aiiiiiight so i tired the trip one the way it's supposed to be done.  i layed on my floor with headphones on with a dim light on.  i had my eyes closed for like at least 5 minutes, and nothing really was happening, just a little waves kinda.
 then i remembered in the little description it said that open-eye visuals could occur, so i opened my eyes and just stared up at the celing.  there was a light right above me and one like 4 feet from that one, so i figured i'd just focus on one and see what happens.  (the lights were totally off)
so after maybe a minute or so of just staring up at the center of the light bulb it starts to "run away" from my eyes.  evrywhere i looked it tried to go the other way.  up,down,left,right it was going in circles and eveything.   i closed my eyes cause they were getting like teary, and again nothing happened with my eyes closed.
i then opened my eyes again, and i heard a slight change on pitch and rhythm of the sounds.  i focused on the noise while staring up at the light.  this time, in addition to the light moving around,  rays of light were going from right in front of my face to the light.  it was kind of like rainbow circles shooting out from my eyes.  then i heard a change in sound again and a sort of fuzzyness went over my eyes and colors were just in random places.
after about 5 minutes of doing this i got kind of bored so i tired to look at something else and see what happened.  i looked further away at my dart board and other things but nothing happened.  i looked at my hands and nothing really happened.
now i was interrupted with 3 phone calls and 2 IM's while this was happening so i might not have gotten the full effects, but it was pretty fun anyway.  i've never done drugs so i don't know what a trip is supposed to be like, but im guessing it's a lot stronger and better than what happened to me.  it was still pretty fun though, so i'd reccomend trying it out.