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DXM - Second Time - Do I Even Exist?

Matt_Himself

Matt_Himself

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After reading about a DXM trip of 1.75 gram I decided to write mine, considering just how earth shattering it was...
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Year : Summer of 2001
Substance : DXM (Robotussin Extra Strength 8 oz)
Dosage : Approximately 711mg of DXM
I was once very reckless with drugs. I would basically take anything to get "fucked up". There was a major mushroom drought (or any psychedelic for that matter). I wanted to trip really bad. I remembered having read about drinking cough syrup and tripping. I had tried it once before, I drank a 4oz bottle and got some nice effects. So this night me and my friend decided to each have an 8oz bottle.
We bought the bottles $5 each (not bad to get fucked up I thought). We went back to my house around 9 pm. We drank our bottles each at about 10. I absolutely loathe the taste of robo... absolutely loathe it! But I managed to get it down...
Heres where it all begins...
10PM: finish drinking the nasty syrup. We put on Airheads to help pass the time. We figure if this is anything like our mushroom trips though that well wanna watch Alice in Wonderland. I put in in the the VCR so I wont have to worry about later.
11PM: I feel very nasueas. I go to the bathroom and throw up like there is no tomorrow. But after standing and looking into the red syrupy toilet, I feel incredibly drunk. Wow, I thought, this is much stronger than last time.
1130PM: Im back in my basement with a very positive outlook. I feel very weird and trippy but drunk. Almost like a 1/8 of shrooms with 10 shots of vodka... man Im messed up.
12AM: We start seeing things. I put on my lights (I have a very trip-friendly basement with spinning lights, blacklights, lots of posters and stuff). The spinning light seems to be weaving patterns on the walls. I was impressed by this.
1230AM: Still getting stronger, visuals arent as many as on mushrooms, but they are noticable. We put on Alice In Wonderland, but we couldnt make sense of it. We put on Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" sounds amazing. I can feel the music flowing through me. I love this.
130AM: My friend falls asleep... how he does this I will never know. I cant sleep on DXM myself, nor can most people I know of. The visual aspect is subsiding a bit, and replaced with a very annoying doubled effect. Everything looks doubled next to itself, its hard to tell what is what. I felt really cold though, so I managed to stumble around to get a blanket. I wrap myself in it. But then I realize, Im still cold. In fact... I cant feel the blanket touching me.
...This is when I went to hell...
130PM-430PM: I couldnt feel a thing. I could see myself move. I was a single thought. I had no body, but was merely a prisoner inside the body shaped vessel. How the hell was I going to get out. Then my vision went out. ...what just happened?... where did i go?...... did I just die?!?!... oh fuck where am I?!...
I would have called 911, but I couldnt move. I literally could not move.
I woke up the next morning at 930AM. Somewhere along that time period I fell asleep. Im not sure when though. I felt like I had severe food poisoning. I couldnt stand up right. I had to call in sick to work. I didnt leave a couch all day. I felt so sick.
This experience, although I would say bad, helped me overall. It ended my using drugs to get fucked up phase. It moved me on to learning from experiences. It also made me research drugs before doing them. I thought this was going to be like shrooms. It was the ultimate mindfuck ever.
So ultimately now, I am a much more experienced drug user then I was. This just shows how a little misconception about a drug can send you to hell and back.
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Also, I didnt mention my friend much, cuz all he did was lay there. He spoke little, he just laid there.
AND... the losing vision thing. That could have been me just closing my eyes. I had no control of my body, so I couldnt tell. Nonetheless, it was horrifying.
Well, this is my first trip report Ive ever written, hope you enjoy.
[ 29 April 2002: Message edited by: Matt_Himself ]
[ 29 April 2002: Message edited by: Matt_Himself ]
 
wow interesing to read! I was able to fall asleep after like 15 min on 360mg of dxm. I felt the same "drunk" feeling you had, but I felt refreshed 7 hours after taking dxm. had no real visuals though :(
 
Sorry to hear you had a bad time, but thanks for posting about your experience!
 
