1. How long was it from first browsing Bluelight to joining up as a member? Weeks, months, years?
2. Do you remember how you came to find Bluelight? Was it from a web search, from a referral from another website, from word of mouth, from social media, or some other way?
3. Thinking back to when you first began using Bluelight, what drugs had you used prior to that - including psychoactive prescription drugs, alcohol, cannabis? Had you already tried powdered drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin, ketamine, MDMA powder, etc? or not yet?
4. Thinking back to when you first began using Bluelight, what routes of administration had you tried prior to that? E.g. snorting, injecting, other ROAs?
1. I honestly can't remember when the first time I browsed this site was. Apparently going on 6 years since I joined, but I clearly didn't do it to post. Do you need to be registered to use search? Or maybe to view images in posts or something like that? I was probably looking for either a mushroom hunting guide or tips on how to clean up some cut meth. I bet it was the guide, though. Something about needing to be a member to download a file from a post is ringing a bell. Anyway, years and years passed as they're wont to do until tonight where I find myself so hopelessly mired in nested distractions that I can't currently say for sure what the top level task actually is. Two distractions ago I found myself in Chrome's password manager checking out my weak passwords one of which, as you've guessed by now if you're still reading for some reason, was Bluelight. That led to one distraction ago where I logged in and changed my password. I had intended to say that that brought me to my current distraction, i.e., attempting to become an active user here, which is true in the sense it's what I'm currently doing, but my counting seems wrong. Passwords must be one level up instead of two since I did manage to change my password before I started browsing.
2. Probably web searches. I can't imagine myself finding it any other way back then.
3. By the time I found Bluelight I reckon I'd tried, approximately in this order caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, LSD, opium*, PCP**, psilocybin mushrooms, Ripped Fuel***, ecstasy, Tylox (Percocet), cocaine, DayQuil†, 25I-NBOMe, Valium, Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, Vicodin, Xanax, MDMA, mescaline, Seroquel††, methamphetamine, THC oil, dexamfetamine, and GHB.
4. I think I've tried most of the ROAs at least once. Oral (lots), sublingual (LSD, 25I), smoking/vaping (the obvious), snorting (cocaine, meth, MDMA), injection (just once and won't again, cocaine), rectally (alcohol, ecstasy), and ophthalmic (LSD). I think that's all of them.
* I was still pretty young, 16 I suppose, and though I'd consumed an obscene amount of the stuff, I'd only been smoking marijuana for at most about 18 months. My memory is slightly fuzzy here, but I think in addition to already being stoned I'd drank a couple 22's of Steel Reserve (gag) by the time my friend handed me the pipe to smoke another bowl which I did. I don't remember if it tasted strange or anything, but it definitely felt different. Pleasant, but weird. It felt like it took me ages to decide whether I wanted to say something or just assume it was in my mind (sometimes kids would get really stoned then spend the whole time telling everyone the weed was laced and we'd always tease them about it). Eventually I decided to say something and he told me he'd packed it 50/50 with opium cause he'd been smoking that lately and he thought I'd enjoy it too. I did enjoy it, actually, but it's the one and only time I've done it and will probably remain that way.
** As a teen attended Bumbershoot one year with some friends. We asked some guy if we could have a toke on his joint and he generously obliged. He didn't mention that it had been dipped in PCP, though, so we were caught by surprise. It was interesting and not entirely pleasant. The thing I recall most clearly about it was this sensation that I was about 9 feet tall due to my legs turning to wood and growing suddenly longer after which they immediately burst into flames. I don't regret the experience, but I didn't think I'd ever want to do it again and so far I haven't.
*** Pretty abusively for awhile. Pseudoephedrine was a big upgrade from caffeine and I couldn't believe I could just buy it at the store and eat it whenever I wanted. The pills were absolutely vile after awhile though. I had to plug my nose and fill my mouth with Mountain Dew before I opened the bottle, then very quickly dump out however many I was gonna take and try to time it so that I was already beginning to swallow right before I threw them all straight down my throat. If I caught a whiff of the open jar, tried putting them in my mouth dry, or let them linger in the soda longer than a split second, my body would simply refuse to swallow them and I'd have to wait 30 minutes or so to try again. Eventually I did take this very strong and obvious hint I was giving myself.
† Another period where I was probably consuming way too much pseudoephedrine.
†† As a recreational drug, Seroquel is an absolute flop. For some reason that didn't stop us from trying several times though. There was the "Seroquel party" where about 10 of us each took some. A few people put up some heroic resistance, but eventually everyone succumbed and passed out in place until 10-12 hours later movement resumed with difficulty as some stumbled drunkenly into walls while others just fell right over. One Thanksgiving I ate a couple cause I was alone in my apartment and really upset cause it was unexpected so just wanted to fast forward a few days, but then my girlfriend decided we should go Black Friday shopping. I didn't tell her about the Seroquel. Through some feat of willpower I stayed awake until she picked me up, but as soon as she started driving I knew I'd be comatose well before the mall. Instead, every time she noticed my eyes closing she fed me another Adderall. It took an absurd number before I was functional, but it was really weird. I would have thought it'd be like a cancelling out effect, but it was more like being an awake corpse or something like that. Wouldn't recommend.