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Diphenhydramine: Two different trips. Still not sure what to think..

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domobar22

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I've experimented with diphenhydramine a couple of different times.. within the 300-350 range both times.
Before I really talk about my experience though..I'm just really curious as to why so many people really just don't like the drug? I know it's not the BEST trip. But almost everyone's experience I've read on, really couldn't stand their trips? And the ones who did slightly enjoy it were more just indifferent to it..they didn't really hate or like it. Just found it interesting.

But anywaaaay, here is my experience..

1st trip: this was almost a year ago..so I'm not 100% sure on how many I took, I'm thinking it was 12 of the 25 mg benadryl pills.
That time was the scarier one..I laid in bed for maybe 3 hours or so, felt pretty drowsy and out of it the whole time. Every time I'd start to drift off to sleep I'd stop breathing and would immediately wake up, frightened. Also, my heart was beating reeeaaallllyy slowly.
I'd see my hand move in the corner of my eye even though it really wasn't, and I also would see little bugs, like on the walls and stuff. But other than that, it wasn't a terrifying experience. Just not that enjoyable..

2nd trip: Last weekend, took 350 mg of the same stuff. Though it was a bit spaced out over an hour or two..
I actually enjoyed this trip mostly. When it first kicked in, I noticed I was pretty giggly, laughing and smiling about absolutely nothing. I felt a good sense of euphoria. Music sounded amazing. I felt physically pretty relaxed. Speech was slurred, body felt pretty heavy. I pretty much felt like I was in a dream the whole time. Did have some auditory hallucinations. If I looked at the TV screen (the tv was off btw) I'd see reflections on the screen moving. Short term memory started to get pretty bad after a couple hours though. I'd be texting someone and half way through replying, I'd either forget what their text said or I'd blank out and forget to finish the text. Eventually, it pretty became like I couldn't even move and I'd completely zone out. I fell asleep not too long after that, which I don't remember.. probably after about 3-4 hours of taking the pills, and pretty much slept on and off all the next day.
I'll admit, the couple days after taking the benadryl (2nd trip), I didn't feel the need to do anything really..so I kinda just layed around the whole next day after, haha.

Also, did find I felt somewhat depressed after both trips. But it never lasts more than a few hours to a day or two.

Anyways, sorry this is so long..but that's been my experience with diphenhydramine. I would like to experiment with it some more, in higher doses. But I am a bit apprehensive, because most of the trips I've read about were kind of scary sounding.. plus my mom cannot find out about it :P
so if I were to start massively hallucinating..that wouldn't be too good lol.

I'd really like to know anyone elses experience with this drug though :)
I'd just like to know I'm not one of the only people out there who actually somewhat enjoy benadryl trips.. haha
Good or bad! Please share your views.
 
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I experimented with diphenhydramine and dimen more than i would like to ever say.. At first it was a very innocent thing and quite enjoyable, hearing things that were not there and having conversations with people not in the same room, seeing and feeling things not realistic and passing them off as nothing. But what is absolutely terrible about it is it brings out anxiety and panic in people and that is why i feel some people experience different sensations while on it. Personally i feel as though i'm having heart attacks if i take it now as it is a very easy thing to abuse and damage yourself with. Even at doses of 600-700mg i have been in some control of myself, But i can not say the same for some of my friends who have left to go home and ended up in a police station half naked or smashing in car windows thinking that people "Who were not in there" had raped his girl friend.

The one thing to know about using diphenhydramine is that if you do not have a sober person nearby you might actually get caught up in your own delusions and feel as though things are real, your memory gets shot out and a sober speaker can keep you from either going insane or doing something you may regret. A personal experience of mine was thinking i was in the movie "Silent Hill" if anyone has ever seen it, I heard the siren go off and seen fucked up nurse zombies and as scary as that shit was i was not phased by it until they CONSTANTLY started popping up in my face at eye to eye closeness. Just have a sober sitter with you if you really insist on doing it past 400mg.
 
