I, and others that I know, have experienced “the spins”, spinning feeling, from consuming alcohol and THC together in varying degrees. Why does one experience this, and why do these substances cause it?
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General FYI on this, it is possible to combine the effects to great enjoyment. I drink approximately 1/3 to 1/4 as much alcohol as I do to get “drunk,” so really just a bit tipsy, then smoke a single lungful. This retains the elation from alcohol with the floaty happiness from pot.
Alcohol dilutes the fluid in your inner ear, making it move faster and therefore making the brain believe you are moving more than you are. Also both alcohol and the funny spice aren’t great for your vision so losing view of the horizon (or a false horizon in the form of literally any horizontal line) stops your brain from figuring out if the inner ear tumble is real or not.
So basically it’s the usual case of brain making things up based on the wrong information at hand. Or it figures out that something IS going wrong and comes to the right conclusion that you have ingested poison like some stupid primate and you throw up to hopefully get rid of it.
Also, alcohol is a blood thinner and marijuana is a vasodilator(opens the blood veins). When mixing the two your blood pressure tends to drop and nausea is often accompanied by low blood pressure.
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I dunno about anyone else, but when I was younger the spins were “shit I drank too much” and would eventually go to sleep. Now, the spins are like “shit I drank too much and I am 100% gonna hurl”
I was so high one time that the wind from a table fan almost toppled me over. Thankfully it went side to side and I managed to escape between the intervals.
Would not recommend…
The spins are basically the same as vertigo. I get vertigo very easily. Sometimes I roll over in bed and it hits like a train to where I’m just lying there in the pitch dark and it still feels like I’ve spun around a hundred times. Or getting off an elevator, boat, train, car, and any kind VR or AR “ride” that you see in malls and stuff. I don’t usually get vertigo from VR gaming headsets like Oculus or the Meta one, but I do start to experience bad disassociation/derealization the second I take the headset off, so I avoid it.
So, am I the only degenerate here who actually kinda enjoys the spins?
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