Hi all. Got a silly question to ask but does anyone know where the term "trip" or "tripping" came from? I like the idea that it came from the word "tryptamine" but I have a feeling I might be wrong. Cheers The theory of drugs being dangerous and lethal developed a hole when Keith Richards was born.
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Trip=Journey...  Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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Yes, it comes from the word journey Trip is used for all substances not just tryptamines  With these hands I have killed man and destroyed hopes and dreams. But when I open these hands I can hold my wife, make my children laugh and even aid others. It's not the path that we take but the choices that we make along that path that makes us who we are. -Waugriff
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My friend suggests that it means journey as well. I'm trying to find out if when term was first used in the past coincides with the discovery of tryptamines. I know this thread might seem pointless but me and my mate have had some friendly banter today over it. And you guys know a lot more than me about the subject. The theory of drugs being dangerous and lethal developed a hole when Keith Richards was born.
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i read somewhere that it came from the paperwork for the MK Ultra experiments
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An answer here http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tripQuote:trip (n.)
"act or action of tripping," 1650s, from trip (v.); sense of "a short journey or voyage" is from 1690s, originally a nautical term, the connection is uncertain. The meaning "psychedelic drug experience" is first recorded 1959 as a noun; the verb in this sense is from 1966, from the noun Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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cyb wrote:An answer here http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tripQuote:trip (n.)
"act or action of tripping," 1650s, from trip (v.); sense of "a short journey or voyage" is from 1690s, originally a nautical term, the connection is uncertain. The meaning "psychedelic drug experience" is first recorded 1959 as a noun; the verb in this sense is from 1966, from the noun ahhh ok. Thanks cyb. The theory of drugs being dangerous and lethal developed a hole when Keith Richards was born.
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This thread reminds me of a time being on acid camping and going to get wood in the dark and tripping over something. "I'm tripping while tripping!" I said. lol Was so much more funny at the time [center]Sophia's Light
In darkest night, when lights are dim, and all in sight seems sad and grim,
I find you there, your arms surround me, your spirit fills me and it grounds me.
I look to you, Lady of Truth, most ancient One, yet eternal youth,to keep me safe, protect my heart,and with the wisdom you impart, fill up my empty mind and soul,so that, my Lover, you can make whole, all that was broken in this day –and that is what I ask and pray.
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The term "trip" used in the context of psychedelics was started by scientists in the US Army Chemical Corps to describe an LSD session (Lee, Shlain 1994).
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The term trip comes from the fact that under the effect of psychedelics you just cannot help bumping onto other objects and tripping over, occasionally injuring yourself in which case a trip to the emergency room might be necessary. Need to calculate between salts and freebases? Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH? Click here!
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The translation was lost centuries ago...however some scholars maintain that it originally meant "whales vagina"
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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universecannon wrote:The translation was lost centuries ago...however some scholars maintain that it originally meant "whales vagina" Actually I believe 'trip' means "Saint Diego" "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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Global wrote:universecannon wrote:The translation was lost centuries ago...however some scholars maintain that it originally meant "whales vagina" Actually I believe 'trip' means "Saint Diego" Let's just agree to disagree. Learning to know that I do not know.
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