Experiences - The Diphenhydramine Experience Thread: Please Post Experiences Here

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personally my dog took 350mg's on 2 occasions and did not like it at all, experienced complete dysphoria, some movement of wallpaper etc but only if he concentrated on it for a while, one 'real' hallucination of a floating sandwich in front of him, possibly the only nice part of the trip, looked kinda like on star wars when those little things project up a fuzzy picture for a futuristic video call.

my dog didnt like how wide eyed and vacant he looked either, nor did his girlfriend, nor did she like the fact that he fell asleep at 8pm and slept for 14 hours when they were meant to be spending a quiet night in together.

my dog has also noticed some kind of hppd since, always seeing wiered little disturbances in his vision, definatly down to the diphenhydramine as he has not indulged in any other hallucinogenic substances, not really too bad or annoying but he wont be repeating the experience thats for sure

[coffeeorsomething]

SWIM has done diphenhydramine on 3 occasions and will not likely repeat.

The first time he took 300 mg, in form of 12 Benadryl capsules, and became unusually tired and unable to focus. Mild visual distortions but only with concentration.

The second and third times he took 600 mg. The hallucinations looked absolutely real and were mainly visual. However, SWIM knew he was tripping and was fooled by only one of these apparitions... the unsettling appearance of SWIM's cursing mother marching up the sidewalk to him, mad as can be. Interesting to note that this was also the only open-eye hallucination SWIM had that was accompanied by an auditory hallucination. The most interesting part of the experience, in his opinion, was that when he closed his eyes in a futile attempt to sleep, the hallucinations (closed-eye of course) which had been a steady trickle became a constant flow and SWIM was utterly incapable of distinguishing them from reality... It was exactly like a dream, but not until he closed his eyes.

SWIM twice forgot how to perform simple tasks. He forgot how to buckle his belt and how to light his pipe. The familiar objects felt alien in his hands and he wasn't sure how to handle them, very much similar to the way familiar objects are unrecognizable under the influence of DXM. This struck him as more amusing than anything else.

However, the negative effects of the drug in SWIM's opinion tend to outweigh the positive. The more tolerable of these included nausea, extreme cottonmouth, VERY frequent need to piss, and warped depth perception. His motor coordination was not much impaired but the failure of his depth perception caused him to stumble around and fumble things as though it was. In addition, SWIM was unable to remember anything for more than a few seconds, making conversation impossible and basically rendering him worthless. This was quite distressing until SWIM learned not to try to remember things and to go with the flow, as it were. However, most notably, there was an almost tangible air of oppression that seemed to fall over SWIM on both occasions... it is difficult to describe but very unpleasant. It was as though he couldn't speak; even if he was in the act of speaking it seemed as though something were preventing him from doing so. This caused him to mumble, and affected his companion as well. It made him feel ineffectual and helpless.

SWIM would say that the experience was worth having but not enjoyable enough for repetition.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

The thing about diphenhydramine reports is they are often the second most interesting experience reports to read next to datura ones,not that swim is encouraging anybody to play with datura.A good read for swim is not worth swiy landing in intensive care or worse.

[Kernacktur]

SWIM's best trip goes as such....
SWIM took about 15 benadryl then left to go purchase some weed and pills. He returned about an hour later and started crushing up the pills, it was a 500mg Vicodin, 20mg and 10mg Ritalin, 5mg dex and a 15 mg XR. He Mixed the powder together and snorted it all. SWIM then went outside to go smoke a bowl. He finished and came back in. AS he walked into his room he looked at his bed and thought "glad so and so didn't wake up. More weed for me lol" he then realized that he hadn't had anyone over. After re-examining it turned out to be blankets bunched together. For the next 45 minutes or so a whole imagined parade of friends came by. SWIM caught himself talking to some of his "guests" a couple of times and laughed at himself. He then went outside for one last bowl. SWIM attempted to pass to his right a few times with no success, wonder why?. After finishing he went back in and fell asleep shortly there after. goodtimes goodtimes

[JKLJKLJKL]

SWIMs Diphenhydramine Chronicles
Right SWIM has done this drug a few times, and he thought he'd just share collectively his experiences.


EXP No. 1
SWIM learns about this wonderful cough medicine thing you can do, naturally as someone of an expiermental nature SWIM decides he wants to try it. SWIM had mostly read about DXM and wasnt sure the differences between this and Diphenhydramine but would try both anyway.
SWIM wasn't even looking for it really, SWIM was round a friends house, they were smoking some weed, getting a bit stoned, but not majorly so. SWIM then found some cough medicine, about half of a small bottle, which would be about 150mg of DPH Hcl. SWIM ingested.

Over the course of about 30 minutes SWIM went from holding it together, to sitting on the sofa, going into massive time lapses where he had no idea what happened. At one moment he looked to his right and thought that his friends were having a conversation, but they had left the room a few minutes prior to this. As SWIM realised oh this isn't happening, he suddenly remembered they'd left, what felt like hours ago (they said it was a minute or two). SWIM walked about a bit and generally just felt excessively stoned. SWIM went onto his bed (the floor), and while his eyes were shut he suddenly thought 'SHIT i cant fall asleep on the SOFA iill roll off it' SWIM bolted upright to realise SWIM was on the floor and others had been to bed, it was about 3 oclock in the morning, a few hours after ingestion and SWIM eventually got to bed, albeit with a lot of CEVs.

