Psychedelic streakers; nudity and psychedelics

[Alfa]

With the use of extremely high doses of hallucinogens and the use of super potent psychedelics, there is one event that keeps on happening. Although fairly scarce, people tripping hard may take of their clothes. Please post stories about this and explanations for this behaviour.

If you find threads on this topic, then please post them here.

[Alfa]

About bromo-dragonfly:

Originally Posted by El Calico Loco

The gentleman who sold Swim his batch said he'd seen 1mg of it leave people running naked through traffic. He advised caution. Swim had trouble getting anything out of it, finally going up to 1500mcg. He got somewhat of a trip at that level, but nothing like what he was expecting from other reports - and the body load was a bit unpleasant. He doesn't plan to experiment much more (he doesn't often have 36 hours to spare).

I suspect the jury's still out on this one. It's too new.


ECL

[chinpokomaster]

Don't know if this counts, but SWIM once streaked across a field after taking MDMA.

[RaverHippie]

I think the OP was postulating that, in the wake of huge psychedelic stress brought on by a hallucinogen, people resort to stripping as a coping mechanism. And he was wondering why the pattern exists and was hoping for more episodes of this action to further analyze the pattern.

Correct me if I'm wrong but, I don't think that was the case for SWIY, no offense meant of course, I'm just trying to clarify the thread.

The first time SWIM took a psychedelic, he fell into the DOx chemical sold as LSD problem. Took one and a half blotters, felt nothing, took 1.5 more then had to brace for his life. At the height of the peak he stripped off shirt his jacket and shirt and curled up in a ball and would have stripped further had he not been around the other 10 people tripping on the DOB and other sober people. One sober person took SWIM's picture in said state and is posted on the internet much to SWIM's chagrin. He recalls distinctly that it wasn't due to internal temperature but trying to restore homeostasis in some abstract way which caused him to take off clothes.

[Alfa]

Indeed; AFAIK this is not about humoristic streaking, but a more deeper or basal urge while heavily under the influence of psychedelics.

I would like to explore this phenomenon by gathering accounts of people that have gone through this, by gathering anecdotes of such events and by getting opinions and theories about psychedelic streaking.

[pinkandfluffy]

I think when tripping balls clothes could be seen as a shackle of society, a barrier and a method of crushing your true individuality.

Of course, to sober people it just looks like naked people on acid running around.

[enquirewithin]

An acquaintance of mine was found naked in a lift, covered in shaving foam (he'd shaved his eyebrows) and sperm, after a prolonged drug binge involving DOB and (I think) amphetamines.

He was never the same again. He spent some time in a mental hospital and then became a Reborn Christian.

[El Calico Loco]

Swim never has the desire to get nekkid when using psychedelic phenethylamines or amphetamines (so far), but the mushroom-like substances he's tried - 4-Aco-DiPT and 4-Aco-MiPT - both made him throw off his clothing. He did it because the clothing felt constrictive, like it was preventing him from breathing fully and deeply and interfering with his circulation. I think most of us dissociate just how restrictive our clothing is when sober.

Many of today's clothes aren't very comfortable; pants in particular, at least for men. We should bring back robes.


ECL
(End trouser tyranny now!)

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[[éS]Infinite]

SWIM has heard many stories of individuals smoking large doses of PCP and running out to the streets. He often took such stories as scares tactics, however he can understand that in such a state, clothing will be perceived completely differently from what is usual. He can understand how constricting and "unnatural" they may feel when one is overly sensitized to his environment. Clothing are the closest thing to an individual, and they are completely surrounding! Those notions accompanied by the brand names and the inclination that everything one is wearing may have been made in a sweatshop or some awful place, may leave one feeling quite uncomfortable with themselves.
There is something else is SWIM's mind which ties in to this matter, and it relates to the feeling of something being unnatural, but he can't quite put it in to words. Somewhat like an individual wanting to return to their normal self, while being so far out of their regular type of thinking, and can only do so by returning to their "purest" form. Along those lines, but not quite it.

[Shampoo]

Though not a story of psychedelic streaking, this seems applicable in regards to the psychological phenomenon of stripping in the intensity of a psychedelic peak.

A dear friend of mine has a nasty habit concerning psychedelic experiences in which, when overwhelmed by metaphysical activity, she goes into her purse for something to hold, to calm her and to distract her senses from the overwhelming cognitive activity. On nearly every occasion when feeling overwhelmed and reaching into her purse, she decides that she cannot feel/find the item she is seeking and so, in a panick stricken stupor, pours her purse out on to the ground, emptys all her pockets, takes out her hair-ornaments, removes her jacket, and is suddenly relieved, though she quickly becomes even more overwhelmed, because now, lost in a sea of vivid visual activity are all her tiny, purse-inhabiting items (cigarettes, pennies, keys...). It seems when overwhelmed by internal stimulation, be it ecstasy or angst, from the skin or the soul, the expulsion of hindering complications like clothes, and confusing or uncomfortable clutter like the contents of a purse, is effectively cathartic in relieving psychedelic stress.

[Nature Boy]

Clothes can be awfully restrictive when you're tripping. I guess it's the increased body temperature are the sensitivity of touch when under the influence. SWIM likes to strip down to his vest or topless when tripping. Not the Full Monty however, although on a higher dose, who knows?

[ManWithNoPants]

Originally Posted by pinkandfluffy

SWIM thinks when tripping balls clothes could be seen as a shackle of society, a barrier and a method of crushing your true individuality.

SWIM feels the same. He prefers to trip in the wilderness and is sometimes possesed to strip and lay in the grass. SWIM has a fear of bugs that is abscent on acid and overridden by a need to feel at one with the earth.

