Imagine just for a minute what it would be like to lose your mind, your self-control, yourself as an individual. It is incredibly frightening, yet exciting to have thoughts racing through your mind in a fashion that is only akin to mental illness. It takes only one try and you learn so much about yourself, in a world free of all rational controls.

Acid trips can go many ways and as such are incredibly dangerous. They alter reality in ways that can forever effect you as an individual. At the same time, they take the same colors we take for granted and bring so much to them. It's like taking the entire world and doubling the saturation of it all. All is so real and important beyond all imagination.

LSD is distinctively different then marijuana. While marijuana encourages self-exploration in a rational way, acid rejects it all and forces us to think it all over. It brings back previous memories and interjects them with current experiences. It liberates us from all control of our body. This is frightening yet the same time so calming.

Mental illness is such a scary prospect, yet it seems so liberating and so purposeful under the trip. When you trip you experience yourself outside of yourself, somehow beyond all of your imagination. The world is so colorful; photos are so much more true to the world around you. Things make so much more sense. Or so it seems.

It's too bad that since 1967 doctors have been unable to prescribe the experience of LSD that might otherwise help people face their problems and make change in the world. Instead of acid, we now have drugs that help people tune out and not in. Modern drugs have devastated families, while LSD brought them together.