On Halloween swim depressurized the genie from the bottle and tried nitrous for the first time. The only recreational drugs swim uses frequently are opiates (he has just reached optimal health and might start using daily), but the drugs he really cares about are psychedelics. swim tries to trip four times a year to keep the magic, and prior to hallows eve he has embarked with mescaline, dmt, and a few other typical psychedelics. nitrous oxide would have been the first genuine dissociative he's tried, as salvia is two faced and a debate in hallucinogen classification.
swim bought a catering grade whip cream dispenser and some twentyfour purewhip whippets from a dot company, and had been saving them for this occasion. swim is a huge quentin tarantino fan and finding no criticism in his masterpiece "inglourious basterds", swim wanted to understand the roots of the homage in french new wave film. swim planned to watch the subtitled movie "breathless" during his trip to truly lose the mind underneath his organized thoughts. swim also grouped 13 songs in a playlist titled "vanilla volatile", and jumping forward to October 31st, he was ready to get high.
Swim's buddy came over around 3:30 pm, neither of them had ever tried medical grade nos before, but in his junior year of high school swim remembered his companion speaking of whippets and figured he wasn't bullshitting swim. swim pooled two nangs into one portal blue balloon and watched his friend imitate. the two swiys sat on swim's mattress and swim was told "after you", swim thought not likely and past the brink of procrastination, he pushed most of the oxygen out of his lungs and began to inhale.
swifriend counted 10 seconds (swim asked him to in case his sense of time got distorted) and swim puffed out the so far inert gas, taking a single deep breath of O2, before deflating the balloon further. after another 10 seconds swim still had a little to go, and after another break he killed the lol gas.
swim laid his head back, hovering above the floor on his Japanese style futon, and daydreamed the rest. the first thought, after the repeated feelings which seemed broadcast forever, was that swim had done this before. to describe nitrous as dissociative is wrong, it is parasympathetic. completely wasted on his mattress swim feels as though he ran a marathon. In between the Boston background he was covered in icy sweat, and before he becomes a hypothermic statue like jack nicholson in the shining, he bursts into a warm room that ends the race and swim's vision. and everything becomes infrared. no light visible.
how appropriate the element used by dentists turns swim into the marathon man. returning to comfortable numbness in his extremities swim sees his friend submerging on his bed like a lead balloon. swim waits 4 minutes and fills his wedding cake intended vessel with two more cartridges, and repeats the same naughty behavior. this time holding his breath for shorter periods and breathing more fresh air. swim brought his friend to hysterics by making a "wa-wa-wa" sound that he couldn't mimic sitting on a washing mashine. he has to remind his friend to breathe on his sophomore attempt.
swim's friend quickly gathered up his belongings and had to motor to a party at swim's college. swim then looked in the mirror and saw his lips a fantastic shade of cyan, his fingertips also glowing with blue blood. swim is still freaked out about this... he looked up pics of cyanosis online and doesn't think what he saw in the mirror is really close to the textbook pictures, and he does often get neurotic about shallow breathing when he's high... but then he thins 10 seconds isn't enough to cause oxygen deprivation and definitely not enough to kill brain cells (he didn't hyperventilate before starting so CO2 shouldn't have been very vasoconstricting as it is in the choking game). nevertheless he still felt odd, grooving out to "daydream in blue" gasping in the mirror, he still feels off but doesn't know if he's making things up.
epi o logue- the mechanism of action behind nitrous oxide is something swim couldn't pinpoint before hearing the agitated wasp nest, but can now substantiate to some level. from a variety of sources he read theories on the neurotransmitters affected by nos use, and on swim's send off to october this is what he found.
N, Methyl, D, Aspartate (NMDA)- antagonizing the excitatory neurotransmitter similar in function (processing speed) to glutamine causes the valium/alcohol poisoning vibe to the high. this also accounts for the intellect punishing hangover.
Edoorphin/Endomorphin- though probably not agonizing the body's "endogenous morphine", a painkiller high is inseparable from the nitrous body load, so swim assumes no2 works on the brain's opioid receptors.
Norepinepherine- releasing a faint amount of the hormone or disabling the synaptic field that contains the chemical released during vigorous exercise. this explains the clean part of the high that makes the opioid rush reel like an actual endorphin rush.
Today is NOvember 1st. One day after Swim's first time with Nitrous. Tomorrow is NOvember 2nd... NO2???... Maybe swim should use nitrous again tomorrow?
02-11-2009, 05:56
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