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You might look at the floor and the shape of the floor has changed as if it's now mountains. To walk across the floor will mean climbing up and sliding down each mountain and this might be too big of a deal to bother with. By the time you have decided not to do it, the floor may have flattened out again so that you can walk across more easily. It's like waiting until the getting is good. Instead of mountains, the floor may seem like an ocean with waves and in this case, you'll have to swim your way across the room. You might not always want to wait until it's easy, when the getting is good. You might feel adventurous and want to do the mountain climbing or swimming or whatever it is, the way that the person who feels like their body weighs ten tons may want to get up when it's harder to do it. It's all up to the person. They do what they want to do.

The floor may look like a miniature city with "buildings", "people" and everything else. For the "people" in that "city", if you were standing up or even sitting down, you would be like a giant that would make King Kong look like an ant. In this case, you can walk across the floor without having to climb mountains or swim, though wearing shoes might be a good idea because the sharp points of the "buildings" could cut your feet. It's easy to do the walk in this case, but you won't want to do it because the "city" is so beautiful. Why step on the "buildings" or kill the "people?" If you did, you would be like a mindless, maniac monster to just barge across the room, through the "city", destroying everything in sight. If a small part of the floor is the "city", then all you have to do is walk on another part of the floor and the "city" can remain intact.

With LSD, your vision is very fine tuned. You can look at a painting and notice the thickness of the paint or look at some-thing written in ink and see the thickness of the ink. You may not be able to read, though, because the letters of the words might jump around, change shapes, merge into each other, etc. Even if the letters and words are not "behaving" so wildly, so that it's possible to read, you are way beyond all of this. You won't want to interrupt the flow of what's happening with the trip just to read something because there is nothing worth reading that means anything now, not even books like this. When you are having a great time tripping, you will look at the books you read in preparing for the experience and you'll laugh because whatever these books are about is what's happening right now. All of the books about it, including this one, are hopeless attempts to use words to explain something that's way beyond words and way beyond anything that a person has ever known or imagined.

The inanimate objects are alive and if you hold something in your hand, you can feel the aliveness of the object. It can even be unclear where the skin of your hand ends and the object begins, as if they are merged with each other. This is part of the feeling mentioned earlier about touching something with your finger and it being as if you know more about your finger and what it's touching than you knew before about either one.

If you are sitting on a chair, it can feel as if you and the chair are breathing together as one body. It can also feel as if you are breathing as one with the entire universe because your real Self, your real, full identity is the entire universe. If you are lying down on a bed, the bed can come alive and it can feel as if you are sinking down into the bed, down to the center of the earth.

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