About a year and a half ago, while celebrating a friend’s birthday, we rented a country house. We brought twenty liters of nitrous oxide, four tabs of LSD, a couple of grams of MDMA, and plenty of weed. By that time, we had already worked out an almost perfect formula for a great weekend.
On Friday evening, we met with friends, took MDMA, rode the wave, and then calmly went to sleep. Saturday morning meant a light breakfast, and closer to noon, LSD came into play. By evening, when the effects began to fade, we could pour some whiskey and talk through how it all went. Sunday was for packing up and heading home.
In the past, all of this was accompanied by alcohol — which I consider the worst of pleasures. But this time, there was gas, and hardly anyone drank.
Everything was going perfectly, as usual. The LSD was already wearing off. I took a deep inhale — and reality changed.
It felt as if I had entered some kind of cosmic port. There were yetis there, dancing to our music. After the next powerful inhale, a huge red Pac-Man appeared in front of me — about three meters tall. Truly massive. I had never experienced visions like that before.
The image quality was unreal — like Ultra HD. After the next inhale, reality itself began to assemble right before my eyes: wherever I shifted my gaze, everything changed in that very spot.
My excitement knew no bounds. Compared to this, everything I had previously seen on LSD felt like a pale imitation of visuals.
At that moment, it seemed to me that the image was being broadcast from the future. There was no fear, no sense of divine presence — rather, a feeling that the signal was being transmitted directly into the brain.
That evening, I also saw the mechanism again. And once more, the feeling arose that the secrets of the universe had been revealed. I jumped up and shouted across the room, “I got it!” I ran to a friend to explain what I had understood — and at that exact moment, everything was erased from memory again.
I still haven’t unraveled the mystery of the mechanism, even though I’ve seen it dozens of times.
After that trip, most sessions with gas were accompanied by intense visuals. There was only one mandatory condition — complete absence of alcohol. With alcohol, it simply doesn’t work.