Ironically, during this same time I was always asked why I would never join in on the marijuana festivities. My reply: My life is already like taking acid and being on a bad permatrip 24/7.

Interestingly enough, this quote:

“As a matter of fact, all of us have practiced the Paranoid Critical Method when gazing at stucco on a wall, or clouds in the sky, and seeing different shapes and visages therein.”

Caused me to recall the ONLY THING I liked about that one time I tripped when I was like 14: It was the symetrical faces everywhere, in and on everything. To this day it is the singlemost astonishing thing I have ever seen. I wasn’t hallucinating them, they were there! Well, whatever.

I read about the paranoiac critical method as a summer school art student years ago, seem like all Dali really meant was allowing the mind to project associations, eg visual puns and then manifesting them while suspending rational judgement

trying to get into a dreaming mindspace while awake

Robert Williams (the painter) explains how he did this in a lot of his paintings too,

here’s an (admittedly stupid) example i made up myself but never executed

Like tetrahydracannibal THC is the active ingredient of marijuana

tetra means four
a hydra is a many headed mythological beast
famous cannibols [sic] are dahmer, ed gein, idi amin, whomever

so make a collage of a 4 headed hydra with the heads of those gents and a big pot leaf in back

Paranoia involves looking for connections, the symbolic conspiracy behind everything, doesn’t necessarily have to be rational