Can anyone help me understand my first trippy experience? Was this normal?

[u/No_Cryptographer1719]

I am 33. My husband and I bought some Delta 8 gummies. Each is supposed to contain 25mg of natural hemp derived (non-synthetic) delta 8 thc. I have previously tried a similar dose from another brand - except they were made from synthetic delta 8 thc. I'm wondering if that is the difference or if it's simply the dose. So the first time I tried delta 8, I took half a 25mg gummy and felt nearly nothing. I felt like time sorta slowed down and like everything I felt was heightened, but all in all it was a very tame experience. So, since I have tried 12.5mg before, I decided to try 25mg this time. We both still followed the instructions, which said to take half, wait 45 minutes to assess how you feel before taking more. So I took half at 6:30 last night, then the other half at 7:20ish because I felt nothing at that point except for a bit of dry mouth. It was like as soon as I took the second half the first half kicked in, then it just built and built for an hour or two until I felt like I was outside of my body.

My husband and I had similar sensations at first - we were both extremely giggly and aware of how high we were, but then I started to get extremely anxious. We both felt like time was speeding up and slowing down. For me, it seemed like when we were talking to each other or touching one another, I felt more present, but then when I started thinking I got trapped in my head and 5 seconds suddenly felt like 5 hours. It was like my brain was going into deep inception into each tiny thought I had and like fully fleshing out every random thought that popped into my head. We were trying to watch a comedy show and I started feeling like I was stuck in a bunch of tiny timeloops. Like bits of dialogue seemed to be repeated over and over then I would become aware of the timeloop and it would move to the next scene.

After we finished the show, it was only like 8:30, but we felt like we'd been high for literal days. We both felt like we'd made conversations up or we didn't know how we got from point A to point B as we walked from the living room to the kitchen then to our bedroom. I apparently kept saying, "You're okay. You're okay." to myself out loud during this portion because I thought I was going insane. My husband has chronic back pain, which we had hoped cannabis might help, but unfortunately it just seemed to magnify the pain for him. Similarly, while we were eating dinner (before the comedy show) I felt like my mouth was burning from the sriracha on my meal. I can normally tolerate spice fine, but I literally felt like my lips were melting off my face. And I could feel the texture of my food way too much. Like... I was aware of every grain of rice in my mouth. I felt like I could have counted them.

Anyway, we decided to go to bed at like 8:45. It was an indica strain, so we thought maybe we just need to take advantage of that and let ourselves pass the hell out. But this was like as it was peaking, so I was just feeling like my mind was moving through time at hyperspeed and at the same time my body was moving at a snail's pace. We kept having giggle fits together, and honestly if it weren't for that I am afraid of the level of paranoia I was approaching. I was starting to think that everyone was going to off me and that if I let myself sleep I would stop breathing. He didn't have any paranoia, but he did experience similar time-jumpiness. So we tested resting by leaving the lights on in our bedroom (LOL). We closed our eyes and just let go so we could just kinda float. And that felt nice. Eventually I felt like I could feel a physical shift and I knew I was coming down the other side. At that point I was able to calm down. We turned the light off at like 10 and went to sleep, and holy shit I slept better than I have in YEARS. Today I feel like I'm moving through wet concrete, lol. And my memories from last night are just all smushed together and I am having a hard time remembering what was real and what wasn't.

So yeah... what the hell did I experience? Did I just take too much? Or is THC just not the psychedelic for me? If you experienced this with a batch of edibles would you try them again? I thought about trying half of one... maybe these are just stronger than the ones I tried before?

I appreciate any wisdom you can share with me.