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Diphenhydramine (Sominex) - 1st time - low dose relaxed trip

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1st diphenhydramine (Sominex)

I'm experienced with pot and morning glory, and a couple legal psychedelics including DXM.

Sominex is an over the counter sleep aide, anti allergy, some other uses. I’ve used it (reccomended dose, 50mg) occasionally to help me sleep. On the 50mg dose i listened to a meditation tape to also help me get to sleep and experienced a complete loss of sense of position. I’ve researched it as I do with every substance I put into my body and realized it can be used for tripping. Trips on diphen. commonly include auditory and visual hallucinations of other people. My setting is a dorm room, my roommate isnt currently here though he could be back at any time and he would not mind me being on a substance though he doesn’t do any himself, and I should probably get some coffee since diphen is used as a sleep aid (as well as anti allergies, and some other uses).

6:30 pm: Ingested 100 mg (low dose). Next week or the week after I plan on doing 200mg. Within five minutes I am feeling some affect, though this must be placebo. Going to go watch some TV and perhaps get some coffee.

7:00: I watched That Seventies Show. I should be feeling it by now. I’ll take a few more pills if I don’t feel much by 7:30. I’m going to stretch, read, and play with my rubix cube till then.

7:17: Music seems louder, slower, more detailed. No other affects except lightheadedness.

7:30: Taking two more pills. Will take also two more at 8:00 if I don’t have affects. So far I’m up to 150mg.

8:10: I feel very very relaxed and comfortable. I walked to the bathroom and went quite slow. Nice feeling. However, nothing like a trip yet, just a sedated high. Taking two more pills, nowup to 200 mg. Getting hard to focus my eyes on the computer screen (I have been reading on the forums).

10:00 just got back from capture the flag. Trees are incredibly lucid and cartoony as on most psychedelics for me. I can barely feel my hands, its hard to type. I'm going to meditate

10:30 No low resolution low contrast pretty patterns like the on pot, but instead I have very detailed high resolution closed eye visuals. For instance, people eating, and doing various activites. Sometimes I think I have a water bottle in my hand and I don’t, sometimes i think i'm somewhere else. One time, a professor handed me a sheet of paper and told me to take it. I was too sedated to reach out my arms and take it. Also, I’ve READ! tons of stuff during the meditation, including websites, CD cases, and plain old papers, basicly hallucinations with words and pictures on them. I've never had a drug experience where i read. I was probably reading nonsense, but it was fun and i just read and read pure hallucinations things for about ten minutes.

Sometimes I feel like I can see, then I realize I have my eyes closed. I saw a beautiful round stained glass window above me, I saw landscapes, it was incredible.

I went to bed around 11, before my roommate came in. For some odd reason i couldn't get into a comfortable position to fall asleep, i was turning around and around for about 15 minutes, but once i fell asleep it was very very deep.

10:30 am: I woke up around 9. After I woke up I felt refreshed, and felt like I had a very deep sleep. But now I feel very tired.

When I saw those visuals, I could still see the back of my eyelids, so it’s like they are mental visuals, not visuals that actually seem like they are input from the eye. There were a lot of similarities to dreaming, especially how no matter where you think you are it’s like you don’t care. Anything can happen in a dream but it all seems normal. It was as if I was awake but some parts of dreams were coming through. I did have my sense of logic and partly realized when something wasn't logical. All i had to do to get back into normal reality was to open my eyes.

I had a lot of dreams after I went to sleep. I remember reading yesterday that someone who took around 500mg of diphenhydramine looked in his trash can and hallucinated tons of bugs swirming around in it. I saw this in one of my dreams (its setting was in my room at my house, not the dorm I’m currently in, though this sort of thing happens all the time, for instance many times a dream about school will take place in my elementary school)

Some people report a hangover after use, though I feel none. This is definitly something I want to repeat sometime, with pot.

I only took 200 or 250 mg, and this is actually a light to medium dose.
 
My experience @ 500mg was an intensely heavy bodyload combined with insane OEV's and CEV"s. Some of the most convincing hallucinations I have ever had have been on diphenhydramine (dramamine). I've seen things appear and disappear, one hallucination I remember involved a large man in a hawiian shirt with a fishing pole appeared and laughed at me, then disappeared and I saw a volkswagen combi van driving into a wall and disappearing. MSN/IRC windows being made from stars, tigers existing in peoples couches, wierd stuff... :)

Good report though, thanks for posting.

edit: if you want your thread title changed, please post what you would like it changed to here, keeping in mind the substance - experience - title standard that the forum uses for threads. :)
 
^ No problem at all - be sure to check out the forum guidelines for this forum and any others you post in, they're here to help keep the place easy to read :)
 
Damn thanks for making me remeber some of my times on that crazy fucking drug, here are a list of all my hallucinations from gravol/dramamine:
- trees growing in my basement
- freddy kruger in the flesh in my basement
- chineese lady screaming at her daughter in the flesh in my basement
- Jelly like creatures come out of the walls and float towards me
- seen a little girl come up to my windows and look in and wave while watching tv
- seen a party with a gang of people outside my building, looking from my window letting my dog out when there was no one there
- Watched once tv without the tv being on!!!
- Watched movies such as Seinfeld and seen an entirely different episode, i'd say things like 'hey did they unedit this?' or 'damn this must be the uncut version'.
- Watched my friend melt into a chineese woman with long hair
- Seen grass come out of the cement
- Seen rain drops when there was no rain
- Seen spiders (dots) crawling in my bathtub
- Went to sleep REAL stoned on gravol at like 7 something at night, woke up at 8 sumthing the same night, and prepared for school thinking it was next day, encountered my parents asking them to take me to school at night:D
- Yeah..probably a lot more than that, these things should be called what they really are, they sure aint no psychedelic they are DELIRIANTS. Which is a whole nother game, u need to be careful.
This drug gives u brain and heart damage.

