a profound tool for dismantling societal constructs, shifting consciousness, and exploring the mind, with Leary emphasizing the need for preparation.
• George Harrison: Recalled an "overwhelming feeling of well-being" and seeing God in "every blade of grass".
• Alan Watts and Stanislav Grof both utilized metaphors comparing psychedelics to scientific instruments, such as "microscopes" or "telephones" for understanding the mind.
• Bill Hicks described the experience as realizing that "we are all one consciousness experiencing itself".
• Ram Dass: Described the experience as a shift in focus from "becoming somebody" to "becoming nobody".
• Jimi Hendrix: He famously described the experience as a tool for expanded perspective, saying, "I just used it for certain things, as a step towards seeing it both ways, if you like". He also noted that for him, "music is a safe kind of high".
• The Doors (Jim Morrison): While known for his "Lizard King" persona, his bandmates noted he used drugs to "expand our minds, not to escape". Guitarist Robby Krieger described the first acid trip as reaching a "state of enlightenment" or "knowing" that can't be replicated.
• Tame Impala (Kevin Parker): He credits LSD with providing "beneficial" shifts in his creative mindset. He famously described one specific acid experience as feeling like "God's hit record," a sensation that stuck with him for years and helped shape the expansive, psychedelic sound of his music.
• A$AP Rocky: He views the drug as a vital coping mechanism and a source of visual inspiration, stating, "It helps me cope with life. I've been doing this stuff since I got into the industry". He also notes its role in his artistic output, adding that his "art" and "visuals" are intentionally "very trippy" to reflect these experiences.
• Chance the Rapper: Before shifting toward "dad rap," he used LSD for intense self-exploration, though he eventually cautioned against its excess. He described his Acid Rap era as a period of seeking "epiphanies" and using the drug to "kick off my shoes" and find a deeper sense of self in the rain.
• Lil Yachty: He treats psychedelics as a tool for manifestation. He has claimed to have used acid over 100 times, famously using one specific trip to "talk to the abyss" and manifest his later collaborations with major artists like Drake.
• Diplo: One of the few mainstream DJs to speak about it openly while active. In a notable live CNN interview during New Year's Eve 2025, he admitted to microdosing on his way to the show, calling it a "light trip" to manage the intensity of performing.
• Matt Stone and Trey Parker: The duo famously dropped acid before walking the 2000 Oscars red carpet in drag to cope with the absurdity of the event. Trey Parker explained that the drug was a buffer against the high-pressure environment, stating, "It takes a lot of the edge off... it makes it a lot more manageable." He later reflected, "I remember thinking, ‘This will make it make more sense.’ And it kind of did."

LSD’s 70-year journey moved from a 1950s psychiatric miracle to a 1960s counterculture weapon that the Nixon administration criminalized to dismantle anti-war dissent. This political crackdown caused a decades-long scientific standstill, but we are now entering a "Psychedelic Renaissance" where LSD is being rebranded as a breakthrough tool for mental health. Today, clinical trials at institutions like Johns Hopkins are proving its efficacy in treating depression and anxiety, finally shifting the narrative from a dangerous street drug back to a regulated therapeutic medicine.

I’m in my 20s now. I did shrooms back in 2018 which was a huge eye opener for me. I managed for the first time in my life to let go of my conservative Christian childhood and start being/finding myself.

Across the last 2 years I’ve done 7 acid trips. But to be honest the first 4 times I was left most anxious/confused than before (or at least the benefits didn’t feel sufficient). But the last two trips I feel like I’ve had a breakthrough. It’s been two days since my last trip which also was my largest dose (2x ”200ug” tabs). I’m left calmer and more confident than I’ve been in years.

Weird thing is my most challenging trips were on half a tab and one tab. idk what a bad trip is honestly, but I went through a bunch of tough feelings, childhood feelings came flooding back. The most bisarr experience was the first trip (1 tab), I was a baby being carried around, learning how to connect with caregivers and how every new feeling I felt was the strongest feeling I’ve ever felt… the first two trips were about 10 times more challenging or painful than the last one (“400ug”). In a way I feel like I fully let go which made the experience so enjoyable

I’ve always had social issues due to my childhood and major problems regulating and accepting my own feelings. Now i feel like I can comfortably sit with my feelings without trying to flee from them.

How many times do people need to trip before having such a breakthrough? Is there any point doing more trips in the future if this change stays?

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Intro:

Im grown now, but I started experimenting with it at 15.

No matter how shitty life was, it made me feel as though reality had melted away completely. At first I would repeat to myself “I really feel like a child once again”. This was a feeling I didn’t get to have much of my actual childhood. I was absolutely amazed by how uplifting it was. I was in an emotional state I couldn’t feel while sober.

