Infinite I said:
Can I ask sorry to derail but can nitrous be used in a respectful way? Ive heard people here, intelligent people I respect mention it in the past and I just associate it with solvent abuse? but then I dont know anything about it?
Absolutely. N20 is a fairly benign substance when not overdone. Dentists usually adminster it mixed with oxygen, but recreational users tend to inhale 7-10g of it pure and hold it for as long as possible. It used to be fairly common at festivals for people to sell balloons of the stuff.
Note: I don't condone the selling or abuse of Nitrous Oxide. It has some serious dangers that are associated with it, not the least of which is that you are very likely to fall down and hurt yourself if you do it without being seated or lying down.
It is a short acting disso that can send people into euphoric mini-bubbles that have some of the intensity of a minor spice flash, but even shorter and not hyperspacey. On its own it is a kind of flash, but not very useful for any serious exploration. Combined with nearly any other entheogenic substance, however, and it acts
very much like it does in race cars with a nitrous bootser... It turns up the gas BIG TIME.
SWIM thinks that a respectful and beneficial use of N20 is to have some around (it is legal and easy to come by) for use as a quick boost while on other substances. Often, one is relatively happy with the over all level of their trip, but would like to have a short push, or dive quickly
very deeply without having to resort to taking a LOT more of whatever and then being too high for a long period of time. Nitrous is ideally suited to doing just that. It can
dramatically potentiate anything else you might be experiencing for about 90 seconds, and has a pretty amazing afterglow for as much as 15 minutes more (not when taken alone, though). It can even alter the quality and level of a psychedelic experience in such a way that the rest of the journey is boosted and expanded.
Another worthy usage for nitrous is to push one over a threshold or bump one over a nearby plateau. If one is fairly close to another level, but not quite there yet... often nitrous can be just that feather to tip the bucket.
Nitrous has its own very specific set of patterns and spaces that it evokes. For those who enjoy its buzzy, wah-wah moon shots... it can be orgasmic in a way that nothing else is. Needless to say, being on an entheogen, and then mixing a bit of spice vapor with some N20 is beyond any description.
Final Disclaimer: Despite being legal pretty much worldwide and available in supermarkets and such, it is not generally considered something that one should be inhaling. Often the stuff one can find easily is not medical grade, and even if it is 100% pure, Nitrous Oxide does fool the body into thinking it is Oxygen and as such can cause a loss of O2 to the brain. Unless you are stupid enough to wear a mask and have a constant flow going, you are unlikely to be able to consume enough N20 for a long enough time to do yourself any real damage. You will drop your balloon or charger well before you could get brain damage.
Still, it
can cause a blackout type effect that very easily can lead to serious injury, especially if you take it squatting and then attempt to stand up quickly. Things like GABA can protect the brain from oxygen deprivation, but
do not push the envelope with this. BE CAREFUL. Research
any chemical you ingest, even if it is short acting and legal.