What do drugs "feel" like...

In My Humble Opinion
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Not to hijack my orgasm drug question over then in GQ, some of the responders there mentioned the way that smoking crack made them feel.

The only drugs I’ve ever “done” (besides some mild prescribed stuff) is caffeine and alcohol. I’m 42 and way too old to start my experimentation phase now.

So, just to satisfy my curiosity, if you’re use MDMA, MJ, cocaine, quaaludes, or whatever, how did they make you feel?

Note: I’m am not advocating drug use, suggesting lifestyle choices, or making judgments. I do not want to find out how to acquire these drugs or do any other illegal activity. That’d be against board rules.

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Marijuana (twice about 10 years ago)- It made me feel relaxed and kind of floaty. (It was actually a lot like taking prescribed codeine.) That lasted about 15 minutes and then I lost motor control and couldn’t move. I was laying on the floor basically paralyzed and rather scared. I will note that I had been drinking.

The second time I wasn’t drinking and started with the relaxed, floaty bit but again after about 15 minutes I had motor control issues and was unable to stand on my own for a while.

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I had morphine when I was in the hospital. Not uncommon, but here you go.

I was in serious pain at first, and the first injection I really don’t remember, other than the pain muffling down. it still hurt, but it was distant.

There was a lessening of anxiety, everything was distant, pain was drastically reduced or I was rendered more able to manage ‘ignoring’ it. A bit later just before I cold turkeyed myself off it, my pain was what I considered managable with something like 1600 mg ibuprofin, but when I was given morphine then, it was a floaty, drifty wrapped in cotton warm feeling. I can see getting very addicted to it. Nothing upsets you or bothers you. I can see just hanging out and drifting, and dying of malnutrition. I wasn’t particularly hungry or thirsty, and very happy to sit and listen to music on the radio. I think that is the main reason I started refusing the morphine at that time. I do understand that it slows down your metabolism, which might be why it causes constipation, and you can stop breathing if you overdose.

I understand that many of the morphine cognates have the same drifty nonanxious fluffy peacefulness. If you don’t like something about yourself or your life, it would be very tempting to ‘go on holiday’ and drift through life.

I actually tried cocaine 2 times. The fiirst time was at a party, and i felt nothing. No energy, pep or anything particular. My boyfriend of teh time said I just got really weak coke and I should try the good stuff. So we tried the good stuff. My front teeth fell asleep, no energy pep or feeling of strength or power. And my front teeth fell asleep. I told him that if I was going to spend $185 to have my teeth fall asleep, I would go to a dentist and at least get a filling out of the deal.

Marijuana = a few drinks to me. I get the same sort of happy good mood and light headed feeling from either a few glasses of wine, a lime ricky or a couple of bong hits. If it were legal I would smoke. Since it is not legal, I occasionally have some wine or a lime rickey. I dont see risking my job for a sensation I can get perfectly legally. Being diabetic and on assoerted meds, I just tend to avoid even drinking unless it is a special occasion.

To be honest, I actually like my size 3X, diabetic and definitely non rich self. I would love to be a perfect size 8, perfectly healthy and enough money so I wouldn’t have to work … but I have a decent life and a loving husband, good friends and highspeed internet access, so I really don’t need anything different. I certainly don’t need to fog my mind to forget anything [though right now good drugs sound tempting, I am waiting to find out if I just rebroke a bone in my foot, or have gout or pseudogout - the last one seems very possible since I just am coming off hyperparathyroidism and am slamming calcium like there is no tomorrow=( DAMN my foot fucking hurts. I probably should pit my foot.]

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That’s funny. “Kids, just say no to drugs. You have a lot to live for, including highspeed internet access!”

It’s been a really long time, but LSD is an interesting experience. The hallucintions tended to be pretty mild. I didn’t see my dead grandmother crawling up my leg with a knife in her teeth or anything, I saw things as they really were, but FAR more interesting. I could look at a crumpled up piece of paper with endless fascination for hours. And music became deep. Really, really, deep. Listening to it was almost a sexual experience.

But far more interesting than the sights and sounds were the thoughts. Everything was interconnected in a totally cosmic way. The tiniest things in life had profound meaning.

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I’ll risk trying to answer your question lest the thread gets shut down.

Usually, they make you feel incredibly great. That’s why people take them. That’s why you can read quotes like “If god created something better than heroin, he’s keeping it for himself.” I can’t attest to that personally, never having seen it or known anyone who used it. I can admit to having a morbid curiosity about what it must be like, but I’ll never take it because I just know I’d like it. I don’t want to find out that I like it.

