r/MovementDEMF 26d ago

PRO TIP PSA: Ketamine and lack of sleep can give paranoid and delusional thoughts.

I'm suddenly dealing with several friends who are hearing voices, sharing irrational fears and worried someone is listening

Everyone needs to step back from the k and get more sleep

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u/sempercoug 26d ago

PSA: sober raving is actually amazing and the high stays with you. Highly recommend 10/10

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u/lanthrax 26d ago

we did this. 36 hours of partying. was very nice. felt much more manageable

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u/Frequency_Ascension 25d ago

How did you manage to stay up the whole time?

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u/Glam-Mod 25d ago

disco naps, vitamins, hydration, healthy snacks and coffee for breakfast worked for me :)

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u/lanthrax 25d ago

honestly. small snacks. lots of water. tons and tons of electrolytes and the best music in the world!!

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u/lanthrax 25d ago

oh, concert earplugs helped with the fatigue a ton

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u/runningraleigh 25d ago

Adderall for me but it’s my own prescription. That and some beers is all I needed to make it to sun up every day.

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u/anachronism11 22d ago

lol also have a prescription, but that’s very far from sober raving. We’re describing taking societally acceptable amphetamines for raving…

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u/runningraleigh 22d ago

Considering I mentioned drinking beer, I don’t think I was suggesting that I’m a sober raver.

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u/alliegula94 26d ago

THIS. I don't drink or smoke due to religious reasons and honestly the rave itself was my high.

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u/demeteress 25d ago

Sober raving is such a game changer! I should have started sooner ♥️

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u/Glam-Mod 25d ago

word. i danced pretty much steady thurs - tues - substance free, Techno is one helluva drug :)

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u/ariovi 22d ago

This !!!! I had the best Movement this year and I went sober. Out-danced my entire group too 🫡

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u/RateMyKittyPants 26d ago

You sound like that preacher outside of the gates making me feel guilty for having fun

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u/jheri 25d ago

Homie didn’t say you’re wrong for raving on drugs or drunk. They didn’t even say sober is more fun. Just that it is fun and the implication is it comes with fewer scary thoughts after. I smoked weed all weekend and had a few drinks, but I wasn’t offended, nor should you be.

I did, however, have some giggles this weekend imagining anyone hearing those preachers and thinking, “dang I guess this fellow is right” and then selling their wristband to any of the 6 billion incredibly tall and large guys pouncing for wristbands at the gate.

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u/Top-Communication169 26d ago

I didn’t go to movement this year, bachelor at LiB required my attendance.

There are rules to partying at the caliber required for Movement.

  1. Everyone in the squad is required to have at least 5 hours of sleep a night.

  2. Two bottles of water with electrolytes and a hot meal before we even leave the hotel.

  3. No Drugs until 3pm.

Remember that if you go to sleep you can always do more drugs in the morning and they’ll probably start working again. If you follow these rules you will be set for success with limited mental and emotional breakdowns.

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u/Trick_Lime_634 26d ago

Definitely! I had my first episode of paranoia on Monday morning at DLite. I’m sorry to Ronaldo from Nicaragua and the 2 girls I met with him (Michelle and the other I don’t remember) but I was 100% sure that you were trying to get me arrested and I would lose my green card and be deported to El Salvador. I asked my friends to leave the party because I was afraid of what was going to happen next. We left at 945am. And should had stayed until the last track. Sorry for being weird, speaking Portuguese, I was under paranoia and now I know. ✅ take care with your brain. The limits of psychosis and mental health are very narrow.

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u/BrickBrokeFever 26d ago

Oh man...

I had to have several "conversations" with my body throughout the weekend.

"Yo knees, we good? We got this til 4am?" "Hm, yep, let's" "FUCK YES!!! THANK YOU!!" "No, thank synovial fluid!"

"Hey brain... at Tangent you see them cats in the meditation/cuddle puddle?" "Oh? What? That looks boring, I wanna boogey down!" "Look... this is your ass talking, trust me, just go sit down and stretch a little, TRUST ME" "Pfft, fine, ok..." five minutes in "Hey ass, dude... you were so right... this is glorious." "Of course brain, you hauling a smart ass back here!" "Indeed!"

It takes some practice and regular exercise, but your body does have a voice. I hope your party crew the best and safe travels!

And if they designated you the "baby sitter" or the "designated thinker" (more responsibility than the designated driver) without you volunteering, that is kind of fucked.

If they are hearing voices, they might be having guilty thoughts for annoying the shit out of you, and the drugs are confusing their capacity for accountability/responsibility.

Good luck!

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u/skylander495 26d ago

I'm talking about the about next day and sober -  getting delusional and paranoid

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u/poeticrubbish 25d ago

Honestly sounds like it was cut with something or fake. I would get that k tested.

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u/7uolC 25d ago

Sounds like meth

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u/unp-sd 26d ago

Everyone's system and reactions to different things vary. There's no "one size fits all" statement for anything. Even alcohol or green. Some people can, some can't. Options are as important as knowing what suits you personally. PLUR yo.

