9 drawings from an artist on acid.

[Garabaldi]

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug)

An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal.

The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.

85 minutes after first dose and 20 minutes after a second dose has been administered (50ug + 50ug)

The patient seems euphoric.

'I can see you clearly, so clearly. This... you... it's all ... I'm having a little trouble controlling this pencil. It seems to want to keep going.'

2 hours 30 minutes after first dose.

Patient appears very focus on the business of drawing.

'Outlines seem normal, but very vivid - everything is changing colour. My hand must follow the bold sweep of the lines. I feel as if my consciousness is situated in the part of my body that's now active - my hand, my elbow... my tongue'.

2 hours 32 minutes after first dose.

Patient seems gripped by his pad of paper.

'I'm trying another drawing. The outlines of the model are normal, but now those of my drawing are not. The outline of my hand is going weird too. It's not a very good drawing is it? I give up - I'll try again...'

2 hours 35 minutes after first dose.

Patient follows quickly with another drawing.

'I'll do a drawing in one flourish... without stopping... one line, no break!'

Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor.

2 hours 45 minutes after first dose.

Patient tries to climb into activity box, and is generally agitated - responds slowly to the suggestion he might like to draw some more. He has become largely none verbal.

'I am... everything is... changed... they're calling... your face... interwoven... who is...' Patient mumbles inaudibly to a tune (sounds like 'Thanks for the memory). He changes medium to Tempera.

4 hours 25 minutes after first dose.

Patient retreated to the bunk, spending approximately 2 hours lying, waving his hands in the air. His return to the activity box is sudden and deliberate, changing media to pen and water colour.

'This will be the best drawing, Like the first one, only better. If I'm not careful I'll lose control of my movements, but I won't, because I know. I know' - (this saying is then repeated many times).

Patient makes the last half-a-dozen strokes of the drawing while running back and forth across the room.

5 hours 45 minutes after first dose.

Patient continues to move about the room, intersecting the space in complex variations. It's an hour and a half before he settles down to draw again - he appears over the effects of the drug.

'I can feel my knees again, I think it's starting to wear off. This is a pretty good drawing - this pencil is mighty hard to hold' - (he is holding a crayon).

8 hours after first dose.

Patient sits on bunk bed. He reports the intoxication has worn off except for the occational distorting of our faces. We ask for a final drawing which he performs with little enthusiasm.

'I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now.'

Dude.. trippy!

[[R-COM]Outlawz]

So LSD junkies are artists?

[trogdor1289]

Kinda cool to see how LSD can impact someones perceptions of things.

Oi where did my field marshal go?

[[R-MOD]Wasteland]

Originally Posted by Outlawz

So LSD junkies are artists?

A junky is an opiate addict. LSD is not an opiate. And yes, many LSD users are artists and/or musicians. For more on this, see the 1960's and 1970's.

[Garabaldi]

Not all LSD users are artists, but all artists use LSD.

[sekiryu]

That is a peice of art!

[trogdor1289]

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Also I hope you are joking about the LSD thing gara but I think it would be kinda funny to give news anchors LSD and see what happens.

[[R-MOD]Wasteland]

I have a hard time believing he was that altered from a 100 microgram dose, split across two dosings. The first time Someone Who Isn't Me used LSD, he had approximately 250 ug, and his motor functions weren't as affected as this guy's seem to have been. Amazing the control he was able to regain for that one picture serikyu pointed out.

[youm0nt]

Originally Posted by sekiryu

That is a peice of art!

If that's art, then this must be too, haha.

Jackson Pollock FTW!!1!

[[R-MOD]Eddiereyes909]

Jimmy Hendrix FTW, man that guy had inspirations on all his "zone outs"

if it wasnt for that drug, much of the music we love today would never have happened,


But for the few good things this drug has given us, it gives us thousands of bad ones