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In large part that amounts to a combination of dosage and mental set. Alcohol even presents similar issues. If you're in a bad mood, drinking can make you angr

In large part that amounts to a combination of dosage and mental set. Alcohol even presents similar issues. If you're in a bad mood, drinking can make you angry and violent. If you're in a good mood it can make you relax. There's definitely a more amplified effect in the case of acid, but it's the same principle.

pmoriarty 9y ago
The thing is, with acid it's much, much more complicated. You could start off in a great mood, but the trip could turn in to a nightmare. You could start in a horrible mood, and the trip could be wonderful. As Humphry Osmond famously said, "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic." The problem is, you don't know which you'll be doing in a given trip, and it's not uncommon to do both in the same trip, even bouncing from one to the other many times. There are many, many factors that play in to this, some of which are mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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- problems 9y ago
  So you're suggesting that it's purely random and that your faculties do not play into it at all or at least in any significant way?
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    It could be chaotic-but-deterministic, rather than random, and the above description could still be accurate.
  - pavement 9y ago
    Put it this way. Over the course of 12 hours, how many times does your mood change? Before your first cup of coffee, after a long day at work, getting stuck in traffic, going for a bike ride, feeling the embrace of your significant other. Seeing them flirt with your best friend, and your best friend flirting back. Now, take any 4 weekends from the past six months and compare them, what was on your mind for each Saturday and Sunday? Count the things you might think about in a span of time for any day off. Now, imagine that thrown into the middle of that, your friend shows you, in the palm of their hand, two tabs of acid. Add psychedelic state to all your shifts in mood, stream of consciousness and common distractions, and dredge up the baggage of memories reaching back into your childhood, and include existential questions about what it means to exist.

pmoriarty 9y ago

The thing is, with acid it's much, much more complicated. You could start off in a great mood, but the trip could turn in to a nightmare. You could start in a horrible mood, and the trip could be wonderful. As Humphry Osmond famously said, "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic." The problem is, you don't know which you'll be doing in a given trip, and it's not uncommon to do both in the same trip, even bouncing from one to the other many times. There are many, many factors that play in to this, some of which are mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

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problems 9y ago
So you're suggesting that it's purely random and that your faculties do not play into it at all or at least in any significant way?
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  It could be chaotic-but-deterministic, rather than random, and the above description could still be accurate.
- pavement 9y ago
  Put it this way. Over the course of 12 hours, how many times does your mood change? Before your first cup of coffee, after a long day at work, getting stuck in traffic, going for a bike ride, feeling the embrace of your significant other. Seeing them flirt with your best friend, and your best friend flirting back. Now, take any 4 weekends from the past six months and compare them, what was on your mind for each Saturday and Sunday? Count the things you might think about in a span of time for any day off. Now, imagine that thrown into the middle of that, your friend shows you, in the palm of their hand, two tabs of acid. Add psychedelic state to all your shifts in mood, stream of consciousness and common distractions, and dredge up the baggage of memories reaching back into your childhood, and include existential questions about what it means to exist.