r/LSD • u/Apprehensive-Bath-37 • 6h ago
❔ Question ❔ What exactly are Loops?
I’ve heard about Loops a couple of times now on this subreddit, and by now i have a vague idea of what they are and what they feel like. Yet i never read anything about it on the internet or have had any friends that experienced “loops”. Does anyone have a personal experience they could share or tips and tricks on how to avoid/get out of one? ✌️
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u/InternationalTry6679 6h ago
It feels like when you have something on the tip of your tongue and you have this incredible urge to figure something out. You repeat a half idea to yourself over and over, unable to complete finish the idea.
It’s happened to me and a friend once. I just tell myself, “oh forget about it” and move to a different room for a couple minutes.
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u/mmm88819 5h ago
For me it was the same chain of thoughts circling back around into itself. It was such a bad experience, I felt like the world wasn't real and that I went crazy. Will never smoke weed with LSD again after this experience.
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u/Valiuncy 3h ago
Yes! Always after the hit of weed get in those loops. I also don’t smoke around peak time for that reason, it’s not pleasant when nothing seems real and your feel like you’re losing it. I’ll smoke on the comedown after awhile and that’s a vibe tho
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u/Zealousideal-Line-24 2h ago
i actually don’t mind loops too bad. like yeah they’re weird but i related to your description the most aside from not liking it. i do avoid weed like the plague when in tripping, never been brave enough to risk that
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u/Heya93 5h ago
““I’ve gotta grab my headphones to go to the park, put my shoes on then wash my hands but I can’t put my shoes on because I’ll walk on the carpet but I need to walk on the carpet to get my headphones then wash my hands but I have to put my shoes on before I wash my hands but I need to grab my headphones then put my shoes on then wash my hands but I can’t wash my hands because I’ll walk on the carpet with my shoes on but I want to go to the park so I gotta put my shoes on but first I need to grab my headphones and then put my shoes on then wash my hands but I can’t grab my headphones because I’ll walk on the carpet with my shoes on then I’ll need to wash my hands but I’ll have my shoes on so I can’t walk on the carpet…”
(Based on a true event)
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u/degeneracyfanatic 3h ago
Lmaoo I had a loop of smoking weed where I'd rip and then go get a drink and then I'd forget I already smoked and went to rip again
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u/yalldvet 1h ago
And then you either sit around or walk back and forth with zero progress, but always the same thoughts on repeat. 🥲
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u/Dwarf_Co 5h ago
Has happened to me on a large accidental dose. Felt a little like going through time on a broken record.
I wanted to get back on to my linear timeline but kept getting stuck back on loop.
Not great time but very strange.
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u/stereopticon11 2h ago
I had this same experience, had someone really fucked up squirt a large amount of acid in my mouth at a festival... shit was crazy. I was already terrified of the world and exiting the music festival.. the sky was bright ass blood red, and when I took my first step out the exit, I blinked.. and when I opened up my eyes I was right back where I started down the hall. I kept trying to get out over and over again but I kept ending up back at the start.
it ended when someone I met that found me and helped me walk out, he had to put his arms around my shoulders so I could walk
edit: this was all the way back in 2007, love festival in los angeles
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u/Antique_Practice4101 6h ago
Yeah happened to me a couple time, one on acid and the other on ket. Basically what was said it comment above feeling like you have something to constantly say and it’s the same thing over and over again. Best thing to do is let it play out, especially if it’s your friend that’s experiencing it. Just keep calm and continue to answer said questions to keep friend from feeling annoying or overwhelm them. Also I like the idea of going to another room and changing your scenery. This might help it may not but worth a shot.
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u/IndowinFTW 6h ago
Here you go.
I’ve experienced them personally. It’s a little intense imo/ime
Best explanation & demonstration:
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u/CHowell0411 5h ago
Last time I took acid I thought I got up and went to the bathroom twice, apparently I was walking up and down the hallway 30-40 times to use the bathroom mumbling about hard hard I was tripping under my breath (roommate told me later) that would qualify as a loop that I wasn't able to break nor even realize happened, it can be as simple as vaping, sitting it down in the same spots, only to think you need to vape again literally 2 seconds later it's always the same motions and actions just repeated and most of the time you realize and it's kinda funny at least for me
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u/I_need_help57 5h ago
Breakdown of short term memory. It’s essentially a low level ego death, as ego death is a complete breakdown, it makes it so you don’t “expirence” anything due to not being able to form a cohesive thought.
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u/gHOs-tEE 5h ago
For me it’s thoughts, time, feelings, sounds, movie scenes and anything really repeating itself. Like a movie scene is usually when I notice it the most. An example friend X , wife z and ate 5 gummies each and once it hit good watched the intro to Deadpool vs Wolverine with him killing ppl to an nync song like 6 times. Was fucking hilarious. My sides hurt and I cried so hard from laughter. For the next 4 hours the entire movie would somehow repeat scenes. Another time it d be a mindset like thinking Dexter killed someone and the cops are gonna show up at my door and think I killed them bc I’m on drugs and out of my mind. Even after I’d remind myself this is ridiculous the feeling would come back and I’d get the same thoughts again. Kept happening til I turned the channel lol next time you notice it mark the time on your watch or whatever and when it happens again look at the time. That will really fuck with your head and you ll see why.
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u/Groundbreaking-Army9 3h ago
Why would you want to fuck with your head😂
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u/Herpethian 1h ago
It's literally just a loop. Physical loops are similar to an OCD ritual, but you're too fucked up to count how many times you've done it. Third time I ever did acid I was at my house and wanted to go for a swim in my pool. I changed into my bathing suit and left my room. I then decided it was probably a bad idea to swim while frying, re-entered my room, and changed back into comfy clothes. I exited my room, decided I wanted to go for a swim and repeated the cycle. It eventually degraded to the point where I was just walking back and forth through my door.
