I smoked weed, and everything went in slow motion? help!

I was with a few friends last night and we decided to smoke some weed and do a movie marathon. It's school holidays over here and i've been smoking on and off throughout them. We got the weed from a trustworthy source, and had a few bongs. I had 2 and was feeling fine, then after my 3rd one I went and sat down and got something to eat. I started eating and and chewing quite violently as a joke to my friend, then my mind told my mouth to stop chewing and it wouldn't. I then stood up and began to move, and everything went in slow motion, and I felt as though I was outside my body. I was EXTREMELY scared, and just kept telling my friends to get me to a hospital. I'd say something to them and wouldn't even realise I was talking, it was absolutely horrible. I tried laying down, but I kept wanting to stand up again, afraid that I'd stop breathing or something. They said it was normal and told me to go to sleep. So the next day, I woke up and still felt like this, accept it was not as intense as the night before. Is this normal, and can weed have any permanent effects on the mind?

(right now is the morning after, and i'm still in that state of mind. I'm scared shitless that my mind won't return to it's normal state. HELP!!!!)

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  • DrunkAla

    It's not a panic attack.
    Some people have underlying mental disorders that weed can bring out.
    Just like how weed can trigger schizophrenia if you have a family history of it.
    The disorder is called derealization or depersonalization.
    I get it everytime I smoke which is why I don't toke anymore.
    And it's not caused by panic or anxiety because I get it even when I'm completely by myself at the safety of my own home.
    If you search up the disorders, the symptoms will probably match up to exactly how you felt.
    Sometimes the effects go for longer, just like how yours is lasting 2+ days.
    Mine used to last for the remainder of the high or sometimes up to 2weeks. And I KNOW its the worst fucking feeling cause you feel like you're living your life but without really living it.
    Or as if you're an audience member watching a movie of your life. How you do something and by the time you realize you're doing it, you already did it and you get really self conscious.
    Try not to think about it and it'll disappear one day.
    The more you think about it or get scared that it'll never go away, I feel like it stays longer.

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    • Mahbub.shishir

      Bro how long this problem stay? I mean I have been going through this problem. Can you tell me When you become free from this problem? Please reply my comment !!

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  • JoeyB123

    You had a panic attack. If you do continue to smoke weed maybe don't start having massive chuffdowns on highgrade, smoke some hash or standard and be chill with it. Sometimes bongs can be a little too much to handle too that might have contributed to it.

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  • Solophonic

    If it was laced everyone else would have have something extra happen. It's probably just all in your head, don't worry about it. Maybe you're just have a fever and smoking got you light headed.

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  • GeekiTheBrave

    i think you had a bad trip man

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  • nonameforeverwhatlol

    mate, you have absolutely nothing to worry about, you just had a bad trip because you took to much for your level of tolerance at the moment. weed cand cause severe paranoia if you take a huge dose after a long period in wich you did not smoke any. so, my advice to you can break down as follows : 1 if you feel like this all the time you smoke it, then weed its not for you and you should stop, the purpose of doing it is to feel good not to freak out. 2 before starting to smoke remember to place a safety marker in your head : anything that might feel like its happening to you, no matter how real it seems, its just in your head and it will pass. 3 when you start to smoke listen to a song that you absolutely love, that takes you to heaven. weed usually amplifies your emotional state, so if you start in a great mood and maintain a great mood while high you will have a great trip.

    weed is perfectly safe, you will never ever need to go to hospital, you will never be sick from it, worst case scenario you might throw up if you ate to much before or while you are high, thats the worst that can happen. there is no other safer drug on this planet and in this lifetime then weed(alcohol and tobacco are ALOT more dangerous), just take it in a safe enviroment and preferably in good company. hope i was helpfull, good luck!

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    • Solocbr

      Same thing happened to me what you were smoking was that synthetic weed k2 stay away from it it will kill you trust that of what I say

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  • alfree9

    Sounds like you're just getting anxiety. Stress and anxiety can impact your perception of things. One time my friend was having a terrible comedown and extremely exhausted and it caused her to have an anxiety attack and feel stressed out for almost a week. It happens.

