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user-inactivated  ·  3852 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tell me about some of your favorite concert experiences.

By far my most memorable concert experience was when I attended EDC the first year it was in Vegas, 2011 I believe. I had been raving for awhile at this point but had never dabbled in any drugs like my friends had at this point. I decided that I'd make EDC my first LSD experience so, I bought some tabs and headed for the venue. We got inside the speedway when it was still light out and I stuck 3 tabs on my tongue. I wasn't exactly sure how it was all going to go down, I always wanted to do DMT first, but I was in good and experienced company. The afternoon quickly ended and once it became dark out the LSD suddenly hit. The lack of light must have made everything register at that point. My group started walking to the main stage and I quickly turned my head making everything in my field of view twist, and slowly morph back into "normal". I turned to my friend and said quite frankly "I hope everyone on the Ferris wheel is okay." He obviously had no idea what I was talking about but gave me a pat on the back and some reassurance.

Now the main stage was slightly out of the way from everything else and the entrance funneled everyone in through the back and when you were through the entrance you were positioned slightly above the crowd. So we get through the entrance and the entire crowd for me was just waves. Waves and waves of people. We start walking more towards the crowd and I first experienced the "breathing" associated with LSD. The crowd was moving in and out, in and out, and I felt like a god finding our path to the front.

So that set ended (Knife Party is anyone is curious) and we decided to go elsewhere and I got separated from my group at that point. We had previously setup a meeting point if anyone got lost and I made my way there. Along the way there I walked past a well known DJ, who I can't for the life of me remember right now, but I stood there dumbfounded trying to say something but I couldn't. Anyways I get to our meeting point and took a seat in the grass. There were some Tron like bicyclists doing their routine that I was watching and at one point they started just cycling in a circle faster and faster until, to me, it looked like they were one of those cheap light up handheld fans which I thought was pretty cool. Then just before my friends got to me I heard by far the most memorable dialog I have ever heard at a concert. The set was finishing up at the stage I was nearby and they blew out a bunch of confetti. So a guy standing nearby just got absolutely euphoric, spinning in circles, yelling "It's raining acid! It's raining acid!" Another guy hears this and yells out "You want acid? He's got acid, he's got acid!" pointing to his friend next to him. I was beyond composure at this point just hysterically laughing until my friends found me.

Now I'm pretty sure this just ended up being a garbled mess of me trying to explain things but that was really how my night went so it fits well.





Cumol  ·  3852 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Three tabs of LSD for a first time at a place like EDC and a Knife Party set?

I would have had serious problems in that situations.

One tab of LSD during the burn of the Effigy at MidBurn (israeli Burning Man) made the scenery look like we are close to the apocalypse, but in a good way. Still, very intense.

user-inactivated  ·  3852 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah definitely threw myself head first into the ring but what I found was that it was super easy to distract myself so I never really got into my head all that much. Once I took LSD outside of an event I got to experience the more soul searching side of things.

Honestly though it was a really good first experience, a little dumb, but positive nonetheless.