imagine you are old

canndo

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imagine decades ago you were enchanted with all things psychonautical. Imagine that you had taken acid hundreds of times in doses as small as 50 ug to as high as 550ug.

now imagine more for me. Imagine you had logged hundreds of hours in a sensory deprivation tank, many times on high doses of acid.

now imagine something else, after all these experiences, the good times and the frightening ones you took an average dose in an unremarkable setting with a perfect mindset, money in the bank, no issues with family, a fine girlfriend at the start of an exciting relationship.

imagine that the entire trip was dark and forboding, filled with ominous thoughts and feelings. Disturbing, anxious, coarse and gritty.

imagine that the next day there are foreign thoughts in your head, almost spoken words. "you are at the end of this journey. Your time here is up. Do not continue"

now imagine that two months later, those cautions forgotten, you take around 250 ug of acid you know to be pure, reliable and dependable, your go too stash.

now imagine the unimaginable horror of all emotions unleashed like fractals or a kalidescope but rather than colored glass they are emotions. Horror, disgust, glee, delight, hatred, loathing, love, compassion, terror, abject fear, elation, cowardous, shame, shame, shame, joy, embarassment, rejection, saddness, all cycling unpredictably complete with tears and moronic laughter to the point that your friends are genuinely fearful for you but the emotions slamming into you, at time conflicting ones two, three at a time for hours and hours through the night.


now imagine that was 35 years ago. Imagine that universe has been calling, that place you mapped through hundreds of voyages is waiting and you would like to go home.

imagine finally that you have lived a full, examined life, trying to be an exemplary person but you are aware of the monsters you keep under your bed, placed there by that very act of self examination and attempts at enlightenment.


imagine you have lived sixty two years and it is impossible to do that without an accumulation of such beasties.

would you take lsd again?
 

Skuxx

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Hmmm, all I can do is imagine from where I'm at.... but yes, I think I would. I might not do a dose that seemed large to me though.

Are you contemplating another dance with lucy?
 
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MightyMike530

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a life fully self examined should have no monsters under the bed, if life has been examined there would no longer be monsters, as neither past nor the future exists to contain monsters, unless oneself is a monster. but even ones conception of the self is like a shadow puppet on the wall and then, one realizes all things are in the present and are what we make them. i would take the acid and face myself...

 

Skuxx

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a life fully self examined should have no monsters under the bed, if life has been examined there would no longer be monsters, as neither past nor the future exists to contain monsters, unless oneself is a monster. but even ones conception of the self is like a shadow puppet on the wall and then, one realizes all things are in the present and are what we make them. i would take the acid and face myself...

That's easy to say until you drop 2mg and the monsters are let out of their cages. Although I do agree with you in a way.
 

MrEDuck

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It has been a little while since I dropped acid. I've been playing with other psychs more. I also tend to save acid for Mrs Duck because it helps her headaches the most.
 

Thundercat

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At one point I had that feeling about mushrooms. Like I needed to stop eating them, atleast for awhile. Last time I found some was quite a while later, and as it turned out they were weak. However after eating them, I felt much more open again then before. I still feel like I'm over any heroic doses, but that I can enjoy normal doses :). I chalked it up mostly to something going on in my head at the time.
 

WHODAT@THADOR

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At one point I had that feeling about mushrooms. Like I needed to stop eating them, atleast for awhile. Last time I found some was quite a while later, and as it turned out they were weak. However after eating them, I felt much more open again then before. I still feel like I'm over any heroic doses, but that I can enjoy normal doses :). I chalked it up mostly to something going on in my head at the time.
I always keep syringe's around for that reason.....Its almost like a reset button ain't it?bongsmilie I love shroom trips nothing beats JMO
 

Thundercat

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I've got prints and clean syringes still. I really need to set up again, but I gotta get a new PC some how I lost mine over my last 2 house moves.
 

canndo

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the monsters, my friends ate death and decrepitude. The more they are examined the larger they loom. The last time I took acid my death was far away. Now it is in sight.
 

WHODAT@THADOR

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the monsters, my friends ate death and decrepitude. The more they are examined the larger they loom. The last time I took acid my death was far away. Now it is in sight.
Death is not something worth dwelling on cann ....It comes to us all ...and maybe that time is tomorrow? I would rather die knowing I lived....And maybe the acid could enlighten pass journey's and you can find some purpose with meditation? IDK ....But death can immobilize life even in the living and can debilitate every day function, cripple will's, depress happiness....Leave void's with depth's that cannot be filled with a lifetime's worth of happiness...I think you need to take the journey with a mission and maybe you can find peace?
 

Thundercat

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I suppose then overcoming that looming fear of death might be the final goal. Not to over simplify an obviously challenging thing to do. I think about 30 years from now some times. I wonder what in the world I'm gonna be doing, or be like. Am I still gonna trip, or want to trip when I get older, or the same for smoking. I agree that since death is there on the horizon for everyone that the only thing to do is live the fullest we can, and be true to our selves along the road.
 
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