DXM + Mushrooms: a retrospective on my favorite combination
This is my first post here on Bluelight, and it is going to be a long one-- kind of a story more than anything else. I want to share with you guys my thoughts on my favorite drug combination, DXM and mushrooms, as well as my history and experiences with these drugs. But first let me provide a little background about myself. I consider myself a fairly dedicated psychonaught, and have had experiences with several tryptamines, lysergamides, phenethylamines, and dissociatives.
I discovered dissociatives somewhat accidentally during a christmas vacation one year. I had been hoping to trip, but was only able to get my hands on a single gram of mushrooms, which up to this point had been the only psychedelic I had tried. I did not want an underwhelming experience, so after a little research, I decided to combine it with a novel little chemical I had learned about called dextromethorphan. I dosed 340mg DXM, the gram of shrooms, and some weed cookies simultaneously, and braced myself for the ride of my life. The visuals were very cool, even transforming at one point into a series of outright hallucinations during my peak, and the euphoria-- my god, I had never felt so good.
I fell in love with DXM during this trip, and after a little more research and internal debate, I decided is would be OK to use it more often, as long as it remained in moderation. I also decided to never dose higher than my original trip, 340mg. I started going 1st plateau 3-4 times a month, and second plateau 2-3 times a month, but did not venture above 300mgs again for quite some time. It is relevant to note that I discovered early on that a mg of clonazepam of lorazepam is a GREAT compliment to a DXM trip, and I started taking one with most of my 2nd plateau doses. In an indoor solo-trip setting, I found DXM to be vastly superior to shrooms-- no body load, less mindfuck, and the visuals and body-dissociation I got on the second plateau blew me away. I loved every second of it.
After sailing across alien landscapes for a few months on DXM, and learning much about myself, humanity, life, and the universe on mushrooms, I decided to take it to the next level by combining the two as I had during my first DXM experience. But I didn't really know what I was doing and I fucked it up the first time by taking the 1.7g of shrooms an hour before the 280mg DXM. Obviously, this was a dumb move, and I was left with little more than a weak mushroom trip followed by a moderate DXM trip. Disappointing to say the least.
Fast-forward two months, and I was ready to try it again. This time, I took 300mg DXM, a mg of clonazepam an hour later, and 2g of really good shrooms 30 mins after that. Before I knew it, I was standing before a tribunal of elder gods, who allowed me to witness incredible, indescribable things during the peak of my peak. I forgot where I was, who I was, and even the fact that I was a human being at all. Even once I snapped back to reality, the visuals were wild and I got a couple more amazing out-of-body experiences in the hours that followed. And I felt better than I ever had before in my life during the whole thing.
I continued experimenting with other psychedelics and other combinations during the following months, especially once I found a reliable source for research chems, but DXM + shrooms remained my trip of choice-- my bread and butter. I did it on a monthly basis, and was never left with a bad experience. The out-of-body experiences gradually became less frequent, but the visuals were always top-notch. And the euphoria-- so pure, so intense, so indescribably wonderful. There was only a single time during this period when the trip wasn't absolutely awesome, and on this one occasion it was because I had dosed a little too low on the DXM and failed to make it up to the second plateau.
This was my first indication that I was building a dissociative tolerance. I decided to reserve all my 2nd plateau trips for combinations with tryptamines, and limit my 1st plateau doses to roughly two per month to prevent my tolerance from climbing too high. This worked well for a time, and the combination remained great. I still played around with other substances for light trips, concerts, parties, and whatnot but whenever I went on a real psychonautical adventure, I armed myself with the same two weapons: DXM and shrooms.
And then, without warning, my mushroom supply ran dry a few days before my next planned trip. Damn. I debated not tripping, and doing to DXM on its own, but eventually decided to try a new combination. I bought 12 grams of untreated morning glory seeds, and performed an extraction of the LSA. Before I had dosed, however, my friend called me up with a good deal on a half-oz of decent mushies. I naturally was quite happy with this, and immediately went to pick them up.
At this point in my psychedelic career, I was comfortable with 2nd plateau + an eigth (which is what I would have done if I had had the mushrooms in the first place), but I already had done the LSA extraction, so I decided to add it into the mix. And also to take 4.4g of mushrooms instead of 3.6 on more or less a whim. Hell, what can I say, I like tripping hard. So I took em all. And holy flying fuck was it intense. Here's the trip report if you're interested:
http://shorttext.com/0gnj5er6j
I tripped DXM + mushrooms again a little less than a month later. It was pretty good, but despite my 315mg DXM dose, I could tell that I had barely made it to the second plateau. The euphoria was not as unbelievable as it had been the first several times either. I went first plateau several times over the next few weeks at concerts and club events, and found that this too was not as invigorating as it used to be.
A couple more weeks flew by, and I knew it was time to trip again. I had no access to shrooms AGAIN, so I cooked up another Morning Glory cocktail, this one with 20g of seeds used. It set in nicely before I took the dxm-- like a hit or two of some fairly decent acid, and very clean-feeling too. I took 335mg DXM and eagerly waited to drift away into oblivion. I was at a strong first plateau within an hour, but the second did not come. I waited and waited, but I never got that delicious body-dissociation that always accompanies the second plateau for me. It was a trip, but it wasn't a Trip, if you can make any sense out of that.
So it seems that my dissociative use has finally caught up with me and I have developed a tolerance. The magic is gone, at least within my 340mg limit, and I have no intention of upping my dosage of a substance that is known to cause cognitive impairment after extended periods of use. This means that I will no longer be able to experience the wonderful combination that has been the hallmark of my career as a psychonaught, and the highlight of my entheogenic experiences.
So that’s my story. I have combined DXM and shrooms more times than anyone else I have heard of, although I’m sure that there are some out there who have done it even more times than me. I’m very interested in hearing other people’s experiences with this combination, so please feel free to share your thoughts.
Also, if anyone has any input regarding DXM tolerance, and how long (if at all) it takes to go away, let me know! I hope those of you who actually made it through this obscenely long post enjoyed it, and I’m glad if my story was able to give you more insight on this fantastic psychedelic combination.
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-Saucy