Posted by Molybdenum on April 30, 2008, at 18:10:19
In reply to Re: albert hofmann died 102 years (LSD), } pj, posted by sdb on April 30, 2008, at 15:02:25
It's so sad, like a period of warmth has passed...
First Timothy Leary, then Kurt Vonnegut & now Dr Albert Hofmann :(
I was a HUGE fan of LSD. My all-time favourite drug.
I remember one night about 3am when I was driving (stoned out of my brain on acid) and there was a railway crossing up ahead. The thing about LSD is that your mind is perfectly clear - even though you can have delusional thoughts. So I wasn't a bad driver is what I'm saying. I knew for instance that it would be a bad idea to drive over the crossing if in fact there was a train there. But my sensory inputs were distorted & amplified. So I crawled in 1st gear (VW of course) up to the crossing with the windows down. I couldn't hear a train but all the lights were flashing. So I looked around and to my surprise the ground was flashing too! Plus the footpath was like an ocean - all waves :) Looking further I saw that the houses nearby were flashing too, and then my hands, etc, etc....beautiful stuff. So I decided to drive across. Lucky - no train..! :)
If anyone's interested, Timothy Leary's autobiography "Flashbacks" has a photo of him & Dr Hofmann laughing as Hofmann describes "the most extraordinary bicycle ride home" - ie the first acid trip for any human. Dr Hofmann had accidentally ingested "something in his lab". A few days later he tried to work out what it was. He called it LSD25. Then he decided to give himself the tiniest bit on the end of a knife. In those days, this amount of even the most toxic poison on Earth would not kill a human. Then Albert had an extraordinary several days. Turns out LSD was extremely potent - it bumped to first place over many other chemicals known at the time by a log shot. Albert Hofmann had accidentally taken many "hundreds" of times the required dose..!
*sigh*.....
:)
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