Can everyone who has used LSD attest to it being an important event?

[Dalfir]

SWID is interested if every person who has used LSD - whether once, or a thousand times - in a relatively decent dose considers the experience to be one of the most significant in their lives, whether a positive or negative experience.

Is it possible for someone to have a proper psychedelic experience, and not feel at all impacted by it?

[tayo]

Originally Posted by Dalfir

Is it possible for someone to have a proper psychedelic experience, and not feel at all impacted by it?

Probably not. If something is learnt, memories of that experience intertwines and influences every aspect of perspective and cognition, which guide our living, so to find no significance would almost be impossible.

[enquirewithin]

Psychedelic experiences are more significant if there are less of them!

[fnord]

Originally Posted by Dalfir

Is it possible for someone to have a proper psychedelic experience, and not feel at all impacted by it?

yes these are the kids you see at partys that eat a few mushrooms and slam down the beers not even stoping to think about there trip/life/anything ,they piss me off. for a while my great grandmother stoped seling drugs to these morons but then relized that these were basicly the only people in her town...

[hippieduster]

Swim thinks that without his experence, he would still be trapped. Some of the things he seen, and did (his stupid ass, naked trying to crawl in the front seat of a cop car for a point of veiw on how out of it he was) changed his life forever. He notices some things will never be the same; So he has never left the drug culture and probably never will. To further the question, Swim was wondering if anyone has an after effect swim calls glitches? To describe GLITCH = catching certain words or phrases that stands out in a persons sentance. That's the best explaintion he can give since your not inside his head.

[RJeez]

SWIM doesn't know how much he had with his best trip, but yes,definately life changing.

[Akasha]

Originally Posted by Dalfir

SWID is interested if every person who has used LSD - whether once, or a thousand times - in a relatively decent dose considers the experience to be one of the most significant in their lives, whether a positive or negative experience.

Is it possible for someone to have a proper psychedelic experience, and not feel at all impacted by it?

Swim was bestowed revelations and insight galore, one enlightenment after another in the course of his LSD 'career' – and not only LSD. Swim claims to have learned through LSD the most important things needed for life and living, for amicably getting on with his fellow human beings, which to covey parental home, school, church, government and society at large have failed miserably.

Once, Swim glimpsed a realm, which he sensed to be the collective human unconscious, a place where the world's suffering and joy were all felt at an instant, where everything suddenly fell into place, where he came to understand that everything is interconnected, that the One can never exist without the All - the All is never compete without the One.

Swim also understood from these experiences that it is, what he termed, the Great Unknown that man fears the most – namely, Love an Death. Today, Swim knows, thanks to reformative substances, that Love and Death are one and the same and, if accepted as a God-given, there is neither need nor reason to ever fear either of them. This fear - and Swim doesn't mean fear in the sense of respect, but rather in the sense of being shit scared - seems to be the world's the greatest ill with its horrendous consequences to the detriment of most everyone.

Needless to say, Swim will never revert to being what some proudly, indoctrinatedly stupid call 'drug-free'. Never. It would be Swim who were stupid to cheat himself out God's greatest gift given to humanity to recognize Him.

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Originally Posted by Dalfir

SWID is interested if every person who has used LSD - whether once, or a thousand times - in a relatively decent dose considers the experience to be one of the most significant in their lives, whether a positive or negative experience.

Is it possible for someone to have a proper psychedelic experience, and not feel at all impacted by it?

Obviously, one is going to feel impacted by taking a profoundly mind-altering chemical. If I had to hazard a guess, though, I'd reckon that those whose experiences number on the higher end of the spectrum tend not to appreciate (sic) it in quite the same manner described in this thread.

My houseplants think there may be a couple of reasons for this. To start with, it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that any experience repeated for the thousandth time can be ranked up there among the "most significant". My houseplants are pretty bad at math and long ago lost track of how many times they had taken LSD before essentially tiring of it- they reckon it was almost certainly less than a thousand times but definitely many hundreds. And, as they report, it does become mundane when it is more or less a part of everyday life.

For another thing, as the decades have passed (my houseplants are a very sturdy breed), they have encountered so many more experiences in life- people, and places- so far removed from anything even remotely related to the ones that derived from the LSD years that it would be almost an insult to the human experience to insinuate that a single substance could overshadow them. Taking up cigarettes ,falling in love, starting a career, the death of a loved one, birth of a child, sunrise on Mt. Elbrus, terminal illness, discovering a new academic theory et al are much more significant and life-altering experiences than taking LSD.

[Nagognog2]

I'm sure it has some impact on most everyone. But then we hit the intelligence wall. If your Einstein, LSD et al MIGHT make you more of an Einstein. If your Joe or Jane Normal, it might make you more aware of your world - which can be considered a profound impact. And if your a total goofball and take LSD, you might get stuck in the pin re-setter at the end of the bowling alley while chasing the glowing dwarf you think just took your wallet.