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Diphenhydramine - Experienced - Running away

zombiesarepeaceful

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This is from a couple years ago. Crazy shit.

It all begins at band practice. I had tripped on diphenhydramine and dimenhydrinate a handful of times. The first time was unpleasant and involved dramamine, but the subsequent times involved mostly benadryl, and although frightening, fucked up, and hard on the mind/body... I was desperate to escape reality, and kept taking it recreationally.

This time involved Unisom. I proceded to eat ten of the blue gelcaps, which I can remember the taste of to this day. They tasted sweet, and in my mind I pictured myself eating Equal (the artificial sweetener) and laughed at myself.

I got to band, and waited for the onset inpatiently. Yes, tripping at band was stupid to begin with, let alone on diph. But I was a foolish young lad. Before long I felt tired, and started walking like I was drunk. This fucked up my squad's formation, and I'm sure my band director saw me and wondered what the fuck I was on, but he never confronted me. I was lucky.

I don't remember what exactly I hallucinated. But my hallucinations on diph typically involved hearing voices, people breathing in my ear, and things/people that weren't really there. If I remember correctly, I didn't trip out too bad on this dose for some reason.

Later that night, my mom and I got into a fight, which lead to me getting pissed off, making irrational decisions, and walking out the door. I'm suprised I went on to wander around the town the whole night before collapsing in exhaustion behind a local supermarket.

The whole night, I wandered around town, trying not to be seen by the police who I knew had been called and were after me. I remember walking to Walmart and stealing a pair of pants (I was a full blown kleptomaniac of sorts back then, am no more). I then changed pants in the dog food isle (so I wouldn't match the description of what I was wearing when I left), and suddenly heard over the intercom "Security, please check your cameras for a male teenage runaway, brown hair, yadda, yadda...". I wigged out and beat it the fuck out of there before I was sighted. It was around midnight at that point. (I'm almost entirely sure that I didn't hallucinate any of this. The diph had mostly worn off by now, and my mom would have certainly called Walmart to ask if they saw me because she knew I bummed around there alot).

I stumbled down the road behind Walmart for awhile before I realized that going that way on that road eventually led to hicksville in the middle of nowhere, and I turned back around. I was growing weary at that point and started searching for a place to sleep. I wandered down a familiar road in the middle of town, ducking behind trees everytime I saw the headlights of a car. The diph had worn off by now, but I had one last hallucination. I saw a man on the side of the road ahead of me. For a minute I wondered who he was, if he was like me, without a home, without a purpose, running away from circumstances that he couldn't bear to face any longer. I empathized with him, but was freaked out at the same time because I feared getting caught. He then vanished before my eyes.

The night ended with me laying in the alley behind Marc's supermarket. I had no idea that people were working at 2am (stocking shelves, I suppose). I think I fell asleep there at some point but I woke up and decided to walk to my grandma's apartment nearby. She was working that night and I could sleep there without being found, or so I thought. I slept on the floor in her living room, and awoke the next morning to her screaming, thinking I was laying there dead.

That was one of the most fucked up nights of my life. I wouldn't repeat it again, but I don't regret it in the least. I also wouldn't do diph again, after reading that it can cause heart attacks in recreational doses. I don't want to risk dying...yet. Especially not for several hours of voluntary schizophrenia.

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zombiesarepeaceful said:
my hallucinations on diph typically involved people breathing in my ear

that would drive me insane :! i spent a night behind a supermarket once myself ... awoke to the sprinklers and a spider on my lips.

at a recreational dose of diphenhydramine, is the drowsiness not overpowering? is there a lot of blacking out and are you capable of distinguishing the dreams while unconscious from your hallucinations while awake?

your reports are depressing man, i really hope you can get it together and find some happiness! gl
 
Thanks bro.

I usually experience a significant amount of fatigue, but if I keep myself moving around the urge to sleep passes. Dosing in 30 minute intervals reduces that alot. If I lay down and close my eyes on diph, I usually get tons of CEVs and auditory hallucinations but I don't usually dream. On higher doses it is difficult to distinguish dreams and hallucinations because everything takes on a dream like quality. I find this to be very blissful, almost like nodding into dreamland on an opiate. Diph doesn't improve my quality of sleep though. I have frequent insomnia and even after taking diph I wake up several times in the night like I normally do and find it hard to get back to sleep.

Peace

EDIT: Holy shit, this was my 666th post. >_>
 
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