acid

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I only did it a couple times, and that was almost 20 years ago.

The first time was in high school, during the local university's winter carnival where they always showed a double feature at the student theater of Heavy Metal and The Wall. That started out fine but became rather unpleasant, so my friends and I left and sort of roamed around campus for a while. Part of the fun of winter carnival is that student groups build giant snow statues, often of monsters folklore characters or cartoon characters, stuff like that, and seeing 30 foot tall Paul Bunyans and shit made out of snow was pretty horrifying. I remember getting dropped off at home somehow and wondering why I could not fall asleep.

A couple years later we all dropped while playing Trivial Pursuit and the game kind of turned to shit after that. I remember taking a shower for like 45 minutes, then ending up at a cabin way out in the woods. We went to a bar that had a live cougar in a cage to buy beer, and I ended up drinking like 20 beers and everyone was pissed at me - I did not realize that acid allowed one to consume so much alcohol with so few repercussions. Anyway I passed out and woke up at like 6 in the morning with a toilet seat placed around my neck, with two dudes eating plain boiled macaroni noodles out of a pot staring at me. One of them was wearing a dress; I have no idea where the dress came from as there were no women there.

The best time was at a party on Lake Superior and was pretty great - me and five other people were playing in the water, making shit out of driftwood, talking about how everyone in the world was either a Ren or a Stimpy (lol 90s) and, then we realized that everyone else was gone or passed out, and as we approached a car sitting in the middle of a bunch of sand dunes we found that the trunk had a cooler full of jello shots. Somehow at that moment a bluegrass song came on the tape player and we all had a hoedown ate jello shots, and continued to roam around in a bunch of mine ruins.

The last time was on a trip to Florida, where I was on the shore of the Atlantic ocean for the first time. I was standing in the waves up to my knees thinking HOLY FUCK ENGLAND IS OVER THERE, AND AFRICA IS THAT WAY, DO YOU REALIZE, FUCKING _AFRICA_ while my friend Ike gathered up a massive pile of flotsam and jetsam to build a huge monolith of some sort. We went back to the condo where a bunch of people were staying and I was convinced that I was in Vietnam, like in the last half of Full Metal Jacket, though this was not a bad thing at all.

And that was it, I'm done, never again.

Fun at the time but honestly just too much work.

Done it twice, I highly recommend it.

supposedly steve jobs was particularly scornful of ppl who'd never tripped, as opposed to the standard scornful

i always liked what alan watts said about psychedelics - "when you get the message, hang up the phone"

OTM truth bomb... Never felt a great need to try again after a handful of times in my 30s - not from any negative experiences (quite the opposite), but I haven't felt a great need to disassociate since then. Also, sources have dried up.

As with any kind of inductive tool it helps to have a gut feeling about where you want to go. You can't just take and look for the pretty lights, you have to allow things to just wash over you and happen. Set and setting are important, but having the proper emotional/psychological calibration (for lack of a better description) is vital. If you're a control freak in reality, you going to have problems in surreality, and if you're using to seek some sort of cosmic truth you may be disappointed. You're peeking into the mind's assembly code and if you're dissatisfied with the core dump, you'll end up like Syd Barrett and using and using and using until you think you're an orange.

Having said that... I remember these events (whether or not they occurred is another story):
- Sitting in a meadow in Yosemite Valley and feeling (like it was braille) the fractal mathematics embedded in every plant and tree. Insects were miniature complex-system spaceships. Touching a granite cliff-face was like feeling the anatomy of the earth and being plugged into the central core.
- Looking at the night sky through a telescope is like looking at a painting and seeing the brush strokes of the Universe and the three dimensional layer to the solar system, our galaxy, and our galaxy's neighbors.
- Driving over Sonora Pass was an exercise in Dr. Seuss navigation. The road went vertical, upside down, through loops, and into the most absurd geometries imaginable. Not once was I unsafe or out of control because I knew that if I stayed on the road I'd be OK.
- Forget the music and movies, if you're using go to a restaurant you like and fire up those other senses you've been ignoring. A simple steak dinner w/fresh ingredients was one of the best meals I've EVER had. HFS those tomatoes from the garden...
- 2001: A Space Odyssey is close, but superfluous if you're already there. Best movie experience was watching Star Trek: Generations and riding along as the Enterprise D's saucer section crashes.
- Never was able to play guitar along with Playing With Fire or Lazer Guided Melodies. The guitar strings resonated too much with all the sound that was bouncing around and it was ridiculous to mess with perfection anyway.

