This remarkable, sometimes incoherent transcript

Illustrates a phantasmagoria

Of fear, terror, grief, exaltationAnd finally, breakdown

Its highlights have been compressed on this recording

To make their own disquieting points

The time is 9:30 p.m.

One hour after the participants

Have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD

We hear Brian and his fellow travelers

Observing their gradual transformation

Brian has 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

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 a.m.

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 12 hours after it so innocently have begun

He was shattered by it

This young man never had a bummer

In some 33 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