Norman Ohler

I'm going to be crazy for the rest of my life.

I thought that.

But after like 10 hours, it suddenly got, the effects wore off and I became normal again.

And I thought that was quite fascinating.

So in hindsight, I thought it was a great experience, even though it was quite scary.

But it also had moments of...

incredible perceptions.

I could see that the atoms are not rigid.

Obviously, everything is moving in our universe.

There's nothing fixed.

So I could see that.

I could see that everything was basically alive and that my previous perceptions how the world is, it's just...

my conditioned perception and that the word was very different and just how you look at it, it looks different.

And- So it was freeing in a way?

Yeah, totally freeing.

Also, it was much stronger than all the LSD I've taken since and I've taken high dosages.

So I'm not even sure if that was LSD.

Like there's also other compounds that are quite rare, like DOM or whatever, maybe it was something else.

But then I also spoke to LSD experts by now, also for the book Tripped.

And it can happen that your first trip is much stronger than all the other trips because your brain is kind of reacts very strongly to it.