EXP no. 2
Experience two, was about 150mg again this time a friend had some as well. There was more in the bottle but the bottle was out of date so we were uneasy about it. Still. SWIM sat there on the sofa, felt very connected with the sofa as he was used to on Pills, or when really stoned. SWIM went out for a cigarette and his eyes went soft focus, number plates spelt out words and had strange shapes on them. He thought some red paint on a truck was a WARNING FLAMMABLE GAS sign.
SWIM went to bed with his girlfriend, who had also ingested some. She said that she felt that the TV was almost 3d in places, like there was a dog that she thought was trying to breaK OUT of the TV. In bed SWIM had no sex drive (not telling you this for whatever, just so you generally know). SWIM went to sleep, slept for a long time, woke up just a bit groggy.

Exp No. 3
This was the big oen, and the last one SWIM did.
SWIM and three other friends all planned on getting some DPH HCL for a party. SWIM and his friends each did about 350-400mg, again all from cough medicine To avoid sleepiness, SWIM and his friends also took abotu 14-18ish pro plus (50mg of caffiene per tablet only - so about 700mg to a gram of caffiene. SWIM had prepared a mix - mostly weird electronica, aphex twin, radiohead etc. It took a while for things to take hold. SWIM after about an hour felt a bit strange, he knew he had taken something but no effects yet. SWIM decided he would paly piano (which he cant do anyway). SWIM made a rather haunting melancholic piece, the three friends also on DPH all watched in awe. SWIM remembers what he played was just lots of slow clashing notes. But loved it.
SWIM and his friends then sat and watched the curtains move, similar to SWIM's firs trip, then the wall moved. SWIM watched the light and it went from yellow to green, and green light illuminated the room. SWIM lost trail of thought and they all ended upw atching the DVD player start up screen (the CD was on the DVD player) which had a background pattern that was still. Undoubtedly SWIM and his friends saw it move. SWIM and his friends eventually ventured to the party that was happening around the house. Everyone thought SWIM+Friends were stupid for doing cough medicine, but it didnt really deter the trip. SWIM felt generally strange and preferred it in the quietness and darkess, so SWIM took a walk through the house. He found another room of people, sat down, got very paranoid that people were laughing at him and so moved into the hall where he lay down. SWIM was laying down for what was about half an hour staring at the ceiling, feeling excessively out of it (only comparable to ket - but not as enjoyable). SWIM was beginning to get a bit bored. Boredom is a killer on this. It was now about 1 ish, they started at around seven. SWIM went ot a bed and lay down, he woke up an hour later and coudlnt get to sleep for another few hours. His girlfriend came in to go to bed who had only done some coke that night. SWIM was slightly annoyed that she had done coke and hadnt got offered any, but she said it wasn't hers. SWIM then tried going to sleep., it was about 3-4oclock in the morning now.

SWIM closed his eyes and saw a magnitude of things. Firstly SWIM thought he was driving and then thought 'shit im in no state to drive', then he snapped out of it and saw a fight breaking out between two friends, SWIM began to shout stop, and snapped out of it. A number of other excessively strong CEVs occured until SWIM eventually got to sleep.

SWIM got to sleep about 5, and woke up at 7 for school. At school SWIM couldn't concentrate at all, and he was writing an essay and got to the end of the sentence and couldn't remember what the beginning of it said so had to stop and re read it. SWIM went to a friends house after that period, said he was ill to get off college and went to sleep for about six hours. Waking up nd was completely fine again.


Exp No 0
I forgot to add this one at the start. SWIM was ill and his mother bought soem cough medicine, SWIM read up briefly and recretionally took more than he should have done. Only about 90mg. At this level, SWIM felt mildy euphoric. SWIM also noticed the curtains dancing away. He looked at his blanket on his bed and it looked like the sea. From a different angle it looked like soldiers going into battle (it was a fluffy blanket). SWIM looked at the ceiling and the carvings in it moved about. SWIM enjoyed it.
^^this experience was about a month before Exp No 1.


Overall
SWIM has had some enjoyable experiences of this, but certainly in lower doses. At highest dose it just got annoying after a while and SWIM couldn't be bothered with it, SWIM also doesn't like the morning after you get if you dont get enough sleep. But as with most drugs sleep = good again.

SWIM hasn't done it since Exp 3 which was about eight months ago, and while SWIM that day vowed 'never again' SWIM expects he might try it in the future. It was certainly exceptionally trippy, the most trippy CEV SWIM has ever had except on Ket. For that point it is a great expereince.

In SWIM's opinion...

It's something you should try if you are interested in experimenting with drugs, if you want a solid high that lasts for a bit of time and you know its limit then avoid it.
SWIM ranks it similarly as nutmeg - at low doses it can be enjoyable, at high doses, it just gets a bit boring, tedious.

It definitely deserves the name delierant though.

