Thick_as_a_Planck
Bluelighter
OK, so this is my 'report' on my experiences with the drug ketamine. These are based solely on a three or four week period I spent in Cuzco, Peru, where Ketamine is (I kid you not) freely availiable in the chemists for about three pounds for a 10ml vial, along with the associated paraphernalia, needles and the like... Obviously, this makes the town a rather nice place to experiment with the drug, and I did so, heavily. So here are my thoughts.
I tried the drug two different ways, and they gave quite different effects, so I'll describe each in turn. The first way was snorting the powder, which I would not bother with again since I found quite dull - skip to the second if you want to read about a slightly more entertaining experience. I suspect snorting is the more popular method in western countries because it is far easier to obtain the powder than the liquid, the opposite of the situation in Peru. So, first up some preparation was invloved. This is largely irrelevant to the whole experience, so I won't include it, but it took roughly fifteen minutes to reduce the little bottle down to a gram or so of powder. Then you're ready to snort. The first time we took it, three of us went up to some Inca ruins overlooking the town, and found a quiet spot with some fantastic views. We had not drunk any alcohol or tried any other drugs for at least twenty-four hours, as far as I can remember - we started sober. We cut the powder into ten lines, and started with one each. Snorting K is physically unpleasent, burning the nostrils slightly, but this passes to a mild tingling after a minute. It does not numb the nose or throat like some other powder you've probably snorted. Effects set in within about ten minutes, peak by about fifteen, and lasted no more than half an hour. With such a small does to start, the effects were not immediately noticable. In fact, I would say there were no mental effects whatsoever. Only when we were almost spotted by some suspicious tourists, and thought we should probably move, did we notice anything - the drug makes you lose co-ordination quite badly. It's rather odd at first because mentally, you feel entirely normal, in fact even gaining some lucidity (though this may be a placebo that comes with trying to examine your own thoughts). However, when you try and walk, you find yourself mysteriously falling over for no reason. You feel as though you should be able to walk easily - but you simply can't, and the mental contradiction is rather funny: I think the fact that we were laughing a lot was caused more because we were each watching the others fall over than some inherent effect of the drug. After we had come down from the first line and also found a new, more remote location, we took the rest. This time we took just over two lines each, and the effects were more obvious, hitting faster. I would say they peaked within ten mins, with a 'plateau phase' of another five. Still there was little noticable effect on my thoughts, though once or twice I 'drifted off' as if mildy stoned. But trying to walk or carry out complex physical actions became very difficult, partially because of a simple lack of co-ordination, but also with this dose you begin to feel the onset of derealization in both hands and feet. Holding up your hand to your face, or looking down at your feet, you have a very vague sense they belong to someone else. Talking becomes more difficult and you slurr heavily. It's all rather bizarre but not, if I'm honest, such an amazing exerience - only mildly entertaining. However, I want to say here that having talked to others who have tried snorting much higher does, I believe you can achieve the very same effects as with method two (discussed below), but would require much more of the drug. From experience I believe snorting requires about five times as much as an injection for the same effects. Thus, snorting is not the best way since it is slightly painful on the nose, requires some boring prep., and is much less efficient - but can still do the job if you're sqeamish about needles. So, onto method two... injection.
This is an intramuscular injection, normally in into the deltoid muscle (that's the shoulder, dummy!), though I also tried my thigh muscle and bicep, neither of which seemed to work as effectively. K can also be injected intravenously, though this is apparently rather dangerous as the drug can very quickly shut down your whole nervous system if you put in too much, so I leave that up to someone else to try. For I/M injection I recommend a dose of one ml, equivalent to filling a normal diabetic's syringe. The body becomes tolerant to the drug rapidly with repeated sessions but also completely loses this tolerance again after no more than forty-eight hours, according to my experimentation. Regardless of previous doses I would never recommend more than a three mil does at any one time. Onset is four to five minutes, plateau is between ten and fifteen, and all effects cease after half an hour, maybe just touching forty mins at very high doses.
