DOSE:

smoked

Cannabis

BODY WEIGHT:

130 lb

Greatly-Comprehensive List of How I Feel High

Because I am fascinated by the effects I feel while high on weed, I will attempt to explain in comprehensive detail how I feel while high, as though explaining to someone who has never experienced it. This is difficult because you cannot know how it feels until you try it, kind of like trying to explain vision to a blind man. Effects vary from person to person; therefore I will just explain how I personally feel on it. It also seems like weed is much more psychedelic and bizarre to me than to the average person.

Effects I Get When I’m High

In general, being high, to me, feels very interesting, weird, relaxing, and my senses are enhanced. Everything is also generally very amplified and weird. And my brain switches over to the right side of the brain as well. I’ll also note that the high is much more trippy/better when I am alone, because I am not paying attention to other people. The cons of being high are that I can’t get any work done, my mind is foggy, my insecurities are amplified, and I don’t feel like socializing. Therefore it is best done when I have no obligations. It’s best doing by myself, and also with other high people, though not as much as when alone.

The Stages of a typical or strong High: (a mild high is more like just stages 1, 3 & 4) (oral cannabis consumption is similar, but all of the stages are stretched-out/last way longer)

1. First, in a couple minutes after smoking I will begin to peak.

2. Then the peak hits, which lasts roughly an hour, although it can potentially feel like hours due to time dilation (during the peak it is difficult to act normal, due to laughter and/or inability to speak well from bad memory, but I do okay at acting sober for a short time because I can focus on it).

3. After that, I’m still high for a couple hours but it’s not as intense and I can come off as normal much easier. At this stage I often get a strange, distinct “lowered mood” effect, not sure how to describe it, but I strangely used to not get it, bummer.

4. Lastly, I am on the after-effects for several hours. I can function normally on the after-effects, I just feel “off”. (I also don’t get this stage anymore)

How I Appear to Others While High: While high and peaking I laugh uncontrollably when around people, and also become very quiet. Once the peak wears off, I don’t laugh a lot anymore but still am quiet. The peak is the only time when it’s obvious that I’m high, unless you are my sibling or a friend, because they have experience with me being high and can tell much easier.

The effects below are categorized to show if they are positive, neutral (some of which may be good and bad), or negative in my opinion. They are also in categories according to the part of myself they affect.

Keep in mind that different effects are experienced due to different variables, such as how high I am, what kind of weed I am on, and how long I've been smoking, and that only some are experienced during any given high. Everyone feels different while high, and as mentioned before the effects seem much stronger and bizarre on me.

A lot of the effects I haven’t felt in a very long time, some of which I haven’t listed for that reason. Not sure why. Even though my tolerance is still really low after months of use about 3 times a week, it’s still not as strong as it was as a beginner, and lacks some of the beginner effects.

I find that many of the effects kind of contradict/are paradoxical/cancel each other-out. If they didn't interrupt each-other then I feel like weed would be a very beneficial drug to use/maybe a near perfect drug. For example; the feeling of getting enlightened with genius thoughts, but forgetting them right afterwards due to laziness or bad memory, or another example is noticing details in everything, yet being foggy-minded.

Tripping on psychedelics is comparable to weed in my experience. Although psychedelics are much, much stronger, and with added affects.

All Common Effects Categorized:

Common Positive Physical Effects:

• Very relaxed muscles. When I first started; sometimes I even lose feeling in my feet while sitting, or my head would drop from relaxation while sitting on the computer.
• Headache and fever relief. Nice when sick; numbs the discomfort, raises appetite, makes you sleep, and takes your mind off of it.

Common Neutral Physical Effects:

• Quads and/or eyelids feel heavy. Sluggish legs. Not noticeable anymore, only when I was a beginner.
• Sensation in my head. Like something is in my head and floating-up.

Common Negative Physical Effects:

• Bloodshot, glazed/shiny eyes. (good give-away to others that I’m high, but easy to hide with clear eyes), though other smokers can still notice the glazed eyes.
• “Sucked-in” lazy eyelids with a slightly dark, reddish tint to the skin on the eyelids. (opposite of swollen, poufy eyelids)
• Dry mouth.

