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A Pleasant Surprise
DXM
Citation:   Delish. "A Pleasant Surprise: An Experience with DXM (exp115076)". Erowid.org. Aug 3, 2023. erowid.org/exp/115076

 
DOSE:
T+ 0:00
300 mg oral DXM (liquid)
  T+ 2:00   hits smoked Cannabis - High CBD (device)
  T+ 3:00 50 mg oral DXM (liquid)
BODY WEIGHT: 145 lb
For the past couple years I have been a heavy user of acid and shrooms, but unfortunately hadn't had frequent access to either for about a year. Acid in particular is my drug of choice, and at this point I was quite pissed that my entire year had been pretty devoid of tripping, save for the occasional shroom trip.

I remember seeing a comment that said something like "I'm mad I don't have an acid dealer", and the only reply to that said "just do DXM lol". Curious, I researched it at work. I ended up spending my whole shift researching it, and learned that it was quite literally just the chemical they use in over the counter cough syrup. In addition, I learned that it was apparently quite powerful, and relatively safe as long as you buy the right kind. Fortunately, I worked in a grocery store and had very easy access to it. So I bought a single bottle of off brand Robitussin that only had DXM as the active ingredient, and went home to trip.

12:10 - I took the syrup quite late despite having work the next afternoon at 2. I remember the math being annoying to figure out, but I ended up taking about 300 mg, leaving about a fifth of the bottle left. It is worth noting I drank it on a full stomach.

12:42 - I was feeling a bit nauseous, but nothing too bad. Compared to the nausea I had experienced on shrooms, this was a breeze to deal with. Aside from that, this felt like an acid come up: slow but creeping. I was feeling myself progressively get less and less sober, but in ways I can't describe. Everything just started feeling off.

12:55 - I took a massive shit which helped with a lot of the nausea, which at this point felt like just a slight tummy ache. I was definitely high now, feeling similar to being very crossfaded. I was dizzy, and a little loopy.

1:08 - My notes just say that I began feeling more and more disassociated, and that I felt drunk without the sedation that comes with it. That in particular felt quite nice because being drunk is very fun, but it makes me very tired.

1:30 - Still nauseous, but it hasn't gotten better or worse. Thoughts were hard to put together, but I wasn't seeing anything yet.

1:57 - At this point I was undoubtedly tripping. Walking around began to get pretty difficult, since I was becoming more and more dizzy, and my motor function began to decline. My notes say that my vision was laggy, and that when I would look at something, I wouldn't actually see it until moments later. I also decided to hit my dab pen.

2:05 - I hit my pen, and immediately felt way better. The trip felt a lot more familiar and more comforting. It also almost completely killed my nausea.

2:14 - I had to go to the bathroom again and remember walking into my hallway and seeing it get longer and longer in front of me. This kinda blew my mind, because I was used to acid and shroom visuals, not the dreamy visuals of DXM. It was extremely difficult to walk down the hall to the bathroom.

3:13 - So, in my notes I described the current effects to a weakish acid trip, and said that it felt like a psychedelic with training wheels. In retrospective, I retract this statement. It's worth noting I took the rest of the bottle at this time, totaling about another 50 mg.

5:17 - Everything looked out of focus and time was very dilated now. My vision was doubled, and my depth perception decreased. So at the 5 hour point my mental state had degraded too much to take notes,
Everything looked out of focus and time was very dilated now. My vision was doubled, and my depth perception decreased. So at the 5 hour point my mental state had degraded too much to take notes,
and I'd say I was tripping the hardest at that point. This whole time I was listening to music, and it sounded fantastic. The music in particular felt like it controlled my trip entirely, and what I was hallucinating and how I was feeling was influenced almost completely by what song I was listening to.

My hallucinations equated mostly to vivid imaginings. I felt like I was dreaming while I was awake, being able to almost see what I was thinking. The darkness of the back of my eyelids was transforming into massive geometric structures, and I felt like I was becoming my bed.. then my room.. then everything. My body melted into the fabric of reality and I lost all semblance of reality and began almost freefalling through a void filled with abstract light and colors.

My memory of the end of the trip is hazy, because I entered an almost trancelike state where I stopped thinking altogether. All I remember is that whatever was happening to me was extremely pleasant. The only way I was able to describe my trip was "pleasantly surprised". I honestly didn't expect much. Surprise ego death aside, it was absolutely amazing. Drink a lot of water, and have a good playlist ready.

Happy tripping :)
~ Delish

Exp Year: 2020ExpID: 115076
Gender: Male 
Age at time of experience: 23
Published: Aug 3, 2023Views: 675
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