Ketamine's effects are dose-dependent, ranging from mild hypnosis and dissociation at lower doses to complete anesthesia at higher doses.

“at lower doses it's got kind of stimulant properties and then as the dose increases you get kind of just perceptual distortions and illusions and kind of a mild melting people talk about floating higher doses still you get kind of much more profound maybe not hallucinations but changes in the perception of reality and the highest dose you're completely sort of catatonic but people are experiencing inside these really really profound um hallucinations”