Hi, I am still quite new to the stuff. If I smoke it pure (a whole joint to myself), I just TRIP OUT. It's magical and has changed how I think about life. I know people with tolerance find these naive newbie stories really annoying, so sorry in advance. I'm legitimately locked in this "trip" for a good 7 hours - it's a full blown psychedelic experience for me. If I look at paintings or photos, they move in spirals and look fully 3D. If I try and walk somewhere, I constantly feel like I'm walking towards and away from that place simultaneously. I experience phases of complete ego-loss and utter dissociation. Is it normal to be mentally hyperactive and really, really verbal on weed? When I'm high, all these abstract ideas come to me and I feel like they are so undoubtedly right and clever, yet a small portion of me knows I'm stoned and will laugh at them in the future, so I normally end up recording myself on my phone. This combination of utter sobriety/lucidity and yet complete LSD-level tripping/questioning life/literally forgetting I'm a person and not a God watching the people I'm with is so crazy for me. e.g. I was in a corner shop completely baked with my friend, and she mentioned a girl we know, I'll call her Alice. I saw a packed of crisps that Alice was once eating (no idea how I remembered). I said to my friend, "this shows that time is just an idea that we use to organise things and it isn't real, and these crisps prove this because they exist at the same time as Alice". I believed this to be completely true, and some breakthrough idea. Surely feeling this trippy way is too extreme to be normal? The main thing I find confusing is my experience with weed is nothing like that described by the media/people in general. For me, there's nothing "chill" and "stoner-like" about it - it's great fun, it lets me be curious about everything again, and I love it, but there's always an undertone of absolute panic but only when I'm outside at night. Therefore, it's rational panic e.g. me thinking "I can't get my legs to move, what if I can't cross this road". But it's there, and if I let any panic develop to any extent, I almost enter a bad trip. But if I'm in my room, I'm creative and happy. My main question is: how normal is my experience/depersonalisation? Does anyone relate to it? I'm honestly playing it down if anything, no exaggeration here - it's mindblowing and psychedelic to the extreme. I enter a fastasy world. My recurring thought when high is that I can be anywhere I want: in class, at home, where I actually am. This makes me doubt my own memories, and feel like they lack emotion and that they're not mine (depersonalisation). I feel like my entire body is numb, but if I try and focus on one thing, it feels so alive in a scary way. I tried to take out my contact lenses for about an hour and couldn't, because when I focused on my eye, it felt like it had a heartbeat and I didn't like it one bit. I also ate loads and when I wasn't focusing on being "down" and "sober" I literally couldn't taste a thing. My friends can't believe that I trip out when we smoke the same amount.Is this normal at all - to feel like you're a God-like presence watching yourself from above in a TOTALLY vivid way, not to just feel a semblance of that idea, but to totally believe it while also being vaguely aware of who you are/more aware if you focus hard on coming down (and all the other crazy stuff I described)? Thanks guys PS. The air also felt heavy and painful on my head/shoulders at times, last time I zoned out like this. Why would this happen?
yeah it's normal, sounds like this is one of your first smokes and on a potent well grown sativa. this doesnt happen with all types of weed so just know that now, indica will be quite the opposite. Enjoy these first highs because they will never last 7 hours and you won't be tripping like this after your body becomes accustomed to thc
Thanks - yh, I've only smoked it pure a few times. I smoked it mixed with tobacco in the past, sociably (a few drags on someone's spliff). That got me very mildly baked so I was beyond shocked when the psychedelic trip feeling hit me like a wall the first time I smoked a whole joint myself - very humbling, I didn't think anything could make me feel that surreal (I now realise my beliefs mean nothing, very cliché to say but it changed my life, just these few trippy experiences).
Why do I feel like I've read this before? I actually checked the date thinking it was an old thread revived. Ignore me if I'm just losing my mind.
I posted a similar thread describing my intense trip-like experience a couple of months ago because it freaked me out, but my main question then was "is this what being stoned is like". Now I know the classic "sleepy" state of being stoned is caused by indica and want to know how and why I trip out in such a crazy way when I smoke (what I assume is) sativa/ would like to know if anyone else truly "trips" like this! All my friends laugh when I describe the psychedelic things I see/experience including photos actually twisting like I'm on LSD. So this thread is similar, but I'm now comfortable with these trips - just want to know if they are normal because I;ve never heard of anyone experiencing weed like I do (I know it's nothing to boast about, probably me being a bit nervy and having no tolerance). Haha sorry for the confusion