I don't think we know enough about schizophrenia or LSD to say they are the same thing. Most of the lsd-eaters I've talked with have talked about a visual effe

I don't think we know enough about schizophrenia or LSD to say they are the same thing. Most of the lsd-eaters I've talked with have talked about a visual effect called "tracers", but the handful of schizophrenics I've talked to don't talk about tracers, but they do talk about hallucinatory voices, depression, paranoia and confusion. That said, I think that your current brain chemistry definitely affects your drug experience. If you have mental health issues, stay away from hallucinogens. Like I said in another post, I have used psilocybin. The effects I had were not typical of what most other people described. I had a whole other set of "special effects" I experienced, consistently. After talking with many people, I found that a few other people shared virtually the same hallucinatory effects, and they seemed to have ADHD or some kind of OCD or were very tech-geeky. (And, I haven't been diagnosed, but I bite my nails and have a mild hoarding problem. That's a sign of possible OCD.) So, I don't seek out this type of drug anymore.