[stickyickyquickly]

I had a very interesting experience with diphenhydramine. I took about 500 mg of it and another 100 or so mg of dramamine. The first part took effect in about an hour and i felt really drunk n just out of it. Another hour after that though or so it seemed i started trippin hard. I had complete visions that i couldn't tell if they were really or not. I hallucianted full conversations and hour long conversations and would realize they were fake and all of a sudden they would disappear. This was also my first time tripping ever. Felt like complete the next day largely due to massive dehydration and all the antihystamines. This turned me on to other hallucinogens such as salvia and mushrooms. Do not take more than 600 mg of this shit very possible to die off or have permanent brain damage. Has its risks but if i had to do it all over again i would have done it.

[Practical_Toker]

diphenhydramine was fun in recreational doses the first few times. now i only like it for insomnia.
the first few times it was nucking futs. but i used it a bit too much (like every night). i stopped being able to distinguish dreams from reality. the next day i would be wondering what parts of the night were drug-induced hallucinations and what parts i was actually asleep for.
the last time i tried it i had been on a nice trip of dxm for a while, came home from a friend's house and decided to kick it up another notch, bam!
so i took 12 of em, not that much ya know. i figured i wouldn't be able to sleep since after the first few times i could no longer sleep on it, just lie in bed with my eyes closed and kinduv... go away...
instead there was no time for it to kick in. i felt it comin on, told ppl online i'd be gone, here but not, and laid back.
fell asleep for 24+ hours
lame
i decided not to bother with it anymore if i'm gonna sleep for a whole day whenever i take it. recommended dosage is good enough for me.
not to mention a few times the day after a diph trip i'd be incredibly weak, dizzy every time i stood up, pale, and my ears wouldn't work right. they'd feel as if they were clogged, like they needed to pop. i spent all day yawning and every time it'd go away it'd just come back the next time i yawned. it was really weird, felt like it did some kind of damage to my ears...

[kakakaka]

Last night was swims first time of taking Diphenhydramine (400mg) he found the following effects took place - Time dilation, extreme heaviness, Dry mouth, Frequent urination, Sexual dysfunction, Blurred vision and Restless leg syndrome.

None of the possitive effects and more of the negative effects seemed to happen to swim. He did find tho that it gave him rushes of energy almost to which he felt like he was going to drift out. The feeling swim got when he says drift out is a similar feeling to when he took Salvia and HBWR seeds. The room starts going blurry and he feels as if there is energy building up and up inside his body then it just vanishes if he blinks or turns around .

To combat the tiredness, swim drank 2 cans of redbull and they worked fine to keep him up, never felt tired at all.

Swim hopes that at a higher doesage he may start to get some kind of CEV or even OEV but at 400mg he never got anything other than blurred vision for short periods of time when the rushes were happening which only lasted about 10 seconds each time.

[Smokey420]

SWIM's first trip on Diph was a few months ago, swim took 250mg's on the 4th of July. swim felt unbalanced, heavy, and as if gravity was increased.(kind of how you feel when you go on a trampalene and then come off after 5 minutes of jumping)

SWIM felt sad, thought very strange things about the universe and etc, and when swim stared, swim's vision blurred up and objects turned dark, swim saw flashes of light in his vision, and the walls seemed to change color, swim heard strange voices saying unintelligable things

SWIM thinks that Diphenhydramine can be a very fun and good trip, but swim beleives that he just has not tried enough to have a good trip, SWIM did not itch once during his first trip, but when swim heard that its possible, swim itched in a few of his trips a few weeks ago periodically, swim thinks that the itch is just a illusion of the drug, and dysphoria can kiss his ass, because if know how to, you can have a good trip. Diph is able to do so much, like on SWIMS first trip he felt nausious the whole day, but thats only because he thought he was going to be, what you expect is what you get, somewhere allong those lines.

[daneford]

One day I felt like trying benadryl, but this time on a high enough dosage to trip. I consumed 250mg in the span of abut a half-hour. About an hour after the first pill, I felt the normal physical effects (feeling like my body was drunk but my mind wasn't). My motor skills were all fucked up like I expected. The mental trip was the cool part. I was laying in my bed, and my room mate was on his computer. I just chilled out and looked around, and BAM! I saw something "jump" or move on his bed. I asked him about it and he just laughed and told me I was tripping. I knew I was tripping, but it was still unnerving. Anyway, I continue to look around and I notice that the walls (which are supposed to be white, but they're kinda old) had odd lime/neon green dots all over them. Not quite pokadots but not quite random splatter either. I went as far as I could to the walls to examine the dots, and strangely they only went away when I put my nose right up to the walls. But with that closeness I'm unable to focus anyway so maybe they were still visible. I then looked up at some paintings on my walls and tried to focus on them. I then saw fluttering in the paintings, and when squinting my eyes I realized that there was a moth stuck in the painting struggling to break free. Fascinated, I continues watching and realized there were a few more. I felt bad for the imaginary moths (My brain sort-of believed they were real, it's hard to explain) so I looked away. I started to get the very annoying restless feeling I get on benadryl. This feeling is weird. It makes you want to do something, such as running really hard for no reason, just to ease the feeling. I knew I had nothing to do but to lay in bed, but my body felt so fucking restless. I tossed and turned unable to get comfortable for about 3 hours until I suddenly (and finally) passed out, according to my room mate. Anyway, inbetween those hours, I got up once to go on my computer. As I walked over to my desk, I noticed an odd black object on the floor. To me, I concluded that it was either one of my black hoodies, or a big black cat curled up. I was hoping it was the cat but assumed it was a sweater. I bent down to pick the object up, but it dissapeared. This to me was very strange. I've heard of tripping and seeing odd colours, trails, etc. but these were dark, realistic looking objects that seem 100% real until you get too close or something. It was a bit unnerving. Trying to talk to my room mate on this was sort of hard. I felt giddy and was thinking in slow motion almost. My room mate kept telling me that I was tripping balls and I told him I didn't even consume much (I didn't really, it could have been a lot more intense).

