alright so i havn't written up a trip report in a long while so i guess it's about time. this last trip was pretty amazing. i had tripped like 2-3 weeks before this trip, which is fairly frequent for me. i usually try to keep it to once a month tops, although i by no means follow this standard all the time. tensions had kind of been growing between me and one of my friends. he had been dicking me and some of my other friends over some i was getting frustrated about it since this guy was one of my best friends. he didn't even save me a space in his car for the concert (everyone was riding in the same car). i ended up going because someone backed out like 2 days before the concert. it wasn't very easy getting a ticket that late, but i got one. the day of the concert i wasn't really feeling up for tripping, i had a fair amount going on. including my dilemma with this friend. i called him early in the afternoon and brought up his reluctance for me to go to the concert. he assured me that it was nothing. this was enough for me, it smoothed things out between us a little bit. i felt alot better, i wasn't about to trip at a concert with a friend who i was pissed at. after that i smoothed things out with my mom a little bit. i spent the rest of the afternoon meditating and clearing all of the clutter in my life, working through petty little issues. two of my friends were going to trip at the concert, and after a few hours of preparation i decided i was ready. i gathered up 3 hits and met up with my friends. we waited a few minutes at one of their houses and 30 minutes before the guy who was driving picked us all up we took our acid. i took one very potent sugar cube that was leftover from a batch of 12 that i bought. this is some of the best acid i've had. my two friends took a blotter each. i got the sugar cube since i am the one who supplies all our acid. by the time my friend got there to pick us up i was really starting to come up. it had only been about 30 minutes. i was feeling absurd anxiety for him to get there. not in a bad way though. just really excited. i even had to jump up and down at one point, lol. when he got there we found out that two of our other friends had forgotten their tickets(eight of us total). shit. we went to pick up their tickets really fast which almost made us late. i got a bad case of the giggles for a while. everyone thought i was laughing just to try to lighten the mood, like i do sometimes. but really the acid just kept making me laugh, everything was hysterical. on the way there me and my two friends got into a completely absurd acid conversation. no one else in the van understood what we were talking about, although it wasn't exactly the only conversation going on. we started talking about having a waterbed in a van. it quickly grew to epic proportions, with all three of us just uncontrollably laughing. i had a mental image in my head of what it would be like -- very augmented by the acid -- and it was kind of like we were communicating on a higher level. i can't even begin to describe it, but it was some hilarious shit. i even had to pull myself back at one point because the image of the van with a waterbed was quickly growing and almost turning itself into a reality, if you can understand that. 'alright, thats enough about the van and the waterbad.' i told them. the buildings in the city looked really cool. they gaped over us. once we got to the concert there were dozens of people outside trying to buy tickets. i was impressed, and glad that i had my ticket. this gave the impression of this thing being really big. once we got inside we went to have a cig, in the outside smoking section. people were coming up to the wooden kind of fence and poking their head through and asking for extra tickets. at this point i was just laughing at the sheer amount of people asking for extra tickets. then we went inside for the show to start. we got there about the time the ticket said the curtain would be. we got an alright place in the crowd, and waited for the show to start. after like 15 minutes we were wondering what was going on. every now and then someone in the crowd would pull the curtain back and there would be a massive cheer. at this point they were just teasing us. then for some reason my friend wanted to go get a water and didnt want to go alone(he was tripping, and it would be hard to find everyone again also). so i went with him. we got our waters and as soon as we paid for them the show started. shit! we ran downstairs and entered into the main room. this was quite a sight. white lights covered the stage and shone off in all different directions. i was incredible. we both just mouthed, wow! there isn't much that beats walking into a band playing on an incredibly lit stage while tripping on acid. breathtaking. then we walked down the aisle to try to get back infront of all the seats into the crowd and back to our friends. we had to push through a few people who had gathered since the show started. i could tell they were thinking i was an asshole. mowing through the crowd started to get really intense. all