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DXM and why high schoolers love it theory.

Coolfret

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So, we've all heard weird, mysterious, crazy,trip reports of dxm. Some people love it, while other people just hate it.
But i have come to a theory as to what and why people who like/dislike dxm-

In my own dxm experience, i remember it bringing me back to childhood memories, very faintly, but it made me think like a child again, by child i mean baby.
See my parents always gave me delsym to cure cough and colds, its all they knew about, and thats what they give to me.
So my theory-
When parents would give their children cough medicine, the kids would have a sort of mini euphoric dissacaitive trip, considering the fact that dxm is a very powerful(and dirty)dissociative anesthetics, and they would close their eyes and kind of just have a trip, the parents of course have no idea that their babie's on drugs, hey, they just think its cough medicine.

So nowadays most Teenage DXM users say that when they are on the drug, it brings them back to a "familiar" place, some say it makes them act like a child again. while others just totally hate the experience.

So my theory is that kids who got cough syrup containing dxm when they were toddlers and growing up, are more likely to find dxm interesting and mysterious.
I say this from my own experience, the first time i tripped on dxm, i was amazed by how childlike and familiar everything felt, i was seeing these objects and things thru-ought my trips, and they looked oh so familiar, like a red clown nose, that made a squeeky sound when u squeeze it.<<< most likley something a baby would see in a trip...
So to sum it up...
Everyone who gets reminded of being a kid when they are on dxm,most likely had little mini trips as a child when your parents force-fed you the cough syrup.
Thoughts?
(sorry for spelings, my fingers are jittery)
 
LOL wut? - I went through this phase not too long ago but I robotripped because a) I couldn't get anything else as far a psychedelics or dissociatives go, b) I could buy it myself at 18, and c) because I wanted to trip and this was the first substance I came across that could provide that possible experience. Though after taking real psychedelics such as some shrooms, it's not even in the same ball park. Fuck chugging cough syrup; the last thing I was thinking about while I put down 4 4oz bottles back to back to get to the fourth plateau was my childhood lol never again Smh...
 
Naa man I don't think so. Well I mean, mayb for sun ppl. I'm in hs and I use dxm way too fuckin much, but I rarely drank syrup as a kid. Like Arab said, it's just easy to get bro.
Peace
 
The reason DXM trips are so popular amonhg high schoolers is because cough syrup is easily shoplifted/"acquired". Not some pseudofreudian reason.
 
Good idea, that may have some basis in reality, but I think it really comes down accessibility. I think DXM is absolutely amazing and I am very much not in high school or a teenager for the record though.
 
DXM is increasingly popular amongst highschool students because it is easy to obtain. Many highschoolers will just steal products containig DXM. This has been an Increasing problem causing many pharms to put dxm behind counters or even stop the sale of dxm minors
 
your theory is incorrect but one time when i was like 15 or 16 i took a big too much cough medicine cause i was sick and then i went to school. Somewhere after my first class the euphoria hit me and it was insane. I had never felt that good enough. Which later led me to abuse/use DXM quite frequently.
 
I was never given DXM as a kid. My first time even taking it in a small dose for its medicinal purpose was a couple of years ago. I enjoy it because it's a fun drug, euphoric, and produces an interesting state of dissociation.

I think the reason it's popular is because of how strong and intense a substance it is and how easy it is to find.

A lot of the people trying it are the same people who've been trying stuff like Nutmeg and Diphenhydramine just because they're rather desperate to find some kind of easy to obtain legal high due to being young and inexperienced and with little access to other drugs they might want - given that unlike these two drugs DXM is a really fun and interesting one, it's no surprise that it's popular.
 
dix dixem

The reason DXM trips are so popular amonhg high schoolers is because cough syrup is easily shoplifted/"acquired". Not some pseudofreudian reason.
dxm remains me of 13 yr olds taking 10 dramine but everyones react different researvhing
 
I would say, just because CCC was a fad like anything else and was all over the news. Anywhere you can get DXM you can get nitrous oxide, benzos as kava and valerian, MAOI, poppy seeds, LSA, sleeping pills, nutmeg, deleriants, catnip, levametafine, polyhexedrine, st johns wort, alcohol, 5-htp/Sam-e/Ginkgo=possible DMT production, etc etc. so its not about availability.

Anyway, DXM is an amazing drug. I've never dosed without improved mood and significant therapeutic benefits from 1st plateau or low second plateau. if anything I would say an average high schooler heard of a neat way to get buzzed and it turned around and improved their undiagnosed OCD, or bipolar disorder, etc, so they kept at it.
 
When I was a kid my mother gave me robitusin once and I hated it!! I almost buried the bottle out in the woods behind my house. The reason I did dxm was to try it and see what it was like.... also super easy to aquire. I had gel caps however... that liquid crap still gives me nightmares.
 
certainly an interesting theory, although I somehow doubt it. interestingly, over here in the UK dxm has never really taken off amongst teenagers and you'd struggle to find anybody who's heard of robo-tripping outside of a few teenage drug nerds (ahem, a younger captaintom...8) ) anyway, it's certainly a very strange drug, I had fun with it a handful of times and my friends were super grateful for having found this magic easily obtainable cough syrup that could fuck you up, however the novelty value wears off pretty quickly yet the two fourth plateux experiences I had rank in my top 10 of most bizarre trips, not fun or enlightening, just fucking weird.
 
^Well I didn't want to over generalize, it was just one example, but you don't think a lot of people use drugs to self-medicate, regardless of entertainment or boredom? Plus, its hard to ignore the overlap with medications/diseases and the effects on neurochemistry of specific drugs people choose. Chicken or the egg maybe....
 
Uhhhhh....here's why I loved it:

DXM is easily obtainable at the regular store. It alters perception. The end.

Why a kid has a desire to experience something different in the first place is when you can start getting into deeper debates. But I'm just an echo.
 
The reason DXM trips are so popular amonhg high schoolers is because cough syrup is easily shoplifted/"acquired". Not some pseudofreudian reason.

This, especially in countries that take the whole not selling alcohol to minors seriously.
 
^Well I didn't want to over generalize, it was just one example, but you don't think a lot of people use drugs to self-medicate, regardless of entertainment or boredom? Plus, its hard to ignore the overlap with medications/diseases and the effects on neurochemistry of specific drugs people choose. Chicken or the egg maybe....

oh for sure! the sense of childhood familiarity is certainly something that's a unique effect of DXM, out of interest, have you or anybody else here had any experiences with very vivid childhood memory recall whilst on DXM? it certainly happened to me a few times
 
^ definitely man, I recently had a trip where that was all I could think about. For example I had a vivid reccolection of what it was like to believe in Santa, I was one of those kids who held on to that a bit longer than the others haha. Made me think I should get therapy or something.
 
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