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When I was watching the lecture videos, especially the part about cocaine and LSD, I was intrigued by Dr. Hoffman and his many experiments with LSD. In the video, Vesna describes his “trip” as seeing “unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind [his] closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged on [him] alternating, opening, and closing themselves in circles.” Although the images shown in the lecture videos were colorful and very artsy, I did not see how the use of these drugs contributes to art. Further researching this topic on my own, I was surprised to find countless artists have experimented with the effect of LSD on their work. For example, an artist drew self-portraits over the course of 9 hours while on 200 micrograms of LSD, which is 8 times the dose that Vesna considered “enough”. The picture on the left is her drawing after 15 minutes, and the one on the right is after 6 hours and 45 minutes. LSD changed this person’s perspectives by allowi
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