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LSD - Experienced - the Ultimate Truth

Heh heh. LSD played a merry prank on you it seems. It's unfortunate you weren't able to appreciate the hilarity of a silence-seeking missile of cosmic proclamation wiping out the mood of the bar.

Regarding the length of your posts: Write as much as is necessary to capture what is unique and beautiful and informative in your experiences. The psychedelic experience report is one of the most vital sub-genres of narrative non-fiction, and to avoid necessarily long descriptions of psychological nuance is to tell a different kind of story. I'd prefer one person understand something of what I'm really trying to get across in an elaborative long report than for 50 to read a condensed version of the same story crippled generic by its brevity. Of course in the case where the writer's only intent is to communicate the basics of dosage, duration, contraindications and the like for the safety of the community short is entirely appropriate and welcome.

That said, I thought this shorter trip report was a fine length since it seems you mostly simply wanted to isolate your humiliation and the brief and manic thought process that led to it. Reporting isolated experiences within trips is a good strategy if you want to keep it short without doing both your experience and your more perceptive readers a disservice.

I enjoyed the read. Thanks.
 
Haha, wow. What gets me most about this is your writing style -- I instantly thought of "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold..."

Very Hunter way of writing you have. And no doubt, because it expresses drug use so well. Nice read. :)
 
I love the near overwhelmingly positive response to this! It lifts my mood a little -- even though I'm not the one who put this story together. :)
 
I posted a couple of non-psychedelic things yesterday - they were just in response to something in a fairly dead thread or two that I was browsing. Not trip reports - but still fun to write - and hopefully read - I needed to rant.

- There's some fun wordplay in the one:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=433210&page=9

and in the other one I'm extolling the abundant virtues of pot.

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=449727&page=3

Also - I am going to be starting a new thread soon that will hopefully blow all your minds - like *seriously* - LOL. Writing about Psychedelics and Psychedelic experiences is the cerebral manifestation of my psychedelic bent - but I have a creative side - some of which I may have vaguely referred to in the original big long Gascid post that was my introduction to Bluelight.

I am hopeful that sharing this with you guys could generate a real wave.

Enjoy those posts - I don't thik either of them has generated much attention as they're buried in other posts that are not currently vibrant.

I'll see if I can get the new Thread ready to see by tomorrow.

Peace.

Prankster
 
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Also - I am going to be starting a new thread soon that will hopefully blow all your minds - like *seriously* - LOL. Writing about Psychedelics and Psychedelic experiences is the cerebral manifestation of my psychedelic bent - but I have a creative side - some of which I may have vaguely referred to in the original big long Gascid post that was my introduction to Bluelight.

I am hopeful that sharing this with you guys could generate a real wave.
I wish you all the best in your endeavors (perhaps advertising your posts by theme may be the key), but I've got some advice. As someone who typically puts a lot of thought into his posts (look at my joining date and post count and randomly read a few) and rarely receives "high ratings," I urge you not to judge your posts' responses quantitatively (this goes for everyone). It's funny, there's currently a thread in Film & Television called "Free HD streaming porn," which since 7-12-2007 has gotten 89,542 hits. If you write a trip report about mephedrone, a currently popular "RC," and give it a title many would use to describe it, you will get far more replies and hits than if you write something substantive like your "gascid" report. It's simply the nature of people and interest and the internet. Over time, you will get to know the posts of consequence by the quality of the content they contain (make adjustments for those for whom English is not their first language of course). Bluelight is great for meeting like-minded people, some of whom are very thoughtful (though many thoughtful readers I suspect are lurkers). But if you're serious about getting real readers I suggest submitting your writings to an appropriate magazine. I've no doubt Erowid will publish both of your reports, too, even if it takes them a few months to do it.
 
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I wish you all the best in your endeavors (perhaps advertising your posts by theme may be the key), but I've got some advice. etc...


Thanks for your thoughts. To be honest, I was actually very happily surprised at the 30 to 40 really positive responses that I got for the Gascid post. I wasn't even sure if *anyone* would read it all the way through.

I am making a list of people who have actually asked to see further posts that I make, and will advise them of my posts when I put them up. I do see what you mean about the low hit's though, when compared to the 'free porn' post. I'm still a real newbie here and finding my way.

I do however have at least some moderate aspirations as regards my writing. I know I have many fascinating tales - as well as some real insight, coupled with a reasonable command of English, and an OK writing style. The responses that I got in here have made me seriously consider pulication - if possible. I have no idea if there are even book publishers interested in this kind of stuff - but the idea of getting published in a magazine to start with is a good one. However, I am very out of touch on this front.

Do you have any suggestions of magazine that I could submit to? I'd really appreciate any insight you or others might have.

Thanks.
 
The first thing that came to mind was the Entheogen Review, but that went under in 2008. I assume there's something else out there like it, or a newsletter or something. Erowid Monthly is a possibility. I suggest looking into online publishers of edgy short non-fiction stories like Swink Magazine, too. Blogs and live readings on podcasts are a good way to start. You could also pose this question to BL's Words forum.
 
I knew that A'dam was pretty lax w/ drug laws and that cannabis, shrooms, and some phens but never knew that LSD was openly sold in the coffee shops during the 80's. That's awesome.
 
I knew that A'dam was pretty lax w/ drug laws and that cannabis, shrooms, and some phens but never knew that LSD was openly sold in the coffee shops during the 80's. That's awesome.

Not *quite* openly. Pot and hashish were pretty much legal, and you could go to a 'coffee shop' and get an actual physical menu, with samples of everything therein. Things like LSD and MDMA were sold behind the counter - not on public display. Strangers would not have automatic access, but once the bartender/dealer had got to meet you a few times, the 'back door' was opened, and these things were readily available. The "Flying Dutchman" is a world famous Coffee Shop and was my regular haunt for over a decade. I bought more that 75% of all the acid and MDMA I ever got from there - and I would do specific trips to Amsterdam to pick up a few hundred hits at a time, and would then take off again. I miss it - Amsterdam was a lot of fun.
 
You must share more stories... You are a great writer.

But I am a little disappointed because the feeling I got from your first (main) post, in which you mentioned this trip report, I thought you would describe with more detail this "ultimate truth".

I understand know, that being so far gone it is impossible to do so.
 
Interesting report. It made me smile that the cosmos laid some humility upon you. Sometimes humility is an important lesson and a situation like that (being really reallllly high in a public setting) will definitely increase the chances of doing something embarrassing.

Also, taking powerful psychedelics like acid after being up for 30 hours is always a recipe for a crazy experience.

Looking forward to reading more of your reports and thoughts.

Peace.
 
Interesting report. It made me smile that the cosmos laid some humility upon you. Sometimes humility is an important lesson and a situation like that (being really reallllly high in a public setting) will definitely increase the chances of doing something embarrassing.

Also, taking powerful psychedelics like acid after being up for 30 hours is always a recipe for a crazy experience.

Looking forward to reading more of your reports and thoughts.

Peace.

Yeah - up for 30 hours then acid.

Remember this was *30* years ago

Ihave grown up since hten...

;-))

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