Urbandn legends about LSD

Most outlandish or most familiar? Being legally insane after 11 trips or something was always the one I heard!

No idea what 'Urbandn' means.

xpost - well I voted for the one I found funniest.

gotta be the OJ

Suggest Urbandn

baby in oven, man, can't tell you how many babysitting jobs i ruined cuz of my lsd addiction.

I kind of hate urban drug myths from hearing them told straight-faced too many times. I'm gonna vote bananadine just cos it encourages fruit consumption.

version of the 'orange juice guy' I heard was he thought he was an orange, got a knife and proceeded to peel himself.

voted strychnine cuz I got some shitty 'strychy' acid in my day (plus love the song by The Sonics)

bad acid. bad bad acid
tbh heard all of these. i know that dude who thinks he is glass of orange juice, he was in my gym class

also dried out some banana peels and smoked them through a pipe made from brass fittings

Retention of LSD in spinal fluid

I remember dudes out in the "smoking section" of my high school giving each other amateur chiropractic adjustments.

...trying to give each other flashbacks.

one kid got hit in the head w/a football and never stopped tripping

No idea what 'Urbandn' means.

^ trippin

version of the 'orange juice guy' I heard was he thought he was an orange, got a knife and proceeded to peel himself.

Yeah, that's the version I've heard too, never heard the "glass of orange juice" variation before.

Another urban myth: In x (i've heard both US states and Germany mentioned), acid is treat so harshly by the legal system that selling a single tab is always prosecuted as attempted manslaughter/murder...

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'thought he could fly' is the grandaddy of these, no? also most boring but odd that its not on there

forgot what the 'blue star' thing had turned into by the time it got to my junior high (via the school administration), i wanna say tmnt but that don't sound right.

flintstones

I love "baby in the oven/microwave."

i guess our 'blue star' variant were the Goofy Stamps being handed out to elementary schoolkids by the Big Bad Pusherman. he must have kept them in his jacket next to the Wacky Tabaccy and pixie sticks filled with angel dust.

Man permanently thinks he is a glass of orange juice

never heard this one before! It is hilarious.

version of the 'orange juice guy' I heard was he thought he was an orange, got a knife and proceeded to peel himself.

In the "orange juice" version I heard, he poked out his eye with a straw.

that's just crazy - that would mean he wanted to drink himself.

Angel dust has better urbandn legends imo.

And better urbandn actual real-life shit! I've been hearing a lot more about PCP lately. Maybe it's making some kind of a comeback?

It's a really bad drug for stupid people.

what's a good drug for stupid people

Alcohol.

Weed. They're far less likely to do themselves harm.

i hope hipsters bring back angel dust. always wanted a retro-drug craze to happen so I can score some ludes and bennies and reds and STP.

No one would've thunk ketamine would ever enjoy its current trendy status.

ludes are apparently back, someone was arrested for dealing or holding them fairly recently in california. I'm not sure where they came from but someone was remanufacturing them.

What exactly are ludes, some kind of opiate or something?

they're awesome

:)

one of my favorite bad books is 'Ludes' by Ben "Bueller, Bueller" Stein about Lenny and his descent from yuppie SoCal real estate stud to junkie ludewhore. it was later updated to cocaine and made into an even worse movie - 'The Boost' starring James Woods and Sean Young.

!!!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HHV8H99KL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

!!!

holy shit, would love to read that book.

it really is some kind of wonderful

now if you want a classic about the subject at hand, hunt for this bad boy about my main man The Acid King

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/sayyoulove.jpg

Ah, that explains a Dead Milkmen reference I never got. Thanks!

i kinda wonder why it is, out of all things and all possible beverages, that "a glass of orange juice" is the thing an urban-legendary burnout imagines himself to be.

There was one when I used to indulge that said drinking a glass of orange juice would end the trip instantly.

Well, I remember the conventional wisdom being that ingesting large amounts of vitamin C would boost your tripping experience. Once I stumbled upon a friend outside a grocery store with a bagfull of oranges just stuffing his face while he waited for his hits to kick in. Maybe the legend has some roots in that.

At any rate, there's something about acid and oranges.

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ya - i thought the vitamin C was suppose to KILL your trip! to this day i won't drink OJ whilst stoned.

on pot.

but i heard it affects lsd too.

Excellent poll.

"I smoked pot laced with PCP" is another drug urban myth. I think I've had at least 15 people tell me this, usually people who never smoked it again. I think they just had classic firstish-time-being superhigh-panic-attack.

Like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU

That's amazing.

The LSD urban myth I heard the most was that 8 doses made you "legally insane," like you could go get a diploma after it from the insane asylum or something.

i actually smoked erb that i thought had been laced with something many moons ago. i'd smoked for years so it def was not a first time thing - still have no clue to this day what was going on there.

Destined to become an urban legend:

Gay man takes huge dose of LSD and injures his roommate by hitting him over the head with a 12-inch glass penis - charged with assault with deadly weapon

re: "I smoked pot laced with PCP" is another drug urban myth.

mark mothersbaugh: http://acid-age.blogspot.com/2010/07/only-time-in-my-life-i-smoked-angel.html

entertaining blog, btw

One of my best buds smoked PCP-laced weed. After a weekend of thinking he had gone insane, his sister took him to the ER. The doctors tested him & everything, it was PCP. I've heard this story from him, his mom, and his sister. I don't think it's common but OTOH it can't be entirely a myth along the lines of babysitter cooking babby on acid.

I first heard the OJ/orange urban legend back in high school in connection with Syd Barrett's freakout. "Yeah man, Syd took acid every day for a year until he thought he was an orange! That's what the song 'Apples And Oranges' is about!"

