Consciousness itself becomes enlarged, widened, expanded and has a dreamlike, spacy character, but the mind is more clear and alert than ever. The senses can function in ways that sound impossible, but with LSD, nothing is impossible. During a trip, so many "impossible" things are happening that one will begin to think that nothing really is impossible. For example, it's possible to see sounds and odors, hear colors and odors, smell sounds and colors, taste sounds, odors and colors and touch sounds, odors and colors. What? That's right! It's even possible to experience all the senses merging together.

What follows is an example of how this is not only possible, but even helpful in solving problems. It's from page. 178 of The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience by R. E. L. Masters and Jean Houston. (Yes, that's the same Jean Houston who got publicity in 1996 as a close associate or friend of Hillary Clinton. The book was written in 1966.) Here it is:

"A subject who had 'almost no sense of smell' was invited to try to smell a lemon. Even when he held it up against his nostrils, he reported himself unable to smell anything. The guide then put a recording on the phonograph and placed the lemon on a table several feet away from the subject. He was told to 'smell the lemon in the music'. At once, the subject declared himself able to 'hear the smell'. Then he said he could smell the lemon in the music. Then he was able to smell the lemon directly."

Do you think that this guy would now have his nose screwed on right if he didn't take the LSD, didn't have a good guide, didn't hear the smell and didn't smell the lemon in the music? One may think that all of this nonsense about hearing the smell and smelling the lemon in the music is ridiculous, but the facts speak for themselves in that the man can now smell properly and he couldn't before. Still ridiculous? It's the ego, that dictator, which knows only a tiny fraction of one percent of what there is to know, that's telling you that it's ridiculous. What is really ridiculous is the ego, which is why it belongs in the trash can. Actually, the ego doesn't even exist at all, except in one's mind. Aldous Huxley wrote a great novel entitled Island, about a future society that's not based on egos, but a psychedelic chemical similar to LSD which allows people to get beyond the prison of the ego. It was probably the only attempt by anyone to write a book envisioning a psychedelic society and what it would be like. One day, the brilliance of Aldous Huxley will be appreciated. He never got the kind of obituary he deserved because he died the same day of the JFK assassination.

The example about smelling the lemon in the music was also an example of what music can do. Music can add quite a new dimension to the LSD experience. There was a brief mention before about how you can see inanimate objects seemingly moving or dancing, according to the music. The whole room and everything in it can seem to be "flowing" in relation to the music.

Like with everything else, when you listen to music, it will be like you are hearing it for the first time. No matter how many times you have heard a certain song and how familiar you are with it, with LSD it will be like you have never heard it before or never heard it like this before. Even the way you listen to music will be different. The music will take on added dimensions and you can feel that you now understand what music is all about, its essence. It might lead you to start reflecting on the history of music. It can feel as if the whole history of the world is in the music that you are listening to.