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columbo527 t1_j6aaysg wrote

So what are the universes secrets, and how do they work?

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dave8271 t1_j6awf8c wrote

I took acid once when I was 18 and remember clearly feeling like I was one with the universe and completely understood everything there was to be understood. It was like a completely transcendental experience of consciousness where my being and the whole universe were the same thing. I wrote down some notes about the secrets of the universe while I was tripping.

The next day I couldn't remember what any of the secrets of the universe were and it turned out the notes I'd written were just lyrics to one of the songs in the musical Buffy episode.

This sort of thing seems to be a common experience with LSD.

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nadzicle t1_j6axicq wrote

But which song was it? I love the songs in that episode.

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dave8271 t1_j6ay2ue wrote

It was that "we will walk through the fire" one. But I know when I wrote it down, when I was tripping, in my head I was writing down the meaning of life and the universe and the nature of consciousness. Acid is weird. I never did it again, it's not that it wasn't (mostly) enjoyable per-se, it's just I was so relieved when I woke up the next day and everything had stopped moving.

Edit: Just for a nostalgic laugh, for any of you who've never taken acid, here are a few bits I vaguely remember from my trip (was about 20 years ago now):

  1. At one point, I believed I'd become a cartoon character. The whole world looked to me like a quite crudely drawn, 2D Family Guy style animation.

  2. For a while, people's faces were morphing in to long, rat-like features and it looked like they were laughing at me in a very sinister way. I didn't enjoy that part.

  3. I was a genie for a while too. Like, I wanted a sandwich and suddenly I had one and I was eating it. No sense of any time passing or any memory of doing anything between wanting a sandwich and having it in front of me. I realised I'd run out of cigarettes, then suddenly boom a fresh pack of cigarettes were in my hand. I named my genie self Barok the Great.

  4. In a later part of my trip, I experienced going and making the sandwich, just completely out of place in time. Like splicing a video in the wrong order or something, only that's what I actually experienced.

  5. I could see sound waves coming out of speakers. That was really cool. And you can just be looking at a wall or something and it just melts and blends and becomes the coolest looking kaleidoscope thing, or something like that. The visuals are a very unique experience.

  6. Trails. If you ever do take acid, you'll 100% have this happen. You move your hands and you just see an after image of your fingers, like a duplicate, trailing for a few seconds.

  7. It can be bad too. My trip eventually went a bit sour, I can't remember why but I had some negative thought and it just manifested in some way and I remember I really wanted the trip to end and to just sober up but I couldn't. That's the downside of acid, once you're in, you're in for as long as it lasts and it lasts a long time.

  8. The mental part. People don't often talk about this bit but it's not just hallucinations and weird philosophical thoughts and feelings, when you come up it feels like you've done about 20 bong hits back to back. It's intense. That bit does seem to mellow out later though.

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Soggy-Ad-4210 t1_j6bkqdt wrote

I tripped on 25c NBOME once and thought I turned into megamind, huge head and all lol

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TrypMole t1_j6dnmf7 wrote

Ahhhh. This is nostalgic. I miss acid.

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scrubZ0 t1_j6gj4xp wrote

I did it once and can attest to a few of these things.

When it first kicked in I was about half way through a song, laying on the lounge. It felt like I had sunken into the lounge and was stuck. The song felt like it was playing from 3 speakers inside my head, but all were playing at different volumes, timings, and speeds.

I have a couple freckles on my arm, which were bouncing and jumping off my skin like fleas.

My friend had a yellowish light in the corner of his room, but it was changing colours from green - orange - yellow.

We also had some universe solving thoughts. I wrote down "Life is a 360° tug of war". I kinda remember what I meant but like wtf. Lots of other stuff we "came to realise" that isn't worth mentioning because when you sober up its just stupid, lol.

It started to lightly rain about half way through, and standing out in it felt really good for some reason lol. So did eating sour/bitter foods, made me see heaps of vivid colours and stuff like my senses were blended. I could see what pineapple tasted like.

When I was outside at one point, it started going bad and I just felt like my chest was tight and I was freaking out, not even sure why. I went back inside after about 10 minutes of freaking, and just went back to normal.

Going to bed at like 5am, after it was wearing off I became slightly paranoid and heard footsteps in the hallway and knocking at the window, even though no one was there. I'm not sure if I would do it again, but it was fun for the most part.

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TrypMole t1_j6dnfyo wrote

Secret to the universe?

🎶 It must be bunnies 🎶

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nadzicle t1_j6g4rhz wrote

And now that’s stuck in my head. It’s going to be on the adhd radio until another song gets stuck. I once had it stuck for a few weeks. Lol.

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wannabecpa93 t1_j6bqyr0 wrote

I do acid quite a bit probably once every month on average.

Most times I do pretty low doses, chill out listen/play music watch nature documentaries. Sometimes I’ll do medium doses and go on a hike always have a blast.

I’ve only done Ops original dose once and I was tripping BALLs. I was in my girlfriends old apartment and basically went into a kaleidoscope for god knows how long but I had really no recollection of who or what I was. But I know I got a lot more intertwined with the world that night. I never left the couch but felt like I experienced a lifetime of who I was and ultimately became completely at peace with myself even though I was both scared shirtless and having the best possible time I could ever be having. I thought my eyes were open and they were closed.

I cannot fathom taking 7 more tabs or even trying to multiply that experience anymore than it was. Op is lucky they didn’t walk out into the middle of the highway or jump off a bridge. I feel like at that dosage you can’t even visually see anything let alone comprehend anything or speak.

