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Diphenhydramine - New Experience - Terrifying, but very interesting

fireredfreak

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A few days ago I decided to take 600mg of Diphenhydramine HCl (DPH).

The thought occurred to me as soon as my girlfriend went to sleep which was around 9:45 PM. I grabbed three dollars in quarters and headed over to Walmart. I was hoping to find some form of generic DXM, but the cheapest I saw was like $3.34, so I thought I'd give DPH another shot. I grabbed a box of 24 generic allergy capsules which cost me about $1.78. I headed back home, sat down at the kitchen table and started taking each pill out of the foils they were inside of. After about 5-10 minutes I was done, and had a nice pile of little pink pills. I downed them 6 at a time with some cold water at around 10:40 PM.

Now for the waiting...

I decided at around 11:30 PM that I'd need a drink for the cotton mouth. I've done DPH before, so I know all about how harsh the cotton mouth can get and how important it is to have drinks available. About 11:50 PM I was beginning to feel the effects take over me. I was hearing things, the walls looked like parasites were starting to swarm inside of the paint, and that oh so feeling I remembered took over me. It feels like absolute insanity, fear, pain, paranoia, anger, and most importantly I felt very detached from reality, and lost deep inside a world of chaos. This feeling is what I crave from the DPH experience. No other drug gets me feeling like this. It's as if I'm taken over by pure evil. It feels like a nightmare, or as if I'm in living hell.

The trip...

I began seeing bugs crawl on the walls, spiders, weird things I've never seen before, and I kept seeing people deep into the darkness of the hallway. It was terrifying, but very interesting. I looked down at my blanket on me and saw a huge spider right at my neck! I jumped back, and started swinging at the blanket over and over trying to kill the bastard. I never saw a spider like that in my life, it looked freaky as hell. The entire room was starting to become alive. Movement all over the place, twitching, jerking, spiders on everything I looked at, people staring at me from far into the corners of the near pitch black room I was in. I've never been so scared in my life. It felt amazing! I looked at my blanket again, and saw a huge cockroach like bug jet across it, and then disappear right at the end of the blanket. I was so scared I started trembling, my teeth were clenching and jittering up and down. I was overwhelmed with a pure psychotic breakdown. I felt as if I had the option between life and death; I'd choose death. I kept hearing loud bangs like gunshots from random directions in the room, I kept hearing voices, whispers, growls, moans, and the sound of bugs crawling all behind me on the floor. I was too scared to look at the floor behind me, and I closed my eyes. I kept seeing freaky images pop into my blank vision. Images like freaky faces of monsters, and demons. It was insane! I tried to get up to take a piss, and man did it feel so hard to stand. I all of a sudden weighed 10 times heavier, and my balance was completely off. I had to focus all my attention into walking to the bathroom, and took a piss with my eyes closed; because, I was terrified at all the spiders all over the place. I hurried back to the bed as fast as I could, and fell into it throwing the covers over me immediately. I was beginning to wonder if I'd be able to handle the experience, and make it through the night. I began feeling bugs crawling on my skin and clothes, and I kept scratching and smacking myself over and over. Spiders began crawling on my neck and face and all over me. I was about to panick. I felt like screaming off the top of my lunges, but I knew I couldn't; because, I refused to let my girlfriend see me in the state I was in. I had to piss again, jumped out of the bed and almost fell because of how heavy I felt; but, I managed to keep my balance and ran to the bathroom. I took another piss, and hurried back to the bed. I knew I had to fall asleep, and it was nearly impossible, but I managed it. I just ignored all the bugs crawling on me and my blanket, and forced myself to fall asleep.

My dreams...

I had the most vivid nightmares I've ever had. They were intense and terrifying. The entire night I was dreaming about death, demons, and the real hell. I was a soul stuck in it and I was being abused, tortured and mutilated. My dreams were more terrifying than the hallucinations I was having while awake, but I couldn't wake up from them. I was trapped in a world of nightmares, and in massive pain. I was so sick of them I was begging for morning to come.

When morning came...

