Effects of the K-Hole Experience
A K-hole can include a range of physical, perceptual, emotional, and spiritual effects.
Physical Effects:
In large doses, which are high enough to induce a K-hole, your ability to find orientation and a sense of control can be significantly reduced. Because of its dissociative effects, It is normal to lose the sensation of your body or your body being separate from the environment.
Many people are unable to speak. It’s called a “K-hole” because you become unable to navigate your surroundings, and you’re essentially trapped wherever you’re sitting or lying.
With eyes open during a K-hole, the external environment can distort significantly and become unrecognizable. You may also have the sense of floating above your body or around the room.
With eyes closed, however, you can find yourself in or traveling through different dimensions, worlds, or a great void (as if being in space). Some people may see visions of scenarios or real memories play out.
The K-hole experience is not typically very colorful in the way that the visuals and other hallucinogenic effects of classic psychedelics are. For many people, K-holes can be a black-and-white experience.
Emotional Effects:
A K-hole can induce different emotions, depending on how someone is reacting to the acute subjective effects. The experience may feel unpleasant, frightening, or lead to strong feelings of powerlessness.
These negative emotional effects may be heightened if your ability to communicate with others is affected. Feeling afraid or overwhelmed is more likely in a chaotic recreational setting.
Nonetheless, if you can relax into the experience and are somewhere quiet and comfortable, you may experience positive emotions like euphoria, peacefulness, joy, and bliss.
Spiritual Effects:
In terms of spiritual effects, in a dissociative state your sense of self may disappear, which is known as ego dissolution. Some people may find this a scary experience, as they may be convinced that they’re dying or have died. But by not resisting this effect, people can experience a sense of freedom and profound joy.
Other spiritual effects include a feeling of being outside of space and time, a sense of sacredness or the divine, a sense of oneness or interconnection, and ineffability (being unable to adequately describe the experience).
Perceptual Effects:
A K-hole can also involve distortions of time and space, even if these concepts don’t disappear completely. A 30-minute trip may feel like hours and objects, your body, or other people may appear smaller or larger than normal. There can also be a sense of motion during the experience, like sinking or falling down somewhere. This is another reason why it’s called a “K-hole”.
The K-hole experience is relatively short, lasting around 30 minutes. This means it’s possible to have a full-blown mystical experience and be back in sober reality an hour after dosing.
