I can foresee with great clarity that your next diary will be on John Lilly, hmm?

LSD is indeed quite strange, I don't know if I've mentioned this here before but I have beaten time back with LSD (when I was younger). For instance, I was at a friends' flat on campus, they were working on some essay so I was bored. I took LSD. Then a few hours later, I was having some pretty wacky time dilation experiences, so I asked them to check their watch before I left the flat. I then left the flat, stopped at the campus bar and chatted with people there, then went in the campus basement to play at getting scared (you know those long corridors with pipes that you get in some horror movies), then went back to my friend's flat ... and only a pair of minutes had passed on the watch. After consultation, I had indeed been at the bar and had had those conversations with people who attested to that effect.

So what happened? There is no way that I could do all that I did in two minutes, nor that I could have bent the laws of physics.

That's what LSD is all about, you just register in a different universe altogether. Not, like I said, that you beat the laws of physics, you're just perceiving everything, including time, differently (jumbled). And everyone around you seems to be feeding your experience. Something is obviously very wrong but no one can put their finger on it.

A classic LSD experience for all is to try to find your keys in your pocket. You can't. You flip the pocket inside out, you even ask people (who haven't taken LSD) to check it for you. No keys. But when you get home later that day/night and look for your keys, there they are in your pocket.

My craziest experience on LSD was with 2 friends on campus. We were discussing the Byzantine General's problem that we had just learned, then a friend of ours (sober) walked in, and he got a bit spooked because the 3 of us had, in the midst of our conversation, started playing at being Byzantine Generals, without noticing it, but in such a manner that neither of us three had a clue as to who was being the traitor. And there was no way for the external friend to know either.

Final note: you remember your LSD experiences clearly the next day, unlike alcohol-binge nights. It's just that what you remember isn't real ...

Anyhow, that's all in the past. I don't think I'll ever take LSD again, it's too intense.