Use the Shulgin rating scale

[Richy]

I had an acid trip once where I was meditating with my eyes closed and my hands at my side,and I actually ejaculated without moving!Embarrassing,I know,but where does it come on the scale?

 

[Brewmaster]

ew. that's a negative 2

 

[Richy]

HaHA!Like I said,it was embarrassing,and that proves that the scale is subjective,because I felt bliss,and from what I understand from other sites,it is satori and a level 5.

But hey,I enjoyed it.Ha!Ha!

 

[WaseFraKa]

I think that where this scale becomes useful is when you get to try a new psychedelic.
with it you can see if it will be intense or not.
otherwise it surely doesn't describe the experience, as it's name "scale" implies, and not "description of effects"

 

[JayBomb]

I agree with most that this ordinal scale is not that great at all, and that actually flagging a number could be quite difficult and frustrating... say if you were to experience a much different trip and because it is nothing like anything before you rate it as more intense, when in fact it was just a "mind-trip". It's all too relative and without definition.

I think it COULD aid in the explanations to those that you don't really want to talk to for whatever reasons, but I don't even see the purpose of a minus. How does one have a minus trip? That he/she's dead? It doesn't make sense.