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| Fading Memories | Category: Ask The Old Hippy | Topic: Drugs | Books about Drugs |  Print  E-Mail
This page has been viewed 19332 times | Hey man,
I am a child of the 60's and have discovered I now remember less than I
used to. Before I did some really stupid amounts of various reality
altering friends, I had a perfect photographic memory. I still remember
everything thing I see and hear but am not always able to retrieve it on
demand. Sometimes I just go blank when trying to pull up everyday words, but once I get past my frustration they are there. How can I get my memory back to what it once was? Help, please.
By the way just to let you know how insane and skewered the amounts were my friends refer to me as Jimi Oblivion, after Hendrix, Morrison and the fact I tended to stay obliviated most of the time and even when I wasn't I would tend to zone on nothing. Thanks Man.
It happens to the best of us! Part of it, as you already surmise, is the
mind bending substances. But a large part is even more difficult to handle.
We're just getting older. Of course if you want to remember things, it
always helps to come down for a change. I'll bet if you laid off long
enough that photographic memory will return. It's a great gift, especially for an artist.
Now if I could only remember the 60s....
-The Old Hippy
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If you're like me, an old hippie, you've experienced many a trip back in the heydays of 60s and 70s, when you cheerfully dropped windowpane, synthetic mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, orange sunshine, blotter or even the famous Owsley Blue acid. And perhaps like me you felt like you've been there, done that, and there wasn't much point to revisiting the dark closets of your ego after having thoroughly rummaged through it so many times before. Yup, you might feel like those days of deep introspection and self-analysis helped awaken your true self, but there's no need begin psychedelic therapy again...or is there? Read more! |
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