Hey Everyone,
I tripped two days ago in the evening for the first time with my girlfriend and a great group of friends. There were eight of us tripping and two of us were first timers, myself and J. We also had two sitters for everyone. I had done a lot of research on Erowid and here at Bluelight before delving into something this powerful and I think that anyone thinking about testing the waters should do the same to give them peace of mind during the trip.
For some reason it took us a week and a half to find our acid (on WoW's). When we finally did we decided to trip that night. Night tripping wasn't what I felt I wanted to do for my first experience, but I decided to go with the flow as sometimes things just happen certain ways for certain reasons. We were talking about where we could stay for the night to ensure a safe trip set/setting and a new friend A said we could take the journey at her and boyfriends house. Super happy and grateful, we accepted and started to gather supplies for the trip. The more experienced trippers in my group said we should get binkies because we may or may not want to chew on something and that gum just wouldn't cut it (definitely a good idea).
My girlfriend and a few others decided to drop before we drove to A's house, about a 20 minute drive. This being my first time and me driving my friends I didn't want to drop until we were at our destination. After arriving we cut the hits up (on WoW's, quarter inch by quarter inch, non-perforated) and just sucked on the hit till it broke down (10:05 PM). After taking the hits a few of us decided to go buy some water from the liquor store around the corner and I figured it would be good way to start the come up.
I didn't end up feeling the trip till a little after we got back (10:25) and we hung out in front of A's house for awhile and talked. While all my other friends were feeling the trip and pretty much the beginning of the visuals, I wasn't feeling much other then warm and more upbeat. One of my friends bought a 75 pack of the long skinny glowsticks and he pulled them out and cracked all of them. This part was a really nice sample of what was to come. my friend walked into the middle of the street and tossed all the glowsticks into the air. It was honestly one of the most visually beautiful things I've seen (other than nature) at night. It looked like long rainbow droplets raining down on us, I recommend it to every single one of you. My friends talked to me and my girlfriend said she wanted to take a second hit and said I might want to as well since I wasn't feeling too much. I thought about it and figured it's my first time and I should make sure I get the full experience, awesome idea
. We went back inside and got the rest of the hits and I dropped my second hit around 11:30.
This is when the trip really started to get psychedelic, it felt like 15 minutes after I took the second hit the visuals started. Way different then shrooms, for me at least. A has a wall tapestry on her ceiling that was incredible and I'm almost certain that's where I remember the serious visuals starting. The patterns started to curl and twist and move in a synchronized manner and then I started to listen to some Jimmy Hendrix and that's when my trip blasted off. A big circle in the center of the tapestry just twisted and unlocked in a mechanical kind of way, similar to a transformer, and then it turned into a black hole and then I basically snapped out of the trip and back to reality. I looked to my girlfriend and she was tripping fairly hard, she said hers was really intense, like waves of ecstacy hitting her or phenylethlamine caps.
All of my friends were in full trip mode by this point and were in their own universe, or basically creating their own universes and playing with glowsticks while I was digging my ipod and just trying to really gain some spiritual significance from the experience. They ended up wanting to turn the light off and I started listening to Kid Cudis' Man On The Moon which I feel was perfect for taking me on a journey through his lyrics that my emotions could completely identify with, it was very therapeutic. I worked through my emotions and it was as if Cudis' lyrics were my own personal shaman guiding me through the tough parts. At no point did I feel like I was out of control, although I did realize things about my friends and how I needed to just let go and stop analyzing everything and just be in the moment with myself and my friends.
