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DXM - 6th/7th time - 600 mg

Enlitx

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DXM - 600 mg

Last night I was very bored, so I decided to purchase some DXM in the form of Robitussin Cough syrup. I bought an 8 OZ bottle. I dont remember the exact time frame of what happened, so I will do my best to describe the experience.

I drank about 2/3 to 3/4 of the bottle in three gulps. Some people complain that it is awful and hard to swallow, but I found it easy to swallow this stuff with little discomfort.

About 10-15 minutes later I started feeling the effects. I listened to some music and did some stuff on my computer, all the while feeling a bit off. Nothing major at this point.

An unknown amount of time later I was really feeling it. I felt disconnected in a very pronounced way. I couldn't focus on any thought, it is as if I couldn't keep any idea in my head grounded, it would always morph or switch to some other idea.

I went to lay in my bed in total silence and relative darkness. It is here that I tried to analyze my thoughts. I noticed that I could begin to think about something and just let my mind go. I would start thinking about a videogame and it would somehow turn into a thought about the Iraq war, which turned into a thought about World War 2, which turned in to a thought about the history channel which was just showing a special on World War 2. It was like this with everything I attempted to think about.

I would like to note that my memory was not functioning properly at this time. I couldn't recall what I was thinking about five minutes earlier, and since my experience I can't recall 3/4 of what I thought about.

After laying in my bed I got up and tried to walk around. I felt really weird, I couldn't concentrate on anything I tried to do so I gave up. It was at this time that my ex-girlfriend called. I made an observation into my thought pattern during the conversation. She was asking me some questions, and then she asked a hypothetical. I could not focus on it and give her an answer! It actually scared me a little bit to be asked a question, I felt as if I would betray myself by sounding stupid. On DXM it seems that due to the lack of concentration and concrete observation, a lot of unknowns can become scary. If you don't know whether your parents are home or not, it becomes more intense due to the fact that actually acquiring the data needed to make that guess is very hard to obtain (due to inability to cohesively piece together information). DXM is not a social drug, it makes conversation more difficult and the mind more dull.

After this conversation I decided to fall asleep. I went to my bed and just layed there forever. It was difficult to fall asleep because of the body feeling I was getting. It is a bit like a good body high from weed, but mixed with a negative tone that makes it discomfortable. I finally fell asleep and woke up the next day feeling like shit, I was stuffed up and had drainage in my throat. I think the DXM suppressed my immune system.

There is one thing that is hard to explain to people when describing DXM. It is the unexplainable feeling of fear and anxiety that comes with it. I have experienced this four out of the five trips that I have gone through, and the best I can describe it is a tendency for fear to reach elevated levels during normal circumstances. Maybe it can be attributed to the inability to think properly, and thus the inability reason your way out of any frightening situations.

During this last trip, I was able to understand how the drug affects my thoughts and therefore I have no desire to replicate my experience in the future. DXM might be fun for some, but I don't enjoy that dumbed down and disconnected feeling I get from it. The slight nausea also detracted from the experience. I suggest marijuana if you want a dumbed down feeling that is still controllable and actually feels good.
 
Well written report... confirms my desire not to try dxm!!

(P.S. You might want to give your report a title)

=D
 
First time? I personally haven't written off dxm yet, I've not had a bad time on it, despite the intensity of it (sometimes)
 
Re: DXM - 600 mg

Enlitx said:
It is the unexplainable feeling of fear and anxiety that comes with it. I have experienced this four out of the five trips that I have gone through, and the best I can describe it is a tendency for fear to reach elevated levels during normal circumstances.

i can agree with this statement, as my last trip i recall the strong sensation of death everytime i went outside in my frontyard for some odd reason (cold weather 'felt' like it was the cause). but if i walked back inside to my room i felt fine and dandy as if it had never happened.

maybe my room is a "safezone" from those damned evil robots!!!! :D
 
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It really underscores the need for a good environment while on DXM. I think most of my success/enjoyment of it I can attribute to a lot of planning ahead of time to make sure everything is positive/fun/etc. I can't imagine doing it when I was unprepared.

nemesis-a said:
i can agree with this statement, as my last trip i recall the strong sensation of death everytime i went outside in my frontyard for some odd reason (cold weather 'felt' like it was the cause). but if i walked back inside to my room i felt fine and dandy as if it had never happened.

maybe my room is a "safezone" from those damned evil robots!!!! :D
 
Is this your first time? If so, 600mg is too much.

Anyway, I disagree about the mind being "dulled" on DXM. I believe you are more detached from your thought processes, but if you simply let your mind do it's own thing you can be amazed at almost super-human powers of cognition, including phenomena like ESP, telepathy, etc. that people frequently believe have occured on this drug.

On DXM I remember playing some of the most rediculous guitar, and being totally detached from what my mind and body were doing. Somehow this broke down the barriers that normally keep me from playing to my full potential.

