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Putting drug effects into words

Uncle Robert

Uncle Robert

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Do you have any analogies or ways of describing a drug's effect to people who have never tried them? Like with mushrooms it's like if you have been viewing life through youtube's 360p but on them it's like you are seeing in 1080p. Not great I know but I have a shite way with words. A mate asked what ket is like and I just mumbled and stuttered for a while realising it's next to impossible..
 
not really possible.

You can try. And in your mind it might even be close to what you feel.

but the listener, or reader, if a non drug-user , will not ever be aware what you're really on about unless they experience it.
 
Last mushroom trip I remember thinking that the world was now in full HD. It's true, you see or notice so much more detail.


and in light of MM's post, the only reason we can agree on this is that we've both taken mushies ;)
 
Hmm. I've always wanted to find a way to describe the rush you get from IV heroin. I guess the description from Trainspotting (something about multiplying an orgasm by 1000 and not even being close, can't remember exactly) is the closest you can get...still not very satisfactory though. Has anyone ever found a good analogy for that one?
 
I think if you multiplied an orgasm by just 10 it would be painful!


Maybe I just have the best orgasms. They are pretty good. %)
 
Mailmonkey said:
not really possible.

You can try. And in your mind it might even be close to what you feel.

but the listener, or reader, if a non drug-user , will not ever be aware what you're really on about unless they experience it.
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Yeah I think you're right there. Before I try a new drug I'll always read a bunch of the erowid experiences and not once have I ever been close to imagining what to expect correctly.
 
knock said:
Last mushroom trip I remember thinking that the world was now in full HD. It's true, you see or notice so much more detail.


and in light of MM's post, the only reason we can agree on this is that we've both taken mushies ;)
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Fuckiong this. The way your life is changed and you feel like the realisation that your life has changed and you'll never forget it and it's changed forever is something you can never ever put into words.

Mushrooms. The realisation you have while using. I worried when I introduced a friend to them that I worried I was doing something bad by opening up this new world to someone else that they may not be able to handle it was quite something else. He thanked me afterwards but I was scared tbh. I fucking loved that vbloke. Great stuffw.. Amazing.
 
amnesiaseizure said:
Always thought the heroin/orgasm thing was nonsense. Now crack cocaine on the other hand....
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Really? You're not the first person to tell me that actually. But it definitely applied to me. More like a full-bodied orgasm though. I dunno, it's frustratingly difficult to describe.
 
Ben So Furry said:
Fuckiong this. The way your life is changed and you feel like the realisation that your life has changed and you'll never forget it and it's changed forever is something you can never ever put into words.

Mushrooms. The realisation you have while using. I worried when I introduced a friend to them that I worried I was doing something bad by opening up this new world to someone else that they may not be able to handle it was quite something else. He thanked me afterwards but I was scared tbh. I fucking loved that vbloke. Great stuffw.. Amazing.
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Agreed. First time I took mushrooms i was with an experienced friend and we were sat in his room for a few hours, it just felt like a was really really stoned (he had a trippy carpet that really moved about which was cool though). That was about It and tbh i was a little disappointed. Anyway I left to go home and that's when it really hit me what shrooms are about. It was a winter night in England and it had been raining so the ground was wet. It was rush hour as well so there were a lot of cars about with all their lights on. All the bright reflections and lights coming from every direction pretty much overpowered me with beauty. I got my phone out as at the time I desperately needed to talk to somebody about It, and after literally a couple of minutes trying to figure out how to dial a number i was nearly in tears describing what i was experiencing.

I would want more than anything to go and see the London nye fireworks on shrooms.
 
Pagey said:
Really? You're not the first person to tell me that actually. But it definitely applied to me. More like a full-bodied orgasm though. I dunno, it's frustratingly difficult to describe.
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Yeah really. Maybe the afterglow bit bu not actually having an orgasm. Heroin never felt like that for me I'm afraid. Like i say, cocaine was always much closer to the big O but I'm pretty sure it releases very similar chems so not so surprising. Smack was.always just one big massive release for me. A release from physical and mental pain into a world of serenity and peace.
 
It's a good question. I've been trying to describe what the time was like I did salvia since I tried it back in 2010. Impossible. The closest I can get is - it was like I was being sewn up from my fingertips and toes, inwards. I honestly thought I was going to die. So much went on in that half hour period that I couldn't possibly put it into words, I can only describe how I reacted. Scary stuff.
Others though, are reletavely simple. MDMA for example. Amphetamine. These seem to provide universal feelings. Perhaps psychedelics are more difficult to describe because they give us a sense of what's not considered 'normal' feelings. I dunno. We all know what it's like to feel loved up and happy, energetic and euphoric. But when we trigger alien feelings and hallucinations, they are just that - hard to describe.
 
You can't describe most drug experiences because the whole point is your consciousness has changed, the parameters are different and those straight dictionary words don't apply. Except the word 'ineffable'. Look it up. ;)

The interesting one for me is that bit where you start to come back from a deep weird k-hole and you *think* (because the concept of straight-thinking is coming back too) that you have the answer to life/could, and want, to describe where you've been and then you straighten up a touch more and it goes.

This has parallels with the waking up state from a dream you remember vividly...and then you open your eyes and its gone forever.
 
I feel like shitting rainbows dude

Seriously though, it's impossible to describe psychedelics or dissociatives, you need to experience them, you can't put their effects in words. Stimulants you could describe, I mean with speed you could say clarity, self-confidence, energy, motivation, feeling unbeatable, and so on.
 
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