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Time is definitely in the loop somewhere. A decent acid trip lasts no less than 10-12 hours (and there is no way to stop it, no "time out", no "I want out" etc, you just have to be patient) ... but on occasion you feel as though those last several days, literally.
by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Oct 1st, 2006 at 05:55:54 PM EST
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THC can often be more spatially distorting, though time too. I recall my student days walking back to my flat absolutely zonked, trying to get a grip on the geography and realising that I had walked past the same post box three times, And THEN realised that actually I had been admiring the post box and had been walking around it. And finally realised that my walking around the post box had completely lost me any sense of the internal compass I had been trying to keep in my head and that now I'd have to start all over again ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Oct 1st, 2006 at 06:02:02 PM EST
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If you have never experienced it, it is hard to explain the feeling. It is not at all bad (the spatial and orientational distortion) - it's a bit like when you misplace something and have to focus on where you might have put it, by retracing your steps in your mind when you last had it. You have to focus on the gestalt, while nevertheless not succumbing to the 'journey is the destination' crap - otherwise you never get home. ;-)

Other people seem unaware of it, just as, if you focus, you can have phone conversations with people and they are are unaware of any difference (my mother, for instance!). It really is a matter of trusting your good old autopilot system that also keeps you safe while driving on the motorway even if you can't remember the last 10 kms while thinking about something else. (I am talking about complete sobriety here - the normal daydreaming that we all do on a fairly empty road).

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 08:25:32 AM EST
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