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Anybody else NOT like nitrous?

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I sucked down a tank for my second time last night. I must admit it was better than my first experience. Maybe the two beers I had drank added some nasty effects, but it just seems like such a waste! I still want to experience a balloon while I'm tripping, but my sober affairs are most likely done. It's just too shallow. Every inhale produces the same effect over and over for hours. The first few balloons were fun, then it got old really quick.

I honestly didn't have much fun. I was soo glad when the tank finally ran out, wishing it would have done so sooner. For me, womping out is just some weird dissociative state that is neither pleasant nor fun, just simply a quick escape from reality into a static underwater void very reminiscent of an extreme head rush, the kind you get when you faint or your blood pressure spikes. After a few balloons I was no longer giggling like everyone else. I was high, but things no longer seemed very funny. I could womp out so hard and still not be giggling. They commented on my quietness. I simply lost interest in communicating, I felt dumbed down. The two beers I had drank prior seemed to have the negative effects amplified, which might be in part why I didn't like it, but I also tried it once before sober with the same effects. I don't like it. I like to be able to think and not feel like an idiot. It just wasn't fun for me. I can't imagine being sober while everyone is on balloons, that must be weird, really weird.

Tripping on nitrous is probably a cool experience, but as a recreational drug on its own, I'm just not feeling it. I can't be the only one who doesn't enjoy nitrous, can I?
 
I can understand what you're saying. It does get old, and fast on its own. It was always best with some pot/ketamine. I've gone home looking like an abused prostitute from rugburns on my face after passing out and hitting my head on the floor when I was younger. I quickly learned that it's best done on a couch or bed or something. Taping a plastic hose to the tank makes this all the easier.

But yeah, on it's own, nitrous is a very repetitive experience. It's not something that I'd really 'do' on it's own. For me, it's more of an add-on than anything else.
 
Some people say that nitrous combines well with MANY other drugs, producing an interesting combination almost every time. With psychedelics even more so, it can have fascinating results that can vary from compound to compound.

With LSD I have had experiences that seemed impossible, very extreme things and quite suddenly. Like letting everything happen in reverse (as if someone pushed a button on a VCR) for about 5 minutes, or making me see all the cushions and stuff in my room blow up as if someone was using a bicycle pump really fast... or making it seem like a nitrous balloon was melting over my hand. All very convincing.
With 2C-B I have gotten synaesthetic experiences, very exotic - not recalling any specific ones at the moment...

On it's own it is okay but it seems like only one in 10 or 20 balloons is truly interesting and the other ones are more of the same and less interesting, like you describe.
In combinations they are more interesting a seriously bigger part of the time.

But I have to say I have gotten experiences from it that were alarming. Not only intense (becoming too intense) on trips but also physically disquieting. On acid I got something like a seizure and after that seemed more sensitive to getting such an episode. I still don't know exactly what it was, how it should be called but I went stiff as a board and felt 'shocked'.

Also, when too many balloons were had I have gotten hypoxia - although I can't say I didn't breathe enough.

I have heard nitrous tricks your body into thinking it has more oxygen than it actually has. When you take it mixed with oxygen it's not that harmful which is why many people say not to worry about it too much. It's a reason to blow air into a nitrous balloon before you start.

I have also heard nitrous works by causing some quantum effects (I think in nerve cells?) that can be part of the effect - and while I don't know where I heard it, it really seemed on good authority at the time, convincing enough for me. If anyone has any info it's welcome. :)

All in all in the course of things it scared me more and more and it felt better to steer clear of it.

So to sum up: it has amazing potential and the sickest things that happened to me in trips were on nitrous, but it feels unhealthy to me as well if you do more than a couple. And that happens faster than you'd think.
If you overdo it with nitrous you can feel 'drained' and fucked for about 30-60 minutes before that dissipates.
You see: I don't totally like the stuff... but it has real power!

Perhaps you have not yet felt this for some reason. My dad tried my nitrous (though only a few times) and it didn't work for him weirdly enough.
Could be you need to take 3 cartridges or something, at least more than you do now. At the same time consider my warning to be careful with combinations and to limit the number you do!
 
It's great on it's own! If you're not wondering what happened to the direction of time and how something completely impossible and incredible happened but you've no idea what it was so you have to go back to check, then you're not doing it right. And yes it can get repetitious but only after a few dozen whippets.
 
Nitrous is da beez knees! Gotta be careful though as it exhibits a reverse tolerance (ie the more you do the less you need). Try it with DXM or LSD or Mushrooms or MDMA or Ketamine or a whole bunch of good dank. :D
 
OP, don't hate the drug because it doesn't float your boat. Your description of its effects seem accurate enough, and people who indulge in it usually like these effects. So it's not your thing... but I wouldn't exactly call it shallow.

I LOVE NITROUS, personally. My question is: if you dislike it so much, why did you feel you had to finish the tank?! seems like a waste of perfectly good nitrous.

I will admit that by itself, it has a certain shallowness. It's like a lap dance at a strip club: expensive, short, and not worth it in the long run... but still enjoyable. However, with LSD, 2C-B or even MDMA it generates mindblowing effects which are usually lengthened by the catalytic effects of the phenethylamine or tryptamine in question. I've had OUT OF THIS WORLD experiences combining nitrous with 2C-B or LSD and the effects lasted about 7 - 10 minutes instead of the usual 3 - 4 minutes.

I'll take that tank off your hands if it's such an ordeal to you, dude ;-)
 
I don't like how overpriced the shit is. But if a friend has a tank and wants to share the love, I'm down for it in a second.
 
oh god... it potentates some things in powerful ways....

But in itself, its a hell of a drug....

Its hippie crack....
 
Nitrous + LSD = best drug combo ever. Epic trippyness, and lots of fun and laughs.
 
I love nitrous. It can be pure euphoria in its simplest form. Last night I was having a 'bad' trip on mushrooms, extreme fear of death with difficult breathing. But seconds after doing a ballon all of that went away and the only thing left was euphoria. I realized death happens and it is impossible to stop, if I die so be it. I could of died happy at that point. I went from opposite ends of both extremes in literally seconds. That's why I like nitrous so much, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a bad nitrous trip.

You sound like your over-doing it.
 
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So yea, i kinda like it a lot.... so much so that what is seen in the picture is made of empties that got that way over like 30 minutes.
 
knockando said:
Three cartridges FTW.
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This is all I do now when I use nitrous, at least until I come down completely from it. I find that any more than three is kind of a waste, partly because they wear off almost as fast as you can do them and because three gets me completely blasted. I swear I discover the meaning of life every time, only to forget it a minute later. It's awesome and frustrating at the same time.
 
I'm a big fan of nitrous. I found it to be most useful at the peak of MDMA and during the comedown when I'm looking for anything to boost with. It hits the spot :)

I also enjoy it on it's own. I dont have to commit myself to hours of dissociation and tolerance doesnt really affect me.
 
I did a bunch as a kid and walked around during a street festival, and felt like I was going to die in slow motion, so I never did it again.
 
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