Dropping acid with my best friend from kindergarten

robomoko
robomoko
Nov 7 · 8 min read
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This is the story behind my first LSD trip. My trip report begins in the third paragraph. For now, I would like to share some backstory.

2019. Exams. Hard, shitty and pointless ones. 2 days until my last one, my mum comes in my room, and I was like what the fuck mum could you knock, I’m a teenaged smart evolved ape that has needs. We’re going to meet up with your best friend from kindergarten, she said ignoring my request. I was like oof nice, long time no see.

Anyways we get out, we discuss (after 12–13 years) and I start to really connect with him, and I realize that we’re both narcissistic as fuck but agreed on almost everything, so no ego gets hurt really often which is nice. The shit begins now: I asked him about drugs. We had similar if not the same opinions about drugs and addiction in general (he was 18y and hadn't tried weed, like what a nerd am I right). With an interesting twist of events in my life, we end up studying in the same country, just 40 minutes apart. Pure luck. Discussed LSD with him, was really skeptical at first, but when he did his research he became really interested in trying it. Being both _NTP type personality (he’s just extroverted, I’m introverted as fuck) we were extremely intrigued by the idea of trying LSD, but also extremely excited to try new shit. We arrange a sleepover through the telephone because we are real boomers.

My friend (from now on will refer to Luke ( from Lucy ;) )) knocks the door on Friday, we get baked on weed, chill, and converse. We decide to drop 100 ug of 1P-LSD the next day. Here we go, next day we cleaned and made my house cozy, prepared notes to do stuff while tripping and found a playlist to listen to. From our on-trip notes:

⁃ dropped at 2253

We cheer our tabs and put them under our tongues (Luke hesitated for a bit after I put mine, fucking bitch). They’re weird and taste like …acid.

⁃ both nausea (pleasure nausea) at 2259

At this point, we were feeling that we were on drugs, and I was really surprised because I had read that you’re not supposed to feel LSD’s effects until the first half an hour. So I get anxious.

⁃ took out the tab at 2307

I spat it out. He swallowed. I'm telling you, he’s a fucking bitch.

⁃ effects dropped to minimal at 2317 (put on the long song of pink floyd feeling relaxed and peaceful)

He talks about “Shine on you crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd.

⁃ Happiness but in a sense of smiling and laughing, breathing is weird, no hallucinations, turbulent patterns, found perfect playlist (called LSD\\ HAHAHA paradoxically we’re tripping on our playlist right now) at 2342

I found extremely funny the fact we were listening to a playlist called LSD, while on LSD.

⁃ vivid colors nooo, hard to typee , (filtap) testing rpie , nikitas now with the rpi and he says its intense to touch and feels like its humidity

We didn’t have any color or visual changes. “Rpie” or “rpi” is a small circuit board. We were licking a circuit board.

⁃ (Luke) tried to talk greek but it came out english.

What. a. Fucking. Idiot.

⁃ its getting hard to talk right now but if i m too focused i can type you can

Yeah, cause I'm a big brain.

Lukes’ the screen is very nice , feeling very very (uses hapiness emoji , the fuck did this emoji came from, i can focus, channel the focus energy, very cold air (LUKE). its getting weird to talk. shit is kinda getting intense 2353

⁃ mild hallucinations at this point. but there definelety noticbale , its saround 0011

The trip notes stop make sense after this. After listening to an intense song, we both felt the whole room shaking and the roof expanding, which was my very first intense acid experience. Continuing on with the trip, we watched some videos I wanted to experience while my mind was rewiring myself. Then after experimenting with the visuals, we proceeded to turn off the lights and fuc.. I mean trip. The sky was full of fast-moving clouds, and with good music the clouds became crazy drum playing monkeys, spinning around the Mario kart rainbow road while Elon Musk’s rocket was landing on Mars (the clouds were orangish, so makes sense). At some points, we both were watching the sky and felt like Mars was orbiting the earth. I couldn’t believe my eyes. LSD definitely peaked there.