Common Positive Mental Effects:

• The world feels weird and very atmospheric; a lot of things have a distinct feel to them, and seem more lively/vivid. I’m viewing the world at a different perspective. A lot of things have a strong, individual, distinct, interesting vibe to them, I have feelings about things I can’t feel sober. -Ironically; these feelings sometimes feel familiar, as if I felt them in my childhood. –It’s a very thought-provoking phenomenon.
• Everything is a lot more interesting because I notice all of the details in everything that my sober-self ignores.
• Living in the present moment; not worrying about anything. (except getting caught or self-consciousness, if in that situation)
• Very creative and completely bizarre unexplainable spontaneous thoughts and feelings/emotions. Oftentimes I will get creative light bulb genius ideas, but just forget them a second afterwards due to horrible short-term memory and laziness to record it.
• Constant bizarre, imaginative cartoons and cartoon movies/stories flowing through my mind non-stop in my mind (not CEV visuals but rather a strong imagination). Much stronger if I close my eyes and/or listen to music, only present if not around people. (not as common as it was as a beginner)
• I pick-up on every individual’s subtle body-language movements and unique behaviors.
• Much easier to get hypnotized, because I’m so relaxed and imaginative.
• I can get on the same level as kids if I want and play with them/socialize with them easily, and I can also understand animals easier. I am basically fluid and connect easily/become at the same level with other states of consciousness. The barrier is removed and I feel more like one of them.
• Much easier to understand certain abstract things, like Shakespearean dialect.
• People’s personalities become very amplified, weird, and distinct from each other. Everyone’s personality is very exaggerated, interesting, and weird. I also notice all the little habits people have and do subconsciously.
• I can feel a lot like a kid again, I think a lot of the effects you feel high were the norm when you were a kid.
• I may get very enlightened/insightful thoughts, only to forget them right afterwards or be too caught-up in the moment to record them.
• I sense emotions much stronger in other people, whatever emotion they feel is amplified and much more noticeable, rather than just being shrugged-off subconsciously.
• I feel like I can relate to and experience other states of consciousness, and I can experience what it is like to be any other given person or even animal.
• If I’m in public, I will have “super-focus” onto random groups of people talking to each other and be able to “zoom-in” onto their conversations, but when sober they are just background noise.

Common Neutral Mental Effects:

• Almost uncontrollable giggling/laughter at anything, or things which are barely funny. (the standard for what is funny is lowered significantly) (only get the uncontrollable laughter if I’m around people)
• My subconscious problems (such as self-consciousness) are greatly amplified and weird. This is a bad thing, but also good because it can be used to see my subconscious worries clearly, when they are almost invisible otherwise. I am yet to figure-out how to implement these things into my life for positive benefits if possible.
• I feel like my mind’s switches are switched differently, or like I am in an alternate dimension- I interpret all my senses way differently and they are amplified.
• Feel like I am sleeping but conscious. Similar to being half-awake, except constant. Kind of feels like dreaming, or living in a memory.
• Everything can feel like I am in an alternate universe that is very similar but feels way different because my perception is soo different.
• As with the amplification of senses; I notice how “cheesy” a lot of things are. (ei: video games look very “videogamy” and animated, the show called The Bachelor is super-cheesy, along with all of the characters, and commercials are funny)
• Very slow timescale. Sense of time feels very slow. (ei: If extremely stoned, 1 hour can possibly feel like 8 hours) (although ironically I am able to guess how much time really passed pretty well)
• Focus is exclusively onto whatever I am doing.
• Time “skipping” around from one action to the next. As if the time/memory between those actions wasn't there. (only had this effect as a beginner)
• I’ll have abstract thought. I look at the world at a different perspective/angle, so when I try to explain my thoughts to someone they might not make sense and sound stupid. -for example; I once thought that the smell of the herb called Marjoram feels like the sound of treble in music. lol. Sounds stupid, but makes sense if you think abstractly.
• I might get really horny/and or get really sensitive on my privates whilst just doing normal activities.
• I feel like I forget like 90% of how it feels once I am sober, because my perception of my own thoughts is different so it's impossible.
• My age-perception can be way-off. (for example; I might not be able to tell if someone is a middle schooler or a high schooler)
• I have pure awareness of all my senses, rather than consciously thinking/interpretating all of them as in my sober self. (this is a good effect, but bad when socializing cause I am quiet)

Common Negative Mental Effects:

• Poor short-term memory. (although I may rarely remember something random from my past which I thought I forgot)
• I get really lazy.
• Constant spacing-out. (as a beginner)
• Things can feel way too weird, my perception gets soo strange that the raw weirdness of all the vibes of everything can bug me.
• Because I am soo sensitive to people’s personalities, their negative flaws are amplified; therefore even some of my own best friends may seem like assholes.
• Difficulty having conversations, because of the bad short-term memory.
• Greatly decreased sociability, I am very quiet and just laugh a lot. (the reason for my silence is that I am just absorbing everything around me soo strongly that I can’t express myself, and my insecurities are also amplified)
• Greatly increased self-consciousness (especially about the fact that I am high).
• Inability to get any work done; because I can’t focus whatsoever on things I don’t like to do.
• Hard to find things.
• Great difficulty understanding plot of TV shows or movies, probably the memory impairment, or how I pay attention to all of the details instead of the big picture. Also probably because I am paying attention to what it is rather than making connections with it.
• Paranoia; if I am trying to hide my highness and/or had a very strong dose.
• Scary things much scarier. (ei: the dark might be scary like it was as a kid)

