LSD - increase in emotions?

it sort of feels like my capacity to feel emotion has been increased from my lsd use. like my emotions are less moderate and more intense. for example if something makes me feel good, instead it makes me feal fucking ecstaticly amazing. but this also means negative emotions are a little more intense as well. the increase in emotion is especially prominent with girls.

sometimes i can feel other people's feelings, and i've become very acute in some of my emotional senses. at first it was just a slight increase in sensitivity/perception, but now it's like my perception encompasses alot.

has anyone else experienced anything similar? because seriously its like emotion and perception feels extremely heightened.

 

When I'm tripping I always feel more sensitive to people's "vibrations" as well.

 

i'm talking about being sober.

 

Lately I've noticed I've been a lot less talkative in general. It was REALLY bad 4 weeks ago. Complete apathy for small talk, didn't feel like sharing shit, didn't feel like having the same conversations over and over. Felt kind of out of touch with the societal norm, stuck in deep thinking mode... etc.

As for the reason, one of my guesses was consistant weed usage. I'd be high for the most part for say, a week, that high time spent in deep thought, and without a sufficient break, in sober life it just drained any ability I had left to get enthused about chit chat and small talk.

I also felt that my emotions/energy inside shifted very constantly, weren't as consistent as I'd like.



Easily taken for a ride emotions mixed with interacting with girls does not sound like fun tho Maybe this is an opportunnity for you to now dig deeper into that problem and become more of a stoic man B) (if, that's what you want).

As for my issue, after giving it sober attention for a while, it's slowly creeping back. Also think part of it is that some part of me myself is deciding I'm no more okay with small talk and chit chat, and I must now re-piece together how I want to interact with the world again. (kinda fun and really gives you a sense for what conscious "free will" is if you think about it ).


Short version: i think constant use of any drug, especially LSD can influence or headstart a change within oneself. If your trips lately have always had that certain theme to them (I'm guessing they have), this is a real part of you that has surfaced, and it's up to you now to decide how much you want to keep and how much you want to throw away I do want to assure you, if you give yourself a break, and this isn't what you want, things can return to baseline.

*Perhaps Desos feels emotion and empathy is a very important thing, LSD has brought this out but now in the sober world that emotional stance doesn't always keep you safe or covered.

And god damn. Why can I never be concise? lol... it's a part of me I guess but I wonder what it means...

 

lsd changes you. some times it feels very strong during everyday life. i know what you're talking abuot. but only you know how to fix yourself!

 

yea i don't think it's a bad thing. alot of the time i can read deeper into situations than other people and see things that no one else sees. but man it is hard to handle sometimes. i'd say that 'easily taken for a ride' is a good way to put it, lol.

i could withdraw some, but i find that a lackluster way to live life compared with surrendering to what is going on.

spot on.

and don't worry about your small talk thing man. of course it might a better idea to smoke less weed, but i'm calling the kettle black there, i smoke tons of weed. but i still recognise that it could be a positive thing to smoke less. your situation seems pretty normal to me. after experiencing several different cultures and ways of thinking i've come to the conclusion that stuff like that is all based on societal norms and less based on what is actually healthy. don't let the pressure from society conform you to something that you aren't.

i've been to places where there was no small talk. it wasn't just one person, it was EVERYONE. all that was discussed was deep in-depth things about the nature of humanity and reality, and work&business. imagine that, for an extended period of time. try putting that in your pipe and smoking it. lol.

some of the most loving and enlightened people i've ever known weren't much for smalltalk. but it is good, to stop and smell the roses every now and then. to stop and enjoy the simple things in life.

 

It is like I said here;

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeDEVyUBek&feature=related"]YouTube- Bob & Jerry "Second That Emotion" on Letterman

 

Since I first tried tripping i always noticed a change in my mind, search for the typical "deeper meaning", but it wasn't until i had a bad trip that i noticed how much it is entwined with your emotions, it wasn't a full on flip out but i was looping in and out of consciousness and had a horrible feeling that made no sense (really wasn't that bad haha best hallucinations ever!).

Anywhoo a week or 2 later my little kitten got hit by a car and the grief made me feel almost as if i was tripping again and it wasn't till more recently that i realized that "feeling i couldn't explain" was the feeling of grief, although i had no sorrows at that time so it made no sense, since then my emotions have been completely heightened, I'm no scientist or bio-chem expert but it made me think that it must just open your mind to a greater understanding of emotions not just thoughts on "reality" and blah blah.
not sure if that helps or how old this post is, just thought I'd share :daisy::sunny:

 

I have just recently come out of that stage that PB Smith is referring to. I was so astonished and overwhelmed by the things I have seen and the knowledge that has been given to me. I was trying to figure out life all the way down to the finest molecule and it was interfering with my ability to enjoy life. I am grateful for what I have been so freely given and I am now trying to incorporate these things into my own life in order to better enjoy it.

Yes I often see things others do not, I have grown the ability to look down to the core of what's really going on and often times I have thought I was better than others because of this. I thought I was supposed to figure everything out. It was often making me miserable. Until I surrendered and accepted that I will never understand everything, then I finally started to gain back true happiness.

 

Please give an example of what would have to happen to make you ecstatic and what affects you inversely.I'm not being a dick I just need to know more to adequately answer your Q. Also when you say you can feel other people emotions do you Attribute this to skillful perception, intuition, or something more mystical like it would be hard to explain why you feel... you just do, or do you have your own 4th option?


Once I get those answered we can get deeper into discussion but I will type a little bit

I completely know where you are coming from everything you described happened to me too. You mention you can read deeper into situations which I'm sure is true to some extent since this happened to me as well. For some reason people's inflection, tone,facial expressions, choice of words, and body language just screamed out to me like an open book and it was driving me crazy so I tested my theories, announced what I was thinking and told the other person what i thought they were actually thinking and feeling and what they truly wanted to say. Well turns out I was right and they came clean ( it wasn't anything life altering) but other times when I was tripping really hard the social cues were completey imagined and exaggerated but I believed what I was thinking just the same as before. when I spoke it out loud people thought I was crazy and said I sounded like a conspiracy theorist and then some things are just as they seem. Acid just made me more interested in intent and subtleties of social interactions so now that I am more interested I, in turn, pay more attention to it, which in turn makes me better at observing and analyzing. It really really helps to watch your close friends and girlfriends talk to other people because you already know a lot about them and they feel about things and you know when they lie and when they tell the truth so just watch them and see how they behave when talking to other people like friends and coworkers and strangers it just gains you insight quickly.

So I ask you how do you know your analysis is accurate? You could be making all these predictions and assumptions sitting there smiling thinking you are the mentalists Patrick Jane and you are so smart and clever. But then you find out that you are dead wrong and realize that you have been taking a bunch of drugs and probably are still being affected by them. You know I had to ask that question just because I am sure you have already asked yourself the same thing and tried to find way of testing if your observations and conclusions to see if they have any worth

 

wow this is an old thread.

i think that what i meant was that i was feeling very empathetic for everything and my emotions were heightened. this was after a period where i had been doing lsd pretty frequently, it's not so noticable anymore -- or i've gotten used to it. though i guess it wouldn't seem out of the ordinary if i started experiencing this again on some level after using lsd frequently.