Show Psychedelic distorted reality induced by LSD Susan Lloyd Contributing Writer WAS flying high and didn't want to come down Karen said I She was relating the experience of her first acid trip Tanya explained that while she was tripping out she sat down downin in the middle of a busy street and wouldn't move When her friends called for her to get out of the street because a car was coming she only laughed and told them that she was glued to the road and she couldn't move If her friends had not moved her Tanya would have been hit by a car Pam said she was at a party getting a buzz off alcohol when she tried some acid She attempted to jump out of the three-story three home where the party was She believed that she could fly Like Tanya she had a friend rescue her from a close death Acid is the street name for LSD lysergic d acid According to the Research Foundation Foundation Foundation tion it is a hallucinogen which temporarily distorts distor s reality It Itis Itis is in the same classification as phencyclidine known on the street as PCP and angel dust Not much is known on how LSD works in the brain and body It is is best known for the strangeness of its effects An average acid trip starts 30 to 90 minutes aft after r ingestion and lasts six to nine hours according to ARD Initial effects are lar larg largely ely Jy phy physical ical They include increased blood pressure dilated pupils upU heartbeat muscular weakness weakness weakness weak weak- ness nausea trembling chills chills' a and d hyperventilation Motor skill and coordination on can can be impaired It also causes perception scramble in which visual and auditory senses sense's are mixed into hal hal- The The Association says trips peak perceptions and thoughts can take on the plastic fluidity of dream states Other effects include distractibility rapid mood swings depersonalization and distortions distortions distortions distor distor- of the body image Acid can be taken in many forms from liquid to sugar cubes that crumble when stirred in coffee The most popular form today are miniature powder po pellets called microdots gelatin chips called windowpane and a square of LSD soaked paper called blotter Karen and Tanya say starting a full-blown full LSD panic js the most numbing nind-numbing moment they'll ever spend with themselves m mA A J. J z 11 i ti 1 11 i f-i r 1 4 I r r Yr 0 1 I |