Dear BigTrancer and Raider,
It was interesting that you should call the other day, I hadn't expected the two of you of all people to contact me. What with never having tried psychedelics besides MDMA before, I thought you were kidding yourself. Still, bravely you both jumped up to the plate, 25mg in hand and said "let's go". I gather that it was something like an hour before you noticed anything at all, in which time you had a chance to walk around the Docklands and feel the general crowd's anticipation for a party. Everyone you knew was dropping pills like crazy, and it was about the first time you'd stood and watched them all do that without joining in for a while.
You thought that it was the vodka you sipped that gave you a headspin at about T+1:00, but it wasn't. Then the clarity of vision and intensified colours you saw from T+1:30 to about T+3:00 took you a little by surprise. Wasn't Chicane's music beautiful? In fact I thought at the time that Raider's comment that it "seemed like ecstacy on drugs" was a little prophetic. But that whole first hour or two, I could tell that you were a little underwhelmed. That you could stand and concentrate and feel almost completely straight during most of this time gave you a sense of control and an impression of my subtlety that possibly goaded you into a little over-confidence. *chuckle* At the 3hr 30min mark, when you boys thought that I'd like to be introduced to the Buddha... hehe well I guess you found that confrontation interesting. Boy was Oakie's set good or what?? And then I thought well, it's time to burn.
From T+4:00 to I'd say about T+6:30, I wondered if you'd like the breathing walls, reflections and solid surface visuals, the pulsating heartbeat of the bright lights, and the melting of the toilet cubicles. I think you surprised yourselves by coming through it all unscathed. Sorry about the immense body load, aching muscles and the gripping complicated continual nausea, but you did eat beforehand, which I'm fairly sure you'd avoid next time. It's good in one respect that your setting was the Docklands because you've been there so often it would have seemed like home, but I guess the difference in temperature between inside the sheds, and outside where the seats were would have made it difficult to find somewhere to be comfortable.
It reached T+7:00 and I thought, another Buddha? Where do you want to go today? But you seemed blissfully comfortable and the roundtrip had begun. The side-effects from the buddha seemed to put you on familiar ground and allow you to start to concentrate on the delicious synergistic effects rather than the body load. I'm guessing that the tightness in the neck/shoulders and the nausea might hang around for a few days though. By T+9:00 I was fairly well done with you both, and had said most of my goodbyes, but I thought since we'd had such fun, I'd better keep calling to check if you were ok. By lunchtime the next day a little surprise episode of breathing walls for half an hour probably made you a little uneasy, but compounded your newfound respect for me.
I'll probably come and visit with you again, but not for a few months. We'll see how you go.
Yours sincerely, 2C-T-7.
