Table 3.
Common themes reported by the participants and excerpts from their narratives (n=8)
| 0.25 mg | 0.50 mg | 1 mg | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Sudden onset of effects | 6/8 The effects started after two or three minutes |
7/8 During the first minute, the effects increased very fast |
7/8 The effects started in the first instant after inhalation |
| 2. Changes in bodily sensations | 7/8 Overall, I was feeling a subtle and pleasant tingle in all my body |
7/8 In the first seconds I felt huge effects with an important increase in body temperature, I sweated a lot. I had tingle sensations in all my body |
5/8 It cost me some efforts to bring my mind back to my body: first the eyes, then the mouth, then the halves of the face...it was like a stretched bubble gum |
| 3. Changes in the perception of time, depersonalization, derealization | 2/8 A detachment between myself and the effects on my body happened |
5/8 All of this lasted barely a minute, the temporal axis was creased like an accordion |
8/8 The material world and the sensation of my habitual self faded |
| 4. Modifications of visual and auditory perception | 2/8 I was seeing objects with less definition, like with a plastic texture |
5/8 Inside the bus a group of people were shouting, encouraging my mind to leave my body, and they were feminine voices |
7/8 They knew me and called me by my name, they were telling me positive messages |
| 5. Intensity and brevity of effects | 1/8 The experience has been slight and brief |
4/8 It was very brief but impressive |
8/8 The trip has been very intense |
| 6. Pleasurable effects | 3/8 The state of peace obtained allowed me to think in a very lucid way |
3/8 Good humor is still retained at least until now, an hour and a half later |
6/8 The experience has been positive, nice, and very revealing |
| 7. Impairment of capacity to interact with surroundings | 1/8 I was able to answer the questions without any difficulty |
4/8 It seems that I was answering coherently, but the questions and my answers were nonsense to me |
7/8 When the researcher asked me how intense my experience was, I was unable to answer because at that point I had lost my sense of self |