Changes in Cognition: Concentration
Questions:
26. Can you concentrate or focus your thoughts when on hallucinogens? (yes or no)
Percent Yes |
Percent No |
Margin of Error |
80.3 % |
19.7 % |
+/- 10% (n=61) |
27. Does your ability to concentrate change throughout the course of a single buzz? (If yes, please specify to the best of your recall)
Percent Yes |
Percent No |
Margin of Error |
69 % |
31 % |
+/- 18% (n=61) |
Subject ID |
26. Concentrate? |
27. Changes in Concentration? |
27. Respondents Textual Comments about Concentration |
1 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes. The things I concentrate on change |
2 |
No |
No |
- |
3 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes. Sometimes I get lost in small whirlpools of worry. When I realize that I am worrying too much about something -- needlessly -- I have to dig myself out of the whirlpool. |
4 |
No |
No |
- |
5 |
Yes |
No |
my ability to concentrate doesn't change my wish to goes out of the window though |
6 |
Yes |
No |
- |
7 |
No |
Yes |
yes; worsens, I'm trying to change this |
8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Depends on how far i am into a trip and whether i am enjoying it. |
9 |
Yes |
No |
|
10 |
No |
Yes |
With difficulty. Yes. Can't specify |
11 |
No |
Yes |
on mushrooms: no. on LSD: sort of.. all depends on the input. i reverberate in it. yes... it becomes more difficult as the peak approaches, then after the peak, there is usually a mental feeling of tiredness, so the mind wanders very little, happy just to "be", and enjoying the fresh feeling of the real world. |
12 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes, there are points in which I would drift off, and then points where my thoughts are very clear, even more mentally clear than when sober. This is particularly true about mushrooms |
13 |
Yes |
No |
Yes, but with effort and not for a long time. Changes:Yes, at first three hours I'm quite restless, but when the trip hits on, I have many many things to think of and none cannot be thought thoroughly, though repeatedly. |
14 |
Yes |
No |
- |
15 |
Yes |
No |
- |
16 |
Yes |
No |
- |
17 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yea, but it's not often easy....Yes, it seems to be due to a pre-occupation with another thought. I can't focus on another thought when I'm still exploring the possibilities of another one. |
18 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes;
Sometimes, when ending a trip, I am left with a lot of discordant mental energy and find it difficult to concentrate. Other times I feel very |
20 |
No |
Yes |
yes
at the peak it's often pretty hard to concentrate |
21 |
Yes |
No |
yes, but didn't really want to - was too fascinated by the visuals/don't think so, don't know |
22 |
No |
No |
If I try, but its hard. I'd never want to go to work on acid or anything, its too much "work" to concentrate, and takes all the fun out of it. Well, its hardest during the peak. |
23 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes at the beginning of the trip i have no problem concentrating, then during the peak i have less ability to concentrate, the severness of which depends on the dose i have taken. and then after the peak i regain more of my ability to concentrate. |
24 |
Yes |
Yes |
usually, yes, but sometimes it is damn hard. well, as the buzz wears off, it gets easier to concentrate, although if I'm tired (i.e. it's late at night) it gets harder i.s.o. easier. |
25 |
Yes |
No |
- |
26 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes, easily/ yes- at the peak it is fair to say that concentration is not easy. |
27 |
Yes |
No |
This, in most cases, is pretty random. I can sometimes focus, I sometimes have diffuculty. An exception to this is in a crisis (or percieved crisis) where I am always able to focus.//not really, except in 'crisis' |
28 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes. The longer the "trip" the easier it becomes to focus. |
29 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, for instance, tripping to a pink-floyd song. I just realized something very deep, but then in the after the song there is a great sigh of someone letting out all their breath. At that point i could not remember my thoughts. |
30 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes, the earlier in the trip the more I can concentrate on visuals, but later in the trip mind trips are easier to concentrate on |
31 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes. A wave of extreme sensory distortion is accompanied by mental disorientation which gradually makes way for a focused mental state. |
32 |
Yes |
No |
- |
33 |
Yes |
Yes |
I can manage to concentrate, but it's very hard to hold onto trains of thought, and thoughts diverge very easily, and the original train will be hard to regain. As I get later in the 'buzz' the