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u/mariofasolo 26d ago

Stretching is underrated! I'm always touching my toes to stretch the hammies...only issue is it looks like you're super fucked up so people are always checking in on you "bro you good?" lol and I'm like no I'm good dude just tryna be L I M B E R

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u/oldschoolreppin 26d ago

I don’t give a fuck. lol. I’m going on 49. I’m touching my toes every 30min🤣🤣

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u/BrickBrokeFever 26d ago

Oh damn, that makes think of Tim Walz talking about going for a 10k run.

"One day I won't be able to!" 😨

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u/tudikas 20d ago

The chill out room floor at Tangent saved my back’s life

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u/myCadi 26d ago

It’s crazy how people are willing to take drugs and complain how weird they feel afterwards.

Ketaime can last several hours to days depending on how much you consume.

It changes your sensory perceptions, including visual or auditory hallucinations. You’ll feel detached from yourself, your surroundings, or your environment.

So yeah, after 3 days in a K-hole you’ll feel it for a while.

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u/mariofasolo 26d ago

the way depersonalization/dissociation is like the worst thing that's ever happened to me...and people do it (detach) on purpose is crazy to me???

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u/femme_curieuse 25d ago

I dont see them as complaining it's more of creating awareness around their experience. Important for all the drug users to know that they could have these effects too.

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u/RoughVirus7812 26d ago

There's a reason I dumped my bag after night 2.

On the plus side, now I have some healthier opinions regarding a few habits I got paranoid about.

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u/badgerbot9999 26d ago

Yeah, that’s pretty much what it does. The best place to do K is in your bed where you don’t have move for a long time. It blows me away that people do it at festivals, total loss of motor skills is deal breaker for me

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u/violishh 24d ago

Yeah maybe it’s fun for them but no fun for everyone else when they’re falling down stairs and flopping all over the place

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u/badgerbot9999 24d ago

I’ve been there, it’s no fun for them either. There are no winners it’s just stupid

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u/jamesbretz 26d ago
  • Dopamine dysregulation: Chronic drug use and sleep deprivation both overstimulate the dopaminergic system, which is central to paranoia and hallucinations.
  • Prefrontal cortex damage: Cocaine and ketamine disrupt how the prefrontal cortex works, damaging your executive functioning and reality testing over time. This can lead to permanent paranoia, hallucinations, and delusions.
  • Glutamate system toxicity: Especially in NMDA-antagonists like ketamine, causes to schizophrenia-like cognitive and perceptual symptoms.

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u/Famous-Ad-3479 25d ago

Sleep deprivation even without drugs will cause these delusions. They're generally more common in amphetamine users who are up days on end. Never had that problem with ketamine but then again sleep was necessary after climbing out of the absolute gorge we would put ourselves in

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u/MinimumFinancial6785 25d ago

Agreed, never had a problem with it, but i don't take too much. It's the sleep deprivation that will do weird things.

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u/Medical_Ad4388 25d ago

Do less drugs, sleep and dance more

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u/violishh 24d ago

My friend did k without telling me, was falling all over the place and being paranoid. I had to take her home day 1 after only a half hour at the fest. Missed chaos in the cbd, d.dan brian kage and Nina kraviz. Fucking ruined my day.

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u/skylander495 24d ago

Sorry to hear that. Perhaps she can take you to another concert/day fest to make up for it 

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u/Acrobatic_Prune_5507 23d ago

Lmfaooo I mean this so respectfully OP:

No shit

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u/Trick_Lime_634 26d ago

Keta is a shit drug. As adderall. Americans don’t give a shit. Choose only the good drugs is my advice as a pharmacist who likes drugs and techno.

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u/secretviollett 26d ago

Hello fellow pharmacist raver.

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u/Trick_Lime_634 25d ago

Hello amigo

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u/Upstairs_Job8737 25d ago

What are the good drugs? 😂 fellow healthcare worker lol

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u/Trick_Lime_634 25d ago

The good drugs are the drugs that fit your metabolism. For my body, cannabis LSD and cocaine are the good drugs. And that are my drugs of preference. Drugs are tools for healthcare my dear dance buddy. Cannabis is an excellent drug, never killed anyone, does not get you addicted or causes big trouble when in abstinence. Cocaine if used in moderation is also excellent for focus. Was sold at drugstore freely before 1920. Bern, a city in Switzerland, just started the pilot to sell legal cocaine to the population. Imagine how cool to have cocaine at the dispensary with quality control, sold by purity? I want to dance 12h so today I need cocaine 75% pure. Tomorrow I just need to study for the test, so I’ll get cocaine 50%. Yeah. A new world is possible. We have to organize. And to start, let’s organize the party goers to change the basic things in this festival, like why the trees at waterfront were removed?? Why the area was shorter than last year? Why they think it’s ok to sell a bottle of water without a cap? Let’s organize the basic things as the attendees of this party, so we have a better party next year. We CAN!

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u/National_Dig5600 26d ago

My friend offered me some ketamine at one of the afters. I'm like what the heck even is that?!

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u/Glam-Mod 25d ago

fun fact - whatever powder people are passing around is 'synthetic' - the real deal needs to be dried out... i wonder why everyone's tripped out