DOSE: T+ 0:00	1 hit		LSD	(blotter / tab)
T+ 1:30	1 hit		LSD	(blotter / tab)

I go to a school in a small city, and I've been trying to get my hands on psychedelics for my entire time at college. I have a goal: trip before graduating. Unfortunately, this was obviously not going to happen. Two days before graduation (the night before my practice ceremony) a friend (experienced with psychedelics, but not lsd, if I recall correctly) calls me at 3 pm and tells me she's on her way to a connection. She buys two strips and we end up with a group of five people, including myself, interested. Due to some scheduling conflicts, we all took a tab at around 10:00 PM. For reference, we have M, W, K, B and myself. All except myself and B have done some sort of psychedelic. I don't know M very well, but he's a good friend of W and K, and my intense excitement and anticipation totally wiped out any concerns I might have had about tripping with someone I didn't know. I was too excited to be worried.

At about 11:30, myself and K decide to take a second dose. That famous 'I don't think it's working' mindset kicked in, and, despite what one may expect, it was a great decision. A few minutes later, another friend, D, shows up, and she takes a dose. This is two days before graduation, so the campus is pretty dead. Only seniors and their guests are on campus, there are no parties, and absolutely nobody is walking around at night. So, becoming rather antsy, the six of us decide to go explore. As we're leaving the dorm, D takes a second dose and I notice that I'm feeling an intense sense of euphoria and complacency.

M produces a bottle of glow-in-the-dark bubbles. Unfortunately, they work about as well as normal bubbles. As I start to notice how particularly green the trees are, and how appealing the chairs all lined up for graduation on the quad are, we leave the porch and go for a walk. We have a camera obscura on campus, which essentially amounts a very dark room in one of our gardens. By the time we get to the camera, I'm experiencing incredibly bliss. Frankly, I'm wondering if this LSD will produce visuals, and I'm rationally aware of my disappointment, but that doesn't matter at all. I'm having a great time. We get into the camera obscura and somebody breaks out glowsticks. Some of them have broken, so we discover that we can paint the walls with the stuff inside. It's pretty, but I'm still wondering if this was as good as it got.

Remembering the glow-in-the-dark bubbles M pulls them out and we notice that the bottle is an irradiated orange color. In the dark, it's like a little star. We frantically get some light in the camera to make sure everything is non-toxic, and M starts doling out the soapy glowing liquid. My mind pretty much stops as soon as it's in my cupped hands. I can see fractal-like lines in the liquid in my hands, and I realize that there is literally no end to what I can see in the liquid. I'm staring into glowing orange infinity. The fractals become little slices of organic and synthetic life. I feel like an entire universe is being held in my hands. Across the camera, M flicks his fingers at the wall and there are suddenly stars all around us. Everyone becomes Jackson Pollock. We paint the walls so thoroughly that, for a few minutes, I lose all sense of location and time. I'm standing in empty space, staring at the cosmoses that we're panting on the wall. It was one of the most peaceful, complete, and breath-taking things I have ever felt. I realize I'm experiencing a pretty intense bout of ego-death, which was something I was concerned about when reading about Lucy. It feels completely natural, however. I am totally at ease with everything that is happening in and around me.

I lose sense of time at this point. I'm standing in the camera obscura for what seems like hours, painting stars on the wall. D, K and I eventually just huddle around each other and watch the galaxies in our hands. The water is incredibly soapy, so whenever we try to hold it, the liquid shifts and moves and entire celestial bodies breathe and form life.

Eventually we run out and we could all use a thorough handwashing. B tells us to follow her to the creek, so we traipse across campus to wash our hands in the running water. She takes us to a point almost entirely across campus, and we step down through the undergrowth to the water's edge. Everything is silent except for the sound of water, and we all quickly become enraptured. M splashes some of the rest of the glowing concoction around so we can see in the pitch-blackness and I experience such a rush of awe at the sight and sounds of what what was happening around me. The water is moving slowly, and M dumps the rest out into the water so we can see the water's edge, and I'm one of the last people to lean down to wash off.

