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Emergency-Nail-9921 OP t1_j6axrsz wrote

Reply to comment by Really_McNamington in TIFU by taking /way/ too much acid and having a naked breakdown on campus by Emergency-Nail-9921

When I got back from the hospital, I knew I opened a word doc on my computer to write the secrets, and was excited to see what I wrote.

"John's world" is all I wrote (except with my real name instead of John)

I'm still 50/50 on if the experience was real, or some trick of the brain where it applies meaning to things that are meaningless.

I re-watched Star Trek TNG and there was an episode that really stood out to me in light of my experience. They run into a race who's language they can't understand or translate, and eventually they realize that they speak solely in metaphor. They explain it like this: If I say "Juliet on her balcony" to communicate the idea of romance, those words mean nothing to somebody that doesn't know about Romeo and Juliet. They're apparently non-sense, they carry no real meaning.

To me, discovering the secrets of the universe felt like I was solely thinking in metaphor: 1-0, push pull. But it felt like there was something /more/ behind those thoughts at the time. Once I sobered up, all I left was the seemingly meaningless metaphors, whatever the deeper meaning behind them was lost to me.

Of course, that meaning might be lost because it might have never existed. I'm 50/50 on if that's the case. Before the trip I was a hyper-logical person. I was an atheist that didn't believe in greater powers or anything large and mysterious in the universe. But having the experience, I've started to consider the possibility that we understand 0.00000000001% of the universe, and that there are many things beyond our imagination or comprehension.

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Billy_Boognish t1_j6d3j5d wrote

>Before the trip I was a hyper-logical person. I was an atheist that didn't believe in greater powers or anything large and mysterious in the universe.

That's the best part of psychedelics, realizing that we don't know anything! I used to trip solo all the time, just for the hell of it, on a Tuesday or whatever. Seeing things stripped of pretense or in a completely different light was such a draw for me. There are major turning points in my life, good and bad, that revolve around specific trips. Hanging out with my brothers, you might here something dated, "is that before or after the double dipped orange gell tabs night?" Another favorite, "that's the summer we got Yowsered (reallys clean blotter that had Pitfall Harry stamped on the hits) at Allman Brothers Band" still puts a smile on my face, and that happened 25 years ago! Thanks for sharing your adventure. In case no one tells you, The secret knowledge is already in you, and you certainly know the answer to life's problems, even if you can't recall it most of the time. Be good to your fellow humans and to yourself.

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