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There's no way to really explain it. It sort of cleanses you mind of the normal cognitive "filters" through which you shape the world you experience. So you get this rush of pure unmediated sensory experiences. You hear things you've never heard, see significance in things you would never notice before, generally pick up on thousands and thousands of minute details that form a total and all enveloping mosaic of reality. Don't mean to sound New Agey here, but that's what it's like.

At smaller doses you start to see hallucinations, but they're more like "ambiguated perceptions" for lack of a better word. You look at the telephone cord dangling off the edge of a table, for example, and it looks like dangling vibrating jungle vine. You know it's not, but it looks like it. At higher doses, however, you can't tell the difference so you really have to be careful. One time I took 8 hits and I had this stucco wall pattern on the wall of my living room. I just stared at the wall for about two hours as Pizarro's conquest of the Incas played itself out. I shit you not, that's exactly what happened. Meanwhile I didn't even realize I knew that much about it. But as I was watching, I began to spontaneously "remember" every single thing I had read about the Incas. It was like the the normal access to the depths of my mind, which had been a pinprick, were now suddenly opened up to the size of the Holland tunnel and there was nothing stopping it.

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Good explanation Zenman.

LSD in the right circumstances has the potential to be a very beautiful and engaging drug(at high doses, 10 to 50 of todays blotter hits).

However, I much prefer mescaline(peyote). For me it combines, and even surpasses, the insights of LSD, but has a much more euphoric tone. It's almost like taking LSD and ecstasy at the same time, candyflipping. It's more pure than that, but that's about the best I can express it.

Psilocybin(mushrooms, predominantly found in cow shit) is also a nice psychedelic. It's a bit cleaner than LSD, and I think more educational and inspiring if one takes enough.