Preview

My First Acid Trip

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1314 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
My First Acid Trip
Zachary Yates
Mr. Ellis
ENG 1101
April 7, 2013
Narrative and Descriptive Essay

My First LSD Trip Ever since I heard of LSD, I’d always been interested in it. I could never believe that taking a drug could literally alter your reality. It even makes your subconscious come out into the real world. It’s even described as having your dreams come true. I’d research experience stories and all the facts, but I really just needed to try it myself! A few friends and I were sitting around playing Dead Space 3, when my friend Kyle told me that he could get some acid. Excitedly, we called his friend and asked him to bring him four hits of acid. As soon as the friend got to Kyle’s house he handed us each two hits, and we placed them on our tongues. Knowing that we had 30 to 45 minutes until the LSD trip began, we continued to play Kyle’s videogames. About ten minutes after initially taking the drug, I started to feel an extremely intense high. All I could do was laugh and play with my hands. I was confused by this as I was expecting to see brightly colored visuals everywhere. I looked at Kyle and told him that I just felt higher than I’ve ever felt in my life.
“Just wait, Zach,” He said,” You’ll start feeling it soon.”
The words,” You’ll start feeling it soon,” floated out of his mouth in a comic book speech bubble before splattering on the wall. All I could reply to him after seeing three dimensional words fly across the room was “Oh.”
Suddenly the ceiling started dripping a vibrant orange onto the walls until they were completely colored. My attention turned back to the videogame Kyle was playing; it was more real than anything I’d ever seen! I felt as if I was looking into the TV, instead of just watching it. Every time the main character shot and killed an alien, it exploded into millions of colors and body parts. Kyle continued to play the game, and I continued to give my undivided attention. The futuristic videogame inspired me to start thinking about the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Module 4 Report

    • 1220 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Unit 4 Report Distributing Metabolites through the body Food that we consume is composed of very complex molecules. During the digestive process these compounds are broken down into smaller and smaller subunits in preparation for use by the body as building blocks needed for the many components of the human body. In Module 3 we followed the food through the digestive system and considered the process that takes place in the digestive system. The pizza that was eaten by Matt and Maria contained ingredients composed of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and other components such as minerals, water and vitamins.…

    • 1220 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I do agree with Eric that it is surprising to learn that “psychedelic” music style was based on the premise of trying to re-create an LSD trip through music. I was also amazed to learn that “Paul McCartney indirectly promoted psychedelic music by publicly admitting he had taken LSD” (Michael Hicks 63) even though his fellow band member, George Harrison, disapproved of it. It’s just interesting to learn that an enormously popular band like the Beatles would use drugs to enhance their music-making. A large part of why this information was interesting to learn was because Michael Hicks uses a point by point writing structure in this chapter. He starts off about talking about the origins of LSD, how that transitioned to music, and how musicians…

    • 199 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Japan and China had many contrasting responses to western penetration in the nineteenth century, including economic interaction - economically China suffered and Japan prospered, Japanese agricultural productivity increased while China’s did not, and China only accepted a small amount of goods while Japan accepted a wide range of goods- and political interaction - China went to war but Japan did not, Japan adopted western learning styles but China did not, and Japan heavily increased taxes on their people after 1890, while China did not -but had very comparable geographic traits – both had ocean borders – Japan was completely surrounded by water while China was bordered on a large percentage of itself, both kept their ports either fully closed, like Japan which completely isolated itself in the beginning, or like China which opened a only limited number of ports and cities to trade, and both conducted their trade – China with Britain, Japan with America – by boat across the ocean.…

    • 670 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    LSD, which is known to the younger population as acid, Lucy, and various other colloquial terms, came into being by complete accident. Albert Hofmann, a chemist, first created the drug in 1938, but it was not until 1943 that Hofmann unintentionally ingested a small dose of the drug leading to one of the greatest discoveries in the history of psychoactive chemicals (“History of LSD”).…

    • 937 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    quickly adapt to the the drug culture, along with Ken Kesey. Ken and the "Merry Pranksters" realize how much they enjoy the LSD and other Psychedelics, and begin to take…

    • 542 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Continuing on the theme of dream-like experiences, Requiem for a Dream describes the majestic sensation the group of friends feel while high on drugs:…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I sat in the bathroom and clicked the pause button. Stopping myself, I went outside and slowly gathered my thoughts, or what was left of them. I was just the ripe age of nine but for that day, I felt like I had more knowledge than the average person over the age of forty. Every rule and barrier and been deconstructed and thrown in a blender only to be pieced back into a new form almost alien-like. Everything that I was ever taught up until that date was void, mixed-up, and plain wrong. I hated it. But being my morbidly curious self, I went back in the bathroom and pressed play, hoping that maybe I heard something different. Maybe I was just going insane. Nothing changed. The same cacophonous sounds still shattered not only my ears but my thinking.…

