Experiences - LSD - 3 drops an anti-climax

[Conkermon]

SWIM had always imagined LSD would be the craziest drug he'd ever do (if he ever had the nerve or the means to do it). He'd heard many myths and I guess he actually beleived them.

Anyway he used his experience with shrooms to come to the conclusion that LSD must be like shrooms but more intense and longer lasting. He concedes this was perhaps ignorant and he should have read up on experiences first. What he actually found was that having 3 drops of acid on sugar cubes had very little effect.

It was a spontaneous decision to take acid as a freind's step-brother had gotten hold of some and brought it down. It was put in the freezer to prevent it deteriorating and the step-brother being more experienced took 5 cubes whilst SWIM and his friend took 3. The step-brother seemed very fucked but SWIM and his friend weren't really. He had mild hallucinations and perhaps saw more patterns than he did on shrooms with his eyes open but felt nothing in his body. It wasn't intense at all and he felt normal aside from the fact he was experiencing mild hallucinations. There was no sense of a journey or anything like that. He put some music on which always sounded amazing on shrooms but it sounded the same as always on acid. Eventually SWIM went home and in the car he did notice the sky looked quite epic (it was dark and cloudy but it seemed to be a rich inky blue with the silver of the moon amplified). When at home SWIM couldn't sleep so he watched TV for ages, experiencing mild visual distortions (he was watching the olympics and it was like the faces of commentators/athletes were blurred) but nothing remarkable.

SWIM is considering three possibilities as to why his experience was a disappointment.

1. The acid had deteriorated / he and his friend took too little. [Seems unlikely that the acid was bad as the step-brother was fucked up, 3 drops is supposed to be enough and the brother was much more experienced with it..]
2. It was too spontaneous + SWIM and his friend weren't in the right mental state for something like acid. [Again this seems unlikely]
3. SWIM's experiences with shrooms and mdma etc caused him to have unreasonable expectations - acid is a visually trippy drug and the ethos is different to MDMA/Shrooms where the emphasis is on how you feel rather than what you see (although with shrooms it's clearly a mixture). SWIM and his friend both complained they didn't "feel" anything while the step-brother perhaps wasn't trying to feel anything and was instead just enjoying acid for what it is.

Any ideas?