Can animals such as cats get contact highs from humans? Or even humans??

[InhaleDeep]

Found this old topic while searching for answers on my cat's unusual behaviour when she was recently present with me while I was tripping for the first time. I'll have to dig deeper into this. Does anyone have any more experiences to share?

 

[yepyepwoah]

first time I ever ate mushrooms, as soon as I went outside my two cats ran up to me like "wtf". They would basically follow me, and respond to voice commands like "come on inside". Went into my kitchen and the walls/floors were running with colors. I watched my cats interact with what I was seeing. So awesome.

My cat I have now, helped me the fuck out on a 7g mushroom trip. Long long story short I took them out in public, barely made it home, and laid in my bed under a blanket terrified the cops were gonna bust in for me any minute. Cat stayed next to me and kept me sane. Don't really remember how exactly, just like a presense of "HEY snap out if it, get back to the real world buddy".

On MXE the same cat interacts with me way different than sober. I talk to her and the way she looks and reacts is like she understands me. If not my words exactly, my intent. She definatly knows something is up.

Love cats

 

[TangerinO]

Yeah just for the record the footage I've seen of cats under the influence of LSD is not pretty.
The sound is even more horrific.

Please no one ever give your cat acid, and as for contact highs, I've heard many instances of cats acting differently around their owners when psychedelics are involved. Same with dogs.

 

[DwayneHoover]

Like at this guys house if your on ecstasy and he see's you petting one of his dogs he gets pissed.

"This guy" needs to be committed to a mental hospital and force fed lithium for a while, imo 8)

I do agree animals can tell you are different and so they act different. But I don't think the reason is anything "psychic." They are just picking up on things like body language, heartrate and respiration, our smell etc that I am sure change in ways you cannot notice or control, and that animals are like 1000X more sensitive to than we are.

 

[Biovail]

Has anybody considered the possibility that their pets aren't actually acting very differently, but the person tripping just observes their pet's behaviors differently?

 

[greenmeanies]

^That's always the fear, right? Strange things happen when you're high, but because you're high you never quite know if the event was actually strange or if it was just you... Nah. Strange things happen ALL the time, and sober people just shrug off most of them.

 

[Jesusgreen]

Has anybody considered the possibility that their pets aren't actually acting very differently, but the person tripping just observes their pet's behaviors differently?

^ Or that the pets notice that they are acting differently, and so act differently accordingly. Definitely no "contact high" or anything like that.

 

[Scunch]

The mirror neuron thing is interesting but it's more likely that the cat was changing it's behavior because it noticed more open subconscious gestures. An animal can tell when you are relaxed and happy and explicitly nonthreatening behavior makes them open up alot. It's all subconscious cues. It's alot how contact highs work with humans too, in theory. people will mirror moods of other people if they are in an open mood.