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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by chronofar on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:22PM (#19437206)
This can be true of any experience. You probably did experience similar distortions of visual perception previously, you just didn't associate them with an LSD experience and thus they casually passed from memory un-noted. Waves and ripples in water are certainly not so abnormal.

Also overdose is too strong a word, and has a different connotation here than elsewhere. One can take 100 micrograms and have a wonderful experience, or one can take 100 micrograms and see the devil and never be the same. The mind is the difference maker, not the quantity of the drug.

People have taken extremely large doses and not perished (one story of people mistakenly snorting crystals thinking it was cocaine comes to mind).

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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by grawprog on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:16PM (#19444361)
You're right, overdose is the wrong word. I was thinking of a friend of my dad's who ended up doing a large bag full of LSD rather than get caught by the cops and ended up in a psych ward permanently, or some of the older hippies I know who spent several years doing lsd every day who do tend to have some issues formulating ideas coherently at times.
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