hoopyfrood
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Now I'm going to try to explain this as if I were explaining it to a person who's never done drugs in their life.
My perspective of it:
the effects vary with setting/environment
Coming up/first 10 minutes
It begins with a mood lift. Sometimes I'll notice a buzz start to take effect --not in the commonly said sense-- it's more like if my ears were ringing or buzzing after a loud noise (without the hearing reduction, of course), but this ringing/buzzing is not coming from my ears, instead it is from my head. Almost as if this "buzz" is making my head a bit lighter, making it float up in the air, and making me lose concentration/interest in what people are saying. It's quite pleasant.
~ my first time getting high, this phase would have occurred when I was walking back to my house from a nearby canyon/forest on a very sunny day. We were talking, I was in a good mood (I had completely forgot about any anxiety I had 5 mins before, where my chest felt a little tight). This time, I didn't notice the "buzz", but I'm almost certain it was there. Once I got to my house, I was beginning to peak, moving to the next phase
The Peak
Very much depends on who I'm with and what my setting is.
I will sometimes be laughing till my lungs hurt (this is rare, unfortunately)... not even knowing what I'm laughing about. Sometimes I'll be socially paranoid (this has gotten rarer as I've become more comfortable with weed); I'll hear my friends talking, think they said my name, then start to wonder if they're judging me or talking about me (when i first began smoking, I was too spaced to actually *hear* what my friends were saying, that's why I wondered if they were talking about me).
But there are some effects that I *always* have with the peak of weed:
- I can hear specific sounds that I normally phase out of my hearing a lot better. it really works for "enhancing" music. If I'm outside, I'll hear birds chirp, I'll hear someone talking in the distance, I'll hear a car a mile away instead of the freeway that I would be sitting right next to. With music I'll hear instruments that don't play seemingly key roles, I'll hear sound effects better, I can isolate tones and notes better (I won't, however, hear the actual tune/chorus/whatever of the song better). Hearing all these different parts of songs makes the songs sound *completely* different. It makes them sound like a different song in a different genre by a different artist. This is one of the reasons why I think music can be "better" when you're stoned-- there are more reasons, hopefully I don't forget to explain those.
- When I do listen to music (and I'm not doing anything else), I can fully and solely listen to the music without thinking about any other stuff. Not thinking about what I need to do now, the next 5 minutes, the next day, the next week, just music. This kind of correlates with the closed eyed visuals I get on weed.
- Closed eyed visuals-- I usually have to be REALLY high to get these (or listen to music while moderately high). If I close my eyes, I can just visualize my thoughts (which I might add, are always random, spontaneous, and sort lived thoughts while I'm high). If I think about a cube, I visualize a cube in a land of cubes... almost to the point of seeing it. If I really focus on the blackness of my eyelids, I'll start to see patterns... sometimes a consistency of blinking shapes, just random (not very vibrant or lucid) weak visuals. When I listen to music and I'm really focusing on the music itself (as explained in the last bullet), I'll start to get some random closed eyed visual correlating with the music. I remember when I was listening to a solo by tool once, I was sort of seeing a waveform/frequency spectrum rotating around guitar strings in space. These "visuals" don't compare to the visuals you can get on acid, though.
- Random thoughts-- I remember one time I was leaving my friends house late at night and I was super baked... For a split second, I thought of a monkey clashing symbols together in a marching band, and I could almost *hear* the marching band for the split second, then right after that, I transitioned into some other completely random thought.
- inner dialogue/thoughts echo or sound real. sometimes I'll think something and wonder if I just said it out loud. it's also sometimes easy for me to confuse something someone else just said for a thought I was just having.
- Munchies... pretty common. I don't actually ever get "hungry", but if I start eating, I feel like I could eat forever.
- Time slowing down. Sometimes I'll be talking, then i'll look at the clock, then talk for an hour... go outside, do something, get some food, talk some more, then look at the clock only to find 3 minutes passed. it's a trip.
- spacy/hazy/dreamy-- this is one of my favorite parts, but it's extremely hard for me to explain accurately. I've heard people describe this as if your perception/senses are being displayed to you through a video, but you're not really paying attention to the video. I've also heard it described as just being super spaced out, zoned out, watching life with a really crappy frame rate, etc.
