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Why do the effects of ketamine vary so much?

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thatdreamer123

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I've recently done a lot of research on ketamine, as I personally have very little experience with dissociative drugs (a couple times with DXM) and the concept of dissociation is seems to somewhat hard to grasp without personal experience, and I understand this entirely.

After reading many trip reports on erowid (probably 30 or so), I'm still so puzzled about it's effects. If you read trip reports about a specific drug, and you read enough they all begin to sound somewhat similar and you can get an idea about the drug. I fully understand and agree that 'different chemicals affect different people differently' but it seems ketamine takes this to an extreme.

I'll read one trip where someone had full-on visual psychedelia, with extreme euphoria along with the inability to move or get up. I'll read another where the person is doing large amounts at a club and is functioning just fine reporting little or no actual visuals with an insane headspace. Then I'll read another where someone leaves their body and everything looks otherworldly but nothing is actually visual about it.

I feel like with my knowledge of drugs I can describe to others what a specific drug might be like regardless of whether or not I have experience with it, but ketamine has me baffled.

I can't really formulate an actual question I have to ask hahaha. I'm incredibly curious but not in the sense that this is a "what should I take" thread. Just maybe looking for some concrete characteristics of a ketamine high. As it seems it can vary all the way from a pretty common (and well received) club/rave drug, all the way to needing to be trip sat where one lays down for the entire experience. Very little drugs have this crossover of environments they are used widely in.

All I can really gather is that it is; very introspective, somewhat musical, and an overall a "darker" vibe.
 
The longer you do it, the better you are at being able to function on it, just like with weed. When I first started smoking, I would have never thought that smoking at work would actually improve my work ethics lol.
 
I wouldn't say it varies that much. And I don't get a dark vibe from ketamine at all.
 
Maybe effects can vary because the experience is so internal and people can be very different. The effects might reflect that.

Also, because everything can become so jumbled on ketamine and it messes with your ability to understand things, and it relies less on external input there are more weird feedback effects that apparently result in something bizarre.
 
I think the biggest inconsistency here is dose, obviously.

30mg of ketamine is great in a party setting.. 100mg at a rave, and you'll probably have someone calling the medics over because they think you're in a coma. lol



LSD is really the same way, 100ug will have you tripping.. but still social and active. 300ug+ though you're fully immersed in the drug, and there's little room for conversation or partying.. there are more important things going on (in?) in that noggin of yours
 
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