Yet two lovers who had been doing their best to stay apart even announced their intention to get married!
Peter's only really bad trip (which did actually end up in a hospital) he also described in
Psychedelic Baby Reaches Puberty.
This was occasioned by "Hub's Cough Suppressant," which was said to be Romilar. Much of this trip is captured in Peter's "Underneath Reality," which concludes shortly after Peter's asking the attending physician to tell his friend that he would be all right -- just to reassure him. Peter then declared to Mike that the two of them were "going straight down this hall, where we'll turn left, then right."
An hour later, back at a friend's house in San Francisco, the episode seemed hardly real.
It was okay in Oregon, illegal in California.
He took a bus downtown to catch the effects.
The first thing Peter noticed upon getting off the bus was a building that seemed to wink at him. Then it occurred to him that as he made his way across the street he was shrinking with each step. By the other side, he was down in a gutter -- trying his best to get up into a driveway. He had the feeling he was somewhere on Mars, with giant, bronze leaves hovering above him.
Since he was of two minds -- one of his being downtown after having taken peyote, and the other concentrating upon Mars -- Peter thought the way to calm this down might be by way of eating.
He went into a hamburger joint, where he felt restored to normal size momentarily -- though he then seemed to alternate between being there, and also stuck in 19th century Russia, admiring a fantastically carved samovar in front of him.
He previously had thought this a clock!
This LSD was on green Vitamin C tabs.
He brought several back with him to Portland.