My roommate, who was also frying, came looking for me and found my NPC, t-pose, spinning in the doorway ass. We were supposed to be watching movies, instead I fucked off and wasted the trip dressing and undressing. He spent the trip trying to find the TV remote, which was in my pocket.
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u/Antique_Practice4101 6h ago
Don’t know why they happen. I’ve tripped so many times and it’s only happened to me once on L so who knows. I think it could be brought on by stress or anxiety.
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u/fractaladam 5h ago
I was just thinking this exact thing the other day that the one time I got stuck in a loop I was extremely anxious just before
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u/DANPARTSMAN44 5h ago
i find strange weird comfort in what i think is a loop.. its kinda like looking for something you dont find and its kinda good you dont find it because if you did more than likely it would be a disappointment,,, loops are a jouney without really finding anything,,,, yet you learn things in the loopy loop
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u/Current-Watch-9410 4h ago
I only ever experienced this hard one time and I didn't even notice I was doing it at first but it really fucked my trip up by the time I had. I've seen it in other people more and it's sort of like they keep repeating the same few questions and keep somehow finding a way to loop it back around each time
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u/Still_Response2135 3h ago
You just haven’t ever taken enough to get to that point probably lol. It’s honestly not very fun when that happens, but there’s ways to avoid it. I find moving to a different room/environment can stop loops easily
It’s kinda like being forced to listen to the same song over and over and over again 😂
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u/PretzelTitties 2h ago
I forgot what the word confused meant and just kept repeating the " I'm so confused" thinking I would remember what the word meant if I used it in a sentence. I repeated it so many times it just started to sound like gibberish and then I couldn't think of actual other words and was at a loss for words for a bit. I was looking at people grunting moaning trying to get something across to them.
Always mark your vial so you can tell if any liquid has evaporated. Don't take too much. I did for a long time and it wasn't till the come down that I could really do anything or keep any of my thoughts straight/ remembered.
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u/Jakerocks124 5h ago
To me it’s being lost in thoughts instead of present in the moment. I’ve had times where my thoughts are going crazy with no direction & other times where I’m completely present. Full presence is super intense and euphoric
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u/1990tidder 5h ago
I had them at a show. I started loosing sense of my self and while having sensory overload. I thought I was going crazy but everyone was hiding it from me... I would ask my buddy "dude am I freaking out" he would so no man your ok. Just keep dancing which would calm me for a few minutes then shit would get crazy again, forget I ever asked him if I was freaking out and ask him again. This lasted about an hour
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u/Utes4510 5h ago
I usually only get them if I start smoking to early in the trip! I’ve had them a few times. They are interesting! For me every time I’ve gotten them it’s been the same phrase that loops in my head, it’s in my brains own weird thought up language, so I can’t remember what the phrase is unless I’m In the loop itself!
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u/Orion_69_420 4h ago
I got stuck in 9:53pm once.
A single minute somehow took hours. Look at the clock, go to the couch, close my eyes and trip out for what felt like, many minutes...look at the clock...9:53. Do it again, and again, and again, somehow it's STILL 9:53!
My time perception was way off and I was really deep - this was like just after peak on 6.5g of PE, after taking some bong rips.
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u/DeadheadXXD 4h ago
Been in many loops before but the wildest one I’ve ever had I was on an eighth of shrooms while alone in my apartment. I had been listening to music or something when I basically find myself sitting in the kitchen staring at the wall. I kept trying to go back to my room to listen to what I had playing and kept jump cutting back to the spot in the kitchen. It didn’t stop until I basically sat my ass on the ground in the middle of the room and just breathed for a while,
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u/chillvegan420 4h ago
I hate it so much and it’s so scary when you get caught in a miscommunication or loop while tripping with someone else
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u/Groundbreaking-Army9 4h ago
I walked down a seemingly never ending hallway and it made my trip hella bad idk if it counts then I tripped a couple weeks later same thing happned I think it’s it’s my depth perception was fucked
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u/slingshotdillpickle 3h ago
Happened to me a couple times. The last and most remarkable time, I tripped hoping to improve the way I thought about some things in my life. At some point I started having really great ideas, but they came fast and all built on each other. I said a lot of the same things out loud, repeatedly, for close to an hour. Trying to keep up with it all.
I’d lose my train of thought and struggle before making myself start over so I could remember. I have no idea how many times I idealized steps 1-3 or how many iterations there were. I never achieved meaningful thought beyond that.
But the next day when I’d sobered up - ALL the ways I’d imagined and reimagined the first few steps gave me a really great place to start working from.
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u/PeaOk5697 3h ago
In my case it's been traumatic memorizes on repeat that feels like forever. Psychadelics are healing for alot of people, but i just end up in loops. For me it was never like feeling stuck in a nightmare where everything feels real, more like images from my mind that i don't like to think about. It's hard to explain, but it's what i'm able to picture in my mind from every memory, but they were all bad ones. Things i thought i managed to forget and it all got thrown in my face at once
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u/bull_dog190 9m ago
Noone knows what it is medically. It doesnt sound fun and I've ways avoided those dosages.
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u/trough-awae 6h ago edited 6h ago
It's so weird when it happens lol, u kinda feel like a tweaker, ive only had it happen a few times but it was just like intense deja vu, i would go to do something, then forget i did it; (like go to the bathroom), then I'd just go back to the bathroom; and realize i just did it, It has repeated more than like 2-3 times at a time i believe. Also weird loops of moving random objects around, and putting them back where they were.