of these people were just popping up everywhere. i then started thinking i was in one of the rows of the seating section and the seats were in my way. i started trying to climb over these seats, but more and more just kept showing up. after a minute i realised that they weren't there at all, i was just hallucinating because of the crowd. man that was crazy. then we found my friends and strapped in for the upcoming show. some of the songs were really intense, they would build up an insane amount of energy then release it in some kind of guitar riff, or vocals. the songs were loose enough that they were almost completely open to interpretation. listening to them was like taking a voyage through my soul. it was just me, the acid, and pgroove; there was no escape. these weren't just short songs either, they were like 30 minute epic progressions that gripped you and took over. i felt the music on a very deep level. at one point i began to break out in a sweat. i retreated inside my mind as i began to think about how people sweat in survival situations and then i began to think about death. i eventually dismissed this threat and moved on to how this was one of the first times i have sweated during an enjoying activity in a long time. i had been physically asleep, overstimulating my mind. i then came upon my fear of external judgement, and faced it. the same song carried me deep within my psyche. i began to think about how much i had not been living in the present and how i was semi using lsd recreationally. well we have arrived, was it worth it? i asked myself. it was like i had been looking forward to this and pushing for this way too much. i flushed myself out, and breathed a sigh of releif when the song finally ended. when the next song started i was felt incredibly clear, like someone had just flushed me -- if i were a toilet. i felt renewed, and amazing. i continued to peak until the band gave a break. the depths of my psyche were thrust open and outwards, and spiraled around me. my subjective thoughts and ego contructs took over my objective world. my psyche, became the world around me. all of my thoughts, insecurities, strengths, virtues, were reflected in the real world -- albeit they were hallucinations. after the band took a break we all headed up to go sit down. this was exhausting. i have never been so glad to sit down. we actually got to relax for a pretty decent amount of time. one of my friends even stayed up top to rest for the second part of the show. that is what i wanted to do, but i was at the show and i was going to make the best of it. time to go get back up right next to the band. i wasn't peaking anymore but i was still tripping pretty hard. the way that the lead singer poured his soul into the music was amazing. i rarely see such dedication. i still felt the music on a deep level but it wasn't nearly the same. at one point they pumped up the base which shook the floor. i let the vibrations flow through my body, letting the energy come through me. they even played three weeks, although im not sure if i was in the second half or not. they showed me, the door. they finally finished and retreated backstage. but everyone was far from content. alot of people had left at this point(surprisingly). but there were still a ton of people. we chanted for an encore for a few minutes, until we almost thought they weren't coming back out. then in one of the louder uproars they emerged back out with tons of energy. they began their encore. all in all the encore lasted about 30-45 minutes. it was unrelenting. just amazing. although i was very tired at this point, i wasn't about to go relax somewhere in the back with my other friend and my friend that was with me that now wanted to leave. i was staying for the whole thing. the music would almost die out, and then it would explode back up again. very intense. after it finally ended we all headed back to the car and sat there for a minute. we were all exhausted and glad to sit down. that was insane. we raved about how amazing it was for a few minutes on the way home. we eventually got back and me and my two friends that were tripping watched some tv for a while. it was like all of the energy in an acid trip packed into about 3 hours. overall a phenomenal experience. eventually i managed to drift off, although i was the last one asleep. here is a pic one of my friends took of the stage:
I saw Pgroove with my dad a month or so ago. A good show, they probably changed their setlist since then but they opened up with an awesome song with some samples of an air traffic controller or some shit. The rest of their set was okay but that song stomped.
they change their setlist almost every show. im still trying to find out what their exact setlist was for that show.
wow dude, despite the intimidating length of your story, I was able to read it. It really gripped me, and it's sounds so mind opening. Glad it was awesome though!!
haha thanks! in retrospect it feels like my ego was split open into dozens of peices which all just casually swirled upwards and away. it was a well-needed soul-cleansing.
