A Long Strange Trip
Part 3
I understand and believe that LSD can be a truly helpful thing. Really, it's only downside is the possibility of having a bad trip. And the insanity, but you gotta work for that. I believe in acid as a therapeutic developement, and all of it's psychiatric purposes, but so many people are afraid. They're not necessarily against it, but just don't want to try it. I'm sure some people would be all over dropping some acid at their therapy sessions, but I honestly believe that more people wouldn't. And if you're going to therapy, or facing death, I don't think you should be doing LSD. That's just my opinion, I'm sure it would be regulated by doctors and all that, and even an optional thing i.e. a patient wouldn't have to do it if they didn't want to. So, while I believe in it's positive psychiatric effects, in my eyes, it's a recreational drug. I don't think we'll ever re-introduce LSD to the public hospitals, at least not in my lifetime. Although recently, I can't recall when, they began testing LSD's effects on humans for the first time in decades. I don't know how things will go.
While I find LSD to be mainly recreational, it's not like weed, obviously. It could take you somewhere you might not want to go, so people should exercise caution. LSD has brought me out of my body and mind, and to a void where only your conscience exists. Its showed me death (theoretically speaking), and made me fully aware of my own mortality. That's why when kids say stuff like "Dude, let's do a f*cking sh*tload of acid and just party to sh*t!". I've partied on acid, yeah, but you never know what will happen. It's completely unpredictable.
My First Experience
I think it was about 2 years ago, during winter break. A friend got a spontaneous text saying "got fry for sale" and just like the wheels were in motion. It's been a while, and I didn't write an account initially, but I'll try my best. I think we got 15 hits, because there were 5 of us and most did three. We were warned to be careful, apparently one and you're tripping hard, two and you're done. We were in the car driving to a friend's house after we picked it up, I took two right away. We hung out in my friend's garage, just shooting the sh*t and sh*t. It took a while for it to come on, like an hour and a half, maybe less. I didn't even really get those shivers and tingles I've become accustomed to. I was sitting in a chair, looking for any feelings or hallucinations. At first they were very subtle. The walls were breathing, and scrolling downward like the credits at the end of a movie. My friend's dad told some of his own acid stories, he's had some REAL stuff. This acid called 'stars and comets', he says he took one hit and was tripping for two days. Damn.
I was barely in the midst of anything crazy, but I was hallucinating, just slightly. My friend who was holding the acid offered me my third hit, and I took it. Would this be bad? We were told not to do more than two. We went inside, in the living room, and began playing video games until we decided to walk back. I was completely aware of myself and everything, the acid hadn't jumbled my brain at all. This was one of those 'party' nights. We didn't actually party, I just say that because we were all functioning properly and not even the slightest bit confused. My hallucinations grew stronger in the living room. Everything breathed, colors were bright and playful. It was more like being really, really, REALLY, baked, plus some visuals. It had been about two hours. Be careful my ass. I was kind of still waiting, though, sometimes it sneaks up on you. Two others were sitting on the couch, talking about the walk home, one was playing video games, and I was conversing with another. These were the people on acid.
It had been about two and a half hours now, and it was late, I think about one in the morning. Us five said goodbye and started the walk. The walk might be interesting, it was an hour to get to our destination normally. We laughed raucously the whole time, still just making jokes and whatnot. We very well could have done more acid. But this was cool for a first time. The city lights shined and glared, movement was wavy. When I looked down, stars sparkled around my feet. It felt like I was walking on a trampoline. I would occasionally stop down hard for no apparent reason. We were all starving, this happens to us, acid munchies. We got at the bottom of the hill we were walking down, and came to a shopping center. My friend remarked, "It's like we're on an island floating in space, and we and this Jack in the Box are the only things on it". and I'm glad fast food places exist, for situations like this. I don't eat fast food often, but it's wonderful. You can walk in at anytime, and get some cheap food, that may or may not be good, but can cure your hunger. We stopped at the Jack in the Box, and ordered two tacos each. I looked across the table, and my friend was cracking up at me. This made everyone laugh hard. The restaurant was giving everyone a weird vibe. There was strange and discordant whirs, and loud drones coming from behind the counter. It felt like the building was about to take off into space. There were two other's in the dining room, both homeless. One sat in the corner talking to himself, the other was in the center of the room asleep. But we ate our food and minded our own business, and left.
The rest of the walk was pretty much the same. When we got back to the neighborhood, we made a stop on the jog/workout trail behind my friend's house, and smoked some bowls. It kinda facilitated to the acid high. We were all decently high, it came on very slow, I guess, but at this point we all reached our peak. I love looking up at the sky on psychs. Swirling, colorful, vibrant, infinite. We all laughed our way to the house, settled in the bedroom, and tried to find something to watch. We all wanted something mind-blowing, so we put on
Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking. In one episode, he explained in depth how large the universe is, and zoomed out and back, from the earth. God damn, we all laughed intensively about it, because it was just so crazy.
Anyway, that's not really a trip report, I don't remember too well. The link in the OP is better, and I'll post some more.