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Candyflip at EDC almost went bad 1
#21881052 - 07/01/15 12:35 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is going to be long but I think it'll be entertaining. We had a bad trip, miracles happened, I saw a guy dying, I almost accidentally proposed to my girlfriend. So it was a memorable trip to say the least.
I have been to EDC Vegas once before and was planning on tripping there but didn't because the other three people I was going with didn't want to or had never tripped before. This year I was going with a lot more of my guy friends and I planned to split my two and a half hits with one other person, meaning that me and my one friend took 1.25 each. I had taken them before and known they were strong meaning one and a half produced a strong trip with lots of visuals. The print was the old ying-yang dolphins from a couple years ago that I saw online was tested at 75ug. Well me and my friend ended up in a bad situation that almost caused our first bad trip and made me question whether I had witnessed a miracle. At the time I was sure of it.
Before EDC me and my friends were walking the strip and my friends were gambling a little bit, but not me. Outside on the sidewalk there was a crazy christian group with little kids with signs and the guy was holding a megaphone. He was yelling through it to the crowd saying "you're all going to hell and I'll be in heaven telling you I told you so! Repent before it's too late!" A girl asked them "What about me, I'm a lesbian?" to which they said "You're not a lesbian, you're just confused." I thought it was hilarious and ridiculous. I mean, what do they know about me to think I was going to hell? I was just walking the strip sober and not gambling. But then it made me wonder what if what I'm doing will really send me to hell. I haven't believed in hell for a long time. I'm more of agnostic person who has a strong hunch there is something but the world is full of religions with theories that are just man's best guesses and tall tales. The extremist christian people had set the tone for my trip two days later.
Day 1 of EDC would be my friend's first MDMA experience there which ended up being fun but was lackluster. I took 2 capsules. It wasn't very strong. The music was mostly good though. I like dubstep and trap but a lot of the popular EDM stuff is really boring and sounds like shit to me.
Day 2 I met up with my friend and we took the acid right away since it would last all night. We were in a group of 8 friends of 135,000 people there in center of the NASCAR stadium. It's a perfect venue for that type of festival I think because it is so massive. So it's very hard to stay together or try to meet back up if we all split up. We started tripping, and I had the bright idea to split off with my tripping friend to see Funtcase while they all went to see the popular generic crap. We were coming up and my friend has to go to the bathroom which was difficult to find and waiting in line was so awkward. Everyone else was just rolling so people kept trying to talk and, which my friend was not able to. I talked a little but it was weird. Then we get to the stage and we danced for a while in the crowd which was cool. The music was intricate and blowing my mind but also having some dark visuals from the horror movie style animations on the screen and an evil mario ghost totem in front of me. The christians on the megaphone popped into my head briefly saying we're all going to hell. I told my friend we needed to take the MDMA to ease the tension but he said he needed to get through the peak first. So the show was awesome and it was only a little weird so far.
Right after that artist, we were supposed to meet back up with the group at the left side of the main stage. Only then did I realize how bad of a plan it was to have two tripping people split off from the group and how hard it would be to find them. So my friend says he has to get water, which I did not know how to get to a water station. I was familiar with the layout of all the stages, but I was peaking hard and couldn't orient myself. Everything looked like darkness with flashing lights and thousands of people walking every direction at once. So we wandered aimlessly for what seemed like 30 minutes in the huge place with what seemed like madness going on all around us. in between the stages we could hear music from multiple stages at once that would sound terrible together. Then when we finally got to a free water station, it was packed with people with huge lines. (other stations we had been to had no line) So we wait while jammed up against other people. You know how time has no meaning while tripping? Well we kept looking at each other and thinking this line is not even moving at all. Something was fucking with us and making everything go wrong.
The line was too crowded and my friend is like "this is too much I need to get out of here". So we left and wandered through the chaos some more. This is when my friend was starting to have a bad trip. We had to sit down and collect ourselves. We couldn't just sit there. We were hot and thirsty and still had to get water. He's like "we have to just overcome this and get water. Fuck it, I'm buying a water at the next place I see. So we found some red bull stand where they are serving up mixed drinks. There was a line full of people trying to get drunk and there we were tripping balls. My friend buys two $6 waters. We had done it but it still wasn't over.
We had to find our friends but something was still fucking with us. So I try to get my bearings and understand where I'm at, but I couldn't. I could even see the owl on the main stage in the distance, but the visuals fucked with me to where I literally couldn't tell if I was on the left or right side or how far away I was. So we wandered some more through the chaos. My friend was still noticably freaked out but I was holding it together. So we're wandering when all of a sudden everything started closing in on us and literally it got so crowded we were shoulder to shoulder in a crowd and we couldn't move. We weren't even close to a stage, it was just the in between areas so there was no logical reason for it. I looked at my friend and was like "what the fuck is going on right now" I was dumbfounded.
