Last semester I had taken a sizable amount of DXM (sizable for me anyway, my first and last high third plateau attempt) one weekend when my roommate was out of town. I was already having a difficult time because the trip had ended up being far more intense than I had anticipated. I had my headphones on so I didn't hear when all-of-a-sudden the fire alarm went off. I remember opening my eyes and seeing a bunch of flashing lights: at first, I thought it was the DXM giving me some crazy-realistic visuals, so I just stared up at the ceiling for a couple minutes. Then I took my headphones off and realized what the lights were, and since it was the weekend when they didn't schedule any drills, I thought for sure there was an actual fire.
I thought I was fucked. I was too wasted to walk down the several flights of stairs, and I could hear the RAs running from room-to-room and yelling at everyone to get out. I thought for sure that I was gonna burn alive or pass out from smoke inhalation or something and I started having a really intense panic-attack. So I just sat on my bed in the fetal position for about fifteen minutes (felt like fifteen hours) until the fire alarms finally stopped and I realized I wasn't going to die. Talk about catharsis. I guess nothing bad happened (some drunk fucks pulled the alarm), but holy shit that was the worst feeling I had ever experienced. I had basically convinced myself that I was going to die.