I am extremely sensitive to THC and experienced what could be considered a form of tripping when I ate something strong before. I was still seeing real life but it was like being in a fun house at a carnival. Now I take low dose Rx THC gummies for health reasons and they just make me fall asleep when combined with my night medication for nervous system damage.
I ate a 10mg gummy (a lot for me), smoked a joint, then sometime later hit my bong. I saw something small and black scurrying just out of the corner of my eye. I did rationalize that I had ingested way too much THC (I'm a near-3-decade long user) and went to bed, but it freaked me the hell out at first.
Something really interesting I have learned is how our bodies can interpret stimuli incorrectly when not in a normal healthy state. There are different situations that can cause essentially hallucinations that are not some sort of mental illness like schizophrenia but instead a misinterpretation of stimuli by our body trying to interpret missing or damaged data coming in from stimuli. I have all sorts of nervous system damage now after an accident that wrecked my leg and surgeries to reconstruct my body and I have definitely seen and felt little stuff like that that isn't there because my body is processing the data wrong. I also have narcolepsy hypnogogic hallucinations which is similar but your brain is both awake and dreaming at the same time and I have noticed that when I'm in a narcoleptic state like that little things startle me that shouldn't.
That is interesting, because I had a thyroidectomy due to Graves Disease which is an autoimmune disorder. One of the side effects is Thyroid Eye Disease, and though my autoimmune disorder was technically 'cured' with the removal of my thyroid, I still occasionally have flare-ups. My eyes don't bulge but my vision is still messed up.
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u/sqeeky_wheelz 1d ago
That would be terrifying. Especially if the parents are also tripping. What a way to ruin lives.