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      9 days ago

      Doing acid could change your perception of yourself for the better, if you go in with the right intentions and expectations.

      That being said, I’ve never done acid or shrooms, although I very much want to.

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        Acid certainly changed my life for the better. I used to stress out about everything. I still stress out about things now, but I have the heads-up knowledge that all of reality is a fragile thread of consciousness where my brain is tricking itself into viewing and interpreting the world around me as a stable, solid thing, when the truth is that reality is as subjective as you want it to be.

        There are no rules. You can make up and do whatever you want.

        Then I stop worrying about why I got a $5 fee for some bullshit from my bank I’ll have to call them about tomorrow.

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      I’ve never done any, but I used to work with someone who said he used to work with someone who had been a heavy acid user back in the day, but stopped.

      The intermediary said that the original user would occasionally stretch, popping his vertebrae, then have to take a brief timeout as he’d released essentially a microdose.

      I don’t know enough about drugs to know if that’s plausible (and haven’t thought about this anecdote in years) but the idea of having an unexpected trip at any moment always sounded very worrying.

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    Eh, I sometimes think that had I not ridden the magic carpet back in the day, I’d probably would not have progressed nearly as much in life.

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    I actually think everyone should have to do two things before they hit their mid-20s in order to fix most of the problems of the world:

    The first is to take a hallucinogen. Get out of your own head for a minute and see the world from a different perspective. Too many of us can’t do this.

    The second is to work as a server in a restaurant. Nuff said.

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      7 days ago

      No thanks, I’m capable of having empathy without experiencing the hell of working customer service first-hand

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      Agreed, but sometime between 22-25 would be best. Hallucinogens at too young an age can be detrimental, as this meme alludes to.

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    9 days ago

    You know all those pink and yellow suburban hells in Tim Burton movies?

    I’m just asking, it’s not relevant to the meme.

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    I did alot and now I have reading comprehension problems, so it’s good that you didn’t