Has anyone gone back to sober sessions?

Agree with everything you said. Smoked and got into erotic hypnosis / aneros / VR porn then decided it was time to stop.

Can not smoke or take any thc at all now or else the prostate just goes into overdrive.

Funny enough tried to sober session today with meditation and had a super session. Nothing will ever compare to those thc sessions but it was much better than I expected.

Thanks for your detailed reply.

The overwhelming majority of my sessions are sober. I use THC maybe once every 2 months or so, and a really low dose (2.5mg THC+CBD) even then. My  sober sessions are often really great, but the THC-aided sessions are still peak pleasure. And I'm totally fine with that. My sober sessions are really enjoyable and more fun in some ways. I don't find them boring; on the contrary, the lack of THC forces me to be more curious and experimental and focused, and I learn something new each time. Whereas with the THC sessions, once the weed starts to take effect, I settle into whatever position/technique I know works for me and surrender control for 2 hours.

My sober sessions serve as research expeditions for my THC-aided sessions, in a way.

I agree with everything @clenchy said, it's spot-on as far as my own experience goes. 

It's like you have to consider THC sessions and sober sessions as two completely different things, although there are similarities. For instance I can't expect a sober session to be going full blast after the first 10 minutes, but on the upside, I also don't have to be on the lookout for a panic attack or terror at the gates, and I don't need to pace myself when I'm sober. The challenges are different.

Are the terrible sleep and general brain fog a fair price to pay for the hours of Os ? In the end, for me, no. I think I'm at the "getting over it" point. Almost. It feels like starting over, but worse, because I know precisely how things should be going, but it's no happening, and I understand that it's going to be a grind of going through the motion, doing the flexes and breathing, for "X" amount of time until it eventually starts working again. It's taking longer and it's harder than when I first started... All the while, 75 cents worth of cannabis could fix everything right this instant, just like magic. It's a bit of a Faustian bargain, and like I read somewhere else, the idea is doing pushups in the back of my mind, but at least now I know it's really not a good idea. 

Posted by: @jiji2000

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After quitting THC now for 4 months. I have little urge of using the Aneros (Even tho I still have constant Aless every day. I think once you have woken your prostate it never goes away)

Just knowing how the sessions are when i was sober vs being on THC is such a big difference. Has anyone successfully gone back to using it Sober and had any sort of decent sessions.

 

Sessiosns should be sober, weeed is a dangerous game. Or is it just pure THC youre taking?

Posted by: @clenchy

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But then I sometimes wonder whether this was the weed directly, or something that might also happen otherwise, had I been blowing out my dopamine receptors by some other means.

The only thing that makes sense for me, is that there's a synergy taking place that makes THC+Super-Os at least feel like something else. MDMA, maybe ? I don't know, I never tried anything besides cannabis, and this might be completely wrong, and I'm not going to test the theory, hehe.. But I don't believe that cannabis is generally known to give instant hour-long orgasms to people. This feels, I don't know, like what I would imagine low doses of harder drugs to feel ? With the related effects on dopamine, but of course, to a level that is manageable by the body and won't send someone spiraling down. 

It does absolutely feel like I'm going to have to pay myself back in some way. Like I stopped and started again several times. The first day is always great. If I could only have that one day and then a week off, I think that side-effects would be minimal. But it does feel like 2-3 days to really recuperate. One week of use ? Takes a month to really feel right. And so on.

Like you, I'm fine with accepting what I'm getting right now. I started having daily sessions, 45 minutes to an hour for the last 3 days, and they're ok. Better than just masturbating, which I would do anyway, so it does not feel like they're duds or anything. Sober Os are more like something I achieve, vs. THC Os being somethign that happens to me. In the long term, this makes a difference, it did make me lazy and impatient in a Super-O sense. 

@zentai 

Agree I just use the session now as the same time I would meditate for. I try do an hour a couple times a week. So I just put it in an meditate and whatever happens happens. With the main focus being on clearing the mind and meditating first (I always meditate with 8d music as I struggle to concentrate)

Over 50 yrs old and have no desire for action unless I am high. 
I use infused coconut oil, so I minimized health effects. Life is more interesting with cannabis.  

Well I have come from the opposite side of the equation and have thus far experienced my entire journey sober - every super O I’ve had whether aless or with a device I’ve not partaken of any cannabis and generally no booze either.  I suppose I wanted to make sure whatever success I had was not reliant on cannabis to achieve it… 

As an experiment I had some alone time this past weekend and did get a good buzz on before and during my session.  I used a Eupho syn which is my go to these days and I will say that it was in my top 5 sessions ever.  It’s hard to control for variables on this journey as we all know - mood, rest, general feelings of wellness etc… all impact a session potentially so it’s hard to say if cannabis, by itself, facilitated a great session or if I would have had one regardless.  

Still it did feel different in some ways.  My SO’s have always been of the rough seas variety.  However this time I came closest I’ve come to what I think is a calm seas O … I was sort of feeling like I was floating with a warm fuzzy feeling all over that went on for some time.  It was completely different than my typical spasms.  It was delightful.   I also felt like I could feel the device more clearly and was maybe a little more in touch with my body.  My perineum for example felt more engaged directly than I typically experience.  I do attribute some of this to cannabis as I was more relaxed and somewhat inward focused than I am at times sober - I can get there but it takes longer and more focused breathing etc… to achieve the same level of relaxation.  

Next session will definitely be sober just to see how it compares in a relatively close timeframe.