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Has anyone here ever been? A friend of a friend went and it changed her life, to say the least.
What was your experience? |
Anonymous
Are you sure that's not code for "she tried hallucinogenics for the first time and discovered she really likes them"? |
Anonymous
| She'd done those drugs before. I meant more that she made major life changes - broke up with her fiance, moved across the country. |
Anonymous
miss naive, do you really think anyone over the age of 20 hasn't tried hallucinogens? |
Anonymous
Most people have not, actually. I haven't. |
Anonymous
| It is a fascinating phenom, though. I wonder, are most people on the playa on drugs? |
Anonymous
Not sure how you can handle being out in the desert for that long without drugs |
Anonymous
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Yes, twice many years ago. It was pretty amazing, both with and without hallucinogens.
Sure it changed the way I look at some things because it was a pretty unusual experience, and I guess that could lead someone to rethink her priorities and interests. But to keep things in perspective, in terms of "life changing," it was more akin to taking a week-long camping trip to watch the Northern Lights, than to doing something like giving birth or donating a kidney. |
Anonymous
Ugh, if I wanted to take that much time off work, I'd do so in a four star hotel. 
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Anonymous
I'm with you! (and as a sidenote, I've never done hallucinogens, or any drug, so maybe that's what makes me so boring) |
Anonymous
| I think I would find the whole experience kind of annoying. It isn't really what I would choose to do with my spare time as a thirty-something working mom. |
Anonymous
Same here. My coworker went (in her late 50s) and I nodded and pretended to know what she was talking about. I later googled it and was shocked she was telling me this. Funny thing is, she was reassigned to a new position when she returned. Apparently she was running her mouth about it to everyone at the office. |
Anonymous
39 yo here - and NEVER has done it before neither has any of my close friends. You are naive to think everyone has. |
Anonymous
| Something tells me this is not the Burning Man crowd. Did you see the thread about the wine drinking mom at the sleepover party? Yikes. |
Anonymous
| I've never been to Burning Man but Dead shows in Vegas were pretty life changing for me (-: |