I woke up around 10:20ish AM, and I was still tripping. I felt horrible too. I had a very high fever, and felt like I was dying. My body was burning hot. I was watching flies fly around the room and at me, and watching them disappear before my very eyes. I saw a bird fly through the room chirping at me like it wanted to hurt me. It disappeared and then reappeared, and dove at me again, and then it disappeared again. I fell back asleep instantly. I woke up a couple hours later, still burning up. I took 600mg of Ibuprofen, and remained taking that for the rest of the day. I hid from my girlfriend all day and didn't talk to her hardly at all. I remained tripping all day long. Seeing the walls move, things twitch and jerk. Those effects didn't end until roughly 30 hours after ingestion of the DPH.

I've done DPH in the past, and I've got to tell you, this was the most insane experience I've ever had with it, and almost scared me to death. I still enjoyed it though, and I feel as though I have a lot to learn about my own mind, and I'm fascinated at how it can produce such an evil world to be in. I've gotten a taste of what the so called devil can do to your mind, and trust me... DPH is the devil! I'm still having minor sight and sound hallucinations days later. I'm amazed at how long that last taste with DPH is lasting.

I definitely want to try this again. Maybe I'll take a larger dose in a few weeks, until then... thanks for reading my report. I tried to mention as much of the trip as I could, but there was a lot I left out; because, I don't remember everything. If you're wondering what exactly do I like the most about tripping on DPH; I'd tell you that it's the emotion associated with it. I perceive the entire world with a very evil feeling. It feels like there's a very dark, and angry presence in my atmosphere. It's like a poltergeist is taking over.

DPH isn't a party drug, and it's not something I would consider taking to have fun. I see it as a chance to learn more about negativity, and to understand how to control it better. One day I'd like to be able to control my trip, and to learn how to handle the evil attributes to it, and to welcome them. That's my goal with DPH. I believe it'll help me in my sober life by teaching me how to handle any negative experience more effectively.

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EDIT: (Thursday, July 22, 2010)

I've got to give this drug some credit. It's definitely toughened me up a bit, and it has taught me how to handle things I don't like more effectively. The amount of pain I'm capable of withstanding is astonishing compared to the previous me before I've flirted with DPH. I need to go get my hands on a nice bottle full of 100 of these little pink pills. The pain it induces is like a workout. The more I endure; the stronger I become.
 
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Pretty neat report dude, sort of gave me a very small sense of how you actually felt. I am fascinated by Diphenhydramine, really fascinated. And, if I do actually consume this sometime soon, which is likely, I will be doing it also to understand negativity and, to attempt to overcome things that many would deem horrific.

It leads me to a quote I once read "...some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin."

Seems like you turned the negatives into positives overall, bravo my friend. Be safe
 
i personally hate dph. it was the first thing i abused (not including pot). my buddy n i would chug bottles of nyquil and pop the fuck out of unisoms and benadryll. for some reason we thought it was fun at the time, why i have no clue. i feel miserable when i do it. altho if you have nothing else, dont wanna do dxm, and wanna get spaced out thats your ticket. i sadly had to resort to a 400mg dose the other night when i watched alice in wonderland on blueray (btw SWEET). got the job done, but will have to watch it again next time i drop sum dose :D
 
Yep; there are so many more enjoyable drugs out there. DPH is a very painful experience, and shouldn't be taken as a recreational drug for any purpose other than to escape reality, and possibly learn a thing or two. Also; the hallucinations you get from it are so realistic; it becomes very hard to determine if they're real or not. They just seem SO real to me that I actually believe they're real.
 
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yes it is a pretty fucked up trip in high dose. "fucked up" being NOT enjoyable. i can just feel myself becoming stupid when i do it
 
I know what you mean. It plays a large number on short-term memory. Imagine if my girlfriend were to come down stairs... my short-term memory was so screwed up; I wouldn't even be able to talk to her. That would be pretty fucked up I think. I probably would have pretended like I was asleep. If she were to catch me; she'd kick my fucking ass. Ha ha...
 
fuck after reading that i dont think ill ever take more than 25mg of the shit.
 
in lower doses (200mg) i find it quite interesting. Auditry stimulation irritates me alot though. I just hear voices, snippets of conversations from throughout the day. I get nice visual tracers too.

Makes my body insanely heavy though (stairs are a struggle), and the next day i feel groggy as hell.

