time: 11 PM and on, last night
dose: 1 bottle (118 mL, 354 mg DXM) of generic Tussin
my weight: 63 kg (so 5.6 mg/kg)
trip length: awake 4 hours, afterglow: still going on after 18 hrs
5 of us were hanging out in my boyfriend's dorm room, M, E, and S on cracked-out day-after e-hangovers, my boyfriend T and i both sober. S suggested that we all robo-trip. she went on to talk about her previous experiences on it, and how much she loved it, and so we all decided to go for it. we went to safeway and each bought a 4 oz bottle of generic maximum-strength cough suppressant, only active ingredient DXM. We went back to the dorm and ceremoniously chugged the bottles around 11:30 PM.
11:45 PM: we put in the movie Super Troopers. I'm starting to feel a little weird, dizzyish, slightly nauseous. people who have seen the movie before find it hilarious, i don't see the point. my hands are tingling, and i can't decide if it's pleasant or because i'm starting to get nauseous.
sometime after 12:00 PM: I'm nauseous. So is S. We go into the bathroom and vomit, side by side, soon joined by M. For a minute i have a "why am i doing this" feeling, but it subsides.
The rest of the evening, i can't put times on. Pretty early on, M went to bed because she had to get up early for practice this morning. (as far as i know, she's the only one of us that didn't enjoy the trip.)
E pretty much stayed in bed for the bulk of the evening. He told me today that he was having conversations with himself and lots of CEV's.
At some point during the middle of the movie (so i'm guessing somewhere around 12:30 or so) my boyfriend T goes to play the piano in the dorm lounge. He says he'll be gone for 10 minutes.
I'm loopy. S used that word to describe the way we'd feel, and it is perfect. S, E and i sit in the room (S and E in bed kinda snuggling, me watching the movie in a chair) and talk nonsense. i discover that i can THINK perfectly clearly, but it's my mouth that's having trouble forming the words. I say things like "I ca ca can thhhINK sooooo well, bu u ut my my moooouf doesnt wanna..."
At some point I go back into the bathroom for a second puke and notice that some of the syrup comes out. This probably means i didn't absorb all 354 mg in the bottle (which would be a 5.6 mg/kg dose). I don't care... puking is only bad because i have to taste the syrup again. sitting by the toilet i have about 30 seconds of feeling like pure shit, and wondering why i did this to myself, and wishing it would go away, but i feel amazing once the feeling subsides.
I went to the bathroom again during the night, thinking i'd vomit, but I just ended up sitting on the toilet having mild CEV's. At first it was like a roller coaster in space, much like the special effects in the movie Contact, when she's going through the time warp, and then i crashed into a boiling puddle of orange and yellow, which was cool. then i went back into the room.
That must have been when T decided to go try to puke, couldn't, came back, and THEN went to go play the piano. I don't remember time or sequential order very well at all.
Anyway, he'd been off playing the piano for a half hour when i decided to try to go find him. I walked down the hallway (which was really long and it seemed that walking down it took almost 30 minutes) and it felt like a quest. The hallway really tripped me out - the pattern in the carpet, the series of doors on either side... it seemed never-ending, but i didn't want it to end. It felt like I was moving super-slowly and taking tiny steps, but i have no idea whether or not i really was.
T was playing a beethoven sonata, which sounded really cool. We tried to play a duet we know but my fingers didn't work, and anyway, i wanted to walk down the hall again, 'cause it was fun. So i went back to the room and left him in there.
At some point, the movie ended and left me really confused. I think I saw almost all of it but i really only remember bits and pieces. It wasn't funny; I was funny. S and i talked a lot while E just lay quietly in bed. I looked at my watch at one point and it was 1:15, once it was 2:30, and one time it was 1:45. I guess those were in sequential order, but i really can't remember.
