hey sykonot, cardio for sure! That really does make sense too, getting the blood flowing and all.
Here are my two DXM trip experiences, set and setting played a HUGE role. I have only taken dxm twice, and both times the liquigell at 300mgs. The first time i did dxm i went over to a friends house. After about an hour and a half i started to feel the drug, kind of a goofy unbalanced feeling. We ended up going to the bar (this bar in particular has drink specials for the hockey team i play for once a week) to meet up with friends. At first i was sitting in a booth, sipping a beer (the dxm was churning my stomach some so i wasn't really drinking, just keeping my mouth wet) feeling kind of claustrophobic. All of a sudden a certain song came on that i really liked. It was some dance beat that i dont know the name of, but it made me feel really relaxed and happy and excited at the same time. I ended up getting a ride home only about 45 mins. after i went into the bar, went home and slept...... i kind of gave up on dxm, didn't get much out of it.
The next time i tried dxm was last night. Once again, i just took 300 mgs. I searched erowid for things to do while on dxm, since as yall can probably tell from my previous posts i'm a rookie, and have yet had a really good experience. I decided to try to watch dazed and confused, but for some reason had bad diaharia. After going to and from the bathroom for about an hour or so i started to become frustrated. Finally my stomach felt better so i decided to turn the lights off and lay on the couch. On tv one of the HD channels had a fleetwood mac concert on, so i laid there and turned the brightness down on my tv and closed my eyes.... i felt really at peace, but didn't get any cevs. It was about 2 a.m. now so i went to my room to try and sleep.
I know this seems to be a rant so far, but this is where the SET/SETTING took it to a whole other level. As i was laying in bed in my dark room, i noticed one of the walls was kind of breathing, like as if i were on mushrooms.. so i decided to see if i could get some nice visuals. I began to relax my eyes and asked in my mind to be shown something (my eyes are open btw, staring up at my ceiling fan that was not moving) . At first, i would stare at my fan, as i relaxed my eyes, the room just seemed to melt away into blackness (at this point i had my night eyes, so if i tried to "come back" i could at any minute).... i started trying a couple exercises, i would make the room go blank then bring it back a couple times.... then it got really neat/strange. Once i made the room go into darkness the last time, i started seeing colors off in the distance, like i was looking up into the blackness of space... Blue swirls that i can only describe as "gasses" or something... like small galaxies or something. I noticed directly over my head there was this black tunnel, and i wanted to go into it, but was afraid of what may be there.... in my mind i asked to be shown things, and that i had nothing but good intentions.... through this black hole i thought at some point i could see eyes for a split second, then some kind of beings..... it is hard to describe, but i know it was something because i could made out a hand at one point... these images were all in shades of blue and purple, and i think some red but mostly it was blue... I never made it through that tunnel, but i could feel my soul or mind wanting to leave my body and go, and when i came out of this trance, my phone showed that an hour and a half or so had gone by, it was 3:45 a.m. but i thought, through my understanding of time, that maybe 10 mins had gone by.
For some reason after this experience i woke up a different person today... i know it was just a light dxm trip, but for some reason now i feel more compassionate. I feel like i was shown something, but i do not know what it was... nature seems more important to me now, and i feel more whole inside, just thinking about it now makes me tear up a little. The next time i trip i want to meet whoever was on the other side of that hole. The biggest difference for this trip that made it unique for me was that i had a very POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE. When i asked to be shown things, i admit i was scared inside, but by trying to communicate my want to learn with these things, it made me at ease and at peace.
i know that was long, but if u think i type long posts you should have a face to face conversation hahaha, i enjoy talking.