Common Sound-Related Effects:

• Hearing is enhanced, and I notice random subtle sounds I've somehow never noticed before, such as the electrical-crackling sound a power-line makes.
• People’s voices sound different; more animated, weird, and distinct.
• On the other hand when people talk to me it sounds like how speech sounds when I am sleeping and someone is talking to me while I am asleep, or like remembering a memory of someone talking to you but it sounds like that in the present moment.
• I can hear sounds and think they sound like something else (even though I know what it is if I think about it). (For example; if I’m in my garage, I might hear cars outside driving and be like “what the fuck is that thing!?” It’s kinda like hearing sounds as if you never heard them before, but then you realize what they are)

Common Musical Effects:

• Music sounds completely different, amazing, and has much more depth.
• Music is much more emotional, rather than just a song.
• If played out-loud rather than in headphones, music feels like it’s engulfing the room, the bass feels like it’s echoing off the walls and into my ears. I can almost see the sound waves.
• I imagine creative, bizarre “cartoonish psychedelic music videos” to music in my head effortlessly.
• Much easier to understand lyrics to songs, as if I don’t even listen to the lyrics sober, but do high. But I do have poor short-term memory to the song as well.
• Sounds in music sometimes sound funny.
• Music may sound way too weird.

Common Touch-Related Effects:

• Sense-of-touch is much stronger and actually feels different.
• Sexual-pleasure feels extremely good and different, orgasms also feel longer, though can be harder to reach (no pun intended). I feel like I’m inside porn videos and actually there, really cool and weird.

Common Smell-Related Effects:

• Sense of smell is stronger. (ei: I can smell alcohol on people that have been drinking that I didn't smell sober)

Common Food-Related Effects:

• Food tastes incredible! I feel numerous textures in the food that I've never felt before. It doesn't just taste more flavorful, but rather tastes very different and much better, I can taste a lot of textures and flavors I've never noticed before.
• I see bizarre [usually smiley] faces in my bread slices and other foods (I notice them because of my increased creativity), and food can look weird and different, yet the same. I see the food items for what they are; strange and often gross (if unhealthy), though still delicious!
• I have a very strong urge to eat food. I’m not necessarily hungry, just really want to eat food. It’s a different type of hunger.
• I often eat way too much food, and feel the consequence later with minor stomach/and or throat discomfort.

Common Visual Effects: (hard to describe, as with all of this. Everything looks… different.. but it isn't. I’ll try to describe it.)

• Certain things look more vivid, contrast, bright, and colorful. - warm colors/lights in particular seem more vivid.
• Notice details/things I normally never noticed about the environment around me.
• I see facial expressions on inanimate objects. (ei: I will see smiley faces in trees or bread slices, or see expressions on the front of cars)
• Trippy videos and pictures are very interesting. Partially because of how I notice details, and also how I get soo creative and imagine things and stories in the seemingly bland videos that people don’t think of while sober.
• People look a lot more animated, weird, exaggerated and cartoonish, yet look the same.
• An almost “moving” visual on the non-focused parts of my vision, almost like flowing, very difficult to describe, things aren’t actually moving like they do on shrooms, it’s kind of like a pseudo-movement.
• I might see the details in things rather than the whole picture. (ei: If I’m looking at a shelf, I will see all the items on the shelf rather than the shelf itself, as a sober person would)
• I might see small, quick “sparks” or “flashes” on my visual field randomly.
• “Video-game-lag-vision”. When I move my head I see frames in my vision; like a lowered frame rate in my vision.
• Focus is exclusively onto whatever I am looking at.
• Objects in the distance may look like a flip-out 3D book, or how things look in binoculars.

Rare Effects:

• Minor psychedelic closed-eye visuals to music. (ie: fractals, random tiny light-blips in my vision for a split second, or texture repetition).
• Everything feels soo different and interesting, that my own house may feel like someone else’s house.
• Minor hallucinations in my vision, like, I may think I saw someone running in the corner of my eye for a split second.
• Minor audio hallucinations, such as thinking I heard my parents call my name for a split second, or hearing bizarre bleeping sounds.
• I’ll spontaneously remember a random thing from years ago from my past, which I thought I forgot about! (ei: a videogame I used to play as a kid, or a habit my brother used to have as a child)
• Mild synesthesia (mixing of senses). (for example, I might think a sound or color tastes a certain way)
• Much more colorful colors, along with a “pulsing visual” going around my focal point. (when extremely stoned or combined with a psychedelic)
• If really stoned, I may wobble slightly when standing.
• I might hear short, quiet sounds in the background that aren't actually there, for example, I may hallucinate people talking in the distance for a split second if it’s quite and I’m outside. I realize after a while that the subtle sounds aren't real.
• Mild jaw-clenching and/or finger-biting. (if extremely high)
• Disorientation, where I’m really out of it and have difficulty snapping “into” it. (must be extremely high, or if I am on a psychedelic at the same time, which makes it very strong)
• Can be hard to do basic things, like cutting bread, using my phone, or typing on a keyboard. (if extremely high) (much more common as a beginner)
• I get sensitive to cold temperatures, but if I am really stoned I can even get cold and shiver in room temperature.
• Feeling like I am retarded. (if extremely stoned and alone) (although simultaneously the best highs)
• Sense of touch may get too sensitive, to where I get restless, or get this cold sensation.