I was sipping my water every half hour or so I think (time is basically non existent for me while tripping). As a result I had to get up and go to the bathroom which had, according to other peoples trip reports, the dreaded mirror. I wasn't necessarily scared I was just uneasy as I've read many reports where people see their skin falling off. I walked in and went to the bathroom and basically watched the toilet water as the walls of the bathroom expanded out as I inhaled and sucked in as I exhaled (very similar to the walls in The Matrix when Neo finally realizes he's The One). Then my vision seemed like someone was raising and lowering the contrast of light in the bathroom over and over again. All of a sudden the walls ripped open and the floor blasted off with me on top of it, then I snapped back to reality and went to wash my hands. I looked at the mirror and became instantly mesmerized by looking into my own eyes, it was as if I was peering into my own soul. Then I noticed my face start to shift and then my reflection seemed to be possessed by a demon, still my reflection just snarling and looking at me like it was trying to scare the shit out of me. Well it worked and I said "fuck this" and walked out of the bathroom a little taken back because my whole trip up till that point had been pretty glorious.
I sat back on the couch with my girlfriend and low and behold an hour later I needed to pee again. I pee'd and faced my possessed self once again, only this time I gripped down hard on the sink and basically stared back at my demon self and kind of just let my fear go and let my inner strength take over and got up close to the mirror and mentally pushed back. Almost like standing up to myself and showing myself that I wasn't scared and that I wasn't going to back down. The reflection of myself tried hard to scare me, but I wouldn't let it, I had no fear anymore. The demon realized this and the face shifting and snarling slowly disappeared. I felt as if a weight and a dark gloominess had been lifted off of me and happiness was able to shine through me again like I hadn't felt for years.
I walked out of the bathroom feeling really accomplished and all my friends were tripping and as I was sitting down next to my girlfriend again my friend S and J asked me if it was me or the mirror me. I have no idea how they new about it, but they were trying to figure out which me they were talking to before they got into a conversation with me and I explained to them with absolute certainty that it was me. It felt so good to know exactly who I was and to be able to say that it was me. I then said, "you guys I just went to war with myself and won." I will never forget that moment or that line, I feel like it just flows through me now.
After that I put my music back on and just listened to the words and appreciated the music more than I normally do and just enjoyed being in that moment in time with great friends and my beautiful girlfriend. I felt like we all connected on a level that I really don't think compares to anything else. I felt as if I was seeing the essence of each of my friends, really incredible feeling. I got on my phone and looked at my photos of my family and felt an intense amount of joy and love and then I saw a picture of my little brother who currently lives a state away who I know is going through a really tough time at this moment in his life. He's 19, I'm 20, but I know exactly what he's going through. Something inside urged me to text him and just let him know that I love him and that I'm thinking about him. He texted me back about a half hour later saying he loved me too. That was all that he said even though I texted him again afterwards (never got a text back after that).
The visuals lasted till around four AM, but the feeling of the acid lasted well into the day after the trip. I never ended up being able sleep that morning after the trip and decided to drive my girlfriend home and just chill. She was able to fall asleep, but I felt too good and energized to sleep so I listened to music and found a whole new love for Lynard Skynards' "Free Bird" the song was incredible. I listened to Drakes' new album Thank Me Later and during the song "The Resistance" my brother texted me again telling me that he's been seeing a therapist and he's doing better then when I was there last, he also told me that he wants to fly over to see me again soon because he felt like he really wasn't himself when I visited him last. I texted him back saying, regardless of what happens I will always be his big brother and that I've always known who he really is. The song mixed with that text unleashed something inside me and tears of pure happiness started pouring from my eyes. I had been hurting inside because I know he had been hurting as well for a long time and I wasn't able to be with him because our parents had separated (not blood, but grew up together up till age 11 and he and his mom moved to las vegas). It was one of the most genuine moments of my life thus far. After that I just got up did some yard work and ended up going to a family bbq where I explained my trip to some of my family and just felt brand new and as if I (figuratively) had a bag of smiles and I wanted to hand them out to everyone, hahaha.
All in all I loved the trip, but would like to trip during the day and would also like to trip with less people and in nature. The part with me going to war with myself, in retrospect, I feel was my immature self testing my mature self to see if I was strong enough mentally and spiritually to actually grow the fuck up, guess what.....I did it
. Being in a house just felt so unnatural and inorganic. LSD is an incredible drug and I think everyone should try it at least once in their lifetime. Sorry for the incredibly long post, but I needed to tell someone about my journey. Until my next trip......
