The anticipation was killing him. Three days earlier, Bones had been offered some acid for a Saturday of experimentation. He’d obviously heard the official version of histrionic consequences pushed by the establishment, but always knew it was BS, so this was a door he looked forward to opening. “Better than weed,” he asked.
“Way better!” replied Yngwie (Lefty guitar dude, so naturally…) “It’s…it’s like being you and not being you all at once! Your perception is never going to be the same after Saturday, dude.”
Yngwie was right, more on that later. Bones’ preconceptions were very tied to 1960’s lore and hence filled with swirling colors and lava lamp fever dreams. But, of course, things are never the same for everyone when LSD is involved, so an open mind was paramount on Bones’ mind. He was determined to explore the immediate world around him from a completely new perspective and take it all in.
Macomb, IL is a small college town. Surrounded by nothing for miles, the little island of activity was home to a small local community inundated with 15,000 kids, almost all of them from much larger urban areas (Chicago). As a medium-ish State University Western Illinois had a pretty tight party scene with the same faces popping up at the few bars and many house parties scattered about town. Once you were “in” the scene, you were family, and it was fun! Parties were announced via chalk on the sidewalk and fliers stapled to just about anything. “All-U’s” were the best. Literally, everyone was invited, and it felt like everyone came sometimes. 30 keggers were common and rarely, if ever, interrupted by police. But today was going to be different…
“What do I do?” Bones asked as he held a small blue and white crystalline square of paper on his finger. The design was there, but unclear. It resembled your grandma’s china, just blurred out enough to be unrecognizable.
“Put it on your tongue, and give it a half hour or so.” Yngwie stuck his tongue out to demonstrate and off they went.
“Better eat something now before you really get going.” said Gabe, the “sober” guide who would only be subject to the mortal drugs of alcohol and weed. “Let’s go to McDonald’s.”
Bones put an “Old Style” hat on and followed quietly, trying to notice any changes in perception. “How long before I feel anything? Should I take the other one yet?”
“God no!” yelled Gabe. “You might not feel anything for an hour, just be patient! You don’t want a bad trip because you overdid it. Bad stuff there, man.”
“OK, just anxious man.” Bones replied. “At least I’m hungry.”
The guys ordered food and sat down. As the meal was about halfway finished, Bones couldn’t stop staring at the potted plants hanging from the ceiling. They were shaking furiously, but nothing else was. It was still summer and the air conditioner was blasting, keeping the diners cool in the greenhouse that was the dining room.
“I’ve got a question…” asked Bones. “Why are those plants vibrating like that?”
The smile on the other two’s faces said it all. The journey had begun, it was happening!
“But seriously, are they actually moving?” Bones asked trying to determine for himself, but something rendered him unable to decipher if that was real or imaginary. It seemed like a good reminder to Bones that this is what LSD was about. Abandoning your preconceptions about the physical universe and open yourself to new observations, feelings, and concepts. “Onward.” Bones thought as they walked out of McDonald’s, still unaware if the plants were actually moving or not.
The bar was the next stop on the journey. It was dark now, and the walk between McDonald’s and the bar was a decent trip on foot, so Bones thought the next 20 minutes would be interesting to say the least. The warm air was great! How did he never notice how great warm air was! And why are all the cars going so fast? The lights all left streaks, the stars were brighter, and everything felt just right as if someone had come by a put everything in place perfectly. He was amazed at the precision involved with the world around him, it was perfect!
Once inside, Bones could “feel” everything. The Ritz was always his happy place, his Cheers so to speak, but tonight was even better somehow. Drinking ever faster, no amount of alcohol could change his newfound perceptions. The conversations were more interesting, if not confusing at times, but the people he talked to were all gorgeous, intelligent, and charming.
The dimly lit bar had plenty of newly interesting neon signs, mirrors and well, everything to stare at and contemplate it’s place in the larger picture of the universe. The major question of the night between Yngwie and Bones was if the electrons, neutrons and protons choose to make up what they made up? If they did, who made sure they stayed that way? There was too much activity to determine the answer, but the guys knew this… Dance music can not only be heard, but seen and felt! Important stuff to consider.
Time moves faster while tripping, it is known.
So, after a few hours of shots and beers, it was time for after ups!
Macomb bars were made to close at a notoriously early hour of midnight, which lead to the large amount of house parties. The parties that started after the bars closed were known as “after-ups” after uptown, where all the bars were.
“You need to slow down and drink some water guys. You two have been pounding everything for like four hours!” Gabe was right, Bones and Yngwie would have been slobberknockered if not for the acid. So the only solution was to…..