The most nasty drugs I’ve experienced were alcohol, and legal medicines like valium and other downers (not at the same time). I will never take them again. (Never seen 'ludes, though, but I’m not interested.) They were not fun at all. You can’t remember what you did while you were on them. Or you slept for two days.

I could discern no effect from cocaine the two times I tried it, which is probably a good thing. It saved me from a potentially ugly and expensive chapter in my life.

I remember the nicotine buzz, which is why we who smoke, all smoke. It was warm and fuzzy and kinda trippy. The more time you smoked, the less you felt it, then you didn’t feel it at all, and thirty years later you’re still smoking. And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git.

I can’t think of how to adequately describe psilocybin or LSD. Fascinating journeys to be sure, but I’d be afraid to take them now. It’s been 20 years, and you know, been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

The THC group is quite possibly the nicest feeling I know of. That’s just how it affects me, though. It makes some people uncomfortable or worse. But it’s used by so many people because it’s fairly benign, and rarely incapacitates you. It can do that, too, but moderation in all things, especially consciousness-altering, is a good thing.

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The paranoia bit always bugged me. That’s ultimately why I stopped using it.

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Yeah I only have experiences with weed, alcohol, and nicotine, and weed is something I only do when I’m with really good friends in a safe environment. I did it once with people I hardly knew and got the worst feeling of paranoia ever. I thought everyone was talking about me, laughing about me, and maybe preparing to do nasty things to me. I had to take a walk around, but then I started freaking out because the dry mouth was making it hard for me to swallow. I almost threw up I was so anxious.

Other times I’ve done it and had an awesome, mellow and mildly trippy time. So … yeah.

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IME, there aren’t words to adequately convey most drug experiences, and if there were, it would require someone far more eloquent than I. However, I will mention one of the more…umm…interesting experiences, which was with ketamine. It was a long time ago, and was my only experience with it. It wasn’t particularly unpleasant, but it also wasn’t particularly enjoyable either.

What was notable / interesting was the disconnect between thought and physical response; I felt normal (mostly), but my motor control was all sorts of out-of-whack. Not like stumbling drunk, or sluggishly high, but rather like losing my sense of kinesthesia to some degree. Perhaps it screwed with my visual system such that what I was seeing didn’t quite match my body awareness. I don’t know; what I do know is that I’ve not had a similar experience with any other drug.

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Oh, the crack thing. Yep, tried it a few times about 10 years ago. Awesome. The head rush makes you feel like you’re going to explode from the brain out. And as the high rises (to the eventual peak, which you don’t exactly know when that is because it seemed like every hit was different) you have the feeling of getting exponentially higher and higher. Once you settle in at the peak you can stop being afraid that your head will asplode and enjoy it for a few minutes. The euphoria at the peak quite similar to having a sustained moment right before or just after orgasm. Not quite a continuous orgasmic high, but close.
The negatives, heavily weighted. Extremely dry mouth. Can drink alcohol like a whale which leads to crushing hangover the next day. High doesn’t last more than 10 minutes so you need to chase that around all night with more hits. Smoke cigs like you’re on death row which leads to larger hangover. Can’t sleep for shit that night or the next day even though you’ve drunk a lake of beer and are tired as all heck. Ruins the next couple of days for ya, it does.
I’ll never do it again, I could envision myself stroking out if I tried it now…coupled with the fact that I don’t know anyone who does it anymore or anyone who would even try it.

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I actually did once, when I was around 14 or 15. And it wasn’t in an uncomfortable situation, either. I was alone with my best friend, and we were just chilling and watching a movie on TV. But I had this vague sense of uneasiness, which turned into this dread that I was going to yack. And of course, that made me feel sick, which fed the dread, which made me feel sicker, and so on and so on. About half an hour later, we were reaching for the paper towels and Lysol.

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Hell, I do that without the drugs.

That too! :stuck_out_tongue:

Susan

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That sounds exactly like LSD. Exactly. Except the high lasts way longer than 10 minutes.

An acid hangover is a beautiful thing. You’ll beg for sweet death.

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Ah, but there’s a difference. The way you cosmically connect things probably make some whit of sense in the cold light of sobriety.

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When I was in college, I used to go a day or two without sleep around exam time.

I also sometimes smoked weed (not while sleepy at exam time).

I found that both things produced pretty much the same feeling. I recall walking through the parking lot one day after a long stretch without sleep thinking “wow I feel my PANTS on my LEGS!” which was similar to being high and thinking “wow I feel my TONGUE in my MOUTH!”

