From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (andy)
Subject: Re: LSD - After effects
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:18:27 GMT

In article <BrsuCG.7Jq@cs.dal.ca> craig@ug.cs.dal.ca (Ryan Craig) writes:
|
|Question:  Has anyone out there ever actually had a flash-back?  Better
|still, what exactly is a flash-back supposed to be like?  I sometimes
|think that it sounds like another one of those stories cooked up to scare
|people, or maybe it's PCP that causes these.  I've done more than enough L.
|and have never had anything noticeable in the way of after effects.  Maybe
|a little bit of spurious visual effects - very minor and not at all
|disturbing.  If a flash back is supposed to be like the original trip 
|feeling, doesn't sound all that bad to me.  Anyway...
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||Ryan Craig: Comp Sci Co-op, Dalhousie University  |  Disclaimer: My opinions|
||craig@ug.cs.dal.ca               are mine, all mine, and you can't have them|
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I had one last week - Well, not actually a flashback but pretty
similar...Usually there is a negative connotation associated with flashbacks,
but I get these things that are neither bad nor good - I've had many
philosophical "indifferent" (I call 'em 'flat') trips, where you really aren't
that happy, but it's not a bad trip either...These are what I get 'flashbacks'
on...Like, last week, me and a friend were in a grocery store (friend is a
fellow tripper) an we were walking around talking about past trips, when
suddenly something he said just triggered me and I had the overwhelming desire
to sit down on the ground and protest everything (in silence), which I did (in
the store).  This actually happenned on a trip a few months ago, so, I guess
you could call that a flashback - that's what happens to me a lot.

BTW - as far as the eye thing goes, almost everybody I know gets that, along
with trails and the occasionally really bright flash of light off in your
mind's eye somewhere.  Other common after-effects (that I and some friends
have) are slight audio and visual distortions (the ground breathing).  Usually
occurs late at night, or when stressed, or both.  

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