Hi everyone.. this being my second post, and I apologize for the lame name I've chosen lol.. but I'd like to let you all in on my first experience(s) with pot, and ask some questions later.

Ok, well my story is a tale of 5 days, almost consecutively, of smoking. I guess you can say I ended up gradually doing more during the last days, but it still leaves me wondering if I'd even done enough.

First day, I'm with my friend, and this will be my first time smoking. (Smoking anything, actually). We're sitting in the living room, and my chest is hurting as it is, because it does this when I don't sleep much, and I hadn't sleep more than a few hours in the last two nights. She shows me the pipe, which is the first one I think I've ever come this close to in person, hehe, and I was surprised at the small amount of weed that goes in there (silly me, I thought the bowl was way bigger). So, she lights up, and then my chest hurts a little, combined with my heart still beating rapidly, and I tell her I don't think I can do this now. I was scared, because I'd read that smoking it can quadruple your chance of a heart attack, and I was already wondering if maybe I had some kind of undiagnosed heart condition.

But it turned out that I didn't need to smoke anything to be affected - I think I got a contact high, because I started laughing a little, and I went up to the mirror, and my eyes were red! Something I didn't expect. Finally I smoked a little.. I coughed, but it was more of a forced cough. I don't know how much I got in, but I didn't feel much different than normal (btw my normal state is a bit spacy, for some reason), other than coming down the stairs and being a little disoriented.

Next day, we did some more, but I hardly did anything. And if I did, I again don't think I inhaled properly. So needless to say, no reaction.

Third day.. I think this was when I finally started to feel some real effects. I got the feeling that my feet were implanted into the ground, like it was hard to move them and gravity was pushing them heavily downward. I couldn't even stand straight and had to hold myself up. I didn't like this feeling though, so it gave me energy to want to go do something, to "fight off" this feeling, as I believed it would. So I started walking/running/whatever, to get rid of it. I came back and ended up literally pushing myself back and forth in a chair in the same position for what was probably a half hour. I sat myself in front of the radio too, but I was having a hard time each time figuring out where the buttons were to play the CD. And I just kinda sat there and stared at it. But the music didn't sound all good and beautiful like people say it's supposed to. I didn't really feel it much at all. Also, I found myself dancing in place for what seemed like the same length of time I pushed around that chair. I think this was the most significant thing it did for me, the most rewarding, should I say - that it left me a lot more uninhibited than I normally would be. Also, I found myself sticking my hand into the chip bag and eating them for awhile, but I didn't feel hungry. I felt no munchies. I felt nothing, none of this great stuff I was supposed to feel.

Fourth day. I had decided that maybe I wasn't getting the same feelings as most people did because I wasn't inhaling properly. I vowed to do it right this time, and I had a plan that I knew would work. I decided that this time, I would hold my nose. Then, there would be no chance of it not going in. So I did it, and boy was I right. I was coughing (and not forcing it out), for a few minutes afterwards. Then my throat hurt, and I started to feel a little shaky. Well, the combination of my throat hurting and being nervous to me felt like I was going to throw up. To make things worse, I sat down to watch tv and I felt dizzy. I had to get up and do something to make this feeling go away, or else I was afraid I'd be sick. So again, I find myself walking..

I walked outside down the street, and I started to feel better. However, this wasn't an unknown feeling to me. Like I said before, I always feel a little out of it to begin with, and I was hoping that pot would kind of help me to "snap out of" that feeling. But actually, it just made it worse. It was just like I was in a cloud or something, just not there at all. I was walking, and when I got to a sign, it reminded me of one I'd seen in another city, and then I started feeling like I was in that other city. Luckily I hadn't strayed far from the house, and I was able to turn around and go back. I felt better now, with some fresh air, but had to go out a few more times and dragged my friends with me. It was funny, because I couldn't keep up with them.. I was at least 10 feet behind them at all times, falling to the left, and I was extending my arms out to them for some reason.. and when I finally would catch up, I'd just want to hold onto them and hug them. So it was definitely working.

But still,no positive effects. None negative either.. just neutral. The music sounded distorted, and I had some slight delusions, but nothing was overly beautiful. No munchies either, actually, the opposite, I didn't even want to eat.

By the 5th day, I did some more.. some before we went out, and then more later on. But still, no otherworldly experiences I was hoping for. The biggest effect I had today was that I was just soo tired. It was as if I hadn't slept in days. And something else is that, for some reason, the whole left side of me felt paralyzed. Just the left side though. I just sat there and couldn't move. And, I could feel it in my brain, but only on the left side. But I was so sleepy, all I wanted to do was go to bed, and wear it off.

A few days later, I still felt slightly out of it. My friend said it should wear off in a few hours, but it took some days till I completely felt better again.

So that is my experience, and my questions are.. well, I read that in small doses, you feel tired. Does that mean if I had done a larger dose, I would have gotten the full effect? Or would I have just become so tired that I would have passed out right there? Also, why did only the left side of me feel like that, and is it normal to feel it in your brain? I'm sure it is, but no one else has ever described it to me like that before. I do have some conditions, like a little depression and OCD is my biggest mental ailment.. I know it didn't help the OCD. But I feel like I have to keep on experimenting to find that special dose, or scenario, or whatever, where I will finally feel what everyone else does. Or, do you think it just doesn't work on me for some reason?

Thanks to whoever got all the way through this.
Eyeball1979 Reviewed by Eyeball1979 on . First time experiences and questions (Long) Hi everyone.. this being my second post, and I apologize for the lame name I've chosen lol.. but I'd like to let you all in on my first experience(s) with pot, and ask some questions later. Ok, well my story is a tale of 5 days, almost consecutively, of smoking. I guess you can say I ended up gradually doing more during the last days, but it still leaves me wondering if I'd even done enough. First day, I'm with my friend, and this will be my first time smoking. (Smoking anything, Rating: 5