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The Little Big Trip With Lucy
The profound impact LSD had on my life
Five years ago, a week after breaking up with my girlfriend, I tried LSD.
Curiosity is the most accurate word I can think of that drove my desire to experiment with the psychedelic drug.
I had done enough research to know that LSD is a physiologically safe drug. The only danger of something going wrong was having a “bad” trip. Despite reading numerous accounts of bad trips, it still didn’t deter me from wanting to try.
There was something frighteningly exciting about it — a venture into the unknown black vault that sits between our ears.
Other than getting high, I did have some preconceptions of what an acid trip was like. But I under anticipated what I was getting myself into.
I knew that LSD could arouse a transformative experience, yet I didn’t really comprehend how powerful the capacity, force, and depth of the experience would be.
But the possibility that I would have an experience that seemed to make comprehensible the essence of nature. That I could re-experience and release the emotional engravings of distant memories that had a deep entrenching impact on my life. To travel through the recesses of the mind. To observe a chaotic and unrestricted consciousness. To realise…
