Acid flashbacks

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Weird question but any of you old hippies who took drugs back in the good ole days have any flashbacks? For me its been 25 years but every once in a while I swear I have The same feelings come over me! Not bad and not for long but sure feels like it. Is it possible? I ask my docter once and she said it could be. FESS UP DIANE!! HA!....Kirk

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

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Yes Kirk...........It does happen to me. It might be a tune, a smell, a certain environment. I used to find if very disconcerting but now I just try to enjoy it. ;>)

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Geez, from someone who didn't take the drugs, we just call that 'deja vu'! Like smelling a breeze and remembering the same smell from the wind in Florida.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Kirk, Here is my humble opinion. I think what you are feeling is the fact that the state that one can get into while on drugs is not only accessible while on drugs! It is a reality, that we are just not used to being tuned to.

One can get there, in other ways or it can just happen as it is more and more now, because the veil between worlds is lifting. The veil that we have been under through all of our earthly existence, is lifting we will be more in tune with the spirit world. See when we did drugs we got pass this veil in a way. And I don't think that it was a bad thing. Dog Gone it, God put those plants there for a reason, and maybe it was so they would open our minds! Not that I like all the craziness with all the artificle drugs and the over indulgence that happens. But I think if we had a resource like the Indians did, of getting to the spirit world, thru, fasting, chanting, sweat loges. And they had their peyote, and it was OK, to hallucinate, when the time was right. I think that if we had some kind of structure around them like this, that it would actually be good for us.

Kirk, How are you feeling when you feel this way that you speak of, Are you feeling good or bad? I remember doing some acid when I was young. I remember I could hear my cats thoughts, and a spider up on the wall, I was fascinated with watching. It was like, a part of my brain that I didn't know was there, was working and I could see things really close up. I don't think that it was all an Hallucination. I think cats really can talk to us, we just don't know how to access the part of us that knows how to hear them.

Kirk, if you are assessing this part of the brain naturally I think it is grand. Quite fascinating really!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002


Yes tren, I think you are a bit closer to the thing than julie. The "flashbacks" for lack of a better word, go beyond just a pleasant memory or a feeling of having been there before. I could best describe it as a different state of consciousness.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Kirk? What do you mean when you say "who TOOK drugs"? We were suppose to stop? Why didn't someone tell me? I just hate it when I'm the last to know something!

Wildman, (burning his stash)

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002



Well, I keep hoping I'll have some of those flashbacks everyone was warning me about! Daryll

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

You are refering to the "endorphin response" Kirk, yep, you can achieve this state of mind without continuing or even recent drug use, all you have to do is drastically affect your serotonin reuptake response in your brain, ie., either by regular aerobic exercise (not just a leisurely stroll, a real blood pumping hike), certain foods and beverages, or by pharmaceuticals, legal and otherwise.

The endorphin response is produced by your brain in response to the above things, endorphins are chemically similar to morphine, and just as powerful. So, it could be this as well, or it's just flashbacks. They happen.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002


Tren your probably right. Those drugs can't possibly still be there? It doesn't happen to often and it doesn't seem to matter how I feel. Once I looked at Barb and she turned into a little indian woman and she had a bright green forehead! Ha! Course once in a while I get the liquid wall effect! I kinda shake my head and it instantly goes away but these things make me very nervious! What if it doesn't go away. Yikes! Personally I enjoy a wall that doesn't droop. little gifts from the late 60s...Lol....Kirk

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Huh! And here all this time I just thought I was having trouble getting used to my bifocals....

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Food allergies. Yep, those food allergies can really get to you :) Brain fog and all

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002


Been having some trouble with those flaccid ash backs myself...not even...

As a former psychedelic princess, I must confess that I've never had any flashbacks that I know of! But that doesn't mean much. I haven't done any drugs in oh, 30+ years or so...

I understand, though (I think Mason Williams published this idea a long time ago) that you can get a nice visual high from putting BB shot into a straw and letting the falling BBs pulse into your open eye. One must assume he was only joking, though.

Personally I have always thought the acid flashback concept was more of a scare tactic to keep us kids from spending our allowances on LSD. But maybe not.

What are the symptoms? And how does one know it's not (just) garden variety psychosis?

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002


ROFLMAO @Wildman. Hey can I come over? Flaccid ash backs...oh STOP!! Too funny. Hubby is asking me why I am laughing..... Kirk, droopy walls would make construction a challenge eh?

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

"What are the symptoms? And how does one know it's not (just) garden variety psychosis?"

