im doing acid for the 1st time on friday. i will take it proabaly around 7pm. i have work the next day at 3pm. do you think i will be completetly back to normal by then?
That said, no, you will not. Acid trips generally last 8-12 hours, at the end of which you generally crash for 8 or more hours. Its possible you wouldn't have slept, which means you still won't be anywhere near normal because the trip doesn't fully stop until you get some sleep.
That said, let me share a story I posted on another question a day or two ago.
My friends name will be Joe. The name is fake, but the story is very real.
Joke took psychadelics. It was his first time, and he took a pretty low dose to test the waters. He stayed home in the dorm with some friends who all took the same thing. Most of them had a good night. Joe looked up at some point after everything kicked in for him and realized that everyone in the room but him was burning to death. He sat on the bed as his friends screamed in pain around him. His response to this was to freak out, strip naked, and start destroying the furniture in his room.
An aside. I'm about 6'2, and 280, former football player. Imagine a hairless grizzly bear with a goatee, and you've got a fairly representational image of me. Joe was 5'10, probably about 170, limber and flexible but not brute force strong.
I could not control him. It took four of us to wrestle him to the ground, and when I talk about destroying the furniture, I mean that he pulled a wooden dresser apart with his bare hands. After an hour of us trying to restrain him as he bounded around the room like a chimp who just did five lines of coke, he got away from us, jumped off his second floor balcony, and then ran down the street, naked with his ankle now broken from the jump, screaming "911!" "911!"
He went to the hospital. Had alot of splinters. Saw pink elephants.
This could be you. And yes, every single part of what I just told you happened.
A last note.
Most of the side effects you hear associated with acid are misinformation and ignorance. The truth is, that a single standard hit of acid is about 20 micro grams, meaning a gram of acid has about twenty thousand hits in it. The actual overdose level for acid where it becomes physically poisonous to the body is somewhere around several grams taken all at once. It would take thousands upon thousands of hits to actually cause any physical damage to the body just from taking it.
The mind is another story. Acid distorts your perceptions of reality and in sufficient doses or on a person not fully mentally stable (which you can't really tell for yourself if you are or not until you've taken the hits and ridden out a trip) you could very well fuck up reality as you know it.
That's not a joke. Another story. Gary. Gary loved drugs, and sold them. He was a nice guy who basically handed money and drugs out to people as his way of expressing friendship. He got ahold of a vial of acid one night and started dosing anyone who felt like it, taking a hit himself now and then. I don't know how much he consumed, but it wasn't too much more than he usually does considering how many people he fed acid that night.
Gary never came back from that trip. He'd done it plenty before and always been fine, but whether it was one trip too much for his mind, or he had some other problems that bubbled to the surface, Gary went off the deep end. He became convinced that he was a messiah sent to rescue the dorm we lived in from the corporation, and vowed to sell enough drugs to buy the place and turn it into a little drug Disney Land where he and his friends could live in peace and join the Rainbow family. The last I heard of him he was living with his grandma in Oregon and is still clinically insane.
Acid also remains in small amounts in the spinal column. The "Acid flashbacks" you've heard about are very, very real. It varies from person to person, but most people who take it eventually have flashbacks, and so it does present something of a danger from there on. Its why they use a spinal tap drug test on pilots, can't afford for someone to sink into a 30 second acid trip in the middle of a flight full of paying customers.
This isn't Dare anti-drug propaganda or anything else of the sort. This is experience telling you that you are quite literally holding your life and your sanity in your hand and then deciding to put both of them down and walk away for a while when you drop acid.
No one can promise you you'll be able to pick either back up when you're done.
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