Afterward, we conversed and we proceeded to prepare for our outside to our outside exploration. Interestingly, we were significantly body abled, and also thoughtful enough to get the keys, water, and chips with us. Walking down the stairs was extremely weird because time looped for a while and I was walking down the stairs for too damn long. We started walking towards the city. Were extremely lightly clothed, but cold surprisingly didn’t bother us. Looked at the time. 0354

After walking for a good 200 minutes I realize that looking down to the road stones, the patterns would still appear even at ridiculous close distance. Lukes phone went off, so he looks and seems the time. 0730. We both lose our shit, but then realize 0730 was his alarm. For me (and for him the trip intensified from there). Moving on were getting closer to the city center, I could feel the intensity of the trip increase and decrease, depending on the number of vehicles and people making noises around us (I could also hear much more distinct noises than usual. Felt like superpowers atm). Watching the river flow, I find myself experiencing reality in a completely different way than “normal”. I appreciated the beauty of the water and the architecture of the dam and bridge surrounding the water. I also found myself viewing people as much more unique individuals, understood them more and “felt” them. Watching them from a distance people were biking their bikes at 4 pm. I appreciated the teenage couple, that was returning from a college party, students who were returning from the weed session of their friends, a guy that was going to the airport. In a way, even I felt so distant from other people, but at the same time, I respected and understood them more. A weird feeling to have.

Continuing, we sat down in a bench while a bus passed behind us and I felt his acceleration and speed throughout my whole body and that kinda made me shit my pants. At this point, I was really amazed by how realistic the LSD visuals were, and I concluded that they weren't visuals, the LSD made my vision better and changed my mind's perception when looking at patterns. Walking in the beautiful European, old and beautiful city I felt like I was in some kind of movie -scenery. I loved it. I was looking at walls. doors, trees, lamps and I could feel my mind overloading and overclocking. Seeing the 2 big orange-backlit clocks high up on the 2 churches of the city felt like looking at the evil corporation that controls everyone. Time.

We came across a statue. I will never look at an art piece the same after this moment of my life. I saw the statue and I was speechless. I never *appreciated* art. To me, art seems to be the ultimate form of human communication. I remember at some point we stopped at an extremely beautiful and appreciate the view around us. Also when I turned around while we we’re walking and I could see like a trail of our route. It was unbelievable. Another thing that surprised me was the fact that at some point Luke told me about a group of people behind us (like 4 m. away), which I never noticed and we were there for a good 10 minutes.

At this point, food had ended and we decided to return. We also broke a beer glass and the sound of the glass was extremely clean and crispy. 0750. Had no clue 4 hours had passed. Still trying to figure out how we spent these 4 hours. Returning to home. The effects were milder at that point. At some point there was strong wind, and we saw a group of people, 2 boys and 2 girls. One of the girls looked at me in such a different way. It was obvious she was intoxicated with alcohol, however, she charmed me by only looking at me the way she did. I connected with her in a very very different way. I still remember this moment and I’ll probably never forget it. It was intense. Upon reaching home “Shine on you crazy diamond” was playing on Luke’s phone and we were happy, glad and confused about our experience.

After making some coffee and tea we sat and watch a documentary about art. Amazing, beautiful and trippy, the artist presented a quote I’ll never forget: “Sometimes people get lost in the how, and they forget the why..”

Following the documentary, we watched some Rick and Morty episodes and tried to sleep. Couldn’t. 4 hours of not sleeping passed in 10 minutes. Ordered pizza, ate parmesan both of which were extremely good tasting. We arranged the sofa in a different way in order to make the house cozier, and spend the rest of the day eating coffee biscuits while watching Rick and Morty. It was really nice. The whole day was like meditating and healing from our trip.

In conclusion, I would like to point out what I gained from this trip. I experienced reality in a way I never had before, and that made me realize how fragile and expandable life and reality truly are. I started viewing people, more like individuals and noticed that I was more prone to understand their actions and appreciate them, but with less if any empathy. In a sense, I became more and less human at the same time. I became more of me. Although I didn’t find god, didn’t meet entities, or didn’t ego death, this trip had a big impact on me. I didn’t realize it then, some days had to pass in order to comprehend what the fuck happened during these 15 hours. I started appreciating stuff more. I became more humble, but my ego grew even more inside me.

Life tends to be surreal when you connect the dots. My first LSD trip was with my best kindergarden friend, that we had ages to communicate and ended up studying in the same country. Fascinating and extremely interesting.

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