So, that's the boring, factual stuff out of the way, onto my description.
Firstly, Ketamine is fantastic. It is a great, great drug to do, the best I've tried, and I think I've tried more than most. I would leap at the chance to try it again, though for me it would have to be a similar situation - clean, packaged needles available from a reputable source, as well as a sealed bottle of the stuff so I know I'm not getting AIDS or some other horror. Injecting K is like going on one big fucking adventure. You come down rather quickly afterwards, and for about ten minutes you'll sit there just thinking.... 'Jee-sus'. Though it is definitely a 'downer' and most people describe the experience as 'going down the K-hole' (probably because you feel like you are sinking into the floor if you lie back and close your eyes), for me, the drug is, mentally at least, a definite upper. Your thoughts fly to undreamed of levels, making connections like a free-association session gone haywire. If you close your eyes these thoughts will give birth to vivid hallucinations - though these vanish as soon as you open them again. These hallicinations are partly controllable as they tend to stem from whatever you may be thinking of at that moment. Thinking of a certain object will immediately conjure up a picture of it, though this tends to fade, blur or change again very rapidly, in a way not unlike the changing colours or shapes of the 'visualisations' on windows media player. When lying still with the eyes closed, the mind exhibits signs of prolonged sensorary deprivation. Small, inconsequential stimuli become fleetingly very important. You may hear a car horn distantly outside, and the noise will expand and reverberate inside your mind, expanding and changing, blurring, becoming something else. On the other hand, huge and obvious stimuli, like watching a film, can become impossible to concentrate on and fade miles into the background. (Incidentally, the very first time I watched Requiem for a Dream I was on K, and couldn't work out if it was me being weird or the film. Turns out both.) Taking the drug socially is fun, but difficult: the effects on co-ordination become much more pronounced, and you will slurr very badly, to the extent it can be difficult to understand one another. But you do feel an amazing connection and empathy with others, similar to E, which makes conversation seem meaningful and deep. Laughter is not one of the effects - in fact I'd say you laugh less when on a large dose, because every transient little thing seems so important. It does not induce violence if you're predisposed that way (I'm not) and seems unlikely to cause extremes of emotion or a 'bad trip'. Physically it can cause rushes or waves of intense pleasure, though they are normally short-lived. Perhaps the thing I like most is that, when on it, you can very much choose your own level of involvment. Lying back on a bed, in a dark, quiet room, I believe your thoughts can fly further and faster than with any other substance, or certainly any I've tried. But if, instead, you want to talk and socialise while taking it, this too is possible (though a little more effort than normal). When talking your brain has something to latch onto and will not take flight so easily - you should be relatively normal. To the other person, you will probably appear a mixture of drunk (slurring and loss of balance) and stoned (a tendency to lose the thread of the conversation) - but neither affects the conversation too negatively, and your enjoyment of the drug will more than offset the fact that the other guy might be slightly confused. I've had fantastic times in clubs, when I've been sitting talking to somone, tripping off my fucking face but still able to have a fairly serious, interesting coversation, then they go off to the bar or toilet, and I can just sit back, close my eyes and... bam! Ten seconds later, I'm so far down the K-hole you'd need a crane to get me out. They come back from the bar five mins later and poke me a few times (which is a little embarrassing, I admit: one time I think I was drooling a little!), I 'wake up', and the talk just begins again!
There are no bad effects at all that I can think of, though some may not enjoy the extreme feelings of dissasociation it can cause in your limbs, espeically noticable when coming down. Occasionally you literally open your eyes and the hands and feet infront of you do not seem to belong to your body at all; very weird, but still interesting to experience if you don't mind the weirder drug-symptoms (and I suspect most people on this site won't). There is no particular pining for the drug while on comedown, as with coke, and no hangover or bad after-effects.
