Haunted House trip anyone?

For the past several years, I've greatly enjoyed going to haunted houses on acid. The first time I did it I was a bit nervous, but that didn't last long at all. Has anyone else done this? Would you? A lot of people think I'm insane for dosing before a haunted house, but it's become one of my favorite annual traditions.

 

I would if I could... Availability of either becomes an issue.

 

oh yes. theres this place called carowinds not too far from me, its basically an amusement park with all these roller coasters and every halloween they set up a bunch of haunted houses and people dressed up in awesome costumes to scare people. Tripping there was one of my favorite experiences. roller coasters+haunted houses+most retarded people ever to people watch=awesome

 

It's not something I've ever really considered before but I'd probably do it, I don't think I'd really be scared of the haunted house (or if I was maybe in a good fun way) but I don't know how I'd deal being around a bunch of people in a tight area like that.

The only haunted house that I can really recall is at Disneyland and at the beginning everyone has to cram into this room, where this spooky voice talks to you for a few minutes before getting on the ride.

Well there was also like a butcher shack that was supposedly haunted, I'd never trip out there, only time I've been out there I got chased out by a car and supposedly gangs hang out there and shit.

 

Sounds like it could actually be an amazing time, or a terrible one if you cant handle it. I imagine it adds to the intensity of the haunted house 100x. In a good way of course

 

I have always had a blast! The outdoor ones are the best....you're not as cramped in with the other people.

 

Try Avebury Manor in Wiltshire, in England. You won't need any drugs, believe me! LOL.

 

It sounds like something that devalues the substance.

 

Maybe. In the same way that Ken Kesey and the Greatful Dead "devalued" it.

 

you rock

 

"value" is so complex. Under many interpretations Ken Kesey, GD, Tim Leary, were all just awful for LSD. Many prominent figures from the 60s would agree that Tim Leary was one of the worst things to ever happen to LSD. He practically single handedly made it illegal.

It also matters how you view LSD. A therapeutic tool for healing and spiritual connection? Then taking it at a haunted house is definitely devaluing it. Or maybe it's a fun psychedelic for getting fucked up on and seeing crazy hallucinations? Then maybe taking it in a clinical setting is "laaaaame, man".

If I took LSD at a haunted house I suspect I would find the haunted house quite silly and quaint I'd likely be mesmerized by the complex human interactions that create the "haunted" in the house . . . all the expectations, all the superstitions, the fear and love of the unknown . . .

 

So you mean a haunted house or like a Halloween haunted house? Cause I'd be more down for a legit haunted manor type trip.

Also the value I give it sort of goes like this: Everything I experience through the months and all the things I take in and absorb from the nexus and even the things i put out into our perceived existence needs to be processed and understood at its most basic raw meaning to me and I do this through my trip, that's also why I think there needs to be time in between trips.

 

When the movie The Exorcist came out in 1974, it was a huge fad among kids my age (I was 13) to take acid and go see that movie. It was practically the rite of passage for junior high kids at the time. I never did that though. But it seemed like everyone else did!

 

Good points.

For some, it's possible to do both. To have a spirituallly meaningful and enlightening trip while partying your ass off. Though many people have to keep them separate. I enjoy going out with the "Gonzo" spirit and bathing in weird strange wild crazy fun vibrations. When Im partying on acid, the experiences I have hold tremendous value. Just because I'm drinking rum walking through a haunted house trying to scare the workers doesn't take anything away from it. It just means that I like to party

 

Haha fuck yeah when I do party and trip I'm always just really proud of the person I am and the life I live and how I wouldn't trade it for anything

 

I love that way of thinking, I am just the same way. Especially when I tell a joke from my stand up routine to a group at a party and it causes everyone to laugh intensely, it warms my soul.

Also, I feel like I made such a better choice than the others who get drunk as shit and puke and pass out and stuff. Me and my trippin buds just feel sorry for them. :daisy:

 

I had a really amusing time tripping on mushrooms with a friend in a haunted house.

They gave you 3D glasses so that the paint would look like it was coming off the walls, so it was like double 3D with the tripping. Even when I took my glasses off everything was still 3D.

It wasn't really scary at all, it was like being the tripping person at a party where everyone is drunk. You could take a step back and study peoples reactions and your own reactions to everything. When people and things pop out around the corner, you laugh rather then scream.

As for the question on whether it devalued by the act is something to take in consideration. I think it depends more on the persons views and intentions more then the act itself. I love the fact that Lsd and Mushrooms can be educational even when doing something fun and stupid. That its not limited to the spiritual or psycho-therapeutic routes, but also can make such a materialistic oddity full of richness and discovery.

 

Taking acid doesn't change your personality. Most people that enjoy haunted houses are extroverts, Kesey and crew were the ultimate extroverts.

Those who are by nature more quiet or introspective will tend toward that, when using this drug, since acid seems to intensify whatever personality traits you have. Like if you are neurotic or psychotic, might not be such a great idea to experiment with acid.

 

Great posts on this thread!

@GB: the haunted house I usually go to, is a local one on a farm that is also a maze. At night they have a haunted house thing open, and you split up into little groups with your friends, it'd be very great and less confined. Also it'd be dark at the time, so who cares what the person behind you is doing?

@OP: great idea! I like your philosophies too. I used to be the one to think that LSD was right or wrong dependent on the user. A spiritual trip means more and is of greater value than a partier wanting to enjoy the world. But then I came to realize, it doesn't really matter how you use the drug, just by taking it you will have a deep profound experience. And if you're having fun while doing it, perhaps you are doing it the better way! I think this haunted house is a great idea, the only fear is the anticipation really, you'll look back at it and have fun! Of course I'd want some good friends by my side.

@writer great points as always! I agree with your point on Leary, he had some fun ideas, but I always thought he went a little too "liberal" with acid. Whether beneficial or not, the public will turn a blind eye to a great mind once he starts "turning on" children. I thought that was the one thing that he went too far with "acid is good for you kids" not trying to down the experience, but what parent wants their kid to be following this guy? It downs learys rep for everything he says. Huxley was one of my favorite enthusiasts personally, but I still love Jerry gracias Jim morrisons, lennons, Harrison's and all these other great figures too, it just kind of shows all the different outcomes of the drug.

@freedomrider couldn't have summed it up better myself. Too each is a very individual experience, and will form or brighten that ones being, but that doesn't make one of more worth than the other by any means.

My own two cents: finding comfort in such an unusual experience is perhaps the best lesson for life, a haunted house sounds like a great way to find it

 

That sounds like it would be interesting to try. Love haunted houses, but never tried acid. Wanting to.