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Dancing bears grateful dead tabs reddit4/20/2024 ![]() Tom is alone again, and the drug's effects continue to intensify. Embarrassed, he bids his son good night – he's off to meet Tom's mum Jasmine* at a fund-raising dinner across town – and closes the door. So odd is his behaviour that his father imagines he's walked in on his son masturbating. Sitting at his desk, Tom is so shocked when his dad opens his bedroom door that he can barely speak and doesn't make eye contact. He doesn't hear his dad Karl* unexpectedly arrive home and climb the stairs. The trip starts well, reaching an idyllic plateau, but the come-up keeps climbing – and with it, his anxiety. Research from Imperial College London, showing how, with eyes-closed, much more of the brain contributes to the visual experience under LSD (above) than under placebo (top). Satisfied, Tom eats four tiny pieces of LSD-soaked blotting paper known as "tabs". He watches as the sample reacts to the chemicals, turning dark purple, indicating its purity. He cuts a tiny sliver from one of the tabs and drops it into a glass tube containing a small amount of liquid. Tom takes precautions: he uses a drug-testing kit he bought from a "hippie store" near his house to make sure the drug is LSD rather than a more risky synthetic alternative. This is the fifth time he's taken the hallucinogen, the first four with no unpleasant side effects, so he's trying a double dose to see whether the sensations become more intense. ![]() Within moments, the 17-year-old's heart rate goes up, butterflies flutter in his stomach and waves of colour dance across his field of vision, regardless of whether he closes or opens his eyes. It's 8pm on a Friday night this year, he's home alone in the sanctuary of his bedroom and he tells himself that this is his reward for finishing his exams (except for business studies, which he doesn't care about). ![]() Tom* closes his eyes, settles back on his bed, breathes in the aromatherapy oil he's burning and listens to psychedelic trance while waiting for the onset of the trip from the LSD he's just swallowed. ![]()
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