Trip report

A trip report, also known as a psychedelic experience report, is a written account of a subjective psychedelic experience by a person who has taken a psychedelic or other hallucinogenic drug.^[1][2][3] They are often published on online websites like Erowid, Bluelight, Lycaeum, Drugs Forum, and Reddit, 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 chemist Albert Hofmann when he discovered LSD, including Bicycle Day (April 19, 1943) and his initial accidental lower-dose exposure a few days earlier on April 16, 1943.^[7][8][9] Writer Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception (1954) is a book-length trip report about his first experience with mescaline provided by psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond.^[3] Chemist Alexander Shulgin's books PiHKAL (1991)^[10] and TiHKAL (1997)^[11] contain short trip reports for hundreds of psychedelic drugs.^[12][13]

In the 2020s, researchers have started to analyze trip reports as part of scientific research into the effects of psychedelics.^{[2][5][14][15]} As an example, the pharmaceutical company Mindstate Design Labs processed 70,000 online trip reports with artificial intelligence (AI) and selected 5-MeO-MiPT as a candidate with unique subjective effects for development as a potential pharmaceutical medication.^[16][17][15]

See also

• Psychonaut
• Psychonautics
• Der Meskalinrausch (Mescaline Intoxication) (1927)