Posted on 11/27/2015 8:52:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
It seems unlikely, but that’s apparently what some Silicon Valley professionals have been doing - and reporting great results.
According to Rolling Stone, a growing number of people are experimenting with "microdoses" of psychedelics to help them work.
A microdose of LSD is around 10-15 micrograms, approximately a tenth of a "normal" dose.
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At that dosage, Rolling Stone describes the drug's effects as "subperceptual": 'Enough, says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 'to feel a little bit of energy lift, a little bit of insight, but not so much that you are tripping.'"
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Psychedelics researcher Dr James Fadiman discussed microdosing with Vice, saying: 'People do it and they’re eating better, sleeping better, they're often returning to exercise or yoga or meditation. It’s as if messages are passing through their body more easily."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
LSD effacy doesn’t decline with use but the user may get less susceptible to the negative potentials
Panic attacks for example
Conversely the spacing out effect could easily increase
Someone up thread said a doc they know has taken 400 trips but still advises stay away from it
It’s been 40 years since my last of 50-100 LSD Mushroom and peyote uses and I feel the same way and constantly lecture my kids as such
Even though my own memories range from outright panic to waves of joy and self realization I have seen many burnout and have dramatic personality shifts from just ONE big trip
We had some homemade LSD from Millsaps college in 73 and it did just that to one of my buddies...the dose was off the charts ...we just hung on as it got bigger and bigger and unfolded
Who funny enough he now overseas a major IT program at a huge medical complex
It didn’t necessarily harm him but he went from loud and sardonic to quiet and reserved on a dime permanently
It for sure blasts the cobwebs out
But it can also ring the self doubt bell
It doesn’t mix well with conformity but it’s been enjoyed by traditionalists just the same
Hoffman and Disney come to mind
It’s like combat prison divorce death of a spouse etc
You can’t explain what it’s like till you’ve done it
Everything else is just subjective cliche
If I liked it I wouldn’t have quit in 77
LSD effacy doesn’t decline with use but the user may get less susceptible to the negative potentials
Panic attacks for example
Conversely the spacing out effect could easily increase
Someone up thread said a doc they know has taken 400 trips but still advises stay away from it
It’s been 40 years since my last of 50-100 LSD Mushroom and peyote uses and I feel the same way and constantly lecture my kids as such
Even though my own memories range from outright panic to waves of joy and self realization I have seen many burnout and have dramatic personality shifts from just ONE big trip
We had some homemade LSD from Millsaps college in 73 and it did just that to one of my buddies...the dose was off the charts ...we just hung on as it got bigger and bigger and unfolded
Who funny enough he now overseas a major IT program at a huge medical complex
It didn’t necessarily harm him but he went from loud and sardonic to quiet and reserved on a dime permanently
It for sure blasts the cobwebs out
But it can also ring the self doubt bell
It doesn’t mix well with conformity but it’s been enjoyed by traditionalists just the same
Hoffman and Disney come to mind
It’s like combat prison divorce death of a spouse etc
You can’t explain what it’s like till you’ve done it
Everything else is just subjective cliche
If I liked it I wouldn’t have quit in 77
LSD effacy doesn’t decline with use but the user may get less susceptible to the negative potentials
Panic attacks for example
Conversely the spacing out effect could easily increase
Someone up thread said a doc they know has taken 400 trips but still advises stay away from it
It’s been 40 years since my last of 50-100 LSD Mushroom and peyote uses and I feel the same way and constantly lecture my kids as such
Even though my own memories range from outright panic to waves of joy and self realization I have seen many burnout and have dramatic personality shifts from just ONE big trip
We had some homemade LSD from Millsaps college in 73 and it did just that to one of my buddies...the dose was off the charts ...we just hung on as it got bigger and bigger and unfolded
Who funny enough he now overseas a major IT program at a huge medical complex
It didn’t necessarily harm him but he went from loud and sardonic to quiet and reserved on a dime permanently
It for sure blasts the cobwebs out
But it can also ring the self doubt bell
It doesn’t mix well with conformity but it’s been enjoyed by traditionalists just the same
Hoffman and Disney come to mind
It’s like combat prison divorce death of a spouse etc
You can’t explain what it’s like till you’ve done it
Everything else is just subjective cliche
If I liked it I wouldn’t have quit in 77
Whoops,
Purple Haze,Bro.