    That said it wouldn't hurt you to see a doctor if it gets worse. I have a friend that was Bipolar and didn't find out until he smoked weed and went into a drug induced psychosis.. but his experience sounds different from yours. He went through hypomania and hallucinations for days.

    Relax and take care of your body.. see how you feel in a few days. Most feelings pass with time :)

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  • zchristian

    Another reason as to why i wont do drugs im just fine without it...

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    • Chazzout

      Personal choices are fine, but I don't think you should trumpet them when someone's had a rough experience and is looking for guidance.

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  • DannyKanes

    I hate to say it, but your pot was probably laced. Also, I had this experience once before when I was a teenager. You feel crap for a couple of days, but you should be okay. But hey, I'd go see a doctor, just in case, let me know how you go :)

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    • Kevinevan

      No one laces pot dude. Why waste good drugs on a stranger?

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    • Chloego

      They were having anxiety bruh... have you ever even smoked

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      • Kevinevan

        This is exactly what happened. Anxiety.

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  • anyname

    I personally think your a pussy, no offense but your one of those kids that just arnt meant to smoke weed..possibly a good thing ;)

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  • Rachelle_InHighHeels

    Keep on smoking that crap, and one day things will go so slowly, that you won't hear or see them, because you will have "expired"...
    All in the name of "experimenting". Enjoy what's left for you...!!!
    Rachelle In High Heels

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  • taimoorghani101

    4 years ago after takig weed three shots i wend in slow motion and blackout when i become conscious i was crying of dying pls help but now after 4 years i m still struggling some time this numbenss and slow motion effect comes . kindly help please

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  • taimoorghani101

    1st time happen to me after taking three life changing hits of weed 😓

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  • EnlightenedGuy

    This happened to me 3 times now and the last was yesterday. So the first time I smoked at home quickly went to bed.I woke up several times didn't understand anything but would quickly go to bed. The second time it was intense I was overwhelmed and cried tried to tell people what was happening and they thought I was crazy. Yesterday I told myself I was going to control it and surely I got the best of it. I enjoyed the trip. It's important to keep calm and remain positive as you'll be feeling as if you can do anything.

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    • TiffanyN27

      It's called depersonalization and derealization. Watch out, it could stick around for years. Google it.

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  • Anom17

    Im years late but i'll still tell you about my experience.Id been smoking weed for over a year now and only recently ive been experiencing this.

    I smoked 3 joints with my friends. My tolerance level was pretty low as it had been a while but they smoke it like every week so their tolerance was high. After i smoked the joints i sat there and after a while realised that everything was so slow and dreamlike and my body was vibrating and i felt like i was floating. I freaked out a bit because this had never happened before but my friends calmed me down and just told me its because i was completly stoned. After i had come out of this state i realised that it was actually really fun XD

    This happened again the other day but didnt feel as scared as it happened before but this time i had the munchies which isent new to me. I ate a lot of sweet foods and when i ate it and swallowed, i could for some reason feel it as it went down into my belly (not sure if thats normal or not) it was like my tastebuds where extremly hightened because everything just tasted like the most amazing thing to me and it was really dificult to get the taste out of my mouth which was kind of annoying after a while. I also noticed that this time, i was talking but unaware of it and i was also talking but foretting what i was talking about which my friends find hilarious. I once again felt really slow and like i was dreaming. The last thing that happened was that me and my friend got freaked out because we could hear a dog barking everywhere we went but when we sobered up we realised it was just our thighs rubbing together on our jeans when we walked XD

    Next time i smoke which will be this weekend with 6 other people who are all pretty new to pot, im going to see if they have the same symptoms or if im just weird XD im also going to listen to music because i heard music sounds so good when you are high.

