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| My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Theatergoer1978 09:26 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| Liked some of it, thought some of it didn't work...but the biggest problem: That's not what happens when you take acid. It's not like hypnotherapy or whatever, where you relive and process trauma. It's more like Fantasia, with the colors and heightened/surreal imagery. Even one of the writers in the LIncoln Center magazine that you can pick up in the lobby -- in a piece where several writers describe their experiences with LSD -- says she did it many times and never once "saw something that wasn't there." I guess the number with the Botticelli painting comes closest, but all those scenes with dead mothers and daughters and nasty parents...maybe under some other drug or type of therapy's influence would that happen. Not very likely LSD. I'm surprised not a single review I read mentioned this. |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 12:14 am EST 01/10/22 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 12:13 am EST 01/10/22 | |
| In reply to: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Theatergoer1978 09:26 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| It's more like Fantasia, with the colors and heightened/surreal imagery. Even one of the writers in the LIncoln Center magazine that you can pick up in the lobby -- in a piece where several writers describe their experiences with LSD -- says she did it many times and never once "saw something that wasn't there." My experience exactly from my peer pressured drug experimenting youth: heightened colors, forms and imagery. However, there was a good twenty years, from around the 1950s to the 1970s, of controlled experiments by psychiatrists in university settings and I believe US government institutional settings that studied LSD for all sorts of therapeutic and coercive possibilities. |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 11:49 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
| In reply to: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Theatergoer1978 09:26 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| When I did LSD, I processed trauma and cleared emotional blockage. I also had an experienced guide who helped me both emotionally and physically with the process; if not for him, I would have just freaked out and had a terrible trip. I didn’t hallucinate, but then, I’m not prone to hallucinations externally when on drugs (I have more inner visions, if anything). |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:27 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
| In reply to: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Theatergoer1978 09:26 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| But don't some people report seeing things that aren't there? I'm not asking to defend the show, and I've not yet done LSD myself. | |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Thom915 11:20 am EST 01/10/22 | |
| In reply to: re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Chazwaza 10:27 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| "Yes," I said coming out of the hallucenogenic closet. My feelings on the show are elsewhere and have been commented on by you but I saw things and had conversations with people who were not there. Sometimes I knew these were hallucinations, sometimes not. Sometimes, most times things were very pleasant and fun but a couple other times very scary and painful. It generally was better when I was not alone. | |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Theatergoer1978 12:21 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
| In reply to: re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Thom915 11:20 am EST 01/10/22 | |
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| The people/things you saw that weren't there were people from your past that figured in some trauma? Okay, if so, I stand corrected. But what's depicted in the show struck me as something you'd experience in another type of therapy...not on a psychedelic drug. | |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 02:51 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
| In reply to: re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Theatergoer1978 12:21 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| Psychedelics can definitely be used to address and bring up traumas, if that is the drug taker's intention and they are in an environment that is geared towards that goal. When I did LSD, I didn't literally see past trauma, but I was confronted by the underlying anxiety of those traumas which I was carrying with me, and the person who supported my trip took me through the process of letting go of that anxiety. A lot of drug taking depends on environment, preparation, and where the taker is at in their life's journey. |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:56 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
| In reply to: re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Singapore/Fling 02:51 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| Yeah, this is similar to my experience with mushrooms. | |
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| re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:33 am EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: My issue with Flying Over Sunset... - Chazwaza 03:56 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| Mushrooms I always had very intense body sensations. I also stayed in a very contained geographically every time I did mushrooms, whereas LSD I took two laps around Amsterdam seeing things that would have honestly been trippy if I had been sober… to the point that I asked my walk-mate if I had actually just seen a bunch of devils breakdancing on a flat bed truck, and he said, yes. |
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