The experience of not having a body is a little different. Be assured that you have your body the whole time no matter what seems to be happening, even if it seems like you and your body are dissolving and disappearing. This is the one potentially dangerous part of an LSD experience. There was a brief mention in the last chapter about the terror of how one can think that they are going to die, when it's only the ego and all the social propaganda which has been drilled into them that is dying. The problem is confusing one's ego with their full identity so that if the ego is dying, then they think that they are dying. If one understands what is happening, then it's not a problem, but a pleasure. There will be more on this later, especially how to deal with this problem and get out of it should it come up.

Another interpretation of having no body is to not feel the body. You know that your body is still there somehow, but it's like you're floating in a sensuous sea of joy, ecstasy and bliss. You aren't just on top of the world. It's so super that it's like you're on top of the universe.

It should be noted that not every physical change described here is going to happen on your trip and that also goes for everything else about the LSD experience that will be described later. Not everything that is possible to happen will happen. For example, you may not have the experience of feeling like or being a piece of wood. You can take LSD 1OO times and not have that experience. Someone else may have it on the first trip.

The new physical feelings of your body will last for the entire trip. It was mentioned that the visual changes will also be there the whole time. The visual changes in what you see and how you see it are so magnificent, extraordinary and unforgettable that LSD is often referred to as a visionary experience. A separate chapter later will be devoted to how you see color and what you see when your eyes are closed. For now, we'll just deal with what's going on when your eyes are open, without emphasizing color.

Those who have never taken LSD have the impression that people have visual hallucinations and that this is bad. Whether or not one hallucinates depends upon how the word is defined. If hallucinations mean seeing things differently than usual, such as a still object showing some movement, then, yes, one hallucinates under LSD and it's sure not bad. It's very good, even great.

There is another definition or interpretation about what a hallucination is. If one is "normally" aware of only a tiny fraction of one percent of their brain or reality, is it a hallucination to become aware of more or is the hallucination to think that the tiny fraction of one percent of a pie is the entire pie? Our usual, typical, limited concept of reality has as much in common with the full, entire reality as a map has with the area it's supposed to represent.

We spend our whole lives thinking that the map is the territory or eating the menu instead of the meal or climbing up the pole with the street sign instead of walking on the street to get somewhere. So, don't worry about "hallucinations" during your LSD trip. That's all part of the negative propaganda. Whatever you see, it's all right. Whether or not it's called a hallucination is an irrelevant word game and words often confuse when they are supposed to clarify.