Question about flashbacks

[mrdevious]

I've heard people talking about how they've had flashbacks from acid, DXM, maybe some other stuff, and I was just wondering what these flashbacks are like? Do you actually like see what you saw before, or relive a memory like you're there again, or what's the deal here?

[RedRainDrop]

I've heard people talking about how they've had flashbacks from acid, DXM, maybe some other stuff, and I was just wondering what these flashbacks are like? Do you actually like see what you saw before, or relive a memory like you're there again, or what's the deal here?

i find flashbacks are just feelings of the trip coming back, A few days after i took shrooms one time, i didnt eat all day, and went out all day in the sun, smoking reef, so i came home all burnt out and really hot and exausted, and went to take the milk jug out of the fridge to drink it, but instead i was struck by a strong dizzyness, i felt as if i was really fucked up off shrooms. After literally dropping and picking up the jug about 5 times, i had half a glass of milk, i was sitting at the computer, and looking at a picture of a person on a cd case, and their face morphed to fuck. I think this just occured because i had heat stroke. But it definately some how made feelings of the shrooms come back. Not visuals , but strong CEVS, and dizzyness were what i felt.

[mrdevious]

makes me wonder what heat stroke is really capable of. I've only had it 2 times, when I was a kid, and the first time I remember I was coming home in the car, very sick from the stroke, and when we got out of the car there was a bunch of ants on the ground, but I saw them as purple beatles :confused: . yeah I know, that doesnt' sound right to me either lol .

[RedRainDrop]

I think it heatstroke can create hallucinations.

[Aristotle]

It's a myth. I even believed it, and everyone I know that takes LSD still believes it, too. It's just really good DEA propaganda to slow the traffiking of LSD and to stop the uninformed from consuming lots of it.


LSD does not form "crystals" that reside in the body to be "dislodged" later, causing flashbacks. LSD is a crystalline solid (though it is unlikely that one would ever have enough to be visible to the naked eye) but it is easily water soluble, thus cannot form bodily deposits. Furthermore, it is metabolized and excreted in hours. The bogus "loosened crystal" description in not necessary to explain flashbacks, which are psychological phenomena (see FLASHBACKS).

LSD does not cause chromosome damage.

And then.. when you go the Flashbacks section:

A simple explanation of LSD flashbacks, and of their changed character after 1967, is available. According to this theory, almost everybody suffers flashbacks with or without LSD. Any intense emotional experience--the death of a loved one, the moment of discovery that one is in love, the moment of an automobile smashup or of a narrow escape from a smashup--may subsequently and unexpectedly return vividly to consciousness weeks or months later. Since the LSD trip is often an intense emotional experience, it is hardly surprising that it may similarly "flash back."

So basically, do not take more than 1 or 2 hits of acid. This way, your experience won't be that detrimental psychologically, and in turn, your chances of having flashbacks are greatly reduced.