whatever happened to Sex 'n Drugs 'n Rock 'n Roll?

[abdoujaparov]

With all this talk about acid and mushrooms, I'm interested to hear from users if they ever get flash backs? I've heard stories of people getting terrible flash backs during driving etc. Has anybody actually suffered from these?

[worm]

With all this talk about acid and mushrooms, I'm interested to hear from users if they ever get flash backs? I've heard stories of people getting terrible flash backs during driving etc. Has anybody actually suffered from these?

Edited May 26, 2012 by worm

[worm]

I don't either - but i'd also say it can help.

In my experience, people are getting less and less likely to be thinking outside the box, and that's coincided with people taking fewer mind-altering* drugs. Whether the two are related I can't be certain, but I reckon there might be something to this.

(* I'm not classing non-tripping drugs as 'mind-altering', in the same way that few people would class getting drunk as mind altering. If anyone finds that confusing then I'd guess they've not tried tripping to find out what truly mind-altering drugs do).

I'm not trying to encourage anyone to take any drug they're not comfortable taking btw. Each to their own.

[feral chile]

With all this talk about acid and mushrooms, I'm interested to hear from users if they ever get flash backs? I've heard stories of people getting terrible flash backs during driving etc. Has anybody actually suffered from these?

[sifi]

I've had people say that they can tell that I used drugs in my past just as a general observation of my personality. I just tell them that as they're a projection of my imagination and that we are all echos of one solitary consciousness then what they say doesn't really mean anything. That usually seals it.

[eFestivals]

Like windy miller says, I think a lot of people could benefit from a little mind expanding. I know many people who probably wouldn't, too.

and in the middle there seems to be some people who trip and believe it's had a 'mind expanding effect', but there's nothing of any change in them to be seen - at least not of the normal 'hippie' view of the sort of 'mind expanding' that might be expected. They don't appear to have any different perspective on anything afterwards (after the temporary effects of the drug have worn off).

Working from the basis that tripping supposedly causes the brain to be 're-wired', I'd guess that these people have their brains too 'hard wired' to get anything more than a temporary experience from their use of the drug.

[eFestivals]

but does it re-wire your brain, or does it just open it up to stuff that might normally get 'suppressed' or simply ignored?

Who knows?

The point of my words was simply to say that for some people it does as much 'mind expanding' as anyone gets from having a pint - none at all. It's simply a transient & temporary experience.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

With all this talk about acid and mushrooms, I'm interested to hear from users if they ever get flash backs? I've heard stories of people getting terrible flash backs during driving etc. Has anybody actually suffered from these?

[grumpyhack]

Not wanting to sound like an old fart but I'm not too sure about experimenting with drugs at festivals - certainly unless you have good friends around you. You don't know what you're buying and may well get ripped off. If you do want anything take it with you, in which case you'll probably not be experimenting but using what you're used to.

Edited May 28, 2012 by grumpyhack

[lifelessfool]

but does it re-wire your brain, or does it just open it up to stuff that might normally get 'suppressed' or simply ignored?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Not wanting to sound like an old fart but I'm not too sure about experimenting with drugs at festivals - certainly unless you have good friends around you. You don't know what you're buying and may well get ripped off. If you do want anything take it with you, in which case you'll probably not be experimenting but using what you're used to.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I agree - you don't know what manner of nasties you could be buying at a festival. Given that you are unlikely ever to see the person selling ever again, it's not in their interests to give you the real deal. I'd rather take my chances bringing the stuff in for myself.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I think acid is a pretty safe bet to get in. I mentioned it earlier but as far as I am aware they dont train dogs to detect it. This is purely anecdotal from a former drugs officer but he claimed that because of the minute quantities needed to trip, and the fact it can be absorbed through the skin, they can't expose a dog to acid to train it. If that is true given the size of it that could explain low hauls at festivals. That or the fact there is not a market for it.