5 days after smoking weed, feeling like everything is fake.

Heres the really good news. It's only anxiety.

Want to know the science behind it?

Weed acts like a magnifying glass on both positive and negative thoughts when consuming. Cannabis has the ability to make you feel happier (from Euphoria/ uplifted thoughts) or it can create new previously unknown psychological problems to an individual.

Here's why:

The THC essentially messes with your neurotransmitters since it makes the current flowing in your brain stay on, hence powerful/ deeper thoughts and visuals but also reoccurring thoughts can happen. 

Lets say a long time girlfriend dumped you or are afraid of getting caught smoking weed, stressed about school/ friends or any other big event (happened to me), sober you might think its all good but once you start constantly activating these neurotransmitters then you start tensing up thinking about it subconsciously.

Your brain starts to send messages to your muscles, stomach etc to tense up. Then you start realizing that you have pain or don't feel just right and freak out. Depersonalization. That's the feeling you get that everything is fake. This is essentially a panic attack. These unpleasant feelings actually mimic life threatening problems. The truth is, nothing is wrong with you physically.

After smoking weed you think it's over but in fact it isn't. Your brain has learned to be terrified, so you start developing irrational fears of dying, going crazy etc.

Trust me, in 2012 I had many nasty panic attacks (both while sober and high) which involved exactly what you fellow smokers have described. I did a lot of research and learned how to control my fears and eventually I no longer have these feelings.

The most important thing to repeat to your self is its not real! Nothing serious is really happening to you. Truth is, you won't die, you can still control your self. The reason why people still continue having these attacks is because they start developing new fears and paranoia.

There are breathing techniques you can use when you feel the aura (feel it coming).

I have learned how to control my attacks and now smoke weed once a week here in the Netherlands without a single attack. And boy, it feels amazing to feel normal again!

If you need more tips just post on the forum, ill be checking out newer comments.

 

Sources: Experienced same problems due to cannabis, Son of Doctor,  Two years higher level Psychology

This has to be a joke.

The saddest part about this whole thread is the mention of suicide. The next is the amount of people who fear telling their parents they smoked a joint or two. 

If you are feeling suicidal, tell someone. Its the easiest way to stop feeling suicidal! 

S.W.E.D

How is it suppose to be a joke id**t?

Man all you people say idiotic sh*t I had this his weed could've been laced easily

I just recovered from all this BS so don't be saying its all in your head and sh*t

It's called depersonalization and it's actually very common after smoking weed. Don't listen to the people that say "weed is great, bla bla bla." They are m****s. The truth is that it may be great FOR THEM but not for you. Everyone has different brain chemistry. If you already have high dopamine levels then smoking weed can raise them too high and cause a schizophrenic type of reaction. Dopamine is a tricky thing. Don't worry though - it WILL go away. The feeling of everything "being fake" is depersonalization and it will go away with time. It's important to spend time with people and get lots of exercise.

How did you get over it? Did you go to a doctor or something? Or did it go away from it self?

See a doctor

I had the same thing with Dizziness and heart problems oh and can't forget the high blood pressure, sometimes weed can be laced or can be synthetic, so watch out and try to not mislead people because they can have similar symptoms but different things can cause them!

