When: Late December 1997
Where: Hudson, WI; on a bluff in the woods near my house.
What: We each took an 1/8 of dried shrooms
The Players: Rob (me) and Jarod

Note: Every so often I get to a point where I am the most fucked I have ever been on shrooms. It is always a little scary at times to get that fucked up, but it is usually worth it ten times over. This happened to be one of those times. Usually I plan out to be that fucked up, as I did this time.

Jarod and I had decided a couple nights before to do this. So when the day came, we got prepared. We got to my house at about sunset and started to pack things up for our adventure. It was cold out so we put lots of winter clothes, boots, and face masks on. We both packed backpacks with extra clothes, portable CD players, CD?s, food, and of course marijuana. We ate a good fulfilling dinner and then ingested the shrooms at approx. 6pm. At this point we decided it was time to take off. So we walked through the woods and smoked bud for about 20 minutes till we got to the spot we were looking for. It was an old burnt down cabin with only a fireplace still standing. We decided to start a fire right away before we got too fucked. I have to tell you about our surroundings before I go on. Our 20 min. walk brought us into some logging trails. The night was clear with lots of stars and no moon. The temp was in the 20?s F. This burnt down cabin is owned by someone who kind of made it into their own little camping spot. It is on a bluff with a 40 ft. cliff. The St. Croix river is below that. You can see Minnesota on the other side of the river with lots of city lights. Up river a little bit you can see the Hudson bridge and the city of Hudson, with lots of more lights. There is a bench right at the edge of the cliff. Well get to that later. Anyways, after we got the fire going (actually Jarod got it going and I watched and gave words of encouragement) and smoked some more bud, we decided to go on a walk with some music. I decided to listen to Pink Floyd Ummagumma and Jarod put in Pink Floyd Works. After we started our walk, with music pounding through our heads, and having a good time, (several species of small......, is a great song to hear at night in the woods) we came to a point where it was time to smoke more marijuana. So we sat down, smoked, and talked for awhile. We were starting to get pretty fucked at this point and decided to head back to camp. After we got back to our fire and our CD?s were over, Jarod started working on the fire some more and I decided to smoke some bud down on the bench next to the bluff, which is probably 60 yds from the fire. I sat there looking out at the lights, enjoying what I saw when suddenly I was looking at the bridge and I felt a surge of energy (like when you touch an electric fence) come in through my eyes. It scared the shit out of me, I thought I was getting abducted by aliens. I got out of there quick and told Jarod what had happened. We concluded that I had not been abducted and that it was just the shrooms. After awhile of talking we both went down to the bench by the bluff. We were just sitting there looking out over the river and enjoying our visuals. I brought along a telescope and Jarod was busy looking through it. When ever I tried to look through it I couldn?t get it to work right, I was too fucked up to deal with it. Jarod passed me some bud, but I couldn?t smoke it. When I would put it up to my lips, I couldn?t see it anymore so I couldn?t light it. We both just sat there.....fucked up for awhile. We both thought we saw a UFO coming through the woods, but it turned out to be an airplane. I had the urge to just lie down cause I was so messed up, so I laid sown on the bench for awhile just staring at all the messed up visuals I was seeing. Jarod said he wanted to lay down too, so we went back to the fire and put some more music in, I put in some techno music and I do not know what Jarod put in. I remember looking at Jarod while we were getting our music ready and we were both really confused. We then both laid sown next to the fire with our music going for awhile. This is where it got really intense for me. As soon as I laid down and looked up, everything got really blurry, like if you rub your eyes for a long time. I could see the stars, but they were just big fuzzy lights. I decided it was best to just close my eyes. As soon as I closed my eyes I was thrown into a computer like tunnel, like crazy graphic art tunnels. I felt as if I was not in my body, like something pulled my mind out of it. In this tunnel there were doors on both sides. I was at a set rate/speed going through this tunnel and every time I would pass a door, it would open and I would peer in and see an important moment in my life, like one was when my mom died. It would only let me look in each door for a brief moment. The techno music made it all the more fucked up. It is really hard to explain what I saw and what I felt, except that I am looking forward to getting back into this tunnel next time I try to get this messed up. I admit for awhile I didn?t think I was ever going to come down, but that?s all part of the game. One mistake I made before we took our shrooms is I told my girlfriend we would do something later that night. I told her I would call her between 9 and 10. I thought we would have taken the shrooms earlier in the day. Well now after coming out of that crazy tunnel in my head I noticed it was 9pm. For some reason I just had to talk to her, so I told Jarod I wanted to go back to my house, I know he did not want to but we went anyway. We were both still really fucked up and had just peaked. We got out of there in a hurry, but we got kinda confused on the way back. everything just looked so different it made it hard to find our way back. When we got back to my house we noticed my sister was home. We tried to sneak in without her noticing, but it did not work she saw us and started talking to us it seemed like forever. The whole room was just waving around. After talking to her we played some N64, made some calls, took a shower, and then left to Jarod?s apartment. By now the shrooms had totally worn off it was around 10:30pm.