This was my first experience with acid and only my third psychedelic experience overall. I've been holding on to some acid for a few months now, waiting for the time to feel right to finally dose this wonderful chemical.
Set: Excellent mood, just ate a nice healthy meal with my family. Some current issues with my girlfriend but the past week or two has been fulfilling to say the least.
Setting: 9pm alone in my house with only my cats around. Wilderness is visually accessible through nearly all windows of the house.
Dosage: 125ug, tab had been reported to be under-dosed at around 80ug, however I believe that it was closer to 100ug at least if not 115ug or so. All of this is guesswork of course, based only on trip reports and researched info.
The day before the experience I began to think about dosing and so made my playlist of what I thought would be “acid-friendly” music. This consisted of Pink Floyd, Shpongle, Opeth, and some other songs here and there to add up to around 8 hours of material. I believe that this is what guided my trip to the places it went.
9pm, the designated time was upon me. I had cleaned up my trip space, made sure I had plenty of warm blankets on hand, and had my come up movie ready to begin. I placed the tab under my tongue and began the wait by starting up the first Lord of the Rings movie. About half an hour in I was beginning to feel something and wondered if it was placebo or not. After another 15 minutes I was positive what I was feeling was not placebo so I paused the movie as one of my cats decided to join me.
The funny thing about this, I have three cats and the one who wandered into my room has actually been diagnosed with a form of feline schizophrenia so she is usually very antisocial however at this time all she wanted was love and to be pet. After petting her for a while I realized that I was really coming up quicker than I had ever imagined I would. It was as if I was being injected with love for this cat and it was simply overwhelming. The only way I could possible convey this intense feeling of love was by petting her as much as possible.
This went on for probably around an hour or so by which point I got quite distracted by the visuals and my cat calmed down and sat down next to me and appeared to go to sleep. Around this time was when I put on my playlist starting with Shpongle. In retrospect I probably should have started off with Pink Floyd first as I wasn't yet used to the peak of the experience and Shpongle was a little bit too much for me to handle at the moment.
I got up and decided to look out my window after a little while and enjoyed looking at the trees just outside my room swaying and twisting in ways only a psychedelic can make them move. After enjoying the feeling of the cold wind and watching the landscape I decided it was time for an even more beautiful landscape. The landscape I chose was Skyrim as I love snow and mountains in forests however I live in a dry area.
This also was a little bit too much for me. I had the game set up before the trip began and once I began to play I got completely lost in the beauty of the game. For reference I was running it on an extremely high-spec gaming pc. The computer graphics were truly unreal and I began to believe that the game was my true reality. At this point I got classic audio distortions as I heard every voice from the game echoing and warping. The NPCs in game were also changing between their normal colors and a yellowish-green version of themselves. After running around and simply observing the mountains, snow, and night sky in the game I began to get bored and shut off the game.
I felt the need to change environment so I put some Mastodon on to listen to and went downstairs to get a water bottle and stare into the pool in my backyard. After a few moments of this I decided to test my mind and go look into a mirror. I had done this once before on a shroom trip and watched myself grow I long beard and become a pirate so now that I have a beard I wondered what would happen. This was actually a little bit of a letdown in my opinion because not much happened in the mirror. There were some slight visual distortions but nothing major I just looked and thought, “Yep that's me. My pupils are huge but nothing else is happening, oh well.”
Back upstairs to my room I went where I put on Animals by Pink Floyd one of my all time favorite albums. This was where the acid revelations began. As I listened through this album I had my eyes closed and was feeling the music as a constant full bodied orgasm. Only one thing, I felt as if I was a female and I began to realized that everyone has both male and female energy inside of them and I had been ignoring my female energy all this time and it was finally time to acknowledge it and accept it! This was a very large theme throughout the rest of the trip and I would keep coming back to this thought.
The other major revelation I had while listening to this album was the truth of how to write soulful amazing music. Unfortunately this is one of the many things that lies on the cusp of my conscious mind and I can't quite remember the secrets I was told. I do remember the CEVs I had at this time though. It was as if each instrument was a voice and all the voices were participating in a debate. Each voice came from the strangest of bodies as well I cannot even hope to describe what these creatures looked like as I can barely wrap my head around it.
The final part of my trip and one of the parts that I find hard to understand is when I switched my playlist to Opeth's Ghost Reveries. I listened to this album probably three times in a row and the first time I listened to it was actually the most intense part of the entire experience.
If you have not listened to an album by Opeth from before 2011 then this will be hard to visualize. The song Ghost of Perdition would perfectly describe this part of the trip in my opinion. It goes from beautiful haunting melodies which I was hearing as debates still to extremely heavy death metal interludes. During the more death metal parts I was sitting in half lotus position with a blanket wrapped around me making soundless snarls. I felt more filled with power than ever before. I felt that I had become a pagan god and was demanding sacrifice from anyone who was listening. All of these intense powerful feelings subsided as soon as the music resumed it more melodic, progressive parts.
Around the time when I was done listening to that album it was around 5am and I began to play the calmer albums on my playlist and tried to sleep. Alas, it was to no avail, I could not sleep. I returned to baseline around 8am and fell asleep that night around 10pm.
Summary: All in all, this was an excellent trip. I am very happy I had my first trip alone with only some feline contact throughout and would wish my next trip to be around people I love and trust.
Also here is a link to Opeth's
Ghost of Perdition to anyone who wants to listen to it. I would highly recommend this song while tripping if you enjoy heavy metal.
