don't take this as me being bitchy, but i just do not understand why people do that shit. why on earth would you want to willingly overdose on a sleep aid, basically putting your brain to sleep but keeping your body awake? the chances of blacking out and remembering little to nothing of the experience is terribly high, and the rariations in how people react to diphenhydramine or dimenhydrinate are so extreme and unpredictable.
i've babysat several dram/benadryl/etc. trips, and i would never ever EVER do that to myself. i've seen everything from projectile vomiting (and i mean vomiting that could have won distance medals in the olympics) to people buying imaginary drugs from imaginary people in imaginary places. almost everyone i've tripsat for (and the doses varied from as low as 6 pills to as many as 24) remembered nothing that they did while they were 'tripping'. from what i've seen, these drugs are only useful for feeding to people so the rest of the people who aren't tripping can watch and be amused.
but seriously, these are drugs meant to put a person to sleep. i take 100-150mg of diphenhydramine at night to put me to sleep (and that's a high dose, but i have terrible insomnia and over several years i've gone from 25mg to this dose), and if i take it and stay up for a while, i get dizzy and absolutely retarded, to a point where my memory span is under a minute long and talking is virtually impossible; i forget what i'm saying halfway through a thought. and it's not a pleasant feeling by any means; i'm dizzy and stumbly and stupid. i don't even see how it could be considered a 'high' unless you consider any state outside of your default state to be a high. being on higher doses of these drugs can certainly prove to be dangerous; i'm not sure about what they do to the body, but if you're not watched every minute, it's not at ALL unlikely that you'll just wander off, thinking you're somewhere you're not, thinking you're with people that aren't there, etc. i have had to, on more than one occasion, literally follow people so closely that i might as well have been handcuffed to them, just to keep them from falling down stairs, walking into traffic, falling off a balcony, because they had NO IDEA where they were or what they were doing. out of all the trips i've been the babysitter for, only maybe 10% of them, if that, involved situations in which the person had any connection with reality.
maybe your experiences have never been like that, and if so, you're lucky and you're in a definite minority. i don't mean to condemn you; what you do with your body is your business, and as long as you don't infringe upon the rights of anyone else, you can do whatever you want. i'm sure the drugs i do and the things i do on them would bother some people, too. but i've just always been completely in awe and disbelief of this type of drug use because of what i've seen over and over again.
and i'll shut up now, because in the end, nothing i've said here matters to anyone but me.
