My best friend and I have always smoked weed together, we have tripped acid together twice previously, and shrooms once together. We decided to make things a little interesting and have a night out, the weather was chilly, but we thought it would hold up nicely.
We drive up to a Planet Fitness gym to park my car, since I have a membership and it is 24 hour parking. I then dose 2 tabs of potent grateful dead LSD, and my friend dosed 3 tabs. It was about 9pm, so we decided to go to a nearby Wendys to get some food, and a gas station to get swishers, since I love smoking tobacco while tripping.
After getting the food, it has been about 15 minutes, we start to walk down the street while waiting for the effects to set it, my friend is visually impaired, so I have to guide him. We are approaching a corner down the road, he is already starting to feel it, nothing for me yet.
About 15 minutes pass, and the wind blowing by starts to feel really euphoric, and everything gets a slight hue of green. My friend then laughs and throws away his Wendys in someone's yard. We then start heading back to Planet Fitness to see how long we can work out for.
As we get in there, I start coming up very hard, the colours of purple and yellow on the walls are standing out, and we walk into the locker room. I look at the walls, which have a metallic panneling on the bottom half, and the panneling looks as if it isn't even connected to the wall, but it out in front in the foreground. We then head over to the treadmills, and I start looking at the 10 TV's they have there. I am actually able to watch about 4 of the shows and understanding what is happening in all of them, all at once. But I quickly started getting overwhelmed as well, Planet Fitness plays stock music tracks, and the one I was hearing sounded like it was loud in intensity and skipping to different parts of the song randomly, I close my eyes for one second, and the close eyed visuals I was experiencing were so high intensity that I could not keep my eyes closed for longer than a few seconds.
I look around the giant gym and see all of the exercise equipment morphing, and the little Planet Fitness watermark on each machine waving. I love this, it is really intense and visual. My friend and I stayed on the treadmill for a half hour, we then proceed to the exercise bike to cruise.
While cruising on the stationary bike, I start getting intense thoughts and deep emotion, I then get an emotion so deep that I start to taste it in my mouth. I am not sure if this was synesthesia, since it doesn’t seem like the classic form, but that is the only way I could describe it. I look at my friend and start laughing, yelling “I TASTED MY EMOTIONS DUDE!!”. There was no one around, so it was okay to be a little bit loud.
Now it is midnight, and getting around the peak of my trip, this is where things get kind of strange. As we are on the exercise bike, I look over to the water fountain, and see my straightedge friend B, from University standing over by the fountain(he had no idea that I have ever had any sort of drug experience). He smiles, and starts heading our way, I warn my friend to keep his composure, even though that will be really hard. B comes over and strikes up some basic conversation, asking why we are there that late, I tell him that my friend and I do a workout regimen called “The Friday Night Challenge” which basically constitutes the hardest workout possible in one night. He said he wanted to join us, feeling obliged and tripping face, I let him. B hops on an exercise bike n near me, and we start to talk about school, and random things in general. I sometimes break in conversation or stare and laugh and this cracks my tripping friend up, he is laughing uncontrollably at this point.
B, then wants to show me a new(to him), revolutionary exercise he just learned, called the burpee. We then start doing them all together, my tripping friend and I are blasting them out, 10 straight, 15 straight, etc, without breaking a sweat more than LSD already gives you. B can only get about 5, then he is about to puke. After this, it is almost 1, and we wrap this workout up, and surprisingly, B had absolutely no idea we weren’t sober. My eyes were saucers even.
This is where my trip gets ugly, I guide my friend to a table where he can sit so I can shower and get ready for a walk. I then proceed to go into the locker room, and remember that I forgot everything I needed to shower in my car, I also start to get confused and worried. I walk in the locker room where everything is moving viciously, and the music in the background(Tiny Dancer by Elton John) turns into all encompassing deep-demonic growls. I then get into the shower and the shower water feels amazing, but Im very paranoid. I get out quickly, and sit on the locker room floor in a changing stall naked, and I look in the mirror and see my dilated eyes, thinking “oh man, whats next”. I felt completely dissociated from reality at this point, but I manage to get dressed, get my friend, and we head onto a deep, 3 mile, introspective walk.
While we were walking, we thought we were over the peak of our trip, and we were talking about how good it was, but there was one issue, we were forgetting our thoughts mid sentence. Cars drove by looking as if I was seeing them through a fish eye lens, and sound was impeccably high quality and crisp. We have been friends for 6 years, so we were looking over those times, talking about how much we appreciate each other and all of the trouble we have been through together. Then I started to feel genuine and human in this experience, this was the first time a psychedelic really made me think deeply. I thought about all the other people who have ever dropped acid throughout its 80 year history, and how many of them were probably feeling exactly how I was in that moment, then I started thinking about humanity and human nature. Talking about how we are literally just a consciousness in a vast universe that is trying to discover itself. The emotion from these thoughts was so intense that it perplexed me, almost making me cry. For once in my life, I finally knew my place, and knew that I didn’t need to try to be deep and philosophical all the time to prove a point, but just be myself and enjoy every second of it. We talked about how we don’t like a lot of people in our city, since most of them are lazy, good at making excuses, and excessive drug users(on downers everyday.). This saddened us, but gave us more hope that people like us existed out there.
We were still walking, and rain starting pouring, and it was freezing out, probably 45 degrees. We decided to go back to Planet Fitness, since our friend who lived nearby ditched us and wouldn’t let us come over.
I walk back in and the employee at the desk smiles and laughs, he probably has an idea of what is going on. But we decided to sit at a table outside of the main gym area and talk about personal situations, this is when visuals got insane. I look at the metal table we are sitting at, and it looks as if it is spread all across the bottom of my vision, like a metallic landscape. Then once again, I look up at the 10 TVs they have, and various shows are on, like 19 kids and counting and other shows. Looking at the faces in these shows was really cool. The faces of people were swirling inward like the stock effect on webcams, faces were also melting and distorting in other insane ways.
We sit there for about 2 hours, and things settle, so we decide we want to go eat at Dennys. Big mistake. We go in and start eating, and the food is awful. Chewing it feels so foreign to us, the chicken strip breading feels like rocks, and we are incredibly full. Then after this, I got tired, so I took an adderall. And then we started driving around for fun for a few hours, as the sun rose and it got warm. I was so peaceful, renewed and happy. It was by far the most meaningful trip of my life so far.
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