P.S - One of the most memorable trips which sticks out in my mind is of a time i was TRIPPING out from 3-4 gravols that was it, along with some weed. I ate them with my romanian friend alex and after that smoked weed. Wat came after was very intense, there was 20-30 minutes after we finished smoking in my room, INTENSE laughter, he looked like where's waldo, then he freaked out said i had turned into a monkey when i did something with my arm and he let out a high ptiched scream. We went for a walk and on the walk i had a few halucinations, but the pot really made the trip more psychedelic and not so much deliriant. There was paranoia only for a little bit, but i'd recomand you DEFINATLY give this a try, if you haven't tried it. Eat ur pills and smoke weed 15-20 minutes later. YEA!
 
Also there are strange sensations on this drug like waves of 'energy through your body while your enjoying a deep sleep, it's very irritable when it happens it sends shudders through you brain and spine. Confusion on this also sucks, sleepiness and agitation when it wares of sucks, the heart and brain damage suck, all in all i'd say it's a shitty drug, i haven't done it in over 3 years.
 
could you explain more or give a link for the heart and brain damage? ive read about the heart damage when i was researching it but i tried and tried but couldnt find any neurotoxicity reports (besides when way OD)

thanks
 
Wow - i never even knew diphenhydramine was considered recreational. Is it like, generally accepted as being a recreational drug in the same way as DXM is? I know that they are obviously very different i just compared it to DXM because they are both OTC. Also, if it is widely accepted as recreational, what is the dosage at which it is considered to have its optimal recreational effect?

Also, is diphenhyrdamine the same thing as drammamine? I know it's in benadryl, but i never would have thought that dramamine was in bendryl. I am asking this in reference to someone's post on this thread that said "diphenhydramine (drammamine) as if they were the same thing.
 
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<<- Jelly like creatures come out of the walls and float towards me>>

The "jelly" hallucination is pretty common with dramamine/diphenhydramine, I hear.
 
im pretty sure dramamine is a brand containing diphenhydramine..so same thnig basicaly

ive never heard of anyone else using diphenhydramine recreationally... i was researching it (as i do with anything i take) becuase i use it as a sleep aide, and found that u can trip on it.. so i went to erowid, read some reports, and tried 250 mg diphenhydramine HCl (sominex 10 pills or 5 pills extra str) and had a good time.. next time i will try 300 mg

it definitly acted as a euphoriant delirient, but i donno about psychedelic
however it did have an affect on my view of trees... psychedelics have always permannetly made trees and plants and water bubbles become insanely cartoony and beautiful and vivid... then after a few weeks without psychedelic use they have gone closer to normal... but after doing diphen. now they are cartoons again
 
The active ingredient in dramamine (and most other OTC motion sickness remedies) is DIMENHYDRINATE. The active ingredient in OTC sleep aids is usually DIPHENHYDRAMINE. There is only one difference between the two. When diphenhydramine is metabolized, it breaks down into two dimenhydrinate molecules. Thus, diphenhydramine is the same thing as dimenhydrinate, but twice as potent.

I really don't see any point in taking any anticholinergic (Dramamine, OTC sleep aids, datura, etc.) for recreational purposes. They are in no way 'psychedelic'. The experience is not a 'trip'. When I first started learning about OTC highs, I did this stuff very often. You get nothing out of the experience, you don't usually remember much, and usually after the first one or two times, there are no pleasant feelings at all. Overall a crappy, pointless delerium. But for some VERY odd reason, you feel like doing it more. I think it has to do with not being able to remember the experience fully. You are curious to do it again to see what it's like, and nothing else at all will ever give you OEV's like this stuff will.

The point of tripping is not to 'see cool stuff'. Personally I could care less if I take something that is truly psychedelic and don't have very many visuals. There are many more easily obtainable things you can do besides this stuff. If you do decide to do it more, be VERY responsible. It's not hard to find hundreds of 'trip' reports on this stuff where people get in a large amount of trouble because they are so delerious they don't know what they're doing. It's even happened to me. I'm not saying never do it at all, I think this stuff is alright to do once or twice just because of the novelty of seeing the most REAL and intense visuals ever. It's not something you would want to do often, there's just too many other better things out there.
 
hydro i agree
i havent gotten much out of this drug except a really cool delirium
it doesnt expand my awareness at all like psychedelics
basicly this is more of a fun drug
and ive also read that its harmful.. so its not going to be a drug i do often
 
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