I did acid for the 1st time last year, got 3 hits of a Felix the Cat blotter. Had 1 hit and didn't feel anything, but my mood was great, I felt happy, listening to Jane's Addiction and playing guitar, I guess I was just so focused on that at the moment that I didn't really feel anything else. Later that day, around 8, A friend and I went out and I could appreciate the effects better, but nothing spectacular. The street lights and traffic lights had a beautiful pattern around them. And that was it. My 2nd trip, with 1 hit of the same blotter was not visual at all, but VERY introspective, I thought about life and where in life I was at the moment and wrote A LOT. I just grabbed pen and paper and wrote well over 30 pages. Found myself writing in ways pretty different to the usual, using lots of metaphors, it was an incredible "creativity boost". I listened to some music with headphones and it was wonderful. I didn't sleep at all that night... I might have fallen asleep around 6AM and woke up at 7:30. The next day my mind was still in the same mood, introspective, but by the end of the day I was back to normal. The 3rd hit I had it with a guy I know (will call him B) at the beach, beautiful day, sunny, clear blue sky with small clouds. Had the hit around 1:30, smoked a joint with B around 2 and started tripping around 2:45. B was doing shrooms (amanita). I went for a swim, great feeling, felt so connected to the water and everything around me. Got out of the water and B wasn't very talkative, he was almost sleeping and said he wasn't feeling anything. I felt a bit uncomfortable by his presence... I know the guy, but we're not really friends, it felt like there was a wall between us, so I started listening to music and laid down feeling the sun on my wet skin. The clouds were the focus of my attention, how they moved, changing shapes, I could see they were made of millions of small white dots, dancing, flirting with each other as they moved and changed. I was amazed by the beauty of what I was seeing and the music I was listening to felt like a brain bath of delays, reverb and panning, shooting ethereal sounds to my brain from left and right. I went home not long after that, B went back to his place. I talked to my bf on msn and everything was ok, but after we finished around 9, I felt lonely, but at the same time I felt full of love, so I grabbed pen and paper and started writing, it all flowed naturally. Around 11PM I saw a mosquito in my room. I don't like mosquitoes because they seem to like me a bit too much and always attack me... my natural reaction is to kill them before they bite me, but I didn't do anything to this one. I could see its body in full detail, bigger than it actually was and could also see the trajectory of its movement. I felt respect for it and decided to leave the room before I got bitten. The palms of my hands were red and looked at them in detail and I could see my blood vessels moving under my skin. Then I started focusing on small things, like the numbers on the digital clock and how the yellow sugar "moved" every time I played with it using my fingers. I guess the acid wasn't strong enough when I compare my experiences to others I've read, they've been very "light" trips, no psychedelic colours/shapes... but it's curious how I reacted in different ways to the same amount in different occasions. I liked the visual effects of the 3rd trip, and also like the introspection, but at some points I found it a bit overwhelming because I felt I was focusing too much on "bad" emotions (loneliness, homesickness) instead of the good ones, but all I had to do was focus on the good part of it. How do you feel tripping with others affect your journey? I mean with people you feel comfortable with. More "fun" and less "brainy"? Peace!
