Bodies of Light

DOSE:

	 smoked
	 Cannabis
	  
	
	
	  
	   
	 smoked
	 Alcohol - Beer/Wine
	  
	
	
	  
	   
	 oral
	 Mescaline
	 (extract)
	


 
       BODY WEIGHT:
   160 lb
     

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first mescaline experience (+ alcohol and pot), 1970, 160-lb. 20-y/o female. Naturally derived drug (per trusted supplier), dosage unknown.

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This experience took place at a friend's very pleasant, mellow but funky off-campus house when I was in college in 1970. We were mostly on cushions on the floor. I hadn't prepared for the experience, as I didn't known anyone would be bringing the drug and had never tried it or anything else trippier than opiated hash before. I'd had a fair bit of wine and some pot that evening, but was sobering up, and had become rather depressed and a bit nauseated. My friend, who was good at settling me down, got me back in a positive frame of mind and we began to laugh and clown. He asked me if I wanted to try something "safer and better than acid". We talked about it and I said I would. He put on some music, possibly CSNY; more about that later.

Onset

This was 48 years ago, so I don't recall exactly how long onset took. I remember it as longer than I expected--certainly longer than LSD-- but once the drug came on, time wasn't something I noticed.  



Physical

I do remember experiencing some mild, rather rhythmic stomach cramps, but they weren't deeply unpleasant, just a rolling sort of "pulling" sensation. I had to stop only once to do a breathing exercise to manage a difficult one. I also felt something that felt like flows of pleasantly chilly, lightly electrified water on my body from time to time, always moving vertically as if poured down me from neck/shoulder level.

Peak

I found the visual effects utterly lovely, though I didn't get any of the wild "fractal screensaver" effects you see in the "What's a mescaline trip like?" videos on YouTube. I may have been on a smaller dose. 



Even without the drug, the room had a pleasant light, normal and warm; with the mescaline, the light became a glowing, soft but vividly colorful, sharp-edged separate entity from the room the light became a glowing, soft but vividly colorful, sharp-edged separate entity from the room