GRNBTTSTY
Bluelighter
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- May 29, 2009
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I figured this was the correct place to put this but if it belongs in ADD or somewhere else, you have my apologies Mr. or Ms. Mod.
I had a very powerful experience recently on Buprenorphine. To make it short, I went to a concert and as I was nodding out my brain started overflowing with what imaginings; images, story elements, character concepts, story ideas, and visions. It was fantastic, these where very simliar to how my brain normally shoots things I am later going to try too write at me, if slightly more dreamy and much more rapid. I've had this experience before on Opioids but nothing this amazing. These are what I call Pipe Dreams. I believe that to be the correct term.
I am very pleased as these experiences are not only helpful to me, but they are very pleasurable as well and it appears that, for me a at any rate, Buprenorphine (which I've only recently been introduced to) is more prone to giving me these types of experiences then any other Opioid.
From what little I know about it, the term originally came about from Opium smokers. When they smoked the Opium out of their pipes it would make them nod so hard that they would essentially experience dreams while still awake. Most Opiates and Opioids have very similar pharmacological profiles and operate very similarly in the brain and body, thus many people still experience Pipe Dreams when taking a sufficient dose of an Opiating substance to make themselves nod. They have been described as waking dreams/visions and vivid hallucinations. One fellow Bluelighter described his experiences to me as Heroin Ghosts. He said that when he first started abusing Heroin he would nod off a lot of the time and would be surprised when he opened his eyes again and saw people walking through his house.
Please if you know any more detailed information about any aspect of this; how/why it works, how it differs from drug to drug, if eventually, even without a tolerance or being addicted, they will begin to cease, etc. Have you experienced these or anything like it yourself? Do you like them, hate them, find them annoying?
tl;dr Pipe Dreams/Opiate Hallucinations/Opioid Visions or Dreams. What gives? You like?
I know I do!
I had a very powerful experience recently on Buprenorphine. To make it short, I went to a concert and as I was nodding out my brain started overflowing with what imaginings; images, story elements, character concepts, story ideas, and visions. It was fantastic, these where very simliar to how my brain normally shoots things I am later going to try too write at me, if slightly more dreamy and much more rapid. I've had this experience before on Opioids but nothing this amazing. These are what I call Pipe Dreams. I believe that to be the correct term.
I am very pleased as these experiences are not only helpful to me, but they are very pleasurable as well and it appears that, for me a at any rate, Buprenorphine (which I've only recently been introduced to) is more prone to giving me these types of experiences then any other Opioid.

From what little I know about it, the term originally came about from Opium smokers. When they smoked the Opium out of their pipes it would make them nod so hard that they would essentially experience dreams while still awake. Most Opiates and Opioids have very similar pharmacological profiles and operate very similarly in the brain and body, thus many people still experience Pipe Dreams when taking a sufficient dose of an Opiating substance to make themselves nod. They have been described as waking dreams/visions and vivid hallucinations. One fellow Bluelighter described his experiences to me as Heroin Ghosts. He said that when he first started abusing Heroin he would nod off a lot of the time and would be surprised when he opened his eyes again and saw people walking through his house.
Please if you know any more detailed information about any aspect of this; how/why it works, how it differs from drug to drug, if eventually, even without a tolerance or being addicted, they will begin to cease, etc. Have you experienced these or anything like it yourself? Do you like them, hate them, find them annoying?
tl;dr Pipe Dreams/Opiate Hallucinations/Opioid Visions or Dreams. What gives? You like?
I know I do!