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DXM - 2nd Time - 711mg Back Seat Dreamworld

indelibleface

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I took 711mgs of DXM contained in the Robitussin Max Strength Cough Syrup. I had only taken this drug once before, and I wasn't too thrilled with it then, although I was heavily intrigued by the "dreamworld" quasi-psychedelic properties of DXM. My first experience was approximately 350mgs, and I thought that a higher dose was in order. I read up on the third plateau at Erowid, and felt I was ready to go for it.

I was driving around with a couple friends, me in the backseat. I drank all of the syrup in the large bottle in the space of 20 minutes or so. I came up a half hour later to the first plateau and quickly needed to vomit, which I did on the side of the road. My friends smoked some weed and decided to head to the local bowling alley. I elected to stay in the car, throwing up one more time before they left to go inside. This is where my trip truly began.

If I didn't feel "dissociated" before, I surely was at this point. The rest of reality felt like a dream detatched from my immediate senses. I saw light trails and all sorts of false objects moving in the dark. This disturbed me, so I laid down in the backseat and tried to calm my stomach, which was acting up again. My vision was flanging heavily, and I was completely unable to walk in a useful manner.

I saw myself incased in a room with walls made out of a scaly material, and I came to the illogical conclusion that I was inside a whale. My brain envisioned whale bones at this point to accompany the assumption. Later on, the ceiling of the car began to resemble a wall of human hands. The hands seemed to be passing small index cards to one another. This was strange, but the hallucination was interrupted by my friends coming back to the car. I tried to explain my hallucinations but my words would not come out correctly.

We drove home and I laid down on the couch, and when I closed my eyes, I had the most amazing closed eye visuals I had ever seen. I saw vague pulsating balls of color, and I felt like I was moving towards them at a steady but incredible speed. Eventually, I drifted off to sleep at around 2:30am. I woke up around 9:00am, and I'm still feeling very...apathetic I guess. Very peaceful, but not hungover. I'm still light-sensitive though.

This was a great experience, but the vomiting was a major drawback. I'm still utterly intrigued by what this substance has to offer -- a unique experience unlike any other drug. Next time must involve pills, not the syrup. Another thing that bothered me was something that was absent from the first trip: the "robo-itch". At one point, I felt like I was going to scratch off my forehead and scalp myself it was so intense. It went away when I ignored it however. All in all, it was a positive experience, despite the aforementioned problems.
 
Thanks for this DXM report. There seem to be less and less DXM Reports and this drug seems to have great potential. I have yet to try it but I will try it in a week with a 1st plateau dose. To combat the nausea I will be taking a few ginger cookies but not antiacid as this *may* destroy the DXM as it does with mushrooms.
 
for your 1st trip i think to really appreciate it you need around 300 - 400mgs. then if you like it and want to do more later, go with a full 8 oz of Robo Max. it may not taste good but damn it will get you really fucked up. eat like half a slice of bread or something similar, it should help with any nausea you might get. and a bowl or 2 of weed will make the trip even better.
 
This is an excellent to the pooint report! im just counting the days till i go on my very very first complete DXM trip :) This sure helped me a lot.; :)
 
I don't understand why you didn't smoke weed with your friends even though you had access to it... Make sure next time you do, I found weed to add an extra dimension to the DXM trip. It will take away just about all the negative aspects, like nausea and the dreaded robo-itch and really bring out the visuals and positive aspects of DXM itself.
 
zeroOne said:
for your 1st trip i think to really appreciate it you need around 300 - 400mgs. then if you like it and want to do more later, go with a full 8 oz of Robo Max. it may not taste good but damn it will get you really fucked up. eat like half a slice of bread or something similar, it should help with any nausea you might get. and a bowl or 2 of weed will make the trip even better.

I wouldn't recommend that advice for a few reasons.

1.] the person could have an allergic reaction to the DXM
2.] They could be enzyme-defecient

From what I've heard/read about Cannabis actually bumps it up to another plateau. Also maybe taking 1 - 2 benadryl will help combat the itch, and from what I've read you should only smoke on the peak or else the comeup and everything else gets REAL confusing. Anyone got any other tips? ;)
 
S-R said:
I don't understand why you didn't smoke weed with your friends even though you had access to it... Make sure next time you do, I found weed to add an extra dimension to the DXM trip. It will take away just about all the negative aspects, like nausea and the dreaded robo-itch and really bring out the visuals and positive aspects of DXM itself.

I have drug testing at the job I work at. THC metabolites stay in my system far too long for me to time smoking it. I might just be overparanoid about the whole thing, but I'd rather just abstain from weed. I'm jaded to it anyway, weed doesn't interest me much anymore. ;)

Although there is a slight possibility of DXM showing up as PCP on a drug test, the metabolites only stay in your system for a few days.
 
