Trips in Society
Does anyone else get a kick out of tripping in the middle of public?
Even with saucers for pupils, nervous tremors, and utter inability to communicate effectively (to mention the objective phenomena apparent to others in the society)? Because recently I've thrown myself into some public situations, including some strangers' wedding at the park, while on good syd (subjectively high as a KITE and feeling like my thoughts are loud as a greatful dead amp broadcasting my feelings and whims to everyone around) - and it has been exTREMEly interesting. Nervewracking, of course, even terrifying at times (librarians are secretly dinosaurs with human skin as disguise),
but the process of exposing myself to unfamiliar people while tripping has proved very insight-provoking, in terms of letting me see and better experience their own psyches. A sort of telepathy, you could say, occurs when I'm tripping and occurs to others with whom I've spoken when ThEyre tripping, sort of like empathy but much stronger where you seem to step into the other person's skin. Kind of like you pick up on every little mannerism the person has, every tic and twitch, sigh and groan, giggle and every quirk of conversation, tone, and facial expression, and can just SEE THROUGH it all to the person's core, and all those mannerisms are just games that have evolved from the core's interactions with society.
And there's the flip side: it's like YOU/ME, as the tripper and the outsider, have a magnetic, powerful effect on other people - often a disorienting effect, sometimes a scary effect, and sometimes an eye-opening effect.
I know the golden rule of set and setting frowns upon putting one's self in that kind of context, wildly unpredictable and probably upsetting, sometimes I feel like "set and setting" is a construct that is getting old and limiting peoples' trips. What do you guys think?