The Effects of Hallucinogenic Drugs on The Brain

Also; another hallucinogenic is when you chew the stem of a Marajunana leaf. But it also makes you uhh... die.

I'm one who abused LSD in my high school years (1973 to 1975) and a little in my adult years. The last use of this drug was once in the latter part of 1976 then last time was once in 1985. The heaviest use was as a 15 to 16 year old teen where it was literally every other day, at 17 maybe three times a month. Now at 50 years old I have a form of vertigo mostly. It’s a continuous internal feeling of dizziness with an occasional feeling of LSD, or the beginning stages of the drug, without the hallucination.

I am going through test with my Doctor but they are not sure, as yet, what’s causing this.
I'm wondering if there any medical knowledge of this being a result of long term abuse later in the life of an abuser?

okay so is it true acid makes your spinal chord bleed?

what is the effect that lsd has on the brain
what effect does marijuana,alcohol,heroin,inhalant,nicotine, and steroids have on the brain?
what part of the brain is effected by these drugs?

well basically i've done acid a few times.. and let me tell you it was amazing.. i havent dropped in awhile but occasionally get awesome flashbacks.. ecspecially when i smoke the herb.

LSD is often trapped in certain cells in the brain/spinal cord having vertigo or flashbacks in later years could very eaisily be caused by these cells breaking down and releasing the drug back into your system

I want to try it for the first time on my birthday. I was wondering what are the most severe things that could happen because of this. Both short term, and long. I plan on marrying my girlfriend and I don't want this one trip to destroy what I have. It says it alters ones perception after the trip, like your experiencing a new thing you never have, and it has completley changed your life.

The unique thing about LSD as opposed to pretty much every other drug is that it stays in your body for your entire life. THC can be totally removed from even a chronic smoker in a week if he does the right things. Cocaine is untraceable in your body after 2 to 3 days, depending on metabolism. LSD on the other hand never leaves your body, and can be traced in your spine with a spinal tap after one dies and had used LSD earlier in life. Luckily for all you psychonauts out there, it is extremely difficult and expensive for any job to test for LSD :)

Be careful though.. drugs effect everyone differently. Some of my friends love the drug and are always up to do it... others say its too intense to do often and do it very rarely. A couple of my friends absolutely hated it and never want to do it again. Know what you're getting in to, because it will probably change you for life. Its good to do research like this; LSD is not a drug for anyone that just wants to have a good time, it can be a rollercoaster experience in every aspect.

To the people that commented and said you have vertigo like symptoms after chronic use..be lucky thats all you have. Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd went clinically insane from doing too much LSD. He was committed to a mental institution for the majority of his later life. People say his sentences made no sense when he talked and he habitually brushed his teeth. Also, Jerry Garcia, who its been said had a goal in life to always be tripping, pretty much makes no sense when he talks if you ever watch interviews with him in his later life. I used to work with an older guy at an animal hospital who used to be a major LSD user during the hippie era; he would actually have what he believed were real conversations with all the dogs, he was pretty creepy. I'd take vertigo over that any day.

any of yall that do hallucinogens yalls crazy. i mean u could die frum that stuff so why do u do it?

LSD being stored in the spine in an urban legend; it has a half life of 3 hours and the body processes it entirely. Anti-drug campaigners(?) made up the spinal myth because it's not easy to verify and sounds like serious business. LSD trips are certainly serious business and I have no doubts that you can really mess with your mind for life if you take it too often, but people need to stop propagating this spinal fluid silliness.

im 17 years old , and ive been droppin acid for about 4 months now at raves mostly, and im still normal. i drop acid at least 3 times a week sometimes more.
LSD is not dangerous.!

im 15 and im curious....ive been experimenting, and i wanted to know if i should try acid. A lot of people think drugs are good expieriences in life as long as you dont abuse them. I just want to try it once but i need a little more info. before i do it. I just want to if its true that you really hallucinate. i smoke weed and drink on the weekends with my friends and i like that feeling so does acid feel like that a kind of thc high or do you just trip balls and go insane??

