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Bicycle Day

On April 19th, 1943, Albert Hoffman self-experimented with LSD for the first time. I went on a fact finding mission about LSD and what it does to you. Here are some of the things I learned from the internet.

- Excerpts from Hoffman’s diary concerning his first experiment with LSD:

• Here the notes in my laboratory journal cease. I was able to write the last words only with great effort. By now it was already clear to me that LSD had been the cause of the remarkable experience of the previous Friday, for the altered perceptions were of the same type as before, only much more intense. I had to struggle to speak intelligibly. I asked my laboratory assistant, who was informed of the self-experiment, to escort me home. We went by bicycle, no automobile being available because of wartime restrictions on their use. On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had traveled very rapidly. Finally, we arrived at home safe and sound, and I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors.
• The dizziness and sensation of fainting became so strong at times that I could no longer hold myself erect, and had to lie down on a sofa. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. Everything in the room spun around, and the familiar objects and pieces of furniture assumed grotesque, threatening forms. They were in continuous motion, animated, as if driven by an inner restlessness. The lady next door, whom I scarcely recognized, brought me milk - in the course of the evening I drank more than two liters. She was no longer Mrs. R., but rather a malevolent, insidious witch with a colored mask.”

- An Acidhead  (can I direct your attention to the surreal picture illustrating the definition of this term) is someone who regularly takes LSD.

- Here is a balanced account of an LSD trip composed from a series of annonymous personal accounts on Talk To Frank.  

• I have taken acid lots of times, but a few months back me and some of my mates tried taking a few more tabs than usual.  This didnt turn out that good. I do not want to go into it too much but in the next 10-12 hours i thought I saw the devil and a witch. I wet myself while vomiting uncontrollably then locked myself in a drak room and curled up whimpering for hours. My parents who just wanted me to quit drugs and help me find a job, my dad had even spent thousands of his savings to build a gym in the back garden to let me train with him in to build back a relationship. I’m not mentioning the GBH because I’m proud of what I did; its there because when I was sitting in a jail cell contemplation how my life ended up like this. I DON’T RECOMMEND.  DO NOT EXPERIMENT.  It will be the worst decision of your life.