This is how I describe it: each time you look at something (sober; not-high), say, for example, your friend speaking to you, you "record" your perception of your friend and what they were saying, and play it to your brain as a sort of short term memory, and your brain interprets this perception, analyzes, and comes up with a response-- when you're high, you record your perception of your friend talking, but when you play it back in your head to analyze and respond, it plays back like a dream you have just woken up from and are struggling to remember. The short term memory of your friend talking is SO hazy and so spacy that it's slipping away from you the harder you try to think about it, yet your friend JUST said whatever they said to you LITERALLY a second ago!
Now I know that description was a bit quirky and stonerish, but I've spent A LOT of time trying to describe that to friends WHILE I was high (I'm sober right now, unfortunately). So, if you're feeling up to it, next time you're high and conversing with a friend, think about what they just said, then think about your thought of what they just said and how it feels, then come read this (while you're still high).
maybe it will make sense. if it does, get back to me, I'd love to hear that people are actually reading this wall of text.
~ the peak when I first got high (correlating with the "~" above after the come up section) was amazing. I had just gotten to my house and was experiencing the "dreamy" effect described above. It got to the point where I felt like I was hallucinating, then trying to remember what I just hallucinated. I spent probably 20 minutes trying to describe to my friend what I felt like, but i'd forget what I was talking about. It would be something like: dude, it's like I'm in a dreaaam right now. like each memory I'm just having is coming from a dream... my friend would be like "whatt?" like a dream man... like, each memory I'm just having is from a dreaamm... all the while I'm giggling on the floor and eating chocolate chip cookies.
The comedown/day after
The comedown is boring.
I'm usually a bit tired, eyes drooping a little bit. I feel spaced out, but the dreamy effect has gone away. I'm not hungry anymore, and I'm usually not giggling or paranoid. And it just dissipates from there.
The next day (not every time though), I'll feel really tired, like I could sleep a lot... I'll feel hazy, and sometimes I'll feel slightly dreamy, almost like I'm still high, just less pleasant. I consider it a "weed hangover".
THE END...
I didn't think I was going to write so much, but I did. hopefully at least one person manages to slug through all that. (inb4 tl;dr)
/thread
My perspective of it:
the effects vary with setting/environment
Coming up/first 10 minutes
It begins with a mood lift. Sometimes I'll notice a buzz start to take effect --not in the commonly said sense-- it's more like if my ears were ringing or buzzing after a loud noise (without the hearing reduction, of course), but this ringing/buzzing is not coming from my ears, instead it is from my head. Almost as if this "buzz" is making my head a bit lighter, making it float up in the air, and making me lose concentration/interest in what people are saying. It's quite pleasant.
~ my first time getting high, this phase would have occurred when I was walking back to my house from a nearby canyon/forest on a very sunny day. We were talking, I was in a good mood (I had completely forgot about any anxiety I had 5 mins before, where my chest felt a little tight). This time, I didn't notice the "buzz", but I'm almost certain it was there. Once I got to my house, I was beginning to peak, moving to the next phase
The Peak
Very much depends on who I'm with and what my setting is.
I will sometimes be laughing till my lungs hurt (this is rare, unfortunately)... not even knowing what I'm laughing about. Sometimes I'll be socially paranoid (this has gotten rarer as I've become more comfortable with weed); I'll hear my friends talking, think they said my name, then start to wonder if they're judging me or talking about me (when i first began smoking, I was too spaced to actually *hear* what my friends were saying, that's why I wondered if they were talking about me).
But there are some effects that I *always* have with the peak of weed:
- I can hear specific sounds that I normally phase out of my hearing a lot better. it really works for "enhancing" music. If I'm outside, I'll hear birds chirp, I'll hear someone talking in the distance, I'll hear a car a mile away instead of the freeway that I would be sitting right next to. With music I'll hear instruments that don't play seemingly key roles, I'll hear sound effects better, I can isolate tones and notes better (I won't, however, hear the actual tune/chorus/whatever of the song better). Hearing all these different parts of songs makes the songs sound *completely* different. It makes them sound like a different song in a different genre by a different artist. This is one of the reasons why I think music can be "better" when you're stoned-- there are more reasons, hopefully I don't forget to explain those.