When I was 14 I went to these guys house with my step sister and smoked weed, a couple of second after that I felt weird, like I wasn't in my body and then as I was on my way to sleep I saw my self in front of me and jumped up, and told by sister, me and my stepsister were staying with, as I talked to them the feeling went away. I got up the next day and went to school; I started thinking about that day and the feeling came back, I left school and had to tell my parents, I thought I was going to lose it. My stepfather told me what he went through when he was younger and how he dealt with it and told me that I just have to forget about it and it will go away. I am 24 now and the feeling has came back between this time period and went away once I get my mind off it, but now its back and the thing about this is that I don't even be thinking about that and the feeling comes, why is it still affecting me and am I going to lose it?

You are total idiots to be gambling with your brains. My son just came back from college and has schizoeffective symptoms from his experimentation with LSD and Mushrooms.He is constantly sufferin; we are trying to stailize him with anti-psychotic medicines. Seroquel and abilify did not work. It looks like rispideral
might be helping. He is in a 4-day a week dual diagnosos program and is facing the loss of what he once one.

I am scared to death. Any input?

I'm so sorry to hear about your son. I have myself done LSD a number of times, but not so much as these people (or, apparently, as much as your son). It is physically impossible to take LSD the next day-- it does absolutely nothing. Those of you dropping "every three days" are completely nuts for doing so, and honestly you deserve whatever comes to you. While it is not at all dangerous as a drug (in fact it is less physically disruptive than aspirin), the places it takes you are not entirely rational nor logical; hence, if you do too much, or do it too often, you'll absolutely fall out of touch with "the real world". This is an obvious side effect of being in such a grossly different level of reality for 8-10 hours.

From your comment, Scared Mom, it does seem that your son was a) already at risk for some psychological issues, as LSD can bring these to the fore even if they aren't known (not so much with mushrooms, which are pretty benign and not nearly as intense), and b) he likely did way, way, WAY too much. I sincerely hope that he finds some relief, as I can only imagine what you and your family are going through. I would be scared of using antipsychotics more than I'm scared of LSD, however. Antipsychotics cause permanent and very large changes to the brain and nervous system.

But seriously, guys:
LSD is a tool to profoundly alter your awareness and give you new insights. It is a way to see the world as if you've never seen it before. But it's stronger than you-- and if you overdose or overuse it, it will come back to bite you. Spiritual teachers throughout history have understood these risks, but the people taking these drugs seem to have no idea. Everything I've heard on this forum has reeked of abuse, neglect, and abject stupidity.

Please, for your own sake, listen to this mother and realize that YOU MUST BE RESPONSIBLE, RESPECTFUL, AND READY.

with LSD, the reason people continue to experience flashbacks of the drug is because LSD is siuch a strong drug, and very pure, it stores in body fat, instead of blood stream. by storing in the body fat it enables the drug to have to ability 're activate' whenever the body fat particles move around. so when the body fat particles shift, change or move there is a possibility of a secondary trip, or similar side affects of the drug. this is why some people experience life 'stuck in an acid trip' as the amount of acid consumed is enough to create constant and often 'secondary trips' even one tab of acid can cause this reaction, it is just more common with copious amounts of acid.

This is just for everyone that is stupid enough to think that LSD isnt dangerous:
Yes its true that not everyone will have the same effect from it, but I've done mushrooms once (and not lsd a 100 times like most of you of whom I'm surprised you're still alive) when i was 15 "for the experiment" and I had the biggest bad trip ever. Apparently i was really sensetive for it, and then it went on for 2 years of 24/7 psychosis, medication and therapy. You're all gonna say "i already had it in me" but the fact is that hallucinogenic drugs change things in your brain, even one little mushroom can do this! I know it's the most exciting and interesting thing to just trip away but I think anyone who wants to do it should really look things up about it first and make it a safe trip.
To the mom with the psychotic son: Tell him that i had it to and it gets better and goes away after time, I had risperdal as well and it really got me through it.

Basically, every person who has a bad trip either does it at a young age, doesn't research the effects, or is in the wrong place with the wrong people.

