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(DXM / 300 mg & Marijuana) - first trip ever - near death experience??

vienna

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This was my first ever trip and it was really frightening. I had a bad trip. I'm kinda inexperienced when it comes to these types of drugs, and I have sociopathic tendencies... never been diagnosed with AsPD tho several people in my family are.. if that matters at all, aha. This drug made me feel emotions that I don't think I've ever felt before.

My friend and I had planned to leave school yesterday morning to trip on DXM together. It didn't really work out as planned. She doesn't have a phone so we had to rely on Facebook to talk to each other. She wasn't in school so I left and sat in a park and took all 20 of the robo-gels in a bottle. i had another bottle for her. I was just sitting there, bored as shit and extra hot so i went into this cafe and bought a bottle of water. Nothing was happening, a little vertigo maybe. I listened to music for a little then I left and went to this empty stairwell in the parking garage of a supermarket that me and my friends usually smoke at. I was sitting there listening to music when I got really nauseous and i was gagging and dry heaving over the railing. I threw up a little. This happened twice then I felt good but kinda drunk so I sat back down and contemplated going somewhere, but it was way too hot. I eventually did and by then I was REALLY high. it was so hard to walk down the stairs (was a couple flights) and i was enjoying it. I walked to this starbucks and had some weird thoughts and i was a little confused and scared/paranoid. I was seeing cops everywhere and trying to avoid them. I had a mini panic attack when I saw a police van that said "warrant unit" on it, thinking they were coming to get me, but they just drove by.

i got to the starbucks and laid on this chair and felt a little nauseous again. the room was spinning, and if I moved my eyes up and down, the things in the room would follow it. It was so trippy and I kept having these weird bad thoughts. I felt like time was passing a lot but it actually wasn't that long. I took the pills at 9:55 and then it was around 11:25. I was watching people come and go and after a while I moved seats and felt very uncomfortable, like a weed high. Whenever I smoke weed I notice all these uncomfortable things like my clothes are itchy, etc. My friend messaged me and we were supposed to meet later at a park. I got up and went to the bathroom and looked into the mirror and my face was greenish and i couldn't stop staring at my acne. I left and started walking to that park.

when i got to the park I sat on a bench and tried to sleep but it didn't work at all. I felt really bad, not nauseaous but I really did NOT want to be high anymore. Im used to weed highs that last a few hours and taper off but this was a few hours and still going strong. I would get up and walk around then sit back down on the bench. Whenever I looked around everything was spinning and weird. My toungue felt really odd in my mouth. I would look at my hand and I saw a magnifying glass and my hand really detailed. Then i saw blackness and a million TV screens and on each, my hand looked different, as if a different filter was put on it. One looked like my hand was made out of clay, etc. I got up and sat on a bench. A man talked to me and said I looked sad, looked like I was about to cry & asked if I was okay. The only thing I could say was "yeah...". It felt so weird to talk, like I was underwater or something.

I kept having these scary and uncomfortable realizations, like I barely even know who my mom is... and since I recently told her some stuff our relationship isn't the same. Also, I kept imagining that my life would be different from then on, worse, because I was realizing all these bad things in my life. I saw my life as yin and yang, but it was two squares, they were diagonal from eachother and touching by the lower square's top right corner and the higher one's lower left corner. The higher square was lit up around the edges in white neon lighting. it was my life as I saw it. the lower square was lit up the same way , but it was black. It was my life and everything I did in my life, but upside down & reversed. It was a parallel universe and I believed to be in that at that moment. My heart was beating fast.

My friend messaged me to go to this other park to meet her then we'd leave. I went and all these people tried to talk to me but I couldn't talk. me and her eventually left and we held hands which was so odd. I'm a straight girl, and I was thinking that I loved her and stuff, but it was in a friendship way. I do not have many friends and rarely ever connect with people like that, so it was nice. She made me feel better. we were talking and walking to the other park, this was maybe 2 pm. I gave her the bottle of pills and she began taking them a little before this. We sat on the same bench I was sitting on and I began to dry heave again over the back of the bench. I was crying and moaning and choking/coughing and i wanted to die. I kept saying, im having a bad trip, and some crazy stuff was happening in my head but I don't remember. We lit up a joint and began smoking, and the first few hits I took I realized I was TOO high, and I didn't want to be that way. Everything was spinning up and down like a slot machine. I imagined my whole life up to that very moment as the mere seconds leading up to my death, and that I was going to die. I saw blackness again, and i saw one small old tv set (the one with antennae) it was yellow. I saw a newscaster and I was looking at things, but she was basically reporting my death, and the news was filming the spot I was at. It looked like the TV & news caster from the beginning of the 1992 movie of Romeo and Juliet, the one with Leo Decaprio. I didn't want to die, I was scared but I had accepted that I was about to die and I wished I had never taken the pills because that would've stopped the chain reaction that led to my death. My friend was comforting me and stuff...