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As no one has mentioned opum I would say that it is a big gloopy warm fuzzy sensation where even lying with one’s head on a concrete floor while sliding off the couch is remarkably comfortable and every music you hear is the most brilliant thing ever and even breathing becomes a sensual experience.

I must remark that I’ve heard ancedotal evidence of it ruining millions of people for hundreds of years.

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I took Tylenol with some opium additive to get over wisdom tooth removal last year. Things were very fuzzy and blurry and lazy for a while–I felt like I was a human puddle lying on the couch.

Otherwise, besides getting giggly and stupid over a few glasses of wine/champagne, I got nothing.

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I think I may have tried a little more than you.

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I smoked Marijuana some years ago for the first time. It was very relaxing. My brain felt “cool”, as if I had just taken it out of the fridge and popped it back inside my head. After a little while I felt an intense tingling in my crotch, and I experienced a fast growing erection.

Then I had an orgasm. No ejaculation, just a long and intense orgasm. For about 5 minutes. After a few minutes of “what the wow just happened …”, I had another several minutes long intense orgasm, and still no ejaculation. This went on for about an hour, or perhaps longer. Fortunately I was alone, or I would have freaked out everybody else.

The next day I tried another smoke. Nothing. Apparently I had saturated my brain with whatever. So I don’t smoke often. I don’t want stoned, I want wow, and to get that I have to wait months to clear all the whatever out of my brain.

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William S. Burroughs included as an appendix n one of his books an account of his experiences with a diverse collection of intoxicants. It is quite interesting.

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Well. Okay. Yea. So.

I’ve done a lot of drugs. I like them. I pretty much don’t use them anymore though. Let’s have a little breakdown, shall we? I’m going to stick with common, illegal drugs, because they are probably what you wonder about (and writing about every single thing I ever took to get off would take a while, and get boring)

Dope: You know how you feel as you drift off to sleep, but still retain some consciousness? Like, just as you begin to dream? Well, if that could be stretched over several hours, that’s what smoking dope is like (for me). But, just like sometimes I have bad dreams, sometimes I have bad highs, and then it’s like a deep feeling of unease and paranoia. Not really very fun, and in fact, that’s why I quit smoking.

Cocaine: The first few times I did it I didn’t notice any effects. But I persevered! Now, I can say I get it. It’s not really anything like weed; it’s doesn’t make you feel weird like that. It’s like me only better! I am funnier, and more interesting, and sexier, and just, yea! I feel good! Let’s go dancing! It’s pretty awesome, but it’s very fleeting. It’s also VERY addictive. Not so much the next day (and you feel awful the next day) but while I’m on it, I always want just. one. more. line. Again, this is why I quit. It’s really expensive, and not worth it in the end.

LSD: Ok, so I really like acid. It makes me feel like I’ve got a small amount of electricity buzzing in my bones and teeth (they hum), and it makes you think about things in a different way. I always have all kinds of ideas, and make amazing connections while I’m tripping. Sometimes, once I’m sober, I realize the ideas were pretty stupid, but not always. Forget hallucinations though; they happen, but it’s not like people imagine. You have to take mushrooms or something for good visuals. The hallucinations on LSD are more like, you might see a trail behind a light in the dark, or if you look at a picture of water it seems like it’s moving, things like that. Your sight is more intense, but you don’t really see things that aren’t there.

MDMA (ecstasy): Ok, so I really like this too. And this is my one continuing “indulgence”; I hoarded pills years ago (when I still did things that put me in contact with drug dealers) and I still have quite a collection. I save them for VERY special occasions. It makes you feel good, like really good. Like a full body orgasm lasting for four hours. Waves of amazing pleasure rolling through your body, and an amazing feeling of wellbeing. I love the world, and everyone is my best friend when I am rolling. And it’s not completely drug induced either; I’ve had talks with people while on it that are still very important to me, and had insights into myself that were very true. It puts me in a place where I can see what I am doing wrong, but it’s okay, because I love myself too, and I just feel peace about what is going on. It’s pretty great. I honestly think everyone in the world should try it at least once; I think it might change the world. (yes I am a big ol’ hippie)

Mushrooms: Fun. Everything is colorful and cartoony; it’s like the way a carnival seemed when you were a kid. But if you eat too many, it can be like one of those bad carnival scenes on TV, where the clowns are laughing in a sinister way. Not cool. But mostly, they are a lot of fun. I might try them again, if I was offered, but I can’t imagine how that would happen.

That’s all I feel like writing for now. :slight_smile: