Written account of a psychedelic drug's effects
Atrip report , also known as apsychedelic experience report , is a written account of a subjectivepsychedelic experience by a person who has taken apsychedelic or otherhallucinogenic drug .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Erowid ,Bluelight , Lycaeum, Drugs Forum, andReddit , among others, with Erowid's Experience Vaults containing thousands of trip reports.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Among the most famous trip reports are those of chemistAlbert Hofmann when he discoveredLSD , includingBicycle Day (April 19, 1943) and his initial accidental lower-dose exposure a few days earlier on April 16, 1943.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Aldous Huxley 'sThe Doors of Perception mescaline provided by psychiatristHumphrey Osmond .[ 3] Alexander Shulgin 's booksPiHKAL [ 10] TiHKAL [ 11] [ 12] [ 13]
In the 2020s, researchers have started to analyze trip reports as part ofscientific research into the effects of psychedelics.[ 2] [ 5] [ 14] [ 15] pharmaceutical company Mindstate Design Labs processed 70,000 online trip reports withartificial intelligence (AI) and selected5-MeO-MiPT as a candidate with unique subjective effects fordevelopment as a potentialpharmaceutical medication .[ 16] [ 17] [ 15]
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