Having had time to collect my thoughts and after having a sleep, this is what I experienced.
I had a tab at 11pm and twenty minutes in I started to notice I felt light and as if I had ice running through my veins ( something which didn't leave my for the entire trip).
By 12am I started to get particularly serious and after this point I have very little relation to what time things happened at; I had tracers everywhere, geometric patterns encompassing my entire field of vision and rotating and dividing and rotating, wallpaper definitions lifting off of the wall and doing some kind of dance, the most vivid technicolor everywher which would change with the music, the music was absolutely amazing! I swear I was lost in David Gilmour's guitar solo in 'Money' for hours and hours, it took me on a journey. I would have been happy to lay there on a mattress in the middle of the living room with my dog, in a sun kissed, kaleidoscopic dream world forever. It was truly magical and beautiful.
Speaking of my dog (a brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier) throughout the trip I remember taking great comfort from the fact he was there, like he were looking out for me. I remember looking at him a one point, while Sigur Ros were playing, and he kept resembling (to me at least) an African wild dog an this gave me some thoughts about lineage and how we all carry genetic traits from our ancestors. It seemed to make sense to me at the time and made me feel extremely warm and safe.
I could see technilcolour strands of light which were attached to each and every thing, all connected to one another by these strands of light. I could physically 'pluck' these strands and see the reverberations and the effect this had on every strand of light and how that affected each and every thing. How each thing we do in life will have a knock of effect on everything else. These strands of light would loop and create these fields of energy, which seemed important o me at the time.
At this point I went outside with the dog and, although it was somewhat cloudy, I could see an amount of stars and they were magical! Truly awe inspiring an overwhelmingly beautiful; the stars were all again each connected by strands of technicolor light and they seemed o be sending signals to each other. This was extremely comforting and gave me the sense that everything was just okay, there was nothing to worry about and it was all perfect and okay and just would work. Work because the universe had a plan for everything and everyone. Then a low flying plane came over and I swear I thought aliens had arrived so ran inside and don't go back out (I didn't literally think aliens but had that sense of unknown intruders) although i didn't feel scared or anxious. Just not ready to confront 'it'.
I then returned to the mattress with the dog and put some more Sigur Ros on, which seemed to be the perfect music for me last night along with some Mazzy Star. I just lay there for a while and had a moment with a bottle of water. I also began to return to thoughts of family and friends, particularly of male lineage and my dad and his father. This somehow led to thinking about death, aging and and rebirth, I looked at my dog and he appeared to be getting older before my eyes only then to become young again. Over and over in a cycle. I noticed that a large flower on the wallpaper would go through the same aging and rebirth process too, an imagine I would return to thoughout the trip. From this point the idea of rebirth hung quite heavily over me, not in a sinister way but as an opportunity to renew myself. I made some promises to myself to make what I saw as positive changes.
At this point I let myself get completely lost in the music, I hung there in moments within song for absolutely hours. Truly, unbelievably beautiful moments in music. There was a Sigur Ros song which came on and felt quite tribal, it was then that I looked at my hands and it seemed as if the strands of light were wrapping themselves around me, starting from the wrist, in vines and I felt truly taken with the tribal feeling for a while. It was magicall!!!
After all this I finally began to come down from the intensity of this experience, still VERY MUCH not at baseline, and I notice this was around half five in the morning. I was still very much tripping hard, still unbelievable colours and vividness. Music was amazing still and had me reeling from its majesty, still had geometric patterns swirling aroun my head, all rotating around the central light fitting in the ceiling, walls were still melting. I still had a psychedelic headspace which lasted until about 12/1pm today. I felt at baseline around half 3 but in truth if I were to stare at a point on a wall the wallpaper would swirl very slightly.
All in all it was the single most immersive and profound psychedelic experience I have ever had, of the four time I took acid previously the visuals were there but this had the exact headspace and clarity of thought I hadn't experienced from acid 'proper'. The afterglow is amazing and I am still finding wonder in the small things, birds (an animal I have a crippling phobia of) seemed beautiful and their social groupings extremely complex and perfectly orchestrated.
It was beautiful, exactly what I was looking for. Exactly what I've always wanted from a psychedelic experience, boy did I finally get it.
Thanks for reading, it is much appreciated.