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Re:Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video] on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:57PM (#8817498)
Perhaps you're terrible at understanding. I'm not trying to be insulting, I just don't think it's something that can be explained to someone who hasn't tripped.

For what it's worth everything she described made me think "yup, I know exactly what you mean".

Re:Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video] on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:43PM (#8817424)
"I can't tell you about it. If you can't see it then you'll just never know it. I feel sorry or you."

This is a succinct summary of my own experiences. LSD basically makes you realize just how much of a slave you are to your own biology, and the kind of unrestrained thoughts it elicits cannot readily be translated to everyday frameworks. Nobody who's never tripped can comprehend what it's like to trip.

Still, it can help you learn lessons if you make a point to do so. I recall LSD trips whenever I feel stressed or depressed, and it works really well to make me realize how little my problems matter in the grand scheme of things.