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My first time with LSD.
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All of this took place December 7th, 1995 in my flat in Rome. My mother was
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out of town for the weekend, so I invited my friends Valerio and Max for the
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night, with the explicit intention of dropping some acid we had (of the
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"panoramix" batch, named after a character in the french comics "Asterix".
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The blotter paper had "200" printed on the back, and I assume that referred
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to the amount of LSD in micrograms.)
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I had done some acid before, but it was mostly 1/4 of hits of unknown
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quality, so I never really felt anything besides jitteriness. Max has done
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plenty before, and he seems to handle it pretty well. Valerio never did it,
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and he turned down my offer of taking some.
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Anyway, we dropped at 10:15p after smoking some pot; Max took 1 1/2 hits,
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while I settled down for just a half (Thank God I did!)
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All in all, the one thing that really scared me was the rush after about 45
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minutes -- I wasn't prepared for it at all. It just kept getting more and
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more intense, and I couldn't handle it. I repeatedly asked my friends to
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bring me to the hospital, but they wisely talked me down. I eventually sat
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down on the sofa in front of the TV about 2 hours after I dropped, and
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stopped complaining after a while. I didn't stop complaining because I could
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finally manage what was going on but rather because my train of thought was
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disrupted that I couldn't really focus on something long enough.
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Anyway, this is what I remember about my trip:
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At the beginning, Max and I would laugh uncontrollably over the stupidest
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things -- like watching the Prime Minister on TV. When I started feeling the
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acid come on I remember telling Valerio something as stupid as "This feels
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so... psychedelic!"
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I don't remember much about the peak -- just a few events and feelings I had
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during those brief periods of time when I regained my "consciousness".
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I remember feeling telepathic; it is the thing that amazed me the most. I was
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thinking of something, and then somebody would say just the same thing before
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I did. This must have happened quite a few times, because after I while, I
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started telling my friends "Say it" whenever I thought of something. (Max
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confirmed this a few days after our trip; Valerio told me that whenever he
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said something I would look at him and say "That's true! That's true" like he
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had just found the Ultimate Truth.)
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I remember feeling that time was a spiral, and this feeling was somehow
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related to feeling telepathic -- Valerio would say something that I had
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thought of before, and those two moments in time would somehow be connected
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to each other even though they had happened separatedly, just like two points
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on a spiral that are adjacent to each other on a 2 dimensional plane but are
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separated down the length of the spiral itself.
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I didn't really have any hallucinations, but all the sensory distortion was
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there -- trailers, seeing complicated patterns move, the buzzing sound and so
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on.
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I started coming down at about 2:30, and I was somehow glad this happened,
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because it meant that I was safe. Coming down was the weirdest feeling.. it
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felt like I "re-learnt" life over an hour. I went to my bedroom, and although
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I recognized it it wasn't really _mine_; I remember seeing my computer and
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remembering that computers played a major role in my life, but I wasn't
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really interested in it. I must have said "Gee... *what* happened?" about 20
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times over 90 minutes.
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But when it was gone, well, I missed it.
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So.. This is what I think about the whole experience:
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I am *very* glad that I followed all recommendations that I found in the FAQs
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and on the net (familiar environment, friendly company, calm setting etc.) I
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wasn't prepared for tripping even though I had read just about any book I
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could get my hands on (including "the Psychedelic Experience"), but by
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following "the rules" I made sure that nothing too dangerous happened to me.
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I will definitely repeat the experience, and I hope this time I'll be better
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prepared; I think I am now, knowing what to expect at the beginning and that
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I've already survived it once.
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Plus.. I loved the way the flowers on my wallpaper melted into each other. :)
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