How LSD affects one’s creativity has long since fascinated humans, be it in literature, music or art.

Inspired by the US government’s ‘Nine Drawings’ experiment in the 1950s, a Reddit user decided to get her friend to draw self-portraits while tripping, in the hope of yielding a sort of visual-map of her headspace during it.

The unnamed friend apparently took 200µg of LSD and drew 11 self-portraits over nine hours, spending “between 15 minutes and 45 minutes on each drawing”. Whatafinethrowaway’s notes (reproduced below) accompany each image.

H + 15m

Before any noticeable effect.

H + 45m

"Are you feeling anything?"

"Nope."

"Those are some bright colors!"

"Yeah. That's probably gonna get worse."

H + 1h45

H + 2h15

That was a good idea, buying coloured pencils.

H + 3h30

"I didn't draw the eyes. Do you want me to draw the eyes? I don't feel like drawing the eyes."

H + 4h45

"Here you go. I'm violet."

Later: "Usually, I draw the eyes at the very end, because I don't want the picture to look at me while I'm drawing it. Here, I didn't want the picture to look at me at all."

H + 6h

"I lost the black pencil. I only had the coloured ones."

H + 6h45

My personal favourite.

H + 8h

After 45 minutes in the dark, listening to some Pink Floyd, she started to draw again.

H + 8h45

She didn't seem quite satisfied with the last one, so she directly started this one.

"During the previous one, I tried to draw what was inside my head, but in the middle of it, things were happening outside my head instead."

H + 9h30

While the effects were disappearing.

"Do you want to draw a last one? Like, a normal one? "

"I'll try."

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