This bottle was lying around for years, could have easily had a bit of phosghene in it, don't know what the hell I was thinking. In case anyone else decides to try CHCl3 for whatever reason, be sure to wash it with water and a bit of baking soda first. Better safe than hospitallised with pulmonary edema and god knows what else. Phosgene reacts instantly with water to form HCl. The baking soda neutralises the HCl and makes sure no reverse reactions occur. The stuff I had was lying in a cold dark place untouched for a few years which is a plus.
I'm not sure if this temporary dizziness is supposed to happen so thats a bit worrying because it may have been an impurity that caused that. It felt a lot like carbon monoxides effects. CO does that by knocking the oxygen off of your red blood cells.
I wanted to try chloroform for the sake of experimentation for years but I'd say its best just leaving this one off of ones list of drugs to try some day. Diethyl ether is much safer and is a much more effective sedative, one huff is enough to get you drunk. I huffed this chloroform about 5 times, holding my breath each time and the only sedation I felt was that dizzy rush. I'm fairly sure thats caused by temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen so thats definitely not something I'd ever willingly induce. I've smoked e-cigarettes for a while, but when I smoke real tobacco while drunk I get an extreme dizzy rush. Its not the nicotine that causes that, its one of the combustion products. A low dose of carbon monoxide. At least with CO you can get an idea of how much you accidentally ingested since it knocks you out fast, but with phosgene you often won't feel any symptoms for up to 24 hours, then some extreme, life threatening and very unpleasant symptoms come on. Not sure if the damage is permanent or not though. It smells like freshly cut grass, from what I gathered yesterday it'd be near impossible to smell it among chloroforms smell. And I'm a chemist so I'm very familiar with chloroforms smell.
