punktuality
Bluelighter
LSD - Synesthesia & seeing the universe turn
Although I consider myself a fairly experienced tripper I had never taken LSD at a rave/gig before. Last night there was a gig at the local university which was had rock bands on one stage and dj's on another. A friend who works for a sound/staging company got me and a friend in for free. I was a little aprehensive about what to expect but excited none the less.
We arrived at 8:30 when it opened and not many people had arrived, the place was dead. We both promptly took 2 sugar cubes of liquid acid to liven things up a bit. We sat outside in a courtyard and slowly the signs of the trip started. Increased heart rate, a warm feeling all over and my awareness levels shot through the roof. I street light was flickering and I hadnt even noticed it earlier but with the first signs of the trip creeping in it was driving me crazy like a strobe. I put my back to the light and watched the huge brick walls breath and devour themselves.
We looked at each other and knew it was time to go inside. There was only like 10-20 people there for the first DJ, I felt sorry for him because he was pretty good and noone was there to hear him. The music permeated through my body and the coloured lights send me into a dizzy euphoric headfuck. Holy shit! i thought.... the trip isnt even fully taken over yet and im going nuts..... I couldnt comprehend what it would be like in a few hours while tripping hard and a few hundred more people here. My mind exploded in anticipation. I needed to go back outside for air.
We went for a walk down to the rock stage and watched some hard rock kind of band play for a while, it was totally different to the dj/rave on the other stage, but no less amazing... the guitars were sharp and cutting through my mind like razor blades... the drum beat was vibrating through my feet, it was insane. Again... there was still barely anyone here.... the night copuld only get crazier!!!
Most of my night was spent rotating between the two stages and the outside are for a breather or chat with friends. I honestly couldn't place chronalogically the events of the rest of the night but ill give it a go.
After watching bands for a while I was feeling the full effects and tripping hard. I went to the courtyard aand had a breather and a smoke with my freind and some new people that we met that night (as you do) who were really cool. I sat on the ground and the paved surface was folding in on itself. There were tiny weeds and plants growing through the cracks which looked amazing, spiraling and twisting in fractal patterns. I was seeing the infinite in all of its naked glory.
OK! I thought... no time better than now to go back in to the rave... great idea! Ther was now 300-400 people and the music was a lot louder (maybe?..hehe?) I went and started dancing watching the DJ with crazy random images flashing over him onto the screen behind. The pictures were a headfuck, but then i started to feel the music... I felt the music as vibrations and patterns.... which is all music really is. waves of energy flowing through my body. tearing me apart via the waves squeezing through my bodys own molecules. It was beyond words. I realised I had my eyes open the whole time.... when tripping I always forget at the start to close my eyes....... so I closed my eyes and the colours flowed with the music. Pictures flashed and distorted in my mind. It was as if my mind was looking through the filing cabinet in my head trying to associate what I was feeling with past experiences. I saw freinds and people and places I knew that I never would have thought of, and some I had never seen. I saw pictures of people I had seen earlier that very night. Each image flashing up for a split second and being replaced by other images, then being washed away by a sea of colour. Each 'picture' in my mind was in crystal clear colour and the whole thing just blew me away. With all these images racing through my mind and the waves of music radiating through me I lost my 'self' and just become one with the experience.
I opened my eyes and there was some crazy shit going on, on the stage... there was like a dude dressed as a robot and another as a martial arts guy doing this cool fight/dance to the music...wild! The stage show just got crazier and my tripping mind was eating it up. The robots arms were made of air conditioning duct and he thew them out and started spinning them around. Another person on stage starded covering himself in thick white paint with a strobe light flashing over him....this was fucked up! but i loved it.
As amazing as that is I couldnt handle the intensity of it for too long and went for a walk. The trees outside greeted me with their beauty, the stars and clouds above, twinkling and swirling. I found my freind outside looking of the balcony over some people. He showed me how the patterns in the road and oil stains looked like smoke... and it looked as if all these people were standing in a thick fog created by the illusion of the swirling ground. We walked down to the rock stage again and I got thinking. All the people at the rave area were pilling and all the people at the rock stage were drunk. There was a definate unspoken rivalry between them. And here I was tripping. Seperate to both groups and able to observe the scene as an unbiased bystander. I imagined what it would be like if everyone was tripping...the vibe would be so different. I imagined the mood at woodtock... you would have been able to swim through atmosphere and cut it with a knife. Why dont more people take lsd? In my opinion it is a much less harmful drug than either mdma or alcahol. We really need a new revolution of hippies.
