On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:00:07AM +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: > Um, "a friend" informs me that despite popular misconceptions about > the effects of LSD, it's actually quite possible to perform complex > spatio-temporal operations while tripping. Driving a car for example.
That's bunk. Or for very low values of tripping. You're much too focused on keeping pieces of you in the same time and space to be able to borderline function in public (assuming you would want to share the highways with cars full of dead people), nevermind the visuals which are distracting at least. > Also the hyperfocus that sometimes results can sometimes actually be > helpful in performing certain actions requiring fine motor control and > hand-eye coordination (he says the "pinball wizard" effect can be real > and verified by an uninvolved objective observer.) Your dealer is shit. Try real acid. > Now the claim is ridiculous for other reasons (LSD would hardly be the > best performance enhancer for this situation) but it's not a priori > impossible. You can tell from reports that 99% of people are clueless about drugs, especially psychedelics.
