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How LSD Works

Stuff You Should Know

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The Importance of Ayahuasca

All trips end within about 12 hours or so like the magical thinking goes away what you would perceive as normal reality starts to set back in. There may be some sort of emotional or mental hangover not a hangover like one that alcohol brings on but more just like a whoa kind of thing yeah after a profound emotional mental exercise or being put through the grinder. Lsd basically mimics the shape of serotonin and kind of hijacks your serotonin receptors is how it does its thingso it makes sense that you'd be a little wacky the day after you trip on lsd interesting. Sometimes you might think you've been doing something for five minutes and it's been an hour or it

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