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ColdNorth

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Hey everyone. A lot of drugs seem to mess with memory and hilarious situations have ensued. Unfortunately for some strange reason they often vanish never to be heard of again before they get passed on. I searched for a while but didn't find a thread like this (remove if wrong) so..

If you have any stories about impaired memory (drugs or otherwise) I would love to hear them. =)



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What is this 'Bluelight'? Where are my pants? WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANT??




Right. I guess this is a normal evening for some but can't remember anything else right now. ;) A few years ago a friend came to ask for some weed for a night out but we smoked and he forgot to take it with him. He called me and I proudly claimed I would bring it to his place and join him on his bar trek. I brought my own tiny smell proof film spool of bud but not his bag. We decided to go to my place on the way to town to get it at last but ended up passing my apartment of the time by 2 blocks and continuing to town anyway before realizing we must be dealing with a very devious devil bag of weed as it was still on my kitchen table. Alcohol was involved and by last call one joint was enough so nothing of value was lost.
 
Mine is in an overal múch better shape then my usage pattern and drugs of choise (ketamine, weed, there's more drugs of choise but these two are infamous for causing memory issues) would suggest, short and long term memory are fine and often better then the memories of people who have never touched a single drug in their life and don't drink much either, it's definatly a lót better then my weed smoking and alcohol drinking friends, I remember for example the exact date and hours specific events happened for all my 51 LSD trips. If someone were to pick a random event that happened within the last 5 years I can usually mention the date and hour those things happened on if I was aware of the date and hour at the time, I can also recall the intire interiors of stores I bought a certain item of clothing at going years back. I was born with an eidetic memory, and I guess mine is just less vulnerable.

One specific part of my memory did suffer a bit though; the ability to think of what a certain thing is called; can be anything. Usually not names of people but of actual things, I'll then remember what the thing I'm thinking of looks like, am capable of describing it, remembering plenty of anekdotes containing it but with the best will I can't recall what it is called. Word memory I guess. My vocabulairy did not shrink, it's just these occasional events where I can't remember what a certain thing is called. This doesn't happen all the time, usually just the first 3-5 days after a heavy ketamine binge, but since I do those atleast nearly every weekend I am like that about 50% of the time. Usually it's just two or three words a week I have it happen with, but it's not good by any means and it is certainly drug induced.

Weed also made my memory a bit less linear, it's as good at remembering images (my eidetic memory works with pure visual information only, reading a page and then recalling the words doesn't work, it has to be shapes and colours, it works fine on faces, scenes, places, items, art etc.), but it's not as good as it should've been at putting the images in the correct order.

Either way there is no practical impairment, the word recall thing is rare and I can usually work my way around it or remember a few minutes later anyway and the chronology issue is solved by concentration, I just know that before I started smoking hash every day and if I stay off hash for over a month it's more linear.

I'm really quite happy with this; it could've been so much worse and really with how I live it couldn't be much better then this. I did read at some point long ago that people with a stronger memory to begin with suffer this side effect from cannabis less then people who's memory is already a little blurry and judging by myself and some friends this could be true for the majority (that study suggested it but I read it years back and wouldn't be able to find it instantly now. If someone really wants it I can google it later but then again so can the person wanting it).
 
ahh beat me to it ^^^

yeah my memory is terrible

i'm probably going to post in this thread in a couple days without realizing i already did
 
I've gotten high on a complete assortment of every type of drug in the book, and every drug under those types, but my main addiction was Xanax (or Klonopins) with heroin (or any lovely opiate :D )
So, after three years of pretty powerful addiction and 7 years of total recreational drug use, I have not fried my memory too bad.
Granted I have quit smoking pot for a long time now, and I KNOW that has a LOT to do with it. When I'd smoke every day, I couldn't remember what my last meal was.
 
My memory's pretty bad, but it's always been pretty bad. I smoke green most days and drink a lot, I also dabble in coke twice a month (or there abouts). Also occasionally have a go on acid and MXE. I stopped smoking for a while a couple of years back and did notice a slight improvement in memory, but I'd rather enjoy smoking regularly than have a slightly better recollection ability.
 
my memory is fine now that i dont smoke weed all the time.

however when i was like 16 and smoking all day everyday was different. One time before my parents confronted me about smoking, i was leaving for school and my dad was doing something in the front room by the door. I walked out to the car drove to the end of the street and realized i forgot my backpack so turned around to get it. When i walked back in my dad looked at me and i said "forgot my backpack!" and he goes "....little short term memory loss eh?".

and thats when i knew they knew.
 
