“sam put her arm around my shoulder, and she said she knew what i was going through. she told me i shouldn’t worry about it. once you do it, you remember how things look on it. that’s all.
like how the road turned into waves. and how your face was plastic and your eyes were two different sizes. it’s all in your mind.
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from ‘there you go’ to ‘you’re going to be okay’ to ‘you probably should never do acid again’, sam went on to explain what she called “the trance”. the trance happens when you don’t focus on anything, and the big picture swallows and moves around you. she said it was usually metaphorical, but for people who should never do acid again, it was literal.”