Part 1:
All summer I had been waiting for this day: my 17th birthday. It wasn't until the last half of the summer so I had a good month or two to plan out what I was going to do. Two close buddies of mine and I decided we were just going to get a half of exotics and call it a day. The day finally arrived and we were discussing what we were going to do. I remember thinking that instead of just getting good bud, I wanted to try something different, pretty much whatever we could get our hands on. I texted a pretty reliable dealer of mine and asked him what he could get his hands on. He said he had some pretty potent Ecstasy for $20 a pill so I told him we were interested. A few hours pass and still no reply from the guy regarding when/where we were getting the rolls. Tired of waiting we buy some bud from a friend of one of the guys I was with. We had 4 blunts for that night, each pretty good in size (a .7 each?) At around 8 pm the dealer from earlier who was going to get us the rolls texts me, "Hey man, my guy doesn't have the rolls but I have a hookup for acid if you're down for that." "Why not?" I thought, being that I had been curious about acid for quite some time. I had done shrooms only a few times in the past so I thought I would be ready for the trip. We pick the guy up, he gets us the acid (10 hits for $100) and split them between the 3 of us. We get back to my friends house (the one I'd been staying at all day), and decide to drop them.
Part 2: The Trip
Upon dropping the tabs a problem arose: these 2 guys I'm with have summer school in the morning, so I can't spend the night here. I text a good friend of mine and she says she can come pick me up. About 15 minutes later she arrives, we smoke a blunt with my other 2 friends and leave. While driving around figuring out what to do, I felt the effects start to creep up on me. No visual distortions yet but I couldn't help but laugh at almost everything she said. While I didn't want to tell her I was on acid, I felt as though I needed to, being that she was driving me around and I was about to lose my shit. She took it surprisingly well, which is unusual because she is usually against anything besides marijuana (for what reasons I still don't understand.) A half hour passes and we somehow end up downtown at some cafe. She pulls over and tells me we have to go in to meet up with one of her friends. While in retrospect I wish I had gone in, at the time I just couldn't force myself to get out of the car and interact with the people who hung out at this cafe (a boatload of local straight edge kids were hanging out outside, giving me more reason as to why I should stay in the car.) A few minutes pass of me telling her there is no way in hell I can leave, so she heads in. Once I was alone the effects hit me hard. I looked at the trees and they swayed and breathed with the wind. However being alone in a dark side street downtown while tripping is/was a horrible experience, at least it was for me, being my first LSD trip. A few minutes later (felt like hours) she returns with one of her friends. They told me we were going up to some college campus close by to go hangout with a few kids. I was ecstatic, filled wit joy, to finally get out of there. We arrive, head in, and this is when the trip turned directions, at least for a while. A few guys from the local hardcore scene were there (which I should have felt more uncomfortable around being that I'm more into the rave scene.) While I was there hanging out with my friend plus all of these people I had never met, I didn't say much, just sat and observed. Some girl who worked at a local skate shop walked down the stairs into the room we were all sitting and I remember admiring her hair. She had red dread locks which usually I'm not a big fan of, but in this state I couldn't take my eyes off of them. One thing I loved about the marijuana high was that if I smoked enough my vision became "off", colors would look more vibrant, etc. however it would only last briefly. However when I was on acid my vision had the same effect, except much more intense. Some time passes and we had to leave. "Go where?" I asked her. She explained to me that she had to take me home, being that it was 1:30 in the morning. I was nervous but excited at the same time, I get to go home and relax, think, so whatever it is that I want. Finally I arrive home, thank her for giving me a ride, and head in. However once I walked in the door the trip changed into something else. Instead of intense visuals, I had intense auditory hallucinations. I had these on shrooms as well, but nothing like this. They were fucked up, almost like some other entity speaking gibberish. I can't even begin to explain what these sounds were. No matter what I would do to try to get rid of them, focusing on my computer, reading a book, drawing, nothing seemed to help. After about an hour they passed. Now I was alone in the dark, watching various youtube videos. I looked down at my desk after a video had finished and saw my drawings that covered my desk. All the faces I had drawn began to wink at me, all of the pyramids began to breathe. I was so proud of myself for drawing these, they looked amazing at this point in time (while in a normal state they look like garbage.) The rest of the night consisted of me thinking about problems in my life, how I could fix them, better myself as a person. Around 6 am (9 hours after I had dropped) the effects were done. I had spent the good majority of the night in my room, alone, which kind of made the trip overwhelming. From the unusual visuals (nothing like shrooms) to the auditory hallucinations, which I had no idea could be this intense. I hadn't slept all night, and still felt "off" the next few days.
The Verdict
Insanely overwhelming for a first time acid trip, but definitely something I will be trying again. It wasn't a bad trip however, just being alone for a majority of the trip kind of killed it for me, I love hanging out with people even when sober, so being alone on a substance like this wasn't something I was comfortable with.
