Affection of short-term memory with 2cb

[Tevil19]

Hi all,

Im new to the forums. Last night I took the psychedelic drug 2cb and was doing a memory game. When sober I would get to level 6 on average and while under the influence of 2cb only to level 5. It's not a huge difference, but significant in my opinion. To be clear, level 6 involves remembering a sequence of 8 digits and level 5 a sequence of 7. The key is to rank the numbers from low to high (0, 1, 5, 6 for example). The numbers are radomly placed at the screen. It's somewhat harder to concentrate on a specific activity while tripping. I have had this before when I was tripping and having a conversation and forgetting what we were talking about. Anyone else who had similar exprecience? And what is the scientific explanation for this?

 

[Solipsis]

Hello and welcome to bluelight and PD!

If I'd have to guess I would say that this is a result of loss of attention or focus on a task. Psychedelics tend to make people very sensitive, their response to a stimulus will likely be amplified. There may be an increased feeling of emotional response or sense of novelty or other ways a person is affected. All these increased reactions demand increased attention and focus. The ability to focus on and process information is probably not significantly increased with 2C-B though it may be with DOX type drugs. Even then it is a big question whether this increased attention can conpensate for disproportionately experienced events, especially when sensory information becomes distorted.

The inability to keep up with this is IMO what causes this.

It is also why we need time after a psychedelic experience to process things: we build up a debt of experiences that cannot be properly processed at the time and given a place in the "big picture" that represents our map of reality and things we have made sense of to our best ability. If we are unable to give a proportional emotional and rational meaning to an experience we cannot properly "file it". In other words we need time to gain perspective so that this new perspective can contain those experience in retrospect.

 

[Tevil19]

Hi, thanks for replying to my thread

I strongly agree with you. I felt like there was too much information coming in at the time. Not only the colors of the game were greatly intensified, but also the walls and ceiling were waving. This could easily cause loss of attention to the specific task. Now that Im sober, the regular/normal focus is restored.