Norman Ohler

Because what happens in the brain is basically that the default mode network receives less energy and other parts of the brain there think more, communicate better.

So if this happens for the first time, like your brain maybe is totally surprised by this, like,

firework that's going on and then creates like hallucinations that somehow make sense of it like there's a lot of things firing and then so you see things that maybe are not there but that's not usual on an lsd trip like you don't have i've never had such hallucinations afterwards again you know what's the usual experience uh on lsd

It really depends on the dosage.

If you microdose, it's just like drinking an espresso that lasts maybe for two, three hours in a very pleasant way.

So you're just slightly buzzed.

Is it visual artifacts?

No.

Color?

Then you would take like more.

Maybe if you take 50 micrograms, you start, the colors become more intense.

But if you take a microdose of 10 micrograms, nothing happens.

A trip starts with about 100 micrograms.

And then you could see maybe it would be like I took a swimming trip in Thailand in January and I took about 200 micrograms, which is quite a lot.

I just, because it was so beautiful on this island and it was kind of, will it be more beautiful if I'm on LSD now?

And of course, every LSD trip also,

tells you about your life like some things you didn't understand suddenly you you see like oh it's like this like you it's very good for you know reflecting on your life but it's also a lot of fun so i swam for like three hours through the ocean which is something you usually don't do you know i like swimming but after like 10 minutes or 20 minutes i go out but i was swimming and swimming and uh so

I mean, when the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Sandoz, developed LSD in 1943, they were having the

To solve the big question, what is it good for?

Albert Hoffman, a chemist, he found it basically involuntarily.