At this point I looked around and I must have gotten the hell thought again but I pictured that I was at the mouth of hell with thousands of souls around me screaming in fear as they get sucked into a doorway in the desert going underground. Well that was just the thought in my head and the visuals mimicked it, but it was a little freaky. I looked at my friend and he was at his breaking point. I had the fear and didn't know what to do. Whatever it was that was fucking with us would not let us go. Out of all of my trips I know that the best thing you can do is just ride it out, but at this time I felt like that wouldn't work and something had a hold of me. I did the only thing I could think, which was pray to god for help.
We ended up getting through that tough spot and wandered some more and had to sit down again. If we didn't find our friends we would be stuck for the next 6 or 7 hours wandering by ourselves. My girlfriend texted me something telling me where she was but I had no clue where she was talking about and could barely read or comprehend the phone so it was hopeless. So we got up again and kept wandering trying to find the left side of the main stage and out of the darkness, neon lights, and swarm of people I see my beautiful girlfiend of over 6 years standing alone waving her arms jumping up and down at me. I couldn't believe it. At that moment I was shocked because I knew we had been saved. It was a miracle. With over 135,000 people in the middle of a huge NASCAR speedway, just wandering aimlessly I had ran into her and her alone!
I kept telling her over and over "you saved us, I can't believe it". We took our MDMA and were able to catch the second half of Above & Beyond on the main stage. My MDMA came on so hard I got nauseous and puked a tiny bit but was soaring afterwards. I had been thinking about proposing to my girlfriend for a while now, and during the next show it kind of half jokingly slipped out of my mouth "will you be with me forever?" I think I saw a tear go down her cheek. Trying to blow it off, I said "don't worry I'll give you a real one (proposal) someday." We tried to meet up with the group again but they never showed and then we saw a guy on the ground surrounded by cops doing snow angels in the gravel. He was groaning and having some kind of medical problem. Days later in the news I heard a guy died at EDC at 3:30am, which was right after we saw this so I think it was him. The news story is on the front page of the shroomery right now. edc death news storyWe ended up having a good time watching shows with my girlfriend semi sober to lead us around.
Now looking back I know that during the "mouth of hell incident" we were just in a small passageway that was acting like a pinch point and that's why it got so crowded. It's still amazing that I just ran into my girlfriend, but it was in the general area of the left side of the main stage and I had been wandering in the right direction. Keep in mind that we were supposed to meet up at the main stage left speaker and this was not where she was. It was probably at least 1000 feet from where we were supposed to meet and I was just wandering. So what do you think? Was it a miracle?
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Re: Candyflip at EDC almost went bad [Re: searching]
#21882109 - 07/01/15 09:18 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is why i no longer go to massive festivals like EDC or Bonnaroo. They can be alot of fun but the crowds can become ridiculous when moving from one stage to the next.
Reluctantly went to Roo for the last time this year and thursday night of the fest, half the venue was closed because the 2 main stages dont have acts until the next day. Therefore the other 3 stages were PACKED and i was tripping balls on mushrooms. I kept getting lost and had no idea where i was because i was constantly walking around/stepping over people.
Ended up missing Gramatik because it was so packed and i just wanted to be where i could dance around in the open so i went to the silent disco instead.
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Re: Candyflip at EDC almost went bad [Re: searching]
#21886101 - 07/02/15 02:06 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Great story man.
Really cool but freaky experience. Wasnt all a bad trip but did have its hellish spots.
I like how said "then we wandered thru the chaos...". so funny 
Sounds like EDC is overwhelming to drop acid at. Damn.
But one entertaining story.
As for a miracle that u found your girlfriend, who knows.
But i bet it felt amazing to find her in that chaotic place
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Re: Candyflip at EDC almost went bad [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#21888246 - 07/02/15 02:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would definitely not trip there again. It was too chaotic and everyone else was rolling.
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Re: Candyflip at EDC almost went bad [Re: searching]
#21889932 - 07/02/15 08:35 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tripping in a confined space with lots and lots of people would be too much for most people.
Light trippin, say half a tab with some XTC, would have been an easier experience i think.
oh well, live aand learn. Great story thou
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Re: Candyflip at EDC almost went bad [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#21906003 - 07/06/15 04:40 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Amateur. Wheres the Molly?
Edit.
Ok, there was Molly.
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