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atmosphear added an entry about Go to a rave:
Well… Last spring I had my 10th anniversary of going to raves.
I don’t know what the fuzz is about them. They’re mainly just like concerts of other types of music. People with similar taste gather around.
I don’t know of the drug scene of the States, but going to big open-air psychedelic trance festival in Portugal most likely was a rave party that could be considered as very drug-related, since you could buy space cakes or hash wherever you wanted to and acid and mushrooms were sold rather openly.
Still, with people smoking pot, taking LSD, shrooms or whatever their preferences were wherever I’d go there was a sense of peace. No one I met was aggressive or violent, I could leave my things laying out of my sight, trusting they’d be there when I’d come back (well, we were sleeping in a tent and it would have been very difficult to take all the stuff with us continuously).
This is something I couldn’t say of typical concerts, where people drink loads of alcohol. They’re simply far more violent and aggressive and the positive vibes usually don’t exist.
I am one of those who usually drink only water in the parties and my best friend is nowadays an absolutist (meaning now psychedelics, he never was into alcohol to start with). As manuel_u said, be sure you like the music. After that you don’t need anything but the will to dance all night long.
One of the reasons for raves being actually very safe places (at least according to my experience) is that they’re not the typical drinking or mating places. People go to those for the music and dancing, not for the (wo)men, so there’s less of testosterone in the air.
- No drugs are needed
- No one will come to force drugs down your throat
- You don’t have to take anything