LSD and PA members?

 

a suggestion from a former member of the Cosmic Cowboys............no need to, just listen to the psychotic babblings from your favorite prog artists and be glad your not as confused. remember it is an inticing doorway that is not pretty in the end. besides you are more likely to run into strycnine laced or bathtub products that cause more damage than enhancement today or have a meeting with a bunch of black robes that want you to fall in the hole with them.

 

you can find enough trouble in alcohol and or weed and or sexuality these days. better just to talk about the past in good terms, there is also much sorrow that is not mentioned often.

 

 Sound advice. A friend of mine suffered a breakdown after tripping almost daily for several months (though I'm pleased to say he made a full recovery) and I've been with a few people who were having bad trips - not funny at all ... my only 'bad trip' was an ecstasy pill that went horribly wrong, not a experience I wish to repeat. If you do experiment with the stuff, remember that you never know how strong it is until it's in your system, and once it's in there you'll be under the influence for 8 - 12 hours and experiencing the after effects for 2 - 3 days. A bad trip can take days to get over if you're lucky.

 

I have taken acid, the last time about 10 years ago, and I had some interesting times on it. To clear up a common misconception: although you do experience some visual effects - I've seen walls 'breathing', rainbows emerging from teacups, spinning discs on the walls, moving objects leaving traces behind them in the air, auras around people and objects - neither I nor anybody I know has ever had the kind of "Then I saw John Wayne in a pink bikini playing the piano on an elephant's back in my fridge" hallucination that some people seem to expect. The visuals tended to occur early on in the trip, following which I achieved a deep understanding of the appleness of an apple, the patterns in the carpet or (on one memorable occasion) Picasso and Braque's synthetic cubism from about 1912 - 14, for instance the famous portrait of Ambrose Voillard. I didn't find that it did much for my perception of music - weed and shrooms are for more effective for me - but it did for some of my friends. I also couldn't watch TV while tripping - I was too aware of the flickering image - and I became very sensitive to light and to sudden changes in temperature.

 

For the benefit of any Beatles fans, Lucy In The Sky isn't a very good musical evocation of a trip, but She Said, Rain and Strawberry Fields capture the experience to a T. For Floyd Fans, most of Syd's songs on Piper give a good idea of what a trip can be like, particularly Scarecrow and Matilda Mother, but Syd's solo work shows what the after effects can be like.