Today is the day LSD spoke to Dr Hoffman and he listened. Roughly 66 years ago by @Cracked reckoning. After stumbling over tons of hits mentioning this very well known fact, we’ve decided to participate in this trending media.

Because everyone else is doing it. We were beginning to feel left out.

Thanks to Phil Baumann, we now know why Twitter is so addictive. His list comparing Twitter to LSD was an eye opening, mind-expanding bicycle ride…of funny.*

Out of the list of 25, these few caught our attention.

1Time Distortion. LSD alters users’ perceptions of time. What seems like a minute can actually be hours. You can spend a whole day on Twitter thinking you only spent 20 minutes tweeting, only to find out the whole day’s gone.

2 Mind-altering. Depending on who you follow and the links you click on, Twitter can be like a proverbial Rabbit Hole. Many users express alterations in how they interact with others online. They often claim to be exposed to new sources of information that they would otherwise never have encountered without Twitter. Just as mundane experiences can appear fantastic-plastic while on LSD, so too can the experience of otherwise trivial bits of information appear mind-expanding. The “kaleidoscopic play” of tweets and links can produce a peculiar heightened sense of altered consciousness. It is called Continuous Partial Attention.

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24 False Promises of Paradise. Hunter S. Thompson on Timothy Leary’s flawed thinking on LSD: “All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit“. The pied-pipers of LSD sold the misguided notion that it could buy a ticket into a heavenly paradise. Whatever good LSD may have offered the world was mangled by the delusions that so often are induced by overhype. Twitter faces a similar challenge. The current wave of marketing gurus who promise marketing-salvation will prove equally disappointing to many. Twitter has a place in marketing. Unfortunately there will be many who don’t know where it is.

For the complete list, why don’t you take a trip?

*Which is due to the fact that it’s true. The addictive nature of Twitter, I mean.

(via @cracked, @dom)