[Expat98]

This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but:

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1633

[runitsthepolice]

Some kids at SWIM's school took some LSD, got naked, and ran around. A female cop found one of them outside.

When she approached he began jerking off. She reported that his demeanor was as casual as if he was lighting up a cigarette. Needless to say she was not amused.

[Spare Chaynge]

swim does not understand the whole taking clothes off when tripping. Swim is always aware of how his actions are viewed by others. This is why swim choices to trip alone most of the time..

[Stephenwolf]

Never actually does get naked but always really wants to while on salvia. Feels far too uncomfortable. Only reason didn't was friend was right near.

[RaverHippie]

For SWIM it just makes things feel more "right" while in the throws of a psychedelic onslaught.

[Metomni]

A few substances in particular do this to SWIM, but first he'll preface this by saying he's kind of a nudist at heart anyway. He doesn't like clothes in the first place and has no objections to stripping down, especially with the lowered inhibitions that psychedelics grant.

Mushrooms do this to SWIM quite often, he'll be laying on the ground, squirming around during his peak and just realize that he's come out of his cocoon (or any similar occurance) and will replay that in the physical world in the only way he can think of doing. He can't take off his skin (though he has tried!) so he strips.

Mescaline makes him feel this way too. It might be ridiculous, but he thinks it stems at least partially from the climate the cacti originate from. Even if it's ridiculous he believes it, and when on mescaline, placebo becomes reality. The heat of the deserts' sands cause swim to "need" to be bare - not quite the same as naked. He strips his clothes, and then his ego.

Then there was that time he did salvia and woke up naked in the yard, but he's not sure if that really counts.

[crackcityrocker]

a girl swim knows stripped down because she believed either she was or her clothes were on fire, while on lsd. she later bit a paramedic and went to jail.

[cra$h]

any drug that produces an outstanding body high will have swim taking off his cloths. Psychedelics in particular. But swim's walked around with a friend, then suddenly swim's shirt was off. It's just more natural, uplifting, and more comforable. Without those oh so heavy cloths on, it just feels more easier to move more fluently. I don't know, it just makes things more comfortable.

[cuddlesthefox]

Swim tends to streak on speed. Well, twice. On acid, swim usually believes he has murdered a seal and has hid the body in a drawer. Almost everytime.

[zhongguo]

SWIM was really drunk last weekend and ate a blotter that was supposedly LSD, but more likely Bromo-Dragonfly... SWIM then went to a club and stripped on the dance floor while pouring beer over his own head.
SWIM has been so embarrassed about his actions, he is currently hiding at the other end of the country!

[Potter]

Nobody once had a room mate with some pretty bad psychedelic issues, he'd take them, get really messed up, do stupid things, swear off them the next day...next weekend wash, rinse, repeat. He also had repressed homosexual tendencies that would come out in bizarre manners; being at a bar with his GF and letting a guy hold his cock while he peed in the bathroom, then talking candidly about this in front of a group at a time when this was less then appropriate conversation.

Not long after he was kicked out of nobody's house, he had a bunch of people at his mom's house, took mushrooms, freaked out on them, got calmed down, later said he was going to take a shower. Went and got the water running, got naked, then came back to the group and sat around trying to convince people to come shower with him. As it was a pretty hetro group of old friends, they were less then excited at the offer. He got angry and attempted to run out the front door. Had to be restrained and talked down again.

He's still batshit.

Personally never understood what would make a person decide to strip down in public. Not that nobody is adverse to public nudity, where you won't get arrested for it, but in the middle of a city, while jumping up and down on a limo, with cops pointing guns at you. What bothers nobody even more is how proud such individuals often are of such asshole escapades. They rarely seem regretful of their actions, no matter who they took down (to the station) with them. Nobody suspects this is a good sign of severe mental damage, and as such, discards such people with all due haste.

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[humdroid]

Y took LSA once and felt constricted and hot.
He took his jumper off, and his mate said, don't strip.
It was freezing cold, but Y felt hot.
He said he wasnt stripping but wanted to take his jumper off so the cold air could circulate.
Y spent the rest of the trip in his trousers and vest.
He laid on the cold bathroom floor, windows wide open, and sponging himself with cold water, with bare arms, but it felt just right.
The jumper on and the closed windows felt too constricted.
It was a cross between mental anguish, as Y was slipping into different states of consciousness, and also physical discomfort as Y vomited like a baddun.
Y was glad he did the trip as it was also very insightful, cathartic and very theraputic.
Even if Y comes up on shrooms, he likes to sponge his face with cold water sometimes.

[RaverHippie]

Originally Posted by humdroid

Y took LSA once and felt constricted and hot.
He took his jumper off, and his mate said, don't strip.
It was freezing cold, but Y felt hot.
He said he wasnt stripping but wanted to take his jumper off so the cold air could circulate.
Y spent the rest of the trip in his trousers and vest.
He laid on the cold bathroom floor, windows wide open, and sponging himself with cold water, with bare arms, but it felt just right.
The jumper on and the closed windows felt too constricted.
It was a cross between mental anguish, as Y was slipping into different states of consciousness, and also physical discomfort as Y vomited like a baddun.
Y was glad he did the trip as it was also very insightful, cathartic and very theraputic.
Even if Y comes up on shrooms, he likes to sponge his face with cold water sometimes.

slightly off-topic but harm-reduction has its place,

If Y ever feels like indulging in LSA again try lessening the dose somewhat. That sounds an awful lot like a near crisis due to LSA's vasoconstrictive properties.

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