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  • cabrams

    hi! i'm not trying to shit on anyone but people saying you're having a panic attack are wrong. you smoked K2 which is a synthetic cannibinoid. it was popular around ~2012 or so because you could buy it legally (being sold in fragancy products). the kid who said that farther up was right. so, it's kind of like your body lags, and you're 2 frames behind, watching a frame by frame film. sorry, it's most likely none of these guys (unlike me and the other guy) have done K2. you can definitely smoke weed. they're VERY VERY different. I can't stress that enough. even the symptom of it recurring the next day or in the future (even if you just think about that particular event too long that can trigger a recurring effect). it wasn't loud weed, it was a drug that should be on USA's scheduled bans list tbh, lol.

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  • Alex_the_Great

    It's normal. It's the power of the bong, man! Doesn't happen to everyone, but I too have had a similar experience when I was a teen. I had been smoking for quite a while so my tolerance was pretty high. But this one time I got really, really stoned. Everything slowed down and was in stop-motion. It was weird, all the times I smoked and I had never tripped out like that. Yeah I freaked out, I thought I had broke something in my brain. My friends were laughing at me.. bastards. lol I was okay when I came down, but my mind still felt weird and unusual, even the next day I still felt strange. Give it time, it'll wear off eventually.

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  • MiLkii

    when was this posted? Anyway, same thing happened to me, went into slowmotion and had a massive panick attack, heart pounded so hard and loud (i could hear it in my head) whenever it started slowing down. Things sometimes even came to a complete stop and i was aware of everything, so i had to just shake off the feeling of that but it happend again few seconds later... it lasted for about 4hours and it was terrifying, pure agony. I wanted so see if it will happen again so i smoked weed again and it did, but it was not strong so it came in easy waves and i was prepared for it.. it still messes with my head while im not high, feels weird sometimes, especially when im really tiered. its been exactely one month since it happened first time and a few weeks after the second try. To sum it all up, i feel ya bro

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    • MiLkii

      Wow, 3 years late haha i feel kinda stupid now *giggles*

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  • timcrawford98

    Yes! I have finally found someone with the same effects that I get. trust me bro, this is normal. we just have really bad tolerance. This has happened 4/7 times I've smoked, and the first time was terrifying. I took a gravity bong hit and the first 5 minutes felt very pleasant and fine. I was in the creek with some friends and I felt the urge to walk around, so I got up and started walking. But about 10 feet into the walk I stopped walking and froze. My mind went blank, and all of a sudden everything was in frames. (Slow motion) I was screaming at my friends to help because I had felt dead. (or in a really weird dream). Later I realized that I had hit some train wreck and it had hit me harder than a piñata at a Mexican kids birthday. This is normal, and I had the effect for a few days before it wore off. I'm glad I found someone with the same effects!

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    • Blackhawks88

      I had been taking Vyvanse at the beginning of Junior year and was smoking pretty regularly. Then one day when I was smoking with my friends, I started feeling the same exact way that you mentioned where everything started getting really really slow, and everytime I turned or looked somewhere it was like I was in frames. Ever since that day, every single time I have smoked weed since I have felt that way, where I am almost like freaking out. And I also feel different when I am sobered up, where things are just a little bit slower than what I remember when I was completely fine a year or so ago. I feel like my brain chemistry is off now or something.

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    • Starovoit

      how are you?

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  • RoadRobbie1959

    The exact same thing happend to me it was like i would tell my body to do something and it would do it 10 seconds later.
    I freaked the fuck out I thought i had smoked Ketamine or some shit.Everytime my heart beat it would hurt my body, like ecectricity. MY WEED WAS NOT LACED. the friends i smoked it with were all happy and having a regular high.
    I dont know about you but this had happened about 4 months ago, I am still freaked out just thinking about it and i've started to see a psychologist he say's i just have depersonalization. By the way weed does not agree with some people and some peoples brains are just not wired for it. I would suggest you do everything you can to calm your body down. This is very important. Try deep breathing and/or massage. Its been 4 months since this has happened to me and i still feel like im in a mild trip. Hope this helps:)

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    • Starovoit

      how r you for now?

