See LSD Surveys 1 through 8 for a list of questions on this and other surveys.Based on the strongly positive responses we received in early surveys about the effect LSD has had on people's lives, we decided to seek more detail about what kind of effects people had seen. In the final survey, we included an open text field to allow visitors to provide short comments about how their use of LSD has affected their lives.There is an Erowid axiom that says, "If you put up a web form, people will fill it out." Although we say this somewhat flippantly, it reflects how many people have things they want to express and communicate about their experiences with psychoactives. We collect these in the form of experience reports, but there is also value in asking visitors to distill their thoughts down to a sentence or two. Offering just a short comment field on a survey can allow people the chance to concisely communicate their ideas and thoughts. Although we receive many short, brutish comments, we also get some elegant gems and insightful statements about complex life issues involving the use of psychoactive plants and chemicals.We ran this micro-survey for sixteen days and received 35,419 valid responses. Out of those, 11,456 included some text comments. When preparing for the Basel LSD Symposium , we sifted through the first 2000 responses, of which 600 had text comments. Of those, we ended up with 398 that were categorized into the following set.By far the largest and most obvious category of responses were in the mind-opening and changed-perspective theme. With more work, the themes/categories could be better worked out and more differentiation added to the huge "opened mind" theme.