^ Fried ? I often really enjoy the next day sitting chatting with fellow travellers and recounting our combined idiocies and enlightenments.
hrm, not for me...
this kind of post-event enlightenment is exactly what i treasure from shrooms. but with acid i find my brain is tired, tired of the constant go-go-go, tired of the forced-induction approach, tired from having the third eye torn open instead of gently sweet-talked into opening, tired from the laughing, tired from the emotions, tired from the body load.
then again i really, REALLY struggle to get to sleep on acid... so perhaps my vision of the comedown period is somewhat prejudiced.
I usually feel like a better person with a clear mind again, I guess it depends on the quality of the acid?
how very presumptuous, you young rascal! what are you suggesting?
seriously dude i doubt it had anything to do with the quality of the acid. i was fortunate enough to have some of the 'hands' which were around when i was about 14; sydney 2000s, which has the olympic logo on and were pretty fucking intense; the second wave of purple ohms in australia in the early/mid 1990s, which were almost universally acknowledged as being beautiful trips; i've had windowpanes from surfers, cubes from hippies, microdots from strangers and liquid from ravers... so unless i had an *extraordinarily* bad 10-year run, i don't think it's the quality
it ties in with what i was saying before about actually retaining the lessons learnt during the psychedelic experience. to me, acid is somewhat forced and decidedly Other (i.e., the feeling is unlike anything you could imagine yet you feel you know it intensely). it's that alien level of reflection, that impersonal and slightly contrived introspection - that's what i find the predominant factor in my acid trips, at least towards the end. certainly i found that i was mentally exhausted by the time i figured out i didn't want or need it anymore. perhaps it's because when the psychedelic experience becomes commonplace you lose touch with the initial power it holds; for me personally, with time, the bright lights of revelation are dimmed somewhat by the familiarity of it all, and the layering of negative associations which are a result of spending a lot of time tripping and also dealing with some fucked up things.
certainly the first couple of times i did acid were incredible and potent experiences. but i still found it difficult to actually drag across into the conscious / real world the tales and cautions and inspirations i derived from the experience itself, because it seems so detached. with shrooms i find it both easy and fun to bring those lessons back with me into Real Life, and most importantly to continue to implement them / learn from them in the days and weeks to follow. i find it energises my soul; gives me a kind of spiritual nourishment. i feel a long term benefit from the psilocybin experience which is somehow less metallic than LSD, less plasticky than MDMA, less chemical than either of them and somehow more lasting.