Decent experience. Physical effects sucked, mental effects were really interesting.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Diphenhydramine has a way of making one feel as if things are crawling on them or in them.Swim remembers being on a pretty high dose and thinking there was worms in his brain and under his skin.This was not fun!

[j9_1g1]

SWIM first bought diphenhydramine for sleeping purposes during midterms week. One day, he took one but then was distracted for about an hour and couldn't go straight to bed. When he did, he realized his penis could hardly be forced flaccid and that both the physical and psychological desires for ejaculation and orgasm were virtually nonexistent. He typically consumes about a gram over the course of about 12 hours so he can masturbate for half a day without orgasm.

He finds that typically easy concepts of time, life, death, and the like quickly fade away. Also with those are other similar concepts like intercourse and breasts, going further to increase the sexual experience of diphenhydramine. Throw on lack of concentration and a drastic decrease of inhibitions and the drug makes masturbation a whole new game.

[Exc_quetz]

Well SWIM popped his halucination cherry the other day when he took 450mg of DPH and had his first halucination and first dph trip.
SWIM says he liked it, but it was alot weaker than what he was expecting. About an hour and a half after he took his benadryl he started to feel a little light-bodied, like the feeling SWIyou gets when SWIY trips dxm or gets drunk, only it wasn't nearly as strong as that. Other than that, and the halucinations, it wasn't much different from being sober. SWIM can see what people mean when they say the halucinations are hard to differentiate from reality. SWIM didn't see anything major, but the stuff he did see seemed normal, as if it should be there, not like something he shouldn't be seeing.

SWIM was sitting in a chair in an empty room staring at the wall when he started to see the shape of a face in the walls' texture, then it started to morph into different faces, some of them very detailed. Then he saw a bright light zip around one of the faces and he blinked and they were gone. At the time SWIM was thinking to himself that he must be seeing existing patterns in the wall, but when he went back the next day and saw the wall and thought about what he had seen, he knows now he was definately halucinating.

About...a few hours into his trip, the overwhelming feeling of exhaustion finally caught up with him and he passed out on the bathroom floor for a few hours, but this was perhaps the most interesting part of his trip. The DPH induced very real lucid dreams in SWIM, one like he's never had before. SWIM fell asleep and awoke in the dream world racing in Monkey Ball(a video game he plays alot with his friends), he would start at the beginning of a race and go through the laps in great detail, exactly like he does in real life. It felt very real. Then he would wake up suddenly and realize he wasn't actually playing, and fall back asleep, and repeat cycle a few times. After a few times of doing this, drifting in and out of consciencness, he woke up and this time decided to try and re-enter the Monkey Ball dream consciously. Sure enough, it worked, and by doing this he realized that it was a dream, that he wasn't actually racing and that he would wake up shortly. For those of you that don't know, this is called a lucid dream. A lucid dream is simply one in where you're aware that you're dreaming, and it's cool as fuck.


SWIM was wondering what kind of a dose he would have to take in order to "trip balls" and get a really intense experience? He was also wondering how long he should wait before he tries DPH again?

[Hollow Hippie]

Swim wrote to me this morning in an email


The other night I went to the local convience store after I had read that ordinary bendryl can make you hullicinate. Along with that I got some DXM (I didn't use it on this expirience). Around 8:00 I ingested 18 25mg pills (450 mg.) I was laying on the couch and E came by so we went outside to get a soda or two and a snack, I felt mildly intoxicated. One thing I noticed was the sky was flashing and I found that interesting.

E went home at around 9:30 cause he was going to see family tommorow. I went inside, dissapointed that nothing was really happening, I ingested the rest of the pills (12 - 300 mg) and got a shower. I went upstairs and turned on the TV, watching Futurama, well there is this Beatles poster in my room, and they started looking like they were rocking from side to side, this keep getting more intense, the walls began breathing and had slighty changed color. This continued till for a while, at around 11:30 my parents went to bed, and I started hearing footsteps, people talking and the door sounded like it was constantly opening, I was getting freaked out the Christmas tree it seemed like it was someone very tall just staring at me until I focused on it. Another thing noted was flashing white dots. About 10 minutes later, I looked over on the small couch, laying there was my small little tabby cat (we call her mama, she is the only female in the house and I love her dearly) I get up and look at her and I notice she looked extremely stiff, I stared at her I started getting in a panic as I noticed she wasn't breathing, I ran up stairs and got my dad up and just began screaming and got threwn in the midst of a extreme panic attack. We went back downstairs there was no cat on the couch (later he told me I was yelling at the top of my lungs pointing at a pillow saying shes right there!), my dad was wondering what the hell I was thinking and he said she was in my room, he went to bed. Trying to remember now the only thing I really remember are brief periods of me waking up and talking to myself as if someone was there, I held conversations with people that weren't even there, finally I got to sleep for about 15 minutes, I was waken with lights appearing to be on in the dining room and I felt like someone was on the computer, I kept yelling "mom?" "dad?" I started to see them (I know it wasn't really them) then I felt like I couldn't speak as if someone gagged me. I drifted to sleep with a cotton mouth and a racing heart.

