DXM - quite nice in small amounts?

[tryptonaut]

I had this very nice experience with DXM recently that really surprised me.

I had tried it as a psychedelic and I didn't think it was quite what I liked. It was trippy, but in a weird way. I had tried it in small amounts and didn't think it was worth it.
Then I tried it again last weekend just out of fun. After having had quite a few drinks I went out with a couple of friends and, out of drunken crazyness, downed one dxm capsule before we went to a club (I'm glad it was only one...). I had not remembered that I had had another dxm-containing capsule before - I had taken a flu medicine a few hours before that contained paracetamol, pseudoephedrine and dxm. So, actually, I had taken a slight overdose of dxm (but not much, it was just slightly, if at all, above therapeutical levels).

In the club, where the dj luckily played electro stuff that was quite to my liking, I discovered that this small dose plus quite some alcohol proved to be a very very powerful combination.

In short: it was the most similar to mdma that I have ever experienced in a legal drug combination. I was having so much fun - I was dancing all night long with never ending energy. Then suddenly it was 6 in the morning and the lights went on in the club.
The next day I realized I have not been drinking much the whole night long since the point the dxm kicked in, only two beer or so. At least that's what I remember... I was relatively tripped out, but all I remember was a lot of fun and dancing to good music. And that the night was much too short.

I think I finally realized what the appeal of drugs like dxm as partydrugs is. All that counts is that you don't take one miligram too much, or it won't be fun at all - but if you take just a little and have a drink or two or three (at least with dxm) then it's really, really fun for heavy partying. You have to go to real party clubs though, I think. I wouldn't have felt too well with a lot of sober people, I think

 

[Horrigan]

Isn't DXM a GABA A agonist ?

 

[mysticwarrior]

Interesting experience, but i have a lot doubts about the substance.

I've read some stuff about the DXM, but to me it sounds as it is a dangerous game to play with. Maybe dose a low dosage won't do anything to you, but the side effects won't lie about it. Maybe all the things i've read are there just there to scare me, but still....

 

[tryptonaut]

according to wikipedia:

When taken at doses higher than medically recommended, dextromethorphan acts as a dissociative hallucinogenic drug. Its mechanism of action is as an NMDA receptor antagonist, producing effects similar to those of ketamine

Doesn't sound too healthy. And corresponds with my experience that was only slightly above the recommended dosage for cough suppression (30mg dextrometorphan hydrobromide) plus some alcohol. Was a lot of fun anyways, if you can accept a certain level of "I don't really remember what I did between 3 and 4 in the morning"

Taking more, like 4 capsules, I wouldn't even want to go out anymore. I had 4 capsules once and tried going out. I hardly managed to get some cigarettes in the store nearby and headed back straight to the safety of my home... it was really trippy and very weird "out of it".


... and oooops:

Drug interactions
(...)

CNS depressant drugs and substances, including alcohol, antihistamines, and some psychotropics, will have a cumulative CNS depressant effect if taken with dextromethorphan.

 

[Brugmansia]

Well, your care with the dose might have saved you from an unpleasant night out in worst case.

I'm not the one to teach you a lesson, but never ever do DXM, PCP or Ketamine for just fun on a night out. If you want to do them during clubbing, see it as a more introvert addition for a night out, to raise unexplained excitement and unpredictable mystic observations . Keep the dose low, no alcohol, and be very reticent with more offered dissociatives during a night, especially from an unknown source.

An accidental OD in combination with alcohol, may result in painful happenings with total amnesia, or, an inability to distinguish your temporarly despersonalisation from the real world.

An OD on it's own is like your legs are rubber, with no stable foundations to lean on. Shocking 'alien' or 'robot' movements if you're trying to walk. Although PCP is occasionally known for the ability to have powerful muscle contraction throughout the whole body. As well as endurance and powerful loaded movements.

I loved it to do Ketamine at home, in a very subdued setting with classical mystical music. My body feels as it is everywhere yet nowhere. And where Am I in this enormous body? Going to my feet to check out the veins in there. And I had a meeting with my former chemistry teacher there later on. I'm got smacked down on someone's body, and I got another body smacked down on me. Watching my parents in a life with no childeren, me, in a tomb under the garden in my home. Never had an existance, yet could watch the life of my family who never got to know me. They seemed to live a life without worries.

It took some time the next day before I got over this experience in particular. I cried later that day because I thought it was the absence of me, why they were ignorant of worries. I thought about going back in there to check it out for sure, the assumption of getting an answer felt real. Thanks to the internet that long-life addicted K users warned me for the infinity of such a story.

Then I fully realised that it was only my consciousness in where this all happened. And I suppose this is where the complexes may come from if one loses it on dissociatives. Developing an addiction and never being in able to find complete rest in this world anymore as long as there are mysteries unsolved in the K universe.

I can identify with your experience since I discovered K thanks to the club scene. You wake up the next day, feeling sane and no hang over. Carefully crawling out of your bed and thinking about what happenend. And when you do, there is the memory of the night in visual phases like a comic strip.

Like non-moving memories of what happend divided into every 10 minutes. Between each frame, it is like nothing happened within that time. As the time goes by, you're in able to recall more. But it is just visual content.

It has struck me that I could remember my sleep dreams also much clearer since I discovered the potential of K. DXM and possibily PCP are still on my want to do list.

While being under influence and being on the streets or a party, it is like you just do your things with sane but with no present thoughts. And every 3 minutes it is like the entire chain of thoughts of what you have done the last 3 minutes, comes to your consciousness.

Or walking, stopping, and waiting for your body which is still behind and steps in you, if you wait for it. Or feeling like your mental seat is somewhere beside your body.