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  • XxAcExX

    Bro.. chill... exact thing happened to me like EXACTLY. I'm going to tell you what my more experienced pot head friends told me... don't fight the high.. just take the train and relax. I had so much panic and slow motion that I got scared shit less and my mom and friends being good people calmed me down(don't smoke around people you don't trust cause if you have a really bad trip they might take a bad advantage of that). Take smaller hits next time. And listen to music it helps. Think of an amazing, happy experience when actually smoking and RELIVE it in your mind while high. I know what it's like to not be in reality cause it happened to me. So take advantage of it you are in your own little world and if you learn to go with it you can have an amazing trip.

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    • Starovoit

      its happens to me when i started to fight a high

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  • cherrycherry

    A lot of people are saying it's all in your head but I completely understand... The same exact thing happened to me. After 3 puffs from a bong I was experiencing slow motion, anxiety, talking but not realizing, I was even crying but I didn't feel sad it was the weirdest shit that's ever happened to me. It was a different weed that we smoked though and I can't remember what my friend said it was. But he said that it could make you feel like that if you've smoked it the first time and such. I've never had a reaction like that from any other time that I've smoked so it was pretty scary. But if I ever did that kind again I would have more fun on it because now I know what to expect.

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  • DeltaV

    Weed kills billions of brain cells everytime you smoke and the branches of brain cell cant be restored.

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  • Smokingloud!xP

    Bro your good. That shit tweaks everyone out you smoked "loud" look it up its the shit! <3 next time hit it like 5 times. Cause I hit it 30 and everthing was frames and slowmotion for like 4 hours. Next time ask your dealer what's the shit called then research what it does to you and then youll know your not In danger

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  • Thatguy777

    You just had a panic attack. It happens to the best of us.

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  • bakerj99

    Haha, this is funny. It happens to me too, thats why i dont smoke it, so you shouldn't either!

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    • Starovoit

      same with me

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  • Sweetz

    Did you drink enough water? Could've been dehydration

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  • sirsako

    Thanks guys.
    Well it's the 2nd day after smoking it, and I still feel as though a part of my mind is missing. I can't concentrate on anything, and my mind is having strange thoughts. It's like i'm not actually living the moment in a way. Will this feeling go away? I'm worried because it's been nearly 2 days after I smoked and I still feel this way.

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    • Chazzout

      It will go away. It's sort of like shock wearing off. Things don't feel real anymore after an experience like that, but they will in time.

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    • Starovoit

      how are you?

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    • out-kast

      Hey im in the same dilema as you kinda

      Been here for 6 days now, its when i relax it just goes away...Its just paranoia and stress

      Keep in touch with me because you are the only person going throught the same thing as i am?

      Hows it coming along for you?

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      • Starovoit

        Are you still there?

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      • that_guy83

        The same thing happened to me. It happened months ago but i still feel like im not all there. I always try to focus on something that makes me happy and it goes away. It only happens when i think about it though.

        Youre fine its, called a panic attack.

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        • Starovoit

          How are you?

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  • superaspie

    It is normal. Just smoke a little bit if you continue.

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  • Chazzout

    I wouldn't worry about it being laced, it's not impossible but it happens less than people think - afterall, what motive is there to lace weed? Dealers don't really want to scare the hell out of their clients, or waste money by putting more drugs into the drugs they sell.

    Weed is powerful and kind of unpredictable for some people. If you have a panic attack on it that's even worse. I can get them, it turns into a full blown tripout - not fun when you're that anxious. Just don't worry that there's something wrong with you now - I turned out fine, it's not lasting effects. Even in positive times, weed can get very psychedelic, if you're sensitive to it.

    If you do lay off the weed for awhile, don't jump back into smoking the amounts you were before you stopped. It's easy to take a lot if you forget about your tolerance.

    Cheers!

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  • Darkoil

    First time I ever had a bucket I thought i'd aquired the ability to talk to insects, just a bad trip.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    lay off the weed for a while. that might help =)

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  • SoccerStud88

    major paranoia caused by the weed

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  • its appose to do that is pot

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  • polaris800

    Pussy

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  • Shackleford96

    DannyKanes is right, you should listen to DannyKanes

    :)

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