Ketamine in low doses acts more like a stimulant. At medium to high doses it turns to be a powerful paralyzing psychedelic, makes the user feel sluggish, disassociated from his body, clumsy and can cause hallucinations. He looks like drunk and has trouble remembering who he is. Its effects are like a combination of all drugs.

When using ketamine the brain is no more reacting to sensations from the body. The action is very rapid, in about 10-20 minutes you may find yourself hardly able to move and, at higher doses, even approaching out-of-body and near-death experiences. You may experience dazzling insights, hallucinate and even feel yourself communicating with forces, entities and elements you were never conscious of before.

Users often fall into a deep trance state. Their eyes may move sightlessly from side to side, and their bodies may assume bizarre postures. Try to tell someone about it and you’re likely to mumble monosyllabic and nonsensical inanities. Some people find it a life-changing and even spiritual experience. Others find it a lonely and unemotional experience. Whatever you make of it, it’s intense.

Usually, a ketamine trip only lasts between 45 and 90 minutes, regardless of dosage. The experience can be much shorter if you have high tolerance. The effects wear off very rapidly. If you’ve ever had an operation under anesthetic, you’ll recognize that lousy post-operative feeling after a strong ketamine trip.

There are few other after-effects other than this general drowsiness. You might feel wiped out, a bit achy, and not ready for anything too loud or too complicated. Sometimes you may feel rather disorientated or even a bit shell-shocked, as ketamine is a very extreme experience at higher doses. Many people feel energized after a ketamine experience and have a strong urge to move around, dance or stretch.

Long term users can be so overcome by what they regard as the superior reality of ketamine-land that they can retreat from the real world into the K-world. At high doses, external stimuli like loud music or TV are not particularly satisfying, nor conductive to a good trip, because ketamine’s effect is essentially an internal and introspective experience. This is not the case at low level doses, when it acts more like a stimulant.

Ketamine’s effects on the brain are well documented. It mainly binds to and blocks glutamate receptors (also as N-P receptors) all over the brain. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter. It turns on cell activity and is part of the computer-like on / off mechanism that underlies brain activity.

Overall, the ketamine result is the much famed K-Hole effect: certain brain parts go into temporary hibernation, mainly the senses and physical sensations, while others, imagination and other unnamed perceptions from the depths of the mind are amplified.

We strongly recommend to everyone reading this article to stay out of ketamine abuse, however, if you or someone close to you have problems with ketamine addiction, we suggest you to visit Drug Rehab Centers Canada.