Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/26/john-lennon-on-his-first-acid.html
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In 1965, John Lennon, George Harrison, Cynthia Lennon, and Pattie Boyd were having dinner at a dentist friend's house. The dentist put LSD in their coffee without telling them first.God damned fuckin' dentists!
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I wish my dentist would do stuff like give me trips: mine just does horrible stuff like drill holes in my teeth.
Which is like a bad trip brother.
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You’re a rabid anti-dentite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. “Hey, denty!” Next thing you know you’re saying they should have their own schools.
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Look, I don’t want them hanging around my kids. We’re a gastroenterology family and we always will be! I don’t need them moving in to my neighborhood and marginally changing it’s real estate values! Down with Dentrification!
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My dentist has totally ruined the potential for recreational nitrous use for me; I get paranoid and expect people to stick metal things in my mouth. (OTOH, my nitrous trips at the dentist tend to consist of falling asleep after some initial confusion and a few interruptions of “turn your head the other way”.)
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A friend of mine gets migraines, but isn’t interested in trying low-dose LSD to see if it helps. Her one experience with the stuff was getting dosed back in the 70s, which was an 18-hour bad trip (probably 500mcg, and she probably weighed 100 pounds back then.)
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Do dentists still use nitrous oxide? Mine talks about it as if it was something the Victorians did before quick acting, quick finish anaesthetics.
A destist I went to in 2012 to fix a broken tooth had it available. This was the first and only time I have used it. It was wonderful.
Everything horrible that was happening in my mouth — all the drilling, injections and so forth — seemed to be happening many feet away. It all seemed like a dream.
The piped-in music seemed to be an unending loop of some musical phrase from an 80s song I couldn’t quite remember. I had the pleasant sensation of falling through an infinite void, which I hadn’t experienced since I was a child.
And when it was over, the gas was turned off and I left with a great feeling of calm.
In short, you should ask for it.
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What if your dentist gets a little high from your exhalations while he’s working?
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Didn’t seem to bother him.
(Actually, it was a her)
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I’d been having balloons and bulbs of nitrous at raves for a few years when a friend turned up to a party with a 9lb tank and a scuba regulator. It was the only time I’ve ever given it a really good go, and it was much more psychedelic and dissassociative (like K) than I expected.
The most disconcerting part was the come down. Not bad, just a Groundhog Day-like experience of thinking “wow, I’m straight now, that was weird”, before thinking ten minutes later, "oh wait, NOW I’m straight… "
The best way to have nitrous is just a balloon when you’re on acid. It’s like hitting the teleport button.
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Wow, that article is good reading.
I’ve taken LSD many a time, but I have decided that I would prefer future partners of mine to have tried it at least once, to avoid the different outlook schism that Lennon and McCartney experienced.
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The Beatles did their best work on acid. Steve Jobs had his greatest insights on acid. Watson and Crick discovered the shape of DNA on acid. Why the hell can’t I buy it at CVS?
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Have you been smoking dope?
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God, I wish.
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Insert joke here with punchline "transcend dental medication."
Too lazy to type it all out, it’s been a long day for me.
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Can I point out that George is driving his car on the wrong side.
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