Psychedelics are drugs that cause the user to experience
hallucinations through the distorting of the five basic senses.
Popular in the 1960s and the drug culture of bands like the
Grateful Dead, psychedelics are not physically addicting, but
can cause psychological dependence and permanent mental
alteration. In other words, when a user takes a trip, they do
not always come back and often they come back with a different
mental framework than before. In the user’s psyche, there exists
an almost spiritual belief that the psychedelic experience would
provide them with new perspectives and understandings, even
opening them to the light of the transcendent. What users
discover through experience was that the psychedelic awakening
passed quickly due to a lack of actual work. And when users
experience what is known as a bad trip, they often return to
reality scarred by the nightmare of the overwhelming sensations.