Ask Lemmy

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

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

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

The rabbits are judging you.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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