Voyage 34 - Phase One Porcupine Tree

Spoken:

The time is 9.30 PM, one hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD. We hear Brian and his fellow travellers observing their gradual transformation

Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs

Brian's mood is gradually changing. He orders all of his friends into another room and closes the door
He sits alone on the wooden floor, visible only by the dim light shining from the bathroom. He talks to himself

The time is now 1 AM. Brian is unable to snap his fingers and terminate the trip, which continues

He sobs, as his joy turns to fear

Brian's rocky journey ended twelve hours after it so innocently had begun. He was shattered by it

This young man never had a bummer in some thirty-three LSD trips. Every one of them was a delight. Everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers and down he came, any time. But on Voyage 34 he finally met himself coming down an up-staircase, and the encounter was crushing