DOSE: T+ 0:00	1 bump	insufflated	Ketamine	(powder / crystals)
T+ 0:30	120 mg	IM	Ketamine	(liquid)

BODY WEIGHT:

78 kg

I awoke early and had a light breakfast of overnight oats with soya milk, ground seeds and banana. I was at home and had the day to myself. I put my mobile phone away. I spent some time cleaning and tidying, with relaxing music going on my bone conducting headphones. Then I made a fresh ground coffee and read a novel for a while. It had been a busy time the last few weeks, so I had been looking forward to this peaceful clear day. I was well-rested and feeling good. My intentions were for discovery, relaxation and to experience the full K trip.

I have used ketamine plenty of times before. Other drug experience includes alcohol (these days no more than one drink very occasionally), cannabis (a few times per year now), MDMA (use a few times per year), DMT (few times per year), 2C-B (not used for a long time but would again), LSD (same as 2C-B), mushrooms (same again), cocaine (would not use again).

T. -00:30: Two and a half hours after breakfast, I insufflated a 25 mg bump of ketamine. Sometimes I do this, a bump before the full trip as a 'opener'. Sometimes not. Only one bump, as I am not a big fan of insufflating things these days. Then I went for a gentle bounce on the trampoline in my garden. I had a psy-dub type DJ set playing on the bone conducting headphones. I bounced for 20 minutes. I felt slightly loose and fuzzy, this was enjoyable with the jumping on the trampoline. It was mild, my motor coordination for bouncing was not affected.

I went indoors and to the bedroom. I gave a couple of sprays of a lavender-based natural fragrance to the bed. I kept the same psy-dub set going on the MP3 player and switched to over-the-ear headphones. I turned the volume down; I find that my ears become more sensitive during the K trip. I have tried different types of music, and prefer ambient music with no beats, or laid-back slow grooves. I have not yet tried the ketamine experience in silence; I am too much of a music lover. I shut the blinds, there was still some light coming through, as it was a sunny day outside.

T. 0:00: I had 120 mg of ketamine in 1.5 ml isotonic sterile solution for injection, in a pre-prepared syringe. It had been prepared using sterile technique. The ketamine is from a batch I have used multiple times before, weighed on a milligram scale. I sat on the bed. I injected in the thigh muscle, pushing the plunger down as slowly as possible, to reduce any chance of soreness. I laid back on the bed with a light cover over me.

Over the next minutes there was the come up phase. I stretched out my whole body, lying on the bed on my back; it felt pleasurable to wiggle about and stretch. Tingling in the fingers and toes, I wiggle them as they get heavier. I focus on slow and deep breathing, feeling the breath get heavier too. My eyes are closed. The phrase "I LOVE MY WIFE!" pops into my head, including the actual visualisation of those letters, in cartoon font capitals with an exclamation mark. I often make a positive affirmation about my wife or other family members as I go into the trip. Before much longer, I open my eyes briefly to see what it is like. It is blurry, I cannot focus. I shut them and then...Gone.

I always find it impossible to have a complete recall of the precise order of events in the peak phase of the K trip. However, here are some things that stood out from this trip. I was flying at will. I zoomed up from my house and could see my house from above. I zoomed back down and focused on the texture of the grass in the garden, the bright sunlight on the grass. I had recently moved house, and my feelings were of centred-ness and grounding in the new home. I felt confident that I had "arrived" and that my family and I "belonged" there. I then flew off again and there followed the complete dissolution of the self, characterising the deepest part of the K trip. The psychedelic-dubby music in my ears ceased to make sense. I lost any awareness or concept of my body. I was just a weightless Something, orbiting a ball of light. I was at peace and enjoying the feeling of spinning around this ball of light. I don't know if it was a star, I couldn't make any more sense of it, but I certainly felt somewhat like a comet orbiting a star, with an irregular orbit.

After a while, I sunk downwards, away from this potential star. The colours got darker, down into blackness. There was the feeling of sinking, sinking, slowing down, time stretching out, something like a bubble being squashed down under the sea, defragmentation, disintegration into almost nothingness. This was the most profound and serious-feeling moment. And then...restart. A feeling of building back up. Another wave. Flying again. I regained some grasp of my breathing and was taking very slow, deep breaths. When I exhaled, it was like blowing a dandelion, and it made me "push off" in a different direction each time. The phrase 'absolutely flying' came cheerfully into my mind. I pushed off into intricate machine-scapes. Complex matrixes zooming around, which seemed to be both alien and organic at the same time. Some awareness of the beat of the music in my ears returned and it was complimentary to these closed-eye visions.

The next significant recollection is of regaining some limited awareness of my body. I can't give a time stamp here; I was still too far-out for any consideration of opening my eyes and looking at a watch. There was a sensation of starting to re-enter my body and I felt ecstatic about this, my mouth was open in a big smile. This truly was a pleasurable moment. I gave my toes and fingers an experimental wiggle. The music in my ears was now making total sense again and I vibed out for a while, still laid back on the bed, with eyes closed. I was having closed eye visuals, delicate fractals. Some dissociation was still present, there were light "waves" of a drifting feeling of the body, more gentle than the spinning orbit at the peak of the experience.

T. +1:05: I fancied a change of music. I had to keep one eye closed to focus on the menu on my MP3 player. Still laid on my back. I switched from the downtempo psy-dub, to a quite hard and up-tempo psytrance DJ set. I was well pleased by this selection, the music struck me as funky, crisp and intricate.

T. +1:20: Lying back on the bed, I took notice of the progressive re-entry to my body. It was pleasurable to stretch my limbs and back out. I sat up slowly, and that felt fine, so I got up and walked cautiously downstairs. I was still fuzzy to some degree, with definite moon-legs, but my vision was clear and I felt safe moving about. I made a cup of tea, and sat in a comfy armchair. I still had headphones on and the music still sounded delicious. Sips of tea went down well.

T. +2:30: For the last hour I had mainly been sat in the chair, with a pleasant warm and stoned feeling of the tail end of the ketamine, absorbed in the psytrance DJ set going in my ears. I had gradually drunk a big glass of water, hydrating well always feels good after the K trip. As it wore down, I had a more energised feeling and had a dance to the music, enjoying bouncing on my toes and shaking out my body.

T. +3.00: I prepared and ate a light and healthy lunch, it went down well. I took off the over the ear headphones to eat, and switched to music on hifi speakers. I was pretty much back to baseline now, just a slight warm fuzziness could be felt. After lunch I read some more of a novel.

T. +5.00: Once lunch felt well digested, I went for a 1 hour trail run. I felt completely back to baseline, with a pleasant glow. Upon return I showered, stretched and got on with the rest of my day. I slept well that night.

I would categorise this as a good trip. The main positive takeaway was the feeling of confidence in my new home. And the sense of mental reset gained from going completely out there and back. There were the profoundly immersive moments, completely removed from my body and normal reality; to be expected of the full K trip. However the overall theme was light and joyful. This is the majority case with my ketamine trips. I have had one or two darker themed or more disorientated-feeling experiences. These have been when I have been tired and at night. I have learned that I do prefer to take ketamine earlier in the day. I see ketamine as a substance to be respected; to know the harm reduction principles, and to be kept for infrequent occasions.

Exp Year: 2025	ExpID: 118937
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 45
Published: Jul 26, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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