length of time I am able to hold a thought increases. |
34 |
No |
Yes |
improves as it wears off |
35 |
Yes |
Yes |
Sometimes time slows down. What I think is really happening is that my mind is racing so fast everythign else seems to be slower in comparison. The fact that I can still follow my racing mind is proof ( for me) that my concentration has increased considerably. |
36 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, the buzz comes and goes in waves of lucidity and chaos. |
37 |
Yes |
Yes |
At first, no, but more recently I have been able to manipulate the "trip" and to some extent, even the closed-eye hallucinations. // Hmm. Of course it does - the peak, is, as expected, when concentration becomes the most difficult. |
38 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, I can concentrate to a greater degree than when straight.//My ability to concentrate is proportional to the high (at peak I have greatest concentration). |
39 |
No |
No |
sometimes // |
40 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes. While peaking my ability to concentrate is zero. At other times it varies. I've found that concentrating while coming up (eg reading) qeduces the strenght of a trip. I've found that, even on a big trip I can improve my ability to concentrate by balancing being too relaxed against being too tense. This is handy for dealing with the horrors. |
41 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, with effort.//Yes -- typically more difficult during the peak. |
42 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes. Sometimes I am forced to examine my karma and soul and come to terms with my past and future actions before I can regain control of my focus. Other times I am led on a mystical journey by an outside force that seems to have complete control over my focus. I am led from one point of focus to another with little choice on my part. |
43 |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
44 |
No |
No |
Yes. You peak after four hours, then it slowly fades down. |
45 |
Yes |
Yes |
I can get the strongest focus while peaking. |
46 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes really hard to explain because it's so dependent on quality and emotional state |
47 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes it varies lot during a "buzz" and varies a lot in different "buzzes" |
48 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes; During a PEAK I feel relatively lucid, but as I'm coming down I realize that my thoughts were incredibly disorganized and this becomes apparent as they become clearer--my ability to remain intent(focused) decreases. |
49 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes, but with considerable difficulty// yes-most difficult when peaking |
50 |
Yes |
Yes |
Answer: yes. But it differs a lot from time to time. It all depends on the surroundings and how you feel yourself. |
51 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes, but with considerable difficulty//yes-most difficult when peaking |
52 |
No |
No |
Poorly.//Oh yes. During the peak period, thinking is almost impossible. It's a curve moving upwards from normal thinking, to experiencing only, back down to normal thinking again. |
53 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, to an extreme degree.//As far as I know, it stays phenominally high until I have been coming down for about 2 hours, after which it stays higher than normal but less than while peaking for the entire time I still taste the acid in my mouth. |
54 |
Yes |
Yes |
Depends on the drug but can generally concentrate perfectly well. |
55 |
Yes |
No |
I HONESTLY CANNOT REMEMBER, GOOD QUESTION |
56 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, an example would be difficulty in concentration at the onset of the effects of psilocybin or lysergic compounds. The way to deal with this is to meditate, or think of nothing, see without looking for anything. |
57 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes, somewhere around my peak I can REALLY focus my thoughts |
58 |
Yes |
No |
probably not |
59 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes. i just forget to do certain things, or i get a hole in my short-term memory |
60 |
Yes |
Yes |
yes. i find that when i start to trip my thoughts race and i can't concentrate on anything, but then i've never had to. after it comes on i get used to it and adapt |
61 |
Yes |
Yes |
YES. THE MORE HIGH I AM THE BETTER I CAN CONCENTRATE. AS I COME DOWN, SO DOES MY ABILITY TO FOCUS ON AN IDEA, OR AN IMAGE, OR A MUSICAL PIECE. |
62 |
No |
Yes |
For brief periods only; internal mind activity is distracting.
27. Sure, it's harder with higher doses and during the middle peak time. |