Answers to the Universe - The Effect of N02 & LSD

[Dalfir]

SWIM is +8h 250ug of LSD. He's at home now after an excellent night at a Psytrance party where he consumed about 10 balloons of N02 (Each balloon holding about enough for 2 serious hits). He believes he was at a +3 experience on the Shulgin scale during the peak effects of the LSD, and touched on a +4 during the peak of the N02.

Here is an attempt to explain the effect of N02 and LSD at a high dosage. Please express whether you've thought the same of this phenomena. It's taken SWIM a lot of time to write, and many trips to N02 land to remember what needs to be written.

The "truth".

The white light, the peak, the high frequency squeal that rushes past, pulling a smile across your face with the visuals of huge, toothy smiles duplicating themselves around your vision. That feeling that the beat of the music is speeding up to a crescendo, while in fact it’s an auditory hallucination.

Sound rushes to an insanely high frequency at super speed and it feels as if time has slowed down to a nano-second. It sounds as if the blaring music in the background’s beat is speeding up to an enormous climax, while in actual fact it’s at the same tempo as before you hit the laughing gas.

You try beat-matching with the DJ…Trying to time yourself so perfectly to the climaxing break that you can pump a fist in the air not even a fraction of a nanosecond away from the beat exploding into a huge crescendo (Your peak breaks as the DJ drops the beat.)

It’s as if you’re moving in real-time, but the world around you is going super-super-slow. You can look around,hear and see what each person is involved in: one group is doing this, these two are talking about that, this group is mingling with that group, these people are trying to do the same thing as you. Matching your flamboyant movement with the break of the beat’s climaxing crescendo. You want to walk up to them and ask them if they’re successful in their efforts, and then you realise these things aren’t actually going around you, it’s just that second of the NO2 peak being stretched into minutes.

The sound hallucinations start rushing back, like an elastic band that’s been stretched and then let loose…It feels like time itself is suddenly speeding up to its normal point and everything slowly moves from freeze-frame, back into real-time and it seems as if single second has been frozen for what seems like eternities.

You feel as if you just did something spectacular, absolutely awe-inspiring in front of everyone but at the expense of snapping your mind into permanent psychosis. You hear the faint “Do it again! Do it again!” and wonder what exactly it was that you did.

During the direct aftermath you could be terrified into thinking that a lot has gone on (or is even still taking place) around you, hours even years of events are going on around you and you can’t escape that frozen second. This sensation will eventually fade away and you’ll become fully sane. But not before thinking how simple (or incredibly insane) that combination of effects is and how you’ve worked it all out…

The key to pleasure.

There is a feeling of cleansing, intellectual release. A feeling of euphoria travelling along your brain’s reward pathway

It is the reward of solution that brings us such pleasure, and while thinking this, you let out a little laugh at how simple it all is.




But here is the real, universal truth. Here it is guys, you’re seeing it first here! The meaning to the universe is:

It’s different for everyone.

It would take years to try relate the epiphanies you’ve experienced in a split second and why bother? That feeling that every single event of your life had just lead up to that exact moment. That snapping, shocking feeling of realisation that everything you've ever experienced as a human being has just led to that exact moment. That overwhelming sense of de- ja-vu (that extreme feeling of close familiarity with everyone around you that brings thoughts of euphoric friendship included) that feels like it will drive you insane. All of these emotions, hitting you like a truck in under a second.

Know what I'm talking about?

Probably not.

Because these epiphanies only hold relevance to you, they only mean something to you, someone else will be bored by your rambling. It’s another, insanely complex part of YOU, you’ve just discovered.

The answer to everything is simply: Know thyself.
Discover yourself and you’ll discover the universe.

If anyone should ask you to try describe a +3 psychedelic experience, you can tell them so much more by simply saying: “It’s different for everyone”

SWIM is quite interested in whether or not ANY of these concepts or expressions/descriptions have been felt by other psychonauts on the same drugs.

Reputation Comments on this post:

thanks for sharing

[Heretic.Ape.]

Labmonkey has said similar things regarding his thoughts during certain peak experiences, very nice description.

[Bajeda]

You can also watch Monty Python's - The Meaning of Life

[Heretic.Ape.]

^^^ lol, classic! "Where's the fish? Oh fishy fishy fish." Maybe I'll pop that in tonight.