About a week ago or so, I met a strange man at a concert walking around with his dog and selling acid. It had been many months since I last tripped acid, and I decided to get just a couple hits for a fun night in the future. Last night I planned to set up a foreman tent in the backyard and have a great night. The same day I was hanging out with some friends we'll call them B and M and we decided to have a great night. Smoke some pot, acid and stay in the tent all night. B has had experience with acid and he'd be my trip partner, and M didn't and he would just get high on pot. So sorry to digress, here is the trip report: 10:30pm B and I drop the acid (1 hit each) while we all prepare the tent, get some movies puzzles, playing cards, guitar, and computer set up. After we're all set up we let M smoke to get really high, and while B and I just had the acid. 11:30-12:00 I'm starting to feel my first effects, I feel almost high, but very clean. The best way I can describe is I have a strong sense of spirit, as if a spirit body were floating in a physical realm. I was excited for this trip, I've never done less than 2 or 3 hits, so I wasn't sure what to expect from a single hit. The best way I could motivate my self was by thinking that you really just trip on yourself, it is all in your head and the acid is more like a catalyst to get to this state than a drug. This seemed to ease me in comfortably for the trip to come. Ideally I like to listen to music and draw while my mind wanders, but this night I really wanted to just "live" where does our interest spark? What is life? What are people? These are the questions I would seek in this experience. 12:30-1:00 So after setting up the tent and having M smoke, we were watching some family guy to settle in. We watched the Star Wars episode which is like a shot for shot parody of "A New Hope". I'm not the biggest family guy fan, but this was hilarious! I felt we really had a light hearted funny beginning of our experience. Afterwards we decided to take a walk to the grocery store, maybe a mile or two away. As we started to leave I'd stare into the sky and gaze upon the stars. And the night sky couldn't have been better! Very rich deep blue and purple gradient mapping the edge of our planet. Something about the hue really made me feel that space was just an eyesight away while the stars twinkled in vibrant hues of all the colors in the light spectrum. The thought of eyesight really captivated me in this trip. Think about this for a sec, we're these weird creatures that sense the surroundings of a world by having a chemical reaction produce a mix of signals to our brains to create an illusion of a world. And based on lighting the surroundings can appear different, lighting is just about the trippiest thing. And here's just a fun thought that I'd recommend to ponder about on a trip. "Where does your eyesight begin?" Just think about it, and hopefully you'll blow your mind as much as I did myself! As we continued to walk we came across a strip of sidewalk that had footsteps in it (just like the classic hand in cement) and it was sooo cool! It felt as if man stuck there print in time. It felt as significant as the footsteps on the moon.. As you can imagine it's pretty dark at night, and almost all the light was from some lamp posts, and the dim lighting of the sky. So this created an incredible dreamlike experience unlike any other. In this new age of technology I really feel a great respect for cinematography in movies, it's pretty much the iconic touch of art to each film since all these special effects can be done with more ease. Anyways, my real point here is the change of lighting really evoked an emotional response to each location. It felt space agey, new, innovative, classic, warm, cool, this was really a good feel for the thought pattern of eyesight being a chemical reaction. And there is one house we came across that has this strange light. Kind of like a disco light I'd say. It created a pattern all over the ground, and when we walked over it, it felt as if we were on a spotlight or walking on a snowflake or something. It felt soo dreamlike I had to pinch myself to tell myself I was awake! The neighborhood we walked through was my exact feel for the suburbs, just a bunch of clone houses next to each other, the "communism of capitalism" which always gives me a laugh. But I felt light hearted this whole trip, people feel this desire to know how to live. Everyone relies on each other out of instinct and for some reason we all feel the need to deny our nature. We hate the idea of sharing fear, I guess that's a good thing, but still quite humorous IMO. As we reached the grocery store there was a dramatic shift in the mood from entering the store. I felt rather "sober" in a sense while walking around, but once we transitioned into the inside I instantly knew for sure I was tripping. Kind of a hard phenomenon to describe. But if you've ever gotten high, it was like a dramatic shift from questioning whether or not you were high to know for sure you were. The grocery store felt like a weird factory. I've often pondered the need of capitalism, it's always felt like an impersonal push of materialism for someone's lust of power. But with winter around the corner it felt like a winter wonderland, like we came into a factory in the North Pole. (All the winter holiday stands were up with gingerbread and candy canes and so forth) it was magical to put simply. But everyone once in awhile we felt the wave of reality, were a bunch of stoned guys aimlessly roaming a grocery store in the middle of the night, I caught a glimpse of one the Mexican staff members getting a laugh out of our dialogue which felt good! 2:00-4:00 On our walk back, we ran into some of the darker sides of the trip. Some coyotes were out that night and they were on the chase. So, to be blunt, our entire walk home was ambienced by the sound of cayotes slaughtering bunnies.. Not quite the pleasent thought process to be tripping over. But we got back to the tent safe, so no big deal. Back at the tent we decided to watch some funny shows to end our night. Dave Chappelle warms our hearts on a cold winter night, so it was pretty great. I couldn't believe how funny this guy was though. He pretty performs funny sketches that make fun of the idea of segregation of race and culture disputes, so it was a great way to receive his kind message through humor. As I closed my eyes and started to look away I stared at the tent, and felt encompassed by a huge circus which was a great experience. And well other than lots of other intangent ideas, that was the jist of this trip. I felt really fulfilled Summary I can't deny that visuals are an appealing trait to acid, and I didn't really feel many on this experience, but I really felt like I tapped into the importance of happiness and that's what I'd like to share. Happiness isn't a destination or some sort of achievement found through political behaviors. It's a state of mind, and something we all wish to seek, so stop striving for happiness, and just accept it! So thanks for reading through and I hope you enjoyed yourself. Peace and love
Great report, really enjoyed that Good idea for the tent, never thought of that before.. I don't really like having to be inside on a trip, but when I'm with friends they prefer it indoors. Seems like a good middle ground, better than a tiny little 2 man
There wasn't much to write for the come down. It was a strange phenemenon though, while in the tent at the end, we didn't feel as high, but when we walked outside it was very strong. I was able to sleep at about 6 am
