Like most people here, I've been through the same thing. In my case I'd had cannabis as well as ecstasy at the time. The delayed sensation of touch was about 1-2 seconds and like most it re-occurred intermittently for over a month (and I was clean).
What drove me to add to this conversation (and to help people understand more about what they have experienced) was a recent BBC documentary on the brain.
What we perceive as reality is actually the past, it takes time for our brains to create our reality, to process our senses of sight, sound and touch and form a model of our experience.
So everything you are experiencing right now actually happened a few seconds ago.
With this in mind, it's clear that cannabis can have an effect on our perception of touch, knocking out the synchronisation. So when our touch does not coincide with our vision, one part of our model is out of sync.
Watch the documentary, it explains it much better than I can. Knowledge is power people.
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For every one that laughs about this experiences and do not think that weed can cause this it is because you smoke everydray and rased your tolerance in a steady pace. I used to smoke 0.5 grams or more in one joint alone of potent stuff and now I cant get have one hit.
Take your own conclusions.
Happened to me first time at 17 after my friend pushed me to smoke weed during a very stressful exam period. I experienced delayed-touch and frame-vision. After this experience the symptoms came back when i smoked weed, or when i was in a very stressful period of my life, during 1-2 years after the initial experience. During these years i was in a bad state because i had perfomed badly on these very important exams that determine what career you can choose in my country. (also was taking some Acme pills which were causing anxiety).I thought i was the only one in the world experiencing this, thought i was having a heart attack, or that i had damaged my spinal nerves (and other crazy hypohondrial reasons that made it worse).
As a result, from my experience but also the stories of the others in here, we can say for sure that these symptoms are triggered psychologically. My theory about it is that through the initial weed and stress experience you have "trained" your brain to do an unnatural thing, which gets triggered at high stress levels. In my case i found out that sometimes i could trigger this problem by rubbing my hands together or moving my tongue in my mouth, or holding someone's hand (over-stimulating the touch nerves). The reason behind these symptoms is always an underlying fear-stress which you have to face.
The solution to make this go away once and for all is to nurture your nervous system, all this time you have been overloading it with problems and stress. To do that you have to set aside everything that creates stress for you. I didn't go to my university for one year, i decided to take the fate in my hands and do what i like (then the problem went away. (finally i decided to resume it though). Also, find friends that you have a great time with and apply NO PEER PRESSURE on you. Something in your life is holding you emotionally hostage (school,girldfriend,parents,friends). In a way these symptoms are an alarm telling you you have to enjoy life more and do what you like. I totally agree with the people recommending Eckhart Tolle. Do this and after some time the problem will go away for good!
Its a frightening experience, you wonder if you will ever get back to normal. The feeling itself triggers and panic and makes it worse!!
It last about a week for me. But you work on yourself, you relax, you eat well, do some sport: and FORGET ABOUT IT. It's the only way. If you think about it, it triggers it back. Its as if we unlocked something in our brain that we were not supposed to unlock.
Good luck to you all, remember, change your thoughts, be positive and forget about that feeling. Also dont do movements that trigger it.
I will try to keep this short as possible but it's still gonna long as shīt...
I've severe digestive problems for 5 years now, they got very bad 2-3 years ago. The main symptoms are: bloating, there is an oily substance in my urine each morning (gets clearer as the day goes on), cramping incomplete evacuation(partially because I feel I don't have control over my sphincter, sh*t sort of slides out and some is always stuck...), TERRIBLE pain from foods I've eaten my entire life with no problem (any nut, bread, sweet potatoes, I have to take lactose pills to eat dairy now...honestly all I can eat without immediate discomfort is chicken and eggs and even that comes out wrong...). I've seen 3 doctors and taken a dozen tests all normal and the doctors have basically given up on me, call to say "the test is normal, call if you have any questions" and I'm here like but I still have all the problems I came in for??? I've never liked doctors but now I hate them.
Anyway so I've started to put the pieces together, all of these problems started when I started smoking weed on a regular basis, i.e: buying it myself instead of just at parties and they started to get really bad when I started smoking every night. It took so long for me to make the connection because because during that time I also got an adderall prescription which I quickly became addicted to so I figured it must be the adderall and not the weed but I can't quit the adderall so I'll just deal with it for now BIG mistake, I managed to quit adderall for 3 months got a little better but still had all the problems I mentioned in the first paragraph, that's when I started seeing doctors. In 2015 I went on vacation, took a plane out the country so couldn't take any weed. I still had most of the stomach pain but my stool slowly started to return to normal, then I finally scored some weed and within minutes of smoking I get stomach pain again, my stomach didn't return from this partial recovery for the rest of the vacation meaning weed definitely is doing something but I'm in denial at this point. I quit for 3 weeks a few months ago, saw some improvement but still had all of the food intolerances so again I convince myself weed can't be the root cause...
Over the past year or so another recurrent symptom I've noticed is tingling of the hands and feet after eating certain problem foods mainly gluten (I have been tested for celiac) and of gluten containing products whole grain (bread, rice, and corn) are especially bad for some reason. I don't eat any grain products now but I still get tingling in my hands and feet, every morning my hands tingle when I wake up, sometimes I take my sandals off and my feet tingle, if I hit my left thumb at any point in the day it tingles a bit, I thought this was proof weed was not the root cause and starting googling what else can cause this, the only other cause for which I have the most symptoms of is MS (weakness, fatigue, bladder issues, constipation) (I also have many symptoms of Crohn’s but I won't get into that) so I've been going crazy this weekend positive I have MS and I need an MRI when on a whim I decide to google weed + hands and feet tingling and come across this thread and MANY others with people describing something similar having gone a lot longer than the 5 days I've gone without smoking. So now I know for a fact that weed has something to do with my stomach pain and that it likely has something to with these tingles as well..so now it's finally time to admit to myself that if I have any self respect at all I need to stop smoking at least for the rest of the year and see if I get any better.
This will be very difficult. I love being high and listening to music alone more than I can describe (and I'm alone a lot), at my last job I would come in high and people would stop and say wow you seem really happy today, customers would be so much more comfortable talking to me, co workers would gravitate towards me to talk and I actually enjoyed the conversations, it was nice but it's no exaggeration to say these issues have completely ruined my 20's (I'm 25 now) I feel sick, weak, and overall disgusting all the time, my stomach always hurts, I'm afraid to eat (but have to eat a decent amount since I workout) and don't like to socialize cause I'm always in a bad mood / acting strange and rejecting food because I'm secretly in pain, can’t focus on ANYTHING even with the Vyvanse I’ve been on for 2 months, even my sex life is shīt because it's impossible to stay aroused when I'm distracted and self conscious from all of this unpredictable pain and bloating and afraid to eat on a date. The only thing that's gotten me out of bed and going to the gym consistently these past 2 months is the Vyvanse (probably gonna switch to Straterra next month, better for anxiety). The only things that offer any relief are strenuous weight lighting (not cardio or dumbbell curls), alcohol, and abnormal amounts of water (about 2gallons a day).
It's really encouraging to see so many non skeptics dealing with similar issues, I will check this thread every couple months and log my progress if there is any, also there's an email associated with my post so if anyone replies to me I'll get the notification.
Much love and support!