Part of the wild excitement of the night may be due to our conditioning. The daytime is associated with doing things that we don't want to do, like going to school or work. The nighttime is associated with fun things, things that we do want to do. With LSD, whether it's day or night, inside or outdoors, it's all Eden, heaven and paradise. We still have not gotten to everything that makes it all of that.

Lying down on the grass outside is different than lying down on a bed inside. The grass and the bed are both alive, but when you are outside, you can be lying down on Mother Earth and feel that you belong and are at home in the universe, instead of a lonely ego, enclosed by skin and separated from everything else in the universe. This realization of unity, the realization of your full identity is liberating and it's what the LSD experience is all about.

With LSD, your perception of other people can be as radically different as the way you see objects and plants. If objects and plants are expressive, responsive and can bring on emotional changes in you, just imagine how people can effect you on your trip. The proportions of other people's bodies can change beyond belief. You might see someone whose body is now proportioned like that of a midget. A person's most obvious physical features can become emphasized as you look at the person. For example, if the other person is heavy, they may look very much heavier or if they are thin, they can look rail thin. If you were looking at Ross Perot, his ears could become larger than the rest of his body. A person can be seen as having one ear a lot bigger than the other. A person might have a tiny birthmark that you never noticed before and now it will stand out, similar to the example earlier about seeing a tiny crumb on the table and now it's seen as an outstanding feature of the room. A person can be seen as any size or height, with the head being most of the body or with the head very small in relation to the rest of the person's body.

If you look at someone, you can get a puppet image of the person, as if they look like a puppet of themselves. You might see the person as a caricature of themselves, as a cartoon figure of themselves or even animal, plant or inanimate object figures of themselves. You might also see combinations of these things. For example, the person may now be seen as half human being and half cow, with one part of their body looking like a person and the other part looks like a cow, a human cow if you will. It could be that the person has a cow's body with the human face or the human body with a cow's face. Any kind of combinations like this is possible. You might also see a person as any historical figure from the past or as any stereotype and they may swiftly change from being Julius Caesar to Napoleon to Mickey Mantle to Bozo the Clown to Jesus Christ to Lassie to Joan of Arc to Abe Lincoln, etc. You can see the person as anyone, male or female, or see them as plants, animals or objects and they can change from one to another to another, but you still know that it's the same person the whole time.

There are other kinds of visual perception changes involving looking at other people. You can look at someone and to your amazement, they are getting younger, right before your eyes. You can see them as a child and all the way back to when they were a baby and maybe even to when they were a single cell. Then, the person may start getting older again, all the way to old age or to even looking as if they are 1000 years old. The person can have their adult body, but the face of a child. It will look like a little kid with a giant body or even a baby with a giant body.