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ApexNightmare
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Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed.
#22498713 - 11/09/15 12:10 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Has anybody else noticed a significant impairment of short- term memory from too many psychedelics or smoking too much?
I used to have a relatively decent memory, not the best, but I feel like it's gotten a lot worse recently. I attribute most of it to smoking weed almost daily. But this didn't really occur until around the time I started doing psyches. I can't remember a lot of shit haha. Times, dates, appointments, what the hell my girlfriend told me yesterday, you name it.
Anybody going through something similar? Will my memory return when I'm done smoking? Or am I just paranoid? ○~°
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: ApexNightmare]
#22498730 - 11/09/15 12:19 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I find cannabis to have way more effect on my memory than psychedelics. I've known some people who have lost their short term from psychedelics though. Or at least it seems they lost it. Really I think they just have weakened ability to focus, or perhaps the filter that blocks out distracting thought while socializing is inhibited.
It's hard to say for sure what is going since research into these things has only recent begun to happen again.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Acaterpillar]
#22498739 - 11/09/15 12:24 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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You're not alone when it comes to thinking about this. When I first tried psychedelics I thought I was losing my short term memory and it freaked me out but I came To realize that it made me more aware of certain situations that I already forgot if that makes sense. For example, I tried using my debit card one time and at during that time period I always used it as credit but one time I decided to use it as debit and forgot my pin and blamed the psychedelics. I later remembered that I never used my pin
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: shroomery12]
#22498751 - 11/09/15 12:30 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Pretty well known effect of lsd. Particularly with dates I find, long term is most affected for me. Like what year was it when you left school? I literally couldn't tell you haha
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: satch1234]
#22498764 - 11/09/15 12:39 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's somewhat stressful. I know that I'm over-thinking this problem and that's what is making me all worried. However, I do still remember a lot of things, just not everything that I should or want to remember. One day I'll quit smoking and I'll see if my memory changes for the better.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: ApexNightmare]
#22498773 - 11/09/15 12:45 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sometimes I feel like I spend half my day just looking for shit.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: BlunderSoftly] 1
#22499048 - 11/09/15 05:14 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't smoke hardly any weed, but from what I've seen it can do some serious memory wrecking for people that are dosed all the time. Not sure how recoverable it is.
As for psychedelics, I don't think they have an effect. They can definitely sharpen the mind, but I think that's from the formation of new though patterns and new neural connections. The afterglow effect leaves a shifted focus away from neurotic thoughts about mundane shit, which could be perceived as reduced memory, but it is not IMO. They may remove obsessive thought patterns about memories, which again might be perceived as memory loss, but is actually allowing you to forget. DMT/NMT + rue, shrooms
Salvia is really interesting, I feel like it dumps your mental RAM super hard, like, fucking system restart, no adware running, very clean feeling. Again, could be perceived as memory loss or lack of focus, but is freed mental capacity IMO.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Machiavelliavore]
#22500084 - 11/09/15 11:50 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Weed definitely has an impact on your memory, which can repair after a week or two of abstinence. Psychedelics have a weird effect... I think it makes you focus on more "outside the box" thoughts and you daydream more, focus on your trips, etc rather than actual events in your life, which makes the imprint of memory less strong or rather puts your tripping memories as a priority, making the original ones feel less relevant and new.
Also, take into the factor that tripping can be so intense, that it needs to make room for these new thoughts so your original memories become less of a priority. Also, remember psychs effect time dilation, so memories seem like they happened longer ago than they really did.
Try tripping once a week for awhile and it will seem like the longest part of your life, yet you will also be obsessing over the philosophy of these trips. That's why I say all in moderation. You don't want the trips to become your purpose for living.
Just take a short break from both weed and psychs and it'll all come back to ya. I used to feel like I was living in a fog constantly obsessed with psychedelics, and neglecting realot memories
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Heisencybin] 1
#22500365 - 11/09/15 12:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Weed definately impairs memory. I think there was some research that showed it only impaired it when you are high though, and it goes back to normal afterwards. If I smoke daily, the times I'm high my memory can be fuzzy, but when I'm not it's completely fine.
If anything though, I personally feel psychedelics have increased my memory.
IF you're worried, I'd take a break from cannabis for a week and see how you fare. If nothing improves, maybe download one of those memory enhancing games. They're supposed to help mental stimulus and increase memory. That could definately help if you smoke weed all the time. I find it very easy to just forget and watch TV or just kinda space out on weed.
