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One student describes his experience using acid


The CT Editorial Board strongly believes that students should not take any hard drugs due to the known psychological and physical damages that are inevitable. We advise students to seriously take into account the horrible dangers of drugs and how it can affect themselves and the people around them.


“The effects of LSD are unpredictable,” according to drugfree.org. “The physical effects include… higher body temperature, increased heart rate and blood pressure… and tremors. If taken in a large enough dose, the drug produces delusions and visual hallucinations. The user’s sense of time and self changes. Some LSD users experience flashbacks, recurrence of certain aspects of a person’s experience even if the user doesn’t take the drug again. A flashback occurs suddenly, often without warning and may occur within a few days or more than a year after LSD use.”


The opportunity to take acid was offered to me by a friend of mine who had some extra hits that he was willing to spare. Both my parents were out of town for the weekend so I felt this was a now or never situation.


I paid $20 for two hits of acid.


It took approximately an hour and a half for me to feel the effects. Around this time the sun had fallen and the setting was perfect. Three of my other friends had dropped with me and we were sitting around my kitchen table watching the weak flame of a dim candle, while conversing calmly and quietly. Everything we said to each other seemed, in a way, expected. We were all thinking the same thing at all times; it was like there was some telepathic connection between us.


This continued later throughout the night as we noticed our hallucinations were matching up with one another. My curtains on my door had swayed back and forth in a way that I could only describe as “the door is breathing.”


Once more people had showed up I was asked by my friends if it was true that I had taken the drug. I immediately felt a distance between me and them like something was telling me that the situation was “falling apart.” I answered yes with a smile, although the answer was pretty self-explanatory if you were to look at my eyes and notice that my irises were only a sliver of what they look like when I’m sober.


A total of 15-20 people were at my house enjoying the weekend, but I still distanced myself physically from my friends, and mentally whether I liked it or not. But as the “party” died down and everyone started to leave and I had started saying goodbye I was overwhelmed with this feeling of being put on the spot when people would try to talk to me. It was then when I had realized I needed to save the trip and get everyone to leave immediately so I could have my own personal alone experience on the drug.


The following 30 minutes was walking my friend to a party and then going off on my own little “adventure.” I was running through backyards and jumping fences as if I was being chased by something. It was the most alive I had ever been. I felt my face muscles tiring from all the laughing and smiling that inexplicably would not go away, that was until I walked through a field toward the St. Elizabeth Seaton parking lot.


Bright UV street lights had shined through every crack between the leaves and branches that belonged to this beautiful tree. My mind manipulated the image to the point where it was like staring at a photo wrapped around a sphere. At this moment I realized the peak of my trip was reached. The trip had been all over the emotional spectrum for me, although, I was still in control of my emotions and managed to keep my head with “reality.” As I was falling asleep that night I was in no way bored, just an inexplicable feeling of the need to experience something that would make my heart race.

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