Some time after the movie ended, T came back and we just sat around and talked for awhile. Then T, S and i went out side to smoke a menthol cigarette (i only smoke while fucked up, and i decided this counted). we walked outside and to the lake behind the dorm and smoked. The first drag of the cig enhanced the euphoric feeling i had, but i quickly lost interest in the cigarette but had fun playing with it. On our way back in, S and T mentioned how everything looked huge to them. I could see it a little bit, but it wasn't pronounced. T talked about how playing the piano was a quest for him, and how even though it was difficult physically, he didn't get bored or frustrated, just kept trying.
the rest of the night continued on about the same level. I would think the trip was over and then stand up and realize i was still goofy. I tried to say things and it would come out as "la la da baaaaa" and i would try to make sense of things everyone else said but they sounded incoherent too.
T and I went to bed at around 3AM, and I assume S and E did the same (E was in bed already, S joined him soon after T and I got in bed I think). I fell asleep pretty easily and slept really well. I slept nearly 12 hours and woke up in time to realize i'd slept through all my classes today. Oh well. (I actually woke up once around 9 and stayed awake for awhile, and had some mild CEV's then too.)
I also woke up with the sinus headache from hell today. A cold has been going around school, so i don't know if it's from the DXM or just being sick.
I feel pretty much just lethargic today. I kind of have an afterglow - hangover, but not unpleasent - going on.
I talked to M earlier today. She felt really weird this morning when she got up to go to practice (at 7AM) and thought she was going to throw up during practice and thus went home. Though, she didn't dislike the experience, and would like to try again sometime when she doesn't have a committment so early the next morning.
[Edit:] It's now 1AM the night afterward. I'm feeling a little odd still, but that's probably more due to the pseudoephedrine i have in my system because of said sinus headache. I'm having trouble concentrating on my homework but not much more than normal. The hangover today has been more pleasant than bothersome.
All in all, i think DXM is fun. it's not worth chugging the tussin to do it very often, but I think i'll want to do it again sometime. good, clean, goofy fun.
(edited to include info about tonight and more details from the trip, including what other people felt.)
[ 05 November 2002: Message edited by: ibizakat ]
dose: 1 bottle (118 mL, 354 mg DXM) of generic Tussin
my weight: 63 kg (so 5.6 mg/kg)
trip length: awake 4 hours, afterglow: still going on after 18 hrs
5 of us were hanging out in my boyfriend's dorm room, M, E, and S on cracked-out day-after e-hangovers, my boyfriend T and i both sober. S suggested that we all robo-trip. she went on to talk about her previous experiences on it, and how much she loved it, and so we all decided to go for it. we went to safeway and each bought a 4 oz bottle of generic maximum-strength cough suppressant, only active ingredient DXM. We went back to the dorm and ceremoniously chugged the bottles around 11:30 PM.
11:45 PM: we put in the movie Super Troopers. I'm starting to feel a little weird, dizzyish, slightly nauseous. people who have seen the movie before find it hilarious, i don't see the point. my hands are tingling, and i can't decide if it's pleasant or because i'm starting to get nauseous.
sometime after 12:00 PM: I'm nauseous. So is S. We go into the bathroom and vomit, side by side, soon joined by M. For a minute i have a "why am i doing this" feeling, but it subsides.
The rest of the evening, i can't put times on. Pretty early on, M went to bed because she had to get up early for practice this morning. (as far as i know, she's the only one of us that didn't enjoy the trip.)
E pretty much stayed in bed for the bulk of the evening. He told me today that he was having conversations with himself and lots of CEV's.
At some point during the middle of the movie (so i'm guessing somewhere around 12:30 or so) my boyfriend T goes to play the piano in the dorm lounge. He says he'll be gone for 10 minutes.
I'm loopy. S used that word to describe the way we'd feel, and it is perfect. S, E and i sit in the room (S and E in bed kinda snuggling, me watching the movie in a chair) and talk nonsense. i discover that i can THINK perfectly clearly, but it's my mouth that's having trouble forming the words. I say things like "I ca ca can thhhINK sooooo well, bu u ut my my moooouf doesnt wanna..."
