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^^^I agree with everything adrenaline said. Too large a number of these responses are clearly doing nothing but getting off on being dicks. Without knowing it, sounding quite naive and narrow, really.
thank you for that.
^^^I agree with everything adrenaline said. Too large a number of these responses are clearly doing nothing but getting off on being dicks. Without knowing it, sounding quite naive and narrow, really.
Dude, you need help. Some serious help.
The description is insanely vivid and scary. I can only imagine how you must have endured that. Scary shit.
You need to visit rehab? I am not sure, but I hope it will get better for you! Take care.
it confuses me how so many people on a psychedlic forum blow off spiritual implications of substance use...
Interesting discussion. I think you pushed the nos way to fucking hard. There's a reason they call it "hippie crack". It's possible you opened your third eye, but you didn't get fucking possessed by a devil through a spiritual chakra vortex. Your chakras, including your third eye have always been there, and doing drugs doesnt necessarily open them for harm... maybe open them for teaching and learning. Which may have happened, you said you knew something was trying to, "get you to stop" but you DIDN'T. Your own subconscious played with your head and fucked you into psychosis, which created visuals and sensations that went along with your paranoia about being possessed. Stop doing whip it's. Your not broken, but you've obviously had an appiphany.
Consider that the “something or some thought” you didn't want to control “you” because of your right to do whatever you want was, in fact, YOU, and that the one dismissing visions of dynamite going off inside its brain in order to motivate more nitrous consuming behavior was the nitrous ADDICTION. You should be suspicious of your own motives when you believe you shouldn't be controlled by "negativity and voices" when those abrasive voices are telling you to do something quite sensible like stop consuming extremely high quantities of an inhalant.lyricabuddy said:Finally, came the hallucination, and distinct feeling, that a stick (representing soomething like dynamite was being lodged into the center of my brain). My interpretation here was: "do you choose life, or death?" As in, are you willing to die to continue using nitrous, and death, as in a more general sense vs. acute death, but still...
Now, I know all of this sounds silly, that was my thought exactly, that's why I decided to take the next hit.
What happened next was I started feeling my brain essentially start to split open in the middle, and also elongate front to back, with little popping feelings. At this point I was like "huh, that's really wierd, and I'm not really having a good time, but honestly, what's the worst that could happen." So, I decided to take another, curious as to what would happen next, but I also didn't want to let something, or some thought control me, I felt like it was my right to do whatever I want.
... I wanted to be in control and finish what I had left, and essentilaly not "bitch out" to what i just thought was a bad trip.
… took the mindset that I shouldn't be controlled by negativity and "voices" telling me not to do something.
I understand why, given the bluntness of my quoted reply, you may think I'm lumping in nitrous with hydrocarbon inhalants like gasoline unfairly. However, my wording was simply a rhetorical choice. Indeed, there is some reason to believe that even the psychoactive ingredient in some formulations of the notorious "duster" may not be all that dangerous in itself. Ether too is less dangerous. Likewise, there is little evidence to suggest NO2 is neurotoxic at levels of exposure comparable to a few whippits at a party. But that reassurance does not extend to the sorts of prolonged exposure to NO2 without pure oxygen mixing (like in anesthetic contexts) you very well may have brought upon yourself by polishing off three boxes in a row. In such a case a single long exposure can be enough (chronic use unnecessary). The mechanism of damage is hypoxia as a result of the displacement of oxygen by NO2."You should be suspicious of your own motives when you believe you shouldn't be controlled by "negativity and voices" when those abrasive voices are telling you to do something quite sensible like stop consuming extremely high quantities of an inhalant."
Let me first say that I agree with everything you've said about the addiction aspect. I'm not in denial that I'm addicted to nitrous. I really learned to like it, a lot, more than most people on here would understand. The addiction factor is indistinguishable from how people would be addicted to harder drugs, minus the physical withdrawals.
I wanted to respond to your post because I feel like you might be to some degree misunderstood about the fact that nitrous as an "inhalant" equating to other inhalants in terms of physical harm in any way whatsoever. There's no proof at all that a hit of nitrous is any more harmful than simply holding your breath for that amount of time.
