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> You are not supposed to be able to overdose on LSD (at the very least, it should not be able to kill you) Not true. LSD raises your body temperature, which c

> You are not supposed to be able to overdose on LSD (at the very least, it should not be able to kill you) Not true. LSD raises your body temperature, which can be fatal, especially in the summer. "Just take a cold shower" yeah I was too high to come up with this idea, so I was just lying in my bed being miserably hot. I'm not taking a full tab ever again because it fucks my brain to the point I cannot do basic things to ensure my own survival.

LoganDark 2y ago
Interesting. I'm sure I've experienced this effect, but I hadn't noticed that it happens to a greater degree than normal; even without LSD, I've always had a problem with overheating: I have a 12,000 BTU air conditioner pointed directly at me at all times, but still somehow manage to sometimes overheat, usually because the thing automatically turns itself off around 61°F. I had modified my last unit to ignore the temperature completely, but as of yet I can't seem to locate the thermistor in this one. (I found at least one of them, but it's somehow the wrong one. Why are there multiple?!) With that said, it would indeed be a problem for you not to be able to think well enough to perform basic self-care. At the very least, LSD is dehydrating as the body attempts to filter it out as urine, so you'd need to get that out and then drink water (or gatorade or something hydrating). I'm sure dehydration would contribute at least partially to the additional body heat. Anyway, you totally don't need LSD to suffer heat stroke in the summer. All I'd need to do is walk outside and stand there for a while. With that said, it's not exactly like generating additional body heat necessarily kills you as long as you can keep yourself cool somehow. Even if you can't, I wouldn't consider the LSD to have been the source of the death, just the overheating, which is a general failure regardless of how the overheating happened (e.g. panic attack, overexertion, etc.).
- borski 2y ago
  If the overheating happened as a side effect of the acid, and the person had generally never had issues with overheating, it’s a very small jump to say that acid caused it. That said, I’m less convinced that it raises your core body temp enough to kill you.
  - LoganDark 2y ago
    Acid caused the overheating, sure; overheating caused the death. At this point I'm nitpicking, but it's a relatively important semantic difference. Some substances can outright kill you but LSD generally will not.
    - anal_reactor 2y ago
      Driving fast is very safe, it's the sudden deceleration that's dangerous!
      - LoganDark 2y ago
        Driving fast is not safe, because there is the risk of sudden deceleration and death. But you indeed don't get killed by driving fast, you just end up killed.
    - borski 2y ago
      This kind of nit is not worth picking, imho. Jumping off a bridge doesn’t kill you; hitting the ground or water does. But not always. So is jumping off a bridge not the cause of death? Should we say blunt trauma?
      - LoganDark 2y ago
        If you jump off a bridge to your death nothing can save you. If you take something that raises your body temperature it is still possible to compensate. But yes in that case blunt trauma is the cause of death and the blunt trauma occurred because they jumped off the bridge.
        borski 2y ago
        Okay, we’ll just agree to disagree on this one.

LoganDark 2y ago

Interesting. I'm sure I've experienced this effect, but I hadn't noticed that it happens to a greater degree than normal; even without LSD, I've always had a problem with overheating: I have a 12,000 BTU air conditioner pointed directly at me at all times, but still somehow manage to sometimes overheat, usually because the thing automatically turns itself off around 61°F. I had modified my last unit to ignore the temperature completely, but as of yet I can't seem to locate the thermistor in this one. (I found at least one of them, but it's somehow the wrong one. Why are there multiple?!) With that said, it would indeed be a problem for you not to be able to think well enough to perform basic self-care. At the very least, LSD is dehydrating as the body attempts to filter it out as urine, so you'd need to get that out and then drink water (or gatorade or something hydrating). I'm sure dehydration would contribute at least partially to the additional body heat. Anyway, you totally don't need LSD to suffer heat stroke in the summer. All I'd need to do is walk outside and stand there for a while. With that said, it's not exactly like generating additional body heat necessarily kills you as long as you can keep yourself cool somehow. Even if you can't, I wouldn't consider the LSD to have been the source of the death, just the overheating, which is a general failure regardless of how the overheating happened (e.g. panic attack, overexertion, etc.).

borski 2y ago
If the overheating happened as a side effect of the acid, and the person had generally never had issues with overheating, it’s a very small jump to say that acid caused it. That said, I’m less convinced that it raises your core body temp enough to kill you.
- LoganDark 2y ago
  Acid caused the overheating, sure; overheating caused the death. At this point I'm nitpicking, but it's a relatively important semantic difference. Some substances can outright kill you but LSD generally will not.
  - anal_reactor 2y ago
    Driving fast is very safe, it's the sudden deceleration that's dangerous!
    - LoganDark 2y ago
      Driving fast is not safe, because there is the risk of sudden deceleration and death. But you indeed don't get killed by driving fast, you just end up killed.
  - borski 2y ago
    This kind of nit is not worth picking, imho. Jumping off a bridge doesn’t kill you; hitting the ground or water does. But not always. So is jumping off a bridge not the cause of death? Should we say blunt trauma?
    - LoganDark 2y ago
      If you jump off a bridge to your death nothing can save you. If you take something that raises your body temperature it is still possible to compensate. But yes in that case blunt trauma is the cause of death and the blunt trauma occurred because they jumped off the bridge.
      - borski 2y ago
        Okay, we’ll just agree to disagree on this one.