In swims misspent youth, mid to late 90s, he took 'lsd' quite often. Swim agrees with much of the thread starter. especially the colors, though the red perhaps shifted towards magenta a bit. Swim did experience stomach trouble though often this was end of experience when you start to realize you havent eaten in a while yet still are not ready to eat. Often objects seemed to have duplicates of themselves in the two shades at slightly different perspectives as a common visual distortion, mixxed wih the crawling and breathing that is common to many tryptamines.
Much of the lsd that swim took was very similar, a little speedy, 4-5 hours of 'tripping' then a few hours of being altered but surely not peaking. There was slight bodyloads, we all know them wanting to yawn, muscle tension, not neccissarily bad, and the little dry spot in the back of your throat. Swim indulged in all sort of situations, home with oblivous parents, later at home not living with parents, at school, at parties supervised and not, as well as eveyone doses and alone, and all by his lonesome, and even once with his father when he was much older. More than a few times swim ingaged in pissing contest with a few other male friends, basically daring eachother to take more. We knew nothing of other 'psychedelics' that were active in such small quantities. I can see in my age that those pissing contest could have gone very badly had we gotten something passed off as lsd. A few batches stood out though.
Black Gel:
These were black pyramids made of some melt in your mouth, over a few minutes, hardend 'gel' substance, they had 2 gold flecks in one of the facets. They taisted unmistakably like a vitamin c tablet.
I took these many times. Onset at around 45 min sometimes sooner or maybe just felt that way. These felt very much like the familiar lsd, with a few differences. Little bit clearer head, not speedy at all relaxing even, no body load, other than the fuzzy fizzy feeling, if you concider that load, and very good visuals. In addition to the common distortions, wood grain becoming thosands of faces, seeing entire cities in a bottle of water, and a sheet/wallpaper of hallucinations effect like some of us have become familiar with in another substance. But not so complex, one example I was looking at my ceiling and saw a sheet of pink flowers with yellow centers rotaiting in unison against the white ceiling. Also I heard hillarious cartoon sounds on a few of the experiences boioioiongs and such.
I still have yet to run into anything concidered lsd as wonderful as this batch.
White Magic:
This was whitish blotter, oversized, had feint ~s aranged in a diamond. It taisted bitter.
I was given this hit, was about to throw a party and was being given a preview of what had just come in and would be there. I think nothing of being told this is a new batch of some crazy acid. At the time lsd was common, and this had come from a source that had supplied good stuff many times before. I popped the hit at work, as i was heading home, about 5 minutes away.
Home listening to some tunes, smoked a joint to relax from work. Hour later I realized I should be tripping by now. Smoked another joint and put on, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, by the second cd im am getting alerts but they are different that I am used to. I feel cold and a little numbed, as aposed to the fluttering fizzy warmth of the familiar lsd. Then on thru the eyes of ruby it hits, and hard.
I feel like the air is made of lead, myself feels the same, rushing hard. The tassles on the persian style rugs hung as curtains are twisting and writhing like snakes, the rugs on the floor are flapping in that i can even catch glimpses of their underside, and the ceiling is dripping what can only be described as yellow highlighter juice. Body feels toxic, stomach feels bloated, the surroundings take on a strobing flickering effect like watching a very old film.
I knew I was in trouble. Weve all been to omg im gonna die, this was different though, as i realize im am not really in psychedelic headspace, i am more agitated than anything, and was worried about my health more than thinking i was about to die.
About 8 or 9 hours later things have settled down a bit. No longer rushing so hard and the lead thing has diminished, but i am still hallucinating quite heavily. Object are cycling through the entire color spectrum, especially white objects, the yellow highlighter juice has persisted, the strobing is not so bad. I tried to sleep a few times to no avial, until the next evening. Visual distortions remained even after that sleep though much lighter and faded over the next few days.
This is my only experience with a reported 'psychedelic' that I would concider a bad trip. Felt like I had had the hell beat out of me, and left me emotionally numb for a long time, several months. I do not think this would have been so bad had I not expected the familiar lsd.
Now after being more learned of other substances I suspect that the black gels we all cherished were perhaps ald-52, and the white magic was one of the DOxs.