KETAMINE

Substances, legal or illegal, they all have a story to tell. Ketamine is a dissociative psychedelic used medically as a veterinary and human anaesthetic. When used in a recreational context, ketamine is usually injected intramuscularly, intravenously or insufflated (snorted). It is less often consumed orally, and even more rarely used rectally. Its legal status varies around the world. Ketamine can produce wide-ranging effects from different dosages. Some people enjoy lower doses in more social contexts such as dancing while others prefer stronger psychedelic experiences while lying down. There seems to be a crucial line where the dissociative effects assert themselves and a person loses grasp of his or her primary senses. A further line exists where the user completely loses consciousness. Boosting (taking one or more additional doses after the initial dose) is quite common, especially with insufflated ketamine, with some people choosing to use low doses at frequent intervals. Tolerance is appreciable, with some users reporting that several weeks are required between uses to again achieve full effects from a given dose. For most people, effects are linear with dose, and positive experiences can be achieved from low doses. Initially, a sort of fragmentation of reality may occur. Some users report that their environment seems to begin spinning, but not in a bad "alcohol spins" sort of way. Chaos may then ensue. At some point, at higher doses, many users find themselves completely removed from their surroundings and their bodies. Descriptions of the experience vary substantially, but many include talk of alternate planes of existence, a sense of movement through a space or landscape, a oneness with everything, past and future revelations, and strange fabrics or textures of all sorts. Many users have difficulty communicating during the peak of the effects, and they may not be able to see or hear others in the room. Revelations can be extremely heavy or frightening, but usually the fear does not dominate re-entry and it is therefore difficult to remember it as "scary". Some users describe the feeling of coming back across the "reality" line in a visual way, attempting to put an object in focus or define it. It is at this point that they may try to get in touch with their co-trippers. This is the "wow" period. The wise user does not try to move for a while at this point, as the experience continues mildly for an hour or so after this, with an increasingly conventional focus. An overdose of ketamine will knock a person out as if they were in an operating room having surgery. Most users consider this to be a waste of their tripping experience, especially as it can make them sick to their stomachs. While fatalities caused by the direct pharmacological effects of ketamine are nearly unheard of at normal recreational doses, ketamine is a powerful anaesthetic and being anaesthetized, semi-conscious, or unconscious carries distinct risks. Body positions that restrict breathing or blood-flow (e.g. "child's pose" or face down into a pillow) can result in serious injury or death even if the person is conscious. Inexperienced trippers may be overwhelmed by the awesome revelations that can be experienced on ketamine, although fear and paranoia are much less commonly reported in comparison to other psychedelics, and will probably be only episodic. A peculiar sort of loneliness can occur once a ketamine user is "over the line", so careful psychonauts keep good friends, a sober sitter, or an experienced ketamine user nearby. Hi, I am Kiwi Kawaii! Let's discover substances! Is your curiosity high enough? ^^ Very good, I am happy that you will accompany me into this journey.