Hey there all, whilst I can't say I think ketamine should be placed in line with the classic psychedelics, I find its good for a number of purposes.
Initially I couldn't get enough of the stuff, I've taken ketamine in combination with a variety of substances also.
I agree that ketamine is best used in a calm relaxed setting, my favourite being in bed with nice warm music playing, though the most intense experience ive ever had with ketamine was whilst at a festival.
I find ketamine to be very amiable with the combination of cannabis and nitrous oxide, I once found myself whilst inhaling a balloon after a bowl and a line, staring into a completely white space, centeredness a black and blue classic Mandelbrot set, slowly pulsing o the music I wa hearing.
Pleasure wise I would say I was at a solid 10, that's the thing with ketamine, or any dissociative really, they are so fanned pleasurable, it's easy to see the addictive potential.
Whilst at a festival, already on a fairly high dose of acid and mdma, I again took a line and began to inhale a nos, at the time and still now, a favourite peak experience of mine, and what happened next was beyond anything I expected. I was at the arcadia set, which you may or may not of heard of, and as I inhaled the balloon, everything started to slow, the gyrating bodies of the dancers falling into this perfect groove, and as things got slower and slower, I found myself no longer to be in the crowd outdoors, but inside a domed chamber made of light, filled with tumultuous dancing figures, and as this faded, the domed ceiling gave way to metallic glory of arcadia, yet the dancing figures remained.
We are all at dance, at all times I believe, and I think ketamine can deliver you to these spaces if you look for them.
I have however, found analogues of ketamine to be alarmingly unpleasant. SWIM is wondering if many bad experiences you here of are due to analogues being sold as the real thing, also I believe if you go into any experience wrong intent, you can be harmed.
To those who call ketamine psychedelic heroine, I think this is an apt term.
Be warned fellow travellers, this siren has a real voice to her, but if you can navigate the rocks and depart freely she is truly beautiful to behold.
[Apologies, This was meant to have been a reply :.L]