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Is the lack of serotonin what gives the user the "Urgh, what am I doing with my life? I need to get my shit together!" feeling ?

That sounds a whole lot like some kind of absurd "Reefer Madness" kind of "thinking."

On what are you basing that "feeling?" Leaving aside that serotonin is involved with mood (and not meaning or motivation) and that LSD's binding to the receptor sites increases not decreases the amount of serotonin available in the synaptic cleft (performing the same effect as any other SSRI like Zoloft, Paxil, or Prozac), there is actually no reason why any of the hundreds of successful professionals that I know who have taken LSD multiple times would express such a feeling on the basis of taking LSD.

If anything, your comment reveals a fear of your own mind and, having read your comments, I can't say I blame you.

As always, the most dangerous aspect of the drug is the direct result of the black market for it, emerging as a result of it being made arbitrarily illegal through the country's "War on (some) drugs." It is not dangerous, in and of itself, but only in the lack of oversight created by its being made illegal and thus not subject to the kind of quality control implicit in the free market.

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
― Terence McKenna

Yes, exactly - psychedelics are illegal because governments are afraid that people may not want to submit and obey if they take them. All the more reason to take them.

Personal experience. I've heard that from other people too about how they feel when coming down.

I'd say this is pretty on point: https://www.reddit.com/r/LSD/comments/ugcc4/what_is_the_lsd_comedown_like_first_timer_here/

I didn't mean for that to sound negative, it's more like a "I should correct that ______ in my life." kind of feeling.

A look through your comments explains why you sound so much like a douche here.

Sounds like a whole lot of confirmation bias and that, in the absence of sound argument, an ad hominem attack. I expected nothing less.

Do you even know what the word hypocrite means?... so YOUR personnel experience of 'HUNDREDS of professionals' constitutes a valid argument... but his personal experience is bias. And then to act like his personal attack wasn't a play on your own... Unbelievable hypocrite. You can be right about something and still be complete douche Trance.

Obviously I was talking about personal experience and not citing experts about how the chemicals react in your brain. I'm sure it's different for everyone; that said, I was usually with the same group (so some social aspect of that might have been in play), and it'd have been in college - aka "time to start thinking about real life"

I think he's just looking for an argument or something. But it's weird, I don't even know if we disagree or not.

I agree that there can be an element of that, not even an element but a crystal clear revelation of "this is how I need to change". That is one way the psychedelics move, one of the ways that they are more powerful than anything else a human can experience. They are enlightening as well as humbling.