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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Heretic: On the Benefits and Ban of LSD Research
I never enjoyed watching movies on acid. It always felt like what I was watching was so contrived and superficial. Movies are contrived and superficial, but that's the way I like them; I don't like to have that bubble burst. Watching Silence of the Lambs--one of my favorites--on acid made me hate it for a short while, because I couldn't take Lecter seriously. I remember going to the movies to see the re-release of Empire Strikes Back in the 90s. That was awesome, because we had to walk a mile in the snow to get there and then the movie opens on the ice planet Hoth, which made it really surreal. That was the exception, however.




thenewgreen  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
My response was completely tongue in cheek. However, I too have attempted to watch a movie while tripping and they always felt like cartoon soap operas to me. Also, I could never shake the feeling that I was waisting something precious on something trite. Your Empire story sounds amazing though. I remember tripping out by my grandparents house in the middle of nowhere Michigan, in the middle of the winter wondering how I had gone my whole life not realizing they had a lake next to there house. -turns out it was just really hard-packed and icy snow in a field. Exploring that "lake" was far more exciting than any movie ever could be.