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Unusual reaction to Ketamine

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I have begun to notice that Ketamine sometimes has what I gather to be a slightly unusual affect on me,

At what would usually be a K-holing dose, it sometimes happens that while I am trying to do something, for example get water, walk around the room either experimentally or for some purpose or other (perhaps ill-advisedly) and while this is happening the typical K-hole effects will build to the extent that I think I am somewhere else but I am still, visibly at least according to friends, mobile and apparently quite conscious and awake (although when this happens I apparently look like I think I am somewhere else).

The weird thing is that when this happens I can still sometimes observe people, specifically faces, sometimes attached to a probably imaginary body as part of the environment I perceive myself to be within, but also sometimes as inanimate objects nonsensical in a way that would never happen in reality, such as embedded into rocks, and probably a few other things I can't recall at the moment.

In fact sometimes I can even hear people talking and respond to them - the level of understanding that I have varies, sometimes I am quite aware that where I think I am is not real, sometimes I am not so sure. I have been in the midst of a K-hole and noticed someone's face who I am doing it (usually when they are sllightly less intoxicated) and have been able to ask them things. In fact one time, while I perceived myself to be in some magnificent rollercoaster combined with a futuristic restaurant sort of place, travelling through a vast forest, but was actually just sitting down on the floor, I saw my friend a short distance away from me and calmly asked her "Where are we?" In fact the entire brief conversation went something like this:

"Hey [friend's name]."
"Yeah?"
"Where are we?"
"In [girlfriend's] room."
"Oh... OK."



And then I lost sight of her and continued to trip the fuck out.

From what I have read and gathered from speaking to other people this is quite unusual.

Sometimes I am even standing up and looking around while this is happening, although I usually don't move too much although sometimes I am capable of it. I have even one time noticed objects and been able to tentatively reach out and pick them up (I once also asked "Is this an orange?" and was told it was).

It is possible that this happens at a level just slightly below a full blown full-body-anaesthetic Hole, as I have also experienced being entirely immobile and removed from waking reality, but I always just eyeball the dosages so I cannot be entirely certain of this. My only method of administration is nasal insufflation.

Thanks in advance for your responses.
 
Sounds fairly normal to me, reminds me of the first time me and a couple friends binged on it. High doses can make group situations extremely disorienting, I have a sort of theory that all the sensory input of a group conversation or a crowded bar or even just a movie can really confuse you to a whole new extent haha
 
This doesn't sound that out of the ordinary to me either. High dose ketamine can produce a range of bizarre experiences even at levels that don't completely immobilize you. I find this to be especially true in dimly lit or dark rooms.
 
It sounds like you were really high on ketamine.
The feeling that you're moving when you're sitting still is very common, and the only reason it felt unusual is because dissociative are some of the most unusual substances out there.
I love the weirdness that comes along with ketamine
 
This might be unusual if you were talking about a non-psychedelic or dissociative drug producing these effects, but this sounds pretty much right on for what one could experience with high doses of ketamine.
 
Thanks for your responses, I guess this is not that unusual after all.

That said I was under the impression it was because, for whatever reason, most of the people I usually do K with apparently haven't observed anyone else in quite the same sort of "waking K-hole" that I seem to experience regularly, and, conversely, I have never observed any of them act in the way that I seem to act when this is happening. They either just get the dissociated drunkenness of a lower dose or the absolute incapacitating anaesthesia of a K-hole dose.

Could there be any reason for this? My girlfriend observed recently that it might be because I too often, in her opinion, try to do things just after dosing a big line of K, leading to the onset of K-hole symptoms while I am still animate, rather than just sitting or lying down and chilling while the K takes effect.
 
Dunno, normally no matter how high I get I can still do things like light cigarettes, use phone, drink water, change music etc. I normally have to wait at least 20 minutes before I can walk around though, I think it just affects people differently
 
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