Excellent ideas! %)
If this episode were to air I have some additional suggestions.
There should probably be a built in dose-normalizer. If a person ingests 300 mg of MDMA it wouldn't be weird if he would report a lot of jaw clenching and eye-wiggling and basically many of the (side)effects exaggerated. So there should be an algorithm to play down or play up the reported intensities. The prevalence of effects however should not be changed by it... To make it even more complicated but accurate, there could be a same algorithm for tolerance. One may indicate one a scale of 1 to N (I think all N's should be 10 by the way, except for the intensities which have negatives and therefore +/- 5 indeed) the level of tolerance definitely experienced - say a person takes twice the dosage he took without tolerance to get the same effects earlier this rating would be 5, thrice would be around 7 and tenfold is a 10? These are - of course - just ideas, I don't know how well this would work and if it is neccessary enough.
Personally, I think the rule for filling in the survey should be that the only period one may report is when there are no other substances added to the mix yet. From the moment one smokes a joint any information is rendered useless for the profile.
Purity and certainty of identity of a specific compound could be implemented in another scale of 1 to 10. 10 would mean lab analysis yielded high grade results, 1 would mean it's from the street and the effects hardly even matched other reports. I'm exaggerating this a little because if you're that uncertain you shouldn't complete a survey. However this gives people the chance to rate the validity of their own report. Of course one is not naturally inclined to undermine their own report, but it's better than anything getting full credit because someone is too arrogant to leave it as potentially invalid! This rating would be combined with an algorithm that normalizes not the intensity but prevalence ratings. The profile is not altered it only weighs a little less if people are more unsure of their samples.
So now I suggest everyone brainstorms on effects in the categories [main effects], [side effects], [after effects]. We can all comment on them and dismiss some with good arguments. People are then expected to edit their post as a first round of elimination. If everyone seems to be happy with the lists, we can all throw them together and eliminate or merge effects that are too similar, this will be the hard and arbitrary part because we will want to cover everything but nothing double as it would split up the prevalence of effects and confuse the surveyed. Hmm but now that I think of it, that's not true is it? We just need basically as many as possible just without getting it confusing because it is a matter of checking boxes, not choosing between them per se.
OK I will rearrange my categories to fit Xorkoths, his are better shaded. And I appreciate you guys efforts as well, personally I would like to contribute to the world of psychedelics and if we together come up with something useful, we all can.
Can we decide what we mean by the term side-effect by the way? Officially it is used for "unintended or adverse effects". Something like a feeling of terror can hardly be called intended, however I wouldn't call it a side-effect. Shall we call effects that are not worthwhile or functional at all for all indended purposes of psychedelic use? All of a sudden, paranoia doesn't seem like a side-effect anymore seeing as it definitely is an inherent effect of tripping itself. Paranoia and megalomania seem more like a symptom of something deeper you have to work through like issues of self-trust or trust in others...
And maybe the predominance of colors can have a special box listing some primary and secondary colors plus something like pastel or neon all next to each other to mark the character of a substance. I wonder which substances stimulate colors at random or are dependent on the subject and which tend to stimulate a typical set!
[1.0 Main Effects]
[1.1 Sensory Effects]
- synaesthesia
- increase in tactile sensation
- decrease in tactile sensation, numbness
- paresthesia (i.e. tingling pricking skin or even feeling of being touched)
- increase in sense of taste
- decrease in sense of taste
- hallucinated smells or flavors
- visual augmentation
- auditive augmentation
- micropsia (lilliputian hallucination, alice in wonderland syndrome, altered perception of proportion and size)
- macropsia (objects appear larger instead of smaller)
OEV
- flanging (i.e. seemingly decrease in frames per second, flashing, choppy vision)
- activity in peripheral vision
- visual distortion
- visual breathing
- visual crawling
- visual morphing
- visual warping
- visual melting
- visual shimmering
- visual rippling
- visual flowing
- visual movement (e.g. sliding objects)
- visual geometric patterning
- visual fractal patterning
- visual blurring
- unrelated hallucinations of e.g. energy orbs, absurd scenes
- complete environmental metamorphosis
- shifting or altered perception of colors
CEV
- hypnogogic patterning (i.e. flowing of colors)
- intertwining patterns (e.g. celtic knots)
- intricate combined creative bursts
- neon splashes
- exploration of fantasy vistas
- dream-like experienced events
- hallucination of witnessing actual bodily functions
- hallucinations of the impossible (e.g. round squares)
[1.2 Psychological Effects]
- increase in associative & creative thinking
- increase in philosophical thinking
- increase in introspection
- reliving memories
- epiphanies
- increased appreciation of vision
- increased appreciation of music
- increased appreciation for the mundane and trivial
- dissociation
- ego-dissolution
- spontaneous mystical / spiritual states
- self-induced mystical / spiritual states
- unusual or seemingly crazy thoughts
- unusual speech
- glossolalia (speaking in tongues)
- slurring of speech
- change in perception of time
- change in perception of space
- cartooning or caricaturesque hallucinations
- entity contact
- megalomania
- humbling
- paranoia
- loss of inhibition
- diverted concentration
- general increase of mental control
- mental clarity
[1.3 Emotional Effects]
- emotional imbalance
- increased empathy
- mood lift
- euphoria
- feelings of wonder / magic
- mood drop
- dysphoria, depressed thoughts
- feelings of fear / terror
- paradoxical simultaneous feelings or emotions
- feeling of nonduality
- inappropriate behaviour
[1.4 Physical Effects]
- increase in energy (stimulation)
- decrease in energy (stoning)
- giggling, giddiness
- smirky smiles or grimaces
- fits of (hysterical) laughter
- sensation of energy
- sensation of buzzing / vibrations
- chills / shivers
- goosebumps
- sexual arousal
- sexual sensitivity / erotic enhancement
[2.0 Side Effects]
[2.1 Psychological Side Effects]
- anxiety
- confusion
- short-term memory scramble
- intensified perception of bodily functions
- acute psychological addictive thoughts (wanting to use more)
- desire to use other substances
[2.2 Physical Side Effects]
- headache
- lightheadedness
- fainting
- bruxism (teeth grinding)
- trisma (jaw clenching)
- nystagmus (eye wiggling)
- mydriasis (pupil dilation)
- increased salivation and mucus production (causes coughing in some people)
- tension
- increased perspiration
- nausea
- vomiting
- dizziness
- increase in body temperature
- increase in blood pressure
- confirmed increase in heart rate
- gastrointestinal discomfort
- loss of appetite (anorexia)
- increase in appetite
- brain zaps
- erectile disfunction and difficulty reaching orgasm
[3.0 After Effects]
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