...and if you choom and snort coke you can be president.
Orange Sunshine
Window Pane
Windowpane was scary
One of my best friends would take three little windowpane pieces of film and press them together
And tell you later
He got killed in a small plane crash at duck camp
Had I not been in a hurry to get home and had left out early that morning from Jackson to Nashville I woulda been on it
Matthews Brake
Had a college roommate who was a serious student during the week and partied hard on weekends. He went on to get his MD, taught at an Ivy League med school, and headed a major hospital and med school complex and national medical org.
Seems like Wenners rag today is more about him
Leftist homosexuality
No place anymore for Hunter or Craig Vetter or Kronkauer(sic)
My opinion,
Window Pane was MILSPEC.
I see enough bugs and security holes in commercial software as it is...
I won’t be indulging - nitrous oxide was a bad trip. I don’t want to imagine what LSD would do to me.
...
I never made it past canned whipped cream.
I remember being given nitrous oxide by the dentist once to have a tooth pulled.
In order to convince myself it wasn't affecting me, I attempted to multiply nine by four in my head, and couldn't get the answer, I was laughing so hard...
oh wait, you meant Snarly Fiorina as a CEO, not a a rival to Trump for the GOP nomination.
...never mind.
That's odd, normally when the project calendar goes out the window, they try to make up the time by reducing the interval left to *perform* QA, so the walk-on-water coders can procrastinate more.
I never took a bad or weak dose 73-77
Now shrooms
Being a southern boy even in winter anywhere below about 31-32 degrees north and if it hit above 70 a few days in a row they popped up and matured in 36-48 hours
We’d eat them in the field 3-5 2-4 inch fresh caps and stems and you were to the moon Alice
Super intense but unlike acid it was on the downslope easy in 5-7 hours
Moody Blues music time
Peyote I thought gave the best of all worlds but rough on the tummy
We got buttons from Tuscon legal back then
I hear Ecstasy was sorta like tripping mixed with a quaalude but I’ve seen first hand X burnouts and the brain damage is well documented
I don’t even drink now but if I had time and wifey wanted I’d smoke a little weed
I DID like that I confess but life got too crowded
My only drug today if punani
Still the best!
Oh, I know haha :D
My mom loves to day don’t ask me why, to which I always immediately reply why?
I thought the same when I was younger. I used to do a lot of drugs many years ago.
I too thought it helped me connect better, but I had it bass ackwards.
All drugs do is disconnect you from everything.
It took many many years to learn that the best way to connect to anything is by being sober.
Everything else is just a jumbled mess of confusion.
It takes me a long time to learn really obvious things. I’m pretty stupid like that.
I don’t know, acid is kind of a weird drug. When you take it, it hits really hard after an hour, that peak last around 4-8 hours or so, then it levels off and last maybe another 4-5 hours.
Then it seems like an instant immunity builds in the body, and you cannot experience that again for at least 5 days. 7 days is better.
But as far as increasing doses go, if you try to take it again before waiting for that immunity to wear off, it really doesn’t matter how much you take, it won’t work. it’s like a dud firecracker.
If you take increased doses it just makes that initial peak period far more intense, but generally, the length of the entire trip is still the same.
But it gets to a point where if you did take too much, you are just tripping too damn hard and it’s not really a good time.
Many years ago when I was about 18, some friends of mine and I picked about 3 glad trash bags full of cowfield shrooms and made purple iced tea out of those.
That tea was so potent, it made acid look like amateur hour. The trip made 2 hours seem like 2 weeks in another world all together.
This was really not one of the brighter things I’ve done.
We had about 4 people picking poop shrooms. If one person had screwed up and picked a Destroying Angel and put it in the bags, everyone would be dead.
My guardian angel must have really been shaking his head at me that day >_>
Punani,,,
I’ll need some help with that fellow traveler.
70’s were wasted but I’ve been high on life since.
But anyday now,,,
Next thing ya know a bunch of acidheads will be telling us that acid is good medicine....
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