Everyone else at this point is up a little hill, a good fifteen feet away from me. As I dip my hands into the creek, I'm having an almost religious experience. As someone who practices nature-worship, this moment was one of the most profound and meaningful of my life. I feel like I'm at some water god's altar; like I'm stepping into some holy realm. I think I'm quietly crying at this point. I feel totally embraced and comforted by the night around me, by the sound of the water, by the glow of the universes splashed onto low-hanging tree branches. Some part of me wants to disappear into this moment, but I head back up the hill and let D and K wash their hands.

Overcome by my own emotion, I lay down next to B on the grassy hill and we wind down for a few minutes while everyone else finishes cleaning themselves. We notice how bright the stars are, and how wet and uncomfotable the ground is. There's a sky deck on one of the buildings on campus with big adarondak chairs, so we decide to head there next. We get to the building and a couple of us split up to go to the bathroom before heading up to the roof. Unfortunately at this point, everyone seems to lose everyone else. We all wind up back together at one point with the sole exception of B. W is anxious that we've lost her, so I go back into the building to look for her. It's a huge concrete building, so I canvas it a couple times. She's nowhere to be found, and after an even longer exploration of the building, we decide that she just went back to the dorm. As we were headed that way, we pretty much run into her on her way back from one of the gardens on campus. Despite the worrisome nature of this incident, I felt totally calm and generally unconcerned the whole time.

We head back to the dorm and realize it's about 2 AM. Three of us who had taken two tabs (D, K and myself) lie down on the floor and engage in some mind meld that is almost indescribable. I feel like I know what both of them are feeling and experiencing and it thrills me. We spend a long time simply laughing at everything and nothing. Everything is shining and perfect. B picks Fight Club off of the bookshelf and impressively is totally absorbed by it. Someone puts on some music. Eventually everyone starts winding down at what I think was 4 AM, and W tells us that she wants to go to sleep, so we leave her and M there and dorm-hop. B departs at this point to relax in her own room, so M, D and I go listen to some music and eat some tasty, tasty guacamole. I had been completely unaware of my hunger despite having last eaten at lunch time the previous day.

It's starting to get light out, and I'm still way too high to go to sleep, too aware of my own muscles and breathing. I use the restroom and run into B on the way out, who tells me she's going to watch the sun rise on the roof. Despite being unnaturally chilly for May, I join her, and come down while watching the sun come up. We sit there for 20 minutes or so before she heads to bed and I go back to doze with M and D. Realizing that I'm sober enough to drive back to my apartment, I check my phone as I'm leaving. 7:30. People are starting to show up on campus. I have graduation rehearsal in an hour and a half. I sleep for one hour, and wake up feeling pretty well-rested. Seized by the inexplicable urge to walk to campus for rehearsal I do just that.

For the hour or so, I realize that everything around me seems a little more saturated. I notice the sparkle of sunlight or the particular crispness of air around me. Unfortunately, I was being ravaged by direct sunlight through my rehearsal, so my high is pretty quickly killed by my discomfort. Even so, after leaving rehearsal, everything seems more salient. My brunch oatmeal is tastier. I feel like I'm floating. I recall a trip report that I read about someone taking half a tab in the morning with their morning coffee and simply being more interested in the world around him. I suddenly understand this completely. I simply could not have been more pleased with the night.

Only four hours after leaving campus, I was packing up my apartment so I could move out. My entire family including my very young and very energetic brother was there to help me move. It would have been one of the most stressful moments of my life to begin with, and to top it off, I was obviously still under the effects of a brand new substance. I was a wreck. I ended up sobbing for about an hour.

Despite that, I feel like my world has been completely revolutionized. A++ excellent shipping, would try again.

Exp Year: 2012	ExpID: 96732
Gender: Female
Age at time of experience: 22
Published: May 3, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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