Norman Ohler

I can do it up in the Nietzsche house.

I can also do it sometimes in Berlin.

It's just sitting there trying to focus and writing.

But what you need, of course, is the inspirational part.

And LSD helped me just the first trip to realize that it's not all black and white.

The world's quite colorful and there's like the abyss and there's also the horror.

And like I was a happy-go-lucky kid, you know, I never thought the world is so deep as I understand it now.

So the LSD makes the world deeper.

So I think for me to understand the world better, to understand myself better, it improved my writing, but I would not write on LSD.

Because on LSD, you're like, you want to walk in the forest or you want to go up the mountain or...

That's what I like.

I would never sit in front of the ugly computer with a stupid screen and write.

Maybe I would lie in the mountains with a notebook and kind of write poetic lines.

That could be done on LSD because you have...

Like, when I was researching Stone Sapiens, I did one LSD trip from the Nietzsche House.

I went quite high up in the mountains on LSD.

And I came... And it was not... I just... It's just... I just thought about the book and kind of looked at the different chapters.

Does it work together?

Like, kind of like macro, without taking too many notes, just kind of letting it, you know, play out in front of... In my mind.

But then when I walked down, I passed a cave.