I just had to get out of there so we walked to a grass park and laid down. I was coming down and feeling better. She was vomiting and coming up. I felt bad for her but I didn't know how to comfort her because I'm not good in those situations. So I just watched her breathe to make sure she wasn't dead. I feel a weird affinity for her. I have never felt that before for anyone.

Im never trying this again! I have bad writing and describing skills, but this was WAY scarier than I can type & describe... Im still shook up and am debating staying away from weed & other drugs.

Edit: I forgot to add that when I was laying down on the grass I heard my heart beating as a clock or bomb ticking... so trippy. it was really an out of body experience b/c when I talked I could hear it as if someone else said it and it felt like I hadn't even moved my mouth, and i couldn't talk... and it was very dissociative too.
 
Sorry to hear your experience with DXM wasn't as good as you thought it'd be, but this is why you only do drugs in safe, comfortable environments if it's your first time! Good thing you threw up or else you'd be feeling the DXM on a whole new level. IMO, you should've taken 10 pills and if you thought you needed more after 2 hours, smoke a bit of weed until you reached the desired high (: And by a bit of weed I mean a hit or two, or else it gets very, very overwhelming.
 
I dunno about bad writing and description skills, I think this is pretty well written. The experience itself though could have been better planned. I don't know if you've heard of the phrase set and setting, but basically it means that if you're going to be seriously intoxicated, it is best to ensure there are friendly people around, that you are in a good mood and not worried or upset about anything, and the environment is not hostile, ie not outside in a park on a obviously very hot day.

That said I have done probably more reckless things in my youth, and specifically I do recall the difficulty of properly arranging set and setting when I was in the first two years of high school and life was still mostly controlled by parents, either mine or those of a friend.

DXM is easy to get, but not everybody reacts well to it at all. Frankly I hate the stuff, it is probably one of my least favorite compounds, and I have experienced far, far too many drugs to name. Even after my cocaine addiction and my resulting dislike for stimulants, I would sooner do coke or speed than take DXM. On the other hand some people enjoy the stuff, it seems to be really a matter of personal tastes.

Glad nothing seriously disastrous (ie problems that do not go away when you come down) happened! Be safe, and try and work out a way to ensure you can exercise some control over set and setting the next time you wish to try a strong intoxicant, should such an occasion arise. Also, with practice you will learn to control your reactions to negative mind states. I do know how terrible it can be to have the Fear, when your reptilian instincts scream at you to run, run away, anything to escape the situation. It sounds like you were probably not in major physical danger from the drug itself, but when you don't have a lot of experience with psychedelics or dissociatives it is hard to tell whether the danger is real or imagined.

Out of curiosity, how much DXM was in each pill/gel? We can get an idea of how much you took that way, because you may have been flirting with, or even pushed past, the boundary between the first and second, and third and fourth 'plateaus'. The division between the second and third plateaus is a transition between a state where movement is not that unpleasant, and you're just a bit messed up, and a state where being horizontal is practically required.
 
Yeah that's the thing about DXM. DXM is one of the longest lasting drugs out there. It take nearly a full 24 hours for it to WEAR OFF. After it finally does, the comedown from it is just awful. I've never understood why people like DXM. It's a shitty drug that has no good abuse potential.
 