Maybe you just need more mental stimulation to help keep your brain healthy? Maybe you're just getting older too.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Achillita]
#22500490 - 11/09/15 01:25 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Never from psychs, I've always thought they improved my mental processing in every way, but with weed I have noticed and seen it happen to my self over the 2 years I've been daily smoking short term memory does get effected in a negative way, not too bad for side effects though, forget where I put my phone every now and then and that's a good thing imo! It was really apparent to me how weed effected my short term memory while smoking on a trip I could basically feel or "see" when it happens and know that it is caused from the herb. You got better things to be worrying about than some short term memory though! Yes it will return to normal if you stop smoking
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Eclipse3130] 1
#22500766 - 11/09/15 02:50 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wait...what were we talking about?
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: satch1234]
#22502575 - 11/09/15 08:45 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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satch1234 said: Pretty well known effect of lsd. Particularly with dates I find, long term is most affected for me. Like what year was it when you left school? I literally couldn't tell you haha
It is absolutely not a well known effect of LSD. There are no studies on it, and this is the first I have heard of LSD negatively affecting short-term memory anecdotally in discussing it with thousands of people.
As for weed I know there was a study that came out this spring that said that cannabis greatly increased the susceptibility of users to false memories. Meaning that they thought something happened when it actually had not. Interesting about the study was that this susceptibility persisted for up to 14 days after they had stopped smoking.
That was the only study I read, but I'm sure there are more out there. It definitely seems that cannabis negatively affects the memory though. But it's a neuroprotectant!
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: ApexNightmare]
#22502598 - 11/09/15 08:50 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ive definitely had bad side effects of regular weed use.
The worst is short term memory loss. Very frustrating and annoying. Ive been weed free for about a couple months, and the clear heaadness when it comes to short term memory is awesome.
I miss weed but short term memory flipping rules
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#22502713 - 11/09/15 09:24 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks for the replies, guys. I guess that it must be from the weed, considering I haven't tripped in months.
I have an evaluation coming up in December that I need to sober up for. Hopefully I can see an improvement. If I do, I can go back to smoking knowing that it's just the weed ;D Peace of mind.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: ApexNightmare]
#22502793 - 11/09/15 09:49 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I definitely had that same issue a while back until I started taking CBD oil whenever I smoke weed. Now I don't have any noticeable impairments -- seriously give it a try if you can, it makes a world of difference.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Acidreamer]
#22503798 - 11/10/15 07:14 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Interesting....
ive heard good things about mixing CBD with regualr THC bud.
Does it really imporve your short term memory?
my local dispenser sells some high cbd bud, i wanna get some.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: BlunderSoftly]
#22504140 - 11/10/15 09:05 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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BlunderSoftly said: Sometimes I feel like I spend half my day just looking for shit.
Haha same. Well not half my day but I know what you mean... And it's not just while I'm high... I haven't smoked in two months and it's just as bad as if I were still smoking. I've smoked well over a few thousand times. I was smoking pretty much everyday, 2-4 times a day, for 7 years. Missing only about a handful or two of days out of the entire year. I'll literally have something in my possession and minutes later It'll be lost and I will think, "where the fuck did I put _______?" I'm not sure if it is entirely due to weed and/or psychedelics but I'm almost positive.
EDIT: By the way, I haven't used psychedelics as many times or as long as I've been smoking weed. I've tripped approximately 50 times, maybe a little more on mostly mushrooms and LSD (but more times on mushrooms). Also, I haven't used psychedelics in two months as well.
Edited by Bigfeely123 (11/10/15 09:07 AM)
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#22504507 - 11/10/15 10:47 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: Interesting....
ive heard good things about mixing CBD with regualr THC bud.
Does it really imporve your short term memory?
my local dispenser sells some high cbd bud, i wanna get some.
Absolutely. I've had high CBD weed and pure CBD extracts and they both help a LOT. It was getting to the point for me where I'd often trail off mid-sentence, forgetting my point, but after changing my smoke habits that never happens anymore. Even when I'm really stoned I can keep track of what's going on in a conversation.
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Re: Memory negatively affected by psychedelics and/or weed. [Re: Acidreamer]
#22504926 - 11/10/15 12:45 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have some input here because I cycle off and on the weed and notice my memory lapses, usually in the form of losing my train of thought, disappear with abstinence. But haven't tripped for a while and I seem to have less problems with the weed so maybe there is a synergistic effect between the two. I doubt it though. Probably just my tolerance to weed continually rising. I've offered the theory before, because we know that people who take numerous drugs are more susceptible to HPPD, that pot use may contribute to the development. B/c I get starbursting on car headlights that might have been contributed by psychedelics, that's worse when I'm high!
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