Shared Thoughts of 4 Former English Students

oh friend, i believe your diagnoses of "bad trip" is perfectly accurate. and the 14 hr. part sounds like LSD as well. i've never known it to be put in brownies, but everything you described is quite familiar to me. you might recognize some of your sensations in my essay "Faith and Drugs." like you observed, it is particularly easy to see through newscasters. there's a disconnect which makes the whole thing seem contrived.yes, friends can seem like strangers, the world is, in a sense "unveiled" as fake, and many perceptions of reality are called into question. i call it "terrifying." everything swells up into something bigger than what it is in a normal mental state, which i guess is why people like the drug--good things can become the most beautiful things in the world and bad things can become the most horrifying.

did anyone prepare you for what was happening or try to help you through the experience? it was always very important for me to have a "safe" place in mind during those experiences, either a place or certain music--something, because the journey is always unpredictable

i hope you're feeling better. call me if you want to talk more.

-bl