Pink Floyd

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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(10/10)
I put this Floyd CD into my player. By the time Track 3 started, wonderful flashes and flushes of repeating hot and cold flashed through my mind. Once my girlfriend's 10 foot head got out of my view, and after she saw that I was doing fine, I saw my apartment like it was a completely different world. First thing I looked at was the acoustic ceiling and it appeared of wonderful dots of pastel green and pastel maroon on a white background. The dots were in constant motion but mainly moving medium speed to slower speed while occasionally temporarily stopping while becoming fuzzy then moving again (the effect of flowing syrup down a slope, then changing the slope another direction). Occasionally the colored dots would chase each other, playing cat and mouse and on that note I went into around a 5 minute visually mental trip of cats and mice chasing each other. After I came back from the 'mental chase' trip I looked at the ceiling again, this time all the dots aligned themselves into splendid designs looking exactly like the curly designs found on Indian and Arabian carpets. The patterns were in constant motion but still symmetrical to the point of perfectly making an entire pattern instead of a pile of random dots occasionally aligning up. What was real fun was standing up and getting closer to the ceiling and watching the dots not scatter but remain in the same changing but symmetric shape. All the songs on the album brought to reality that this vintage Pink Floyd, especially when concentrating on Syd's voice and guitar, doesn't just knock your eyes out of whack or anything similar, but truly does alter one's perception to the point of making real audibly, mentally, emotionally and visually things that truly do not exist except in one's mind.

Syd Barrett is God.

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