Acid

Lysergic acid diethylamide, (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), or LSD, is an intense psychedelic drug. In college, we called it acid. I would describe the effects of consuming a significant dose of acid as being akin to the feeling one would experience if they were traveling between dimensions at the speed of light. I can’t think of any other way to describe the experience. The hallucinations are rad as well. I remember seeing vivid orange zig-zags appearing on the ceiling of a dark, backlit room I was in. Another time, I remember my friend’s face melting in front of me as the room danced around me. I remember shedding tears considering the nature of mortality.

But, “tripping,” or experiencing the effects of a psychedelic, is a highly subjective experience. I remember laying in the dark one night after doing LSD earlier that night. I asked my friend, who I had done equal amounts of LSD with multiple times, if he had ever had a particular, significant hallucination I had had that night. To this day, it remains the most significant, wild hallucination I have ever had. My friend said they had never had even a similar hallucination. This is just one instance of the subjectivity of individual “trips.”