When I'm walking I strut my stuff and I'm so strung out
Do you guys follow Mary? Everyone ever in Norwich follows Mary on twitter. It's how we know what's happening. Earlier this evening she made this post and having read the article, I decided I should probably give that a try, so I hit bittorrent and found myself some pretty dope I-Dopes, stuck them on my mp3 player and lay on my bed in the dark wondering what all the fuss was about.
I did this for science, I did this for music and I did this because if teenagers are doing it then it must be cool. The track 'Acid' is exactly half an hour long and dammit I listened to the whole thing.
And actually, it kind of worked. There were times when I felt that stretching, straining pressure behind the eyes that I've only felt once before, a time when I was tripping my tits off on mushrooms. It's kind of like imagine you're in a very dark room and you're watching something made of invisible smoke dance and someone has put their finger at the top of your nose and they're pushing quite hard.
I'm sure there are people who can maintain that sensation for the whole length of the trip, rather than just the couple of minutes here and there that I managed, and these people are gonna have a whale of a time I-Dosing. Me, I enjoyed it enough that I'll do it again some time. I mean, when the track ended (and the sensation faded out very smoothly) there was a brief pause before my mp3 player selected The Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun to play, and a huge-
Hold on. Either my monitor just turned itself off for a second for no reason, or I just blacked out. I think it was the monitor; she's getting old and has been playing up a bit recently.
Yeah, a huge grin spread across my face. It was just like when I'm drunk and it feels like my mp3 player always picks the perfect song for the moment, when really deep down I know that any song would be the right song for the moment.
Anyway, Science: you would be proud of me. I experimented and have now recorded my findings. I'm going to go read some Scott Pilgrim in anticipation of the final book's release at the end of the week and then I'm going to perfom a control experiment. I'm going to lie down for around eight hours without any music playing to see if it's any different.
Music: Actually this doesn't concern you. It's just noise.
Teenagers: Turns out I've always been cooler than you. Stop pretending you're hardcore and go take some real drugs. These effects are just us wanting to be high and having something different and atmospheric to listen to until we've concentrated hard enough to achieve that feeling.
I did this for science, I did this for music and I did this because if teenagers are doing it then it must be cool. The track 'Acid' is exactly half an hour long and dammit I listened to the whole thing.
And actually, it kind of worked. There were times when I felt that stretching, straining pressure behind the eyes that I've only felt once before, a time when I was tripping my tits off on mushrooms. It's kind of like imagine you're in a very dark room and you're watching something made of invisible smoke dance and someone has put their finger at the top of your nose and they're pushing quite hard.
I'm sure there are people who can maintain that sensation for the whole length of the trip, rather than just the couple of minutes here and there that I managed, and these people are gonna have a whale of a time I-Dosing. Me, I enjoyed it enough that I'll do it again some time. I mean, when the track ended (and the sensation faded out very smoothly) there was a brief pause before my mp3 player selected The Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun to play, and a huge-
Hold on. Either my monitor just turned itself off for a second for no reason, or I just blacked out. I think it was the monitor; she's getting old and has been playing up a bit recently.
Yeah, a huge grin spread across my face. It was just like when I'm drunk and it feels like my mp3 player always picks the perfect song for the moment, when really deep down I know that any song would be the right song for the moment.
Anyway, Science: you would be proud of me. I experimented and have now recorded my findings. I'm going to go read some Scott Pilgrim in anticipation of the final book's release at the end of the week and then I'm going to perfom a control experiment. I'm going to lie down for around eight hours without any music playing to see if it's any different.
Music: Actually this doesn't concern you. It's just noise.
Teenagers: Turns out I've always been cooler than you. Stop pretending you're hardcore and go take some real drugs. These effects are just us wanting to be high and having something different and atmospheric to listen to until we've concentrated hard enough to achieve that feeling.