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Hey it's me, I'm you from the year 2028. The only way out is to take more lsd but we didn't realize it soon enough and now global warming (we're calling it that again) has made the necessary ingredients impossible to source. You have to take a lot more acid right now in order to break out.
Godspeed traveler.
Oh shit. Do I listen?
I mean it seems irresponsible not to.
You dont have to be responsible for me. I just have questions, yo.
FWIW, it's the shrooms that've always hidden treasure for me in the hairline-fractures of reality. I'd be more likely to listen to the cracks in the walls than a colossal T-Rex knockoff... especially in 2028. 😶
scans the endless, post-apoc horizon for bawksign 😅
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.
So if he is still trippin, you telling me this cat took 120g of acid?
... More like 2.5*10^728 grams. Which would be like taking the number of particles in the (observable*) universe, making a new universe for each one, then taking the number of particles in all those universes and making a universe for each one... 9 levels deep. That many grams.
(*Every time I say universe I mean observable)
Edit: Oops, I forgot it's 20 years, not just one. I think that's Multiply both the 728 and the 9 by 20.
Yeah, got better numbers from a better calculator:
1.8e14665 grams
That's 183 levels of universes of universes.
Whoooaa
Ok, I dig it. What about perception of time. Got any info on that?
I would suggest that's possibly a different issue and to see a medical professional
I saw an ad for a frontier psychologist in the paper the other day, maybe ill try that.
Dexter is criminaly insane, this boy needs therapy!
There is no way someone could hallucinate such a boring dystopia.
You dont know the banality of my id
You used a word that has "anal" in it.
Point: me
Considering I was born on 2005-07-22 (on Lemmy and in RL), that would be a very good explanation for life.
Born in 2005? Shouldn't you be in like, middle-
Oh fuckkkkkkkkkk
Dude. That table lamp. Something's fucky about it, don't you think? I can't quite put my finger on it.
˙ssᴉɯɐ sʞool ƃuᴉɥʇʎuɐ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ ƃuᴉǝǝs puɐ ʇuǝɯuoɹᴉʌuǝ ɹnoʎ ƃuᴉuᴉɯɐxǝ ʎq ʎlqɐqoɹd 'ƃuᴉʇɐuᴉɔnllɐɥ ǝɹ,noʎ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ llǝʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ʎluO ˙plnoɔ I ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹns ʇou ɯ,I
𝄩 ᴟᗆᗜጠ 𝄩⊣ ⊂ᓀ ⊣ェጠ ᓬᗆ⌐⌐ ϖ⊂⊣ ᔕᴒᗆᓓጠᗜ ⊣O ᔕ⊣ጠᓀ Oᴝ ⊣ェጠ ᴒጠ𝄩⌐𝄩ᴝᘏ
"You shouldn't have said that. Now, everyone's laughing at you behind your back. And there's a spider in your hair."
Calm down there Satan.
I read that as 24 July 2025 and was impressed you tripped so hard you traveled back in time.
Same! 🤣 I didn't notice until seeing the comments. But, then again, I'm also currently taking a neighbor's Blue Dream cultivar for a test drive, so 🤷🏼♂️
Looks fun, enjoy!
Actually, I'd rather YOU convince me it isn't.
It’s July 23, 2005. You haven’t taken any acid yet.
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.
If you feel like you're starting to come out of it, bring us back there with you.
Nothing. Your better off.
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
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.
Count the fingers in your head or out loud. They may have the wrong number of fingers, the number may change while you try to count them, the fingers can be deformed and keep on changing when you look at them.
Ah shit, my suspicion was correct - I'm an AI, and a bad one at that. Now I know why the world around me doesn't feel real.
I don't have any fingers in my head! Does that mean this is all just a bad trip?
Reverse Turing test?
Fuck that, I'd ask if you have more.
Considering how popular lamps are on lemmy right now, I'd say you might figure it out on your own
edit: direct link
You don't remember? It's still 2005, you just somehow took 4 full hits of DMT
That sounds lovely, NGL. 🥰
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).
Well, you could scroll through my post history, find "Edgegrazer" from 2 months ago (11 May 2025), learn it was taken the old mill at Raven Run Nature Sanctuary in Lexington, KY, go there, and you'll be in the same place I was tripping LSD (and a number of other fancy things).
There has to be some point that reasonable doubt prevails.
If you are still, then it would be lying to convince you otherwise.
You are, this is just the first you’ve been able to get back through to yourself.