Its happened to me before too. WHAT YOU SMOKED WAS PROBABLY "WET". Unfortunatley you had to learn the hard way, like I did, to watch who youre puffing after. Weed is every where these days so its easier for a teen to get their hands on it. In my case a friend took some from their step dads drawer. We smoked it and immediatley I was thirsty. I remember I chugged an entire wine cooler without breathing. (Seems like nothing now but at the time I thought DAMN!) Anyway things started having an echo I walked slow, my vision got weird. Like everything I saw was a picture I assume it was my brain no longer understanding my blinking. Every time I blinked it was a new picture. I thought that I would be trapped like that forever and that it was a game....once someone got you to do it you could never get out and the only way to get relief is if you get someone else to do it.. when I closed my eyes everything was trippy..neon pink with penguins spinning in a circle and black sunglasses between each penguin. Somehow I was able to go to sleep. My friend was like just go to sleep youll feel better in the morning. When I woke up I was numb. I didnt want anyone to touch me. It felt weird. I was so sensitive I went to work and splashed water on my face I was spaced. So scary. I was like that for a week before I told my mom. She took me to the hospital. The doctor was smart..... he told my mom that the weed was most likely laced but that im very sensitive and hyper aware already so that-- on top of any drug even if it Is regular marijiuana--I would probably feel x10. My mom told him I was hard headed when it came to her so he played on my emotions and told me I was allergic to weed. And that I should stay away from all drugs, energy drinks and strong coffee as well. As I will react to all. He also told me ill be lucky if the numbness weny away bc some people stay like that. Their nerves get shot. Ughh drama. Be careful!

This happened to me about 4 years ago and the feeling lasted about a year for me and it still comes back quite often but you learn that it really is all in your head. I know its hard to believe but you just have to keep telling yourself that. Ive seen so many doctors about it and I've now been diagnosed with panic disorder which makes you feel disconnected from life. Its hard to live with it but its not unusual and you will be okay :) 

It's cause everything is fake the weed made you see reality...

Man i smoke weed and most of the time it's a good high, but when I trip, I TRIP Like I'm on shrooms and I hate it. Super scared, it felt like the was just going fast paced, felt like all my memories I thought about where just a dream, also made me shake and cold, heart pounding, it felt like I was blinking on and off (like blinking your eyes and opening them about 2 seconds later ) and I'd feel different every time i opened them, it was horrible. But really I learned how to control this, it's happend over the years and I just learn that I'm only super high and I WONT DIE.

Hi everyone.  I'm really glad people are talking about this topic.  

I have personally gone though this a couple of times.  The first time was about 7 years ago on a backpacking "trip" lol.  Another time was also on vacation.  

This is what I believe happened to me.  I was a very, very casual pot smoker, like 3 times a year.  An amateur.  The times I decide to give it a try was when I was already drunk, in a state willing to try other things.  Usually at the end of the night when alcohol was wearing off.  As most people know when alcohol wears off a sort of depression slowly comes on    eg. fighting, crying, heavy thoughts...  as the alcohol was wearing off the pot was kicking in.  Pot makes anything you feel more intense.  So if your coming down from a night of drinking, your depression phase will be more intense.  Also if you have underlying depression that will come out too. 

I also felt pretty much all the feeling people have mentioned.  People that mention suicide I can see that.  Although that came across my mind, I never considered it.  Those of you that are thinking of it, I urge you to talk to someone you trust about it.  If you can't think of someone to trust look for a help group.   Letting the feeling out really helps.  The fake feeling does go away, give it time.  It is one of the worst feelings I know!!! It feels like you are always going to feel that way.  I had thought I died and was seeing my life in replay (backwards).  

This feeling lasted strongly for 2 weeks, then I had flash backs for a long time.  But each time was less and less intense.  The flash backs came randomly and made me feel as if I had lived the current moment before (deja-vu).  The flash backs towards then end were happening once a month and then suddenly stopped about a year later.  A long time I know.  I have read that THC the active chemical in pot is stored in your fat.  So whenever you burn a little fat the chemical is released again in the bloodstream.  This is most likely why the flash backs happen.  I am a kind of person that keep feelings and emotion inside.  I really think about things a lot rather than talking a lot.  I believe that why it happens to me, or its some sort of allergy as mentioned in another post.

Good luck to all, 

you will feel normal again. 

I have come to realize that pot is not for me,  as it doesn't agree with everyone.  I do feel like I'm missing out on some fun with friends.  But it's not worth the mind games for me.

I will stick to using alcohol in time of celebration and happiness. 

 

 

 

It's just cause you're hitting the end of puberty and are getting some wierd thoughts.....I'm the same age and have thought the same thing.