First human trial of LSD in 40+ years hopes to develop knowledge of consciousness

Quick preface, at the time of the next story, I THOUGHT I had taken acid before and THOUGHT I actually had an acid trip. I was dead wrong and this time I took acid it was REALLY ACID:

One weekend my friend from berkeley calls me and says he is having a massive party at a co-op he lives in. Of course im in. At the time, I had been going to school in Reno. So I made the treck with 3 friends of mine.

I decided to do acid at the party, having experienced it before (or so I perceived), thought whatever, I got this. Man was I wrong.

I started out the night by buying 2 double dipped tabs of "Rainbow Blotter Acid". By now, I knew that names were all kinda bullshit and that double dipped tabs were just a sales gimmick. Didn't really think much of it at all. So I ate both tabs simultaneously.

The party starts and my friends and I start to feel the acid kicking in. It of course, was a bit anxiety ridden, but what heavy trip isnt. I got to the point that I have gotten with my previous experiences and settled down, as it was a very familiary feeling.

All of a sudden I just keep going, and going, and tripping harder and harder and harder. When I closed my eyes beautiful stained-glass type murals would flash through my eyes.

I forgot to mention before I started this little story, the co-op was FILLED, and I mean every single wall, was FILLED with crazy hallucinogenic murals. There were murals made of painted N02 canisters, paint, anything. Every wall had writing on it. There was not ONE bare wall in the entire 3 story (45 room) mansion in which he lived. It was absolutely breath-taking even sober.

On with the story. So there I am, absolutely tripping the hardest I have ever in my life. We all started the night thinking we were going to take acid and explore this massive mural ridden mansion. Well, that didn't happen because about 2 hours into the trip, each of us that took two double drops of acid experienced what is known as "ego-death". If you were sober and you saw me, it would look like this- some dude laying down in a bed, completely incomprehensible and almost non-responsive, drooling, with his eyes open. Pretty sight to anyone that didn't know that we were "feeling alien vibes on planet 'where-the-fuck-are-we-and-what-is-this-intense-feeling-of-love-eminating-from-this-multidimensional-being'".

So to cut the story short and to save you all from me rambling on about what I felt, saw, heard and ultimately getting to the point of this whole story. I eventually came out of ego-death and was able to "see" my surroundings once again. People started to notice that we were coming to and tried to talk to us "(everyone at this point was completely smashed and ready to socialize).

"Hey, how are you man, you looked a little dead for a bit, glad you are back"

-blank stare-

"You okay?"

"y-yeah, just feeling this mural"

"You are feeling the mural?"

-Nod-

"Alright, well have a good time"

"Hi".

Eventually I came down and was able to tell people that I had been absolutely out of my mind on acid. Side note, alcohol didn't effect me one bit. I literally drank half a handle of alcohol and didn't feel drunk. I'm sure the LSD completely overpowered any kind of drunkeness I was/would have felt.

Haha, kind of a random thought here. Some bitch had the nerve to ask me, "Why would you waste acid by just laying there."

If only that chick knew.

EDIT: IF you want me to elaborate or tell the entire story from beginning to end, I absolutely will. Its a pretty awesome story to be honest. But if no one wants to read it I wont write it. I'm not a very talented writer, so don't expect any kind of brilliant masterpeice if the interest is there.

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