My Experience "Microdosing" for a Week

Hello /r/drama. For the last week I have been microdosing the beautiful drug known as LSD, which is in my opinion the best drug ever developed along with MDMA.

I want to report my experience after being unsatisfied with the gay/kitty aesthetic of most microdosers online, who all seem to struggle with depression, don't go to the gym, etc. I do not see LSD as a soy way to "connect with nature" or anything else similarly r-slurred, but as a way to see cool things and have fun. I have noticed a similar sentiment here so I hope that this perceptive is valuable to similarly minded users who enjoy drugs for the drug part.

"Nooo bro psychedelics connect you with the earth, you have to feel the ground, feel the soil, it's spiritual!!!11!"

"Colors look neat"

Dosage/Setup

My daily dosage was roughly one fourth of a gel tab (what others might call a "needlepoint" or "windowpane" I think). I am told by my dealer that each gel is 220uq. However, I am doubtful of this since when I've compared intensity of a full tab to blotters that I know to be 100ug for a fact I have not noticed a huge difference. So based on that intuition I would place each gel at a true value of at max 120ug, making each dose roughly 25-30ug. I am aware that this is more than the typical recommended microdose but to be perfectly honest I had literally no way to cut the gels in smaller pieces, those bitches are insanely hard to slice. As a consequence of this it is highly likely that my dosage actually varied day to day from as low as 15ug to as high as 40ug. If I did this again I would probably find a way to be more exact, and ideally, use paper blotters instead of gels to start with.

I did my best to take them after I woke up and finished my morning routine of showering, brushing teeth, etc each day. This meant that I took my dose at around 8-9AM. Aligning with my typical experience with acid, that means the "peak" would be at around 10-11AM and continue until 12AM-1PM. My typical schedule entails working from 9AM-5PM each day. So in theory, the most acute effects should be felt while I was working. For this reason, I also decided to take my microdose as late as 1-2PM some days, so I could feel the effects outside of a workplace in my social life/free time.

Results

Here is just an unorganized list of thoughts but I'm happy to expand on any of them:

• I was able to plan out large scale projects easier. For my work this summer, I have to draft plans/direct others on how to accomplish tasks with multiple potential methods to success. This week, the path forward seemed much clearer, where as before it seemed easier to get caught up in "what ifs" of potential other options. I was much more willing to identify a path quickly and commit to it.

• Visually, I did not see much of anything. I guess as expected. Occasionally a wallpaper pattern would "wiggle" but nothing like a full dose would do.

• I have a mild tinnitus, which gives me ringing in my ears occasionally during period of silence. For this entire week, I did not notice any ringing.

• What I did notice, possibly in the place of ringing, is a minor "enhancement" of background noises. The crickets chirping outside seemed to be louder, the noises of an AC unit hummed a bit more, etc. I noticed that I could focus on the sounds and somewhat dissociate.

• My workouts were mostly unaffected. I did feel better after each workout, sort of a greater sense of accomplishment. However, there was one time where I was curling and the normal pump I felt turned into a much more intense sensation that my biceps were about to literally explode. So I cut my set short.

• My music taste shifted slightly to less wordy songs.

• My ego was noticeably enhanced. Just generally felt like I was better.

• I had a strange desire to begin writing. I used to write for fun when I was in high school (in college now) and I would write everything from weird satire to short stories. The past week I wrote many many pages of self reflection. I was unique, I would write down my thoughts and tying them together into sets of cohesive narratives/themes, maybe a kind of journaling? Which I have never done before.

• My s*x drive noticeably decreased, as did my desire to consume alcohol. I went out this weekend with my friends and I didn't really feel a need to drink or hit on anyone.

• Sometimes I do this thing where I neurodivergentally tend to simply not care about what people are telling me, but this week I noticed that I was more interested in listening to others.

• My memory was slightly worse. Do you know the feeling of having a thought or word at the tip of your tongue, and having to stop and think about it before it slips away? I felt that more often than usual.

• A significant person in my life actually passed away recently. I found that I would think of them more often and my memories would become more intense. However, it was mostly happy thoughts, not a sadness.

Overall, I came away feeling that the week as a positive experience. Would I do it again? I'm not sure. It was not life changing, and to be honest, a lot of my satisfaction with it probably stems from the fact that some days I was straight up just taking almost half a tab due to my neurodivergent measuring . I also don't like the prospect of being unable to use a car. I live in an urban area so I don't need to drive often, but if I do I would not want to potentially ruin my life by getting in a minor accident and then being tested. I did appreciate the small boost not only in creative energy, but the feeling that I knew the way forward.

Let me know what you guys think.