I think they're very different and both unique.

MDMA with the right group of people a few times completely changed me for the better. Lot of anger and resentment out the window.

I've had positive experiences with LSD, psilocybin, DMT, and a dozen other things with alphabet -soup names but I also have PTSD and HPPD from them.

On MDMA the worst experience you can have is feeling sad, which is nigh impossible.

I'm still pro-psychedelics but it's important to recognize how powerful they are, and that a bent reality isn't always a pleasant place.

I’ll second this. LSD provides a huge paradigm shift in a way mdma absolutely doesn’t, but if you already know your trauma causes irrational emotions or ones you’d prefer to go away mdma is where to look.

Personally LSD was an eye opening experience, but mdma is the only trip I’ve taken that I can say lead to changes in my perception that I still have to this day.

My experience was a little different. I knew my traumas, I had really already reckoned with them - I just needed to let them go, but that hinged on some things that I was having trouble accepting at a deeper level. LSD let me do that. My MDMA experience was fun, but I think that's what MDMA did for me - it taught me what it was like to have fun again, maybe even to feel truly happy and content with the world again.

These things are less rigid as people put in text, I think. At a certain level of LSD it's very like MDMA, but past that level it's very different.

Between LSD and mushrooms, I'll quote one of my friends, "LSD puts you in the drivers seat; mushrooms make you a passenger."