A Holiday Molly Trip
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Saw some old friends last night, they are part of a rather oddball
collection of folks we've met in Berkeley over the years. Artistic,
slighty off-center, but really good people. I told my wife "this never
ends well" when we hangout, and oh what prophetic words those were.
I wanted us to meet for dinner, somewhere outdoors, because there'd be a definitey an end time to the night, but we ended up deciding to go to
their house--and funky, one-of-a-kind architectural wonder that literally
built out of a living tree.
Started out well, Cheeseboard pizza, lots of wine... then Friend 1 says
-- want to do something a little more exciting? Sure, we say, what's up?
She breaks out a little white pill that she explains she got from her
dealer, a good friend she has known since childhood. Molly. Or exstacy. Or MDMA. It has many names. A synthetic drug I mostly associated
with club-goers, ravers and dance kids. I trusted her that it wasn't laced
with anything bad (and it wasn't).
She divided the pill and we each took a 1/4 dose. It kicked in about 1/2
hour later, and I can only describe it as an audio-visual, time-bending
trip that I've never experienced--and probably never will again. Objects breathed in and out, light chased across the room. I've done LSD and
concaine before, and it was NOTHING like that. And I talked. Like,
couldn't stop.
I felt safe, in love with the world, these people, this living house--and
one particularly amazing hanging house plant with 3ft dangling
branches that I named "Shoggoth" that I was sure it was trying to
communicate with me. Tell me something secret about the universe.
We talked *for 10 hours* about life, music, politics, childhood trauma,
and it felt like, when I looked at my phone and saw it was approaching
5am, that it had all transpired over about 2 hours max. Crazy.
Such a trip. I'm not typically a hard drug user, but I do believe we have overlooked the medicinal qualities of many drugs like MDMA due to our
prudish anti-drug culture and the greed of Big Pharma. When used safely,
in moderation, its a beautiful thing.
Needless to say, I am now wrecked. Lack of sleep, hangover from the wine,
and residual MDMA effects. Just wrecked.
But it's Christmas Eve, I've got presents to wrap, a brisket to cook so
I'm going to put on a happy face and chalk this up to one of those life experiences I'll remember for a very long time!
Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it!
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