Be smart, aware, and don't listen to bullshit urban legends. I've had fellow college students tell me that LSD causes your brain to bleed into your spinal column, which makes you trip. How does that even make sense? The fat cell storage is a bunch of bullshit as well. LSD is unlike anything else in the world, and of course if you're going through a bad experience with it, it will seem so profound that you may be haunted by the effects for a quite long time (don't eat strong acid until you know what you're doing!)

ive never done it before but i would like to know how it effects you before i ever do try it if i do. because i dont want to have a bad trip and do something stupid. my dads friend had a badddd trip and killed hisself while he was trippin cuz he thought someone was tryn to kill him and he jumped out a window but how can u control the effects of acid. like can u control if ur gunna have a bad trip or not?

I am researching this apparently popular drug to discuss with my college age daughter. I am saddened to read about 'trippers' giving 'advice' on doing a 'safe' trip. Shame on you. Facing your life is the hardest and most rewarding 'trip' you can take. Escaping into a drug 'trip' is a cowardly existence reserved for scared pathetic child-minded adults that are out-of-control. The future looks bleak for those of you hiding behind drugs and escape trips. I have attended two funerals in the past year of two 21 year olds dying from drugs. Their families are shattered and their dead drug tripping children are gone. Permanently. If you choose a drug filled existence, know you are treating your gift of life as a joke. Your chances of an early death have just increased greatly. A brave person would walk away from drugs. Get a backbone. Get a life.

im 19 years old and i just recently tried acid for the first time this past sunday august 31 2008, however i have been experimenting with olther hard core drugs since i was 15 years old. It started when i got into high school. It wasnt my friends who really got me to give into the peer pressure but my family. I figured that they where supposed to be the people in my life that care about me the most and if they were doing it and telling me to do it then it couldnt be that bad so at 15 years old i took my first ecstacy pill with my cousin for her birthday...then i tried coke for the first time with my aunt. Then i began meeting kids in high school as a freshmen who shared the same intrest as me and i continued to use more drugs more frequently. I couldnt tell you for how long ive been telling my friends and family that i was going to change my life style get my self on the right path and head in a new direction but i could never really find the strenght to let go and seperate from the life ive lived for so long and i just continued getting fucked up all the time. My acid experience lasted from sunday when i took it at 10 untill i finally fell asleep tuesday morning at 9!! And now its thursday and im still not quite back to my "normal self" and although part of me regrets what i did i also wouldnt take it back for the world because it opened my eyes to the "real" world and how amazing it is.

Ok i'm 17, going to try speed for the first time, anything i need to watch out for? besides getting ripped off?

As far as hallucinogens go, acid is like a concentrated mushroom trip. My first time, I did 5 hits; not all at once, but spread throughout the night. I perceived what appeared to be a cell shaded world, meaning that certain objects, like leaves on a tree, appeared to be flattened and 2 dimensional; but also that the colors themselves were brighter, and changed in a weird way. My friend's face changed slightly, he looked like a goblin (that was how I described it) and when I looked in the mirror I did as well. I was first sure that it was real when I started having an uncontrollable urge to laugh, things were funny. My friend, who had given it to me, accidentally spilled some on his hand while transferring it form vial to vial, and I watched him lick it off. He freaked out, and it was almost enough for a bad trip, we had to restrain him, but we ended up leaving. My friend was driving; yes, driving, his first time ever tripping acid, and we made it home okay. My other friend complained about being attacked by alligators and saying he took too much, but I remember it as a really good trip.

