Many people in a trance-like state from ketamine often describe positive feelings. This has been described as euphoria, empathy, forgiveness, calmness, total relaxation and reduced mind chatter. With intravenous and intramuscular dosing clients more often report dissociative effects and can experience the feeling of falling, flying, feeling out of their body, they can relive a past events, they can feel paralyzed, they often cry, laugh, smile, breathe very deeply and quickly, moan, and rarely, some can kick and scream. Each session is completely different from the one prior and also differs significantly from client to client. There is no way to predict what a session will be like for someone.
Experiences with Ketamine can often lead to any one of the following and more:
- Feelings of gratefulness, calmness, acceptance
- Feeling of flying
- Feeling of falling
- Seeing God
- Feeling out of body – looking down on oneself
- Feeling of being reborn
- Re-experiencing past events, including traumas
- Ego dissolution/Ego loss – a complete loss of one’s sense of self or self-identity (less likely to occur with sublingual ketamine)
- Falling asleep
- Feeling of paralysis is a rare occurrence, but possible