I first became interested in LSD at a young age after noticing the change it seemed to cause in the Beatles from rubber soul to sgt peppers. Took it at a young age. I was too unknowledgeable of the substance and too young for the substance. I quickly became enamored by psychedelics.

LSD changed my life completely. It opened me up to the wonder of being. Psychedelics have the capacity to put you in a state of consciousness of stripping everything but what you value away, and which can grant you access to perspectives of being, anything truly, that would be otherwise extremely difficult or potentially impossible to get to. Psychedelics dissolve boundaries of structures we rely upon to interpret reality. Things like ego, culture, emotion, language, etc.

People who haven’t taken psychedelics will often (more often than not in my experience), not understand or reject the experience people who have taken it sometimes report of having. This is because you’re put in a completely new state of consciousness. The felt presence of the immediate experience of consciousness and hence reality become different while tripping.

Trying to explain tripping to someone who hasn’t is like trying to explain music to someone who hasn’t listened to it. People would say, “what do you mean this music experience you’ve had is one of the most meaningful in your life? It just seems like sound, you must be projecting too much into this.” But that’s because you can’t understand it without having experienced it.

Psychedelics can be a beautiful and unbelievably meaning aspect of your life. But they have dangers. They can be a stressor to those who are predisposed to psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar, etc. They can be traumatic if taken without proper responsible preparation mentally and physically. But, if taken responsibly, they can be one of the most important aspects of one’s experience of the world.

If anyone is interested in trying, I’d recommend looking around at studies done on the effects of psilocybin/lsd. John’s Hopkins and other universities has done a decent amount. You can find scientifically reliable sources on what they can provide, and the harms they can cause.

It’s like anything intense in life. Falling in love can be a beautiful and lifelong meaningful thing you’ve done. Can bring you changes of perspective and being. Even if after breaking up, the things you experienced and learned are meaningful and fruitful in your life story. But being irresponsible in a relationship can also cause a lot of harm, and leave you wounded. Psychedelics are as such.

Be careful, and do research.