Needless to say the next morning I was completey fine and my dad was wondering why the hell I was screaming about the cat not breathing, I just lead him onto that I was half asleep with a bad dream.

To sum it up, I think I need to be more careful with this stuff, it seems with a proper social eviroment and mindset you can have some interesting effects.

[littlefishy]

Swim took 300mg of Benadryl Saturday night after smoking a few bowls of marijuana with some friends

He felt a little heavy when trying to get up. Also, when he was in the car (not driving) with his girlfriend, her face looked like it started changing into other peoples'. Swim looked outside of the window and there appeared to be small tentacles reaching up the side of the car, rubbing the window. He then looked at his driveway and there was a small boat in his driveway. He blinked and it disappeared

He's going to try 400 today and see how it goes. Swim was disappointed with the 300mg effects

[chrisn]

Tell SWIY to not be surprised if today's experience is no stronger than Saturday's. Diphenhydramine has a tricky tolerance that is hard to estimate and dangerous to attempt to compensate for. It is best to try to wait at least a week inbetween trips.

[chrisn]

On SWIM's first attempt, he took 400mg on a full stomach followed by 50mg an hour later. The first symptoms he noticed were increased tiredness, a slight feeling of unease, and noticing increased textures on surfaces such as walls and ceilings. He could not determine whether he noticed textures more or whether his brain was creating textures that did not exist. In retrospect, he thinks that it is a combination of both. Some of the textures would appear to flow in a direction, sometimes slow, sometimes quite fast. SWIM would try to stand up, and occasionally felt heavier than usually, but for the most part was fairly coordinated. SWIM's short-term memory was terrible, and conversing with his friend was useless, as halfway through a sentence he would forget what he was talking about. After about 3 hours, SWIM decided to smoke a bowl of marijuana with his friend who had taken 400 mg of DPH total.

After smoking, SWIM felt quite relaxed, and felt as if the DPH effects were suddenly magnified. Looking closely at a wall revealed strings of words in the textures. SWIM would try to read the words, but they were constantly changing, and he could only remember about 3 or 4 words at a time anyway. SWIM's first non-texture hallucinations became present-wispy strings almost like spider silk hanging and blowing in a nonexistent wind attached to the walls. He glanced at the corner of the room and saw white-transparent tentacled and somewhat buglike creatures crawling up the walls out of the bottom corner. Their tentacles flowed and sometimes formed interesting geometric shapes. SWIM began to enter dreamlike states where he heard conversations between members of his family and sometimes was a part of them. A few times, he would accidently say a word or two out loud, however his friend did not think this weird as he would do the same thing occasionally.

SWIM would often try to do something suddenly, and then realize he could not do it because he was in his friend's basement, and not at his own house. He would often feel like a computer mouse was in his hand and try to control his friend's computer, but then realize that he was moving an empty hand around the desk. SWIM and his friend watched Seinfeld on a large TV, and a few times SWIM was convinced that his entire field of vision was a computer screen, and would try to move the window that was the TV screen. Eventually SWIM and his friend felt that the drug was coming down, and they both fell asleep extremely easily. The entire next day SWIM sometimes would have faint nonexistant conversations in his head.


A few days later, SWIM decided to do 650mg at home, with his sister who would do 400mg. SWIM began to get tired much faster than last time, and also felt fairly uncomfortable. SWIM attempted to log this experience on his computer while it was occurring, but failed miserably as evident by the following transcript:

11:23 - Swallowed 26 25mg pills, totaling 650mg, on a fairly empty stomach. Ate a bit of cereal.


11:55 - Starting to notice more textures in the walls and doors and such.


12:05 - Slight memory impairments are beginning to be noticeable.


12;11 - Fairly simple tasks are becoming


12:14 - Has it really only been 3 minuts Time dilation sheesh
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It quickly became difficult for SWIM to log his experience as he would forget what he was typing halfway through a sentence, and make many errors along the way. He had to pee numerous times, and eventually decided to leave the basement where his sister was as there was no bathroom down there. He began to see white hairlike flashes in places around his vision, and the familiar moving textures. He went up to the second floor bathroom in his house and spent a fair amount of time there, however his memory becomes extremely foggy at this point. He remembers having a conversation with another person, and suddenly being shocked and scared because the other person was mimicing his own movements. He finally realized that the other person was his reflection, but even knowing this his reflection looked foreign to him. He remembered being in other rooms of his house, seeing other people, and suddenly realizing he was still in the bathroom. He remembered lots of putting on and taking off of clothes (in the morning he found his sweater on a towel rack, and was wearing pants but no boxers).

