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Sixty-nine years ago today, Albert Hoffman, the Swiss scientist who discovered LSD, accidentally took his first trip.
“Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.”
Albert Hofmann and the Greatest Discoveries of LSD
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Sixty-nine years ago today, Albert Hoffman, the Swiss scientist who discovered LSD, accidentally took his first trip.
“Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.”Albert Hofmann and the Greatest Discoveries of LSD
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Frida Kahlo, Lo que el agua me dio, 1938
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim” Frida
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