okay, shot in the dark, but, here goes. i'm going to figure that the reason you had a not so good trip is because you were expecting something completely different from what actually happend. shrooms and dex are like blue and red, two ends of the spectrum. so, yeah, i can see where expecting a shroomlike trip from dex would lead you to feel as if it were hell when you dissociated.
looking back though, do you think that the trip would have been good for you if you had known what to expect before you dosed? that does have some effect on your attitude about the trip, i think. and have you had any more experience with dxm since? hearing about some of your trips after you knew what was going to happen would be cool.
as for the not sleeping thing, you were on dextroMETHorphan...so, inability to sleep is somewhat expected from a high dose. but, different people have different reactions to the same substance, so some people might just be able to pass out on dex with no trouble at all. but why would you want to?
 
^^^^^^I was able to fall asleep with no problem on 360mg of dxm when I saw no visuals by the time it was 7:30 am, I said next time ill take more. nothing else is happening. I did have some weird dreams, but its probably just coincidental!
 
I'm writing this on dxm so bare with me ;)
A lot of times I dose *anything* and from the very beginning I am nervous. I never know why, but that always jacks my trip up right from the start. Expecting an apple and getting an orange is very misleading, and generally that's a negative spin.
P.S., the meth has nothing to do with stimulation, a methyl component simply adds weight to a molecule making it longer lasting (the required amphetamine is missing). A lot of times the stimulation comes from the random release of dopamine, which is partially responsible for feeling wakeful and alert, and in this way is similar to an amphetamine.
how the fuq do i know this? cause im on dex silly
 
okay, my bad on the meth thing. bad resource, i suppose...
and, c_c, i said high dose. 360mg isn't exactly that. my typical is about 720mg or so, and that barely gets me to +2/-3 or so. as has been said repeatedly, the same dose of the exact same thing can have drastically different effects on different people, and even on the same individual.
 
Originally posted by vivisection:
okay, shot in the dark, but, here goes. i'm going to figure that the reason you had a not so good trip is because you were expecting something completely different from what actually happend. shrooms and dex are like blue and red, two ends of the spectrum. so, yeah, i can see where expecting a shroomlike trip from dex would lead you to feel as if it were hell when you dissociated.
looking back though, do you think that the trip would have been good for you if you had known what to expect before you dosed?
Oh, I imagine the trip would have been quite fantastic had I expected this. I thought, like you mentioned, that it would be like shrooms. I actually am thinking of doing DXM again, this time with powder rather than that nasty syrup tho.
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I've noticed that even on crazy high doses it's possible to go to sleep when you are coming up, especially if you are sitting or lying down during the trip. The effects of DXM are completely affected by your level of activity.
I wouldn't really advise anyone to do this, but I took a dose of 700mg of powder at 10:30pm and then went to a club last saturday after smoking a couple of blunts with friends. I was pretty ripped by the time we got there at 12:30 with all the effects you would expect of third plateau. Well after a couple of hours dancing in the jungle room (DXM is GREAT for dancing - well for me anyway), I go outside in the smoking area and take another pill that is 700mg. Now I must stress that this is quite possibly the worst thing you can do, especially if you want to become Dr. Olney's personal lab rat. I kinda remember sitting on this big box with the speakers underneath it for the next couple of hours. My friends told me they have never seen anyone look so spun. We went back home and smoked some more blunts, but at this point smoking dank was doing nothing to change my trip. I got to sleep at about 11:00 after staring at the ceiling for 2 hours listening to Mazzy Star.
 
One bottle of Vicks 44 last night at about 1am. I have never done it b4 so there wasn't much to expect. It felt like a cheap yet intense roll, but I wanted to puke the entire time. Also there is about a 2 hour gap in time that I can't account for. Was I asleep? Finally slept this morning at about 7 till 1pm. I feel really fuct and my lower back is KILLING me. Not something I want to do again. One thing that was funny to do was read my incoherent skribblings strewn about the room this morning.
 
Was very interesting and weird about the part where you had no control of your body. I can see how scary this would of been.
 
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