Hello nerevar,
When I've mixed n2o with LSD or ketamine, I get distinct multiple rainbow swirling vortexes combined with the classic wahwahwah's which seems to actually be a combination of my skull vibrating and the synergy of sights and sounds. The visuals are more complex with Ketamine but the auditory enhancement and beautiful soundspace are much more prevalent with LSD+n2o. I can relate to the feeling of familiarity with that cosmic headspace- it feels like that's what reality is, and coming down to Earth will be a short visit away from what is true.
When I do come down to this plane, the auditory changes linger for up to 20 minutes with a good balloon inhale (and LSD), vibratory sounds are less audible as someone's voice mixes with the tinny echoes or resonance that seems to still be my head buzzing or vibrating at a high frequency, and the synergy of sight and sound is enhanced for awhile.
Psychedelic anesthetics like ketamine work by creating a kind of "traffic jam" of information at receptors...
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"some apparently contradictory information - some drugs like ketamine actually activate rather than suppress neural activity, an action that can cause hallucinations at lower doses. Ketamine blocks receptors for the excitatory transmitter glutamate, but since it has a preference for receptors on certain inhibitory neurons, it actually stimulates activity when it blocks those inhibitors. This excess brain activity generates unconsciousness through a process similar to what happens when disorganized data travels through an electronic communication line and blocks any coherent signal. A similar mechanism underlies seizure-induced unconsciousness."
http://www.news-medical.net/news/201...-and-coma.aspxSo essentially, an information overload prevents "reality" from being sensed. Sound familiar?
If this information is extrapolated to n2o, which, I am unsure if it can be, as I haven't uncovered that in real research, effects would be multiplied. But I feel strongly that it can, because I've felt it... If you've ever read an LSD "thumbprint" report (Chinacat Thumbprint FTW) then you'll hear that megadoses of LSD also do this, sometimes for days, before coming back to this plane... This is all empirical extrapolation, and to be fair idk if actual research exists for what takes place with LSD megadoses and loss of consciousness, for various reasons. (Who would fund it, for what purpose, is it safe?) I think the military did some, but it went more like, "Can we effectively incapacitate the enemy during combat?" Not "How is this all going down in the brain?" I don't even think the technology to measure or understand that existed then, and it may not now. Ketamine is being understood more and more, and n2o pharmacology might be known, but that's all I know.
I know what happens to meeee

"Sensory overload leads to anesthesia."
But those are just my theories. The real pharmacological action of enhancement vs. anesthesia might be a bit more complex.
I've yet to mix all 3. K + LSD + n2o = ???
"The world is his, who can see through it's pretension...see it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its final blow..." -Ralph W. Emerson