Case Study: LSD (1969)
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Creator: A/V Geeks 16mm Films
Description: The narrator recounts their first experience with LSD at age 18. Initially skeptical, they begin to hallucinate after taking the drug. During a trip to Market Street, they see a talking hot dog that pleads for its life, claiming to have a family. Despite their friend's disbelief, the narrator engages in a conversation with the hot dog until they decide to bite it, causing it to scream. In a panic, they end up stomping on the hot dog, feeling guilty for "murdering" it, and run away in fear. Keywords LSD, acid, hallucination, hot dog, Market Street, first experience, conversation, panic, guilt
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[Music] I first dropped acid when I was 18 I was over at these people's house one night this guy I went to school with was over there and asked me if I wanted to try some acid I had read about it in the newspapers and heard a few friends talk about it so I was curious I was pretty jacked up on marijuana so I decided to try it and I dropped it I don't know what I was waiting for a flash or or a rush or whatever but I kept sitting there waiting and waiting and nothing was happening so I got up and then went to the dresser and put on a pair of pink Capri and a green and brown blouse I thought the colors were beautiful so we tripped down to Market Street and I decided to buy a hot [Music] dog I was very hungry and I had put mustard and ketchup and relish in the usual and I put the hot dog up to my mouth and somebody started screaming I didn't know what was happening so I looked up at my friend Terry and said did you hear that didn't you hear someone scream he said no I got the hot dog up to my mouth again and I was ready to bite and the scream got louder and it hit me no it couldn't be and I looked down at the hot dog and there was a face on him Eyes Nose a mouth I had put the ketchup to where it looked like his hair and he started telling me that I couldn't eat him that he had a wife and seven kids at home to support and I stood there with this hot dog and asked Terry do you know this hot dog is talking to me and he says Nah let's get out of here he thought I was just faking and I told him look at the thing he's got a face and he's screaming the guy finally looked over and he got on the same trip that I was on and we sat there carrying on a conversation with that hot dog finally I decided I was just hallucinating so I put it in my mouth and bit down it screamed so loud that you could hear it all over town so I had to throw it on the ground and step on it and I was was jumping on this hot dog in the middle of Market [Music] Street I realized that I had murdered it and I took off screaming down the street scared [Music] he [Music]
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Record added: 2026-05-28 18:01:09