Do you ever experience euphoria? What's usually responsible for it?
Nature, interaction with wildlife, moments on stage, music, ... and orgasms. (did I say that !?)
When surrender is shared and simultaneous, euphoria is understatement. After so many years the question often becomes can one ever go back? Any lesser expectation seems not worth the effort.
Only once. I was in a car wreck and had a NDE. I died.( I was convinced I did) . At the moment I released my self drom hanging on to consciousness, I was granted a peace I never felt before or after.I was owoke later to ask if I wanted emergency surgery by a doctor. He had to ask three times before I said yes. I heard him the first time but was wanting to get back to where I had that peaceful feeling. Later I learned it was a possible ketomine reaction. [dailykos.com]
Only a few times in my life have I ever experienced what has been called "flow" 00 a feeling of greatly heightened sensation and awareness. One time was almost 60 years ago driving rhough the empty streets of Miami after a delightful evening.
The second time was in Berlin, Germany, also late at night, with empty streets. I can remember the echo of my own footsteps on the concrete, and the beutifulsounds of a man playing a trumpet nearby, almost as though he are searching for his musical nirvana.
I had a wonderful moment on a three-wheeler taxi in New Delhi. No reason. Just overwhelmed with happiness. Similarly, on a felucca on the Nile, in the dead of night, sharing a cigarette with an Egyptian boy who didn't speak English. And I don't smoke. Most recently in the rainforest near Port Douglas, Australia. Alone. Silence, Nature. Never induced by stimulants. Just pure.
Euphoria? I don't know, but transcendence: yes When i hear certain music. When I view certain paintings. The edge of an ocean. Weed. mushrooms, wine.
Gym rat endorphins & back in the day where bursting out of my skin on a dance floor. Been awhile. By some coincidence learned that at one point in my life the high was as good and better than coke. I was never a coke head but tried it. It was then inner dialogue "wow, uh, I've felt like this naturally, wonder if my health nut blood could give someone a buzz...
Sometimes I get in these stupidly great moods after taking Chantix, but that's a dopamine manipulator.
Yes. Orgasm. Also a perfect candlelit dinner with a great wine a lover and I savor. Macadamia nuts are a close second equal to morel mushrooms. 69 is divine
Speaking pedantically, it's probably your brain releasing small quantities of powerful hormones that help reactions; an example being release of seratonin during orgasms.
This is a good place to find out more. [treatment4addiction.com]
dancing with my friends and walking in the woods stoned playing hide and seek with the deer
Gigging before a packed venue with the audience completely engrossed in the music you're putting out. That is a high better than any other high I've ever had.
For me the thing that works really good is something very simple, actually..... coffee !!!.. that's right, I get loaded up every morning and I have been doing this for years. I'll keep on going until the big day when I'll get a heart attack but no regrets because I have enjoyed every day to the max thanks to the coffee rush and if I kick the bucket due to a heart attack then at least it will be quick... (I hope)