Is it normal to start to question reality when you smoke pot?

About two weeks ago, I smoked pot with a few friends, and not only did we get a ton (we paid for a dub, and got ~ a thirty-piece, because the dealer didn't measure correctly), and I think I smoked it too quickly, since this group does three hits before passing, and I'm not very used to smoking. When the high hit, I felt it like a ton of bricks. We were in a pretty boring location, and I usually have some background music to listen to. I was too high to keep up conversation, so I descended into my mind, and while I was in there, I kept seeing vague images from my childhood, mostly during daycamps of my youth. I still can't tell whether all of them were true, but they were all very distant, as if they were down a long tunnel.

I don't remember everything about it, but I know that I'd shift my body, and it was as if I were embedded in a multifaceted gem, and the images that were far away shifted with my movement, as if I were looking at another facet. I could hear the sound of high pitched chaotic chirping, almost like a swarm of insects, which would go away every time I moved, forcing me to move in a cyclic pattern. It was about the third time that I had gone through this same thing that I first opened my eyes. I could only focus on one thing at a time, but I knew that I could only focus on one thing at a time. A facet of my mind always seemed to pipe up when I opened my eyes, but it seemed to yell at me that the reality which I saw was not real. It tried to convince me that my mind was making up the world, based on the building blocks of the internal mental images, made more convincing by the fact that I could only focus on one facet of reality at a time. So I began to try to unravel at a thread of reality, and trace it as far back as I could, but It always seemed to get back to one of the images I saw in my head, which lead me to be inconclusive.

This happened a couple times, before I entered my mind again, and saw another image, unlike the others, who was a vague image of a person, who I knew to be the mental facet I had heard before. It wasn't as if he spoke, but while I saw him, I began to understand what he was trying to say. He was trying to explain that he was the Architect, but he also called himself the Guide and the Curator, and he was the one who had created the reality which he claimed was unreal. Before I had gotten to question him, we had begone to leave, and I don't remember much about what happened next, but I remember questioning that if I had created this world, why would I have placed such an import on religion and politics, and not on TV Commercials.

Then I went to a store which had sample cheeses, and I don't remember much, but I remember a vague feeling of anxiety and dread and general unease. So I guess I want to know, is this normal in general, and which of the feelings I had were normal and which (if any) were abnormal.

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Based on 79 votes (49 yes)
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  • zerostate

    Didn't read all that, sorry.

    But questioning reality is normal, regardless of your state of mind.
    1) "Normal" is subjective.
    2) We know of what we call Reality thanks only to one thing - perception. Perception is also highly subjective.
    3) We can only compare what we perceive through recording and communication. This is the most subjective part of the whole process (the process of Understanding), because now you have to also rely on your memory, which is trying to fill in the blanks or otherwise explain the parts that just don't make sense; it's falling back on whatever is most likely to be logical or supportive.

    Mind-altering substances often tend to cause the use to focus on these subjects, most typically encountered during deep meditation, or academical philosophy.

    So yeah, perfectly normal.

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  • Dovesolo

    Who the fuck you think wants to read that much ???

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  • byron8222

    Hello

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  • zchristian

    I sometimes question reality and i neighter smoke nor drink and actually think i have a pretty strong grip around reality it just feels odd from time to time...

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  • Outsider21

    You basically had a sort of subtle, partial ego loss. It doesn't sound like a full blown ego death or anything like that so I don't think it was laced. You basically temporarily parted from ordinary "reality" and partially entered a sort of spiritual plane. Experiences this extreme from weed are really spiritual and not "just the drugs" I think. Any kind of experience like this whether drug induced or not is a genuine mystical experience in my opinion. I'm a bit surprised that you got all this just from pot if you never did other drugs in the past. Not saying it's abnormal or that it was laced necessarily, just that it's somewhat of an uncommon occurrence.

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  • Harridan

    I think pot and other drugs sort of take you away from so-called "reality".

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  • ants91shearer

    i do that to

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  • Jessica3009

    Y is every thing I read has to do with smoking I'm ten !!!!! Talk about
    Some one taking your tv or some one chewing on your arm !!!! Just smoking is really bad for your liver and my step father died from smoking and my real father died from a drunk driver some one tell me no more drunk people plus I still need a father WHO HAS NOTHING
    TO DO WITH DRUNK PEOPLE >__< yes my mother Is NOT a drunk my sept father snuck in the smoke until I called the cops well then died by drinking to much see what can do to if you start before you get time to think and use your head

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    • Not sure if trolling, or attention whore... or really really stupid.

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      • Jessica3009

        I'm not stupied I'm in honor rolls and I just got home from school

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        • Outsider21

          you spelled stupid wrong dude, that doesn't seem very honor student like

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  • extreme_momma

    i think its normal. i got high once and totally eliminated leap year. I have stopped world hunger, and cured cancer. but for the life of me i can't remember how!!!

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  • annon0000

    so ppl cant handle drugs, if its pot that effect normally goes away as u build a tolerance

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  • The first and last paragraphs seem normal, but not really the two in the middle.

    I think you are smoking a little too much for someone who doesn't do it that often.

    It improves your creativity, your ability to recall long-term memories in vivid detail, gives you the munchies, and lets you think about things in an abstract way that you might not normally experience sober.

    Hallucinations is not part of the trip, so maybe your mind is adding that extra fun in there on it's own. It's not normal for weed to be laced either, so I doubt it's that.

    Happy toking. ;)

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    • It wasn't so much a hallucination, as a still image who ascribed itself names, and titles, and the subconscious ideas that were going through my mind were ascribed to him. It's kind of difficult to describe, but yeah.

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      • Outsider21

        Ok. So, you weren't actually hearing full blown voices educating you on the universe, but did you know this was all your imagination? If so, I'd say be careful but it is a "normal" reaction as long as you knew what was real and what wasn't. However, be aware that serious questioning of reality (even when sober for some folks such as myself at times) can be risky. For the most part, don't question reality too much. A little bit of questioning reality can be beneficial in my opinion, but take it too far and you go nuts.

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