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What is wrong with being in the "here and now" of an alternate reality induced by LSD?
Are you not in the "here and now" of a movie you're watching? A book you're reading? A videogame you're playing etc...?
Absolutely not. A book, a movie, a video game are all escape from reality. An imaginary situations made up by someone else. Whatever fragile personality exists, it pretty much disappears when we follow their story.
Veering off topic. One should be careful with what to put into the mind. If you look at a bright light it leaves the spot in the field of vision that persists for some time and interferes with what you see around. And it is similar with any other input. Anything we see on TV leaves similar trace - an advert, TV news etc. If you do it regularly enough this "spot" is all you see, and the reality is blocked or distorted most of the time (all of the time for most). That's one of the reasons to meditate: to clear the mind from ever-present clutter of the media, gossip, chatter and other meaningless noise.