Higher doses worry me, i've read a few news articles of people being found dead (normally self inflicted wounds). I assume these are probably a result of the delusions.

Low to mid dose, i think it's worth a try, but it's definitely something very few people would want to use on a regular basis.

The only real thing i like about this on lower doses, is as soon as i get bored, i close my eyes and fall asleep within minutes.

Just my $0.02
 
It feels like absolute insanity, fear, pain, paranoia, anger, and most importantly I felt very detached from reality, and lost deep inside a world of chaos. This feeling is what I crave from the DPH experience. No other drug gets me feeling like this. It's as if I'm taken over by pure evil. It feels like a nightmare, or as if I'm in living hell.

I was beginning to wonder if I'd be able to handle the experience, and make it through the night. I began feeling bugs crawling on my skin and clothes, and I kept scratching and smacking myself over and over. Spiders began crawling on my neck and face and all over me. I was about to panick. I felt like screaming off the top of my lunges

I had a very high fever, and felt like I was dying.



I definitely want to try this again.

Are you a masochist?
 
Higher doses worry me, i've read a few news articles of people being found dead (normally self inflicted wounds). I assume these are probably a result of the delusions.

A friend of mine told me he knew a few people that scratched their flesh out while tripping on high dosages of DPH. He said they were so terrified by the bugs crawling on them that they scratched their flesh, and dug to their meat. I believe him; because, I couldn't stop smacking myself. It's very hard to resist. I bet if I took any more than 600mg; there's a good chance that I'd do some self inflicted injuries. It's definitely a lot safer to experiment with lower dosages at first, and to try and get a hang of the delusions before they get a hang of you. I read a trip report on erowid the other day. This girl was having seizures/convulsions consecutively throughout her trip. During one of her convulsions; she hit her head into her bedroom mirror, and then started convulsing all over the broken glass, and she had glass stuck all over her back, limbs, neck and head. Pretty damn scary shit right there.
 
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This was the last trip I had on Benadryl. It happened a few weeks before my 600mg experience.

Here it is:

I've been doing some research on Benadryl and its effects on the human mind/body, and decided it was worth giving a shot. The experiences I've read seemed very interesting to me and made this drug very intimidating. It was on a Sunday morning. I opened my eyes and the first thought on my mind was that it's time to trip. I got up, walked to the bathroom, grabbed the bottle of Benadryl out of the medicine cabinet and headed to the kitchen. I filled up a nice large glass with cold apple juice and took all 16 capsules at once. Everything you're about to read in this time list was all written by me during the trip. I tried my hardest to type with as good grammar as I possibly could. It wasn't easy! At some points it took all my will power just to type a sentence. I didn't edit any of it at all, and this is exactly how I wrote it while tripping.