All in all, K really is my favourite drug. It's got the hippy-chilled out liberal attitude of weed or mushrooms, but with a hardcore edge to it that you can really sink into. It is not physically addictive (though might well be phsycologically) and has few unhealthy side effects that I know of. All in all... just damn well try it. Today.
I tried the drug two different ways, and they gave quite different effects, so I'll describe each in turn. The first way was snorting the powder, which I would not bother with again since I found quite dull - skip to the second if you want to read about a slightly more entertaining experience. I suspect snorting is the more popular method in western countries because it is far easier to obtain the powder than the liquid, the opposite of the situation in Peru. So, first up some preparation was invloved. This is largely irrelevant to the whole experience, so I won't include it, but it took roughly fifteen minutes to reduce the little bottle down to a gram or so of powder. Then you're ready to snort. The first time we took it, three of us went up to some Inca ruins overlooking the town, and found a quiet spot with some fantastic views. We had not drunk any alcohol or tried any other drugs for at least twenty-four hours, as far as I can remember - we started sober. We cut the powder into ten lines, and started with one each. Snorting K is physically unpleasent, burning the nostrils slightly, but this passes to a mild tingling after a minute. It does not numb the nose or throat like some other powder you've probably snorted. Effects set in within about ten minutes, peak by about fifteen, and lasted no more than half an hour. With such a small does to start, the effects were not immediately noticable. In fact, I would say there were no mental effects whatsoever. Only when we were almost spotted by some suspicious tourists, and thought we should probably move, did we notice anything - the drug makes you lose co-ordination quite badly. It's rather odd at first because mentally, you feel entirely normal, in fact even gaining some lucidity (though this may be a placebo that comes with trying to examine your own thoughts). However, when you try and walk, you find yourself mysteriously falling over for no reason. You feel as though you should be able to walk easily - but you simply can't, and the mental contradiction is rather funny: I think the fact that we were laughing a lot was caused more because we were each watching the others fall over than some inherent effect of the drug. After we had come down from the first line and also found a new, more remote location, we took the rest. This time we took just over two lines each, and the effects were more obvious, hitting faster. I would say they peaked within ten mins, with a 'plateau phase' of another five. Still there was little noticable effect on my thoughts, though once or twice I 'drifted off' as if mildy stoned. But trying to walk or carry out complex physical actions became very difficult, partially because of a simple lack of co-ordination, but also with this dose you begin to feel the onset of derealization in both hands and feet. Holding up your hand to your face, or looking down at your feet, you have a very vague sense they belong to someone else. Talking becomes more difficult and you slurr heavily. It's all rather bizarre but not, if I'm honest, such an amazing exerience - only mildly entertaining. However, I want to say here that having talked to others who have tried snorting much higher does, I believe you can achieve the very same effects as with method two (discussed below), but would require much more of the drug. From experience I believe snorting requires about five times as much as an injection for the same effects. Thus, snorting is not the best way since it is slightly painful on the nose, requires some boring prep., and is much less efficient - but can still do the job if you're sqeamish about needles. So, onto method two... injection.
This is an intramuscular injection, normally in into the deltoid muscle (that's the shoulder, dummy!), though I also tried my thigh muscle and bicep, neither of which seemed to work as effectively. K can also be injected intravenously, though this is apparently rather dangerous as the drug can very quickly shut down your whole nervous system if you put in too much, so I leave that up to someone else to try. For I/M injection I recommend a dose of one ml, equivalent to filling a normal diabetic's syringe. The body becomes tolerant to the drug rapidly with repeated sessions but also completely loses this tolerance again after no more than forty-eight hours, according to my experimentation. Regardless of previous doses I would never recommend more than a three mil does at any one time. Onset is four to five minutes, plateau is between ten and fifteen, and all effects cease after half an hour, maybe just touching forty mins at very high doses.
So, that's the boring, factual stuff out of the way, onto my description.