Ah wow..I guess it's just an individual thing?? I have read that diph is a tricky drug and even when taking the same dose two different times, you may not have the same or even close to the same experience..
And I guess I'm so afraid of not being able to decipher reality from delusion, that I keep it in mind the whoooole time I'm tripping, and I expect to hallucinate. But I've never hallucinated to the point I see actually figures or people or anything.

Baha, but thank you for the input!
 
Lol i know that feeling all to well, Looking side to side for hours thinking, where are the hallucinations... If you can think that way then you know that you have not taken enough. You say you have done 350mg, That is not remotely enough to experience full delusional episodes, Try working your dose up slowly,

Basically there is a phase in the trip where your memory will be shot to nothing as i mentioned, when you start forgetting what you were thinking/speaking than the hallucinations come alot more vividly and clear, But the reason ALOT of people do not find it enjoyable is because they can not remember half the things they did. That is why i recommend a sober person to chill with you while you are on it, You usually have a good couple seconds to explain things for that sober sitter to recollect some of your fuzzy memories.

Next time you do it, and have a sober sitter, Try taking an exact dose of 450mg. That should definitely answer your questions about it, It's not a high dose but will show you a small sample of what it really dose to you.

Also.. When you keep yourself distracted by things your trip will be diminished. Games, TV, people talking to you (When i did it i would always tell my sober sitter to not talk to me when i was speaking with my imaginary people, lol)
 
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Haha you seem quite experienced with diph! :P
It's nice to actually be able to get some one on one input though!

And yeahh, I've noticed a lot of people that did have the really crazy trips, said they don't remember half of it.. so I can see how things could easily get out of controlll.

Whenever I can actually get a sitter, I def will try taking the 450 or so and see how that does me!
 
I too somewhat enjoyed my trips on diphenhydramine

I did it about 4 times I think, first time starting off little. but the last 2 times I took 25 25mg benedryls and last time I took 30. I think my best trip was on 25, I was hallucinating like crazy, I seen a cat walking by me and I went to go down to touch it and it dissapeared (cat hallucinations are common on this shit, at least 10 reports on erowid have this in them) I had alot of auditory hallucinations too, all the time my phone was ringing or my parents were outside my room talking. I seen spiders on the walls and a giant spider in the corner of my room that wouldnt go away. I was somewhat freaked out at first but managed to not get scared at all.

Overall I enjoyed the euphoria and drunkess state from it and the hallucinations (somewhat..) . Lot of bad sides effects it seemed but the next day was never that bad for me.
 
dph is a novelty trip haha
your speech is so slurred people can barely hear you,
and the body load is insane.

i went on a few month binge when i was 15
weirdest and most depressing days of my life.
a - No price discussion - 100 count bottle tempted me into it many times, would only last 3-4 days though.
ended up in the e.r. twice. i still have flashbacks,
and i still see bush people (and random objects appearing human until i realize they aren't) from time to time, and building/solid objects suddenly change color or size and what i -seriously- think is AIWL Syndrome (but i don't know what that's attributable too, i've done quite a few rc's in my time too). :|

i had already experienced things like rolling tons of times before, its beyond me why i resorted to it, kind of scary too. i'm not proud of it either. but that was a few years ago.

it isn't fun, espically when you accidentally take about a hundred.

i remember convulsing on the ground in a park after i realized my group of friends that i had been hanging out with for a few hours weren't really there, and thinking it was daytime, when it was really about 3am.
endlessly walking up to inanimate objects thinking its one of my friends who could help me.
can't even count all of the terrifying delusions and hallucinations that night, and that's only just one of the nights i can remember.
i remember hallucinating a small child being ran over by a semi (or some other kind of vehicle), crying for his mother when he realized his legs were missing, its painful to see stuff like that, even if it wasn't real.


a few days after you think "that was cool, i think i'll do it again." and after taking a hand-full, you wish you didn't, because only then it comes back to you.
i hope no one else goes through what i did; but its my own fault i did.

maybe someone will understand what i'm talking about.
 
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I witnessed a Chinese family hang themselves - why is death such a common hallucination?
And touche on the cat, teleporting cats make for some tales though....
 
Holy crap...haha
I've been kind of tempted to get some more benadryl lately though.. mainly just bc it's kind of my only option to get high right now...

