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Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - Loss of time
Identifier
010247
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Hasheesh Eater – Fitz Hugh Ludlow
When I awoke it was morning – actually morning, and not a hasheesh hallucination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bedchamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesques or rainbows. It was like returning home from an eternity spent in loneliness among the palaces of strangers.
Well may I say an eternity, for during the whole day I could not rid myself of the feeling that I was separated from the preceding one by an immeasurable lapse of time. In fact I never got wholly rid of it.