your body turns DXM into DXO. DXO does about the same thing as DXM but it is a lot more potent. however, your body can only turn DXM to DXO so quickly, so it is better to slowly take the DXM so as to not overload your enzymes.
here is some further reading:
https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/faq/dxm_physiological.shtml#toc.9.5
but yeah my IRL friends and i have found 5 gels every 5 minutes to be about perfect. we're talking like thousands of experiences between the lot of us. tried it every which way, and that seems to work out the best. takes a little bit of patience to space your dose out over an hour i guess, but its worth it.
Oh my god, this is the best advice I've been given in a week. I only did 600 mg of robogels (Thank God I didn't buy 900 mg... my pharmacy only had 2 bottles left thanks to me), eating 5 gels every 5 minutes. It took 45 minutes, and I started at 6. As I finished at 6:45, I laid 4 hits of L on my gums and went outside for a walk around my apartment complex. There were men at the local basketball hoop playing ball, and I know jack shit about bball, don't even like sports. I sat down on the grass and asked if I could watch, I was starting to feel the DXM nicely. Honestly, since I had done 900 mg the night before, I started getting high as soon as I swallowed 5 at 6:00 pm (or so it felt, I am very sensitive). I watched the guys play basketball for over an hour, and like I drunkenly/spunly tried to explain last night (I don't often drink), I am a guy and am attracted to other guys. Anyways, after watching them play for about an hour and kind of trying to talk to them occassionally, I decided it was time to leave. Watching them play was incredible, I was getting unbelievable trails from their fast pace and the thump from the basketball was almost lovely. Not to mention, I was watching sweaty, shirtless attractive men play a sport right in front of me (not to sound weird, thats not even my thing anyways. Sweaty, gross.), but it was incredibly psychedelic. I ended up drunkenly/spunly coming out of the closet to my brother last night, maybe that's why. Anyways, weed dude stops by but doesn't wanna come inside because he doesn't like cats (?) (I had never bought from him) so I told him hold on, I'll put it in my mom's room. Now, I'm paralyzed from the waist down and walk on crutches, and at this point (8ish?) I couldn't even stand up, and ended up just begging him to come inside through a crack in the door. I honest to God don't remember what happened, but I'm pretty sure I totally got ripped off ("this white boy be trippin dude" yeah no fucking shit you have no idea) and I just ended up giving him $300. I have no idea where the "fluffy" bag of weed he had been talking about it, but like I said, I remember just giving him $300. So I kinda fucked myself over. Anyways, the next few hours were the most psychedelic experience of my life, it was swear to God the first ego death I've ever experienced after years of desiring such an experience. I had NEVER tripped that hard, and basically laid on my bed and listed to a Phish show. They killed it in Philly. I could barely sit up, but after a few hours (?) I managed to regain a bit of myself, and realized that I had to piss SO BAD, spent the next couple hours (I think) on the toilet trying to piss like a woman (no offense to any ladies) and like I said, idk what happened, I was like reborn in the bathroom. So, came out, I'm still tripping fucking balls (the acid was hitting me nicely still), and I realize it's 12:30 am. I use this opportunity to text (took so long, fucking heiroglyphics) a certain friend with whom I've lost touch with over the years who was PST (I'm EST, they're -3), who had originally introduced me to Christianity in middle school (used to be a very devout Christian, another story), and had a
very positive and loving conversation with him, and though I had started drinking, which I had mentioned to him to explain why I was so out of it, I was still tripping balls but he isn't even the type of guy who curses, let alone trips. He's 21 so I guess he drinks responsibly, but anyways, I finally talked to him and was for the first time to explain why I didn't like Christianity and have a very meaningful and spiritual conversation with him, and made sure it was clear that no matter what religion I was, 50 years down the road, we had known each other since we were little, and that was the real bond and we promised each other that that bond was the one that counted. It was such a deep and moving phone call, I mean, we hadn't spoken in years and I was convinced that that was as far as our friendship would ever get, so this one particular friend on the phone was so psychedelic. I hadn't even heard his voice in years, as I was tripping it was almost beautiful. By now the DXM had probably worn off (I could walk fine and everything) so it was just the last waves of acid hitting me. I had put on another Phish show (Philly night 2 was nice) which had ended, if that helps with the time frame. I paused frequently and shit. Anyways, got drunk, took xanax, took etizolam, did a dab (oil's rare round this neck), smoked two bong packs, and now it is 2:17 pm EST and I just want to fucking sleep. I've been watching Cosmos all morning, so the afterglow of both has definitely been used well. Thank you so much for your wise and sage advice, TNW. You gave me the best night of my life, you gave me a trip I have sought after for YEARS of hazardous experimental drug use. I like, realized I was having a bad trip, realized I had no friends at all, didn't know who the hell I was, and was alright with all of it, was still happy with myself. I am so thankful for the experience you gave me last night. Just curious, does your method of 5 gels every 5 minutes extend/affect the duration at all? Like, as a six hour trip, I started eating them at 6:00 PM (nice timing), so does it last until 12, or 12:45 (when I finished the gels)? If you don't know that's cool, no problem, I was just curious. You have no idea how thankful I am I tried this, otherwise I probably would've never had DXM again, and it is a wonderful thing indeed. I just need to find other stores with the gels... my pharmacy might be suspect seeing as how I've cleaned their stock.
tl;dr to ANYONE interested in DXM, this is most certain the way to do it.