I'm a daily toker and do whatever other drugs I can get my paws on. My short term memory probably isn't as good as it could be, but my long term is great. I probably do the most drugs out of my group of friends and I swear my memory trounces theirs. I can't count the number of times my friends will tell me a story about an event I was at, or tell me the same story for the next 5 times we hang.

Maybe I'm just not that memorable.
 
I find it much harder to remember things I don't really have an interest in. I'm not sure if that's due to past drug use, though. Also, I can't remember much of what I did during the years that I was a heavy user. Often times I'll hear stories that I was apart of and I have no recollection of them.
 
Cheers for the interesting replies. =) Seems it's more about the person than the drugs. It would be interesting to know precisely what activities could be used to counter the effects. Not that all even could be but the brain can be worked like a muscle to some degree beyond basic learning. You can 'train' for classic IQ tests by doing similar tasks beforehand.

Memory has a huge impact on perception of reality. Almost anything we do utilizes memory. The brain has a bad habit of filling out the blanks. Did you check that the banner on the top still says 'Bluelight'? Did you look out the window to see if there's an orgy in your yard or perhaps a unicorn? Of course not, it's easier to assume nothing has changed. My point is when we forget details of memories they can become warped as the brain compensates and we won't know the difference. Our subjective view of 'reality' is built on information that degrades over time. And there's often no way to tell if a subjective memory is accurate. That has always bothered me slightly.

I've been having these wake-ups recently. It's hard to explain, I can't remember the last 10-30 (hard to say) minutes when it happens. I'm just suddenly somewhere with no idea how I got there. It's only disorienting for a short while before I adapt but it can happen in unwanted situations, like in the middle of a conversation. Or people might have appeared at my house, etc. It's only been happening since coming off the majority of drugs and going on lithium little over a year ago. It's not unpleasant, just confusing. Told my psychiatrist about it but I don't think he believed me. However it IS happening. I dare not mention this to any other doctor as it might cost my driver's license.

This memory stuff is all relative though and there's no point worrying about it. Arguably bad memory could even enhance the present moment when you don't think of bad things so often. I think some psychonauts even enjoy the feeling of drifting around in time instead of being anchored to the present. =)
 
i cant even remember who i sent a text too and if i accidently deleted it i start to freak and think i sent it to the wrong person
 
I had a stutter and drugs fixed my stutter. I also had mild social anxiety and drugs permanently fixed that too. (Glorifying the use of drugs, I know, but it's true.)


But One time while I was on the good ole' JWH-18 I was going to go out for a drive to a friend's place, because I didn't feel safe at home. So I took a bunch of stuff that I felt I would need. Toothbrush, scissors, waterbottle, and a pair of headphones.

As I was passing through the kitchen I felt like it'd be a good idea to grab some food on the way out. Needless to say, I left EVERYTHING I was holding in the fridge and left the house holding a bag of turkey deli-meat.

My brother later texted me asking why the fuck a toothbrush, scissors, waterbottle and headphones were in the fridge. AS WELL as my pipe which was half-loaded. Which I don't even know how it got there.
 
I had a stutter and drugs fixed my stutter. I also had mild social anxiety and drugs permanently fixed that too. (Glorifying the use of drugs, I know, but it's true.)


But One time while I was on the good ole' JWH-18 I was going to go out for a drive to a friend's place, because I didn't feel safe at home. So I took a bunch of stuff that I felt I would need. Toothbrush, scissors, waterbottle, and a pair of headphones.

As I was passing through the kitchen I felt like it'd be a good idea to grab some food on the way out. Needless to say, I left EVERYTHING I was holding in the fridge and left the house holding a bag of turkey deli-meat.

My brother later texted me asking why the fuck a toothbrush, scissors, waterbottle and headphones were in the fridge. AS WELL as my pipe which was half-loaded. Which I don't even know how it got there.

Reading that after a bong rip saved a boring morning, lol'd hard. =)
 
Well this one night I had sass with these couple of dudes and we drove up to the mountains to overlook this city. I was pretty high, I had also had some four loko and a couple of blunts. So yeah we end up going to this same place but this time I was smoking on a 5 gram blunt with them... and then the area looks entirely different and at one point I thought I was getting kidnapped. I kept telling the driver this isn't the right way, omg this isn't the right way. We are going the wrong way and I kept asking over and over if they were kidnapping me. Well it ended up we got to the place but I remember going a different way the other time or I was so high I didn't really notice/remember where we were driving the first time. So my memory kind of fucked with me.
 
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