Specific Examples/Unique/One-Time Effects: (separating by date of occurrence)

• When the high hit me; it felt like all my muscles started trying to float-up, and then a little later it felt like they were heavy.
• I kept smiling uncontrollably, and whenever I did, it felt like I had a huge grin over my entire face.

• Unbelievably slow timescale – every second felt like an eternity, or thousands of years.

• While I was in school, I was a little high from the night before. Because of it, I was able to actually understand my Spanish teacher speaking in Spanish! (because my focus was completely on her speaking)

• I spontaneously, right out-of-the-blue, remembered 2 PC video games I used to play as a tiny toddler! I though I forgot about them, but they were somewhere in the back of my mind. (Freddi Fish and Fisher Price Pet Shop) (though I had to figure-out the names of them)

• One time I was super-high and I actually felt like I took on the identity of a whole other person named “Gorb”. I knew I wasn't actually him, but felt like I was; my mind was being very creative. What my mind made-up was: I was some 30 year-old gay man living married with a partner (which the guy I was smoking with took the identity of in my mind) in a house in the future. Our house had a 70s feel to it. We weren't close to each other, but lived fine with each other.. lol
-Sometimes I would forget who the guy I was smoking with was, and then remember again, on and off. I just knew that I knew him, but would forget the details of who he was.
-I also got insight on my personality on this high; I realized how I act around people because my personality was exaggerated to me.
• I ate pop tarts, but because of how different food tastes I didn't even think it tasted like pop tarts, it was more of a burger-flavor!
• I felt chunks of food go down my throat and I was able to tell the shape of the chunks (looking-back I can’t tell if I was feeling the actual shape or imagining the shape).
• My right foot was so relaxed that it felt almost as if it was turning into pudding/Jell-O!
• The living room I was in felt a lot bigger after I got high.
• Every location in the room had a different feel to it, like, for example; the kitchen felt like a whole different location than the couch only a few feet away.
• I would feel like my consciousness kept slipping away for split seconds.

• One time I was listening to dubstep music on my computer while on alcohol and weed simultaneously, and I fell into a trance where I was swaying side-to-side to the music involuntarily. It felt really good.
• I was lying in bed on weed and alcohol, and felt like hugging and loving girls I knew. They seemed so cute.
• I was lying in bed on weed + alcohol listening to music, but the music was scary because I noticed any negative tone/emotion in it. Maybe it was like that because the room was dark, in combination with other factors.

• While lying in bed listening to music, I felt almost like I left my head/body and floated-up for a couple seconds like 2-3 times.

• Had positive personal insight into my life issues on the post-high the next morning, largely due to the post-effects.

• I was walking with my friend in a neighborhood while extremely stoned, and he looked like he was moving in frames and had motion blur at the same time while he was walking in my peripheral vision.

Common After-Effects: (possible effects several hours post-high, or into the next day) (effects vary a lot depending on if it’s the same day of the high or the next) (I don't get after-effects anymore)

• Everything is more interesting + atmospheric.
• I might notice small details in random things.
• Good focus.
• As mentioned before; if I over-ate, I will have a slightly upset stomach.

Description of My Levels of Highness:

1. Mild: Feels like a typical high, but not as intense, and some main effects are not present. Lasts a couple hours.

2. Moderate High: Regular high. Most effects present. Lasts several hours.

3. Completely Stoned: Strongest level of high (typically). The negative and positive effects are both at their strongest. Most, if not all effects present. Lasts for several hours.

Level 4: Very, very rare, usually only accessible when I combine weed with a psychedelic. Even stronger, and feels almost like a low-dose psychedelic trip.

End Thoughts:

As you can see, being high on marijuana is a very bizarre and interesting experience to me. In terms of addictiveness, I'm not sure if I was addicted to it or if you would just call it a habit. I wasn't dependent on it, but thought about getting high a lot, and did it about 3 times a week. I quit recently because the highs took-on a different nature and aren't worth it anymore. They have become too weird, and I have a sort of 'dysphoria' on the come-down.

I find it outrageous that this mystical plant is demonized by most of the world, especially while people view the much-more dangerous alcohol, and highly-damaging tobacco as okay. I do believe though that weed will be legalized within my lifetime in most of the world.

Exp Year: 2013	ExpID: 101182
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 18
Published: Mar 5, 2026	Views: Not Supported
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