It’s Going To Be A Beautiful Day!

Is it pos­si­ble to have a pleas­ant flash­back to an acid trip that was never taken?

We watched Sunday’s episode of Mad Men last night, and in it, Roger Ster­ling and his young, for­mer sec­re­tary of a wife Jane, take LSD with some other Man­hat­tan­ites under the “super­vi­sion” of her psy­chi­a­trist. We get to watch Roger’s slightly humor­ous and hal­lu­cino­genic evening that ends with he and Jane lying on the floor of their apart­ment dis­cussing their mutual feel­ings that their short mar­riage is over.

Whether it is was the idea of this upcom­ing smooth and ami­ca­ble sep­a­ra­tion or a resid­ual acid high that causes Roger to pro­claim brightly to Don at the office the next morn­ing, “I have an announce­ment to make: It’s going to be a beau­ti­ful day!”, I’m not sure, but it had a strange effect on my day.

For no appar­ent rea­son, every­thing seemed brighter and shiner today. All things went smoother and eas­ier too. On the way to work I either made it through all the traf­fic sig­nals with only brief slow­downs or passed through unhin­dered. And even though this week I’m work­ing 9-hour days for that free Fri­day after­noon off, today at the Valve Store® just flew right by.

So, is it pos­si­ble for me to have a happy flash­back to an acid trip that I never took or was it just the high dose of sugar from the DD Cof­fee Cake Muf­fin I had for breakfast?