Experience:300 mg DXM and 3 caps Amanita Muscaria - Just Amanita?
Experience report - DXM and Amanita Muscaria Substance(s): DXM and Amanita Dose: 300 mg and 3 caps Route of Administration: Oral
Subject
Age: 20 Sex: M Weight: 140 Date: 2/24/2022
Background So I've tried DXM and Amanita before two times each, and even though DXM makes no sense to me I would say I know both substances pretty well. Never combined drugs before but also taken serotonergic psychedelics. I took these substances with some helpers, those being one small grapefruit to make the DXM work better and a little caffeine to help keep me up just in case the sedation gets too potentiated. When taking this I thought my visuals would be much more like DXM ones than Amanita ones, since it previously took me a pretty high dose of Amanita to get any, and 3 caps is a relatively small dose. Sadly my Amanitas smelled a little off so I was hesitant to eat them, and sadly I went through with that. I did this combination since ibotenic acid is neurotoxic through its agonism of NMDA receptors and DXM is an antagonist there, so I thought DXM could both enhance the experience and prevent some of the neurotoxic effects.
Experience report T- 1:00 - Started sipping coffee and eating my grapefruit. Neither of them went down particularly well, but I wasn't nauseous at all at this point.
T+ 0:00 - Ate the Amanita between two pieces of bread and drank the DXM, took a shower and got in a call with friends.
T+ 0:30 - Slowly while playing a game with friends, the experience got more and more emotionally neutral and/or more frightening. Since it was just a game that paranoia didn't last but it definitely predicted the rest of the trip.
T+ 1:30 - Once I started really tripping I left the call to talk with someone else, who was more fine with talking to my tweaky self. Conversation went from the current crisis in Russia to how I was a cube, which was the start of the Amanita visuals, which I can only describe as putting the entire world on a 2D (or, with DXM, a 3D) grid and plotting every object at some point, simplifying what I see. The extent of this was insane to me, since I only took 3 caps, and though I felt obviously kinda DXM stoned I was mostly feeling and seeing Amanita effects. I tried lifting weights and felt absolutely no muscle strain from doing so, even if it was still difficult. My friend told me to try a typing game, but there was no way you could get me to see the screen let alone feel the keyboard correctly. Amanitas produce this visual where you can, as best I can describe it, see through four eyes; it feels incredibly unnatural and it's impossible to look at just one thing at a time with that, and it lasts for the entirety of the trip. I also saw some geometry, similar to DXM geometry, but it almost completely fell away as the Amanita experience intensified.
T+ 2:00 - This is where I begin to remember nothing concretely, and I presume the DXM and Amanitas are peaking pretty hard. At some point early on I ended the call with my friend or he ended it with me, I have no idea. Just before the peak I remember going to the bathroom to expel from both ways the substances, and luckily I could use my sink and toilet at the same time. While this was happening, I was having what can best be described as visions, very similar to the ones experienced on just Amanitas but probably due to the DXM much more spatially complex and 3D. My main "visual" for this trip was seeing and feeling myself isolated from the world around me, covered in this tan/beige tone, constantly changing between strange forms of existence. I had marked ego death when I just somewhat accepted that I am someone else (a friend, my mother) and thought long and hard about what this psychosis was. I thought I had unlocked the key to the universe, that the universe is actually made up of these forms flashing in and out of existence as time moves forward and that all I had to do to fulfill my life goal was just let go and allow the universe to act upon me. At some point I wanted to escape on some level but I told myself that it was alright, that just because everything was changing by the second it doesn't mean that I'm dead or that I'm wrong, just that I've finished, I'm done. If only I could have seen these dreams/visions with a little more lucidity, I would've had less nondescript forms to describe. At some point I fell fully asleep, and likely woke up from one of the visions. At one point during the trip I described some of these feelings as me being one with everything, but looking back that might've just been me trying to relate it to some Hindu stuff I read the day prior. Early in the peak I do remember saying this was a very "Hindu drug" so maybe I did have some India-esque visuals.
T+ 4:30 - Woke up from my slumber to find puke on my pajamas, puke filing the sink and toilet and even some on the bathroom wall. It's all red from the color of both substances. I still have the four eyes vision, but I'm not delirious or losing memory anymore. Still incredibly tired, fell asleep again after staying up to make sure I definitely wouldn't puke again.
T+ 8:00 - Woke up, effects completely gone.
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