This is how my favorite Ketamine experience went:
I stumbled upon a ketamine bottle after not being able to find it for a year. The last time i did it i just snorted it and this time i decided to IM it. I started with 80 units and had thee BEST 45 minutes of my life. The best I can explain it is that I became God(or a God, who knows ha). I was a single point in an eternity of blackness and it was pure BLISS. I suddenly understood all the inconceivable questions of life (such as eternity and death) and it seemed to last an eternity while happening. It was the best drug experience i've ever had even though i obviously can't understand now everything I seemed to understand while being the K God.
Man I wish I could have an experience like that with ketamine and yet no dose I have tried so far (up to 155 mg I.M. with no tolerance) has done it for me. I seem to respond so much better to the classical psychedelics. On mushrooms or in the old days when I used to be better at meditation, just a few hits of cannabis would be enough to allow me to enter into samadhi. Ketamine, rather than clarifying things for me simply results in confusion. Ketamine is a strange drug. A very strange drug. The only drug which has given me a stranger experience than k is salvia.
The feel of ketamine to me can best be described as somewhat like alcohol only missing the GABA aspect and the euphoria. But the world spinning, body numb, loss of coordination is very much like alcohol. Then as the dose increases past the point where you would lose memory were it alcohol, the experience turns inward (I always close my eyes to prevent nausea) and at this level it is absolutely nothing like alcohol. Instead, I generally forget I have taken a drug and become a point of consciousness which moves through strange worlds as I am usually extremely confused over matters of causation (what causes what) what I am supposed to do. I also feel like I have very little control over the experience, as opposed to classical psychedelics where I can exert influence over the direction of my trip. I seldom have bad trips on ketamine, although my trips aren't really good either. They are just interesting. It's kind of like dreaming I guess.
On one trip, I met "Dr. Weird" who was a k-hole tour guide. His job was to take ketamine users with him on his boat and sail around showing them various aspects of the k-hole. Different k-holes can very quite a bit and generally don't contain much life. No plant life and I have never encountered any entities with the exception of Dr. Weird.
Overall, ketamine has been pretty disappointing for me. Of course I do love it, since I tend to love anything that makes you trip, but I haven't had any ecstatic experiences and I haven't learned much from it. It is simply entertainment for me. Weird, trippy entertainment and the come down sucks which is why I rarely use it anymore. I'd much rather eat mushrooms or LSD. Still I have been wanting to revisit ketamine soon. I just hate losing an entire day to the come down, especially because the trip only lasts about 40 minutes and then I generally take two redoses, for a total of 3 k holes per session. I don't like to do more than that because then the come down gets too intense but I definitely recommend at least one redose because I don't find the come down is affected much by that and yet you get double the tripping time.
That is one advantage ketamine has over the classical psychedelics (most of them anyway). By controlling the dose, you can come down a bit, think about what you've just experienced and then give yourself another injection and go right back there. You can't really do that with mushrooms or acid.
