Forgot I made this thread.
Hey, thanks for sharing, sounds terrifying. Can I ask though, what exactly characterizes plateau sigma over other states brought on by DXM? I've read about people's experiences with it and it almost just sounds like everyone has their own idea of what it is. So I've never really understood what it's supposed to be.
I would mostly refer to the section starting around line 138, but looking back at this it doesn't have the latter parts of our research. A dumb kid decided to follow our dosing regimen and he landed himself in the psych ward, so we (the others who were running experiments and writing theory with me) kept all notes from then on private. I'd have to dig around for them.
Here's the jist of it.
"Sigma" is not really a plateau. It's about the ratio. A normal DXM dose gets almost entirely converted into DXO in the body. You're not really getting high off the DXM until you start inhibiting enzymes. The more you inhibit those enzymes, over a longer period of time you get a higher DXM:DXO ratio. We ran with the definition of "the Sigma Effect" as taking place when that ratio was 1:1 or higher, meaning that one was getting more high off the DXM than the DXO. The more you inhibit the enzymes and the closer you get to (almost) ONLY DXM, the more "pure" the Sigma experience, and this could be had at any level. If theoretically you reach a point where DXM is the only thing crossing the BBB, then you could experience a low Sigma with 150mg, or a high one with 800 or whatever. Now obviously this is impossible to actually measure without knowing blood levels, but with a solid feel for every standard DXO "plateau" it wasn't hard to start making distinctions as I changed my dosing around.
I started working with the idea of a 2D grid to represent DXM:DXO ratio.
https://imgur.com/a/uweRz The standard DXO plateaus lie on the x-axis. The theoretical pure DXM trip is on the y-axis. So depending on dosing regimen instead of ending up at the "3rd plateau," one might end up at (3,0) or (3,1). And if you keep tweaking enzymes (2,2), which is when things start to get noticeably different. So in the image, everything above the purple line could be considered part of "The Sigma Realm." This is why you get so many different descriptions of Sigma. Anyone can fuck around with their enzymes long enough some weird shit starts to happen, but very few people ever do it intentionally, and not everybody follows the same dosing regimen. People across the internet have all sorts of different Sigma recipes, and having tried most of them I feel confident in saying that all of those people are touching a different area on the graph, but all using the same basic principle of redosing until a distinct qualitative change of one kind or another takes place.
A lot of that is faulty at best though, based on made up math, guesstimating blood levels by subjective effect. Then I started making up formulas to calculate how much I needed to dose and when in order to reach any given point on the map, which is even more full of shit obviously. What's surprising is how accurately I was actually able to pin it down despite talking out my ass so fast I was shitting teeth. There was a period where I would reliably choose say a (2,1) dosing regimen, or tasting the qualitative difference between the standard "4th plat" and a (3,2) regimen. And none of that takes into account the chance (that I found increasingly likely as I did more experimenting) that one or both 3-MEM and 3-HM are active in their own right.
Between the 3 of us (who came up with the idea and worked on it together) there's probably 20 pages of theoretical math in addition to all the TR shit that exploded in the thread we created to document our progress. We thought we were really on to something, but it's really easy to think that when you're half-psychotic from DXM binging; and what we were onto turned out to be particularly dangerous, and we basically all stopped soon after the second random internet kid went to the psych ward (SO YEAH DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME).
The only real message I can give after all of that is Mr. White had no idea that the surface he scratched so glibly in the "Plateau Sigma" section of his FAQ is actually the tip of a huge fucking iceberg. Proceed at your own risk.
