Am i alive?

Colonel Contin

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I recently quit a moderately heavy, four-year, daily opiate
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habit using a suboxone taper (ending roughly two weeks ago). As of recently, often when I look at things they appear to be a product of some advanced CGI and seem to retain little of their organic essence. Everything appears to move in slow motion, and colors are vivid as surrealist painting or a palette one may associate with cartoons. Aside from the hallucinogenesque anxiety it tends to cause me, it is actually quite enjoyable (and I have a very sparse history with psychedelic substances
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so I don't think they are playing much of a part, if any).

In all seriousness, while I have no reasonable suspicion that I may actually be 'dead', I sometimes find myself wondering if what I am seeing is real, or if I have crossed over (or maybe just lost it). I can't kill myself for answers, because death is the end of knowledge and exclusively offers the experience of itself - an induction into the league of the pallid elite
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Can anybody relate to this?

(PS: I don't smoke a whole hell of a lot of pot, nor do I smoke it regularly so I don't think it is much of a factor... though it does exacerbate the anomaly
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After long regular opiate use the brain can take quite a long time to re-adjust, something like 9nmonths i think, so the feelings you are having, allthough not regular side effects of opiate PAWS, seem to me like a rarer kind of opiate PAWS symptoms...

You may need to give things a while until they get back to "normal", but i believe they will.

Bon courage l'ami!
 
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