Bicycle Day - April 19, 1943 is the date Dr. Albert Hofmann was the first person to intentionally take LSD .
History
Three days earlier, Hoffmann accidentally, not yet aware of the action of diethylamide, absorbed a certain amount of substance with his fingertips, feeling a pronounced effect.
On April 19, he deliberately took 250 micrograms of LSD. After some time, symptoms that he already felt earlier began to appear - dizziness and anxiety.
Soon the effect became so strong that Albert could no longer make coherent sentences and, observed by his assistant notified of the experiment, went home on a bicycle . During the trip, he felt the effects of LSD, thereby making this day the date of the world's first psychedelic experience with LSD.
The action of LSD was manifested in the fact that the subjective sensations of Hoffmann - a very slow ride - did not correspond to the objective ones - a very high speed of movement.
A familiar boulevard on the way to the house turned for Hofmann into a picture of Salvador Dali . It seemed to him that the buildings were covered with small ripples.
On April 22, he wrote about his experiment and experience, and later placed this note in his book “LSD - My Difficult Child” ( LSD: My Problem Child ).
After Hofmann got home, he asked the assistant to call a doctor and ask the neighbor for milk, which he chose as the general antidote for poisoning.
The arriving doctor could not find any abnormalities in the patient, except for dilated pupils.
However, for several hours Hofmann was delirious : it seemed to him that he had become obsessed with demons, that his neighbor was a witch, that the furniture in his house threatened him.
After that, the sense of anxiety receded, he was replaced by multi-colored images in the form of circles and spirals, which did not disappear even with closed eyes.
Hofmann also said that he perceived the sound of a passing car in the form of an optical image.
As a result, Albert fell asleep, and in the morning he felt somewhat tired, and all day, according to him, sensory sensitivity was enhanced.
In the cinema
- 1987 - LSD - Inner Mayhem / LSD - The Beyond Within
See also
- World Bicycle Day
Literature
- A. Hofmann. “LSD is my difficult child . ”