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[theweaselking]

Drawing while on acid:

"These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him."

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Remind me why I'm not on drugs, again?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Because you'd feel bad about it.

[frith]

I'm not buying it. Those were a series of styles reminiscent of artists such as Calder and Kandinsky. I fail to see a progression or cause-and-effect. The final image looks suspiciously like an "Aha! Gotcha!".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That may be the case. It is, after all, only a series of images on a website, and the only story I've got is the one from that site.

[frith]

Alas. Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

It's not entirely impossible that it was an image of one man done in thte style of a bunch of artists.

On the other hand, it does mention that the man was an artist. No indication of how talented, but it's also not impossible that he a) was just very good and could work through the acid or b) was so into art that he went through stages of seeing reality in the mode of his favorite artists. The srtistic styles are all very good stuff. Kandinski rules.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Causality is not implied, no. But it's interesting.

[mzdemonique.livejournal.com]

I say that 2 hrs and 45 min on acid seems to be best time of all!

[fearmeforiampink]

Later than that but still a long time ago my father spent a period of a fortnight on a constant low dosage of LSD. Which was apparently... interesting, to say the least.

It came about because they were looking at LSD and similarities between the effect it creates and the hallucinations that schizophrenics experience. The key thing they were interested in was the fact that schizophrenics get full cinema vision and Dolby 5.1 surround sound in their hallucination, whereas (as far as they could tell) those on acid trips only get the pretty pictures.

Given that my father had an excellent eidetic (aka photographic) memory for both what he heard and what he saw, they wanted to see if there was any auditory halluncination component element to LSD, and he had a better chance of remembering and noticing it than most.

Why they needed to put him on acid for a full 14 days rather than stronger doeses for shorter periods I'm not sure. Probably because they thought it would be funny. Given that he then had give lectures to large halls of medical students while occasionally brushing the little reptilian crawling things off his lecture notes, it was probably funny for someone. Or just scary.