DOSE:
56 mg
insufflated
Ketamine
(powder / crystals)
BODY WEIGHT:
115 lb
Background: Healthy, casual psychonaut. Average diet and exercise. Prior familiarity with a wide range of psychoactives spanning ten years of use.
Set/Setting: I'm in my apartment with one of my roommates. We use Marquis reagent to test for adulterants (since we don't have any other reagents presently) and no reaction takes place- exactly what's supposed to happen with Marquis + Ketamine. Going with the 'suggested method' of ingesting, I weighed out ~56mg of Ketamine crystals with a gemini-20 scale. Crushed the crystals with a plastic card and then chopped them down with a razor, gathering it all into one line.
Going into the experience, I'm in a relatively neutral mood. I was stressed and anxious before I prepared the line, but found myself more calm as I anticipated trying K for the first time.
9:06pm- Insufflation occurs (approx. half of the line in each nostril). I feel only the slightest tingling/burning sensation. As I'm waiting to feel the effects, I revisit [site] to see how long the onset takes. About six minutes later, I start to notice the first perceptible changes. At first I feel slightly stimulated- sharper perception and mental clarity. I also feel slightly cold, so I get up to grab a hoodie. As I'm walking, I'm attentive to any perceptible changes that are catalyzed by motion. So far, not much to note.
9:17pm- Over the course of the next ten minutes, the full effect sets in, though I find myself wondering �is this it?� I start to feel mild dissociation from my body and environment. Visually, I notice only what I characterize as a sort of �lag�. It seems like my eyes don't quite focus on anything as I'm moving them around. No patterns or visual distortions of any kind beyond the lag effect, however.
As I'm waiting for euphoria or any sort of feel good to kick in, I'm reminded of a DXM experience I had where there was no 'feel good'- just dissociation. At the peak of this ketamine experience, I'm feeling very emotionally neutral- no euphoria and no distress. I feel very mildly nauseous (probably because I didn't wait long enough after eating last). Overall, I only feel dissociated, mildly numb and a little 'derpy'. No stimulation effects any longer.
Subjectively, I'm wondering why people do K if this is what it feels like. Subjectively, I'm wondering why people do K if this is what it feels like.