Firstly, Ketamine is fantastic. It is a great, great drug to do, the best I've tried, and I think I've tried more than most. I would leap at the chance to try it again, though for me it would have to be a similar situation - clean, packaged needles available from a reputable source, as well as a sealed bottle of the stuff so I know I'm not getting AIDS or some other horror. Injecting K is like going on one big fucking adventure. You come down rather quickly afterwards, and for about ten minutes you'll sit there just thinking.... 'Jee-sus'. Though it is definitely a 'downer' and most people describe the experience as 'going down the K-hole' (probably because you feel like you are sinking into the floor if you lie back and close your eyes), for me, the drug is, mentally at least, a definite upper. Your thoughts fly to undreamed of levels, making connections like a free-association session gone haywire. If you close your eyes these thoughts will give birth to vivid hallucinations - though these vanish as soon as you open them again. These hallicinations are partly controllable as they tend to stem from whatever you may be thinking of at that moment. Thinking of a certain object will immediately conjure up a picture of it, though this tends to fade, blur or change again very rapidly, in a way not unlike the changing colours or shapes of the 'visualisations' on windows media player. When lying still with the eyes closed, the mind exhibits signs of prolonged sensorary deprivation. Small, inconsequential stimuli become fleetingly very important. You may hear a car horn distantly outside, and the noise will expand and reverberate inside your mind, expanding and changing, blurring, becoming something else. On the other hand, huge and obvious stimuli, like watching a film, can become impossible to concentrate on and fade miles into the background. (Incidentally, the very first time I watched Requiem for a Dream I was on K, and couldn't work out if it was me being weird or the film. Turns out both.) Taking the drug socially is fun, but difficult: the effects on co-ordination become much more pronounced, and you will slurr very badly, to the extent it can be difficult to understand one another. But you do feel an amazing connection and empathy with others, similar to E, which makes conversation seem meaningful and deep. Laughter is not one of the effects - in fact I'd say you laugh less when on a large dose, because every transient little thing seems so important. It does not induce violence if you're predisposed that way (I'm not) and seems unlikely to cause extremes of emotion or a 'bad trip'. Physically it can cause rushes or waves of intense pleasure, though they are normally short-lived. Perhaps the thing I like most is that, when on it, you can very much choose your own level of involvment. Lying back on a bed, in a dark, quiet room, I believe your thoughts can fly further and faster than with any other substance, or certainly any I've tried. But if, instead, you want to talk and socialise while taking it, this too is possible (though a little more effort than normal). When talking your brain has something to latch onto and will not take flight so easily - you should be relatively normal. To the other person, you will probably appear a mixture of drunk (slurring and loss of balance) and stoned (a tendency to lose the thread of the conversation) - but neither affects the conversation too negatively, and your enjoyment of the drug will more than offset the fact that the other guy might be slightly confused. I've had fantastic times in clubs, when I've been sitting talking to somone, tripping off my fucking face but still able to have a fairly serious, interesting coversation, then they go off to the bar or toilet, and I can just sit back, close my eyes and... bam! Ten seconds later, I'm so far down the K-hole you'd need a crane to get me out. They come back from the bar five mins later and poke me a few times (which is a little embarrassing, I admit: one time I think I was drooling a little!), I 'wake up', and the talk just begins again!
There are no bad effects at all that I can think of, though some may not enjoy the extreme feelings of dissasociation it can cause in your limbs, espeically noticable when coming down. Occasionally you literally open your eyes and the hands and feet infront of you do not seem to belong to your body at all; very weird, but still interesting to experience if you don't mind the weirder drug-symptoms (and I suspect most people on this site won't). There is no particular pining for the drug while on comedown, as with coke, and no hangover or bad after-effects.
All in all, K really is my favourite drug. It's got the hippy-chilled out liberal attitude of weed or mushrooms, but with a hardcore edge to it that you can really sink into. It is not physically addictive (though might well be phsycologically) and has few unhealthy side effects that I know of. All in all... just damn well try it. Today.
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