Quantum physics is now kind of a touchy subject for me :/ but I enjoy hearing most people's interpretations.
Particle physics/cosmology and all that heavy stuff has reached an end-point for me. I found the paradoxes and circular thoughts my mind would get caught up in to simply get annoying, and so I've chosen to ignore it and let physicists who enjoy mental anguish to have at it.
I very much like Robert Pirsig's realizations
Ah yes. As a backyard mechanic motorcyclist myself I very much enjoyed 'Zen and the art of motorcycle mechanics'. Nothing quite like working on a bike or taking nice ride through the backroads to clear the psychological tangles and free your thoughts. When I read that book I understood the essence of what he was talking about and how he uses motorcycles to reach a state of meditation, that he was now a person post-breakdown, but I still don't quite have a grasp on who the hell Phaedrus was.
Woo, trying Poppy Seed Tea today for the first time with 500g of some nice seeds :D Will be my first experience with anything Morphine-containing. I'm excited to see how it compares to Codeine and Buprenorphine.
I hope it went well. I don't do by weight, I just take a volume; 150mL of seeds seems to work well. I find it more stimulating and 'dirty' than pharm codeine, but it's stronger. The last few times I've been using a piece of silkscreen as a filter because I found coffee filters got clogged and took forever on gravity filtration. The problem with silkscreen that I think makes the effect more 'dirty' is the mold spores that get through. I've found poppy seeds are LOADED with spores. A filter cake left for even just a night at room temp will start smelling funky and might even show some growth.
When you do your washes, do them quick, don't let it sit between washes.
I think I'm going to go back to coffee filters anyway, seemed easier on the gut, with a cleaner high.
Codeine is always a cleaner high for me though, unfortunately I think my SSRI is a CYP2D6 inhibitor; codeine doesn't work as well as it used to.
I got a really bad flu a few weeks ago that gave me some nice anxiety attacks. It was a ridiculous flu though. My head felt completely pressurized, I was dizzy, my ears were ringing, weakness, no appetite, hot/cold flashes, super dry skin (acne disappeared), and even though I was drinking lots of water I maybe pee'd once a day, and it wasn't much. It was like being anemic. Being sick like that is scary, you feel like you just want to be given a big shot of morphine so you can get a break.
Codeine just didn't work for me.
The SSRI also gives me jaw clenching that hasn't gone away after a month of use, and lately some incredibly intense,
vivid dreams. About 2 hours after waking up I'll be thinking; "wait, that didn't
actually happen."
The good effect is lower baseline anxiety than I used to have.
But the big effect that I'd read about, but it didn't seem common enough or that I'd be lucky enough to get, is the virtually complete loss of my speech impediment. Yeah, my life-long severe 'block' of a stutter is gone.
