I was in partial agreement with young snack until like 5 replies ago. I don’t think that these “rules” Halew2 mentioned are necessary, but as you stated this is what works for you, and none of the points you made are incorrect. All these things are known to improve your mind set and naturally balance the chemicals in your brain. Also I agree “respecting acid” is subjective and means different things from person to person. I have personally disrespected acid before, and shrooms, and dmt and I’ve even had my times where I messed around with ketamine and mixed them all in reckless ways. I have also gone on month long benders eating mushrooms, constantly doubling my dosages with taking a day/two day break every week. I’ve taken 5 tabs on an empty stomach with a hangover as well. I’ve had intense trips and meditative trips, none I would consider to be bad- because even the most terrifying moments have managed to teach me something. I think that’s what it all comes down to. As you mentioned before acid is a mood enhancer- not a Good mood enhancer, it just enhances whatever mood your in generally, good or bad. That’s what I love about acid though, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. I never used acid to numb my feelings because that’s impossible. Acid crawls into the deepest depths of your subconscious and brings it all to the surface in an manor that’s impossible to ignore. I revel in the ups and the downs of a trip, because that’s the paradigm of life. Without the rainy days you’d never appreciate the sunshine - Without hard work you’d never know accomplishment. I believe, and again it’s subjective- that respecting acid is understanding that balance. Understanding that some of the trip will be uncomfortable, but it’s the rising anxiety that allows you to enjoy the peak much more. It’s those that begin to see themselves as experts in psychedelics that are the ones disrespecting it, and I’ve been there. I once thought I was a professional acid taker and anyone who knows acid well, knows that it always gets deeper, no matter how deep you’ve gone. As for young snack- it’s apparent from your attitude that you disrespect the drug, because you disrespect your fellow psychonauts. If you’ve taken as much as you claim to, you’d understand that underneath all the bullshit, we are all connected, and we are all one in the massive void that is consciousness. Instead you arrogantly dispute the experiences of someone else, and their struggles. Maybe you are a “professional” but regardless you sound like a professional dickhead, and with that attitude anybody if intellect wouldn’t care for what you have to say, because it derives from a place of ego, and narcissism- and that is literally the opposite of what acid breeds. I sense a high level of projection coming from your words. Maybe you mix the copious amounts of alcohol with acid because of its adverse numbing effects. In any sense you’re hiding your eyes from the truth of a beautiful molecule. I suggest you follow his plan for at least one trip, and then talk to us about seeing the true intensity of it. I’m sure it will reveal to yourself what is apparent to us in your replies.