He describes taking a maximum dose of LSD one night with a doctor friend who wanted to experiment with him because he was mystically inclined; Aldous Huxley was to have observed but was sick, two others taped their reactions, the friend went into convulsions and childhood while Neville got only distortion of the senses, and driving home and shaving next day everything was scattered.
Date (happened)
c. 1900
stated · doubtful · preferred
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `possible`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1966-02-22` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1240). Nothing deleted, no year invented.
before 22 February 1966
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1240 (1966-02-22)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1240, delivered 1966-02-22 (that claim's confidence: certain, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
Sources
Source
- The Eternal Plan ¶74 (My friend, a doctor, because I am mystically inclined since I was a child, he said he would like to experiment and take it with me. Aldous Huxley was going to observe the test…our reactions on tapes, but Aldous was sick that night so he couldn’t come.)