Phase I - Porcupine Tree

«This remarkable, sometimes incoherent transcript illustrates a phantasmagoria

of fear, terror, grief, exultation, and finally breakdown.

Its highlights have

been compressed on this recording to make their own disquieting points.»

«The time is 9.30 PM, one hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes

saturated with LSD.

We hear Brian and his fellow travellers observing their

gradual transformation.»

«Brian's 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 and 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 AM.

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 twelve hours after it so innocently had begun.

He was shattered by it.»

«This young man never had a bummer in some thirty-three 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.»