Since my first time, I have tripped maybe 20 times at most; very spread out. But the craziest trip I ever had was completely and totally insane. At one point, the world appeared to be moving in fast forward, I would have conversations with people and would know what they were going to say before they finished saying it. I believed I was a god, and could tell the future as well as control my environment by controlling time. I thought I had died at one point, I remember being scared, but the world was moving too quickly for me to form enough of a thought. I watched clouds in the sky swirl and form different objects, objects that I could to some degree control. I could tell that one of my good friends was stuck in the same 'loop' of fast speed that I was. He kept saying, "I just want it to stop, I just want it to stop I can't handle it." He kept talking about not wanting to see the future; and since we kept talking about telling the future I think he meant that he could see what I did. While I was viewing the world sped up, I remember viewing the world as a giant time line that I was gliding over, seeing history written at every second and people living out their destinies. I had a feeling that everybody was eternal and when we died, we would be born again to live another life; that this was what life was all about, the joy of forgetting your past lives and remembering only your present life. I did not remember any 'past lives' or craziness like that, I just had a strong sense that God was with me; watching me, and affecting my life. Small coincidences became undeniable proof of a higher being, a conscious being. I took my friend's car and drove as fast as I could down the street, it was pure insanity. I believed I could tell the future and I drove insanely; I was insane. The car ran out of gas just as the song I was listening played "I'm tired of playing your game" or something like that; more proof in my insane mind that God was playing with me. I told God (yes I was praying/having one sided conversations with a higher consciousness) that I just wanted a place to sleep that wasn't my friend's house; everybody there was insane and I couldn't handle it. About 4 minutes later a police officer stopped me while I was walking down the street (with no shoes, no shirt, no ID, no phone, and numerous calls that the vehicle I had been driving was driving erratically) and told me I had warrants and was being arrested. I got in the back of the car and they took me to jail, where I proceeded to flip out saying that I was tired of this life and wanted to get on to the next one; that I would kill myself by stopping my heart with my mind. They had me talk to a counselor and I was put in a padded vest and allowed to sleep. The next day when I awoke, I drank orange juice and had what I considered to be an amazing breakfast. I was sober, but the world seemed like a magical place, and everything had slowed down again. I asked very politely when I was to be released and they asked me if I still wanted to kill myself. I said, "Absolutely not, I love life!" And they asked me about the night before; I told them I had been on acid. I was released immediately (apparently I had had no warrants and was given no tickets). They gave me shoes and a shirt and sent me on my way; I got a ride home and was back at the house before my friends had stopped tripping. That was the most insane trip of my life. XD

There's a lot more to the story and I can be very scatterbrained while trying to write it all out but let me just say this. I have a lot of friends who have done a lot of drugs, and it's lots of fun and blah blah blah but you have to ask yourself what your goals in life are. If you are 15-20 and you're wondering about trying acid and doing drugs, you need to ask yourself how you're going to take care of yourself when you get older. You're going to need money and that is what making it in this world is all about. If you don't believe me ask your dealer how much he paid for his drugs. The point is, don't let the distraction of drug abuse make you lose this game. I'm 20 years old at writing this and I feel like I lost so much time. I wouldn't go back and change anything, but I'm also working my ass off trying to make up for lost time. I would take an established life now over the joys of drug abuse any day, as much as I made my life about drugs in the past. Yes I'm preaching and it doesn't matter to anyone and maybe nobody will read this but this is for my peace of mind more than anyone else. Beat the game of life and experiment with fucking up your brain afterward. ^.- I still hallucinate sometimes before falling asleep or when waking up, and I have noticed dark circles under my eyes that do not go away no matter how much sleep I get. I did a lot of DXM (over 400 trips I'm sure) and I blame that drug more than acid. But I've had temporary psychosis and it is not fun. I believed that I was God's chosen one and yadda yadda. Nobody could tell me otherwise I was completely sure about something that made no sense. That is what being psychotic is all about. Anyways, be good, be safe, and think about what you wanna have in the next 30 years before you start fucking up your life now. It's not gonna matter how cool your acid trip was while you spend every week working in some shitty restaurant making minimum wage >.>.

I have only tripped acid 3 times and it def. Has changed my perspective on life. I feel very in touch with myself. I do believe you should not make a habit out of it because every trip seems to be different in few ways. If you are someone who wants to find out who you really are on the inside then i suggest doing it at least once in your life.

you chew on marijuana stems and nothing will happen, it is all a myth about how you can chew on them and start trippin, all they do is taste good. LSD stays in your spinal cord your whole life and if you crack your back just right you could possible have a severe flashback, trust me because it happened to me.

You don't trip from chewin stems? BS smoked only a Dimebag of cali headies with my friend, chewed on the stems and i was the highest ive ever been, my heart was throbbing like crazy and my eyes were bleeding i thought i was gunna die, and i actually was trippin to saw unreal things but i dont think it was laced cause i checked it out

Hey DarkTussan, thanks for that man!! i was in hysterics reading that!!
anyway dude.... do me a favour and read this book: Ramtha- the white book. And then maybe you'll see that you're not crazy. Acid doesnt lie. I've never done it but sure as hell going to soon! God is very much within you. Start reading some New Age teachings.
Peace