As the second hit dissolved onto Bones’ tongue, he wondered what might be in store later. How could this be any better? Short of losing his virginity and a select few out of his league one night stands, this was the best night ever!
The apartment over the donut shop was always notorious for great after-ups, it was an older crowd, and the older crowd were late night warriors. Bones sat at a table playing the popular drinking game “A**hole” and invited himself into the game. (At this point, it was obvious to everyone that Bones and Yngwie were having the time of their lives and this crowd knew why.) So many attempts were made to confuse and/or astonish the two, which lead to even more fun for the two. The environment was inviting and non-hostile, perfect for the events happening inside their minds.
After a good while of throwing cards in the bathroom trash to avoid being the a**hole forever, the game broke apart. Bones had an idea that he figured would be a good prank, make people think that he thought he could fly! The window was open to the storefront below with no screen, as any good college apartment in town wouldn’t have, so the opportunity was there. Climbing into the window was more complicated than Bones imagined, in fact, suddenly, everything was getting complicated, but the prank was too good to stop now, he thought. As luck would have it, one of Bones other friends yanked him inside so fast it was a blur. Girls were crying and Bones was getting an earful from people who cared about him.
“You didn’t like my joke?” Bones said incredulously. “I wasn’t actually going to try and fly!”
“Dude! Rick asked what you were doing, and you said, and I quote ‘I’m gonna fly home now'” yelled Gabe, drunk and mad at Bones now.
“That was the joke, to make you think I was going to fly home.”
“By actually jumping out of the window?!”
“YES!”
“I’m taking you guys home, now.” Rick said. He was older and knew the ropes, and could tell the pair needed to be sequestered from society.
Safely back in the dorms, Yngwie and Bones talked about everything they had encountered that night until dawn. The LSD was wearing off and the alcohol was about to rear it’s ugly head and announce it’s presence with authority.
The next evening, Bones woke up sore, hungry, hungover and curious. Subsequent trips would be necessary to explain the sensations he experienced the night before, but his perception had changed. The world was a much more complicated place than he ever knew, ever smaller things combined to make ever larger things, ad infinitum. You just don’t unrealize things like that. Bones knew now how insignificant everything was, but how absolutely significant everything is to everything else. You see, infinitely small or infinitely large, the universe needs you to be whole, no matter how insignificant you may be perceived by others.
Peace.
Wow man…like…trippy.
Thanks for the ride.
Short of losing his virginity and a select few out of his league one night stands, this was the best night ever!
If you can get her to go home with you, she’s not out of your league. Adjust your sights accordingly.
/Took me a long time to figure that out
I got the swirling vision effect but none of the philosophical “perception” jazz everyone raves about. Just a pleasant sort of “checking out” for a while.
Alcohol and LSD. *shivers*
Once, 40 years ago without the alcohol, and never again.
I probably did it about ten times. No strong desire to do it again.
yeah…once…in Hollywood and never again.
Ditto, but 50 years ago. That’s our age difference talkin’.
I never fooled with dope, never had any use for it. I am dopey enough without any help.
I respect people that took that path. I did it, I enjoy it, but I stay away from it.
Yeah, I never did anything harder than alcohol either.
Er, no thanks; why do you think they call it beer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaevSWr3QGY
Mother and Father Q are in town so I may not post all that much for the next couple of days but I will leave you with this in the meantime:
https://archive.md/5ZSAN
NSFW.
#9 yum yum
Did acid once and was not impressed. Mushrooms, on the other hand, fundamentally altered my psyche for the better.
Once I am at a place in life where I no longer have to fear losing my gainful employment due to a random drug test, I will be trying ‘shrooms.
Psilocybin leaves the blood and urine within a day or so of injesting it. Unless you are getting a hair follicle test that is specifically looking for hallucinogens you are good to go ahead and take some ?.
Most drug tests look for THC, cocaine, meth, and opiates. I’ve not heard of one that checked for hallucinogens.
That’s good to know. We do hair follicle testing because in the heyday of the oil boom up here many people were cheating the urine test. I don’t know what types our test looks for, but I’m not anxious to find out. I have heard rumors that we may be going back to the urine test…
Jeez, bad old days.
Another story awaits
I dropped acid on an almost weekly basis for about a year and a half when I was 22-23 and had the freedom to just take a break from the world for a day or so. The best was the Felix the Cat blotter. My hippie girlfriend’s stupid hippie friends used to complain that it wasn’t strong enough, but if you took 3 or four hits it was fantastic, solid visuals and very colorful without much of the mental bullshit that leads to bad trips.
