Effect of Ketamine

• Increase in heart rate
• Slurred speech
• Confusion, disorientation
• Out-of-body experience
• Shifts in perception of reality
• Nausea
• Sedation
• Cardiovascular effects, including hypertension and tachycardia
• Respiratory depression
• Hypersalivation
• Pleasant mental and/or body high
• increase in energy
• Euphoria
• Sense of calm and serenity

• Meaningful spiritual experiences
• Enhanced sense of connection with the world (beings or objects)
• Distortion or loss of sensory perceptions (common)
• Open- and closed-eye visuals (common)
• Dissociation of mind from body
• Analgesia, numbness
• Ataxia (loss of motor coordination)
• Significant change in perception of time
• Double-vision