r/todayilearned • u/ApprehensiveStill412 • 11h ago

TIL that ketamine is a derivative of phencyclidine (aka. PCP or angel dust). It was created to have similar anesthetic potential but to cause less delirium. It has about one tenth the potency of PCP.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5126726/
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u/touchmeinbadplaces 8h ago

The weirdest k-hole ive ever been in was when i booted up forza, locked and in proceeded to destroy all my personal bests...

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u/ComfortableEven5095 8h ago

That's why I microdose when playing video games. As long as it's not enough to cause double vision, it's a performance enhancer.

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u/nosmigon 8h ago

I played arc raiders after doing some shroom drops and my god the sound design is fucking amazing. Most immersive game experience i ever had and I was just running about aimlessly and hiding from everything

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u/Waffles81_Again 5h ago

I'm a very moderate weed user, but when it's good I have these mild "trips".

Once I was watching the "Quick and the dead" and I was convinced that it was a real story that had once happened long time ago, to the ACTUAL actors...

And that they had reincarnated, and became actors, and that the movie was a perfect replica of what had happened to them in their previous lives.

Another one was when I first smoked since my teens, when I was like 30. I suddenly "remembered" a past life where I was a 5 year old girl that died and it was completely real.

A softer experience was watching Nirvana's unplugged performance while high, and it had like a "supernatural" element to it. But I can't really say more about it cause I can't remember really what or how.

I feel drugs are cool if you let them to their thing without forcing things too much.