/lit/ - Literature

I've got a couple.

First one involved this girl I had been acquaintances/friends with for a couple years talking on and off. Over time, I developed a theory in my mind that she was into bdsm (I know, this is strange), through little jokes she made that could be construed as relating to it. One night we were texting about random bullshit and I was just lying in my bed. I was about to say goodnight, but at the last second decided to straight up ask her about the bdsm thing, pretty much out of the blue. She, surprisingly said yes and we proceeded to chat for hours about our interests in that sort of thing. We ended up dating for a while following this, but it broke off. The moment of anticipation when I saw her typing her response and the relief when I received it were some of the strongest emotions I've felt sober.

Second one involved drugs (big surprise). Me and a group of 4 friends planned on taking lsd and then mdma on a cold January. None of us had really tried a drug stronger than weed before (I had done shrooms, but that's it), so this whole day was absolutely mindblowing. We went on a walk and took in the gorgeous, serene winter environment. We did the standard trippy stuff and listened to Dark Side of the Moon, Revolver by the Beatles, etc.on my friend's record player. Later on, we watched this movie Koyaanisqatsi that we had heard was beautiful tripping, and we were not disappointed. We had our minds continuously blown one moment to the next this whole day. We dropped the mdma when we felt the effects of the acid beginning to fade. This ended up causing us to do the standard mdma stuff (expressing love and affection for each other, etc). We all felt a strong sense that this day was going to go down as one of the most important days in all of our lives. I think most of us still believe that to this day. We were all already very close friends (since early elementary school, for 4/5 of us), but this experience brought us closer than we could have ever imagined. We're all living in different towns now, going to different universities, but we still have an extremely active groupchat with all 5 of us. I personally believe this day is a major reason for this.