Eventually SWIM decided to leave the bathroom, and head to his bedroom, but his journey was pierced by an extremely loud and annoying tone. He realized that this was probably not a hallucination, and found that the carbon monoxide detector was acting up. It was certainly not going off, as the tone occurred only every 30 seconds or so. He tried unplugging it, but the tone would not stop. He threw it out in the hall, frustrated, hoping someone else would deal with it, and went back in his bedroom. SWIM doesn't really remember anything but lying down on his bed and waking up in the morning.

SWIM still feels a bit like he is recovering from the experience, for one day afterward he would still see movements in the peripherals of his vision, and his hands feel a bit more shaky than usual. SWIM would like to try DPH again, but would like an experience that isn't as clouded in confusion as his most recent experience was. SWIM will also consider drinking something caffienated to help him stay awake, but caffiene usually has little effect on him.

Reputation Comments on this post:

Very descriptive, throrough, and a wonderful trip report! Thanks.

[Modest Mouse]

SWIMM took diphenhydramine for the first time yesterday during the day. SWIMM read up about what could happen and what precautions to take before taking it. SWIMM took 350mg on an empty stomach and waited about 45 minutes for anything to happen.

SWIMM felt that maybe he did not take enough, but had taken all the pills he had and, being cautious did not venture to any store for more. SWIMM started to make himself lunch and while eating suddenly felt very tired. SWIMM was happy that the diphenydramine was working and quickly finished lunch.

SWIMM went into his basement to get a bottle of water incase he got dry mouth. SWIMMs body felt obsurdly heavy and SWIMM felt lite headed. On the way back up SWIMM passed the fambly cat. The cat meowed at SWIMM but he did not want to interact with anything due to the way his body felt. The cat meowed again but its mouth was closed. SWIMM was a little shaken by this but knows that it must be the drug. SWIMM went up stairs to watch T.V.

SWIMM continued to hear his cat constantly meow. The cat was still downstairs but it sounded as if it was right next to him. SWIMM then tests to see what symptoms he has that he has read about.

His body felt as if it was as slow as if he were in a dream. SWIMM tried to say words to see how well he could speak and if his speech was slurred and to see if he could have a conversation with a delusion. SWIMM looked at a Billy Joel album lying on the floor and started to talk to it, Billy does not talk back but SWIMM speech is slurred. Also, SWIMM had to piss 3 times in one hour.

Then SWIMMs mother walked into the house. SWIMM was on Summer Vacation from College and believed neither of his parents would be home anytime soon. SWIMM had no idea wether she was a hallucination or if she was real, he did not dare try to talk to her since he knew his speech was slurred.SWIMM yawned loudly and said he was sleepy while yawning to surpress his slurring and lay down on a couch and faked slumber. SWIMM was perpared to talk to delusions but did not want that delusion to be his mother. As soon as she left the room he stumbled up to his room to sleep.

SWIMM woke up a couple hours later, with the trip over.
The only side effect was drowziness.


SWIMM fells that his trip was interupted by his real/not real Mother.

This try was to just to "feel the water" testing it out. He might have been to expectant of something to happen and will be less objective next time. SWIMM will try diphenhydramine again when he will be able to be left alone or with a sitter who can help him discern between real and fake. SWIMM may or may not have had visual delusions and will try a slightly stronger dose next time of 400mg.

BTW SWIMM wonders if anybody knows a good way of asking his Mother if she came home early the day he took the diphenhydramine. He doesnt want to have to take more of it if he doesnt have to.

[Metomni]

SWIM thinks that was pretty fun, but would definitely like to take a higher dose. He ended up taking 6 25 mg tablets and feels it was a nice first experience with the substance.

SWIM was not expecting much, but for the first time consuming it he did not really want a lot, he was just testing the waters to see whether or not he liked it.

Also, and possibly worthy of note, SWIM weighs about 135 lbs and has never really taken benadryl before at all so tolerance was definitely nothing.

5:51 - 6 pills with a glass of water are consumed.
6:10 - SWIM makes a chicken breast and enjoys dinner.
6:19 - SWIM begins to think he is /starting/ to feel something.
6:22 - At this point SWIM actually feels as if he took about 1.5 grams of mushrooms and is starting to feel it, very unexpected and VERY awesome.
6:31 - SWIM took 6 thinking it wouldn't do anything, but safe is always
better, SWIM is both pleasantly surprised right now and quite glad he played the dose safe.
6:45 - SWIM gets up to talk to a roommate and feels the much talked about dream like/floating state and is very very glad that he actually got to feel that portion of the experience, he was doubtful he would get it.
6:59 - SWIM is feeling tired now
7:01 - SWIM gets a Monster energy drink and goes to drink it quickly so he
stays awake
7:16 - SWIM is having trouble speaking and finding words to use and also has a weird feeling in his stomach, not so bad, but definitely not
pleasurable. That is the only ill effect so far and that means it is
still definitely worth it.
7:32 - SWIM got AWESOME auditory hallucinations, first auditory ones ever, he never gets any from anything, but apparently this is an exception.
7:56 - SWIM smokes a bowl of pot from a bong and is feeling amazing still.
8:16 - SWIM's heart begins to beat pretty fast.
8:32 - SWIM is not only not tired, but is very up and has a lot of energy.
Feels similar to if a BUNCH of red bulls had been consumed quickly.
8:43 - The time distortions begin to seem insane and unexplainable, SWIM thinks that is part of the dream-like experience and loves it very much. SWIM is getting mildly tired, but not much more than normal for this time.
9:02 - SWIM is feeling weird now, it's still good, but it's just weird now, he likes the feeling though.
9:29 - SWIM stood up from watching south park and fell down after thinking it was done doing anything to him.
9:39 - Once again SWIM feels like it's not doing much, he is pretty sure it's
almost done.

