LSD comes in a wide assortment of sizes, colours, and forms, ranging from small square tablets to “vial” LSD, also known as liquid LSD. Regardless of it’s form or appearance, LSD poses serious physical and mental effects when taken by humans. When comparing the physical and mental effects, the physical consequences of ingesting or consuming this drug are a walk in the park compared to the mental side-effects. Examining the acute physical repercussions, LSD causes pupil dilation, sleepiness, dry mouth, sweating, and chills. More chronic physical repercussions include intense tremors, hypothermia, cardiovascular collapse, and insomnia. Long term users are more likely to develop a rapid tolerance to this drug, meaning they are required to
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Many are familiar with the whole idea that LSD alters the mind to view strikingly rich colours and questionable hallucinations. These are not the only limitations. LSD enables the user to adopt an impaired sense of time perception and distorted recognition of different objects and their shapes and sizes; everything seems to be moving and shifting before the users eyes with every second that passes. However, the abilities of LSD to transform how someone views the world when under the influence is frightening when the user experiences a “bad trip”. Bad trips transpire mostly when a new user takes the drug, or when someone who has experienced a traumatic situation, is depressed or suicidal, or is unhappy during the time of consumption. These trips cause panic attacks, suicidal thoughts and tendencies, frightful and petrifying images or hallucinations of monsters or other frightful figures, and self-harm. For example, a man seriously injured himself after a bad LSD trip, landing him in the emergency room. Believing he had insects under his skin, he cut himself open in attempts to get rid of the critters he thought were infesting his body. In fact, many of LSD related injuries and deaths are due to the vivid hallucinations portraying horrifying images, causing the user to inflict harm on themselves or others around them. Long term users may also develop psychosis
Many are familiar with the whole idea that LSD alters the mind to view strikingly rich colours and questionable hallucinations. These are not the only limitations. LSD enables the user to adopt an impaired sense of time perception and distorted recognition of different objects and their shapes and sizes; everything seems to be moving and shifting before the users eyes with every second that passes. However, the abilities of LSD to transform how someone views the world when under the influence is frightening when the user experiences a “bad trip”. Bad trips transpire mostly when a new user takes the drug, or when someone who has experienced a traumatic situation, is depressed or suicidal, or is unhappy during the time of consumption. These trips cause panic attacks, suicidal thoughts and tendencies, frightful and petrifying images or hallucinations of monsters or other frightful figures, and self-harm. For example, a man seriously injured himself after a bad LSD trip, landing him in the emergency room. Believing he had insects under his skin, he cut himself open in attempts to get rid of the critters he thought were infesting his body. In fact, many of LSD related injuries and deaths are due to the vivid hallucinations portraying horrifying images, causing the user to inflict harm on themselves or others around them. Long term users may also develop psychosis