http://uweekly.com/newsmag/03-02-2011/17340/confessions-of-a-first-time-lsd-user
Confessions of a first time LSD user
By Submitted Anonymously
The thought of my home just off North Campus had never seemed so appealing as dusk gave way to darkness.
I was soaking wet, wandering through the labyrinth that lies just east of High Street. Looks grim; I'm lost. The street signs I relied on for navigation were unintelligible, resembling the unformed cursive of a second grader. My only true compass, the moon, resonated a bright shade of purple, and it was singing the national anthem in a husky baritone. The right angles of sidewalks and streets were warped and flowing; they were straight from the dark illustrations of the pages of "Oh, The Places You'll Go."
In my hour of great despair, my Virgil came in the form of Mario, a sexy Luigi and a third wheel werewolf. Despite my transparent fear and an awkward plea for direction, they were very courteous and sounded suspiciously like college coeds heading to a party. Ignoring my eccentricity, they confidently extended their gloved hands and paw, pointing me in the direction of my own address.
Needless to say, my first experience with LSD could not have transpired under more uniquely trippy circumstances: Halloween weekend at OSU.
A friend from my campus dining job referred me to Vincent, the kind of low-key, honest drug dealer any substance abusing student would be grateful to have saved in their contact list. I wish I could refer him to you. The last of many middlemen, he wasn't cheap, but you got to support the little guy trying to make the honest dollar. Fifty bucks for five hits, and I was on my way.
I began hallucinating while lying against a tree in the Southwest quarter of the Oval shortly before 4 in the afternoon. Set off by a heavy chest and a slight headache, my first visuals were the slow and content breathing of the trees about me, expelling their oxygen in a fine gray mist. I felt self-conscious; the faces in the clouds were all holding eye contact with me. Was that passing tour group speaking Spanish? The urge to get moving was overwhelming, but the pathway behaved like a loose trampoline. Who gave Newton the day off?
The animals in the Orton Geological Museum were still dead; they were just mad as hell about it now. The Giant Ground Sloth wrestled against its supporting wires with perpetual force, causing the ceiling tiles to bow from the pressure. A milky sweat streamed over her mud red bones, dripping onto the flashing checkerboard pattern that had formed on the floor.
From my periphery, I caught the T-Rex skull winking at me. Fossils of insects scurried along the stone they were engraved in. Coca Cola's logo shimmered on the far wall. Father Time was on strike as I tried to read the vibrating text on the placards that accompanied each display.
I'd nearly lost any reference point to reality, but it returned with an employee's forceful throat clearing. Closing time.
Images of intricate skeletons and mourning royal playing cards greeted me along the walls of the RPAC. Every surface was a master artisan's easel. Nametags, gym bags, pretty girls and water bottles. Give the nice lady your card and you can go for a swim. What a deal, they even threw in the free elevator ride.
Stripped to my boxers, the surface of the lap pool shattered as I cannon-balled to my joyful demise. Interred in a pit of cool quicksand, yet all was well; I was doomed from the get go anyway.
Total silence followed by total regression; I blew bubbles, dolphin kicked and pioneered the world's first game of solo Marco Polo. I even pissed in the pool for the first time in a decade. Sorry about that one, lane partner.
After getting lost and getting saved by Mario and company on my walk home, I stumbled in my door to find a police officer in my living room. Shit. Maybe I could talk my way out of it... she looked young enough to be a rookie. A rookie with.... cleavage and knee-high boots. Is this how they get confessions these days?
She was playing beer pong on my table against a beautiful red headed fire fighter. A cute scantily clad nurse and a bare stomached South American princess were exchanging ice breaking conversation with my roommates over Four Lokos. Mariachi music played in my head. My friends were dressed in costume like a dog, a pig and my greatest nemesis: a hipster. Introductions were made; warm beers were thrust into my hands. Black lights and wet clothes, dilated pupils and stammered diction. Hell of a way to meet the neighbor babes.
Too truthful for flirtation, I needed an outlet for a mind that couldn't escape itself. To the party. A cornucopia of King Cobras, stolen jello shots. No identity, no body, no urges. The drive to get laid from a sterilized angle. You're more present tense when you're on the field than when you're in the stands, but you can see the plays fold and ripple out better in the bleachers. You understand the madness of an equation that doesn't balance out - how can an outsider understand the thrill of bouncing from sh*t kitchen to kitchen looking for that lay with cups of liquid fermented grain to aid the process of replacing ourselves? Saliva and mascara, seduction and sweat. Nothing but a goddamn documentary on the Nature Channel. A fruitful watering hole for the victors. Sensory overload.
I awoke the next afternoon to find my notes for this story soaked in pool water, alcohol and my roommate's vomit. I'd only managed to scribble one thing in my notebook the rest of that night: "It's just acid. Remember the STORY." Well, sh*t.
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