What I was referring to is that I wasn't, and still am not convinced to the degree of actual physical harm resulting from nitrous use, even in "large" amounts. I've had a couple of times where I was for lack of better words "depressed" and went on huge binges - I'm talking 10 - 12 boxes per day for up to 4 days straight and suffered zero symptoms of physical harm during or afterwards.
Many of you seem to be under the assumption that because this happened it must be because I experienced physical harm or damage. At that point I was only doing 3-4 boxes like 3X per week. It's really inconclusive how much physical harm this actually causes, relatively speaking. For example no one can really say with any certainty if 3 boxes of chargers is any more harmful than drinking say a couple beers? It's really all speculation.
Now, I can understand how chronic use of nitrous will cause b12 depletion and that can lead to damage over time, but I'm suggesting it would take a lot more nitrous use than what I was actually using to incur any serious physical harm issues. Outside of a few episodes, I've always had a job, so I've been limited to using nos only on the weekends and occasionally after work, but not more than a couple boxes.
What I was suggesting is that I believed, and still do, that the symptoms I was experiencing in my head were purely manifestations of a negative physical mind-frame, and this was somewhat confirmed by the fact that there were no issues with the MRI and all the other brain wave tests that were done shortly after the incident. That said, I didn't wan't to be controlled by what I thought was a bad trip. Just like I'm sure many of you have had bad trips, you would try to stay out of the mindset that something is "broken" in you and start letting yourself be controlled by negative thoughts and feelings, correct? Especially when you are using a psychedellic that's known to have a very low physical harm profile.
I'm not trying to say that nitrous is harmless, in fact I've actually gained a lot more respect to the degree of psychological harm that can result since the incident. Simply being addicted to anything and feeling depressed when you don't have it is psychologically harmful in itself. But again, in terms of the "how much nitrous is too much?" question in terms of actual physical harm, I'm not convinced I was putting myself in any serious danger, and again I think there's too much speculation to say with any degree of certainty how much I was actually harming myself.
Link to full textPotential adverse neurological effects include myelinopathies,
neurotoxicity/hypoxic-ischaemicinjury,neurodevelopmentdis-
turbances,postoperativecognitivedysfunction,andalterations
in intracranial dynamics.
Myelinopathies, such as sub-acute combined degeneration
of the cord (SACD) feature prominently on most anaesthetic
trainees list of nitrous oxide-related complications. While
there is a sound biochemical basis for nitrous oxide to induce
myelinopathy, this complication is limited to case reports and
usually involves prolonged exposure, either occupationally
or as a result of nitrous oxide abuse, that exceeds clinical an-
aesthetic exposure.
Thank you @ Nateup & Adrenaline, and everyone else for your support and insight.
Thank you @ Nateup & Adrenaline, and everyone else for your support and insight.
I actually agree with the quote above. Initially there was a fear factor that had me in a mentally unstable state and had me questioning whether or not there was something "more" going on besides simply the explanation stated above and by a couple other posters here. I'm not going to lie, ever since childhood, I was raised in a strict Catholic household so I believe to some extent there was a "seed" planted in my head that that led me to even considering the possibility of possession, even though I'm currently actually very anti-religious. Like I said, my fear was that there was something more (possibly another dimension) fucking with me, not necessarily a religious type of possession. I didn't mean to make such of a big deal out of the religious aspect as obviously it was such a hot button here on this forum.
My strong suspicion / intuition was actually that it was my own subconscious combined with an extremely dissacociated state led to an "explosion" of an acute psychosis hallucination, but the ongoing feelings in my head were pretty unsettling to say the least.
The MRI and brain wave scans showed no abnormalities and this was WHILE I was experiencing these strange feelings in my head. I also paid attention to my overall mood while I was experiencing these feelings and I didn't really feel different at all.
Thanks to a lot of your insights, I was able to get past the idea of possession and not feel "broken" where as without actually getting the brain scans and getting your insights I might have actually gone on thinking I was possessed for who knows how long and that would have really dragged me down, made me feel defeated, and prevented any positive progress.
So, I believe this is my third thread on experiencing extreme hallucinations on nitrous which appear to be out of the spectrum of effects for nitrous, and possibly things from another dimension (please continue reading).
