'A kind of dream world appeared': The 'bizarre' story of the world's first LSD trip Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory – and about how his "problem child" drug changed the world. "At the end of the synthesis, I got in a very strange psychic situation. A kind of...