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Soggy-Ad-4210 t1_j6bkj5w wrote

I smoked DMT “dream sand” once and looked in the mirror, I remember looking like the thing from The Fantasic Four, then I went to take a piss and my penis also looked like “clay” or “rock”.. that’s when I freaked out … good thing it didn’t last longer than like 20 minutes, strong shit.

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TheBoisterousBoy t1_j6ci0q7 wrote

This reminds me of this artist in the 70s who thought the visuals he saw while tripping were so beautiful that he wanted to paint them while tripping so everyone could see what he saw…

It was the absolute shittiest finger painting stuff I’ve ever seen in my life. Even the artist was like “Hoo, those suck”.

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bros402 t1_j6bavjx wrote

Was it "THEY GOT THE MUSTARD OUUUUUUUUUUUUUT"

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gudnuusevry1 t1_j6ellxr wrote

Can confirm. When a good friend had his first trip experience, he sat down and wrote his thoughts for maybe 3 or 4 hours. We are talking screeds here, pages and pages of triptastic manifesto...

Only for him to try and read it later for it to obviously make zero sense and not even be able to read all his notes

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Emergency-Nail-9921 OP t1_j6abria wrote

I wish I could remember. All I can tell you is that I was screaming "PUSH PULL PUSH PULL 101010101010" - It sort of felt like the universe was based on the idea of constant push and pull. A self perpetuating cycle of corrections. Too far left and it steers right, then too far right and it steers left. Of course, it was probably all nonsense, but who knows, maybe not.

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columbo527 t1_j6actqk wrote

What i choose to take from this is: That there's a giant colony of ants located in the earths core locked in a perpetual battle of tug of war which is keeping the earth from falling out of orbit and crashing into the sun.

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Emergency-Nail-9921 OP t1_j6ae0ip wrote

Could be. I was thinking more like everything in the universe is the ants locked in a battle of tug of war with itself which keeps the multiverse from falling out of existence

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Philodendronphan t1_j6bf1hc wrote

I read an article the other day about how the core of the earth is starting to change the direction of its rotation, so it’s kind of the same.

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MrJusticle t1_j6bmj4p wrote

Oh shit, same! First time I smoked weed I had a mental breakdown about how everything in the universe is as simple as 1 and 0. On and off. Good and bad. Binary completeness. Action/reaction. And existence is the side effect of the energy it takes for the 1s and 0s ultimately balance out. Absolute 0 and/or Absolute 1. I've never been that high again, no matter how much I've smoked since. Never done acid though, seems like I'd likely get that same realization.

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scrubZ0 t1_j6gjj56 wrote

Holy shit I literally just wrote a comment and mentioned how I wrote down something like "life is a 360° tug of war". Not sure if this is what you meant, but to me it meant that everything you do has positives and negatives. If you go one direction you're further away from another direction. To excel in one thing you have to sacrifice in another. Not really sure what I meant but its probably a combination of the things I just listed, hahah

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Really_McNamington t1_j6ajncy wrote

A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout

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Emergency-Nail-9921 OP t1_j6axrsz wrote

When I got back from the hospital, I knew I opened a word doc on my computer to write the secrets, and was excited to see what I wrote.

"John's world" is all I wrote (except with my real name instead of John)

I'm still 50/50 on if the experience was real, or some trick of the brain where it applies meaning to things that are meaningless.

I re-watched Star Trek TNG and there was an episode that really stood out to me in light of my experience. They run into a race who's language they can't understand or translate, and eventually they realize that they speak solely in metaphor. They explain it like this: If I say "Juliet on her balcony" to communicate the idea of romance, those words mean nothing to somebody that doesn't know about Romeo and Juliet. They're apparently non-sense, they carry no real meaning.

To me, discovering the secrets of the universe felt like I was solely thinking in metaphor: 1-0, push pull. But it felt like there was something /more/ behind those thoughts at the time. Once I sobered up, all I left was the seemingly meaningless metaphors, whatever the deeper meaning behind them was lost to me.

Of course, that meaning might be lost because it might have never existed. I'm 50/50 on if that's the case. Before the trip I was a hyper-logical person. I was an atheist that didn't believe in greater powers or anything large and mysterious in the universe. But having the experience, I've started to consider the possibility that we understand 0.00000000001% of the universe, and that there are many things beyond our imagination or comprehension.

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Billy_Boognish t1_j6d3j5d wrote

>Before the trip I was a hyper-logical person. I was an atheist that didn't believe in greater powers or anything large and mysterious in the universe.

That's the best part of psychedelics, realizing that we don't know anything! I used to trip solo all the time, just for the hell of it, on a Tuesday or whatever. Seeing things stripped of pretense or in a completely different light was such a draw for me. There are major turning points in my life, good and bad, that revolve around specific trips. Hanging out with my brothers, you might here something dated, "is that before or after the double dipped orange gell tabs night?" Another favorite, "that's the summer we got Yowsered (reallys clean blotter that had Pitfall Harry stamped on the hits) at Allman Brothers Band" still puts a smile on my face, and that happened 25 years ago! Thanks for sharing your adventure. In case no one tells you, The secret knowledge is already in you, and you certainly know the answer to life's problems, even if you can't recall it most of the time. Be good to your fellow humans and to yourself.

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myimpendinganeurysm t1_j6c3b54 wrote

> Overwhelmed as one would be >
> Placed in my position >
> Such a heavy burden now to be the one >
> Born to bear and bring you all the details of our ending >
> To write it down for all the world to see >
> But I forgot my pen >
> Shit the bed again >
> Typical

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