My first thread was about the first time I experienced said hallucinations, the second thread was when I hallucinated that I was experiencing catastrophic brain damage and I was concerned. Now, it's gotten even worse and much, much crazier.
It all started when I unfortunately decided to take some amphetamines (Sunday) (just 100 mg vyvanse, and I rarely do this anymore). The night before (Saturday) I had gone out drinkking and smoked a bunch of weed, and for some reason, when I took the Vyvanse, I just didn't feel quite right.
I decided to try some whippets. Big mistake.
By the time I got to the third box I was feeling things inside my head squirm around like crazy. Just like the other times, as crazy as it was, I brushed it off, just telling myself that I was tripping and that I will not be harmed by nos.
Today, I did some research, and found this is a common occurance leading up to the opening of the third eye, and possibly at least a partial explanation for some of my other hallucinations.
Next, I felt a series of events go on inside and around my brain. My understanding of what was going on, was that something was trying to warn me not to do anymore nitrous. For example first it was a chisel chipping away at my brain matter, then I heard what I interpreted as a chain saw making long cuts around the outside of my brain, then it was like little razor blade nicks starting on one side of my brain and working its way all the way around covering my entire brain.
Each hit was a new type of these hallucinations, and my interpretation was something was saying: "you better stop, or else..."
Finally, came the hallucination, and distinct feeling, that a stick (representing soomething like dynamite was being lodged into the center of my brain). My interpretation here was: "do you choose life, or death?" As in, are you willing to die to continue using nitrous, and death, as in a more general sense vs. acute death, but still...
Now, I know all of this sounds silly, that was my thought exactly, that's why I decided to take the next hit.
What happened next was I started feeling my brain essentially start to split open in the middle, and also elongate front to back, with little popping feelings. At this point I was like "huh, that's really wierd, and I'm not really having a good time, but honestly, what's the worst that could happen." So, I decided to take another, curious as to what would happen next, but I also didn't want to let something, or some thought control me, I felt like it was my right to do whatever I want.
And this is where the really freaky stuff happened, and I'm not expecting everyone to believe me, but I had to get this out there.
After that last hit, almost instantaneously a crater-like vortex opened up, consumung the entire right side of my head. It was like my skin and bone was gone and my brain was exposed via this crater, about the size of a softball. It was like an orb had penetrated in the right side of my brain, and it was swirling around in my head rapidly and making this really weird noise like something out of a video game. Like what you would expect something swirling around in flesh and blood really fast would sound like, only with the addition of an electronic element, like this low-pitched humming sound. This lasted for about 10-15 seconds.
This was 100% real to me as it was going on. My fiirst thoughts were: how am I going to live the rest of my life with this huge hole in my head, and what am I going to tell my parents, this will ruin them. At first I was even to afraid to touch what I thought was the inside of my head. After a while though, I finally did it, and to my complete surprise, there was no crater! But that doesn't take away from the fact that at that point my sanity was completely fucked with the prospect of something penetrating into my soul.
So, the next day, I thought I would be fine, right? Nope. Every time I take any drug, even phenibut and gabapentin. my head keeps splitting open in the middle and I keep ketting these swirling sensations inside my head where it feels like someone is licking their thumb and pressing / moving it around the inside of my head. It was very frightening when it happened at first and I was sober, then I got over it, but then it wouldn't go away and my forehead & middle of my head started getting sore so again, I got freaked out, and started reading the bible outloud, because I didn't know what else to do, and I've denounced Christianity to my entire family years ago. This is how worked up this thing has got me.
Of course I was freaked out, I'm seeing a priest today because I can't afford a psychologist. Plus, I know they will see me right away. But if any of you have any advice that would be huge. Not knowing whether or not I'm possessed is killing me. This is the second day after it happened and it still feels like things ar pressing up against the inside of my skull and moving around.
PS - The reason I'm inclined to think I might have gotten possesed, is that from the research I've done, opening the third eye under the wrong (malicious, hedonistic etc...) circumstances, can allow demons to enter, because it gives them ground to stand on. The fact that I continued to do more whippets after presenting myself with the question "do you choose life or death", I feel might have opened the wrong doorway for demons.
Kinda late but here is my little possession story