All summer I had been waiting for this day: my 17th birthday. It wasn't until the last half of the summer so I had a good month or two to plan out what I was going to do. Two close buddies of mine and I decided we were just going to get a half of exotics and call it a day. The day finally arrived and we were discussing what we were going to do. I remember thinking that instead of just getting good bud, I wanted to try something different, pretty much whatever we could get our hands on. I texted a pretty reliable dealer of mine and asked him what he could get his hands on. He said he had some pretty potent Ecstasy for $20 a pill so I told him we were interested. A few hours pass and still no reply from the guy regarding when/where we were getting the rolls. Tired of waiting we buy some bud from a friend of one of the guys I was with. We had 4 blunts for that night, each pretty good in size (a .7 each?) At around 8 pm the dealer from earlier who was going to get us the rolls texts me, "Hey man, my guy doesn't have the rolls but I have a hookup for acid if you're down for that." "Why not?" I thought, being that I had been curious about acid for quite some time. I had done shrooms only a few times in the past so I thought I would be ready for the trip. We pick the guy up, he gets us the acid (10 hits for $100) and split them between the 3 of us. We get back to my friends house (the one I'd been staying at all day), and decide to drop them.
Part 2: The Trip
Upon dropping the tabs a problem arose: these 2 guys I'm with have summer school in the morning, so I can't spend the night here. I text a good friend of mine and she says she can come pick me up. About 15 minutes later she arrives, we smoke a blunt with my other 2 friends and leave. While driving around figuring out what to do, I felt the effects start to creep up on me. No visual distortions yet but I couldn't help but laugh at almost everything she said. While I didn't want to tell her I was on acid, I felt as though I needed to, being that she was driving me around and I was about to lose my shit. She took it surprisingly well, which is unusual because she is usually against anything besides marijuana (for what reasons I still don't understand.) A half hour passes and we somehow end up downtown at some cafe. She pulls over and tells me we have to go in to meet up with one of her friends. While in retrospect I wish I had gone in, at the time I just couldn't force myself to get out of the car and interact with the people who hung out at this cafe (a boatload of local straight edge kids were hanging out outside, giving me more reason as to why I should stay in the car.) A few minutes pass of me telling her there is no way in hell I can leave, so she heads in. Once I was alone the effects hit me hard. I looked at the trees and they swayed and breathed with the wind. However being alone in a dark side street downtown while tripping is/was a horrible experience, at least it was for me, being my first LSD trip. A few minutes later (felt like hours) she returns with one of her friends. They told me we were going up to some college campus close by to go hangout with a few kids. I was ecstatic, filled wit joy, to finally get out of there. We arrive, head in, and this is when the trip turned directions, at least for a while. A few guys from the local hardcore scene were there (which I should have felt more uncomfortable around being that I'm more into the rave scene.) While I was there hanging out with my friend plus all of these people I had never met, I didn't say much, just sat and observed. Some girl who worked at a local skate shop walked down the stairs into the room we were all sitting and I remember admiring her hair. She had red dread locks which usually I'm not a big fan of, but in this state I couldn't take my eyes off of them. One thing I loved about the marijuana high was that if I smoked enough my vision became "off", colors would look more vibrant, etc. however it would only last briefly. However when I was on acid my vision had the same effect, except much more intense. Some time passes and we had to leave. "Go where?" I asked her. She explained to me that she had to take me home, being that it was 1:30 in the morning. I was nervous but excited at the same time, I get to go home and relax, think, so whatever it is that I want. Finally I arrive home, thank her for giving me a ride, and head in. However once I walked in the door the trip changed into something else. Instead of intense visuals, I had intense auditory hallucinations. I had these on shrooms as well, but nothing like this. They were fucked up, almost like some other entity speaking gibberish. I can't even begin to explain what these sounds were. No matter what I would do to try to get rid of them, focusing on my computer, reading a book, drawing, nothing seemed to help. After about an hour they passed. Now I was alone in the dark, watching various youtube videos. I looked down at my desk after a video had finished and saw my drawings that covered my desk. All the faces I had drawn began to wink at me, all of the pyramids began to breathe. I was so proud of myself for drawing these, they looked amazing at this point in time (while in a normal state they look like garbage.) The rest of the night consisted of me thinking about problems in my life, how I could fix them, better myself as a person. Around 6 am (9 hours after I had dropped) the effects were done. I had spent the good majority of the night in my room, alone, which kind of made the trip overwhelming. From the unusual visuals (nothing like shrooms) to the auditory hallucinations, which I had no idea could be this intense. I hadn't slept all night, and still felt "off" the next few days.
The Verdict
Insanely overwhelming for a first time acid trip, but definitely something I will be trying again. It wasn't a bad trip however, just being alone for a majority of the trip kind of killed it for me, I love hanging out with people even when sober, so being alone on a substance like this wasn't something I was comfortable with.
