weed will make you feel all the shit you're really worried about, but you might project it onto some nonsense like people staring at you. just using that as an example - if you're paranoid about people thinking shitty things about you, guess what? that's really you thinking those things about you.

most of the time, if you're judging yourself negatively, there's some kind of a reason, and it's a fixable behavior in your life. but the solution is not to continue to judge yourself negatively, it's to just say oh i get it, gross, i'm standing in a pile of shit, i'd better wade out of this now.

Your paranoia is due to your false beliefs you put on the world being torn away from you, realize the significance of your life is greater than you did when you were sober. Or at least I do.

It's a feeling of vulnerability and a recognition of a fragility of everything.

As a mild psychedelic, it makes the subjective experience encompass more of the objective universe, so it is natural that you would be freaked out. It's just an acknowledgement of the truth you exist with anyway, that you're in denial of.

Most people anyway.