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What does the body high from ketamine feel like?

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Im curious to know how ketamine feels what sensations does it give? Is it like a tingling feeling or something else?
 
getcolor728 said:
Im curious to know how ketamine feels what sensations does it give? Is it like a tingling feeling or something else?
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It's sort of like a numbing/detached feeling, actually it's quite hard to describe. The only way to truly know how it feels is to try it yourself.
 
Its been over 5 years since I last took any dissociative but ill try to describe my experience.

To me low doses feel like a comfortable numbing sensation not too different from the body high from alcohol, the higher you dose the more detached and disconnected you start to feel from your body, it takes on a feeling similar to having local anesthetics injected to the point where your body goes completely numb like you could be chewing on your arm and not feel it.

It feels ”floaty” and ”comfortable” and closing your eyes and laying down often leads to strange sensations that your body is being pulled and stretched out like a piece of gum or plastic, or like your being pulled in multiple directions simultaneously without any logical sense of up/down or gravity due to being detached from your senses.

Sometimes there is a numbing buzz somewhat similar to nitrous going on within your body which becomes highly pleasurable in higher doses. Id say its more of a ”flowing” or ”stream” sensation in your being, rather than the intense sparkles of nitrous.
 
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TheLightBringer said:
Its been over 5 years since I last took any dissociative but ill try to describe my experience.

To me low doses feel like a comfortable numbing sensation not too different from the body high from alcohol, the higher you dose the more detached and disconnected you start to feel from your body, it takes on a feeling similar to having local anesthetics injected to the point where your body goes completely numb like you could be chewing on your arm and not feel it.

It feels ”floaty” and ”comfortable” and closing your eyes and laying down often leads to strange sensations that your body is being pulled and stretched out like a piece of gum or plastic, or like your being pulled in multiple directions simultaneously without any logical sense of up/down or gravity due to being detached from your senses.

Sometimes there is a numbing buzz somewhat similar to nitrous going on within your body which becomes highly pleasurable in higher doses. Id say its more of a ”flowing” or ”stream” sensation in your being rather than the intense sparkles of nitrous.
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Interesting. To me nitrous felt like tingling in my body. On low doses does your sense of touch get intensified or dulled?
 
getcolor728 said:
Interesting. To me nitrous felt like tingling in my body. On low doses does your sense of touch get intensified or dulled?
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I would say all dosages dull your senses altough you could say low doses ”enhance” it by making things more soft and pleasurable to the touch. The novelty factor of the experience might make your sense of touch feel more intense than usual due to it being new and different.

But generally speaking it makes your sense of touch increasingly dull with rising doses.
 
Higher doses I'm incapacitated on the couch. The first few times I actually wondered if I had broken my brain but I strangely didn't care. I remember seeming to float outside of my self and could see the nuances of my personality and character as a construct made up of my sense of self and life experiences but realized in the moment that I am much more than this and we are all fundamentally the same if we step outside of ourselves. Kind of like a pleasant ego death.

I tend to take it normally in smaller bumps throughout the evening though, which gives me a pleasant body buzz and a bit of energy. I become more talkative and upbeat, a bit 'zany'. I like the fact that when it wears off there is no discernable comedown and after effect. I recently made a point of being careful with it and not ordering anymore for a while though as is typical for my addict brain it was becoming very habitual to come home and do this after a long day at work.
 
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Higher doses I'm incapacitated on the couch. The first few times I actually wondered if I had broken my brain but I strangely didn't care. I remember seeming to float outside of my self and could see the nuances of my personality and character as a construct made up of my sense of self and life experiences but realized in the moment that I am much more than this and we are all fundamentally the same if we step outside of ourselves. Kind of like a pleasant ego death.

I tend to take it normally in smaller bumps throughout the evening though, which gives me a pleasant body buzz and a bit of energy. I become more talkative and upbeat, a bit 'zany'. I like the fact that when it wears off there is no discernable comedown and after effect. I recently made a point of being careful with it and not ordering anymore for a while though as is typical for my addict brain it was becoming very habitual to come home and do this after a long day at work.
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What does the body buzz feel like? Is it literally like a buzzing or vibrating sensation?
 
It's very subjective. I wouldn't call it a buzzing per se, not for me anyway. There's a certain fluidity of movement but also you feel disconnected like your body is just moving and doing stuff without you, if that makes sense. I noticed you're very interested in learning about the body buzz of various different substances OP. I'm just curious as to what it is you're looking for.
 
The body high is not only my favorite thing about drugs but the most interesting thing to me. Their mechanism of action seems to be much deeper than just euphoria. I used to be big on stimulants the tactile enhancement was my favorite part of them making everyday sensations like your shirt rubbing on your skin or a breeze toucning yout face feel good. Im no longer able to take weed,stims or pychedellics. Ive been trying to find another drug that may give me some of that. And more deeply understand it.
 
Oh OK, I totally get you. I'm also limited as to what I can take anymore, so kinda in the same boat. Dissociatives are definitely a fascinating class of compounds when it comes to bodily sensations. I used to hang around with a bunch of hula hoopers and fire spinners who did a lot of K cos the disconnection allowed them more creativity in their flow. Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for but I can tell you that they change the way you experience your body.

What issues had you started to have with the other drugs you used to enjoy?
 
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