SWIM did get a few tracers, but the auditory hallucination and the amazing body high along with the dream-like stuff are going to be the reasons SWIM takes 8 next time. He wants to converse with people that are not here.

SWIM did not really get any bad symptoms, the stomach thing did not interfere with a good time at all.

A day later and SWIM is feeling very congested. It started last night and continued all day today, SWIM does not feel bad at all, he is not coughing, he has no sore throat, he is just very VERY congested, even to the point where sometimes it's hard to breath and eat at the same time and pressure easily builds up. SWIM is not really worried, but if this much congestion occurs from 150 mg of the stuff, he does not want the after effects of higher dosages no matter how good of a time it would be.

[moda00]

Wow, swim hasn't experienced diphenhydramine/dimenhydrinate in ages, but these threads brought it all back, lol. Now that swim has experienced other perception-altering substances and states, she feels that while lsd or mushrooms are more "psychedelic" and perhaps more varied and intense, the distinction and the seeming reality of the hallucinations on diph. are unsurpassed. The experience, from what she remembers, was quite confusing, almost delirious, and as stated in a post above, she recalls seeing black shadow-y objects that she kept thinking were cats (she had no cats at the time either).. the walls definitely breathed, and she recalls a very fine clear/shiny material coating the walls and morphing around. She remembers vaguely having waking dreams, or semi-awake dreams of a sort, not lucid in that she was mainly unaware of her status as far as awake/asleep/intoxicated, but she recalls every once in awhile the scene or scenario would change, or she would be roused from the dream, and these instances provoked moments of confusion, as it seemed multiple things were happening at once, or at random. It is definitely quite a unique substance.

Interestingly enough, "hallucinations" as typically experienced on the classic illegal "hallucinogens" are generally not completely unfounded in reality as the word is defined, but rather modified perceptions of real objects or sensations, and are generally recognized for what they are- results of a drug ingestion or modified perception or cognition. I don't generally like to use the word "hallucinogens" for drugs like lsd and psilocybin because to me it seems somehow crude.. gives the experience a simplistic, negative, and rather misleading connotation. But Swim does feel that diphenhydramine produces hallucinations or even delusions in the more traditional sense, and are an entirely different experience from psychedelics- not necessarily good or bad, just a very different concept.

[Raw edge]

This post is based on notes I took during my trip. I wrote it up yesterday. I am having after affects which I will document in a seperate post in this thread. I would appreciate comments and feed back.

(First of all I am writing about my experience, that took place yesterday night. (17th feb 06) (Nytol one a night 50mg)

I took this drug as an alternative experience to Dxm. I am not in contact with people anymore who I could obtain rec drugs like X or speed anymore. I was looking for a mind altering experience to fill a blank void at the moment. Basically feeling like time was slowed right down and is dragging unbearably slowly. I came across some experiences on erowid.com, with regards to Diphenhydramine (benadryl) and Diphenhydramite (Dramamine).

I did some investigating and found that neither were available in Ireland. So keen was I to try the drug, despite numerous bad reports, that I ordered it from a UK pharmacy through the internet. I had settled on taking a low dose 300mg for my first time so eventually it arrived. I decided that once I ingested the drug I would stay on the internet till I felt the effect of the drug. When it came to crunch time I decided to just go with a dose of 400mg.

I took this dose at 21:00 and started surfing the web, while waiting for the drugs to take effect.After about 20 minuute I could feel a sensation in my throat somewhat similar to what I experienced on 25mg of Kemadrin. Basically a feeling that the mucuos in my throat was begining to flake off. About 21:40 I went downstairs to get a drink of water and I got a slight tingling sensation on my face. Apart from these two experience I could not detect any changes at all until about 22:25, when my monitor looked like it was blinking.

At this stage my throat felt like it was kind of swollen accompanied by mild dizziness.. About 15 minutes later I could feel a sensation at the back of my eyes kind of a cloudy feeling. At this stage I was having occasinal auditory hallucination but no visuals. I heard thing like my name being called noticed that music sound different. I wouldn't say better, I wouldn't say worse just different. At this point I was pretty dissapointed so I decided to take another 400mgs. I had a glasses of water with my pills I threw a few into my mouth and washed them down with water. I then threw a few more in but I had trouble swallowing them So I needed to use more water as they had started to dissolve in my mouth as a result I was only able to ingest another 350mg.

By 23:30 I noticed I was alot more sleepy but still experiencing no visuals. At this stage I went to the bathroom and noticed my arms were pretty red, probobaly due to the anti-cholergenic properties of the drug.

I got more and more groggy as time went on. I was begining to have difficultly concentrating, I was experiencing occasional auditory hallucinations but no visuals. This continued until a about 2:00 when my groggines increased by of about 5x in the space of a few minutes. It was quite an overwhelming sensation. I had very little mental alertnes and was begining to feel agitated internally. At this stage 5 hours after first drug administration, and not experiening any of the desired effect I decided to sleep it off. I went to the light swith to turn it off. It pertially dissapeared behind my hand and when I pressed it I found I was pushing the wall.