11:50 AM - I swallowed 16 capsules of Benadryl 25mg all at once with some apple juice totalling 400mg. Erowid rates 400mg as a heavy dose so I feel like I'm in for some fun.
11:55 AM - I feel a little anxious, a bit happy and am waiting patiently for some effects to kick in.
12:01 PM - I'm starting to feel a little bit slowed down. Things feel as though they're happening more smoothly, and I feel peaceful.
12:10 PM - My daily worries are starting to dissapear and I feel refreshed. I'm starting to feel a little light headed as well.
12:20 PM - I feel fantastic! It feels like a rush of euphoria and sound is starting to feel a lot more enhanced. Everything sounds very clear to me.
12:24 PM - My first sound hallucination, it sounds like an engine is running across a tunnel and I'm on the other side of the tunnel listening, wondering what it is. It has a high pitched tone, and its now right at my ear.
12:27 PM - The engine sound stopped, and I feel a bit empty. There's less thinking going on inside of my mind.
12:33 PM - I'm starting to feel like I'm stoned as if I took several hits of marijuana. Pretty interesting I think.
12:40 PM - Time is starting to slow down a lot and 1 minute feels like 5 minutes to me. I'm also feeling a minor state of drowsiness kick in.
12:41 PM - Just heard a high pitched noise near my left ear. It wasn't a motor this time, it was more like the sound of wind creeping through a window on a windy day.
12:45 PM - I'm starting to feel a lot heavier all of a sudden.
12:46 PM - Just saw a flash of multiple different colored lights right in front of my eye. That was my first visual hallucination.
12:47 PM - The screen of this PC looked as if it zoomed up to me and then back to its normal self.
12:49 PM - My eyes seem to be focusing a lot better on things and they appear more clear to me.
12:50 PM - The drowsiness has gotten a lot stronger and I feel like gravity is pulling me down.
12:51 PM - My PC screen looks like it's moving all over the place, very strong visual hallucination.
12:52 PM - I'm starting to really feel the effects now. This is intense! I believe I've just hit the come up of this drug.
12:53 PM - I see smoke coming out of my screen and floating all around me. I see shots of random colors at the corners of my vision also.
12:56 PM - The effects are beginning to feel really intense and I feel like I'm dreaming with my eyes open. I'm expecting to see some really good hallucinations soon.
12:57 PM - I hear a loud burst of wind all around me. I'm also starting to have cotton mouth.
01:00 PM - I'm wondering if the movement in my screen is real or not.
01:02 PM - I decided to start listening to some music. I put the song Dramamine on by Modest Mouse.
01:05 PM - The effects are too hard to explain; but, I keep seeing random images pop around the place. They look like clouds of hot air.
01:10 PM - It's getting really hard to type, talk and walk. Just had a really good hallucination. It was a sky blue beam of light flying through the screen.
01:11 PM - Decided to play some Halo PC to see what it would be like. It was different, that's for sure.
01:23 PM - I stopped playing Halo PC.
01:30 PM - The effects are very overwhelming.
01:47 PM - I keep hearing people talk. I'm having way more hallucinations now. I just looked at the wall and it looks like it's alive, fascinating!
01:52 PM - I keep thinking the lint stuck on the walls are spiders. I'm also hearing bugs behind me. Sounds like there's lots of them; but, when I look I don't see anything.
01:55 PM - A random face popped out of the screen, and all of a sudden I'm talking to a girl I don't even know.
01:57 PM - After having a nice conversation with her she vanished into nothing.
02:03 PM - I just heard someone coming up the stairs; but, when I looked I didn't see anyone.
02:05 PM - My screen looked like it just turned into a head. That startled me a bit.
02:07 PM - I just heard two girls talking about something being water proof. That was a pretty cool hallucination!
02:24 PM - I think I've reached the come down. Things are getting weaker it seems; but, I'm definitely still tripping, just not as hard.
02:42 PM - I'm feeling half of what the peak is like. The come down is starting to happen more rapidly.
02:53 PM - It's beginning to become easier to talk, type, walk and think. Almost all negative side effects are stopping.
02:58 PM - Just heard a dog bark inside of my ear. Pretty strange I think.
03:08 PM - I feel really relaxed; also, the cotton mouth is going away.
03:29 PM - Just heard a loud popping noise in the corner of the room. Still seeing minor visual hallucinations; but, they're not very exciting.
04:12 PM - Playing Super Mario Brothers 3. Starting to realize the effects are almost gone.
05:00 PM - Almost completely sober except I still feel like I weigh a lot. That's about all I'm feeling at this point.

The feeling heavy effect ended around 8-9 PM; although, I was still seeing and hearing minor hallucinations until about 1 in the morning which is when I went to bed. If you're wondering how Benadryl is, I gotta tell you that it's the most closest I've ever been to knowing what it's like to really be insane. This drug will creep up on you in an instant. You'll be thinking you're not feeling much and then BAM, it hits you. There were a couple moments where I almost panicked. Especially when I heard swarms of flying bugs all around me but I couldn't see them. That was very scary, but I kept telling myself it wasn't real. This drug has more negative effects than it does positive. Don't do it if you're not prepared to have a bad trip; because, there's a high chance you'll have one. It's sort of like having a nightmare while being awake. That's exactly what it felt like to me. It was definitely a lot of fun though and I absolutely loved it. I prefer to have nightmares than good dreams anyways; because, I really enjoy negative emotions. They're a lot more interesting to me than positive ones. Next time I'm going to try 600-700mg and see what that's like. Hopefully it's even wilder!

