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- From: f0358@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: LSD the poop is straight
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.110257.5683@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:02:57 GMT
- Organization: Wright State University
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- Lysergic-acid diethylamide
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- When ingested into the human body, LSD act as 5-HT (Serotonin) autoreceptor
- inhibitor, thus it is a 5-HT agonist. LSD increases the level of active 5-HT
- molecules by disaffecting their autoreceptors (a safeguard type feature in the
- brain which reduces levels of certain neurotransmitter and the like).
- Serotonin, if I am correct, is not THE inhibitor neurotransmitter in the brain,
- as it is like other neurotransmitter in that it is both inhibitor and
- excitatory depending on location and circumstance. 5-HT has been implicated in
- certain behaviors, notably dreaming and sleep, which explains the hallucinatory
- effect. We are in effect dreaming while completely awake and aware.
- I for one have never actually hallucinated in that I have seen things that were
- in fact not there. I have however had perceptual distortions of the visual and
- auditory kind (things sound weird and unattached to their emittors, the floor
- and walls seem wavy) The feelings I associate with LSD trips are calmness,
- peace, empowerment, disattachment from the present reality, and most notably
- the pleasant feeling that this reality is nothing compared to what can be. The
- most I have ever done in one sitting is four hits. It was neat. That is all
- that can be said.
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- If anyone sees an error in my post, please feel free to check me on it or them.
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- Nova Novalis
-