I wondered around amlessly for a while just observing the whole scene before me, trying to comprehend it all. I went between both stages back and forth and found my freind again. He was wasted! I found out he got an e of a mate and candy flipped... he was sitting down in another world. We chilled outside for a while we waited for the main attraction, Sonic Animation to come on, We heard the music start and raced to the stage. My freind got inside and just had sensory overload and popped and vomited. We stayed and looked after him for a while, after a few minutes he was feeling ok but wanted to sit it out so I sat at the edge of the stage and watched from there with him.
By now my trip had wound down a little bit. The music still vibrated through me but I was in more of a contemplative mood. I started watching people. First I watched the rave and for some reason looked at all the hair..... I dont know if anyone has over noticed.... but the top of a rave/pit is covered in hair.....its like a big wavy fluffball.....cool... i laughed out loud to myself.
I sat down again and watched people dancing and watched people walking around the edges. I noticed how 'unsure' most people seemed to be of where they were going. They were clearly going somewhere! But there minds were somewhere else. It wasnt because of the drugs... it was there egos... thier minds being lost...The universe seemed to be pulling and playing with the people lining them up, and putting them in the place where the universe determined they should be. They all were in the perfect place within the universe yet thier faces showed that they did not know this. They were lost... almost all of them. someone would walk by, perhaps someone lonely and unconfident.... desperately looking for 'something' yet clearly the universe was taking him somewhere to do something anyway. People going to the toilet, people getting a drink, people meeting friends, people dancing, people in love.... all of these people who clearly where "somebodys".... and doing "something" seemed to not know where this path was taking them. Some people went with the flow.... and followed the universes pull without resistance, very toaist. Others blindly being swept away by the spiraling sweeping pull of the universe. Others again would try to resist the pull, there faces desperately showed they didnt want to go where the universe was taking them....... I wanted to run up to these people and yell "JUST GO WITH THE GOD DAMNED FLOW!!! ITS EASYY!!!".........I refrained and watched the universe at work, moulding the world and the people to its whim in perfection, and the sea of conciousness' desperately trying to make sense of the universes movements. (I hope some of that made sense.... it did in my head)
I spent the rest of the night just sitting and chilling and winding down slowly...
quite the evening.
Although I consider myself a fairly experienced tripper I had never taken LSD at a rave/gig before. Last night there was a gig at the local university which was had rock bands on one stage and dj's on another. A friend who works for a sound/staging company got me and a friend in for free. I was a little aprehensive about what to expect but excited none the less.
We arrived at 8:30 when it opened and not many people had arrived, the place was dead. We both promptly took 2 sugar cubes of liquid acid to liven things up a bit. We sat outside in a courtyard and slowly the signs of the trip started. Increased heart rate, a warm feeling all over and my awareness levels shot through the roof. I street light was flickering and I hadnt even noticed it earlier but with the first signs of the trip creeping in it was driving me crazy like a strobe. I put my back to the light and watched the huge brick walls breath and devour themselves.
We looked at each other and knew it was time to go inside. There was only like 10-20 people there for the first DJ, I felt sorry for him because he was pretty good and noone was there to hear him. The music permeated through my body and the coloured lights send me into a dizzy euphoric headfuck. Holy shit! i thought.... the trip isnt even fully taken over yet and im going nuts..... I couldnt comprehend what it would be like in a few hours while tripping hard and a few hundred more people here. My mind exploded in anticipation. I needed to go back outside for air.
We went for a walk down to the rock stage and watched some hard rock kind of band play for a while, it was totally different to the dj/rave on the other stage, but no less amazing... the guitars were sharp and cutting through my mind like razor blades... the drum beat was vibrating through my feet, it was insane. Again... there was still barely anyone here.... the night copuld only get crazier!!!
Most of my night was spent rotating between the two stages and the outside are for a breather or chat with friends. I honestly couldn't place chronalogically the events of the rest of the night but ill give it a go.
After watching bands for a while I was feeling the full effects and tripping hard. I went to the courtyard aand had a breather and a smoke with my freind and some new people that we met that night (as you do) who were really cool. I sat on the ground and the paved surface was folding in on itself. There were tiny weeds and plants growing through the cracks which looked amazing, spiraling and twisting in fractal patterns. I was seeing the infinite in all of its naked glory.