Thank you so much for reading,
-djstrip
I tripped two days ago in the evening for the first time with my girlfriend and a great group of friends. There were eight of us tripping and two of us were first timers, myself and J. We also had two sitters for everyone. I had done a lot of research on Erowid and here at Bluelight before delving into something this powerful and I think that anyone thinking about testing the waters should do the same to give them peace of mind during the trip.
For some reason it took us a week and a half to find our acid (on WoW's). When we finally did we decided to trip that night. Night tripping wasn't what I felt I wanted to do for my first experience, but I decided to go with the flow as sometimes things just happen certain ways for certain reasons. We were talking about where we could stay for the night to ensure a safe trip set/setting and a new friend A said we could take the journey at her and boyfriends house. Super happy and grateful, we accepted and started to gather supplies for the trip. The more experienced trippers in my group said we should get binkies because we may or may not want to chew on something and that gum just wouldn't cut it (definitely a good idea).
My girlfriend and a few others decided to drop before we drove to A's house, about a 20 minute drive. This being my first time and me driving my friends I didn't want to drop until we were at our destination. After arriving we cut the hits up (on WoW's, quarter inch by quarter inch, non-perforated) and just sucked on the hit till it broke down (10:05 PM). After taking the hits a few of us decided to go buy some water from the liquor store around the corner and I figured it would be good way to start the come up.
I didn't end up feeling the trip till a little after we got back (10:25) and we hung out in front of A's house for awhile and talked. While all my other friends were feeling the trip and pretty much the beginning of the visuals, I wasn't feeling much other then warm and more upbeat. One of my friends bought a 75 pack of the long skinny glowsticks and he pulled them out and cracked all of them. This part was a really nice sample of what was to come. my friend walked into the middle of the street and tossed all the glowsticks into the air. It was honestly one of the most visually beautiful things I've seen (other than nature) at night. It looked like long rainbow droplets raining down on us, I recommend it to every single one of you. My friends talked to me and my girlfriend said she wanted to take a second hit and said I might want to as well since I wasn't feeling too much. I thought about it and figured it's my first time and I should make sure I get the full experience, awesome idea
. We went back inside and got the rest of the hits and I dropped my second hit around 11:30.This is when the trip really started to get psychedelic, it felt like 15 minutes after I took the second hit the visuals started. Way different then shrooms, for me at least. A has a wall tapestry on her ceiling that was incredible and I'm almost certain that's where I remember the serious visuals starting. The patterns started to curl and twist and move in a synchronized manner and then I started to listen to some Jimmy Hendrix and that's when my trip blasted off. A big circle in the center of the tapestry just twisted and unlocked in a mechanical kind of way, similar to a transformer, and then it turned into a black hole and then I basically snapped out of the trip and back to reality. I looked to my girlfriend and she was tripping fairly hard, she said hers was really intense, like waves of ecstacy hitting her or phenylethlamine caps.
All of my friends were in full trip mode by this point and were in their own universe, or basically creating their own universes and playing with glowsticks while I was digging my ipod and just trying to really gain some spiritual significance from the experience. They ended up wanting to turn the light off and I started listening to Kid Cudis' Man On The Moon which I feel was perfect for taking me on a journey through his lyrics that my emotions could completely identify with, it was very therapeutic. I worked through my emotions and it was as if Cudis' lyrics were my own personal shaman guiding me through the tough parts. At no point did I feel like I was out of control, although I did realize things about my friends and how I needed to just let go and stop analyzing everything and just be in the moment with myself and my friends.
I was sipping my water every half hour or so I think (time is basically non existent for me while tripping). As a result I had to get up and go to the bathroom which had, according to other peoples trip reports, the dreaded mirror. I wasn't necessarily scared I was just uneasy as I've read many reports where people see their skin falling off. I walked in and went to the bathroom and basically watched the toilet water as the walls of the bathroom expanded out as I inhaled and sucked in as I exhaled (very similar to the walls in The Matrix when Neo finally realizes he's The One). Then my vision seemed like someone was raising and lowering the contrast of light in the bathroom over and over again. All of a sudden the walls ripped open and the floor blasted off with me on top of it, then I snapped back to reality and went to wash my hands. I looked at the mirror and became instantly mesmerized by looking into my own eyes, it was as if I was peering into my own soul. Then I noticed my face start to shift and then my reflection seemed to be possessed by a demon, still my reflection just snarling and looking at me like it was trying to scare the shit out of me. Well it worked and I said "fuck this" and walked out of the bathroom a little taken back because my whole trip up till that point had been pretty glorious.
