The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 22 of 125
Ego loss in the bath
Ego loss crept upon me without my even noticing. Several times, half-submerged amid mounds of foam sparkling like a Christmas tree, I realized I had completely forgotten who I was. Once I had to get a glass of water from the kitchen and wandered, dripping wet, through the living room. Glancing at the long pine table with the computer on it, the few books, the window box full of summer flowers, I wondered briefly who lived there . . . only to climb back in the bath and promptly forget about it. What a paradoxical space acid accessed! Hardly ever had I felt I was myself so intensely, yet at the same time I hadn’t a clue who I was! Never had I imagined personality to be something so superficial, something you could peel off so easily, peel off without impeding the normal functioning of the mind . . . peel off, in fact, without even noticing it had gone!