Feeling adventurous on night 2 of the bands stay in Colorado I decide to look for my friend Lucy. I head over to shakedown street as it's affectionately known. Anything you may be looking for from home made burritos to "other" can be found here for anyone who does not know. It does not take me long to hear what I was hoping for "doses doses". I ask for a ten strip, and he says "dude are you sure". I say yes. I am a firm believer in what Terrance Mckenna once said. "If you take a psychedelic drug and you are not afraid you took too much, you did not take enough". Turns out he only has liquid, but nothing to put em on, so he drops them on my palm. I admire the large pile of liquid in my hand before popping it in mt mouth. It tasted slightly sour to me. Probably due to what it was distilled in the liquid with. Like a tangy alcohol taste. I walk away as I hear "have fun" from the guy. He probably thinks I took too much, but he doesn't know who I am haha. It is still about an hour to showtime, and I enjoy the lot sceene. People smokeing pot right in the open as well the continued open action of shakedown street. Eventualy wanting to get a good view I head to the gate. As I am standing in line I realize I am begining to come up. As I get to the front it is becoming apparent I am about to be very very high. I sit down in one of the bleacher seats. A strong dose of acid always gives me a period of this strange feeling. It reminds me of an E come up in some ways. Just a brief period of time where you are like "wow what is about to happen here, what did I do". I realize the people in front of me are munching on a bag of mushrooms passing it between them. I guess security really will be lax tonight. I look up at the sky, and it looks amazing. It is dusk and the clouds are swirling and I realize that the guy sure did not screw me over. I wish I had timed my come up a little better because all of the sudden I hate the silence of the place with no band playing. A guy sits down next to me and starts to speak, but I don't really understand. I could hear his question but I don't have the language to answer. After a few second pause it clicks in my brain what he said "dude are you dosed". I stammer out "yes". He says "me too". A second glance at him reveals pupils so big I can't see his eye color, and I realize I must look the same. It seems like it takes an eternity but eventualy Phish comes out. I can feel my body throbbing, I am getting a pretty strong body high from this stuff. By this time it is completly dark and the light show they have going on on stage is very intense for me. I am feeling amazing. About hald way through the first set I began to see what I would describe as 100's of tiny specks of light all the colors of the rainbow .They were raining down on me. At first I think it's part of the light show, then I think no I'm tripping the lights cant reach this far, I go back and forth in my mind arguing it. I am really having deep trains of thought. At one point I forget what I ate. I can't rememebr if it is called a ten stripe, the phrase "Ten strip" sounds so funny and forign to me. The first set ends, I make my way to the bathroom. But this is the first time I have tried to walk for a while and I realize that it will be an adventure. As I walk along looking for the men's room everyone has a trail. I can't see where the real people begin and end, everything is a giant blur of movement. Not just movement but movement in slow motion. People's faces were "pixilating". You know like when you have lag on a computer video and for a second things get all blocky and broken. It looked like that. After a bit of searching I find the men's room, I realize while I am in there that the world probably looks the same for allot of these guys right now. That whole idea makes me laugh. The idea of a bunch of tripping guys trying to figure how to piss. As the second set begins I have come into a nice platuee. Gone is all the anixity of the strong come up. I am high as a kite but I have a feeling of peace. There is no place I would rather be then seeing a good band right now. The show all too soon, and I stumble out into the lot glad I have a place to crash close by for the night. The world continues to swirl and strobe color for the next 12 hours. Overall it was an excellent night, nothing like a Lysergic kick.
Great description with the blocky, laggy faces. Trying to percieve motion when your really dosed is such a difficult thing, especially in public. When you take one step, the tracer is so intense that's all you see. It makes the people look like there walking in segments to the point when you realize there walking to one object or another, their already there. Awesome trip report. Its time for a ten strip.
Great report brother i love hearing show acounts. Dude phish was on Fire at UIC, sounds like the CO shows were smooth. Ive yet to trip at a phish wheeew i cant wait. Good desrcription on the trails. HAH i just pictured you(as uncle sam) licking up the puddle of power.
