{"quotes":[{"text":"Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were winging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["acid","laughter","light","tripping"],"id":1972,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"},{"text":"In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous parts of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world. Primitive man once experienced the rich and sparkling flood of the senses fully. Children experience it for a few months-until 'normal' training, conditioning, close the doors on this other world, usually for good. Somehow, the drugs opened these ancient doors. And through them modern man may at last go, and rediscover his divine birthright...","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["acid","drugs","lsd","psychedelics","spiritual","spiritual-growth","tripping"],"id":16877,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.","author":"Alan Moore","tags":["acid","drugs","lsd"],"id":25592,"author_id":"Alan+Moore"},{"text":"A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize into edges, but all Dissolutions of different things, caused by acid liquors, do assume this figure in their Crystallization; these Crystalls consist of points differing both in length and bigness from one another, and this diversity must be attributed to the keener or blunter edges of the different sorts of acids.","author":"Nicolas Lemery","tags":["acid","acid-base-chemistry","chemistry","discovery","diversity","proof","science"],"id":43356,"author_id":"Nicolas+Lemery"},{"text":"Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and 'but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!' isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960's every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it and it passed, just like I think that this generation's 'cell phones are necessary for socialization' fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterwards? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["21st-century","acid","cell-phone","digital","drugs","excuse","fad","generation","hippie","immaturity","lazy","peace","sheep","technology","text","tripping"],"id":49504,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["acid","humorous","parents-and-children"],"id":58952,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. He recovered but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["acid","acid-trips","drugs"],"id":61841,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acid","attack","bad-people","calumny","chemical","counterfeit","deception","decievers","demon","devil","fake","fake-friends","fault-finders","food-for-thought","gossip","haters","hatred","hurt","incessant","insanity","negative","negative-people","pessimism","plot","ploy","pretence","pretenders","slander","slanderers","smiles","strategy","swindle","sycophants","toxic-people","trick","troubesome-people","trouble","villain"],"id":112871,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.","author":"Tyler Hamilton","tags":["acid","depressed","depression","depression","empathy","emptiness","emptiness-in-heart","hopeless","hurt","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-illness","mind","misunderstood","pain","poison","psychology","psychotherapy","suicidality","suicide","toxic","worthlessness"],"id":123701,"author_id":"Tyler+Hamilton"},{"text":"Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["acid","loneliness","science-fiction"],"id":124766,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}