Re:Counting the Components of My Consciousness
by rabidrat on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:21PM
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one or two milligrams?? that's about 10 hits. but you can't mean micrograms, since one or two mcg is below even micro-dosing levels. So I'm curious if it really was 10 hits (which seems like an expensive way to sleep!), or if you meant something else.
Re:Counting the Components of My Consciousness
by mirimir on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:54PM
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Yes, what you may call ten hits. But this was a long time ago, and I was buying LSD by the gram, for reselling. So it wasn't such a big deal. Maybe $10 worth. And yes, $10 was worth a lot more then. On the other hand, it was arguably a business expense, in that megadosing is a good way to check for purity. I was the quality-control partner :) Also, I didn't take that much of a lot before testing smaller doses, progressively.
I've never had a mini-stroke, or at least, not one dramatic enough to act on. There are little lapses in consciousness, especially at times of stress, but whatever. Maybe just some subsystem crashing and rebooting.
But his stuff on LSD matches my experience exactly. For some years, I got into the habit of taking maybe one or two milligrams, just before going to sleep. Usually a little drunk, and very stoned, with a full stomach. So I'd wake up, perhaps 3-4 hours later, in the middle of the peak.
I clearly remember just being the observer. There was no self-talk. No language at all. Just observing. But not observing external reality, because those systems were also hosed. What I was observing, I think, were internal states. Maybe comms traffic among subsystems.
But I really have no clue what I experienced, in any detail, because it was timeless, and memories are timelike. All I remember is being very calm and happy. And the amazing hallucinations, a mix of geometric and periodic (but less so than with peyote) and "organic" and flowing (but less so than Psilocybe spp).
I also remember the process of coming down from peaking. As TFA notes, subsystems came back gradually.