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I agree, the doors of perception and the book of the dead by timothy leary all give better examples of it it is to be on a "Trip." Most of the common culture, goes on that LSD/Acid, you see invisible things and such - and I, myself, never experienced that - but I can understand how someone that is fully ingrained in a normal life, and having ego death and their psyche is unleashed, can perceive things differently. That' what I feel it is, and I feel very sad that many people online post false stories about this. Places like Erowid, are also quickly eroding as people don't go there anymore, I think, to review or really get into the proper background. But I can also say that dosage is a big factor too, I've witnessed people that had no previous experience wanting to impress friends/new friends and do what is best described as a "hero dose" or such, and while psychedelics aren't immediately harmful, the proper way would be to threshold dose - but good luck explaining what that is. In this experience, I've witnessed this person become unable to talk, communicate and basically fall in and out of consciousness. Mind you, this was not LSD-25, but just mushrooms. They snapped out of it about 90 minutes later, but during that time if you were not an experienced trip-sitter or such, I can see panic kick in and you'd assume the worst - being poisoned, aliens out to get you, men in black or whatever is todays boogey man. From a 3rd party viewing that session, it would just be describable as hallucinations. The person who consumed the mushrooms felt fine and had no real recollection of what transpired, and did want to try again, albeit much smaller dosage now. Which is another thing, peer pressure in some of these groups could be strong - although in this example none was actively pushing it, but just general ignorance of how strong a trip can be for a first time consumer. |