- When I do listen to music (and I'm not doing anything else), I can fully and solely listen to the music without thinking about any other stuff. Not thinking about what I need to do now, the next 5 minutes, the next day, the next week, just music. This kind of correlates with the closed eyed visuals I get on weed.
- Closed eyed visuals-- I usually have to be REALLY high to get these (or listen to music while moderately high). If I close my eyes, I can just visualize my thoughts (which I might add, are always random, spontaneous, and sort lived thoughts while I'm high). If I think about a cube, I visualize a cube in a land of cubes... almost to the point of seeing it. If I really focus on the blackness of my eyelids, I'll start to see patterns... sometimes a consistency of blinking shapes, just random (not very vibrant or lucid) weak visuals. When I listen to music and I'm really focusing on the music itself (as explained in the last bullet), I'll start to get some random closed eyed visual correlating with the music. I remember when I was listening to a solo by tool once, I was sort of seeing a waveform/frequency spectrum rotating around guitar strings in space. These "visuals" don't compare to the visuals you can get on acid, though.
- Random thoughts-- I remember one time I was leaving my friends house late at night and I was super baked... For a split second, I thought of a monkey clashing symbols together in a marching band, and I could almost *hear* the marching band for the split second, then right after that, I transitioned into some other completely random thought.
- inner dialogue/thoughts echo or sound real. sometimes I'll think something and wonder if I just said it out loud. it's also sometimes easy for me to confuse something someone else just said for a thought I was just having.
- Munchies... pretty common. I don't actually ever get "hungry", but if I start eating, I feel like I could eat forever.
- Time slowing down. Sometimes I'll be talking, then i'll look at the clock, then talk for an hour... go outside, do something, get some food, talk some more, then look at the clock only to find 3 minutes passed. it's a trip.
- spacy/hazy/dreamy-- this is one of my favorite parts, but it's extremely hard for me to explain accurately. I've heard people describe this as if your perception/senses are being displayed to you through a video, but you're not really paying attention to the video. I've also heard it described as just being super spaced out, zoned out, watching life with a really crappy frame rate, etc.
This is how I describe it: each time you look at something (sober; not-high), say, for example, your friend speaking to you, you "record" your perception of your friend and what they were saying, and play it to your brain as a sort of short term memory, and your brain interprets this perception, analyzes, and comes up with a response-- when you're high, you record your perception of your friend talking, but when you play it back in your head to analyze and respond, it plays back like a dream you have just woken up from and are struggling to remember. The short term memory of your friend talking is SO hazy and so spacy that it's slipping away from you the harder you try to think about it, yet your friend JUST said whatever they said to you LITERALLY a second ago!
Now I know that description was a bit quirky and stonerish, but I've spent A LOT of time trying to describe that to friends WHILE I was high (I'm sober right now, unfortunately). So, if you're feeling up to it, next time you're high and conversing with a friend, think about what they just said, then think about your thought of what they just said and how it feels, then come read this (while you're still high).
maybe it will make sense. if it does, get back to me, I'd love to hear that people are actually reading this wall of text. ~ the peak when I first got high (correlating with the "~" above after the come up section) was amazing. I had just gotten to my house and was experiencing the "dreamy" effect described above. It got to the point where I felt like I was hallucinating, then trying to remember what I just hallucinated. I spent probably 20 minutes trying to describe to my friend what I felt like, but i'd forget what I was talking about. It would be something like: dude, it's like I'm in a dreaaam right now. like each memory I'm just having is coming from a dream... my friend would be like "whatt?" like a dream man... like, each memory I'm just having is from a dreaamm... all the while I'm giggling on the floor and eating chocolate chip cookies.
The comedown/day after
The comedown is boring.
I'm usually a bit tired, eyes drooping a little bit. I feel spaced out, but the dreamy effect has gone away. I'm not hungry anymore, and I'm usually not giggling or paranoid. And it just dissipates from there.
The next day (not every time though), I'll feel really tired, like I could sleep a lot... I'll feel hazy, and sometimes I'll feel slightly dreamy, almost like I'm still high, just less pleasant. I consider it a "weed hangover".
THE END...
I didn't think I was going to write so much, but I did. hopefully at least one person manages to slug through all that.
(inb4 tl;dr)/thread
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