Have any of you, who have taken drugs for an extended period of time, noticed any physical or psychological changes due to your addiction? If yes, explain.
Ever had a bad trip or negative experience from taking drugs that you can tell us about?
I've never taken any major hallucinogen, but I think cannabis has left me with permanent anxiety. I've also, maybe 20 times, eaten morning glory seeds, but not enough to produce a full on trip, or any major effects at all to be honest, just a feeling of weirdness. I also have a strongly visual imagination/tendency to daydream and I lucid dream constantly and involuntarily. I think I might have this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder
I see a lot of visual snow, after images last a long time, specs of light and particles in the dark, objects breathing or wobbling and colours change if I look at them for long enough. It's also severely aggravated by cannabis and sleep deprivation. If I'm really stoned I see very slight peripheral hallucinations, like small spots that move like insects. I used to get panic attacks all the time but they've faded a lot.
I dunno, maybe everyone gets this when their tired and stoned, but I'm a hypochondriac so maybe I'm more aware of it.
If I look at a solid colour for long enough it turns into this:
Long term effects on the mind and body? Oh yeah, things like extra irritability/anger, constant state of paranoia and confusion, anxiety attacks, hallucinations, stomach bleeding, nausea, itching. Good times! Today, I feel like my memory has been effected by drugs. I have to write things down or I forget.
Why do you ask? Have you been feeling delusional lately? ;)
If you see marijuana as a hallucinogen, I was really into it in college. If you count Ecstasy as one, I've done that one before as well.
Otherwise, I've tried shrooms. I tend to be a little too lucid when I do drugs, and that time was (sadly) not an exception. I got to watch those I was with trip balls while I fell into a pseudo-babysitter role.
The fuzzy vision was before any experience with drugs however. I have certain aspects of light sensitivity that I'd imagine is responsible for it instead.
I also have Pyroluria, which prior to treating myself with Zinc had me hallucinate naturally. Pretty sure this isn't related however.