Quote Originally Posted by Supernova View Post
You just won the game.
Does he get a ring?

I tripped one time, and only on a quarter hit of acid, but it was an amazing experience. I didn't get any hallucinations, more it just made me look at things differently and spurred me to a lot of deep thinking. I think the key is that it makes you look at things in a new way, from an unfamiliar vantage. A Yaqui shaman would say it helps to shift your awareness point. Well, they'd actually say your assemblage point, but that takes a lot of study to understand what they mean by that... awareness works for the purpose of this conversation.

The "systematic derangement of the senses" is what I think Baudelaire called it. How can you come out of an experience like that without at least gaining some kind of insight, though sometimes I suppose you're under the influence of negative emotions or just have a bad trip and nothing useful comes of it.