Never was able to play guitar along with Playing With Fire or Lazer Guided Melodies. The guitar strings resonated too much with all the sound that was bouncing around and it was ridiculous to mess with perfection anyway.

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used to use "regularly" i.e. when we had some i wd be doing it. only reason i don't do it now is cos i don't have any tbh

― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This.

I've only ever done it twice, basically because it is impossible to get hold of. It was fun, although the 2nd time was at Glasto and that was a bit unsettling for a bit until I got used to it.

Had mushrooms quite a few times though.

It is perhaps telling that this thread has the most floral, long winded stories :)

Its rly easy for me to get stuff here fwiw, i didnt realise it was impossibly hard elsewhere. I... liked and hated it.

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my last trip i cleaned the tub the best i had ever cleaned it. it was kind of miraculous.

PVMIFC

I want to try tjis

Did it regularly through my teens, walking the streets of London at night and observing the ghoulish fantasyland of the urban matrix, coming down on the Heath as the sun rose. Always had a good, or at least very interesting time. I feel fortunate to have had these experiences and I miss it, but I doubt I would enjoy it as much now.

Also Set Adrift On Memory Bliss sounds SO amazing on acid.

I get that people are afraid of "not being in control" but for me it was definitely always the opposite, being sober just seemed incredibly boring and confining. It still does, sometimes.

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these results shock me, but then i live in san francisco

Never tried it. Was kinda scared of it bc of my highschool obsession w "Go Ask Alice". Also looking back I don't know that I could have really relied on my circle of friends to get through a bad trip. I would def drop acid w Mr Veg if the opportunity arose, I would feel safe w him. Or at the ILX world fap with Darragh :) I'd def be willing to try in the right setting.

awww Go Ask Alice scared you? Thats pretty adorable VG (no sarcasm)

I remember in high school it was the only book in the library you had to get on a wait list for

i feel like acid can actually be p helpful to people at certain times, like it can knock you out of habitual ways of thinking, its shown promise in helping to treat addiction etc, but its also dangerous particularly for people who are predisposed to mental illness/instability

xpost: I first read it when I was 11! Alice in the closet "Get the bugs off me, get the bugs off me"...lolsy now but then it scared the shit out of me. Soooooo I read it like 20 more times, haha.

haha...of course. Ive read it at least a dozen times. Alice and Christiane F sent me straight to drugs door! I totally romanticized the whole thing.

I have 2 or 3 camcorder tapes w/ footage of friends and me tripping at age ~21 (1996) but no way to play them. And would I want to???

i cannot imagine a more embarrassing viewing experience

I know, but I'm I crazy curious to see what's on them. I keep thinking of them as some variation of Dorian Grey's portrait, but I can't make the comparison make sense.

Unrelated, but there is also a tape labeled XXX Mark and Jesse.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7hcbR7yTzE

yeah?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2014/03/07/meat-contaminated-with-lsd-sends-family-to-hospital/

I think I spent the next day building a lego pirate ship.

Probably the single major regret of my life tbh.

I don't think I read this post correctly.

I tried acid twice, tbh, back in the 70s. Not especially good quality stuff, either. By then acid was yesterday's news and cocaine was the up and coming drug, so demand was slack and good stuff hard to find. Therefore I have no particularly interesting fireworks to report. It was a worthwhile experiment, but not for a third time.

the first couple times i did acid i don't think i did enough because basically the only effect i got was paranoia along with some visual whatevers, but the one time i did a bunch with some hippie friends (like, i dunno, 8 or 10 tabs?) i had a pretty awesome time. like i was about to type 'it didn't change my life or anything' but thinking back i can remember how i started kind of getting outside my own head that night, and considering the thoughts and feelings of the people i was with in a way i never really had, and i like suddenly understood myself as a person with the ability to influence the people around me, like make them feel good with something i'd say or whatever, and i had never really been very mindful of any of that before, and i think it was really positive.....

maybe i should do some more sometime soon, i haven't really fucked with it since then, that was a couple years ago.

cured my arachnophobia, can't argue with those results.

i wandered barefoot on acid into a pedestrian tunnel that was carpeted with earwigs. that did nothing for my fear of earwigs.

Now 14 years since I've taken acid. I'm too old to know people who still take drugs. Well, drugs I want to take anyway, I'm sure I could still get cocaine quite easily.

one of my recurring fantasies these days is that i visit one of my old drug buddiez and well look here! they have acid on hand and they want to do it with me right this minute. if real acid is even made anymore. guess it ranks close to surprise threesomes in the fantasy hierarchy.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/18/google-image-recognition-neural-network-androids-dream-electric-sheep

google's image recognition software is off its face