LSD Study: Volunteer Describes Seeing Colors and Feeling One With Everything

They're looking for normal people, and, uh, I volunteered.

A little while back, you took, uh, quite a series of psychological tests, and, uh, uh, I can assure you that you're a very stable and, uh, well-balanced person as a result of the tests.

And, uh, how do you feel about, uh, uh, coming here and drinking this strange, uh, uh, material?

I'm a little, a little nervous, perhaps.

This is a glass of water, colorless, tasteless.

It contains 100 gamma of LSD-25, one-tenth of a milligram, the equivalent of one-six-hundredth of a grain.

An ounce of this material will make 150,000 such doses.

Let us observe the effect some three hours later.

Well, I just couldn't, I couldn't possibly tell you.

It's, it's here. Can't you feel it? This whole room, this, this...

Everything is in color, and, and I can feel the air.

I can, I can see it. I can see all the molecules.

I, I'm, I'm part of it. I, I'm... Can't you see it?

I'm trying.

Oh, it's just like, like you're released or you're free or...

I don't know how I can tell you. How do you feel inside?

Inside?

I don't have any inside. Is it all one?

It, it would be all one if, if, if you weren't here, and if, if, if, if nobody else...

Yes, everything is one. I-- You have nothing to do with it.

I am one with what I am. I can see everything in color.

Everything. You have to see the air. You can't believe it.

And, and the dimensions and all the, the prisms and the rays and, and everything coming down through you and, and moving.

I mean, it's... Can't you feel it? Everything is so beautiful and lovely and, and alive.

You, you shouldn't say anything about anything not being...

This is reality. This is...

If you look right over there...

Are you looking? Can you... Yes. What should I see?

I wish I could talk in Technicolor or, or let you see. Can you...

Did you say you can see it? No, I can't quite see it.

Tell me about it.

It's... I can't tell you about it. If you can't see it, then you'll just never know it.

I feel sorry for you.