Recent Trips

Abstract mirrored buildings in Toronto
Abstract mirrored buildings in Toronto

The good thing about psychedelics is that you don’t have to do them over and over again? I tied most of them when I was nineteen and I feel like I am experienced. A tune up would be nice but not necessary. My last trip was an overload, a wildly strong LSD capsule, but back then you could never be certain what it was you were taking. I wound up in the college Health Center and woke up in a hospital gown after a shot of Thorazine. I had no idea where I was and I walked to the window to try to figure it out. The parking lot below was full of cars and they were all bending and moving in slow swirls.

Reflection from hotel windows on building in lower Manhattan
Reflection from hotel windows on building in lower Manhattan

I was reminded of that experience when I put these two photos together. Both were taken on recent trips, the first from our hotel room in Toronto and the second from our hotel room in lower Manhattan. The building across from us in the Toronto picture was all mirrors so all those wrinkled buildings you see in that photo are not really there, they were behind us.

The building in the Manhattan photo was as plain as could be, an industrial building of some sort with only four small windows. The pattern you see on that building is all reflections from the glass windows of our hotel. The pattern went away when the sun went behind a cloud.

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