Thread: LSD explained for what it is.

Excellent! I'm sure that's proven to all these people that their positive experiences with LSD were all dangerous lies, and your hostility will definitely convince them to see things your way.

If you want to convince anyone of anything, you need solid sources and arguments, and also to not be insulting, and even then you shouldn't be surprised when people stick with what they know. Otherwise, your argument really isn't better than trolling.

Noogah, if you're too closed-minded to want to experience anything in life and would rather just hear or read about it at school (as if those external sources are entirely trustworthy to begin with), then why are you on a lucid dreaming forum? Lucid dreams are even more temporary than LSD, and in most cases less vivid or life changing. Your arguments against LSD are very similar to general arguments against lucid dreaming.

Not trying to get too personal, but really.

To everyone arguing with Noogah: stop taking his bait. Ignore him and he'll go away, and then we can have some worthwhile discussion!

Great documentary, by the way. Its so rare something this unbiased comes along. I'm all for anything that can help facilitate self-awareness and understanding. I've never taken LSD, but I tried mescaline once and it caused me to become aware of and begin to solve a self-esteem issue that's been around since I was a kid. I really wish they were legal and not so stigmatized, its unarguable that these drugs are capable of amazing things.

And I guess I wouldn't say they're bad for the mind, they just alter brain chemistry for a bit, but they do it in such a way that involves a risk factor. They force the brain through a staggering amount of change in a short period of time. Every mind is different, and not all of them can handle something like that. The stories about schizophrenia aren't propaganda. That shit happens. Still, for this is should be researched, not banned. I'm hoping we see more LSD related research in the near future.

A trip can totally send you back to small things in your subconscious from your childhood that bothered you and can help you mend them.

I had a problem with impatience and sudden flares of rage for a long time.
While I was tripping I evaluated those flaws in my persona. And when I saw the seconds within seconds in space and time and realized the futility of my anger and impatience I was able to cope much better with every day situations.

It did change me for the better. That fact can not be debated.

And that's great to hear Barry.

Yeah Entheogens give objective insight into the self and that's why it's so therapuitically valuable. It moves people to understand and see into the causes and cores of their own problems. Only then can these "wounds" be healed.