[virtualwhys]

Thanks, succinct explanation of the tripping mind. Have always felt there was some level of distortion in the trips I've taken, as if something were being created from nothing.

Then again, that is the appeal of the trip, the mundane takes on a life of its own and becomes something else entirely -- the oh, now-I-get-it-what-a-fool-I've-been-experience, it's been here all along!

Later, returning to work, relationships, etc., the trip becomes a memory, some far more pronounced than others, but a memory nonetheless.

Life is a moving stream, nothing to hold on to here.