I felt around the wall until I found it. I couldn't actually see it till I found it. I beleive this is the only visual distortion I had last night. I was mild in comparision to anything I have experienced even from a low dose of ecstacy. I have had experiences stronger visualy from as little as half an ecstacy. The distortions off x were of a similure nature. Thing not exactly where I see them but no true hallucinations.

So I get into bed but finding that I am extremely restless with a distorted though process. I begin to worry about someone finding me like I was and was also aware that my throat sensations were stronger. So I tested my voice and noticed it was extremely difficult to speak, my speech was strained and slow. I got out of bed numerous times over the next few hours due to the restlessness. At this stage I was feeling extremly heavy and this was another source of irritaion. Then I made my bed it was a mess. I got up several more times and found that my bed was once again a mess such was the intensity of my restlessness. When I did eventually sleep it was pretty broken. When I did wake up I was extremly groggy and felt incapable of standing.

One thing I noticed this morning when I got up is that I headache I've had for over a week was alot milder. I couldn't achieve this relief from pain killers so this was something of a suprise. My headache is now beginning to intensify again. I am a little anxious of how I will sleep tonight as I was already having difficulty sleeping. I currently have a script for ambien. I was taking 10mg per night. When I saw my doc friday morning he told me to increase my dose to 15mg, and he'll review how I sleeping in a week. I don't think I will use this drug again. It just seem too unpredictable for me. It is clearly a drug that effect different people in different days. I have read reports of people substanially larger than me having very profound experience off a little as 250mg. At this point my focus is still affected and I wouldn't drive the way I'm feeling now, My concentration is just really bad.

USE THIS DRUG AT YOUR OWN PERIL, YOU MAY FEEL ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, HAVE A GREAT TRIP OR BECOME UNBERABLY RESTLESS.

I have an understanding now as to why this drug is unavailable in Ireland. It is a drug that can just sneak up on. It was only after several hours, 5 in my case that I noticed any significant effect and these were all bad. Other drug like hash which I react negativaly like hash, the effect is almost immediate, and I now avoid hash.

Reputation Comments on this post:

	Good effort but try taking proper drugs and doing a trip report for them!
	Great report!

[Raw edge]

After compiling the above I continued and still do to this point feel a weird sensation in my throat. I can still occasionaly feel the taste of the pills in my mouth. Of note I did had some closed eye visuals which I have not documented above after I went to bed. The only one I remember is my brother coming into my room and asking if I wanted him to fix a certain thing on my computer that i had never heard of. I spent most of yesterday in my room so it wasn't till after I had compiled the above that I realised that my brother wasn't home this weekend. I have to say I feel somewhat disconnected today still, and feel pretty irritable and on edge. Last night I took 20mg stillnoct, doctor prescribed, I though I wouldn't sleep at all after the previous night, but after I settled down I sleep okay. I don't remember having particulary vivid dreams which I usually do off stillnoct. My thoughs are pretty disconnected, I am aware of where I am, but it's like the people I know don't exsist, kinda like I am in a room in the middle of nowhere. Other people feel like they are imagined. I have an interview tommorow and I'm reluctant to go I afraid I won't be able to sell myself at all. Nothing feels real.
This feeling of dissassocitation, is stronger than what I felt friday night, when I took the nytol, but it definately feels safer. I am not suffering from an inexpicable inner tormoil, but I still don't feel right, far from it in fact.

[ljfe]

A few nights ago SWIM ate 300mg of Diphenhydramine. He's done several 200mg doses in the past and has experienced mild hallucinations.

About three hours after injestion (he thinks), SWIM experienced strong CEV's laying in bed. SWIM had been watching The Matrix earlier and turned it off because he couldn't focus. While SWIM listened to music, he saw his computer screen playing The Matrix in front of him. For these ten seconds or so, he truely thought he never turned it off. SWIM could see his whole room around him and the base of his bed. SWIM opened his eyes and the monitor was off.

It was a very strong visual and SWIM will definatly keep it with him. He would suggest this recreational dosage.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

This is definitely not a dosage for beginners and swim doesn't think one should suggest it to beginners,and if anyone who is new to diphenhydramine is going to attempt this dosage swim suggests a sitter and some other precautions if neccessary.This chemical can have be very enjoyable and it gets abit of a bad name because of people being careless with it.This is not a substance to take lightly or be wreckless with.Anyone who thinks the word "trip"always means the type of experience one gets from acid or psilocybin is in for a surprise if they decide to experiment with diphenhydramine.Be careful!Swim knows this drug very well and knows exactly what he is talking about.

[ljfe]

Well said. It's very dangerous, and for the most part something to stay away from.
SWIM's personal dose did work out perfectly (being semi-experienced, and almost ammune to lower recreational doses). But of course everyone's body is different, and 300mg is obviously too much for someone who has never used this drug before. In my opinion, it's best to work up in doses with a drug like this (for example, whomever is looking for hallucinogens), to understand how much it effects you.
As far as Diphenhydramine goes, it WAS pretty impressive though.