[weinzierl]

"For the most part, those that indulge in more “traditional” hallucinogens at moderate dosages are able to retain full functionality and awareness of the illusory nature of their altered perceptions."

I have no experience with this, so I wonder if it is true. It's not how I imagine the "high" state and not how it seems to me portrayed in literature and media.

[gxnxcxcx]

Getting your character high is just a narrative vehicle to some tropey destination[1]. It is sometimes done in a deliberately exaggerated tongue-in-cheek manner ("This is how squares must think drugs are always like!") by the ones that know better, but oftentimes it must be just plain unawareness and/or disregard for realism.

The article deals with one of the specific kind of drugs[2] that "kind of" work that way.

To be fair, interacting with real people who are high while one is sober can get boring pretty fast. Maybe that makes accurate portrayal in fiction not worth it.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliriant

[gxnxcxcx]

Oops. I botched that first link:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...

[HKH2]

As far as I can see, the only time you might lose the awareness is when you become too emotionally involved and start projecting emotions onto the world instead of owning them (just like you might do when you're sober and upset), and it makes everything messy. Bad trips can start that way.