If I'm still just on the acid trip I started July 24th 2005 what types of things would you say to convince me this isnt a hallucination?

Hey it's me, I'm you from the year 2028. The only way out is to take more lsd but we didn't realize it soon enough and now global warming (we're calling it that again) has made the necessary ingredients impossible to source. You have to take a lot more acid right now in order to break out.

Godspeed traveler.

Oh shit. Do I listen?
- I mean it seems irresponsible not to.

Acid doesn't take 20 years to metabolize. :)

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/lsd-abuse/how-long-system-body

"The half-life of LSD is 3.6 hours, which means it takes about that amount of time for half of the dose to be cleared from the bloodstream.4"

So, say you took a typical dose of 25μg to 150μg, 3.6 hours later you have 1/2 that... 12.5 to 75. Another 3.6 hours later, 6.25 to 37.5.

After even just a few days it would essentially be nothing. It's no longer detectable in hair past 90 days.

So if he is still trippin, you telling me this cat took 120g of acid?
- ... More like 2.510^728 grams. Which would be like taking the number of particles in the (observable) universe, making a new universe for each one, then taking the number of particles in all those universes and making a universe for each one... 9 levels deep. That many grams.
  (Every time I say universe I mean observable)
  Edit: Oops, I forgot it's 20 years, not just one. I think that's Multiply both the 728 and the 9 by 20.
  Yeah, got better numbers from a better calculator:
  1.8e14665 grams
  That's 183 levels of universes of universes.
Ok, I dig it. What about perception of time. Got any info on that?
- I would suggest that's possibly a different issue and to see a medical professional
Never looked into the half life but first time it took like 6-7 hours to see the ceiling swirl nicely. I wouldn't assume many days lasting though. The wired framed mech I wanted to see out my 3rd story window at like 4am was beat though, especially when I made it walk back and forth.
But after many times, including after seeing the Teletubbies sun face randomly (actually not even the most awesome hallucination that trip), after 12 hours I was mostly sober.
Other time I recall was about 10 hours after first dropping went to a rave and got home,I saw some fun colours in the shower water, into infinity between the tiles, then yelled a Madeline cartoon cause they left their luggage 3 scenes before they checked in and had it next to them again..then went to bed and was all tired later cause my sleeping schedule was mixed up.
I wouldn't think it last longer than say 12 hours unless other factors are in play.
Edit forgot to say, most of my acid trips I saw no more than stucco ceiling swirling for a hallucination. So don't take these experiences as standard...well maybe the watching that Madeline episode that was stupid continuity but expected for a tv show made for kids.

There is no way someone could hallucinate such a boring dystopia.

You dont know the banality of my id
- You used a word that has "anal" in it.
  \ Point: me
dude, better boring than exciting

Considering I was born on 2005-07-22 (on Lemmy and in RL), that would be a very good explanation for life.

Born in 2005? Shouldn't you be in like, middle-
Oh fuckkkkkkkkkk
... Gorgug? 🥹😱

Dude. That table lamp. Something's fucky about it, don't you think? I can't quite put my finger on it.

The rabbits are judging you.

I have pet rabbits and they absolutely were judging me while I was on shrooms
But rabbits are always judgemental little bastards so they can suck itttt.

˙ssᴉɯɐ sʞool ƃuᴉɥʇʎuɐ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ ƃuᴉǝǝs puɐ ʇuǝɯuoɹᴉʌuǝ ɹnoʎ ƃuᴉuᴉɯɐxǝ ʎq ʎlqɐqoɹd 'ƃuᴉʇɐuᴉɔnllɐɥ ǝɹ,noʎ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ llǝʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ʎluO ˙plnoɔ I ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹns ʇou ɯ,I

𝄩 ᴟᗆᗜጠ 𝄩⊣ ⊂ᓀ ⊣ェጠ ᓬᗆ⌐⌐ ϖ⊂⊣ ᔕᴒᗆᓓጠᗜ ⊣O ᔕ⊣ጠᓀ Oᴝ ⊣ェጠ ᴒጠ𝄩⌐𝄩ᴝᘏ

"You shouldn't have said that. Now, everyone's laughing at you behind your back. And there's a spider in your hair."

Calm down there Satan.

I read that as 24 July 2025 and was impressed you tripped so hard you traveled back in time.

Same! 🤣 I didn't notice until seeing the comments. But, then again, I'm also currently taking a neighbor's Blue Dream cultivar for a test drive, so 🤷🏼‍♂️
- Looks fun, enjoy!

