Let me know if this is in the wrong place - a trip report and warning of suspected PMA crystals in Spain.
This was bought from a beer seller who a friend assured us was 'fine'.
Wrap acquired, the five of us inspected the crystals and after tasting decided it was MDMA - distinctive bitter taste and orangey crystals. We are all experienced with MDMA and know the come-up well. At this point we had no reason to suspect it was not MDMA. We split the gram between five, assuming ~200mg outside the club and no effects were felt when we got in 30mins later.
General excitement at being in a huge club and what I thought was standard pre-roll anxiety. We decide to dance.
1 hour in and none of us feel 'up' but we are all unable to stop moving. I feel sort of drugged, but assumed we were just taking a while to come up. N suddenly says she's up and has to go outside. I take her to smoke, she forgets the ability to speak English (she's fluent) and is extremely strung out, speaking German and looking confused.
1.30 and I am very uncomfortable. I feel wired and very hot. Dancing is not enjoyable and there is zero euphoria. I begin to realise something is wrong. We all move to a different room - much larger. Mistake.
1.45 Everything is stark and threatening, in monochrome. My vision is shaky. I see the hundreds of other people's eyes looking at me like predators, and hundreds of dead eyes staring at the floor shuffling. I'm terrified and I have to leave. I grab J, who understands and agrees to take me home. From here I don't remember (thankfully) but I'm told that in the next 2 hours I was confused, didn't know what country we were in, and was seeing and talking to things that weren't there. I got dangerously hot, sweaty and agitated, unable to respond to them. They were considering taking me to hospital, and probably should have.
The others come back on the next train having realised that F was badly hallucinating. During the train ride F thinks she is inside a giant worm. She is having trouble breathing. and is too hot. N feels insects crawling on her body.
3am We are back. I have forgotten how to eat. The next thing I remember is waking up in my bed with F. She is terrified and can see men in the room with sharp faces. She sees our skin melt off and leave bone, eyes and teeth in my hair and us morphing into rabbits. When she suggests things, I see them, such as a man sitting on our bed. We both hear voices, and she hears music playing when there is none.
I realise it isn't real and spend the rest of the frightening night comforting her.
Next day -
8am, 9 hours later and we have to check out. We have had no sleep and are still hallucinating, though it is not as terrifying in the daytime. We are still hot/cold and agitated and look strung out, pupils still huge.
The entire day we get waves of hallucinations, confusion and hyperthermia. F saw a ball thrown turn into a bird, I see flickers and shadows morph and when leaning on a wall feel it move behind me causing me to fall backwards. We are exhausted, wanting to rest but still stimulated, agitated and sweaty. We eat and I fall asleep, suddenly freezing cold.
9pm, 13 hours later and in the airport I'm near passing out from exhaustion. I am still seeing J's face morph into mine. On the plane as it takes off the world turns into shapes. I fall asleep.
12 noon, 28 hours later I wake up the next day in my country at home. I'm exhausted and spacey, depressed and anxious. I'm still seeing patches on the wall turn into shapes of faces. F has class and is still hearing music that isn't there - looking very odd when she asked someone to turn it off.
It's now 11pm and I feel spacey and generally slow. No more hallucinations.
From what I've read on erowid, this sounds like a PMA trip - the lack of euphoria, and actual dysphoria present being an indicator. Any thoughts would be welcomed - there isn't much subjective information about PMA available and I would say there is no recreational value.
This was an absolutely horrible experience and has really scared me and my friends off drugs. I can't begin to explain the amount of fear I felt, and now the worry that I've damaged my brain long term. If anyone has any good information about the long term effects I would be grateful.
This was bought from a beer seller who a friend assured us was 'fine'.
Wrap acquired, the five of us inspected the crystals and after tasting decided it was MDMA - distinctive bitter taste and orangey crystals. We are all experienced with MDMA and know the come-up well. At this point we had no reason to suspect it was not MDMA. We split the gram between five, assuming ~200mg outside the club and no effects were felt when we got in 30mins later.
General excitement at being in a huge club and what I thought was standard pre-roll anxiety. We decide to dance.
1 hour in and none of us feel 'up' but we are all unable to stop moving. I feel sort of drugged, but assumed we were just taking a while to come up. N suddenly says she's up and has to go outside. I take her to smoke, she forgets the ability to speak English (she's fluent) and is extremely strung out, speaking German and looking confused.
1.30 and I am very uncomfortable. I feel wired and very hot. Dancing is not enjoyable and there is zero euphoria. I begin to realise something is wrong. We all move to a different room - much larger. Mistake.
1.45 Everything is stark and threatening, in monochrome. My vision is shaky. I see the hundreds of other people's eyes looking at me like predators, and hundreds of dead eyes staring at the floor shuffling. I'm terrified and I have to leave. I grab J, who understands and agrees to take me home. From here I don't remember (thankfully) but I'm told that in the next 2 hours I was confused, didn't know what country we were in, and was seeing and talking to things that weren't there. I got dangerously hot, sweaty and agitated, unable to respond to them. They were considering taking me to hospital, and probably should have.
The others come back on the next train having realised that F was badly hallucinating. During the train ride F thinks she is inside a giant worm. She is having trouble breathing. and is too hot. N feels insects crawling on her body.
3am We are back. I have forgotten how to eat. The next thing I remember is waking up in my bed with F. She is terrified and can see men in the room with sharp faces. She sees our skin melt off and leave bone, eyes and teeth in my hair and us morphing into rabbits. When she suggests things, I see them, such as a man sitting on our bed. We both hear voices, and she hears music playing when there is none.
I realise it isn't real and spend the rest of the frightening night comforting her.
Next day -
8am, 9 hours later and we have to check out. We have had no sleep and are still hallucinating, though it is not as terrifying in the daytime. We are still hot/cold and agitated and look strung out, pupils still huge.
The entire day we get waves of hallucinations, confusion and hyperthermia. F saw a ball thrown turn into a bird, I see flickers and shadows morph and when leaning on a wall feel it move behind me causing me to fall backwards. We are exhausted, wanting to rest but still stimulated, agitated and sweaty. We eat and I fall asleep, suddenly freezing cold.
9pm, 13 hours later and in the airport I'm near passing out from exhaustion. I am still seeing J's face morph into mine. On the plane as it takes off the world turns into shapes. I fall asleep.
12 noon, 28 hours later I wake up the next day in my country at home. I'm exhausted and spacey, depressed and anxious. I'm still seeing patches on the wall turn into shapes of faces. F has class and is still hearing music that isn't there - looking very odd when she asked someone to turn it off.
It's now 11pm and I feel spacey and generally slow. No more hallucinations.
From what I've read on erowid, this sounds like a PMA trip - the lack of euphoria, and actual dysphoria present being an indicator. Any thoughts would be welcomed - there isn't much subjective information about PMA available and I would say there is no recreational value.
This was an absolutely horrible experience and has really scared me and my friends off drugs. I can't begin to explain the amount of fear I felt, and now the worry that I've damaged my brain long term. If anyone has any good information about the long term effects I would be grateful.
WTF MAN?! It pretty much resembles the symptoms you described....