This drug causes major paranoia. Don't do it around people you don't trust, and definitely don't do it in an environment you don't feel comfortable in.

Thanks for reading!

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My 400mg experience was a lot funner; because, it was a lot easier to handle, and a lot of my hallucinations were colors, dancing objects, twitching shadows and people talking etc...

The higher dosage you take; the crazier it gets, and the more terrifying it becomes. If you're like me though; you're definitely going to wonder what a higher dose is like, and you're going to be very intimidated towards trying higher dosages after each experience. :D

Also; during my 600mg experience: I purposely turned the lights off to create more terrifying hallucinations. I wasn't planning on having a happy trip that night. I wanted something more exciting to happen.

I've had a few trips before these; one was 250mg, and the next one was 200mg. They both resulted in mostly auditory hallucinations, and very strong body sensations such as feeling heavy, drowsy, numb, relaxed, peaceful etc... but, they just weren't enough for me. I wanted something more visual to happen, and visual is exactly what I got during my last trip. I want more though; I want to see more than just spiders/bugs. I want to see ghosts/demons, and freakish creatures going through the room I'm in. I want to be so terrified that it'll take weeks to recover mentally from the terror inside of my heart. Call me crazy, but that sounds amazing to me.
 
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I just had a flash back from the 600mg trip. It was about a perception shift mentally and visually. I was laying back staring at the television when suddenly everything started to change. Every single thing I looked at became very colorful, and looked as if it were a cartoon. My mind went completely numb, my thoughts shifted into a completely different sequence, and I felt like a completely different person. I wasn't me anymore. It felt like my soul died, and another soul came into my body and took over. I'm not even kidding; all memory of this had died out of my memory bank, and it just flashed at me. I know it happened; because, I remember it happening now. For a moment in my trip; I wasn't me anymore... I was someone else. Very fucking fascinating!
 
Wow, I will never take more than 3 pills of that shiite. I have only taken it to sleep and 60mg tops for me. 40mg typically. Great for a sleep aid (not better than a benzo,though) and nothing more.
 
Oh man, this is one drug I'm quite experienced with. Never have bothered to do a trip report though...

I echo you and say that this ain't a drug to be doing if you can't handle it. Also don't do it around people you don't trust because you'll just make yourself look like an idiot.
 
Oh man, this is one drug I'm quite experienced with. Never have bothered to do a trip report though...

I echo you and say that this ain't a drug to be doing if you can't handle it. Also don't do it around people you don't trust because you'll just make yourself look like an idiot.

A very good excuse if you get caught is that you took some sleeping pills, and for some reason you keep sleep walking. A lot of people report using that one in their trip reports. ;) It sounds pretty believable if you think about it. If I were someone's dad/mom; I'd fall for it.

Does anyone know of any good methods on reducing some of the negative side effects to this drug? I've tried taking ibuprofen with it, but for some reason that seems to reduce the positive effects too. There's got to be some kind of clutch maneuver that can be done. Perhaps some form of prescription pain killers may work nicely. I'll have to give it a shot when I get my hand on some. Do feel free to state any ideas you got.
 
man this does not seem wise as it seems that your fucking w/ your sensory perception hardcore like more than strong doses of cid. cool report though
 
man this does not seem wise as it seems that your fucking w/ your sensory perception hardcore like more than strong doses of cid. cool report though

I read in a news article that long term abuse of this drug can lead to permanent health problems, but it stated that the person abusing it was taking 800mg twice a day of the stuff. Just like most things in life; moderation is key. 71% of all fatalities from sleeping pills are from Diphenhydramine HCl. That's something you should consider when you decide to go on the DPH train. If you've never taken DPH before; try taking 1-2 pills at first to check if you're allergic to it. From my knowledge of all the trip reports I've read on the drug; seizures/convulsions seem to happen most frequently around 1000-1200mg doses. That's way over the heavy dose stated on erowid. I wouldn't recommend going that high unless you're perfectly OK with the fact that you're flirting with death; but, statistically speaking... a large majority of people have taken 1000-2000mgs of the stuff before, and lived to tell their stories. I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you do plan on going that high in dosage; make sure to have a sitter there with you. He/she may be able to get help if shit hits the fan.
 
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