So it's the early seventies and I'm in college...
Visiting at some guy's house- he has to go somewhere for the day and I'm in a strange town with nothing to do- he gives me a hit of blotter acid and tells me to entertain myself until he returns.
At first, once the trip begins, the walls start melting a little- the posters slowly liquify.
I grow paranoid, looking out the small window in his front door, hoping no strangers approach.
To change scenery, I decide to take a shower- he has Dr. Bronner's peppermint liquid soap...it tingles...
I get out and look in the mirror- my face becomes Native American, with war stripes on my cheeks. "Oh, wow, man..." I look closer, the stripes are on my forehead, cheeks- they become gashes in my skin, no longer just war paint. I'm some kind of car crash victim. Then the bandages come-more and more... I become mummified. I know looking at myself in the mirror is not a good idea.
I look outside the bedroom window. There's a cute little dog out there, playing happily with a little round ball.
Ah, something nice to look at. I watch this playful little guy, scampering around with his ball, rolling it with his nose, just laying in the sunshine, turning it in his paws... turning it, rotating it, until on the ball I see... an eye.
What the fuck??? Am I hallucinating this? I stare harder- what exactly am I seeing? It looks like a little brown ball... with eyes... Ahhhh! It a friggin' RABBIT'S HEAD!
This was all probably Karma biting me in the ass for turning the lights off on someone else who came into my dorm room tripping. I threw balled-up socks at her in the dark. Then I played SpookyTooth, and at an extremely intense point of the song, I triggered a flash bulb on my camera. She saw me in the glare, saw my clothes explode off of me, then saw my skin blow off exposing my skeleton.
Hopefully she retained more of her mind than I did.
Moral of the story-If you want a pleasant experience, remember- SET and SETTING! Take heroic doses, but have a trusted guide present to keep you from swallowing your own foot. Fungus over Synthetic- I've gotten my share of strychnine in man made stuff, but never from a mushroom. And lastly, NEVER- but NEVER- take advice from strangers on the internet. 'night-night, kiddies...
