Drawing While on LSD.

1. dwee
   September 18th, 2006 at 3:22 am

   Hmm... there's no indication that the test was double-blind. In fact, it's quite clear that both the artist and the experimenter knew that the substance was LSD and not a placebo-- perhaps some of the results could have been caused by the placebo effect. Still interesting, though.

2. Chapu
   September 18th, 2006 at 10:14 am

   2:45 and 4:45, he actually makes something good and interesting. I think this artist should continue his LSD trials.

3. The Liberal Avenger
   September 18th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

   I have serious doubts as to whether or not this experiment actually took place at all as described.

   It's not that LSD isn't capable of manifesting itself visually as it appears here, it's the perfect narrative that the pictures depict.

   Subject is normal, subject is given LSD, things start to get crazy, things REALLY start to get crazy! things start to get normal again. Things are all normal again. 8 hours start to finish.

   While LSD most certainly CAN work just that way, it more likely than not doesn't. My guess is that the actual story behind the pictures is more complicated - perhaps the same subject being drawn by different people on different amounts of LSD... Perhaps drawn by the same person during different sessions of taking LSD.

4. sam
   September 18th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

   your probably just overthinking it. The government does experiments with drugs all the time. going from normal, tripping, and back to normal should always happen to people that take lsd.

5. The Liberal Avenger
   September 18th, 2006 at 8:17 pm

   Point well taken.

   The idea that someone who is "an artist" is given LSD and a sketch pad and encouraged to draw is different from simply a "participant" being given LSD and asked to draw.

   What would the output of the non-artist tell us about the LSD experience?

6. ted
   September 19th, 2006 at 4:47 pm

   The test tells us less about the artist's impression of the world while on LSD, and more about his ability to control his activity and motor skills while tripping.

   It does have an air of the urban legend around it, but you never know.

   They could just as easily test a race-car driver's ability to do laps. This just provides a visual effect.

7. Alex
   September 20th, 2006 at 12:53 am

   What I wonder is why he was given 2 doses ...

8. soldatoj57
   September 20th, 2006 at 11:34 am

   totally ridiculous...the best part is the running commentary

   anyone who knows knows better lol

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