Interesting.. I've done up to 1.2g of DXM to get to the 4th plateau, but on one particular occasion, I took 950mgs, and I still made it there. I was at a lake with a couple friends, one of which took a 2nd plateau dose, and the other who took a 3rd plateau dose. I was standing out on a dock at night, watching the mist roll across the lake. ..Or was there a lake? It was an experience of "the void." However, I was just coming up at that time, and I remember going to lay on the hood of a car owned by the person that drove us to the lake. The hood was very warm from the engine, and it felt incredible. Almost MDMA-like in nature, yet there was an even deeper, more euphoric feeling to it. At one point, we were in the car listening to music. The person that drove put in some rap music, which I don't listen to. On the surface, I knew what the music was, yet I heard it come out of the speakers as meaningless sound waves/fragments. A friend who was sitting in the back seat needed me to get out so he could piss, yet I had no idea how I was going to get out of the car. I just barely could comprehend where I was or what was happening. I waddled out of the car, almost falling down on the road, and I stared into space. I was having those infamous "DXM dreams," and then I stepped back into the car. The idiot on the 2nd plateau decided to drive up and down this curvy road going 50mph, but I had no reasoning of life or death. I had absolutely no depth perception (I'm talking about to the point where everything was seen as a single dimension), and as far as I was concerned, we weren't driving a car on the planet Earth. ..At least not anywhere close to our own time period. ..Anyhow, what I thought would be an interesting addition to your story of tripping in a car turned out to be a little trip report.

Also, Cannabis greatly amplifies the effects of DXM. I was on a 2nd plateau trip, and I took three hits of high grade Cannabis, and I felt like I had taken six hits of LSD with some insane mechanical visual effect.
 
subdefy said:
I wouldn't recommend that advice for a few reasons.

1.] the person could have an allergic reaction to the DXM
2.] They could be enzyme-defecient

From what I've heard/read about Cannabis actually bumps it up to another plateau. Also maybe taking 1 - 2 benadryl will help combat the itch, and from what I've read you should only smoke on the peak or else the comeup and everything else gets REAL confusing. Anyone got any other tips? ;)

Well we just talked on AIM, but like I said you should do an early test with 100 or 150mg to test your sensitivity.

If you are allergic you'd probably know because I'm sure your mom has fed your something with DXM in it at some point.

I'd also recommend 300 - 350 mg. Anything below that is just getting messed up. The true psychedelic effects and euphoria occurs at the 300+ mg dose.
 
subdefy said:
I wouldn't recommend that advice for a few reasons.

1.] the person could have an allergic reaction to the DXM
2.] They could be enzyme-defecient

From what I've heard/read about Cannabis actually bumps it up to another plateau. Also maybe taking 1 - 2 benadryl will help combat the itch, and from what I've read you should only smoke on the peak or else the comeup and everything else gets REAL confusing. Anyone got any other tips? ;)

well both of those point are true, but thats pretty rare. i dont know what your experience with dxm is, but i have been doing it for about 2 1/2 years with over 200 trips (most being 800mgs). www.third-plateau.org is a great site. as far as plateaus go its really different for everyone.
 
bluedolphin said:
Well we just talked on AIM, but like I said you should do an early test with 100 or 150mg to test your sensitivity.

If you are allergic you'd probably know because I'm sure your mom has fed your something with DXM in it at some point.

I'd also recommend 300 - 350 mg. Anything below that is just getting messed up. The true psychedelic effects and euphoria occurs at the 300+ mg dose.

Exactly, my first trip was around 350mg, whatever is in a single bottle of cough syrup. I'd also recommend doing an extraction or taking the pill form (DXM still being the singular ingredient of course, Robitussin has a product like this), unless you have a strong stomach or enjoy vomiting. I hate it. :p
 
if you're going to take it even remotely regularly you're going to want to get some pure dxm powder. if you have a credit card you can order it online. its also a LOT cheaper per gram than cough syrup. but if you get powder make sure you have a decent scale that measures atleast down to 100mgs. ebay has some nice digital scales pretty cheap.
 
I've been using dxm for well over a year & 1/2 now, and a few of my friends have asked to try it. I got 20g of powder a couple of months ago and a couple of them tried it out while I sat. They both were somewhat experienced with drugs both having done lsd, mdma, mushrooms, weed - etc in the past. After both of them dosed approx 200mg of powder each they both claimed they had never felt anything like this and maybe they were allergic because they felt so "out of it". I told them that was exactly how I felt the first time i tried dxm, we smoked a few bowls of weed and they started to enjoy the high a bit more. I still think it's hard to distinguish if you are allergic to dxm, especially if it's something totally new to you.
 
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