Re: HeH!
shancan said:
These stories seem really fuckin funny to me. But how do you guys that experienced this wild shit feel about it?
Do you look back at these strange paranoid experiences with a feeling of fond (perhaps funny) reminiscence?
Or does it all feel like an awful nightmare, something you would never want to do again? If so, does it keep you from doing it again?
Most of my paranoid experiences i can look back and laugh at but by far the most terrified moments of my life have been a result of drug induced paranoia and their memory can still makes me feel off.
One time what happened was i thought my neighbours had taken their dog for a walk 'as cover' then stood out of view from my balcony while i was out there having a ciggy and deliberately talked loud enough for me to hear about how they were onto how big a druggy i was and that they were calling the police or coming to bash me (there was debate between them), this i thought they did just to harrass me.
I went back inside listened out the windows and they were still talking about me they must of known i would continue listening when i went in, i listened for about half an hour and they just kept talking about me. I then decided to get my (straight) brother out of bed, you know just to check i wasn't being paranoid

and when he came to the window he couldn't hear anything but while he was there i couldn't hear anything either so i figured rather than it just being in my head that even though i hadn't been able to spot them in half an hour of looking out from those windows that they must be out there but able to see me and were strategically not talking when my brother came to the window. The next plan of action was to open every window on that side to the house and switch out all the lights, so they couldn't see me or my brother and maybe fool them into thinking i wasn't listening anymore so there would be no point in them continuing talking.
I listened again and they were still talking about me, my clever lights out ruse had fooled no-one, so i went and got my brother back out of bed and asked him to listen again still he couldn't hear anything and proceeded to call me the paranoia king and went back to bed pissed off. Again while listening with him i hadn't heard anything either and disregarding suggestions i was paranoid thus determined they could still see me in the dark so now what i decided to was to walk away from the window then i got down on my stomach and slid myself along the carpet till i got to the window then just sorta held up my head so ear was just below the window. Would you believe it they were still talking about me.
I slid between a few different windows still trying to figure out exactly where they were and see if they would keep talking, they did so with all the courage i could muster i went out the back and tried to sneak around to the side where i figured they were hiding behind some trees and shrubs when i got there they were no where to be seen but i could still hear them, they must of gone back to their house and be sitting in the backyard (that i couldn't see into) and continuing to talk about me, clearly they were making a night of this. I went back into my house did a bit more sliding and listening but was eventaully able to get a hold of myself.
See that i can look back on and out of context, though it isn't nearly as insane as some the other stories in this thread and pretty run of mill for tweaker paranoia stories, i can laugh at the immense retardness of it especially trying to out play voices in my head. However in context theres for me its not quite so funny, when i first "heard" them talking i just lay on the floor of my balcony my whole body shaking completely unable to pull myself together and get up for like 5 minutes (longer than it sounds), this a result of a combination of fear and a meth+mda comedown and despite the fact i thought i was being watched and to lay there shaking would only confirm suspicisions and make my neighbours more likely to call the cops. Also I only got a hold of myself because of that little high after vomiting, i vomited purely due to anxiety. So i guess you could say experiences like that i have mixed feelings looking back on it.
I still do meth and mda but i don't use meth anything like i used. I think i learnt to control the paranoia after the experience above now i'm able to tell when i'm getting paranoid and able to talk myself down and distract myself rather than letting it snowball.