Experiences - The Combined Phenibut Experiences Thread

[zera]

Swim has just tried phenibut for the first time and has two experiences to report.

1st experience
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Took 5.5 grams on an empty stomach. Mixed in with some beer in a cup and drank the stuff. It tasted horribly horribly salty. Swim felt like he was drinking body fluids or something. This was taken at about 9:30. He tried to snort a little bit, but the burning was pretty much the worst thing he has ever tried to snort with maybe the exception of cigarette ash. So he gave up on this route.

Ate some Chinese food and drank a few more beers. The night swim spent hanging out with his roommates. He felt much more drunk than he normally would have off of the 4 or so beers he drank. He also felt pretty silly. He seemed more talkative than normal and just wanted to hang out and bother his friends, who were doing work and getting kind of annoyed, but he kept laughing at his ability to distract them.

One thing that kind of hit him hard after standing up for the first time after the phenibut seemed to kick in was how much "drunker" his body seemed than his mind. He was stumbling around, while his mind was still pretty lucid. The phenibut was first noticed at 10:15, and seemed to hit high gear around 11:30. At 12:30 he and roommate A decided to get a birthday cake for roommate B, at the grocery store and the walk there swim was talkative and loud and fairly uninhibited. At the grocery store he seemed somewhat social with people he didn't know, and the topics of conversation he talked about seemed more like things he liked to talk about while on psychedelics rather than alcohol. This isn't to say that the experience was psychedelic at all, perception was much more of a "depressant" feel, but mood and conversation reminded him of maybe a light ecstasy roll or a particularly upbeat alcohol experience.

After returning home he ate some cake and kicked it with his roommates for a bit, and watched some TV with them. At about 1:30 he had the uncontrollable urge to smoke some pot. Like, he really really wanted to smoke. He can't figure out if this was because of the phenibut or if he was just bored and too intoxicated to do anything productive. One bowl was smoked and he did some whippets. The marijuana and nitrous highs seemed more powerful than normal, but qualitatively didn't seem that much different. Nitrous seemed a little "dumber," not sure if thats the right adjective, but on one nitrous trip swim felt like a reptile, with only a brain stem and no neocortex.

Swim woke up the next day with the lights on, the TV blasting and in bed with all his clothes on at about 9 am. Swim also was incredibly thirsty, but didn't feel hungover at all. He got up, turned of all that shit and went back to bed. He didn't wake up until 3 pm. Holy shit. Normally if he sleeps late he kind of wakes up, looks at the clock, goes back to sleep. Not this time, he slept straight through. He felt kind of high still for a couple of hours, but none of that famous phenibut hangover at all, he was still very productive for the few hours of day that he had to get shit done.

Overall retrospect: Swim was pretty underwhelmed with this drug. He took what has been described as a fairly high dose. It was definitely a pretty high body high, and it certainly seemed to have a bit of anti-anxiety effects. But he just didn't feel that "fucked up," certainly nothing like a good drunk. Unfortunately he doesn't have the experience to compare to GHB, but swim has to imagine this stuff is a good bit weaker. It may be a lot like benzos, where one feels a lot less intoxicated than they actually are. Based on his coordination swim definitely wouldn't have trusted himself to drive a car. His sleep felt great though.

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[Euphoric]

Sex: Male
Age: 22
Weight: 150 lbs
Dose: 400mg, plus 400mg booster.

SWIM had quite a bizarre time with phenibut last night. He's had trouble sleeping the last few nights and thought he might try using phenibut as a sleep aid. He had done no drugs for about a week (spare caffeine and a drink or two).

Anyways, he took 400mg at about 21:30. He felt cheerful probably within 15-20 minutes, could've been placebo. For the next two hours he feels more content than normal. He has a nice talk with someone for nearly an hour. He feels slightly more talkative and definitely feels different than usual and wonders if the other person notices. Something that would've normally made him have an outburst of anger was just a momentary inconvenience and this reaction was noted very soon after the event transpired.

Around 0:00 he goes to bed. He lays there until at least 1:30. His thoughts are strange. Some profound. He was not expecting such insight whilst on phenibut. Anybody else have enlightening experiences with this substance? SWIM pondered how his room reflected his personality and the message it may send. He also was thinking about politics and world troubles and at one point felt separate from his thoughts and like he was somehow listening to them from a different perspective. He thought about his thought-flow and how his opinions and feelings are so conditioned and automatic. SWIM feels the phenibut must have played a role in this, he does not have such abstract thoughts (he cannot really describe the degree of their abstractness) without psychotropic aid.

Unfortunately it did not seem to aid his sleep. But he wasn't that bothered, despite his initial intent of using the substance to fall asleep earlier, knowing he had to get up earlier.

But after 1:30 SWIM decided he really should get to sleep. He took another 400mg with a glass of milk and fell asleep very soon after.

Despite the fact that SWIM got less than 6 hours of sleep, he felt well rested and happy when he woke up, and was not as bothered by his alarm interrupting his rest as he usually is. His spirits remained high for the rest of the day. Oh and he doesn't recall waking even once in the night, which is very unusual for him, he usually wakes at leat 2 or 3 times in a night.

[somethingtoxic]

Typically when I take phenibut, I take it right before sleep so that it doesn't kick in while I'm awake because for some strange reason it causes me to have trouble getting to sleep. I take it for sleep though because it keeps me asleep all night once it's kicked in. It's dose response curve is harsh just like GHB's, but minus the GHB fun. I usually take right under a gram unless I've taken it consistenly, otherwise because of down regulation or whatever I take 1.5g or so. I know for a fact that I would hate to feel what 5.5 grams feels like.