Now if we had the answer to that question wouldn't we all feel more secure. ;>) I have often wondered the same thing myself and decided "the other guy" had psychosis, I had flashbacks. LOL

"Course once in a while I get the liquid wall effect! " wow Kirk, some awesome flashbacks!!! Any voices?? This is a hoot!!! The last acid trip I took was a total no brainer. Was cleaning out the freezer and came across a couple hits of windowpane the ex and left there. Wondered if it was any good and just took them both. Sheesh.......talk about stupid. To this day I can not be driving when a certain song comes on without being quite certain what ever I am driving is dancing to the tune!!!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002


Kirk, how do you know which is real? Maybe Barb IS a little indian woman with a green forehead and what you think is the normal Barb is the flashback. :)LOL

I tried that stuff once as a teen with a group of people watching scary movies. It made me want to just crawl right out of my skin! Never again for me! Toooo scary.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2002


Shoot I never have flashbacks, guess I didn't do ENOUGH drugs! I do remember my Mom asking me once what drugs I had done. I told her it would be a shorter list if I told what drugs I had not done. She didn't ask any more questions after that. Poor Mom, God rest her soul, I was kind of hard on her when I was a teen.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2002


Diane my gosh your right! One really bad drug experience Tony Orlando was singing on the radio KNOCK 3 TIMES ON THE CEILING IF YOU LOVE ME. I get real shaky when I here that song. No voices thank God just the visual stuff

Denise: Your starting to really scare me!!!! HA!

Debra I know what you mean about our poor mommas! They really get put thru the wringer don't they? No flashbacks huh? Maybe you need to be a little more unstable like me!!! ......Kirk

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2002


If the visual is really Tony Orlando and DUH singing, then the side- effects must be horrendous! What would be the next stage? Captain and Tennile?

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2002

You guys are funny! I didn't have much experience with the chemicals, some chocolate mescaline once and a memorable weekend with peyote is about it.

I agree with Trens explanation. I recall reading in the Casteneda books that Carlos was introduced to mescalito to "loosen up" his attachment to the common take on reality, to open the doors of perception to steal a line from Aldous Huxley. Once they're opened that doorway will never be entirely closed the way I understand it but its not due to drug residue.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


John, Your right this is an interesting thread.

Kirk Aye! I've been thinking allot about your experiences. Hm, they kinda scare you and leave you wondering at your own sanity. Ya know, I find it kind of hard to understand beause I am always looking for the portal into the other worlds, I am always longing for the silence, the streams , the storms, as my means of getting there.

I cherish dreams as the reflections of the beyond. In every day life I am always waiting for a sign, looking for a message, listening for a clue.

I have to remind myself that the duality is also in everyday life, Gosh, isn't the fact that we are even here, on a planet spinning around in a universe, and the fact that these unique people meet here on this forum, isn't it all really quite a miracle. But I have to remind myself of this as I stumble through every day life.

Living in a physical body is quite limiting really, don't you think? I always feel somewhat inadequate, like there is something that I am not quite getting, I feel that I could be so much smarter if I could just relax and let my over soul guide me more.

So Kirk, does it comfort you any to know that I am a bit jeolous of you? After all I try so hard to get there and it is just happening to you! I think that we are all living many lives at once, and that everything that ever was, Is. But usually we can only see this Earth Life , what we see as reality because we haven't evolved enough to comprehend the whole of it yet. I think that there are a thousand other me's out there swimming, and a thousand other yous and we all are one when it comes right down to it. So I think that the little Indian women that you saw in your girlfriend could have been another part of her. I have had the experience of seeing of someone else in someone. Just the other day when I went to Big Bear, I looked up and saw a blonde peasant girl, barefoot with skirt and scarf. Looked very Swedish. It is always like my eyes are adjusting, ( Just like they do now that I am over forty, when I try to read something in small print, and I can feel them adjust) First I see one thing, and then my eyes adjust and I see the reality thing. So I was looking at this Swedish, barefoot girl and my eyes adjusted and I was looking at the lady who does hair over at the beauty shop, with her Auburn hair, and shoes on. I don't worry any when this happens, because you know there are more then one way to look at things, and I just figure that I am seeing some part of her. Maybe someday I will go and have her do my hair, and bring up the conversation of heritage and find out if she is of Swedish decent. That might be interesting. I don't know Kirk but what you mentioned about the song that you were on a trip with and when you hear it , it has an effect on you. could it be that just maybe it's trying to get a message to you? Knock three times on the ceiling. Knock on the ceiling Kirk! Knock on the ceiling and discover the wonders that are awaiting you. When the wall melts, Kirk, say a prayer, I wish I could hold your hand while the wall was melting, and pray for goodness and only love to filter through. Lets look at it as if it were a movie, lets look at it and see what is there. Don't be afraid. And do tell! Tell me what you see! Just relax, it won't grab you away. but is it is scary pray pray pray, for God to take the fear away and replace it with Love.

Knock, Knock, Knock

KNock on your ceiling Swim into your wall. There is more to be discovered, For WE are The Last Frontier Of all.

Trendle Ellwood

Love, Your crazy ole friend, Tren

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2002


Kirk, I'm with Denise. When we get to that point, how do we know which is real and which isn't? I had a teacher once that came into class really excited. She was seeing everything in a new light. She was around thirty and all her life she had been seeing things twice as tall as they were and half as wide. How the doctors found that out, I have no idea but you can imagine the shock it must have been for her. Anyway, I wouldn't worry about the flashbacks, it's the reality that scares me. Oh, don't try to paint those walls while they're wavy, you use way too much paint and it takes a lot longer.

Wildman, (still burning)

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2002


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