Thorns Have Roses
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I have given many, many contact highs. In prior years I often ingested psychedelics and went about my day as if I hadn't. Throughout the days, and years, I definitely had many cases where I was sure that it wasn't in my mind. It was most pronounced with my wife and a good friend of ours. Many times they would be unaware I was tripping and stop in the middle of our bike ride and ask me if I was seeing the clouds morphing, he could swear he had just taken LSD but he hadn't. I never told him either, we just had a really fun and crazy rest of the day. The last time I tripped on DOC (DOC gives really strong contact highs), my wife was there but she wasn't on anything but weed, and she was tripping harder than me, she was actually totally emotionally and physically exhausted by it after 48 hours, it took her like a week to get back to semi-normal. I actually think she had a little bit of a difficult experience although it's only a hunch (we're not together anymore). She even had pupil dilation. That was definitely the most extreme case I have experienced.
Nonverbal cues and mirror neurons maybe? I mean, emotionally we pick stuff up from how other people are acting, and there is always placebo (and confirmation bias on the part of the person imparting the contact high)? Yet the phenomena mentioned here are pretty far out. The the capabilities of the human brain (and structural intricacies that create them) continue to flabbergast me like nothing else.
Might revisit this thread and see if I can't unravel some of the yarns y'all are spinnin'.
P.S. Don't forget that pupil dialation can be induced in a myriad of ways,1 not just low lights levels and the consumption of psychoactives.