Not in the poll, but anyone else hear of the dude on acid who painted everything in his apartment black... including TV screen, light bulbs, etc.? If not, maybe he was real!

I heard Jimi Hendrix did that to an apartment he was renting from Ringo Starr, and also that he fucked up all the tables by melting candles all over them.

still marveling at the zen-like purity of believing yourself to be a glass of orange juice, in perfect stasis, never consumed, for the rest of your life.

still marvelling at a guy who takes acid at a New Year’s Eve party, stabs himself, strikes his roommate over the head with a glass penis (who then has to go to the emergency room for treatment), sets the house on fire and the runs around outside naked....

and is then not identified in court because he is in the military and fears he could be discharged because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy ..

Ben Fogle tries to jump out of window.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-21519129

(How did I miss this story at the time?)

version of the 'orange juice guy' I heard was he thought he was an orange, got a knife and proceeded to peel himself.

whoops was supposed to be a quote from upthread- they taught us that one at school except it was a woman. wtf w the oranges

At any rate, there's something about acid and oranges.

"During the summer of 1965, Barrett had his first acid trip in the garden of his friend Dave Gale,[4][5] with Ian Moore and Storm Thorgerson.[4] While on the influence of the acid, Barrett had placed an orange, plum and a matchbox into a corner, while staring at the fruit, which he claimed symbolized "Venus and Jupiter".[4][5]"

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/c4/6a/dbc46a7052b01bb17c45e74f982cb963.jpg

Clearly on the way to turning into an orange:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQSLSc_rA4

it's all coming together

y tho

https://media1.tenor.com/images/e0ca57a0f12461048e8dfd493bdfdb11/tenor.gif

I think that girl is on to something, as well as being on something, it might be actually be something to do with the colour and shape?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWhCwM90Cbc

I had a friend who took a lot of acid several times in one week- the type of stuff where one to two tabs was enough to send me and my psychonaut friends to Mars for a few hours. She was taking 6-10 tabs a day for a few days.

Fast forward to almost twenty years later, and she still sees trails on occasion, and things will sometimes undulate at random if she's not focused on them. That said, she also won a Fulbright and is a very decorated high school English teacher.

I guess my point is that the stuff can really fuck your brain up if you take too much of it.

same except none of the success. it's hppd

I've never heard the "thinks he's an orange" myth.

I do remember my college buddy and I stashing a bottle of Sunny D behind some bushes next to a church one snowy evening. As we were walking home five hours later, we got so excited because man, I'm telling you, we were able to spot that bottle of Sunny D from like six blocks away.

hmm i would really need some full names dates and maybe some photos or forensic evidence for these anecdotes anyone got any

yall are not oranges? wtf

Well, the girl who put the baby in the oven was the daughter of Mr. Green Jeans. Everyone knows that.

I heard there was a common fallacy that the president was an orange. but looks like people are getting over it.

I always heard it as orange juice had some property that helped end the trip though. Never found out if it was in any way true. it wasn't something being said in acid trip cal down sessions or something? have heard it was a thing that people would go to the red cross because of bad trips at festivals so might be useful to have something like that spread to help people get a handle on things?
Probably better freshly squeezed than Sunny D though isn't that mainly sugar? & definitely better than Fanta which was like grown for Nazis like.

there was a guy in the bay area a few years ago who did acid with, maybe his coworkers at some retreat? and then he lost his fucking mind and either killed or tried to kill one of them. gah let me find the story. It was pretty nuts.

here it is: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/05/bodega-bay-deputy-shoots-s-f-man-in-grips-of-lsd-rampage/

wonder what happened to this guy, I felt bad for him.

oh, he pled no contest in December and they dropped the attempted murder charges and the dude is paralysed from being shot by the cops. What a fucked up story. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/san-francisco-man-resolves-drug-fueled-2019-bodega-bay-rampage-charges/

Glad I wasn't trippin' when I read that.

JFC @ that story. That might be the first legitimate and documented major acid freakout I've ever been aware of.

Apart from Ben Fogle marching up and down and trying to jump out the window?

Ben Fogle is a lightweight

DARE taught us the thought he was an orange myth but it was about PCP.

"Friends tried to calm Koffi down when he became delusional after allegedly taking two doses of the hallucinogenic drug around noon. Between 4 and 5 p.m. Koffi took two more doses of LSD" this sounds like the kind of shit I used get up to around 1994. "Hey this is sucking, I should do MORE." that said I only ever had 2 bad trips, one was pretty typical, the other landed me in the hospital for two days because I had some kind of seizure and my heart stopped (imagine having a full blown panic attack while on something like 5x the recommended amount of lsd)

I read this account years ago of someone having a bad trip after trying deadly nightshade and it's always stayed with me: https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=52478

Reading it now, I wonder at the truthfulness. That site is full of crazy stories of experiences with psychedelics.

Another one not mentioned thus far, which was a big one back in the day, was that TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter leapt to her death from a window while in the throes of an LSD freakout. She did actually take her own life, but the LSD part has been pretty thoroughly debunked by the post mortem report and other evidence, though Art Linkletter himself went on believing LSD was to blame in some way.

Once when I was in my early teens, I was walking up to the corner store to buy a soda and chanced upon the members of a local hippie band ravenously devouring fresh oranges in the alley outside the shop. They were under the impression that the vitamin c would boost their trips.

I've definitely witnessed a few freakouts, including some violent/self-destructive ones. Don't really want to talk about them though, because it's so personal and depressing for the people involved.

xxp the datura stories are a wild ride

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