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How it changed me:

I was overweight, looking in the mirror off of 5 tabs. My rolls of fat getting wider and wider until they deflated, making me look melted. I got so obsessed with losing weight that I did cardio to the point where it was genuinely bad for me. Some days I would wake up so depleted that I would be unable to move my legs for the first several hours while awake. I would set a timer on my phone for 3 hours, jump rope, ride my bike, hard sprint, if I so much as stopped moving for a second I would pause the timer to maximize those 3 hours. I was hypnotized.

I became more thoughtful, less cold, unfortunately I felt as though my personality had changed entirely. A better person sure, not the evil piece of garbage as before, but not the real me.

I had a trip where once again, I was staring at a mirror with no shirt. A giant pentagram started rising out of my chest, made out of my own flesh, almost dripping like my skin was made out of thick crude oil. I became obsessed. I chased this high over and over. It eventually warped my sense of reality completely until I quit taking acid.

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Where I am now:

I have not done LSD since I was 17. Now in my 20s. In good shape with a healthier mindset. Reasonable. No longer a violent criminal.

I find I am a much better person, coming from a terrible childhood where every adult tried to convince me I was garbage destined for prison or an early grave. Constantly put down, beat, or sexually abused. Now that all that is behind me I feel like I am finally able to live with it. The trips felt therapeutic in ways I never got from the many therapists I’ve been to in my youth.

I am actually able to make connections with people, friends, amazing women, even animals. I was not able to do this before LSD. I was absolutely psychotic BEFORE LSD. I am able to calm myself down, think rationally, and even empathize with those who are aggressive towards me or deeply dislike me.

Im glad I took it. I am getting married soon to a wonderful woman and I sometimes wonder how things would have been if I never got ahold of this interesting molecule.

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Sorry for the TMI, I felt like this was important context. Someone in a bad spot in life SHOULD NOT take psychs. Im very lucky I didn’t fry my mind completely. That was my experience and what I feel I lost/gained.

What was your experience with LSD? Were you just having fun? Did you gain anything from the experience?

i dont know what but i just want to be sober right now and it wont go away and i cant not see letters on my wall and i kind of right now just want to go to sleep at 11:08 in the morning and i cant I just want to know ill be okay i genuinely dont know anything im just scared

i smoke a shit ton and doom scroll mostly but wanted to ask what others do like activities or reason they do it ig

As the title says, i recently took acid with some friends and realised i live on attention seeking. What’s really bothering me is that before doing any action type of action or saying any word, i would analyse how the people arround me would me see it, whether they will think im cool or not, whether they’d think i’m beautiful or not, smart or not, deep person or surface level person. But the biggest problem that i find very sad and i hate it is that i am a jealous person. I’m jealous of my friends not all of them but those of them who are more beautiful more cool more knowledgeable and i find myself always comparing and if someone would do somethingi would also wanna do it. I know this sounds pretty much like how the mind of a child looks and normally i never act on my jealousy or anything but under the influence i would try to copy (?) them!

I also came to realise that outside of being jealous or wanting attention, even for action that are completely normal and come from deep within me without any other hidden motives, i find myself afraid of other people’s thoughts on me when i do them, like whether they will know i am an attention seeker or want them to look at me although as i said these actions wouldn’t be for the attention of others.

Sometimes when a friend of mine gets a compliment i am genuinely happy for them but i find myself putting an effort for my facial expressions to no show i’m jealous of that compliment.

I think it’s really bothering me because i have friends tha i really love but some of them i’m kind of always irritated with them because they are effortlessly cooler or look better physically.

I know this is probably coming from how I was always being compared throughout my childhood that i would sometimes lie about things to feel people’s positive feedback or worse their compassion for me.

I’m very troubled ever since i took it days ago and i feel like i don’t like myself i don’t love myself i hate how i am and how shallow i am on the inside. I don’t know if therapy would help me become a better person and not care about this or not. Pls help.

TL;DR : i took acids and realised i’m a very jealous person and would copy actions of others that look cool to seek attention.

dinosaur woulda done that mane

in terms of like the trip? I love acid does that mean id be able to handle the other two?

I've found more and more illegal drug alternatives out there (5mapb, 4homet, etc.) are there any legal alternatives for lsd that give similar effects?

hello folks, I am currently on the comeup of like 250ug trip. Ive done acid quite alot of times so i'm just wondering if theres anything sorta niche or less obvious that can be very cool to do while tripping because Ive tried all the usual stuff people recommend.

Very very sacred indeed.