DementiaSavantPlus
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Commentators keep reviving this thread, and I'm compelled to follow suit with my impression of DXM as an anti-depressant.
I too was taking DXM for a cough that I absolutely had to rid myself of in order to teach my classes at the university here. I took the recommended dose listed on a bottle of DelSym. Then I began to use the cough drops that contain 5mg of DXM in addition to a numbing agent. The numbing compound was seductive enough to soothe my wrecked throat that I continued to use them thinking that they would not take me to any serious psychoactive threshold.
What I experienced felt like a psychedelic flashback (in a good, productive way) with increased mental energy and even visual enhancement. (The latter served me quite well as I was teaching a studio art course). I had a solid afternoon, spinning around the studio listening to Hindustani classical music on its great sound system and addressing the students' needs as well or better than I ever have.
Anyway, I probably ended up taking 30-35mg that day, and my belief is that this small dose somehow dislodged a learned mechanism that was initiated long, long ago when I might have drank a bottle or two of cough syrup in high school, even though these new, more subtle effects were more like LSD or psilocybin than a dissociative.
DXM, in a dose almost equal to that of its intended purpose, could be beneficial as a functional tool if the user is pre-conditioned in some way to biologically accept psychedelic activity.
Sorry to excavate an old thread, but it has me interested in trying this again, and I wanted to contribute to this body of info.
I too was taking DXM for a cough that I absolutely had to rid myself of in order to teach my classes at the university here. I took the recommended dose listed on a bottle of DelSym. Then I began to use the cough drops that contain 5mg of DXM in addition to a numbing agent. The numbing compound was seductive enough to soothe my wrecked throat that I continued to use them thinking that they would not take me to any serious psychoactive threshold.
What I experienced felt like a psychedelic flashback (in a good, productive way) with increased mental energy and even visual enhancement. (The latter served me quite well as I was teaching a studio art course). I had a solid afternoon, spinning around the studio listening to Hindustani classical music on its great sound system and addressing the students' needs as well or better than I ever have.
Anyway, I probably ended up taking 30-35mg that day, and my belief is that this small dose somehow dislodged a learned mechanism that was initiated long, long ago when I might have drank a bottle or two of cough syrup in high school, even though these new, more subtle effects were more like LSD or psilocybin than a dissociative.
DXM, in a dose almost equal to that of its intended purpose, could be beneficial as a functional tool if the user is pre-conditioned in some way to biologically accept psychedelic activity.
Sorry to excavate an old thread, but it has me interested in trying this again, and I wanted to contribute to this body of info.