Yeah that's the thing about DXM. DXM is one of the longest lasting drugs out there. It take nearly a full 24 hours for it to WEAR OFF. After it finally does, the comedown from it is just awful. I've never understood why people like DXM. It's a shitty drug that has no good abuse potential.

well i've tripped some times on dxm and it NEVER took 24 hours to wear off. maybe just an hangover the day after (wich is not awful, it's really nice really and enhances the high of weed if you smoke the day after).
i think this guy had a bad experience because he took it in a random place at a random time, and it was his first time
sooo you may well say it's a shitty drug IN YOUR OPINION but you cannot state "it's a shitty drug"
i'm sick of people saying that dxm is no real drug and it sucks just because you find it in cough syrup , because you know, xtc was a medicine in the past, lsd was a medicine, k is a medicine and so on and so forth (i know you did not say so, but so many people say it and i just had to say what i think)
sorry for the unload lmao
 
@Deinonychus - I think I was in the third plateau maybe? I read a little about that stuff before I took it. there was 15 mg in each pill, and I took 20. that would make 300 mg, and I weigh about 96 lbs. (~43 kg). I'm very light so things always affect me a lot more, aha. I felt really uncomfortable when I was walking, the only time I felt better was when I was laying down on the grass.

There was actually no 'hangover' for me really, I had a pretty good day the day after.
 
@Deinonychus - I think I was in the third plateau maybe? I read a little about that stuff before I took it. there was 15 mg in each pill, and I took 20. that would make 300 mg, and I weigh about 96 lbs. (~43 kg). I'm very light so things always affect me a lot more, aha. I felt really uncomfortable when I was walking, the only time I felt better was when I was laying down on the grass.

There was actually no 'hangover' for me really, I had a pretty good day the day after.

I'd say give it a second try. take maybe 150 or 200 mg and this time be sure to be in a comfortable enviroment with people you are comfortable with and be in a good mindset.
i know that it sounds crazy to try it again after the awful experience you had but once you know you can handle it it's a really nice drug (really euphoric at low doses)
 
Swampfox...I submit that your input about DXM is so negative because of an improper perspective; namely, that DXM, like any other drug, is not meant to be ABUSED. When abused it predictably results in disappointment. However, when properly utilized it is among the most effective cognitive/spiritual developmental tools currently available. This fact, coupled with its legal status, make it one of the top choices for a certain demographic. For me, it was and is a life changer, in the best possible sense. Perhaps if you do a search of my posts over the past coupla years and consider some of the information presented you will come to a better understanding of "...why anyone would like DXM..." It's a tool, not a toy.

OP - DXM's primary function as an exploratory tool in this regard is specifically the inducement of OBEs...again, a perusal of my posts will shed light on this and how it benefited me, and still does. It is a means to an end, that end being the pursuit of spiritual development and the pursuit of truth.
 
@ComfortablyNumb95 & synchrojet -- Thanks! I'm definitely going to try this again at a lower dose,
 
It's an out of body drug, results in ego death at the 'proper' dosage. If you wanna get high and drunk, get high and drunk. DXM ain't best used for that.
 
Vienna, those experiences you were witnessing during your "near-death" experience were manifestations of short-term memory. The television, newscaster, and film were memories your brain happened to dump into consciousness. It was a glimpse into your subconscious mind.

Welcome to the world of disassociatives! Definitely more for the artists and creative thinkers.
 
^^ I don't know if I'd go quite that far. I know plenty of disassociative users that do not have redeeming creative abilities and plenty of creative folks that don't like DXM at all.

I think some people just like it and some don't. Possibly due to usually-harmless genetic differences (single-nucleotide polymorphisms, for reference 5-HT2A receptor has 255 known SNPs at last I checked) in the code for the receptor structure that DXM interacts with.
 
I found the best way to dose DXM was to start early in the day with a 150mg dose, then begin adding an extra 100mg every 30-45 minutes as needed until things get too real. Breaking up the dose skips the nausea. DXM would floor me if I dosed all at once. Oh yeah, and eat a decent breakfast before you begin, but wait an hour or two after eating it to take the first dose so by the time you do your stomach is already moving the food so the DXM won't sit in transit very long.
 
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Yeah that's the thing about DXM. DXM is one of the longest lasting drugs out there. It take nearly a full 24 hours for it to WEAR OFF. After it finally does, the comedown from it is just awful. I've never understood why people like DXM. It's a shitty drug that has no good abuse potential.

I know this all too well. I tried DXM once, and got impatient with the lack of effects after an hour or two. I went to sleep, and when I woke up I felt dissociated for about 3 days. I had to have Sunday dinner with 10 members of my family at a restaurant and I was at the head of a long table, everyone could see me and every so often my vision started waving. :L I didn't have a high dose though, so maybe I had some kind of weird reaction to it, or perhaps effects can be affected if you sleep before it takes effect?
 
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