People start peeking out windows because they think they are being watched, or that the police are out there. People start hanging blankets over windows that already have blinds so that people won't look in or see that the lights are on at night. Sometimes people creep around listening to neighbors through the walls, getting on the floor and peering under doors, all kinds of paranoid shit.
^ This. I wish somebody would do a study on this because it's always been fascinating to me. For the longest time I always figured it was simply due to conditioning and maybe people having watched too many fucking movies or something. Always wondered what would happen if you took somebody off of a remote island and that had never ever seen some or the other cop show or series, then forced them to keep smoking Crack until they hit that paranoia wall, and see what would happen. I mean: how could they be paranoid about the DEA being outside the door if they never knew who or what the DEA was? What I'm saying is that there's obviously a part of the brain or something like that and which gets overstimulated or something and induces paranoia. But would this poor island bastard be paranoid about something else and how would it manifest itself?
I mean to say it is pretty interesting no? How is it you can get five total strangers in a room, all with totally different life experience, but given enough Crack a majority wills tart behaving the exact same way particularly with regard to peeking out windows or peering under doors. Compare that to tripping on psychedelics (of which I have no experience) but from just what I've read around these parts: every tripper "sees" "something" different no? Mind you: even that'd be an interesting experiment i.e. take five individuals, give them serious doses of LSD or that 5-Meo-Whatnot, compare trips, then delve into their backgrounds and belief systems or check what the last bit of reading they'd done on the topic.
Conversely: there's always the fortunate clown in the room that's unaffected and keeps on telling you that you're just being ridiculous.
And curiously: once you've earned your Crack paranoia stripes, even after years of abuse, there's no going back from it even after years of abstinence. And that cannot have anything to do with tolerance because the rush and feeling is exactly the same. It takes far less for paranoia to set in than it did initially even after years of abstinence.
Shall I start a thread about this in Drug Studies? Be no shortage of applicants I'm sure. All Cocaine for the clinical trial and study to be supplied by Merck so as to ensure a baseline and standard!
And also curiously and anecdotally: never ever experienced paranoia from HCL even after copious amounts (but HCL usage was always accompanied with alcohol consumption so maybe there's something in that i.e. with Crack alcohol was only resorted to after the fact and a crass but effective method of getting past the paranoia so maybe there's something in that too).
And after all of that: doesn't even answer the OP's question directly. Plenty tell tale signs. Usually a fair amount of constant sniffing, frequent visits to the restroom during a restaurant meal, only for the individual to return and have an air about them like they're walking on water and with a huge beaming smile on the face. Also: sudden and inexplicable loss of interest in the food on the table and a compulsion to pay the bill and get home. Oh and becoming very friendly and talkative and understanding but while looking bored out of their minds with the conversation! Or that "oops I wonder what this is i.e. now what would make my nose bleed all of a sudden like this" statement followed obviously by another immediate trip to the restroom! The latter a dead giveaway of course!
