What does "euphoria" mean to you?

i see this word probably more often than any other in reference to pretty much every drug, psychedelics opiates stimulants etc.

but i was thinking about what it actually means and couldn't come up with a reliable definition. obviously, depending on the drug class, the type of euphoria changes, but i'm interested to see how you guys define euphoria/what you consider it to mean exactly?

interpretation is good.

 

boundless, sourceless joy

 

This, but I believe the definition is "A sense of well being"

 

haha.

a sense of well being works. but i guess i'm asking how that manifests in you personally. i would imagine people can have pretty varying ideas about what a "sense of well being" means to them.

what kinds of thoughts, sensations, associations, etc are going on when you experience euphoria?

 

"Lower the sheilds captain, we are home"

 

I just think of that feeling you get when everything is going to be ok

 

nice writer, i like that haha.

and greg that's exactly how i would describe the feeling of euphoria especially on psychedelics. just that basic feeling like, even though things might not be perfect, everything's just okay.

 

for me, psychedelic euphoria is very different from other euphorias.

for example on opiates the euphoria is very disinhibiting to fear. free from anxiety and in extreme pleasure.

but on psychedelics it feels more like i am connected to a more divine source, and just being able to realise this source fully is very euphoric. it's like knowing a unity behind the confusion. i feel a sense of oneness that is very euphoric, faced with the ultimate nature of things. non-euphoria just melts away, leaving pure joy.

 

A real good feeling you get when you feel one with everything.

 

Stimulants : Sense of well being

Downers : Sense of "everything is okay"

Psyches : Dunno yet?

 

i think desos got it

i'm not a fan of stimulants or opiates, so i can't really relate to that euphoria

 

Feeling like you felt on Christmas as a kid.

 

amazing peace with the idea that you "are" and amazing, smooth, body high.

 

I was gonnah say something cool but then i read what desos had and then i felt like its pointless when theres such a great post already.

 

It's different for the different classes of drugs for me.

Light doses of stimulants give me a restless, excited, "let's attack the day" feeling. While there's a feeling of well being I'd be hard pressed to call that a true euphoria.

Opiates :grouphug: opiates feel like that, like love. Opiates are love.

N2O produces something akin to opiate euphoria, but it's more like a feeling of absolute bodily relaxation. Other dissociatives don't quite capture that the way nitrous does.

Haven't ever really experienced psychedelic euphoria. My experience with psys have been limited and painful, but worth doing.

 

opiates are like a whoa I don't care about anything anymore I just feel great and have no cares.

benzos are like ill do anything and not realize im doing it just cuz everything makes me happy, weather its something bad im actually doing

stimulents are like just i go beyond thinking, I want to do anything and I feel perfect and nothing can stop me and I can go on about things without having to think

weed, giggly and can't stop laughing just really happy in general

 

psychoactives are SO interesting...

 

I think like other people said, its boundless joy and your like "well-being". But also being completely at peace. Blissfulness I guess.

For me it would be like this:

I would be on my remote island in the middle of the ocean. I would have a house just suitable for me with all my needs, but still a pretty fly house. On half of the island would be like a tropical island, I would have music, it would be beautiful weather out and you could just chill on the beach a smoke a hookah or a bowl or whatever.

On the other half of the island would be just like it is here in the fall/autumn. When its a little cooler out and all the trees are changing. I would have just a nice area to chill in that setting too.



*Omg that would just be so amazing to do all that.

**edit: I forgot, I would also have a shroom garden lol

 

When everything just is.

 

euphoria is a feeling of being content, at peace with everything and without a care in the world.

ecstacy, on the other hand, is a joy so intense it transcends 'pleasant' or 'unpleasant' altogether.