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Plateau Sigma - DXM

synchrojet

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While many have already written on the subject of the so called “plateau sigma”, my own experience compels me to offer some input. My DXM use has varied over the years, from sparse to moderate to chronic and back again. DXM is a strange drug. At first it seems to be a sort of dirty, cheap high – a trailer park dissociative if you will, but I must admit that in my own experience it has proven to be the ultimate psychedelic. I have done lots of drugs to be sure, sometime in search of pleasure, sometimes in search of other things, but always searching. LSD woke me up, shrooms taught me to see, DMT made me understand what nothing is, and salvia resurrected me. DXM helped me have conversations with the divine. I know that sounds silly, but I want to tell you people that these drugs are gifts – tools – to help us find our way back to God. I’m not going to preach here, but I want to shed a little light on the sigma plateau.

My experiences with DXM were in accordance with most literature – the four levels, so forth. I found it to be a very different drug at certain doses. For example, 300-400mg gives me a nice second plateau music euphoria, but just going from 400 to 500mg changes things completely. I had tried in the past to reach sigma by downing two bottles of Zicam. That was by far the hardest trip of my life. Zicam has 540 mg per bottle, and I’d had several 900mg trips so I thought I could handle it. Well I couldn’t. I died and died again and died again and then again. To this day I feel like it was God almighty that saved me from that overdose. I am familiar with ego death – I’ve been through several, and this was different. It was no plateau or anything else. It was just a DXM overdose pure and simple, and it scared the hell out of me.

The following is not advice, nor is it an attempt at a “user’s guide”. It’s just my experience. It wasn’t until I tried carrying a low grade DXM buzz along that I began to realize that DXM highs can be built upon. By downing say, 300 mg beads, waiting two hours, then downing another 300 mg, waiting three or four hours, then another 300 mg, and so forth until I reached it. I’m not going to describe it to you – that’s a trip report. What I’m going to report is the sum of the matter: Plateau Sigma is a discussion with God.

These drugs are tools given to us by the Creator to help us find our way back to Him. They must be used with respect, and with pure intent. They have some pleasant side effects to be sure, but those effects are not the sum total of the compound. Its easy to get lost in the hedonistic aspect of drug use – believe me I know – but I want to encourage all of you to reconsider you use and ask yourselves what you are searching for. Because believe me, you will find it.

And there you have it. Feel free to make fun of what you will!
 
any hallucinogenic substance is meant to be used with respect, especially an OTC, that will fuck your liver with repeated abuse. I have had my fun with DXM but it no longer interests me as I find it hard to remember my trips. but, it sounds like you had a very life changing experience.
 
Nice thread topic, I finally hit "sigma" over winter...

Truely mind blowing considering I never took this drug seriously being that I had numerous LSD and shroom trips before ever dabbling...

I will post in this thread again about the experience but wanted to chime in quick ITT and just say DXM is a very interesting drug once you figure out how to get the most out of it.

I can TOTALLY understand why DXM has a bad wrap... very easy to get a dull, yes dissociative but mainly confusing and unpleasant trip out of it... but at the same time holy fuck was it worth doing research on and learning how to do it right...

It's not like LSD where you simply drop a few hit and have an amazing ride basically guaranteed...

With DXM your food intake during day leading up and actual day, strategic food choices well drink really (grapefruit for critical P450 enzyme deactivation!) and also a strategic dosing regiment are CRITICAL factors

What most people think was a DXM trip from their experiences are really DXO trips (via liver conversion) as a few liver enzymes should really be tweaked with to get the most psychedelic effects you are looking for.

ALSO people who take it with out strategic eating and go the "fasting" route certainly SEVERELY destroy their trip as DXM to DXO is not only a problem but much of it simply gets destroyed via first past metabolism...
 
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Before they took them off the shelves as of this year, there were packs of DXM capsules containing 420mg of time-release DXM HBr some stores sold OTC. I have had many trips before it lost it's 'magic' and I stopped doing DXM by the end of last year.

I used to measure my dose by mg / kg of bodyweight which I recommend to anyone who takes high dosages. So I weighed 60kg and used to take between 2.5 and 7.5mg/kg (60kg * 7.5mg = 450mg) for a good solid 3rd plateau trip. I have taken up to ~800mg and experienced a few 'sigma' trips, I will write a small TR when I have a bit more time about an almost unreal 24+ hour trip.

It felt like existing in 2 dimensions at the same time, hard to describe... :/

--» Peace o/
 
ive taken like 860mg and thought i was a dead baby in the corner of another room for a few hours. the table i passed out under seemed infinitely large, that was cool too. now that i'm a bit older i've learned DXM is a great mind tool and have been getting cool introspective, cleansing effects with small doses and soon going to experiment with 3rd plateaus. I love the tussin euphoria, the content feeling with everything. I was using DXM trips as a way to get over stimulant binges, but that can be a hard cycle on the brain :P so to hell with stimulants, but DXM did do wonders.
 
ive taken like 860mg and thought i was a dead baby in the corner of another room for a few hours. the table i passed out under seemed infinitely large, that was cool too. now that i'm a bit older i've learned DXM is a great mind tool and have been getting cool introspective, cleansing effects with small doses and soon going to experiment with 3rd plateaus. I love the tussin euphoria, the content feeling with everything. I was using DXM trips as a way to get over stimulant binges, but that can be a hard cycle on the brain :P so to hell with stimulants, but DXM did do wonders.

Be smart brah, like the above poster said DXM also lost its magic for me too.

Used to be such an amazing experience even at just 300mg 2nd plateau dosages for me...

A few weeks binging, leading up to an incredibly valuable experience also unfortunately seems to have permanently changed the way my brain reacts to it.

My trips at any dose since then have been nothing but cold, disconnected, and mentally confusing rather than any form of psychedelia or introspective disassociation... :(

Honestly more than anything I wish I could simply get those awesome 2nd plateau recreational effects back at low dose, simply taking higher doses isn't a solution as the entire character of DXM has seems to have been altered for me.
 
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