OK! I thought... no time better than now to go back in to the rave... great idea! Ther was now 300-400 people and the music was a lot louder (maybe?..hehe?) I went and started dancing watching the DJ with crazy random images flashing over him onto the screen behind. The pictures were a headfuck, but then i started to feel the music... I felt the music as vibrations and patterns.... which is all music really is. waves of energy flowing through my body. tearing me apart via the waves squeezing through my bodys own molecules. It was beyond words. I realised I had my eyes open the whole time.... when tripping I always forget at the start to close my eyes....... so I closed my eyes and the colours flowed with the music. Pictures flashed and distorted in my mind. It was as if my mind was looking through the filing cabinet in my head trying to associate what I was feeling with past experiences. I saw freinds and people and places I knew that I never would have thought of, and some I had never seen. I saw pictures of people I had seen earlier that very night. Each image flashing up for a split second and being replaced by other images, then being washed away by a sea of colour. Each 'picture' in my mind was in crystal clear colour and the whole thing just blew me away. With all these images racing through my mind and the waves of music radiating through me I lost my 'self' and just become one with the experience.
I opened my eyes and there was some crazy shit going on, on the stage... there was like a dude dressed as a robot and another as a martial arts guy doing this cool fight/dance to the music...wild! The stage show just got crazier and my tripping mind was eating it up. The robots arms were made of air conditioning duct and he thew them out and started spinning them around. Another person on stage starded covering himself in thick white paint with a strobe light flashing over him....this was fucked up! but i loved it.
As amazing as that is I couldnt handle the intensity of it for too long and went for a walk. The trees outside greeted me with their beauty, the stars and clouds above, twinkling and swirling. I found my freind outside looking of the balcony over some people. He showed me how the patterns in the road and oil stains looked like smoke... and it looked as if all these people were standing in a thick fog created by the illusion of the swirling ground. We walked down to the rock stage again and I got thinking. All the people at the rave area were pilling and all the people at the rock stage were drunk. There was a definate unspoken rivalry between them. And here I was tripping. Seperate to both groups and able to observe the scene as an unbiased bystander. I imagined what it would be like if everyone was tripping...the vibe would be so different. I imagined the mood at woodtock... you would have been able to swim through atmosphere and cut it with a knife. Why dont more people take lsd? In my opinion it is a much less harmful drug than either mdma or alcahol. We really need a new revolution of hippies.
I wondered around amlessly for a while just observing the whole scene before me, trying to comprehend it all. I went between both stages back and forth and found my freind again. He was wasted! I found out he got an e of a mate and candy flipped... he was sitting down in another world. We chilled outside for a while we waited for the main attraction, Sonic Animation to come on, We heard the music start and raced to the stage. My freind got inside and just had sensory overload and popped and vomited. We stayed and looked after him for a while, after a few minutes he was feeling ok but wanted to sit it out so I sat at the edge of the stage and watched from there with him.
By now my trip had wound down a little bit. The music still vibrated through me but I was in more of a contemplative mood. I started watching people. First I watched the rave and for some reason looked at all the hair..... I dont know if anyone has over noticed.... but the top of a rave/pit is covered in hair.....its like a big wavy fluffball.....cool... i laughed out loud to myself.
I sat down again and watched people dancing and watched people walking around the edges. I noticed how 'unsure' most people seemed to be of where they were going. They were clearly going somewhere! But there minds were somewhere else. It wasnt because of the drugs... it was there egos... thier minds being lost...The universe seemed to be pulling and playing with the people lining them up, and putting them in the place where the universe determined they should be. They all were in the perfect place within the universe yet thier faces showed that they did not know this. They were lost... almost all of them. someone would walk by, perhaps someone lonely and unconfident.... desperately looking for 'something' yet clearly the universe was taking him somewhere to do something anyway. People going to the toilet, people getting a drink, people meeting friends, people dancing, people in love.... all of these people who clearly where "somebodys".... and doing "something" seemed to not know where this path was taking them. Some people went with the flow.... and followed the universes pull without resistance, very toaist. Others blindly being swept away by the spiraling sweeping pull of the universe. Others again would try to resist the pull, there faces desperately showed they didnt want to go where the universe was taking them....... I wanted to run up to these people and yell "JUST GO WITH THE GOD DAMNED FLOW!!! ITS EASYY!!!".........I refrained and watched the universe at work, moulding the world and the people to its whim in perfection, and the sea of conciousness' desperately trying to make sense of the universes movements. (I hope some of that made sense.... it did in my head)
I spent the rest of the night just sitting and chilling and winding down slowly...
quite the evening.
