By oldshitnewshit - 22/10/2013 21:11 - United States

Today, I decided to try LSD with a few friends in a safe environment. As an artist, I had planned to spend my trip doing psychedelic paintings and had all my supplies set up. Apparently I spent most of my time in fetal position muttering about the "evil easel" and never even touched my canvas. FML
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Looking at the comments I see we've got some seriously mixed opinions about me. So, first off: Hi, I'm Juniper, I'm 23 and I'm in art school in the US. I have never tried LSD or any other kind of "hardcore" drug before this. My friend had some tabs that he had used before and asked me if I wanted to try it. I agreed, only after doing extensive research, and determining that the risk was one I was willing to take. During that research, I stumbled across some beautiful works of people who had done art under the influence and thought perhaps I could have some fun trying that as well. I'm an art student and always open to new things. My parents were also hardcore hippies back in the day, and they've told me about their psychedelic experiences. I knew my risks. I have no plans to take LSD again, although I'm not currently suffering any adverse effects aside from water tasting kinda metallic for the next 24 hours (this took place about a week ago.) And the FML is actually not entirely true, but exaggerated for comedic effect. The paranoia and muttering did not last the entire time, only about 15-30 minutes. My entire trip lasted about 9-10 hours. One of my friends decided to remove the easel when she saw that it was making me upset. I think its large, angled presence in the room was off-putting. I actually spent the majority of my time having a good trip, my friends took great care of me. And despite not touching my canvas, I made some radical drawings. I did my research, I knew my risks, I set myself up responsibly. I'm not looking for sympathy or support– I just thought I'd share my kinda funny story. Those of you who are calling me an idiot are entitled to your opinions, but you're not insulting a wall. I'm a human being that makes choices for myself. Those of you who abstain from drugs, you should be proud! That's wonderful and healthy, but please allow and do not judge me for my own choices. My experimental phase is not harmful or offensive to you. And to my fellow art junkies: I wasn't expecting to create a masterpiece, this was for fun. I'm a learning artist!

Top comments

Drugs are harmful for you regardless of how 'safe' the environment is perceived to be.

Apparently it wasn't a very safe environment if even your easel is evil.

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side note - mushrooms are not safer than lsd, if the :SD is made by a competent chemist. the chemist will make the same pure chemical every time, it will vary from mushroom to mushroom. psychedelic mushrooms are poisonous given a large enough dose, and some people have a hard time breathing while on them

not judging you, but tour research should have also included that some people can have a flashback trip many years after. Look it up.it is not benign drug.

Doing LSD in a "safe environment" is a contradiction in itself

Bravo for how you handled your experiment. Would like to see your drawings of youre willing to share

Well at least you didn't try to eat your paint or brushes.

TcheQ 12

Don't be fooled by the hype. LSD is not something to access another 'state of mind'. It's a hallucinogen. A hallucinogen is called a hallucingoen because it convinces you something that doesn't exist exists. LSD advocates have a hard time grasping this logic.

Mumbling time has come down from all day to about 10 minutes now for artistic effect or comic effect i seriously doubt if you actually took acid or just making the whole thing up to be on fml.

Ok she did something that would affect her and her only. She didn't do it for inspiration. I'm sure op could have painted incredibly without the drug but she wanted to see what would happen if she did. Do your thing op

vivalabutterfly 5

lsd can make beautiful works of art you had the right idea but it never works the few first trips. iv dobe It an uncountabke amount of times and yiu have to kniw what its like and going to do to yoy I. order to have the artist mibdset when you go into it. considering doing drugs arnt your thing its not a good idea for you to even bother trying it again.