The best times were when we would take it at home, hop in the car and my friend’s girlfriend would drive to an industrial dance club in Hollywood, we’d feel it kick in while we were in line to get in right when they opened and we’d peak around the time the main DJ went on. The rest of my life pretty much sucked at the time – shitty job and the above hippie girlfriend cheated on me and broke my heart – and this was really the only good thing I had at the time, so maybe ‘bets times’ is a bit relative, but I have almost exclusively good memories about LSD.
Me and a buddy tripped wandering around the grounds of the Buffalo Psych Center at night once. That was one of those infamous nineteenth century asylums. The outdoor balcony/cages were especially memorable.
Thanks for the story, Bones! I’ve never tried acid/LSD. I’m not sure I will.
I have, however, tried mushrooms, ayahuasca, and bufo (the dehydrated venom of the Sonoran desert toad, bufo alvarius).
And weed… I’ve smoked copious amounts of herb.
I believe entheogens – plant medicines, like psilocybin, iboga, ayahuasca, peyote, etc. – can have tremendous, life-changing benefits for *everyone* under the right circumstances… but they absolutely should be treated with respect. I prefer the shamanistic/native rituals for my dosing, but I’ve micro-dosed both mushrooms and bufo in rather conventional circumstances and it was good. I had a fair amount of experience by then, however. I wouldn’t recommend it as a starting point, but YMMV.
You are the man.
Great read. It’s cool to hear others’ experiences with mind altering drugs. So far alcohol, and weed less than 10 times in college are the only ones I’ve tried. Thanks for sharing.
Always, my dude
Drugs are bad, mmmmkay.
https://youtu.be/dAHoxaphbEs
https://youtu.be/gVz2oXqlmbg
I have primarily been happy with alcohol, and have never really experienced much effect from weed. That said, when I hit 45, I decided I had been a good boy for long enough and started horsing around with drugs a little. I guess it’s my mid-life crisis. I really enjoyed the Columbian bam bam, X/Molly and mushrooms. I have done acid and preferred the ‘shrooms to that as they are just much more mellow/more smooth than acid. I have also tried edibles vs. smoking weed and decided I don’t much care for marijuana in any way, shape or form. The biggest effect I get is paranoia, which is unpleasant. I probably won’t do the marching powder anymore due to the next day headaches as they are almost intolerable despite the high being so good, it’s just not worth it the next day (or 2) later.
I injected black tar heroin into my eyeball earlier and now i’m pretty happy.
Where the white bitches at?
They were the first ones to leave when they saw you coming.
White bitches, like all bitches, love me. I think it was you.
Is it possible to install Monocle on Brave?
Yes
Boom kablam straight to the moon with you!
How?
?
Brave is built on Chrome, so use the Chrome version.
That worked. Thank you.
Would you say I was the first to help you with this?
Beware that Eyepiece (and so maybe Monocle too?) are kind of broken to various degrees on various browsers, due to the missing previous/next buttons on the left side on which they depend.
e.g. Eyepiece is partially functional on Edge and completely broken on Safari.
You might want to wait and see if SF brings back the buttons.
I’m using Vivaldi, and while the previous/next arrows are gone, the format/link/preview features still work.
Yeah, the comment-specific buttons do work on Safari, actually. But all the stuff on the left is gone and I’m lost without some of those buttons. Maybe I’ll give ol’ Monocle a try.
Update:
Monocle is equally broken on Safari. š
Everything seems to be working fine on Monocle. But thank you.
I’ve never used Eyepiece.
I think you helped me understand why acid is probably not my thing.
I still kind of want to though.
Do you still partake, Bones?
Iām pretty fucking high
But I donāt do acid anymore
Wait! Itās Friday?!
Tonight in maximum stupid.
Early 2020 called; it wants its pants-shitting terror back.
Found some early spring ’20 newspapers recently: no kidding.
In spite of their hysterical screeching about the sky falling have any of the measures the experts demanded made any difference at all in transmission rates, hospitalizations or fatalities?
I know, I know…they have jimmied the numbers so badly right from the start that we have no accurate data to draw any kind of sensible conclusion from so who knows….
Control? variable? Qu’est-ce qu’ils sont?
One of the holiday B-team on Fox had a bit tonight about how they went from nu to omicron because they had to skip xi.
I didn’t know whether laugh or cry. So I laughed.
