LSD/Summary

Main article: LSD

Psychoactive class: Psychedelic

Chemical class: Lysergamides

Sublingual

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  15	-	15	-	75	-	150	-	300	µg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 8 - 12 hours
  • Onset: 15 - 30 minutes
  • Come up: 45 - 90 minutes
  • Peak: 3 - 5 hours
  • Offset: 3 - 5 hours
  • Afterglow: 12 - 48 hours

Harm potential

• • Non-addictive with a low abuse potential
  • Extremely low toxicity relative to dose

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached almost immediately after ingestion
  • Returns to baseline after 5 days
  • Cross-tolerance with all psychedelics

Physical effects

• • Muscle contractions
  • Perception of bodily lightness
• • Bodily control enhancement
  • Stimulation
• • Appetite suppression
  • Pain relief
• • Dehydration
  • Difficulty urinating
  • Increased blood pressure
  • Increased bodily temperature
  • Increased heart rate
  • Increased perspiration
  • Increased salivation
  • Muscle twitching
  • Nausea
  • Seizure
  • Teeth grinding
  • Temperature regulation suppression
  • Vasoconstriction

Visual effects

• • Color enhancement
  • Magnification
  • Pattern recognition enhancement
  • Visual acuity enhancement
  • Visual processing acceleration
• • After images
  • Auditory distortion
  • Color shifting
  • Depth perception distortions
  • Drifting
  • Environmental patterning
  • Perspective distortion
  • Recursion
  • Scenery slicing
  • Symmetrical texture repetition
  • Time distortion
  • Tracers
• • Geometry: Eventually leads to level 8A geometry
• • Autonomous entity
  • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination
  • Perspective hallucination
  • Settings, sceneries, and landscapes
  • Transformations

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Multiple thought streams
  • Simultaneous emotions
  • Thought loop
  • Time distortion
• • Analysis enhancement
  • Creativity enhancement
  • Empathy, affection and sociability enhancement
  • Increased libido
  • Increased music appreciation
  • Increased sense of humor
  • Motivation enhancement
  • Novelty enhancement
  • Thought connectivity
• • Addiction suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Personal bias suppression

Auditory effects

• • Auditory acuity enhancement
  • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory hallucination

Multi-sensory

• • Machinescapes
  • Scenarios and plots
  • Synaesthesia

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index
• LSD (TiHKAL)