About 45 minutes ago I smoke approximately .5 grams of weed out of a dorm-made gravity bong. I felt extremely stoned as I went to the nearby student union to make a phone call. This is where it gets weird: While I was on the phone I felt as though I had become externally aware of myself. Somehow disconnected, like all of my senses had been deadened. I live in a very cold climate ( Go Buffalo! ) so that could account for a loss of feeling in my cold hands, and the loud background noise in the building. I also have been an insomniac since school has started. I believe I have experienced ego loss from marijuana before. ( a very frightening experience ) Has anyone else experience this?
why do you consider that a loss of ego??? people use this term so broadly. it just sounds like you were stoned, to me.
yea stoned and not enough oxygen to the brain. i mean with wat u just described its the same thing that happens to me wen i have a low blood pressure=lack of oxygen to the brain. wondering did ur vision get a little dark at the edges?
Yeah that's happened to me before. Dissociative experiences on weed... Not fun. Don't really know what to tell you other than that it's not nearly as uncommon as you would think, and it tends to happen when people get really stoned, especially from bongs.
It was not lack of oxygen since I have had a problem with that. I once got off of my bed to quick and blacked out for 30 seconds hitting my head on the floor. ( That is also a very intense experience. Does anyone know if there are negative side effects from this? ) What happened earlier felt nothing like that. lol acually yea I probably was just fully baked
Plenty of people have panic attacks and uncomfortable experiences on weed. For some it happens without having done LSD, but tripping for some reason seems to increase the likelihood of these incidents, probably either due to some kind of flashback phenomenon or more simply the fact that once you've tripped, you're more aware of the possibilities of extreme states of consciousness and thus you have a different appreciation for the marijuana high. It's probably a combination of both. I don't smoke much anymore, but I was/am able to enjoy smoking again after I had quite a few experiences like that. I try to be careful though, erring on the side of caution as far as how much I smoke, and making sure I'm in a good, secure state of mind beforehand. It was an important lesson for me to learn that there is such a thing as being too high, and it's just as unpleasant, if not moreso, than having ingested too much of a lot of other drugs (other than, of course, the possibility of death with the others ).
ive blacked out before on weed. (my own too, organic, unlaced, etc) took a few bong hits with a friend, then sid i had to go lie down. i got out of my chair, ended up sitting on the floor feeling lightheaded and loosing ability to talk sense, and then slowly moved into a lying down position on the kitchen floor. the second my head touched the floor (slowly), i immediately sat upright again, feeling ready for another bong hit after figuring out what happened. he says i was down for about a minute, but im not sure how true that is. ive blacked out before (that fun semi-stranglehold mauver), and when recovering from that i lost memory of the last 10 seconds previous for a few moments. this wasnt like that?
neat note, ive also had a white-out (if thats the term) before. was with some friends, and fell of a bike onto gravel about 3 years back (still have a slight scar) and felt minimal pain. as we walked through the woods to a nearby stream to wash out the dust, my vision became brighter and brighter, eventually "blinding" me until i sat down for a bit. pain began to kick in about 1-2 minutes after impact, and it heart like a mofo. bits of peeled back skin had smoothed back over trapping some dust particles, requireing cleaning an hour later
Can anxiety attacks become ego loss? Or do they emulate each other in anyway? I felt as though I was accepting my place in the universe, realizing the space I inhabit. Is it just me or is the English language inadequate for describing most things like this.
I've had experiences like that before. Really stoned. With my highly spiritual friend was the one I last remember, we were in a kitchen at a party, he was just standing there being himself or whatever (I hardly understand the guy anymore, he used to be my best friend) and we looked at each other. All the sudden I felt as you described, automatically realizing the space everybody in the room inhabited. It was like a miracle. It took my breath away. I realized the power of my existence. Beyond what I could do right then. I also don't know any other ways to describe it. It's like I was suddenly blessed with divine pupils....:hat:
This same thing just happened to me again after smoking roughly 5 rips from my homemade peculated gravity bong. I would describe it as a complete numbing of reality. At one point it felt like my body had molded with my chair. Very discomforting...it makes me wonder how it would feel to eat weed brownies as I have never done so. I am happy when these episodes are over because I could not imagine living with that feeling for the rest of my life.