I sat back on the couch with my girlfriend and low and behold an hour later I needed to pee again. I pee'd and faced my possessed self once again, only this time I gripped down hard on the sink and basically stared back at my demon self and kind of just let my fear go and let my inner strength take over and got up close to the mirror and mentally pushed back. Almost like standing up to myself and showing myself that I wasn't scared and that I wasn't going to back down. The reflection of myself tried hard to scare me, but I wouldn't let it, I had no fear anymore. The demon realized this and the face shifting and snarling slowly disappeared. I felt as if a weight and a dark gloominess had been lifted off of me and happiness was able to shine through me again like I hadn't felt for years.
I walked out of the bathroom feeling really accomplished and all my friends were tripping and as I was sitting down next to my girlfriend again my friend S and J asked me if it was me or the mirror me. I have no idea how they new about it, but they were trying to figure out which me they were talking to before they got into a conversation with me and I explained to them with absolute certainty that it was me. It felt so good to know exactly who I was and to be able to say that it was me. I then said, "you guys I just went to war with myself and won." I will never forget that moment or that line, I feel like it just flows through me now.
After that I put my music back on and just listened to the words and appreciated the music more than I normally do and just enjoyed being in that moment in time with great friends and my beautiful girlfriend. I felt like we all connected on a level that I really don't think compares to anything else. I felt as if I was seeing the essence of each of my friends, really incredible feeling. I got on my phone and looked at my photos of my family and felt an intense amount of joy and love and then I saw a picture of my little brother who currently lives a state away who I know is going through a really tough time at this moment in his life. He's 19, I'm 20, but I know exactly what he's going through. Something inside urged me to text him and just let him know that I love him and that I'm thinking about him. He texted me back about a half hour later saying he loved me too. That was all that he said even though I texted him again afterwards (never got a text back after that).
The visuals lasted till around four AM, but the feeling of the acid lasted well into the day after the trip. I never ended up being able sleep that morning after the trip and decided to drive my girlfriend home and just chill. She was able to fall asleep, but I felt too good and energized to sleep so I listened to music and found a whole new love for Lynard Skynards' "Free Bird" the song was incredible. I listened to Drakes' new album Thank Me Later and during the song "The Resistance" my brother texted me again telling me that he's been seeing a therapist and he's doing better then when I was there last, he also told me that he wants to fly over to see me again soon because he felt like he really wasn't himself when I visited him last. I texted him back saying, regardless of what happens I will always be his big brother and that I've always known who he really is. The song mixed with that text unleashed something inside me and tears of pure happiness started pouring from my eyes. I had been hurting inside because I know he had been hurting as well for a long time and I wasn't able to be with him because our parents had separated (not blood, but grew up together up till age 11 and he and his mom moved to las vegas). It was one of the most genuine moments of my life thus far. After that I just got up did some yard work and ended up going to a family bbq where I explained my trip to some of my family and just felt brand new and as if I (figuratively) had a bag of smiles and I wanted to hand them out to everyone, hahaha.
All in all I loved the trip, but would like to trip during the day and would also like to trip with less people and in nature. The part with me going to war with myself, in retrospect, I feel was my immature self testing my mature self to see if I was strong enough mentally and spiritually to actually grow the fuck up, guess what.....I did it
. Being in a house just felt so unnatural and inorganic. LSD is an incredible drug and I think everyone should try it at least once in their lifetime. Sorry for the incredibly long post, but I needed to tell someone about my journey. Until my next trip......Thank you so much for reading,
-djstrip
