Sometimes drugs are used to further one's process of getting high. Jaymo shows us the proper mental state one needs to be in to have a fullfilling experience in J P Dooley's Getting High:
"Acid’s not a drug in the usual sense; not a narcotic or an upper or downer, or a sedative, but something more like a key that releases blocked energy, unlocking hard patterns of thought and perception, who we think we are, opening the channels, letting it flow. No particular physical event—constriction of arteries, slowing of alimentary process, suppression of pain—but an expansion of mind, feeling out beyond eyes and fingers, inward to an awareness of autonomic function, everything repressed by notions of sanity and propriety—for most people rapture and a sense of the beauty and intricacy of things, love, and the way in which this kaleidoscoping sphere of time-space is almost infinitely funny—everything unconscious, unthinkable, stupid, prurient and innocent coming to the fore, equal and equally meaningless in glittering reality.
But first the ego must go. A feeling of confusion, everything out of control; you cannot will yourself to breathe but it happens anyway. Bizarre thoughts, terror that you are going mad, losing it; I grope at the sand, clenching handfuls, aware of the millions of silicate particles between my fingers and the sickening vastness of matter and mind, coincident with memories of animals defecating, and the voice of John Lennon:
“Don’t hold on, relax and float downstream
This is not dying, this is not dying”
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