How much are Hunter’s paintings going for these days?
The Who completely kowtows to the CCP.
I won’t get fooled again.
Damn your nimble fingers and my dog needing to poop.
Unlike The Who, who know better.
https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q
The Post editorial board hasn’t learned a thing. It’s a shame. They have some good columnists
Heard about kanna and phenibut (both legal) via stumbling onto this* site: anyone know? Author seems to be autodidact re anxiolytics.
*https://dontpanicdothis.com/
urrrr: https://dontpanicdothis.com/recommended-products/the-best-anxiety-supplements/ (NB that kanna ā kava; for former see Teas)
Ten seconds of de rigueur Mitch Hedberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHA5CIL0fg
I notice that 7/8 of the subject of third pic is still intact. Re copy in first pic: pee on my leg…
Where are all you people: on dope?
Yes.
https://youtu.be/-JmXc4d_J3Q
Timely. Watched the Big Cube tonight.
Lana!
Nice story.
I believe my spouse had one little adventure with the āstickersā back in the day.
It included with him running away through a public park utterly convinced that mallard ducks and Canada hate birds were chasing him down to kill him.
I myself have never been tempted . I like alcohol and the very rare Vicodin (prescription only, and less than 40 tabs a year) , and Iām semi curious about THC. Canāt do it because Federal Job of course.
Anyway. I. Chuckled at the story!! š
LOL… a similar event, caught on film – https://youtu.be/ECrXHqysa8Q
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
What’s goody? Got my OT hours approved. What’s baddy? Convincing three levels of supervisors that it was a needful thing about an hour after signing off from Glibs yesterday morning. I was half in the bag and just tucked in for a long winter’s nap when the call request came. I hate pretending to be sober instead of Retarded. The neutral – I get to stay on top of things but I’ll be working 7 days a week for the next two months. It was a win.
What’s goody for you mein freund?
Due to work schedule (nights) I get out of attending Jugsy’s white-trash family thanksgiving dinner in N. Ky.
Which means Ill be able to enjoy the OSU game by myself!
(well, me and The Dozer)
At my age, its the little things that I can appreciate.
This article sure stirred up some old ghosts for me… In my teens and early twenties we used to eat hallucinogens like candy. First time on LSD was 15 at a house party I hosted, parents upstairs, minding there own business. I was by that time the “Good Son” so nothing untoward could happen if a bunch of 15-16-17 year old’s got together to drink some beer and listen to music. Everyone’s Dads bought their boys beer. 1980 mores seem like something from a different planet now, like the high-waisted, skin tight jeans that we all wore back then. Of course Mom and Dad ignored the pot smoke drifting up from the furnace vents and they sure as hell didn’t know about the acid. That night was a fun ride. On a similar note, I think if the first time that I willfully got drunk had turned into a paralysing hangover that lasted for days instead of one of the best nights of my young life, I probably would have turned out a different man.
That first drunk – think Wiley Wiggins from “Dazed and Confused”. Would have been better off in the long run to get my ass kicked by some loogin and wind up puking on my shoes instead of making out with a hot, older chick and all of my jokes st6icking the landing.
Seeing as I am talking to the Aether, my first drunk in cartoon form – https://youtu.be/QRKrvxow9_M
“That’s the stage we call Professor L0b0t.”
https://youtu.be/102Yy3mV_IY
*raises cup of coffee*
*nods*
Hi Festus!
HI, Everybody!
Enlightening, Bones. What a difference a generation or two makes. Seemed like I was in a crowd of people speaking a different language and I didn’t understand a word of it.
Then the computer stuff started , the language changed and I still didn’t understand anything.
I once asked a friend, “If marijuana would have been available when we were kids, would we have tried it?”
He answered, “We couldn’t even afford cigarettes”
It took 3 of us, each kicking in 50 cents, to get a 6 pack , if we could find someone to buy it for us. Different times…
Mornin
Morning.
It seems all the local purveyors of fine firearms open at 10am. No way to optimize the browsing.
https://pix11.com/news/coronavirus/hochul-announces-state-of-emergency-to-boost-hospital-capacity-over-new-covid-omicron-variant/
*panics, sets hair on fire*
OFFS here we go again. ?
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/tallest-indoor-christmas-tree-in-the-u-s-lights-up-at-galleria-dallas
Too bad we’ll all be dead by Christmas. ?
*says three Hail Faucis*
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/smash-and-grab-crew-steals-tools-from-lakewood-home-depot-sheriffs-department/
Stealing tools to use in more crimes. Smart.