At some point I go back into the bathroom for a second puke and notice that some of the syrup comes out. This probably means i didn't absorb all 354 mg in the bottle (which would be a 5.6 mg/kg dose). I don't care... puking is only bad because i have to taste the syrup again. sitting by the toilet i have about 30 seconds of feeling like pure shit, and wondering why i did this to myself, and wishing it would go away, but i feel amazing once the feeling subsides.
I went to the bathroom again during the night, thinking i'd vomit, but I just ended up sitting on the toilet having mild CEV's. At first it was like a roller coaster in space, much like the special effects in the movie Contact, when she's going through the time warp, and then i crashed into a boiling puddle of orange and yellow, which was cool. then i went back into the room.
That must have been when T decided to go try to puke, couldn't, came back, and THEN went to go play the piano. I don't remember time or sequential order very well at all.
Anyway, he'd been off playing the piano for a half hour when i decided to try to go find him. I walked down the hallway (which was really long and it seemed that walking down it took almost 30 minutes) and it felt like a quest. The hallway really tripped me out - the pattern in the carpet, the series of doors on either side... it seemed never-ending, but i didn't want it to end. It felt like I was moving super-slowly and taking tiny steps, but i have no idea whether or not i really was.
T was playing a beethoven sonata, which sounded really cool. We tried to play a duet we know but my fingers didn't work, and anyway, i wanted to walk down the hall again, 'cause it was fun. So i went back to the room and left him in there.
At some point, the movie ended and left me really confused. I think I saw almost all of it but i really only remember bits and pieces. It wasn't funny; I was funny. S and i talked a lot while E just lay quietly in bed. I looked at my watch at one point and it was 1:15, once it was 2:30, and one time it was 1:45. I guess those were in sequential order, but i really can't remember.
Some time after the movie ended, T came back and we just sat around and talked for awhile. Then T, S and i went out side to smoke a menthol cigarette (i only smoke while fucked up, and i decided this counted). we walked outside and to the lake behind the dorm and smoked. The first drag of the cig enhanced the euphoric feeling i had, but i quickly lost interest in the cigarette but had fun playing with it. On our way back in, S and T mentioned how everything looked huge to them. I could see it a little bit, but it wasn't pronounced. T talked about how playing the piano was a quest for him, and how even though it was difficult physically, he didn't get bored or frustrated, just kept trying.
the rest of the night continued on about the same level. I would think the trip was over and then stand up and realize i was still goofy. I tried to say things and it would come out as "la la da baaaaa" and i would try to make sense of things everyone else said but they sounded incoherent too.
T and I went to bed at around 3AM, and I assume S and E did the same (E was in bed already, S joined him soon after T and I got in bed I think). I fell asleep pretty easily and slept really well. I slept nearly 12 hours and woke up in time to realize i'd slept through all my classes today. Oh well. (I actually woke up once around 9 and stayed awake for awhile, and had some mild CEV's then too.)
I also woke up with the sinus headache from hell today. A cold has been going around school, so i don't know if it's from the DXM or just being sick.
I feel pretty much just lethargic today. I kind of have an afterglow - hangover, but not unpleasent - going on.
I talked to M earlier today. She felt really weird this morning when she got up to go to practice (at 7AM) and thought she was going to throw up during practice and thus went home. Though, she didn't dislike the experience, and would like to try again sometime when she doesn't have a committment so early the next morning.
[Edit:] It's now 1AM the night afterward. I'm feeling a little odd still, but that's probably more due to the pseudoephedrine i have in my system because of said sinus headache. I'm having trouble concentrating on my homework but not much more than normal. The hangover today has been more pleasant than bothersome.
All in all, i think DXM is fun. it's not worth chugging the tussin to do it very often, but I think i'll want to do it again sometime. good, clean, goofy fun.
(edited to include info about tonight and more details from the trip, including what other people felt.)
[ 05 November 2002: Message edited by: ibizakat ]
