Erowid.org is a website where people who have swallowed ungodly amounts of psychedelics come and write their ‘trip reports’. My curious 13-old brain loved reading them - they were insane. Titles like ‘Life-Destroying Peyote Trip!’, ‘From Trauma to Nirvana’, and of course, ‘Attacked by Space Frogs’, were only some of the highlights. The writers would walk you through, step by step, what they experienced from the moment they ingested a substance to the moment they returned to reality.

This is…