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Newsgroups: alt.drugs.psychedelics
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I have been totally blind since birth and about a week ago I tried shrooms
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for the first time. I read all I could about them from hyperreal and a.d.p
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and a friend said it would be interesting to see what it would do to me.
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It was not possible to have anyone with me so I picked a time when I knew
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I wouldn't be bothered for six hours. I decided the only thing I would
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do was to sit in my rocker with headphones listening to whatever felt good.
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I figured that would be pretty safe since most music you find on the radio
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has a positive message or if it didn't you could always tune into something
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else. After about 30 minutes I became aware that the world, life, the universe
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or whatever was racing by at a trementous speed. I felt that this wasn't
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a problem if I stayed in the center and didn't get off track. But if I did,
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my life could shatter into millions of pieces and could never be put back
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together. After that acute intense phase I got the idea that whatever I was
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listening to was being played and written just for me. I became aware of
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a deeper understanding of life, people, and the music I was listening to. I got
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the idea that it would be nice to take all my clothes off and just bathe
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myself in whatever I was listening to. Around that time I began to notice
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many audio distortions. It seemed that the music began coming apart and
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unraveling. My conception of harmony became very strange. Most music began
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to echo around and around in my mind. It was like my brain would hear music
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in the present while still hanging on to what I heard a second ago. It was
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like a tape loop where you say something and a second later it repeats and
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feeds back until it builds into a jumble of music that kept on echoing.
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Also at the peak of the experience the music would actually change; transposing
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itself into other keys. It was the most intense and pleasurable musical
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experience you could ever imagine. Thoughts were racing through my mind at
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warp speed. About this time the phone rang somewhere off in the distance.
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I decided it was best not to answer because whoever it was wasn't on my
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channel/frequency. I thought about the time many years ago someone attacked
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Dan Rather and the guy said something like "Keneth whats the frequency?"
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I understand now, the guy was on shrooms! When you're on shrooms noone can
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find your frequency! More time went by and I decided that maybe I
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would make a phone call. When I turned the music off it was very strange.
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All sound was very distorted. My voice sounded strange as it bounced off the
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walls. It was like I was hearing everything from inside a tube. Sounds were
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"out of phase". It was like my ears were hooked to a fancy audio filter
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where you could vary the notch frequency and/or the passband. With great
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difficulty I was able to make a long distance call. After a few minutes
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I went back to my music. I had no idea what was real and what was not but
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that didn't matter because I wasn't hurting myself or anyone else.
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What a great way to take a vacation without leaving home! It does disturb
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me to read about people who take drugs like this and insist on doing things
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like driving that require good judgment and a clear head. I was thinking
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that if we lived in more enlightened times there could be clinics where for
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a fee you could take a trip on your choice of psychedelic drugs
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in a controlled and safe setting. Maybe to start with your personal
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drug therapist would take a brief medical history ... depending on the drug
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you were taking and then arrange for music, vidios or other interesting things
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to do on your trip. I don't have much hope of anything like this in our
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lifetime at least not in the U.S. but maybe in Holand? But in the meantime
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we have to arrange our own trips. It's not our fault, it's the government's
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fault.
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