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Krunkie McKrunkface

Krunkie McKrunkface

Kava Connoisseur
When I first started drinking kava I had reverse tolerance, or I guess I did. IAE, I drank kava for a long time and nothing ever happened, except awesome dreams. Which was so gosh darn cool I stuck with it and eventually other effects started kicking in.

But now I believe I have tolerance. Not because it takes more kava to have an effect, if anything, I get effects almost immediately, within a minute or two instead of 15 minutes to a half hour waiting for anything to kick in. No, I mean I can drink a lot of kava. I drink all day every day, lots of grog. And as I say, it's not because I need more to get the same desired effect, no, what happened was I got really good at drinking kava. And I have fewer ill effects the more I drink. No nausea, no odd feelings, no dermo, except for drying of my hands from kneading, which I enjoy, and I just use plain lotion for that, which I should be doing anyway. (also, I have not had a kava nightmare since I stopped alcohol, stopping alcohol made kava appreciably better)

No, I just got really good at drinking kava. And as I did it got better and better. I haven't gotten krunk in over a month, but I don't need to. I think this is better. Lots of kava. Straight no chaser, love the taste, trad prep, straight up. All day, every day. Yum.
 
Kavashua

Kavashua

Mmmm Kava
Interesting that you mention dreams. I had a not so pleasant experience as my body adjusted, it wasn't s necessarily that the dreams were bad it was that I never locked fully into REM sleep. I remember two experiences that I literally launched myself out of bed as I acted out the motions in my dreams. It was quite scary and I never associated it with the kava till now.
 
Groggy

Groggy

Kava aficionado
Admin
Kavashua said:
Nice to know that the side effects aren't like your average pharmaceutical product
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One of the best benefits for me. I can drink a little or a lot and worse case scenario, I might be a bit sleepy the next day. Compared to some of my previous choices in life, this is a big plus and upgrade.
 
Kavashua

Kavashua

Mmmm Kava
Krunʞy said:
One of the best benefits for me. I can drink a little or a lot and worse case scenario, I might be a bit sleepy the next day. Compared to some of my previous choices in life, this is a big plus and upgrade.
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Absolutely, you hit the nail on the head
 
Groggy

Groggy

Kava aficionado
Admin
I had to get up early today, around 9, to let service guy in to fix my fridge. I got really rooted last night, like 20tbs total for the whole night. I went to bed at 3am, I was up at 9 but he only got here at 10:30, it took him 15 minutes to fix it. I went right back to sleep without even shelling, I was still in the zone, beautiful thing. I slept another 3 hours with lovely dreams. :)
 
Krunkie McKrunkface

Krunkie McKrunkface

Kava Connoisseur
My grand project, to which kava is integral, and already helped me go a long way to completion, is to fully integrate my dreaming and waking life, make the transition seamless, so that it becomes all of a piece, so I am awake 24/7 but only able to fly 8 hours a day. It'll help me organize work better. Some things are for dreamland, some for wake land but it's otherwise all the same.
 
schatz

schatz

itchin for kava
I am just the opposite of all the comments here. I started kava after researching REM sleep disorder and decided to try it. I used to act out my dreams, speak in tongues and hit scream and pretty much almost called an excosist. But kava puts me in amore relaxed state to where I can sleep more sound and now it is only 50 % of the time that I act out my dreams. So it is definately an improvement and I pretty much quit drinking alcohol nightly.
 
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Krunkmeup

Kava Enthusiast
The amount you guys are drinking makes me happy bc I thought I was drinking a lot, up to 3oz in a session but it's nothing on you guys
 
Chris1052

Chris1052

Kava Curious
20 tbsp in a session? Isn't that like 1/2 lb? Sounds expensive.

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Krunkie McKrunkface

Krunkie McKrunkface

Kava Connoisseur
Chris1052 said:
20 tbsp in a session? Isn't that like 1/2 lb? Sounds expensive.
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there's typically 72 TBS to a pound of medium grind (16 TBS per 100g and 18TBS per 1/4 lb), so 20 TBS would be a quarter pound plus 2 TBS, nowhere near a half pound. It's a lot of grog to be sure but nowhere near as scary as 1/2 pound.
 
Chris1052

Chris1052

Kava Curious
Krunkie McKrunkface said:
there's typically 72 TBS to a pound of medium grind (16 TBS per 100g and 18TBS per 1/4 lb), so 20 TBS would be a quarter pound plus 2 TBS, nowhere near a half pound. It's a lot of grog to be sure but nowhere near as scary as 1/2 pound.
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Thanks for clarifying. I had always wondered just how many tbsp are in a lb. Does kava have a lethal dose? Like would you die if you somehow managed to injest an entire pound of squanch lol?

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Krunkie McKrunkface

Krunkie McKrunkface

Kava Connoisseur
To my knowledge there is no fatal dose, but I think with some of these CO2 extracts we might find out. with the 70% KL stuff it takes very very little to have "too much"

but with grog I think you just get very very sick if you have too much
 
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Vice

Kava Enthusiast
Chris1052 said:
Thanks for clarifying. I had always wondered just how many tbsp are in a lb. Does kava have a lethal dose? Like would you die if you somehow managed to injest an entire pound of squanch lol?

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I'm not sure if it would but it sounds like the way I'd want to go
 
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