There’s something awe-inspiring about discovering new physical sensations, four decades into inhabiting a body you think you know inside out. There’s a flash of vertigo as your brain contemplates fight or flight reactions, quickly assessing the new experience on a danger scale. Once the threat is discounted, the mind opens wide, nerves feeding back every aspect of the physical epiphany. Who knew what accelerant chemical in MDMA amplified this sensory overload. I could only surrender to it.