LSD Microdosing Protocol: The Complete European Guide
Most people who tell us microdosing did nothing were not measuring. Most people who tell us it changed everything were not measuring either. The difference between those two reports and a useful one is almost entirely method.
Fix the measure before the schedule
Decide the amount first and hold it still for at least four weeks. A microdose is conventionally around a tenth of a full dose — for LSD, roughly 5 to 15 micrograms — and the point is that it should be below the threshold at which you notice anything acutely. If you can feel it, it is not a microdose, and you have changed the experiment.
Changing dose and schedule at the same time means you learn nothing from either. Our measured formats exist for this reason: a sheet is laid from one solution batch, so the fourth portion matches the first.
Pick a schedule and write it down
- One day on, two days off — the Fadiman pattern, and the most common starting point.
- Four days on, three days off — the Stamets-adjacent pattern, aligns to a working week.
- Every other day — simplest to remember, easiest to drift on.
None of these is correct. What matters is that you chose one deliberately and can say afterwards what you actually followed.
Tolerance is the reason for the days off
Tolerance to LSD builds fast and clears over roughly two weeks. Dosing daily flattens the effect within days, which is the mechanical reason every published protocol has rest days in it. The rest days are not caution, they are what makes the schedule work at all.
The notebook is the protocol
Three lines a day is enough: what you took, when, and one sentence about the day. Rate sleep and mood on a five-point scale if you like numbers. The point is a record that is not reconstructed from memory, because memory will tell you whatever story you already believe.
Without a notebook you are not running a protocol. You are having an opinion.
Stop conditions
Write down, in advance, what would make you stop. Disturbed sleep, a flat affect, anything cardiac, anything that worries someone close to you. Deciding this ahead of time is much easier than deciding it in week six.
Talk to a professional first
Nothing here is medical advice and we are not qualified to give any. If you take prescription medication — SSRIs, MAOIs, lithium, tramadol, anything for blood pressure or the heart — talk to a doctor or pharmacist before you start. Interactions are real and some of them are serious. Lysergamides are controlled under the German Betäubungsmittelgesetz and equivalent law across the EU.
