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Drowning in a Pool of Shadows - Acid Trip # 2

The second time I did acid was my freshman year in college. This night easily goes down as the weirdest, craziest and most bizarre night of my life.

The night had been planned for over three weeks. My teammate, Dan had the hook up for the acid. Me, Dan and six other guys from our team were confirmed to participate in the festivities.

By the time Dan came back to his house we were all ready to waist the next fourteen hours of our lives away. To my suprise though, Dan didn't come back with paper acid. It was in gel tab form. I wasn't;t aware at the time that you could take acid that way. Dan then began to tell us how his friend said this acid was special. Hearing it was special didn't really mean much to me since I had only done it once before. If Dan would have told me that I'd be playing with pink bunnies, or that I would turn into a glass of orange juice, needing to keep my balance or I'd spill, maybe if would have meant more to me.

So there we were, deciding weather or not to take one or two. Me, being the natural raging addict that I am, took two. Dan and three others also took two. Everyone else took one. Now, the first time I did it, I remember not feeling anything for an hour. With these gel tabs, I had a weird, hyperactive body buzz after only fifteen minutes. I couldn't sit still...I couldn't shut my mouth....and I couldn't keep myself from laughing. After another fifteen minutes, my vision started getting distorted. I began seeing trails and color changing. After another fifteen minutes, everything was fucked. Nothing made sense.........We were all out of our minds. The only words I remember hearing and saying are "this is crazy" and "I can't believe what's going on." A little more time went by, and now all of us were laying on the hoods of our cars, staring at the sky. This is another image I will always remember. The sky looked like a video game. Every star in the sky was shooting. It was impossible to focus on just one, because on this night, there was no such thing.

Even though this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen, besides elephants having sex at the zoo, we wanted to venture into something else. One of us had the brilliant idea to take a walk around the neighborhood. Only four of us went. Naturally, we got lost. I'm not sure how long it took us to get back to the house, but it was a while. Then, for some unknown reason, Dan wanted us to go to Walmart. So there we were....four morons, tripping our balls off......hopping into Dans jeep to go to Walmart of all places. Walmart was only about two miles from the house, but the ride felt like an eternity. Everytime a car went by us we freaked out. We didn't just see two headlights coming towards us. We saw and felt a run away freight train blazing by us at incredible speeds.

When we got to walmart, we had to hang out in the jeep for a minute to finish our cigarettes. So, there we were, puffing away.....puff, puff, puff.....then, out of nowhere my roommate Mike yelled "STOP!!!!!!!!!" Right away, Dan slammed on his breaks and we all braced ourselves. The funny thing is that we were parked the entire time. A car passed by where we were, and Mike was just so fucked up he forgot we were parked. Apparently all of us forgot, including Dan, or we wouldn't have braced ourselves and he wouldn;t have slammed on his brakes.

Once we mustered up the courage to enter, we made one rule.......stick together. I'll always remember what it looked like in there. It felt like I was in a cartoon. Everything was so bright and colorful. I was literally walking around in a cracked out Rainbow Bright episode.

It really is amazing how paranoid you are on acid. I swear everyone knows you're on tripping...........or do they?

So, here we are again walking through walmart, utterly amazed at how cool simple things look. I was so amazed at how a shampoo bottle looked that I stopped to check it out. Apparently, my friends didn;t notice me standing there because they kept on walking. We made one rule.....stick together. It's a great rule to have while on drugs, but when you're so fucked up that a shampoo bottle boggles your mind, how is one to remember anything?When I couldn't find the crew I began to panic. I'm assuming that when you're under extreme stress on acid it makes your trip that much more intense, because when I couldn't find them my trip became insane. Every person there became the ugliest human being on earth. Their faces were melting off.........their clothes were horrible.....and they all knew I was on acid.

I remember thinking, "just walk around like you're shopping and no one will notice you." I then realized where I was. The CD/movie section. "Pick up a CD and act like you're interested in it." I grabbed the first CD I saw and acted like I was reading it. "They're all buying it." "They think I'm normal." At that very moment I actually looked at which CD I was holding. THE 3 TENORS GOSPEL CD!!!!!! OH GOD, WHY?!?!?!?!?! No one will believe that an 18 year old listens to this.....I'm busted. The only thing I could think to do was get the hell out of that store as fast as I could and wait out front for the guys.

Luckily, when I got outside there was a bench for me to sit on. This is where things got even more bizarre. An old Asian man approached me first. He babbled something off that I didn't understand. I tried ignoring him but he kept repeating something to me in a foreign tongue. "Why won't this guy leave me alone?" So, I said the first thing that came to mind. "I lost my mom and dad inside. I'm waiting here for them." Why that came to mind I have no idea. He stood there for a moment with a blank searching for answers look on his face. He then said something that sounded like goodbye, and left.

The next group of people I encountered were a bunch of gothic freaks dressed for a funeral. As they were walking to their car, one of them turned and noticed me sitting there. She said something to her friends and then started walking my way. She sat down right next to me and asked for a smoke. I gave her the smoke, she said thanks and began walking back to her friends. Then, she turned around again and walked towards me. She got right in my face and said something that still sends chills up and down my spine. "I wish I was looking through your eyes right now." This, of course, freaked me out even more. "how the hell did she know?" "Did I do something to give myself away?" These questions will go unanswered forever.

After sitting outside for a little while longer, my friends finally made their way outside. We shared our stories about what had happened to all of us once we separated. They found my CD mishap hilarious......and were even more confused than I when I told them about that gothic girl.

We hadn't been back to the house for over an hour now. We had no idea what our fellow acid monkey friends were up to. The first thing I saw when I walked inside was our friends Norm, sitting on the couch wearing only his underwear and a beer helmet. Needless to say, I pissed my pants from laughter. We tried talking to him btu he was to wrapped up with ESPN to pay us any attention. Speaking of ESPN, I'll never forget what the TV looked like. Ricky Williams was being interviewed because earlier that day he broke OJ Simpsons college rushing record. Rickey's head looked like Medusa. His hair looked like snakes. His face wouldn't stop changing. Very odd indeed.

Everyone else on the team freaked out and walked home. I guess they couldn't handle the trip........Norm was handling it his own way by watching TV in his underwear, wearing a beer helmet.

After a few more hours, we decided to go back to my apartment. At this time our visuals weren't anything special. We had all come down quite a bit. Our eyes were winding down but our minds were still going 100mph. It would have been great if we could have recorded ourselves. I can't imagine watching myself in that state. That alone would have probably been enough to get me to stop..............yeah right, who am I kidding.

I don't remember what time we went to sleep, but I do remember the sun was out. I tried many times to duplicate that night. No other acid trip ever came close.

Tanner Rhoden

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