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    LSD In The 1960s

    • 1519 Words
    • 7 Pages

    When the era of the sixties is brought up, the one thing that everyone thinks of is the era of drugs and revolutions. The topic of drugs is a very complicated one, drugs are not something that has recently sprung up. They have been around in every shape and form for centuries. In particular in the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, drugs like Lysergic Acid Diethylamide knew just as acid were being introduced to Americans. The 1960s was a time for revolutions, and drugs played a major role in this. New ways to consume and use drugs were created as people were forced to secretly buy and use them. The most intriguing part is how many scientists and psychologists were involved in the process of bringing LSD into the spotlight. The main purpose of…

    • 1519 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    A common misunderstanding exists that psychedelic drugs can only be used for recreational purposes. There are, however, numerous cultures across the globe that take advantage of their psychoactive properties for religious and spiritual reasons. (Schultz) Popular research has even gone so far as to suggest that responsible use of psychedelics can lead to positive change for individuals and societies. (Masters and Houston) It is therefore essential to understand their potential role in contemporary American society.…

    • 2208 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Counterculture Movement

    • 889 Words
    • 4 Pages

    LSD, which is short for Lysergic acid diethylamide, is an example of a popular hallucinogenic drug. Research has shown that LSD leads to an “increase in brain activity, which causes the overactive imagination that many users report (Olsen).” Specifically, the increase in brain activity is caused by LSD’s ability to manipulate the chemical receptors, called serotonin receptors, in the frontal cortex of the brain. This region of the brain is responsible for controlling the human’s actions and impulses, and as a result, a hyperactive frontal cortex leads to hallucinations and “indescribable images and emotions (Olsen).” However, LSD “is also infamously known for its ‘bad trips’ which give some users feelings of panic, confusion, sadness, and scary images (Olsen).” Additionally, it is impossible to predict whether one will experience a ‘good trip’ or a ‘bad trip’. It can be concluded that most psychedelic drugs alters one’s senses and his or her ability to perceive…

    • 889 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Doctors have come up with many possible causes of NDE’s and have found two major possible causes. The first cause is brain stimulation. There are many types of brain stimulation. Over the years many doctors have documented that if you touch directly above the right ear, the temporal lobe, the patient will experience many of the same sensations patients would experience in a NDE. Reported sensations include heavenly music, or a light appearing at the end of a tunnel, (Rivenburg 171) and also a feeling of “otherworldliness” as described by some. Another type of brain stimulation is a carbon dioxide overload to the head. The second possible cause of the NDE phenomenon is drugs. Morphine is believed to cause this mind experience or hallucinations. (Jaegers 163) Another drug is Ketamine, which again gives the person a mind experience like a NDE. (Morse no page) Ketamine is currently being used by ravers, who report these types of experiences. There are many other drugs, such as LSD, thorazine, codeine, and opium, that do the same thing. (Rivenburg 171; Jaegers…

    • 1480 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    It was one of those impossible phenomenon’s: it always is. While I lost myself in the music, I gradually began to feel the presence of a spiritual being as if it was directly behind me.…

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The ‘tunnel into light’ sensation (see figure 1) can be attributed to a phenomenon known as hypotensive syncope, which can cause tunnel-like peripheral to central vision loss. Many nueroscientific studies have shown that brain pathology can lead to visions of deceased ones, angels, ghosts, or a religious figure. This can result from abnormal dopamine functioning, a nuerochemical that can induce hallucinations (Mobbs & Watt). There have also been many reports of experiencing both terrifying and euphoric emotions. Many recreational and medicinal drugs can replicate the positive emotions. “At varying doses, the administration of ketamine can mimic these experiences including hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, positive emotions such as euphoria,…

    • 840 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Human Consciousness

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages

    We spend most of our lives in waking consciousness, a state of clear, organized alertness. In waking consciousness, we perceive times, places, and events as real, meaningful, and familiar. But states of consciousness related to fatigue, delirium, hypnosis, drugs, and euphoria may differ markedly from “normal” awareness. Everyone experiences at least some altered states, such as sleep, dreaming, and…

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Best Worst Trip Ever

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages

    I’ve never been a fan of road trips very much, but when it involves getting a free car, who could say no? It all had started with me visiting my family in Las Vegas. My grandpa’s best friend loved the fact that I was going into the Navy, and as a graduation present, felt I had deserved a car. So my dad had agreed to go on the road trip from Nevada, to Michigan, with me. A two day trip he wanted to make it, but my dad and I have never had the greatest luck. I had felt that this would be a good opportunity for my father and I to bond, and also there was no way my mother would let me take this trip on my own.…

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics