background.
ive smoked a lot of different types of skunk from 15 or so, up to twenty something, well made bubble/scuff/oil etc, stopped as makes me paranoid.
other drug experience except for the main hard ones & the recent crap legal ones.
ive been using 5htp and st johns wort for 6 months for various issues, and have been too much drinking a problem and smoking, on a ketogenic diet to try and lose 2 stone and change my diet. when on keto i dont get acid indegestion which really has done me up over my life.
right on to the story.
Was at a pub in Victoria and sitting outside having a few beers and smoking. picked up the wrong rollie in the ashtray and one medium toke, could taste some kind of herb. blew out straight away. a couple of seconds later - BAM - i was fucked. all i thought was 'oh no'. suddenly everyone knows who I am etc, blah blah blah, classic para me. I know a bit of how I handle my own reactions in this situation so I got out of there asap. Victoria is super busy so it was hectic, but i was pretty methodical and managed to back track to the station even though id never been there before.
story was TL;DR - basically i just had acute hallucination of the train destinations. center of my vision, clear as day, nothing else trippy. googled the names, and not listed anywhere. Just the writing of the destinations, in english. clear as day.
Now, barring obvious 'you were hallucinating' answers, I have a couple of other questions
1: what could the substance have been? It was herby, didnt have much of a distinct nutty DMT smell, but i really couldnt tell. it happened so fast. too fast, was scary. DMT wave fast comeup.
2: was it a combo of my brain being pumped up with serotonin from the 5HTP+SJW that caused some kind of major hallucination, and how was it so acute? it wasn't like anything else was weird, my experience with visuals is that everything gets messed up, not just one distinct thing.
3: if it was just skunk, that raises a few other questions of why i cant smoke, something to do with the serotonin in my brain causing over-reaction?
4: where the blazes is Anistead?
That was monday, only just feeling happier again. Tuesday i had a 'post-trip change', went vegan, was elated, started writing lyrics and listening to hiphop, wednesday the hiphop went sour, and i got paranoid, went from bad to worse. kept taking the 5HTP & SJW to try to lift my mood back up.
has raised a few more questions.
5: am I going through some sort of serotonin syndrome-like crash? i know not technically SS as i didnt have all the other symptoms (SS sounds horrible btw) but something related? because of how acute this trip was, and the after effects, what with me being on the 5HTP & SJW for so long?
6: can you, in theory, naturally raise serotonin levels gradually and induce this kind of hallucination? very weird if so
7: I am very wary now, but i should be double wary of anything while taking serotonin boosters? Like, for instance DMT, is there any contraindication reported?
any ideas?
edit* just realised this should maybe be in the psychedelic forum.. if so could someone move it?
ive smoked a lot of different types of skunk from 15 or so, up to twenty something, well made bubble/scuff/oil etc, stopped as makes me paranoid.
other drug experience except for the main hard ones & the recent crap legal ones.
ive been using 5htp and st johns wort for 6 months for various issues, and have been too much drinking a problem and smoking, on a ketogenic diet to try and lose 2 stone and change my diet. when on keto i dont get acid indegestion which really has done me up over my life.
right on to the story.
Was at a pub in Victoria and sitting outside having a few beers and smoking. picked up the wrong rollie in the ashtray and one medium toke, could taste some kind of herb. blew out straight away. a couple of seconds later - BAM - i was fucked. all i thought was 'oh no'. suddenly everyone knows who I am etc, blah blah blah, classic para me. I know a bit of how I handle my own reactions in this situation so I got out of there asap. Victoria is super busy so it was hectic, but i was pretty methodical and managed to back track to the station even though id never been there before.
story was TL;DR - basically i just had acute hallucination of the train destinations. center of my vision, clear as day, nothing else trippy. googled the names, and not listed anywhere. Just the writing of the destinations, in english. clear as day.
Now, barring obvious 'you were hallucinating' answers, I have a couple of other questions
1: what could the substance have been? It was herby, didnt have much of a distinct nutty DMT smell, but i really couldnt tell. it happened so fast. too fast, was scary. DMT wave fast comeup.
2: was it a combo of my brain being pumped up with serotonin from the 5HTP+SJW that caused some kind of major hallucination, and how was it so acute? it wasn't like anything else was weird, my experience with visuals is that everything gets messed up, not just one distinct thing.
3: if it was just skunk, that raises a few other questions of why i cant smoke, something to do with the serotonin in my brain causing over-reaction?
4: where the blazes is Anistead?
That was monday, only just feeling happier again. Tuesday i had a 'post-trip change', went vegan, was elated, started writing lyrics and listening to hiphop, wednesday the hiphop went sour, and i got paranoid, went from bad to worse. kept taking the 5HTP & SJW to try to lift my mood back up.
has raised a few more questions.
5: am I going through some sort of serotonin syndrome-like crash? i know not technically SS as i didnt have all the other symptoms (SS sounds horrible btw) but something related? because of how acute this trip was, and the after effects, what with me being on the 5HTP & SJW for so long?
6: can you, in theory, naturally raise serotonin levels gradually and induce this kind of hallucination? very weird if so
7: I am very wary now, but i should be double wary of anything while taking serotonin boosters? Like, for instance DMT, is there any contraindication reported?
any ideas?
edit* just realised this should maybe be in the psychedelic forum.. if so could someone move it?