Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 167 of 171
Bicycle Day and the origin of the trip
Soon after he ingested the drug, his entire world began to transform—the colors, the forms—and he felt his ego begin to dissolve. Hofmann grew afraid he had taken too much, and asked his assistant to help him home by bicycle. While trying to bike home, Hofmann pedaled and pedaled but he had the feeling that he could not move from the spot. Time seemed to stand still. This is how the bicycle trip came to be used as a way to refer to the LSD experience as a “trip.” Temporal integration of brain processes into a unified conscious experience is one of the most mysterious aspects of consciousness, and LSD directly perturbs this process.