shadow people
my experience with L and K was quite unnerving but by far one of the most psychedelic experiences i have ever had. I was at a music festival, first night and there was hardly anyone there. i had eaten about two hits of some WoW's that turned out to be some of the strongest L i've ever eaten, you know the kind where an hour into it you think you've peaked cuz its so strong coming up and you lose track of time... but then it just keeps one coming stronger and you realize its only been an hour and a half... whew but yeah so after the show which was when i ate it, we went to the tent and my buddy R got some K.. now this kid loves K just loves it, and just shoves my key in the bag and loads me up a pile.. so, up the nose, down the hatch and im sitting there feeling pretty weirdnwiggy.. so i'm like "cmon yall lets go to the woods". i wanted to go walk around and explore the deep dark woods where all the fun is going on. now usually the woods are packed with loud fun people, but there was no one really there and the woods were quiet and empty.
my girlfriend says she'll come with, but no one else is up for it. as we're walking into the woods, its pretty dark and kinda hard to find the right trails... so we pick a weird one. as we're walking im feeling this rush of the K, that loosey goosey doesn't really feel like its me doing the walking feeling... like im kinda watching myself do all this wondering how i'm still moving... but i tell myself 'dont worry, the rush will end soon' but of course its really only been about 15 minutes. so we're walking and the trail turns into a downward slope that comes back up... like a steep hill that bottoms out and then goes straiht back up towards the main trail. now at this point both of us are staggering our steps and we have the same hallucination. the depth and play of shadows on this hill are hard to make out in the dark and it appears to both of us as a two dimensional wall, like a big painting set up right in our path... "what the fuck?" we're both muttering as we slowly cross the threshold. it seems as if we're going to walk into an altogther different reality, but we cross over and both say "ohhh, its a hill!" what a relief... and thats when the weird shit happened.
as i'm walking, i see a shadow in front of me. it appears to be the shadow of a tall, hefty guy walking behind us. i look behind me and there's no one there. "wtf?" i'm thinking... i look back in front of me and the shadows still there, but the quickly darts off into the tree shadows, as if it realized i had seen it. i look behind me again, there's no one there. at this point i'm getting real wigged and we reach the bottom of the hill where it is all shadows, and totally dark. on the way back up the other side, which is covered in shadows, i look ahead and the trail seems to go deep in the forest, all shadows. shadows behind me, shadows around me, shadows ahead. creepy. so i say "hey babe can we just sit down for a second i just need to chill" so we sit down and i look back on the path i had just come from.
my attention shifts to the very bottom of the hill where it is most dark and shadowed and although i was terrified i was entranced by what i saw. the shadows were turning into shapeshifting figures - first a triangle, morphing into a rectangle and then kind of slipping over and collecting next to a parked car. at this point i was fully concentrating. suddenly the shadowed figure assumed the form of a person, or a spirit or some animated being, crouched over. i saw there were three of them all lined up so it looked like they were one. they all looked like little bandits. suddenly, one by one, they ran from their hideout, accross the trail and into the forest beyond. i could see it clear as daylight, or moonlight i should say. they moved like mythic creatures, seeming to have legs or something, but they maneuvered more like liquid, swift and without effort. they had no resistance from the rocks or trees or cars, but i was sure they were real. that was the first time i had a psychedelic experience where i thought what i was seeing was real and i still can't say for sure on what level of reality they existed.
needless to say, i was stunned, and didn't say much for the whol walk back. it took me the rest of the night to even begin to process what i had seen and mostly i tried to rationalize it in terms of my personal analysis... i saw the shadows as a manifestation of the "shadow" in my psyche... now this may be very true but i still toy with the idea that these unconscious elements could be somewhat autonomous entities that operate beyond my life and my brain. who knows... either way it was amazing and definitely had something to do with the K, every time i do it i feel like i'm tasting the "shadow realm" and i like to whisper "...shadow people..." hahahahahhaHAHAHAHHA