Saturday Afternoon

[nightdog_barks]

This is why I love reading the NY Post on occasion: Former NY Knicks player says he was abducted by aliens two weeks ago.

“Now I’m sharper and s--t,” he says of the abduction’s aftermath. “I am retaining information.”

And perhaps a pertinent part of the story?

Also, he has been taking Percocet to offset his pain from surgery to repair the patellar tendon in his right knee, the injury that sidelined him in May 2012.

:D

There's also a Heartwarming Story™ of an FDNY worker rescuing a dog from a window ledge. With film! *g*

Comments

[nightdog_barks]

Is Ayahuasca the one that makes you vomit and be sick as a dog? I know there's one of them that does that.

I am childishly delighted by the idea of intergalactic lizard people lying their butts off about how important they are. :D

[silverjackal]

Yes. Some others do, too, but Ayahuasca is known as the one that's supposed to make you vomit. That, and the whole preparation by being chewed by other people and spat into a pot, from which the celebrant then drinks it with a straw... even if I was they type to be tempted by drugs this would not be one. :D

And yes -- intergalactic lizard people with grandiose megalomaniacal fantasies.

[nightdog_barks]

LOL. I will admit I have sometimes thought I'd like to try something like Ayahuasca, just to experience it. But I wouldn't want to try it that way. Ew.

[silverjackal]

I admit to curiosity myself, but there are other ways of taking DMT (the psychoactive ingredient) without vomiting up everything one has ever eaten. I did try a different botanical once for spiritual purposes, and it did not go well. A dosage that should have been barely perceptible (it was a salve) made me hallucinate incoherently (though I knew what was happening, and was completely shocked that I was reacting) and then I was horribly sick the next day. Not worth it, alas. It could be that I'm sensitive, given how much I smell/taste, etc. but a life of drug exploration is obviously not for me. Boorring! Yes, I know. :) (I chewed coca while I was in Bolivia, too. No lime to activate it, no effects, and it tastes not-very-good.)

[nightdog_barks]

Mister Nightdog, being a child of the '60s much more so than myself (I was born in 1958), tried quite a few of the mind-altering substances that were available in a university town and says today that he liked/enjoyed at least a couple of them. He was particularly amazed by the lysergic acid diethylamide, and how it seemed to present the inter-connect-ed-ness of all things.

I will also say that Levoquin, which I took for a short time during chemo, has the potential to produce some VERY INTERESTING dreams. :D

[silverjackal]

I've heard from others how remarkable their experiences with various pharmaceuticals could be. It's a shame that the U.S. government is so paranoid about coca because the anti-nausea and analgesic effects could be very useful for folk suffering through things like chemotherapy. The whole line about what is an acceptable drug (alcohol, nicotine) and what is not (marijuana) is absurd. It's not an automatic slippery slope that letting people have access to pot also means letting them have access to heroin.

...has the potential to produce some VERY INTERESTING dreams.

Not the same but I've taken a couple of different forms of malaria prophylaxis (since the varieties of the disease in different parts of the world differ). I was on Mefloquine for a long time while I was in East Africa, and after about a month and a half I started having these bizarre unpleasant technicolour dreams. There was no other possible cause, since I had ingested nothing unusual and wasn't even drinking more than the occasional beer at the time. The dreams tapered off on their own, thankfully, and since then when I've needed anti-malarials I've used Malarone with no ill effects.

Flip side, I've been engaged in some fairly intense personal practice to cope with everything life is flinging at me lately, and I've been having these strange dreams representing various griefs/losses/fears. In one case I was walking across a gravel stretch absolutely covered with the corpses of giant, bird eating tarantulas. Drugs? Who needs drugs? And on that note I should say good night! :)

[nightdog_barks]

*hugs*

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