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The Strangest Night Of My Life
Taking risks - and LSD - with someone I had just met a few hours earlier
Life is a gamble, and some of us are more adventurous than others when it comes to taking chances. I had never considered myself to be very brave, opting to not only play it safe, but often worrying obsessively about the worst possible things that could happen on a day to day basis. Everything changed when I met Joe online. He had noticed my posts in a psychedelic-related community, and wanted my input on a paper he had written for a political science class.
We lived on opposite sides of the continent. In fact, we didn’t even know each other’s real names, ages, or preferred pronouns in the beginning. But that didn’t stop me from acknowledging a strange electricity I felt every time a new private message from Joe arrived. The polite discussions built over weeks as we slowly shared more details about our real lives with each other. One night, things escalated unexpectedly.
Joe was on mushrooms and having a difficult time, but none of his friends were available to help bring him back down to reality. I stayed up late with my phone, comforting him from 2800 miles away. When things got rough, I made him laugh by jokingly asking if he wanted me to smoke some DMT and join him in hyperspace. After a pause, Joe said he was going to visit me one day so we could actually trip…