But your guys's experiences are so crazy! :P
 
anarchogen said:
dph is a novelty trip haha
your speech is so slurred people can barely hear you,
and the body load is insane.

i went on a few month binge when i was 15
weirdest and most depressing days of my life.
a - No price discussion - 100 count bottle tempted me into it many times, would only last 3-4 days though.
ended up in the e.r. twice. i still have flashbacks,
and i still see bush people (and random objects appearing human until i realize they aren't) from time to time, and building/solid objects suddenly change color or size and what i -seriously- think is AIWL Syndrome (but i don't know what that's attributable too, i've done quite a few rc's in my time too). :|

i had already experienced things like rolling tons of times before, its beyond me why i resorted to it, kind of scary too. i'm not proud of it either. but that was a few years ago.

it isn't fun, espically when you accidentally take about a hundred.

i remember convulsing on the ground in a park after i realized my group of friends that i had been hanging out with for a few hours weren't really there, and thinking it was daytime, when it was really about 3am.
endlessly walking up to inanimate objects thinking its one of my friends who could help me.
can't even count all of the terrifying delusions and hallucinations that night, and that's only just one of the nights i can remember.
i remember hallucinating a small child being ran over by a semi (or some other kind of vehicle), crying for his mother when he realized his legs were missing, its painful to see stuff like that, even if it wasn't real.


a few days after you think "that was cool, i think i'll do it again." and after taking a hand-full, you wish you didn't, because only then it comes back to you.
i hope no one else goes through what i did; but its my own fault i did.

maybe someone will understand what i'm talking about.
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That's one of the craziest trips I've ever heard of with diph, I'm pretty sure.
But I think I know what you mean..when you said the whole, 'a few days after you think "that was cool, i think i'll do it again." and after taking a hand-full, you wish you didn't, because only then it comes back to you.'
 
If the memory loss was not so severe, It could definitely be a great hallucinogen, but then that's what makes alot of it happen, forgetting a second after that you just saw a baby tyrannosaurus eating one of your best friends... It might phase me otherwise..
 
bluedusk said:
If the memory loss was not so severe, It could definitely be a great hallucinogen, but then that's what makes alot of it happen, forgetting a second after that you just saw a baby tyrannosaurus eating one of your best friends... It might phase me otherwise..
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its hard on your heart too, probably your liver too. but for sure with the heart.
in higher does can lead to seizures and not being able to piss for two days after wards- in my experience, atleast. and very shallow breathing.
maybe if those weren't so severe it would be a alright deleriant.

the memory loss can be interesting, epsically when you forget where one of your limbs are and get scared shitless by thinking one of them is someone elses when you see it. :P

besides replying to that,

being in the e.r. seeing cars drive down the hallways and thinking you're playing ps2 and finding random drugs under your pillow is kinda fun too, until you remember e.r.'s commonly don't have tv's nor video games, and there wouldn't possibly be and drugs laying around; then they shove activated charcoal down your throat, and it sucks after that.

smoking invisible cigarettes, waves of huge furry spiders, conveyor belt ceilings and walls, sliding doorknobs, lost in thoughts of being different places, talking to non-existent people, my reflection having a mind of its own, objects morphing into people and back are things i can remember the most out of all of it haha.

i haven't noticed any permanent psychical effects from abusing (habituation at least), but for about a year after there definitely were. the psychological after-effects haven't diminished completely yet, as far as i can tell.
but even now after a few years i get weird flashbacks, or things that could pass as real memories but seem to bizarre to have actually happened. its pretty disconcerting sometimes, not being able to tell what's real or not.
 
I take about 200-250mg of diph on a regular basis. Sometimes I can fight it off even, and take 50mg more.

Thanks for the trip report! Glad to see I'm not alone!
 
See, I've never had any kind of trip like the ones you guys are talking about..
I know one day I'm gonna take enough to be in a whole other world, and probably completely regret it. But I just really want to get the full blown experience with diphenhydramine! Hallucinations and all. AGH, lol
 
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really, the only negative side effexts Ive experienced post abuse is the long lasting hallucination I call the stranger. Everyhting turns into a person. It gets fucking scary, especially alone at night.
 
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