Well, DXM isn't for everyone anyway.
 
bluedolphin said:
I believe you are more detached from your thought processes, but if you simply let your mind do it's own thing you can be amazed at almost super-human powers of cognition, including phenomena like ESP, telepathy, etc. that people frequently believe have occured on this drug.

YES. Very true. One of the main reasons I love DXM.
 
bluedolphin said:
Is this your first time? If so, 600mg is too much.

Anyway, I disagree about the mind being "dulled" on DXM. I believe you are more detached from your thought processes, but if you simply let your mind do it's own thing you can be amazed at almost super-human powers of cognition, including phenomena like ESP, telepathy, etc. that people frequently believe have occured on this drug.

On DXM I remember playing some of the most rediculous guitar, and being totally detached from what my mind and body were doing. Somehow this broke down the barriers that normally keep me from playing to my full potential.

Well, DXM isn't for everyone anyway.

This is my sixth or seventh time doing DXM, and I have dosed from 300 mg to 900 mg. Some people have experienced much better results than me, and I don't know why it affects me this way. The body feeling could be keeping me from letting my mind go free with thoughts, or maybe I am not approaching it in the right way.

I read up on DXM prior to my trips, and I have tried laying in a bed in a dark room with nothing to distract me, but at the most I get a very disoriented assortment of thoughts flying through my head. They can can be a bit more visual at times, but they never seem particularly noteworthy or incredible. I keep myself very grounded mentally during trips, so maybe I am thinking too much and not just letting it flow? Keeping a logical thought process has saved me from disaster more than once, but perhaps it is this that is causing my lack of insight. Either way, I really don't think DXM is for me.
 
I personally love DXM--of all the chemicals I have ever tried, dextromethorphan has produced the most unique and interesting state of mind. Also, use of DXM whilst listening to music through good cans is always a phenomenal experience. However, it is a hell of a trip and the side effects are awful (most people get severe motion sickness, I however, experience urinary retention, that is, you think you have to take a leak, but you actually don't or simply cannot). Also, it is neurotoxic and has a severe EtOH-like hangover the next day.
 
Nice report, but let me say a few things about DXM. It's funny how you say keeping yourself mentally grounded saves you from disaster: the "disaster" of ego loss that happens on all disassociatives and that causes this intense fear you speak of. As you quite literally pull out of your body, the physical and egotistic part of you no longer defines your reality, that is you no longer associate yourself with your ego-projected image of your ideal self.

It's not ego death in the sense that you don't transcend your ego, but rather it leaves you for a while. If you associate strongly with this part of you then leaving it behind will indeed strike the fear of death in you. Although you won't die, the reality you thought you knew will.

I, and many others, consider this process to be extremely liberating, and walking this path on purpose and with confidence in your inner self will allow you to transcend to the spiritual plaine. On the main page of Dextroverse, for example, are meditation instructions on how to travel in the astral realm. DXM can be useful for this kind of thing.

If you perceive this change from a perspective of fear in which you cling to your egotistic identity, then the near infinite freedom and beauty in it will, in stark contrast, be seen as near infinite death and misery. If, as you say, you try to keep yourself grounded, then you're swimming upstream against the current when a heavenly land exists downstream where the water would normally take you! :)
 
I understand what you are saying phoenix, but I never felt that I was on the verge of such an ego death. When I say I keep myself grounded, what I mean by that is I continually tell myself I am in my room with nothing to worry about. I try to look at things in a familiar way so that everything doesen't seem so unfamiliar and thus scary in a sense.

When I was on DXM, I felt very disconnected, and my mind did run wild for a time, but I never even felt as if I was completely seperate from my body. I couldn't because the horrible body high I get from DXM constantly reminded me that I had a body, and it wasn't feeling the best. That is why I think that if I could somehow feel completely comfortable during a trip I could go further. Maybe a low dose of opiates would allow me to focus on my thoughts.

Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I really don't know how people talk of ego death and such when DXM forces me to think about my body constantly because of the fact that it feels so horrible. I am genuinely interested in what I can do to make my trips more fulfilling, so if any experienced trippers have some good advice like the previous posters, please let me know.
 
Re: DXM - 600 mg

Enlitx said:
. On DXM it seems that due to the lack of concentration and concrete observation, a lot of unknowns can become scary. If you don't know whether your parents are home or not, it becomes more intense due to the fact that actually acquiring the data needed to make that guess is very hard to obtain (due to inability to cohesively piece together information). DXM is not a social drug, it makes conversation more difficult and the mind more dull.

WOW that about sums it up.

I personally enjoy DXM and have done it many many times. I always feel like someone ran off with my brain though.

it's hard for me to know that people understand me when i talk to them. it's all just mental though, because they often do not even realize that I am on anything, when I am actually smashed and tripping out of my skull.=D
 
Enlitx said:
I understand what you are saying phoenix, but I never felt that I was on the verge of such an ego death. When I say I keep myself grounded, what I mean by that is I continually tell myself I am in my room with nothing to worry about.

I try not to consciously "think" on dxm as it gets me nowhere. :)
 
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