ringwood
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Haha, that's a great metaphor!
I took acid a lot in my early 20's. I smoked pot, did other stuff too, but LSD was my favourite. Like yourself, I didn't experience anything really mind-blowing thought-wise, but it was the vision and sensory disturbances that fascinated me. Like the 'real' world would sort of disappear and be replaced by this Alice-in-Wonderland realm where everything was distorted—time, touch, feel, vision. I vividly remember sitting in a park and watching a guy ride by on his bike, but I was seeing him in a series of vignettes or snapshots. Imagine being in an art gallery where all the paintings are of one theme (in this case a guy riding his bike) but they're all slightly different as he rides along - the paintings are all evenly spaced along the wall and you're slowly walking through the gallery looking at each one. You're not seeing them in one smooth motion like you normally would, but in little steps.
The closest I can come to recreating those bizarre sensory experiences (I'm a responsible adult now. . . *sigh*
) now is if I get a severe anxiety attack. Same kinds of things happen, especially with sound - ie, a softly ticking clock in a quiet room will become super-loud. The human mind is weird.