Actually, I'd rather YOU convince me it isn't.

It’s July 23, 2005. You haven’t taken any acid yet.

If you feel like you're starting to come out of it, bring us back there with you.

Luckily you would have never existed or only exist as some pseudo version of yourself here.
- So I may shed my mortal flesh and exist as a shadow being upon the tapestry of the mind of another?
  Sure yeah, I'm down

Nothing. Your better off.

Have you looked around? Things got fucking weird.
- exactly. don't stop taking drugs kids.

This actually is still a hallucination, but also not. The acid made you realize that there is fundamentally no difference between reality and unreality, and that existence and nonexistence are the same thing. There is no "substance" to the universe, and the acid made you realize this.

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I probably wouldn't try to convince you that it's not a hallucination, but rather ask "so what if it is?".

For example, I'm fairly sure that I'm not currently tripping, but I am also certain that my brain is the ultimate unreliable narrator. How do I know if any of this is real, or ever has been real? What does "real" even mean? Honestly, I don't know, but ultimately it doesn't change anything about how I choose to act in life

There are a number of reality checks that you can do to check whether you're awake or (lucid) dreaming. I would suggest that you try some of those.

For example, apparently your hands always look odd in dreams. They might seem fine until you try to focus on them, then suddenly you'll notice they're the wrong colour or shape or have the wrong number of fingers.

There are also some other reality checks in that Wiki if you're feeling bored.

Count the fingers in your head or out loud. They may have the wrong number of fingers, the number may change while you try to count them, the fingers can be deformed and keep on changing when you look at them.
Ah shit, my suspicion was correct - I'm an AI, and a bad one at that. Now I know why the world around me doesn't feel real.
- I don't have any fingers in my head! Does that mean this is all just a bad trip?
- Reverse Turing test?

You don't remember? It's still 2005, you just somehow took 4 full hits of DMT

That sounds lovely, NGL. 🥰

Considering how popular lamps are on lemmy right now, I'd say you might figure it out on your own

edit: direct link

Fuck that, I'd ask if you have more.

Now, I feel like I'm tripping. I was there about a year ago — and I've never been to KY before or after. WTF? 😶

nobody could make this up alone, so we're all in this illusion together, i guess

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/boltzmann

I'd probably just go over historical events in depth since then and argue that dreams are typically not this detailed, even if they do feel detailed. Barring that, I'd say that even if this is your hallucination, it's better to try to act normal and not do anything rude/dangerous in case it isn't.

I don't have any experience with acid trips, but I have a small bit of experience lucid dreaming. Not much. For me the clue was that mirrors don't work. My dreams are in third person (but so is my imagination). But when I look in a mirror in a dream it's never shown me my face. It always shows me the back of my head. Imagine you're standing in front of a screen and have a camera behind you. The camera is streaming to the screen. That's what mirrors look like in my dream (without the trippy infinite images, it isn't recursive lol).

More specifically I'd say is go over events and be consistent in recalling then repeatedly. Dreams at least are too shuffled for that unless you're like, super lucid, and even then it seems to only maintain for so long.
- Yeah, people always say things like "how can my dreams be so detailed if I only remember the past few minutes" and then when you listen to them it's never really more than a few minutes of story. Yes, it can be in depth and detailed, but your brain just isn't recording anything.

If you are still, then it would be lying to convince you otherwise.

You are, this is just the first you’ve been able to get back through to yourself.

That nots how acid trips work, I don't believe you.

Fair
- Don't mind them, Rocket Man, they do everything at an old master's pace. 🐌 They'll get there, eventually. You goan nah, catch those stars.

9/11 was the start of the downfall. It really has become that ridiculous.

so if you are still tripping, how so we try and convince you you're not?

that doesn't sound nice lol

You must have better acid than me, it mostly just makes me see patterns and have strange thoughts and definitely doesn't last 20yr.

Reality is the hallucination we choose to believe is real. We get reinforcement from those around us that the hallucination is the "real" one, not knowing that their hallucination and ours are completely different.

And of course being wilfully oblivious that right behind our hallucinations where we can't see is the empty void

Those around us are part of our hallucination. Just me all the way down.

Yeah.... I'mma try to convince myself that I am part of that hallucination, and all this shitballs that's been happening the past 6 years was part of it and nothing is real.

Are you on a permo? A permanent trip?
https://youtu.be/BHbZD68SGoE